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Regulators approve request from Dominion to drop RGGI fee on customer bills

The average Dominion Energy Virginia residential customer will soon see a charge of about .50 dropped from their bills. The fee was being collected to recover costs through the state’s participation in the regional carbon market. On Monday, the State Corporation Commission, which regulates Virginia’s utilities, approved a request from Dominion to stop tacking the fee on customer’s bills to recoup the costs the utility racked up through participation in the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI), which Virginia is no longer a part of. “At this time, the Company states it is no longer accruing RGGI-related compliance costs and is...

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