Whether to a home or business, government building, military base, data center, manufacturing facility, or to another utility, it is Dominion Energy’s mission to provide reliable and affordable — and increasingly sustainable — energy safely in the states where we operate.

Costs are rising for utilities across the country — particularly for the fuel to produce electricity at generating stations and for the natural gas customers use in their everyday lives. Dominion Energy, meanwhile, is taking every available step to keep rates as low as possible and improve reliability. Fuel cases in Virginia and South Carolina are expected to result in rates that are higher in both states, but still below the national average. In 2021, the company’s EnergyShare program contributed more than $14 million in, e.g., Virginia and South Carolina, to help customers there pay their heating and cooling bills.

In Virginia, the company now offers more than 40 energy-efficiency programs to reduce electric consumption for all types of customers, up from fewer than 10 just five years ago. And the average time Dominion Energy Virginia customers lose power is down about 11% over the past three years, in part because of programs aimed at preventing outages and communicating and restoring power more quickly when they occur. In South Carolina, where electric reliability is among the nation’s best, there are seven residential and three commercial and industrial energy-efficiency programs.

For the company’s gas utilities, better communication through 811 along with innovative programs using data to track higher-risk contractors have reduced third-party damage to gas distribution infrastructure 24% since April 2019.

And energy-efficiency offerings in the states where Dominion Energy operates gas distribution companies are on the rise. In Utah, the ThermWise programs help reduce natural gas consumption through energy-efficient appliances and practices, and, in Ohio, the ENERGYSTAR® program makes use of more efficient appliances, among other things. North Carolina is seeing a dramatic increase in such programs, and the company is introducing them for gas utility customers in South Carolina.

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