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Virginia SCC Hearing Record: Dominion Rider T-1 Cost Allocation Dispute — July 14-15, 2026

Key takeaway: The hearing exposed a fundamental dispute over cost causality: whether transmission upgrades necessitated by hyperscale data center interconnections should be directly assigned to those customers or socialized across all ratepayers via existing class-allocation methods. The Commission's August 1 deadline will set precedent for Virginia and potentially other data center-intensive states.