Dominion Energy will need to change its transmission cost allocation policy to directly assign the cost of certain transmission infrastructure to the new large-load facilities — such as data centers — which made that infrastructure necessary, the Virginia State Corporation Commission said in an order filed July 31.

The mandatory contribution in aid of construction, or CIAC, will apply to “direct connect” facilities, and apply to the cost of the substations and the transmission lines which connect those facilities to the grid.

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