PITTSYLVANIA COUNTY, Va. – Dominion Energy will invest more than $300 million on two projects in Pittsylvania County. Dominion has selected a 149-acre lot in the Southern Virginia Megasite at Berry Hill for a 500-megawatt combustion turbine “peaking” plant that would have provide power to serve approximately 125,000 homes.

The project would result in close to 200 construction jobs and more than $200 million in investment and would contribute millions of tax dollars to both the City of Danville and Pittsylvania County.

Dominion would be the first tenant to locate within the park, which is located along Berry Hill Road in Pittsylvania County. The Southern Virginia Megasite at Berry Hill, Virginia’s largest industrial park, measures 3,528 acres and is jointly owned by the City of Danville and Pittsylvania County.

In addition to the Southern Virginia Megasite project, Dominion will purchase and pursue the Maplewood Solar facility – a $130 million project that represents 120 megawatts of power production approximately seven miles northwest of the town of Chatham in central Pittsylvania County.

The solar project, which received local zoning approval earlier this year, is proposed to be situated on close to 1,200 acres.