Virginia regulators ordered Dominion to directly assign certain transmission costs to data centers and may examine upstream costs.

The Virginia State Corporation Commission ordered Dominion Energy to directly assign certain transmission costs to data centers. Direct assignment associates the covered costs with the relevant data-center customers rather than describing them solely as general system costs.

The order applies to certain transmission expenses; the supplied source does not state that every transmission cost will be directly assigned. It also does not provide a total dollar amount or a per-customer allocation.

The commission said an upcoming docket may consider whether the same policy “could or should” apply to more upstream transmission costs. That broader treatment remains a matter for examination rather than a completed order in the cited report.