Dominion Energy vs FirstEnergy
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Richmond VA regulated utility (NYSE: D); $50.1B five-year capital plan (2025-2029, $17B data center driven), 33 GW → 47 GW contracted data center in NoVA, CVOW offshore wind, competing with Duke Energy.
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Dominion Energy, Inc. is a Richmond, Virginia-based regulated electric and natural gas utility holding company — publicly traded on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE: D) as an S&P 500 Utilities component — serving approximately 4.4 million electric customers in Virginia, North Carolina, and South Carolina through Dominion Energy Virginia (Virginia Electric and Power Company) and Dominion Energy South Carolina, and approximately 500,000 gas customers through Dominion Energy South Carolina Gas through approximately 16,500 employees. Dominion unveiled an ambitious $50.1 billion five-year capital investment plan for 2025-2029 — representing a $17 billion increase from prior plans specifically to support data center infrastructure in Virginia, where contracted data center capacity grew from 33 gigawatts to 47 gigawatts by October 2025 as hyperscale AI data center buildout in Northern Virginia (Ashburn/Loudoun County corridor — the world's largest data center market) accelerated beyond all prior demand projections. CEO Robert Blue's strategy reflects the unprecedented scale of AI-driven electricity demand growth in Dominion's Virginia service territory — where Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud, and Meta have concentrated their largest data center campuses due to favorable regulatory environment, fiber infrastructure, and utility reliability. The $50.1 billion capital plan funds new generation capacity (solar, natural gas peakers, and potential nuclear uprates), transmission expansion to serve new data center substations, and distribution system upgrades across the Virginia service territory.
Akron OH Midwest/Mid-Atlantic regulated utility (NYSE: FE) ~$13.5B FY2024 revenue; HB 6 scandal recovery complete, $26B 2024-2028 capex, 6M customers in 6 states, data center NJ growth competing with AEP and Exelon.
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FirstEnergy Corp. is an Akron, Ohio-based regulated electric utility holding company — publicly traded on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE: FE) as an S&P 500 Utilities component — providing electric transmission and distribution service to approximately 6 million customers across six states (Ohio, Pennsylvania, West Virginia, New Jersey, Maryland, New York) through regulated utility subsidiaries including Ohio Edison, Cleveland Electric Illuminating, Toledo Edison, Pennsylvania Power, The Illuminating Company, Monongahela Power, Potomac Edison, Jersey Central Power & Light, Met-Ed, Penn Power, and West Penn Power through approximately 12,000 employees. FirstEnergy is in the final stages of reputational and operational recovery from a historic corporate governance scandal: in 2020, FirstEnergy admitted to paying $60 million in bribes to Ohio utility regulators and state legislators (including former Ohio House Speaker Larry Householder) to secure passage of HB 6 — a $1.3 billion nuclear plant bailout law that was later repealed — resulting in criminal convictions, executive departures, shareholder class action settlements, and a $230 million DOJ deferred prosecution agreement. In fiscal year 2024, FirstEnergy reported revenues of approximately $13.5 billion, with the company executing CEO Brian Tierney's (joined 2023) strategy of rebuilding regulatory trust, improving operational performance, and executing the $26 billion capital plan (2024-2028) for grid modernization, electric vehicle infrastructure, and smart meter installation across the six-state service territory. FirstEnergy's 2021 divestiture of its competitive power generation business (FirstEnergy Solutions — renamed Evolent Energy Resources, including the Davis-Besse and Perry nuclear plants in Ohio) simplified FirstEnergy to a pure regulated utility — eliminating the commodity generation exposure that had distorted earnings and contributed to the improper HB 6 lobbying motivation.
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