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2006 Annual ReportDOMINION 23
Gaston
Chesterfield/Bellemeade
Clover
Mecklenburg
Elwood State Line
Brayton Point
Salem Harbor
Troy
Manchester
Dresden
Pleasants
Altavista/Pittsylvania
Armstrong
Morgantown
Mt.Storm/
North
Branch
Bremo
Roanoke Rapids
Kincaid
Millstone
Fairless Energy
Gordonsville
Ladysmith
Chesapeake
Kewaunee
BathNEDPower
Yorktown
Surry
Elizabeth River
Rosemary
Southampton
Remington
North Anna
Possum
Point
Coal
Hydro
Natural Gas
Nuclear
il / Gas
ood
Natural Gas
ind
Existing Generation Stations
New Generation Stations
Planned/Under Development
Natural Gas
Generation Stations oe Sold
UEN GENE N P D N N PE NS
As of December
The previously announced
sale of Troy HPleasants
and ArmstrongPA natural gas fired
generation plants is e pected to
close in the firstuarter of .
ELECTRIC GENERATION CAPACITY
Megawatts
’02 ’03 ’04 ’05
23,830 24,40825,456
28,053 27,922*
es 1,538M
ea g a a t t e s
a e e e te tse
t e st ate 200
than our previous year’s performance, which was well
above most of our peers.
In addition, we saw record safety performance at our
Brayton Point and Roanoke Rapids facilities, all while we
continued to reduce emission levels across our fleet with
our environmental controls programs.
natural gas and oil. The fossil group also manages
facilities using hydroelectric power and other sources.
This fleet’s outstanding performance in 2006 enabled us
to meet a record for customer demand on Aug.3, when
peak load in Virginia reached 19,375 megawatts. That
topped the record of 18,897 megawatts set July 27, 2005.
Our large utility coal units attained production levels
that were the best in six years and the second-best on
record. Our outstanding Virginia fossil fleet performance
achieved availability levels of 89.3 percent, even better
EXPANSION AND GROWTH OPPORTUNITIES
Looking ahead, Dominion is working to obtain approvals
for a possible third reactor at our North Anna Power
Station site. This unit would be built only if requisite
regulatory and financial conditions are in place.
Additionally, Dominion Virginia Power is pursuing the
construction of a facility to be fired with clean coal in
Southwest Virginia and evaluating additional gas-fired
generation to help serve a growing Northern Virginia
market. We arealso increasing our generation output in a
number of facilities through efficiencies and improvments.
These include units run with coal, gas and nuclear fuel.
Dominion Generation’s excellent operations, strategi-
cally located assets and sound growth plan provide a solid
foundation and a very optimistic future.