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NOTICE TO THE PUBLIC OF A FILING BY VIRGINIA ELECTRIC AND POWER COMPANY OF ITS INTEGRATED RESOURCE PLAN CASE NO. PUR-2020-00035 On May 1, 2020, Virginia Electric and Power Company (“Dominion” or “Company”) filed with the State Corporation Commission (“Commis- sion”) the Company’s 2020 IRP pursuant to § 56-599 of the Code of Virginia (“Code”). An IRP, or integrated resource plan, as defined by § 56-597 of the Code, is “a document developed by an electric utility that provides a forecast of its load obligations and a plan to meet those obli- gations by supply side and demand side resources over the ensuing 15 years to promote reasonable prices, reliable service, energy independence, and environmental responsibility.” Pursuant to § 56-599 C of the Code, the Commission is required to determine, within nine months of filing, whether an IRP is reasonable and in the public interest. Dominion states that it serves approximately 2.6 million electric customers in Virginia and North Carolina and that the Company’s combined service territory in these two states covers approximately 30,000 square miles. As indicated in its IRP, Dominion is a member of PJM Intercon- nection, L.L.C. (“PJM”), a regional transmission organization in the Mid-Atlantic region of the United States. The Company states that the IRP was prepared for the Dominion Energy Load Serving Entity within PJM. According to the Company, the IRP encompasses the 15-year planning period from 2021 to 2035. The Company states that the 2020 IRP focuses on presenting alternative plans to achieve clean energy mandates, including those set forth in the Virginia Clean Economy Act (“VCEA”), which will become law effective July 1, 2020. The Company states that the VCEA establishes a mandatory renewable portfolio standard aimed at 100% clean energy from the Company’s generation fleet by 2045 and requires the development of significant energy efficiency, solar, wind, and energy storage resources. The IRP states that the VCEA also mandates the retirement of all generation units that emit carbon dioxide as a byproduct of combustion by 2045, unless the retirement of a particular unit would threaten grid reliability and security. Based on other new legislation, the Company states that it expects that Virginia will soon become a full participant in the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative, a regional effort to cap and reduce carbon dioxide emissions from the power sector.

As required by a prior Commission Order dated March 9, 2020, the 2020 IRP also includes a Virginia residential bill analysis (“Billing Analysis”) showing projected annual impacts to a residential bill over the next ten years, as compared to the bill of a residential customer using 1,000 kilo- watt hours (“kwh”) per month as of May 1, 2020. Based on the Company’s Billing Analysis, the monthly bill of a Virginia residential customer using 1,000 kwh per month is projected to be between $168.58 and $171.20 by 2030, an increase of between $52.40 and $55.02 over the current level of $116.18. This projected increase reflects a compound annual growth rate of 3.6 percent to 3.7 percent. The Commission entered an Order Establishing Schedule for Proceedings in this case that, among other things, scheduled a public hearing at 9:30 a.m. on October 27, 2020, in the Commission’s second floor courtroom located in the Tyler Building, 1300 East Main Street, Richmond, Virginia 23219, to receive opening statements, testimony, and evidence offered by the Company, respondents, and the Commission’s Staff on the Compa- ny’s IRP. The Commission has taken judicial notice of the ongoing public health emergency related to the spread of the coronavirus, or COVID-19, and the declarations of emergency issued at both the state and federal levels. In accordance therewith, all pleadings, briefs, or other documents required to be served in this matter should be submitted electronically to the extent authorized by 5 VAC 5-20-150, Copies and format, of the Commis- sion’s Rules of Practice and Procedure (“Rules of Practice”). Confidential and Extraordinarily Sensitive information shall not be submitted elec- tronically and should comply with 5 VAC 5-20-170, Confidential information. For the duration of the COVID-19 emergency, any person seeking to hand deliver and physically file or submit any pleading or other document shall contact the Clerk’s Office Document Control Center at (804) 371-9838 to arrange the delivery.

Pursuant to 5 VAC 5-20-140, Filing and service, of the Commission’s Rules of Practice, the Commission has directed that service on parties and the Commission’s Staff in this matter shall be accomplished by electronic means. Please refer to the Commission’s Order Establishing Schedule for Proceedings for further instructions concerning Confidential or Extraordinarily Sensitive Information. An electronic copy of the public version of Dominion’s IRP may be obtained by submitting a written request to counsel for the Company, Jennifer D. Valaika, Esquire, McGuireWoods LLP, Gateway Plaza, 800 East Canal Street, Richmond, Virginia 23219, or jvalaika@mcguirewoods.com. Interested persons also may download unofficial copies of the public version of the IRP and other documents filed in this case from the Commis- sion’s website: https://scc.virginia.gov/pages/Case-Information. On or before October 20, 2020, any interested person may file comments on the IRP by following the instructions found on the Commission’s website: https://scc.virginia.gov/casecomments/Submit-Public-Comments. All comments shall refer to Case No. PUR-2020-00035. In light of the ongoing public health emergency related to the spread of COVID-19, the Commission will subsequently schedule, if practicable, oral public comment in this matter; if scheduled, such will be noticed via Commission order and accompanying news release.

On or before August 4, 2020, any person or entity wishing to participate as a respondent in this proceeding may do so by filing a notice of partici- pation. Such notice of participation shall include the email addresses of such parties or their counsel. The respondent simultaneously shall serve a copy of the notice of participation on counsel to the Company. Pursuant to 5 VAC 5-20-80 B, Participation as a respondent, of the Commis- sion’s Rules of Practice, any notice of participation shall set forth: (i) a precise statement of the interest of the respondent; (ii) a statement of the specific action sought to the extent then known; and (iii) the factual and legal basis for the action. Any organization, corporation, or government body participating as a respondent must be represented by counsel as required by 5 VAC 5-20-30, Counsel, of the Rules of Practice. All filings shall refer to Case No. PUR-2020-00035.

Any documents filed in paper form with the Office of the Clerk of the Commission in this docket may use both sides of the paper. In all other re- spects, except as modified by the Commission’s Order Establishing Schedule for Proceedings, all filings shall comply fully with the requirements of 5 VAC 5- 20-150, Copies and format, of the Commission’s Rules of Practice.

The Commission’s Rules of Practice may be viewed at https://scc.virginia.gov/pages/Rules-of-Practice-and-Procedure.

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