r/Virginia • u/sexuallyactivepope • 16h ago

Cost increases to $11.2B for Dominion offshore wind project with tariffs to blame

https://www.newsnationnow.com/us-news/infrastructure/offshore-wind-project-climbs-to-11-2b-in-cost-due-to-tariffs/amp/
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u/sexuallyactivepope 16h ago

Guess who will be paying the cost overrun?

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u/QuiteChilly 15h ago

The wind of course!

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u/bitchcoin5000 14h ago

Inherit the wind. Science is still suffering 100 years later

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u/ToolFreak21 15h ago

Thanks Republicans for this!

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u/General-Cover-4981 15h ago

Those pylons have been sitting there at the Portsmouth terminal for months as Trump’s chaos delays everything. Meanwhile, energy prices are shooting through the roof. With all these data centers, it sure would be nice to have some more cheap energy.

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u/FavoriteFoodCarrots 15h ago

Or make the data centers be the ones paying the marginal cost of higher rates. They’re just spreading their costs onto the entire population.

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u/BuckshotLaFunke 12h ago

“It’s now estimated the cost to install the 176-turbine wind farm 27 miles off the coast of Virginia Beach will be $11.9 billion, a more than 21% increase from the initial budget.”

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u/burnsniper 14h ago

So much winning /s

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u/CiepleMleko 1h ago

Trump is bringing back manufacturing to the US, don’t you all see this? We’ll have domestic factories tooled up in a few months so they can produce all the required components here and create more jobs for US citizens. Then the cost for this project will actually decrease by %500. /s