Fauquier supervisors hear safety, land-use concerns over proposed 100 MW Remington battery storage project

Dominion Energy this week asked the Fauquier County Board of Supervisors to approve a siting agreement and amend an earlier special exception to allow a 100-megawatt battery energy storage system at its Remington power station.

The application seeks authority to place batteries and related infrastructure on about 72 acres of the roughly 225.5-acre site off Lucky Hill Road, expanding the previously approved development area from 60 acres. The company proposes about 174 individual battery enclosures, each roughly 20 by 8 by 9.5 feet, plus access roads, screening, stormwater controls and an interconnection substation.

County staff told the board the Planning Commission unanimously recommended conditions including limiting the site to 72 acres, incorporating prior conditions from the 1998 approval, requiring compliance with county standards for battery systems, capping enclosure height at 10 feet, a 25-foot setback from wetlands and floodplains, landscaping and screening, pre‑ and post‑construction road evaluations and maintaining emergency access.

“The proposal for a 100 megawatt battery energy storage system…