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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11/18/25  6:39 pm
Commenter: John Surr

require emergency generators to be emission-free
 

Please forbid the construction and use of polluting diesel generators at data center sites.  There are cost-effective and non-polluting alternative sources of power that don''t cost consumers more in electricity fees and provide ample power to batteries.

 

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