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# Dominion News Dominion Virginia Power Proposes To Convert Bremo P ower Station From Coal To Natural Gas - Fuel switch at existing site will provide economical gener ation - Proposal included in Virginia City Hybrid Energy Center air permit - Annual economic benefit would be $24 million once completed Sep 5, 2012 Page 1 of 3 Dominion Virginia Power Proposes To Convert Bremo Power Station From C oal To Natu ...

9/17/2012 http://dom.mediaroom.com/2012 - 09 - 05 - Dominion - Virginia - Power - Proposes - To - Convert - ...RICHMOND, Va., Sept. 5, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Dominion Virginia Power is proposing to convert

Bremo Power Station from using coal to natural gas as fuel to generate electricity. This would be the ninth company-owned, coal-fired power station announced in recent years with units to be closed or converted to alternative fuels. In its application filed with the Virginia State Corporation Commis sion (SCC), Dominion noted that it had agreed to stop using coal and convert the 227-megawatt, two-unit power st ation by spring 2014 as part of the air permit for the Virginia City Hybrid Energy Center . Virginia Center went into service in July. If the SCC approves the estimated $53.4 million conversion, the c ompany would cease burning coal at the station in the fall of 2013. These emission reductions would be in addition to Dominion's efforts alrea dy under way in Virginia to reduce emissions of sulfur dioxide, nitrogen oxides and mercury from exis ting stations by 75 percent to 85 percent by 2015. The conversion is projected to save customers about $32 million when compare d with the cost of building new generation and will save them $155 million when compared to continue d operation on coal. Bremo entered service in 1931, and the two units now in use were put into service in 1950 and 1958, respectively. During construction, the conversion is expected to have a total economic bene fit to the state of about $7 million and create up to 42 new jobs. The station will have a total annual economic impact of about $24 million once it is completed. Dominion has announced plans to shut down or convert all or part of five other c oal-fired power stations and convert three small units to biomass. Coal-fired power stations that are scheduled to close by 2015 are Chesapeake Energy Center and two units at Yorktown Power Stati on in Virginia, and the North Branch Power Station in West Virginia. The three small Vi rginia stations being converted to biomass by 2014 are in Altavista, Hopewell and Southampton County. The company this year closed a merchant coal-fired power station in I ndiana and announced the closing by June 2014 of a merchant coal- and oil-fired power station in Ma ssachusetts, which it subsequently sold. New environmental regulations that would have required costly expenditures t o retrofit emission control equipment plus the low price and availability of natural gas as an alternative fuel has made operating smaller, older coal-fired stations uneconomical. Dominion Virginia Power is a subsidiary of Dominion (NYSE: D), one of the nation's largest producers and transporters of energy, with a portfolio of approximately 28,000 m egawatts of generation, 11,000 miles of natural gas transmission, gathering and storage pipeline and 6,300 miles of electric transmission lines. Dominion operates the nation's lar gest natural gas storage system with 947 billion cubic feet of storage capacity and serves retail energy cus tomers in 15 states. For more information about Dominion, visit the company's website at www.dom.com .

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