{"id":276264,"date":"2026-05-19T07:19:17","date_gmt":"2026-05-19T07:19:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/276264\/"},"modified":"2026-05-19T07:19:17","modified_gmt":"2026-05-19T07:19:17","slug":"florida-company-reaches-deal-to-acquire-dominion-energy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/276264\/","title":{"rendered":"Florida company reaches deal to acquire Dominion Energy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. (WVIR) &#8211; A Florida-based company has reached a deal to acquire Dominion Energy.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The agreement with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nexteraenergy.com\/about-us.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.nexteraenergy.com\/about-us.html\">NextEra Energy<\/a> would create a utility giant, impacting millions of Virginians.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">It comes amid a rise in demand for electricity due to the growth of AI data centers.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The two utilities serve a combined 10 million customers across Virginia, the Carolinas, and Florida.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The nearly $67 billion, all-stock deal still needs approval from federal regulators. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text text-start\">Do you have a story idea? Send us your news tip <a href=\"https:\/\/www.29news.com\/2026\/05\/18\/florida-company-reaches-deal-acquire-dominion-energy\/mailto:wvirnewsdesk@gray.tv\" target=\"_self\" title=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 WVIR. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. (WVIR) &#8211; A Florida-based company has reached a deal to acquire Dominion Energy. The agreement with&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":276265,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[28,30,29],"class_list":["post-276264","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-florida","tag-florida","tag-florida-headlines","tag-florida-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276264","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=276264"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276264\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/276265"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=276264"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=276264"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=276264"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}