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Virginia State Corporation Commission

Tracked direct receipts exceed tracked direct giving by

$14,000

Virginia state agency regulating utilities, insurance, and financial institutions.

Tracked direct giving

$0

Tracked receipts

$14,000

Connections

3

The Money Trail

How money flowed to Virginia State Corporation Commission

$14K
5 transactions across 5 counterparties
sum of 5 tracked donations shown
$14K tracked across 5 counterparties (sum of 5 tracked donations shown)·1 policy outcome
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Regulatory Capture Assessment

Regulatory capture is when an agency advances the interests of the industry it oversees (Stigler 1971; Carpenter & Moss 2013). The counts below are records in this tracker that connect outside parties to this agency. They are context for that question, not evidence that capture occurred.

Industry connection records
0
Opposed / enabled / benefited records
0
Revolving-door records
1
Rules issued or proposed
2

Counted over all 3 relationship records for this agency.

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Donations Received and Outside Spending

Largest 50 records. Badged rows are independent expenditures other groups paid to vendors for or against this entity. That money did not reach its committee.

Relationships

TypeConnected ToDetailsSource
Issued ruleSCC final order in Dominion's 2025 biennial review: $565.7M rate increase and the GS-5 large-load (data center) rate class (Case PUR-2025-00058)Issued the Final Order of November 25, 2025 in Case PUR-2025-00058 (Dominion 2025 biennial review): $565.7M / $209.9M base-rate increases, ROE 9.8%, and the GS-5 rate class for loads of 25 MW or more.Source
Issued ruleSCC final order granting the certificate for Dominion's 944 MW Chesterfield Energy Reliability Center gas plant (Case PUR-2025-00037)Issued the Final Order of November 25, 2025 in Case PUR-2025-00037 granting the certificate for the 944 MW Chesterfield Energy Reliability Center and approving Rider CERC; suspended December 16, 2025 and reinstated February 12, 2026.Source
EmployedMark ChristieMark Christie served as Virginia State Corporation Commission chairman (2004-2020), directly regulating electric utilities including Dominion Energy and Appalachian Power before becoming FERC Chairman.Editorial