Dominion Energy flies to Dallas as Texas grid talks intensify

Dominion Energy flew from North Palm Beach County to Dallas Love Field on May 28, arriving just before 1 p.m. local time in a Gulfstream G450 bearing tail number N607D. The 2-hour-19-minute hop from Florida came after a week of shorter regional flights around the Southeast.

The same week, the Electric Reliability Council of Texas — ERCOT — is holding a two-day stakeholder workshop in Dallas on long-term transmission and resource adequacy planning, per the agency's public calendar. Dominion Energy does not operate in Texas, but the utility's CEO Bob Blue has been an active voice in national grid-reliability debates, and the company's regulated operations in Virginia and the Carolinas face similar questions about generation retirements and load growth from data centers.

Dominion Energy had flown from Richmond to the Palm Beach area the day before, suggesting a brief Florida stopover before the Dallas meeting. The utility's Gulfstream has been busy this month shuttling between Richmond and utility-industry hubs in Charlotte, Atlanta, and Columbia, South Carolina — a pattern consistent with regulatory and operational meetings across its service territory.