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  8:05 pm
Commenter: Richard Harman

If I can invest in Solar and Battery backup, so can datacenters.
 

There's a new datacenter in Culpeper, VA not too far from my farm, and where I live.  I built a house on my farm at the end of last year and personally invested in enough solar and battery storage that I could go 5+ hours without power from the grid.  If I can do this on a small scale, a big data center can do it at larger scale, and more efficiently without resorting to dirty pollution generating "emergency" generators and stretching the definition of "emergency" so they can make extended use of generators.

Invest in the health of the community around where your business operates.  It's that simple.

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