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Dominion Energy invested $46 million to construct a 200,000-panel solar array on 125 acres its owns along Lucky Hill Road near Remington. The installation started generating electricity in October 2017.
These things will not be built . . . in Reston. They wonât be built where our Democratic colleagues live. Theyâll be built out here in rural areas and with untold consequences
— Del. Todd Gilbert (R-Shenandoah County)
By Sarah Vogelsong
Spotsylvania County: 6,350. Fauquier County: 3,500. King William County: 1,262.
Each number recited by Del. Charles Poindexter (R-Franklin) to a House panel during the second week of the 2021 General Assembly session represented the number of acres that local governments in Virginia have approved for solar projects to date.