Tracked forecast · watch-05-1
Virginia HB 1515 disposition.
Open
- Chokepoint
- Grid Connections & Local Approval — Interconnection queues, siting fights, and the regulatory dockets (FERC, state PUCs, SCCs) that decide them. (Mostly price, occasionally an outright no)
- Kill condition
- Passage collapses the grandfathered-pipeline narrative and accelerates the Northern Virginia ceiling; failure preserves Dominion's projected 5 GW build-out through 2028.
- Horizon
- Quarterly through the 2026 legislative session
- Source
- Issue 5 — The Subnational Sovereigns · full issue
Why it is on the watchlist
Virginia’s proposed data-center moratorium: passage would collapse the grandfathered pipeline narrative; failure preserves Dominion’s projected ~5 GW build-out through 2028.
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