Oliver Barnes
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165 appearances
2 recordings
2 series
first heard Jun 2026
last heard 4 Jun
Oliver Barnes’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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in, you know, demand from data centers, right?
The combined company alone has the potential of adding, I think, 130 gigawatts, which is the equivalent of like 100 million homes worth of power, right?
So that's why you don't get the mention of data centers in the press release.
And you do get a lot of talk of affordability, right?
Because in order to sell this, they have to do quite a delicate dance, which is basically say,
On the one hand, yes, we're going to serve these data center providers, but then the scale and profits that we get from that, we can give back to the consumer, at least in the short term, right?
So they are also offering bill credits, subsidizing the bills of some of the customers where Dominion operates, right?
And the really tricky thing about all of these utility deals, and there have been big ones in the past, but this is by quite a large measure the biggest, right?
And NextEra knows this very well itself.
NextEra has tried on several occasions to do larger deals, some of which came undone in the negotiations and some of which came undone when they went in front of regulators.
And it's not so much the regulators in D.C.
It's not the FTC that they're necessarily worried about or the DOJ.
It's the public services commissions in the states in which Dominion operates because their primary concern is always going to be how does this affect my electorate?
So it's like an audience of one in a way.
Yeah.
It's whoever, like, local official is presiding over those committees.
And particularly in Virginia, there's quite a thorny history of utilities deals and these kind of, you know, the financial engineering within this industry getting past the Virginia Public Services Commission.
And that's really Dominion's heartland, right?
That's why they have to think so much about affordability.
Then it plays into this much bigger discussion.
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