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Nearly 6,500 homes, businesses without power in central Virginia

Nearly 6,500 Central Virginia homes and businesses are without power on Friday afternoon due to strong wind gusts that hit ...
WFXR on MSN

Traffic alert: Crash and downed power lines shut down Route 220

Virginia Department of Transportation (VDOT) is reporting all lanes of Route 220 are blocked. UPDATE 8:00 a.m.: All ...
Virginia Mercury

Loudoun residents take fight against high-voltage power lines for Data Center Alley to SCC

Dominion Energy looks to build a new route of high-voltage transmission lines. However, the surrounding Loudoun County ...
InsideNoVa on MSN

Virginia regulators weigh expanded use of data centers’ polluting generators

The state’s Department of Environmental Quality would expand permissible uses during emergencies to include “planned outages” by grid operators, presumably for power line upgrades.
WVVA

Appalachian Power reports 30,700 customers still without power after overnight windstorm

THE TWO VIRGINIAS (WVVA) - Appalachian Power says about 30,700 customers are still without electric service as of 4pm Friday ...
The Virginian-Pilot

Isle of Wight crash temporarily closed portion of James River Bridge, caused area power outages

ISLE OF WIGHT — A tractor-trailer crashed Monday night near the James River Bridge, temporarily causing area power outages and the bridge’s partial closure after the driver ran the vehicle off the ...
Columbus Dispatch

AEP secures $1.6 billion federal loan to upgrade power lines as data center use surges

Loan will be used to upgrade transmission lines in five states AEP says energy demand growth at levels not seen in a generation Upgrades will support data centers, AI, manufacturing (Reuters) - ...