Virginia Regulatory Town Hall
Agency
Department of Environmental Quality
 
Board
Air Pollution Control Board
 
Guidance Document Change: DEQ Guidance Memo APG-578 addresses the use of emergency generators in the case of “sudden and reasonably unforeseeable events” as the result of a planned electric outage.
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11/22/25  6:57 am
Commenter: Edward Dunphy

Do not allow use of polluting emergency generators at data centers during planned outages
 

We must protect the residents near data centers from air and noise pollution abused by emergency generators. They should only be used in limited emergency situations.

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