Electric News Releases

May 23, 2000

Virginia Power To Conduct Community Leaders Forum For Project Current Choice

RICHMOND, Va. -- Virginia Power, a subsidiary of Dominion (NYSE: D), will conduct an educational forum on May 24 to help community leaders in the greater Richmond area learn how their organizations can participate in Project Current Choice, the company's retail access pilot program.

The two-and-a-half-hour forum will be conducted twice during the day, from 2 p.m. until 4:30 p.m. and from 6 p.m. till 8:30 p.m., at the Innsbrook Technical Center, 5000 Dominion Boulevard, Glen Allen, Va. The workshops are free of charge.

"Leaders of neighborhood organizations or community groups can play an important part in helping others understand and benefit from electric competition," said Mark McGettrick, senior vice president-Customer Service & Metering. "By joining together to shop for a supplier, group members may be better positioned to take advantage of the opportunities that competition will bring."

Project Current Choice is the first step of a multi-year effort to implement electric choice for 1.9 million Virginia customers served by Virginia Power. The pilot will enlist volunteers from the city of Richmond, the town of Ashland and the counties of Chesterfield, Hanover and Henrico to choose their electricity supplier.

The Virginia Electric Utility Restructuring Act of 1999 called for retail competition to be phased in between Jan. 1, 2002, and Jan. 1, 2004. The State Corporation Commission, Virginia Power and American Electric Power-Virginia are conducting retail choice pilot programs to get ready for full competition.

Dominion is the nation's largest fully integrated natural gas and electric company, providing energy to more than 4 million customers in five states. More information on Dominion can be found on the Internet at www.dom.com.

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