SCC Public Hearing by Phone - Beginning DECEMBER 15, 2025 at 10:00 a.m.
Registration is closed.
Case Number: PUR-2025-00056

The SCC public witness hearing by phone procedure will be as follows:

1) Beginning at 10:00 am on December 15th, the SCC will begin calling people who pre-registered to speak by phone.*
2) The phone number they will call from is: 804-299-5840. (Please save this number in your contacts so you do not miss the call.) They will only attempt to reach you once.
3) When you answer the phone, you will be asked to make your comments. They will be received live during the hearing.
4) Comments are limited to 2 minutes in length. (The SCC issued an order on 12/10/25 reducing the comment time from 5 minutes to 2 minutes. Please plan accordingly. We will update this information if there is a change.)
5) In order to have the most impact, it is important to tailor your comments to the SCC’s priorities and objectives, as their decision-making is guided by strict standards. We have put together some sample scripts to help craft your comment.

*Due to the high volume of registered speakers, the SCC is planning to hear phone testimony from December 15 through end of day on December 19. They recognize that they may not get through all the registered speakers. As a result, they have extended the written testimony deadline to December 30th. We will continue to update this page when we have additional information from the SCC re: procedure and timelines.

WHAT TO SAY (3 Simple scripts)

Feel free to read any of these scripts directly, or personalize them with your own experience Pick one or all, or add your own, and you are done.
Additional script samples to help craft a 2 minute comment can be found here.

1. Property values
"My home is my family’s largest financial asset. Overhead 500 kilovolt (kV) lines in an established neighborhood will reduce property values and create long-term harm to residents who did not cause this need.

This harm is avoidable, and better alternatives exist."

2. Proximity to homes and schools
"These routes run alarmingly close to thousands of homes and five schools. Dominion has said themselves that they have never routed a 500 kilovolt line through a community this dense and this established.

This is not where this kind of infrastructure was ever meant to be."

3. Fair treatment to ratepayers
“Residents should not be doubly burdened. Dominion has stated that all ratepayers will bear the cost of this new infrastructure required due to data center growth. But in cases like this, communities suffer both the financial and the physical impacts of retrofit infrastructure at this scale. The SCC should ensure the burden is not unfairly placed on households who receive none of the benefit when when mitigation options like undergrounding exist.

Dominion calls this a reliability issue, but our community has never had reliability problems until now. What has changed?"

End with our final ask: Pilot program

“Please approve Loudoun County’s underground pilot. It is feasible, protects residential neighborhoods, and gives Virginia a tool that can potentially be used for future transmission needs in dense communities. This will not be the last project through our area. We need an approach that works now and can guide solutions going forward.

Our neighborhoods have stood for more than 25 years, yet we were never given a real voice in this process. The impacts would be severe and irreversible."

TIPS TO PERSONALIZE (optional)
How close is the proposed route to your home or school?
How will this affect your family, routines, or quality of life?
Why did you move here, and what did you expect in a residential neighborhood?
What do you love about your community?