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Fluvanna’s future is still being decided
Everyone in Fluvanna deserves clean air, safe water, and a healthy life, without paying for industrial development with their health. Residents should have a real say in what happens to their community.
Tenaska, a multibillion-dollar energy company based in Omaha, Nebraska, wants to build a second methane gas-fired power plant in Fluvanna and sell the electricity to the regional grid. As data-center demand surges, Fluvanna Housing Alliance (FHA) opposes asking our rural community to absorb still more pollution and industrial development.
The county's approval isn't the final word. Tenaska still needs state and federal permits, including air and wastewater permits from the Virginia Department of Environmental Quality and approval from the State Corporation Commission. Each step includes opportunities for public comment. This site shows you how to take part.
State approval is still required
The county's approval isn't the last word. Tenaska still needs a Certificate of Public Convenience and Necessity from the State Corporation Commission, and your comments become part of that record. Submit them by January 6, 2027, and be specific about how the plant would affect your daily life.
Key dates
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January 6, 2027: deadline to submit written comments
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January 12, 2027: in-person testimony
How to take part
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Submit a written comment before the deadline. Say clearly that you oppose the second plant, and include your name and Fluvanna address.
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Sign up to testify. Public witness testimony requires advance registration.
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Make it personal. Explain how air quality, water, health, or the rural character of your community matters to you.
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Ask your neighbors to comment or testify too.
January 6, 2027 — Comments and witness registration due
Include case PUR-2026-00102 with your comment.
January 12, 2027 — Public-witness hearing at 10 a.m.
Check the SCC’s instructions for hearing arrangements.
Submit a comment · Register to testify
Help preparing your comment or testimony
Official records and updates: SCC case record · DEQ project updates
Add your name to the petition
A second Fluvanna plant would add pollution and industrial development to a community already living with one.
Join our call for a full review of the combined impacts of power plants, pipelines, and transmission infrastructure before further approvals.
Tell us how this affects your life
Noise that disrupts daily life and sleep. Worries about your well, water supply or river pollution. Concerns about your health and the air you breathe. Trucks on rural roads.
Share what you’ve experienced and what you fear another plant could bring. Your voice belongs in the record.
The project reaches beyond the generating station
Before the county vote, presentations emphasized a roughly 50-acre developed footprint and using existing utility lines. Tenaska's State Corporation Commission application describes a broader project: a proposed 500-kV connection, a new switchyard, substation work, and supporting infrastructure. At the September 16 update, routes, additional parcels and the extent of land disturbance were still unsettled. Residents deserve complete maps and a clear account of what has changed since the county approved the project.
The impacts reach far beyond the plant site
A second plant would operate beside homes and farms, but its effects could reach people downwind, communities connected by waterways, and households along construction routes.
Air and health
A 2025 Harvard Dominici Lab study projects increased fine-particle pollution across Fluvanna, Albemarle, Louisa, Goochland, Buckingham, Cumberland, Powhatan, Henrico and Chesterfield counties and beyond. Expedition alone could expose more than four million people to added pollution and cause $27–50 million in annual health-related damages, with the largest modeled concentration increases in Palmyra and Lake Monticello.
View the air and health study
Water and private wells
Dry cooling reduces water use, but Expedition would still draw from the James River and generate wastewater, adding industrial demand to a river that supplies other users.
Drought also threatens private wells. The United States Geological Survey (USGS) explains that reduced rainfall and groundwater pumping can lower water levels, sometimes below a well’s pump intake.
USGS: Drought and Groundwater Levels — a clear explanation of drought, pumping, and wells running dry.
Land, traffic and noise
Expedition’s transmission lines, pipelines, and construction would extend its impacts beyond the plant site. Approximately four years of construction could bring persistent noise, fugitive dust from clearing and earthmoving, and substantial water demand. Worker traffic, heavy deliveries, and oversized loads could congest rural roads and disrupt daily travel.
The Board approved fewer road improvements than its commissioned TRC study recommended, allowing construction before intersection improvements were complete.
Neighbors who have already sought relief from TVGS noise now face a second, larger plant. Its cooling-fan banks and nighttime operations could compound disturbances to daily life and sleep.
We are calling for a full cumulative-impact review and for state regulators to deny Tenaska’s second plant.
Check the evidence for yourself
Our Research Library brings together public filings, government records, and supporting studies. Earlier research remains available in More Info.
About Fluvanna Horizons Alliance
Fluvanna Horizons Alliance is a community alliance dedicated to protecting our air and water from the potential harm of a gas-fired power plant. We work with local residents and organizations to raise awareness and advocate for sustainable, clean energy solutions. Our focus is on promoting environmental conservation and ensuring the well-being of our community for future generations. Have a concern or question? Contact FHA.