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/ Dominion Resources / 2011 Summary Annual Report /
A number of projects entered service in 2011, including two major transmission lines in Virginia,
a large gas-fired power station, uprates at existing generating facilities, a retrofitted gas pipeline
and environmental upgrades. This new infrastructure will serve our customers for decades.
1
Bear Garden, located in Central Virginia’s Buckingham
County, entered service in May 2011. The state-of-the-art,
590-megawatt natural gas-fired facility is part of a generation
buildout intended to meet growing demand in Virginia.
PJM Interconnection, a regional transmission entity serving
13 states and the District of Columbia, projects that Dominion
needs 4,000 megawatts of additional generating capacity
by 2022, or enough to power 1 million new homes.
BEAR GARDEN
CENTRAL VIRGINIA
2
Dominion energized the 500-kilovolt Meadow Brook-to-Loudoun
transmission line, serving high-growth, high-tech Northern
Virginia, in April 2011. Another 500-kilovolt line, Carson to
Suffolk, came online in May 2011 and transports electricity
into Southeastern Virginia. The two transmission lines help
ease congestion on the electric grid. And they help supply
power to several state and federal government facilities,
military installations and data centers.
MEADOW BROOK TO LOUDOUN
NORTHERN VIRGINIA