Dominion Energy's aircraft lands in Columbia the week of the Canadys plant approval

Dominion Energy's Gulfstream G450 (N607D) was tracked flying from Charleston International Airport to Columbia Metropolitan Airport on June 24, a 29-minute hop arriving at 12:21 UTC. The aircraft's home base is Richmond, but the short intra-state leg suggests a business purpose in the state capital.

If aboard, Dominion Energy would arrive in Columbia the same week the South Carolina Public Service Commission issued its final siting certificate for the $5 billion Canadys gas plant, per the Post and Courier. The June 12 order formalized a unanimous May vote and cleared the largest new power plant approved in the state in years, though a 71-mile Kinder Morgan pipeline needed to fuel it has not yet been permitted.

The flight follows a pattern of recent activity in the Carolinas: the aircraft made multiple trips between Richmond and Columbia in recent weeks, including a June 18 leg from Lancaster County to Columbia. Dominion Energy and Santee Cooper each own half of the 2,180 MW project, expected online by 2033.