“It’s very difficult,” says Mary Doswell, senior vice president of retail and alternative energy solutions. The holding company’s electric utility subsidiary, Dominion Virginia Power (DVP), wants to develop both a 12MW pilot and a potential 300-turbine project in federal waters off the state’s Atlantic coast.

“We actually started some regional talks very early in the offshore wind discussions. It got very difficult because each state we spoke to wanted to have a supply chain as well.