Dominion Energy, Virginia’s largest electric utility, did not have an independent monitor review bids for its planned gas plant in Chesterfield County and now has told state authorities that it alone reviewed the bids.

Questions raised by Virginia’s Attorney General’s Division of Consumer Counsel prompted Dominion this month to amend its months-old filing about the plant, making clear that an outside monitor had no part in the bidding process. Dominion had said, in previous written filings, that there was an independent monitor overseeing its bids for the gas structure planned at the Chesterfield Energy Reliability Center.

The Southern Environmental Law Center (SELC), which is fighting the fossil-fuel project now under review by regulators at the State Corporation Commission, noted the w

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