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By HENRY N. BUTLER
and JERRY ELLIG
Rappahannock Neva Contributing Writer*
One of the strangest special-interest wars ever created by federal policy on the state level occurred in Virginia recently when Virginia Power won approval to build its new Chesterfield 7 power plant south of F.ichmond. Virginia’s State Corporation Commission signed off on Virginia Power’s application over the sometimes boisterous protests of independent electricity generators.
The source of the conflict over Chesterfield 7 was a piece of federal legislation passed in 1978, the Public Utility Regulatory Policies Act. The act sought to promote more efficient energy production by encouraging cogeneration, the production of electricity from heat given off as a byproduct of other industrial processes such as waste disposal and chemical manufacturing.
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