Dominion Energy completes acquisition of two solar projects from GIG

Dominion Generation, Inc., a wholly-owned subsidiary of Dominion Energy, Inc., has completed the acquisition of two solar generating projects from Savion LLC, a subsidiary of Macquarie's Green Investment Group. The facilities are expected to be operational in 2020. The power generated at the two sites, as well as the renewable energy credits, will go to telecommunications company T-Mobile USA, Inc., under long-term contracts.

The 15-megawatt Myrtle Solar project, located on about 120 acres in the City of Suffolk, is expected to enter service in the second quarter of 2020. The 80-megawatt Greensville Solar facility, occupying more than 1,000 acres near Emporia, Va., in Greensville County, is targeted to come online in late 2020.

Since the General Assembly of Virginia passed the Grid Transformation and Security Act of 2018, the company has begun developing, signed offtake contracts for, or filed with the State Corporation Commission of Virginia for permission to build other solar facilities in the Virginia counties of Gloucester, Greensville, Halifax, Mecklenburg, Surry, and Westmoreland.