Dominion Energy

Dominion Energy is a Virginia-based corporate holding company for electric and gas utility companies. Virginia Power is the company’s largest subsidiary. The utility delivers electricity to approximately 2.6 million customers in the state. Dominion North Carolina Power serves over 120,000 electric customers in North Carolina. In 2019, Dominion completed its acquisition of SCANA Corporation (South Carolina Electric & Gas) and now provides electricity to approximately 758,000 customers across South Carolina.

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Utility-funded Republican and Democratic groups try to leverage rising utility bills in New Jersey’s race for governor

Investor-owned utilities and utility industry groups have made nearly $2 million in cash and in-kind contributions this year to the Republican Governors Association and Democratic Governors Association, amid an election cycle where both groups have tried to make political hay out of rising electricity bills in New Jersey’s race for governor.  The Republican Governors Association...

Utilities Quietly Walk Back Commitments to Diverse Hiring, Social Justice

After spending the past half-decade scaling up efforts to diversify their workforces and suppliers as well as making and touting donations to social justice organizations, corporate utilities across the U.S. have begun to water down or abandon their commitments to promote diversity within their businesses and better serve communities of color. The retreat coincides with...

As Customers Struggled, Utility CEOs’ Pay Spiked Last Year

While many Americans saw their energy bills go up substantially in the past year, investor-owned electric and gas utilities and the country’s largest publicly owned utility paid their CEOs over $647 million in 2023, an increase of 9 percent over 2022, an analysis by the Energy and Policy Institute has found. The CEOs for the...

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