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• Dominion Virginia Power filed a 15-year plan with the State Corporation Commission on Friday detailing its base plan to rely on natural gas to fuel the majority of its future generating needs.
• The 15-year plan also includes a fuel diversity plan which is comprised of large-scale wind development, up to 200 megawatts (MW) of solar generation and the possibility of building a nuclear plant at the North Anna Power Station in Louisa County.
• ​Tom Wohlfarth, senior vice president for regulatory affairs at Dominion, explained, “We do recommend the least-cost plan, which is the all-gas plan, but are also recommending at the same time we move forward with reasonable development of some other select alternatives to just gas — North Anna 3, onshore wind and solar. It’s sort of a hybrid. [...] It’s difficult for us to predict when that’s going to happen and two what degree that is going to happen. That’s where the fuel diversity plan comes in.”

From the article:

“The utility... already plans to retire 900 megawatts of coal-fired energy in 2015.”