Please support SB1047, which requires utilities to implement a demand response program for large electrical power consumers. Such programs would reduce customers' energy consumption during emergency events and minimize air pollution from fossil fuel generators. Northern Virginia residents deserve consistent, strong air quality standards. We should not be forced to endure air pollution from fossil fuels generators for the benefit of data centers under any circumstances.

I will make this short. Thanks to Loudoun and Pr William County governments, the Northern Virginia area is fast becoming the world's largest conglomeration of data centers and poses great environmental risks to the residents of those counties. In addition, all residents of Virginia should NOT be required to pay increased electricity rates to support the multi-million dollar companies that are building and leasing the data center facilities. You must protect the residential consumer.

HHH is a community for the elderly. Please support this Bill. Thank you!

I urge your support of SB1047, which requires utilities to implement a demand response program for large electrical power consumers. Such programs would reduce customers' energy consumption during emergency events and minimize air pollution from fossil fuels generators. Northern Virginia residents remember a foolhardy and rejected 2023 DEQ proposal to waive air quality standards to permit data center more frequent use of diesel back-up generators. SB1047 proposes a better solution.