Shared Solar Program (Dominion Energy Virginia) · Virginia State Corporation Commission
Virginia's Shared Solar Program - established under HB 1634 / SB 629 (2020) and expanded by 2024 legislation - operates in Dominion Energy territory with a 30% LMI carve-out that exempts subscribers from the program's minimum bill.
Project cap
Up to 5 MW AC
Typical savings
10–15% off Dominion supply (no minimum bill for LMI)
LMI requirement
30% LMI subscribers to waive minimum bill
Utilities
Dominion Energy Virginia
Program overview
The Shared Solar Program - codified at Va. Code § 56-594.3 - gives Dominion Energy Virginia customers access to community solar bill credits. Initial program capacity (~200 MW) was expanded by 2024 legislation to roughly 350 MW, with Phase II rules (20VAC5-340) finalized and effective March 2025. A 'minimum bill' applies to non-LMI subscribers, but is waived if a project allocates at least 30% of capacity to qualifying low-income households.
The laws & rules
Established the Shared Solar Program in Dominion territory with a 200 MW initial cap and a minimum-bill mechanism.
Added approximately 150 MW of capacity and refined the LMI carve-out and consumer-protection provisions.
SCC final rules governing application process, queue management, subscriber rules, bill-credit calculation, and LMI verification.
Shared solar projects capped at 5 MW AC. Co-located storage permitted under separate interconnection rules.
Utilities we deliver in
Dominion Energy Virginia
What Cannon does in Virginia
Site origination, SCC interconnection coordination, county-level conditional-use permitting, and queue-position strategy under 20VAC5-340.
Ground-mount Shared Solar projects with co-located storage option, designed to maximize the LMI carve-out benefit and avoid the minimum-bill drag on subscriber economics.
Long-term operations across Dominion territory, including IR thermography, vegetation management, and SCC annual compliance reporting.
Verified LMI enrollment to hit the 30% threshold, minimum-bill modeling for non-LMI subscribers, and on-bill credit allocation through Dominion.
Why we win Virginia
30% LMI threshold strategy that protects subscriber economics from the minimum bill
20VAC5-340 fluency from day one - we tracked the rulemaking
One accountable partner across dev, EPC, O&M, and the customer side