No one who volunteers will be switched to a new supplier without their expressed permission. Project Current Choice is the first step of a multi-year effort to implement electric choice for 1.9 million Virginia customers served by Dominion Virginia Power. The Virginia Electric Utility Restructuring Act of 1999 calls for customer choice and the deregulation of the generation of electricity. The transmission and distribution of electricity will continue to be regulated. The law also gives the Virginia State Corporation Commission the authority to conduct retail choice pilot programs before the phase-in begins.
Dominion is the nation's largest fully integrated electric power and natural gas company.
Dominion has a power generation portfolio of more than 19,000 megawatts, which is expected to grow to more than 28,000 megawatts by 2005. Dominion is also one of the largest independent oil and natural gas exploration and production companies in North America, with 2.8 trillion cubic feet of equivalent reserves. The company has 7,600 miles of inter-state natural gas pipeline with more than 650 billion cubic feet of annual natural gas throughput. Dominion also serves 3.8 million retail natural gas and electric customers.