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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12/1/25  4:18 pm
Commenter: Greg Singleton

No diesel generators for data centers!
 

Please DO NOT APPROVE the use of diesel generators for PLANNED POWER OUTAGES at data centers. These data centers should be getting their energy from sustainable sources, and when there’s an outage, they should have battery backup so as not to generate smoke-filled air for the surrounding communities to breathe and further contributing to our climate crisis. 

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