Dominion Energy, Virginia’s primary electrical utility, has added more than 5GW of contracted data center load in its pipeline compared to the end of last year.

In its Q2 earnings call, the utility noted that the additional 5GW marked an 11 percent uptick.

Dominion had reported a marginal increase in its pipeline in its Q4 earnings results in February, with more than 48GW contracted as of December 2025, up from approximately 47GW in September.

“Since our last update, we continue to see robust and durable demand from our differentiated, high-quality, low-risk data center customers,” Steven Ridge, EVP and CFO of Dominion Energy, said.

The utility also responded to concerns of grid disruption caused by data centers across this footprint. Last month, the PJM grid saw a significant voltage disturbance due to a large proportion of data center load abruptly disconnecting from the grid. The disruption originated in northern Virginia, which Dominion serves.

“We did have a transmission line that experienced a fault last week that did go out of service. These are rare on our reliable grid, but they do occasionally occur,” said Ed Baine, EVP and chief of utilities at Dominion. “We do expect, typically, the data centers would ride through these momentary events without shifting to backup power, but they didn’t in this case.”

“We’ve been sharing information and will continue to do so and implement lessons learned. We don’t feel like there are significant investments that need to be made because we’ve been doing that in the grid, but we do believe there will continue to be other mitigating items that we’ll implement,” he added.

Outside of its data center footprint, the utility reported that its Coastal Virginia Offshore Wind (CVOW) is 81 percent complete. However, the utility said that the costs for the 2.6GW wind farm have increased by two percent to $11.65 billion. In addition, while the CVOW is close to completion, Dominion admitted that timelines could slip, with the final turbine installation date moved to the end of 2027.

Finally, the utility reported that its acquisition by NextEra Energy, first announced in May, still required several approvals and hearings before it can be fully completed.