Dominion Energy history

In 1911 the company also acquired gas properties in Norfolk, Virginia, and entered the natural gas distribution business.

William Northrop, a Gould cousin and the new company's first president, died in 1912.

In 1925 VR&P was purchased by a syndicate headed by Stone & Webster, Inc., a New York engineering and consulting company.

In 1926 Vepco received a 30-year public-transit franchise from the city of Richmond, over the mayor's veto; he objected to provisions governing tax revenues.

William E. Wood, Vepco's vice-president, succeeded Bradley in 1927 when Bradley left to head another utility company.

The company acquired new leadership in 1929, when Jack G. Holtzclaw became president a few months after Wood left for New York to become executive vice-president of the holding company, Engineers Public Service.

In 1930 Vepco also made its last major track expansion, the Broad Street extension to the Richmond city limits.

The transit operations were sold in 1944.

Vepco became independent in 1947, with 450,000 gas and electric customers.

The decision was upheld by the United States Supreme Court in 1953, and the project was begun.

Erwin Will succeeded Holtzclaw as president in 1956.

Alfred H. (Pete) McDowell, Jr., succeeded Will in 1958, Will remaining as board chairman.

In 1959 McDowell and Will observed that Vepco, unlike some utilities, did not depend on large customers in any one industry and had thus been insulated somewhat from economic hard times.

In 1965 Vepco's annual revenues were $215 million.

In 1980, VEPCO began branding itself as "Virginia Power," while branding its North Carolina operations as "North Carolina Power." Three years later, VEPCO reorganized as a holding company, Dominion Resources.

Vepco was buying cheap coal-fired power from adjacent utilities near midwestern coal fields at the time, in mid-1982, and was taking advantage of a freer market in bulk power.

1983: Dominion Resources, Inc. (DRI) is organized as a holding company for Vepco.

By 1985, Dominion split its distribution operations among three operating companies: Virginia Power, North Carolina Power, and West Virginia Power.

The company formed a third subsidiary in 1987, Dominion Energy, a developer of power plants to perform in this open market.

In another move to diversify, Dominion launched its first venture into the national commercial lending business in 1994, when it joined forces with a Chicago-area lending firm called Household International, Inc.

In 1997, Dominion Energy gained ownership of UK power firm East Midlands Electricity, sold it to PowerGen, and the next year bought an Illinois power station from Unicom’s Commonwealth Edison.

By 2000, Dominion Energy had become one of the largest electric and gas utilities in the United States after purchasing Consolidated Natural Gas.

In a January 11, 2001 interview with Jack Cafferty of CNNfn, Capps critiqued the regulators' and the industry's poor handling of deregulation in California by contrast to the prudent, proactive, and visionary measures taken by Dominion.

Dominion Telecom was sold to Elantic Networks Inc. in 2004.

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The acquisition was completed in September 2016.

In 2017, Dominion Resources rebranded itself to Dominion Energy, following with a new logo.