The Multiple Costs of Our Food Waste: What One Can Do

by Sandra Tarpinian

It happens to all of us. We forget the spinach in the fridge and get more; we buy avocados that go bad before they get eaten; we cook a huge holiday spread to show love to friends and family and then can’t finish it all. Currently the United States wastes more food and more food per person than most any other country in the world. Households account for 39 percent of the food waste in the United States, more than restaurants, grocery stores or farms. When food is wasted, it also wastes the water, gasoline, energy, labor, pesticides, land, and fertilizers used to make and deliver the food.

When we throw food in the trash, we’re throwing away much more than food. We are throwing away our money and harming the environment. According to the USDA, the average family of four spends about $1500/year on food that ends up uneaten. According to the EPA, in 2018 the majority (66 percent) of the residential sector’s wasted food was landfilled. Thirty-five million tons of food scraps went into landfills, making food the single largest category of material sent to municipal solid waste landfills. When food rots in landfills, the nutrients do not break down and never return to the soil. Without the oxygen necessary for decomposition, wasted food produces methane gas, a greenhouse gas far more potent than carbon dioxide.

You can be part of the solution: Reduce and Compost!

The best approach to reducing food loss and waste is not to create it in the first place. Changing habits like making meal plans, shopping with a list, buying only what you need, freezing leftovers or taking them for lunch are among ideas often suggested that can help us limit the food we discard. But even with better planning and shopping, there are parts of our food that are not considered edible – vegetable peelings, apple cores, seeds, eggshells, orange rinds. So, what is the best way to keep our food waste out of the landfill? Composting it!

When food scraps are composted, either in a home composter or in a commercial facility, the nutrients break down into a substance that can be put back into the soil to enrich it. And harmful gases are not released into the atmosphere.

In the City of Falls Church, homeowners have started to embrace composting their food scraps through the variety of programs the City makes available. Food scraps, spoiled food, and food-soiled paper comprise around 25 percent of the waste inside an average City of Falls Church resident’s trash cart. But in 2021, residents kept 105.25 tons of food waste out of the landfill by composting it. And those numbers keep growing as more households get on board.

The City offers two programs to consider. The first is a free food waste drop-off located in an enclosed area by the tennis courts behind City Hall, available 24/7, 365 days/year. See https:// www.fallschurchva.gov/Compost for a list of the foods that can be deposited here.

The second program, the Curbside Compost program, is a voluntary, fee-based service open to any City of Falls Church resident receiving curbside solid waste services through the City. The program consists of weekly (Wednesday) curbside pick-ups of food scraps and other organic matter by a contracted commercial composting company.

Participants get an airtight bin and compostable liners to help keep everything tidy. After collection, the contractor gives the bins a quick cleaning, replaces the compostable liner and takes the food waste to a composting facility where it is turned into a high-quality soil amendment. Participants who opt-in with the contractor have been rewarded with free finished compost each spring.

Currently, the cost is $6 per month or $66 per year. There is a one-time fee of $10 to cover the setup and bin. This is a deal compared to the average price of $32/ month in the DC/VA/MD region. To celebrate this innovative program — the first in Virginia — all new participants will receive 6 months free! Register online at www.compostcrew.com/fallschurch. This program allows for a broader variety of waste so see their list at https://www.fallschurchva.gov/2022/Compost

Want to learn more about composting food and backyard waste at home? Register for the free Composting Workshop offered on April 30, 2023, from 2-4 p.m. in the Cherry Hill Park picnic pavilion. Register by email at shoptarp@gmail.com

If you are unsure of eligibility, want a free, small scrap collection container appropriate to keep in the kitchen or have any questions at all about composting, email the City’s Solid Waste Coordinator at recycling@fallschurchva.gov, or call 703-248-5160.

Reducing and composting wasted food is a triple win; it’s good for the economy, for communities, and for the environment. You are an important part of the solution!!!

If I could get a memo onto President Joe Biden’s desk about the new Israeli government, I know exactly how it would start:

“Dear Mr. President, I don’t know if you are interested in Jewish history, but Jewish history is certainly interested in you today. Israel is on the verge of a historic transformation — from a fullfledged democracy to something less, and from a stabilizing force in the region to a destabilizing one. You may be the only one able to stop Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his extremist coalition from turning Israel into an illiberal bastion of zealotry.”

I’d also tell Biden that I fear that Israel is approaching some serious internal civil strife. Civil conflicts are rarely about one policy. They tend to be about power. For years, the fierce debates in Israel about the Oslo Accords were about policy. But today, this simmering clash is about power — who can tell whom how to live in a highly diverse society.

The short story: An ultranationalist, ultra-Orthodox government, formed after the Netanyahu camp won election by the tiniest sliver of votes (roughly 30,000 out of some 4.7 million), is driving a power grab that the other half of voters view not only as corrupt but also as threatening their own civil rights. That’s why a 5,000-person antigovernment demonstration grew to 80,000 over the weekend.

The Israel that Biden knew is vanishing and a new Israel is emerging. Many ministers in this government are hostile to American values, and nearly all are hostile to the Democratic Party. Netanyahu and his minister of strategic affairs, Ron Dermer, had plotted with Republicans to engineer Netanyahu’s 2015 speech in Congress against Biden’s and President Barack Obama’s wishes and policies. They would like to see a Republican in the White House and prefer the support of evangelical Christians over liberal Jews and that of MBS over AOC.

Have no doubts about this. The president should not be misled by their “our old friend Joe” pablum.

The current crisis in Israel may be presented to Biden as an internal constitutional matter that he should stay out of. To the contrary.

Biden should wade right in (just as Netanyahu did) because the outcome has direct implications for U.S. national security interests. I have no illusions that Biden can reverse the most extreme trends emerging in Israel today, but he can nudge things onto a healthier path, and maybe prevent the worst, with some tough love in a way that no other outsider can.

The most pressing crisis is this: Israel’s courts, led by its Supreme Court, have largely been ferocious protectors of human rights, and particularly the rights of minorities. These minorities include Arab citizens, LGBTQ citizens and even Reform and Conservative Jews who want the same freedom and rights of religious practice as Orthodox and ultra-Orthodox Jews enjoy. In addition, because Israel’s Supreme Court reviews the actions of all executive branches, including the military, it has often protected the rights of Palestinians, including providing protection from abuses by Israeli settlers and illegal expropriation of their private property.

But this Netanyahu government seeks to radically alter the situation in the West Bank, effectively annexing it without officially declaring to do so. And the plan has just one big obstacle: Israel’s Supreme Court and legal institutions.

As The Times of Israel summarized, the judicial overhaul that Netanyahu intends to ram through the Knesset, or parliament, would “grant the government total control over the appointment of judges, including to the high court,” replacing a much less partisan and professional judicial appointment process. The overhaul would also severely limit “the high court’s ability to strike down legislation” — especially legislation that might curb the rights of Israel’s minorities — “and enable the Knesset,” now controlled by Netanyahu, “to relegislate” laws that the court strikes down.

The overhaul would also diminish the independence of the legal watchdogs at each government ministry: Instead of reporting to the attorney general, they would become appointees of each minister.

In short, Israel’s executive branch would assume control of its judiciary. This is right out of the Turkey-Hungary majoritarian playbook, especially when you consider one more thing: This is all being done at a time when Netanyahu himself is being tried on charges of bribery, fraud and breach of trust in three cases brought by his own attorney general.

Early this month, a former Netanyahu right-wing defense minister and former chief of staff of the Israeli army, Moshe Ya’alon, tweeted that Netanyahu’s judicial “reforms” revealed “the true intentions of a criminal defendant” who is “ready to burn down the country and its values ... in order to escape the dock. ... Who would have believed that less than 80 years after the Holocaust that befell our people, a criminal, messianic, fascist and corrupt government would be established in Israel, whose goal is to rescue an accused criminal.”

Netanyahu, of course, says this is the furthest thing from his mind — God forbid.

Israel, because it does not have a formal constitution, is governed by a very complex set of legal checks and balances that have evolved over decades. Legal experts tell me that there is an argument for some changes to the judiciary. But to do so in Netanyahu’s way — not by a nonpartisan national convention, but with the Supreme Court being stripped of powers by the most radical government in Israeli history and knowing Netanyahu’s criminal case could end up before the high court — stinks to high heaven.

To put it in American terms, it would be as if Richard Nixon tried to expand the U.S. Supreme Court with pro-Nixon justices during the Watergate criminal investigation.

The current president of Israel’s Supreme Court, Esther Hayut, declared last week that Netanyahu’s proposed overhaul “will shatter the judicial system and is in fact an unrestrained attack.” In addition, groups of retired air force pilots, high-tech executives, lawyers and retired judges from the left and the right, including some retired Supreme Court justices, have all signed letters saying basically the same thing.

The U.S. has given Israel extraordinary amounts of economic assistance, sensitive intelligence, our most advanced weapons and virtually automatic backing against biased resolutions in the United Nations. I support that. We also have long opposed any legal action by international institutions, based on the argument that Israel has an independent judicial system that — not all the time, but plenty of times — credibly enforced accepted norms of international law on Israel’s government and army, even when it meant protecting the rights of Palestinians.

Before Netanyahu succeeds in putting Israel’s Supreme Court under his thumb, Biden needs to tell him in no uncertain terms:

“Bibi, you are riding roughshod over American interests and values. I need to know some things from you right now — and you need to know some things from me. I need to know: Is Israel’s control of the West Bank a matter of temporary occupation or of an emerging annexation, as members of your coalition advocate? Because I will not be a patsy for that. I need to know if you really are going to put your courts under your political authority in a way that makes Israel more like Turkey and Hungary, because I will not be a patsy for that. I need to know if your extremist ministers will change the status quo on the Temple Mount. Because that could destabilize Jordan, the Palestinian Authority and the Abraham Accords — which would really damage U.S. interests. I will not be a patsy for that.”

Here is my guess of how Netanyahu would respond:

“Joe, Joey, my old friend, don’t press me on this stuff now. I am the only one restraining these crazies. You and I, Joe, we can make history together. Let’s join our forces not to simply deter Iran’s nuclear capabilities, but to help — in any way possible — the Iranian protesters trying to topple the clerical regime in Tehran. And let’s, you and me, forge a peace agreement between Israel and Saudi Arabia. MBS is ready if I can persuade you to give Saudi Arabia security guarantees and advanced weapons. Let’s do that and then I’ll dump these crazies.”

I applaud both foreign policy goals, but I would not pay for them with a U.S. blind eye to Netanyahu’s judicial putsch. If we do that, we’ll sow the wind and reap the whirlwind.

Israel and the U.S. are friends. But today, one party in this friendship — Israel — is changing its fundamental character. President Biden, in the most caring but clear way possible, needs to declare that these changes violate America’s interests and values and that we are not going to be Netanyahu’s useful idiots and just sit in silence.

By THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN © 2023 The New York Times

City Council scheduled public hearing and final action for the following items for Monday, February 13, 2023 at 7:30 p.m., or as soon thereafter as the matter may be heard.

(TR22-34) RESOLUTION AMENDING SPECIAL EXCEPTIONS SE03-0136 AND SE03-0137, FOR 513 WEST BROAD STREET (THE BYRON) AND AS AMENDED THROUGH RESOLUTION 2011-25, TO ALLOW FOR ADDITIONAL PERMITTED SERVICE AND OFFICE USES FOR THE FIRST FLOOR COMMERCIAL SPACES CURRENTLY RESTRICTED UNDER THE VOLUNTARY CONCESSIONS, COMMUNITY BENEFITS, TERMS AND CONDITIONS (VCs)

This is a request to allow uses other than restaurant/retail in the western most ground floor spaces of 513 West Broad St. while maintaining restaurant/retail uses in the eastern most spaces and adding a parking management plan to clarify spaces available for commercial uses.

All public hearings will be held in the Council Chambers, 300 Park Avenue, Falls Church, Virginia. Remote participation information at www.fallschurchva.gov/publiccomment.

Comments may also be sent to cityclerk@ fallschurchva.gov. For copies of legislation, contact the City Clerk’s office at (703-2485014) or cityclerk@fallschurchva.gov or visit www.fallschurchva.gov/councilmeetings.

The City of Falls Church is committed to the letter and spirit of the Americans with Disabilities Act. To request a reasonable accommodation for any type of disability, call 703-248-5014 (TTY 711).

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STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA IN THE FAMILY COURT FIFTEENTH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT COUNTY OF HORRY | 2022-DR26-2446

Nur Abushakra Plaintiff, versus COMPLAINT Yaser Mahmoud Elkhatib, Defendant

The Plaintiff would respectfully show unto this Honorable Court as follows:

1. The Plaintiff is a citizen and resident of the County of Horry, State of South Carolina and have been so for more than one (1) year prior to the filing of this action. Further, the parties’ minor child is a citizen and resident of Horry County, South Carolina for at least six (6) months prior to the filing of this action. The Defendant is a citizen and resident of the State of Virginia. Therefore, this Court has jurisdiction over the parties and the subject matter in this action and venue is proper herein.

2. The Plaintiff and Defendant were married on April 15, 2012 and were subsequently divorced in 2016 in Brunswick County, North Carolina. The parties have one (1) minor child, to-wit: MKE, age 8. No other children are now expected between the parties.

COUNT I

(Modification of Custody, Visitation & Child Support)

3. The Plaintiff would show that under the current Final Order that the Plaintiff registered in Horry County, South Carolina under cause number 2021-DR-261127, the parties entered into an Agreement that was approved on August 16, 2016, a copy of which is attached hereto.

4. The Plaintiff would further show that since the date of finalization, there have been material and substantial changes in circumstances to warrant a modification of both custody and visitation to the Defendant.

5. The Plaintiff would show that the Defendant has not seen or had contact with the minor child since March of 2016, some five (5) months prior the Agreement being finalized.

6. The Plaintiff would further show that the Defendant has voluntarily relocated to more than one location well outside of the State of North Carolina, putting himself geographically farther from the minor child, without consideration of her or his time with her.

7. The Plaintiff would show that after the Defendant’s relocation outside of the State of North Carolina, she and the minor child moved to Horry County, South

Carolina in 2019.

8. The Plaintiff would show that the Defendant is quite literally a stranger to the minor child; that he has voluntarily removed himself from her life and abandoned any responsibilities regarding the minor child as it pertains to decision making, day to day events and activities or any involvement in her life at all. The Plaintiff would further show that the current custodial arrangement is not in the minor child’s best interests because of the Defendant’s actions or lack thereof.

Therefore, the Plaintiff requests that the terms of the parties’ Agreement be modified to reflect what is in the minor child’s best interests, that of sole custody to the Plaintiff and visitation at her discretion. She is making this request both pendente lite or permanently.

9. The Plaintiff would further show that it is not in the minor child’s best physical, emotional, or mental wellbeing to be required to operate under the current custodial and visitation arrangement, either in the Agreement or in practice, temporarily and on a permanent basis.

10. The Plaintiff would show that child support was ordered in the parties’ current Final Order of Five Hundred Dollars ($500.00) per month paid through the Clerk of Court’s office. The Plaintiff would show that the Defendant has never any child support pursuant to the Order. Therefore, he has a child support arrearage in the amount of Thirty-Seven Thousand Five Hundred Dollars ($37500.00) as of November 1, 2022.

11. The Plaintiff would respectfully request that the State Disbursement Unit transfer the child support obligation from North Carolina. The Plaintiff would further request that upon such transfer, a 02 account be opened placing the Defendant’s arrearage amount in such account and modifying the Defendant’s child support obligation such that he remits One Hundred Dollars ($100.00) per month toward the arrearage in addition to the ongoing monthly child support obligation of Five Hundred Dollars ($500.00). She makes this request both pendente lite and permanently.

COUNT II (Restraining Orders)

12. The Plaintiff requests a restraining order that restrains the Defendant from coming about her or her family’s persons, bothering, harassing, contacting, or otherwise persecuting her at her home, place of employment, worship, or any other place and by any means, both pendente lite and permanently.

13. The Plaintiff requests that the Defendant be restrained from exposing the minor child to non-age-appropriate materials or mediums, any members of the opposite sex not related by blood or marriage on an overnight basis; abuse of alcohol or prescription drugs; use of illicit drugs; and violence, profanity, or immoral environments or conduct of any sort. She makes these requests both pendente lite and permanently.

COUNT III (Obtaining a Passport)

14. The Plaintiff would show that the minor child has extensive, extended family that reside outside of the United States. The Plaintiff would further show that to date, she has not been permitted to obtain a passport for the minor child considering not having meaningful contact with the Defendant.

15. The Plaintiff would further show that the minor child’s great grandmother recently passed away in Israel and she was not able to travel overseas to meet her prior to her death due to Plaintiff’s inability to obtain a passport on her behalf. The Plaintiff would ask that she be allowed to obtain a passport for the minor child to travel overseas to meet her extended maternal relatives without the consent of or participation by the Defendant. She makes this request both pendente lite and permanently.

COUNT IV (Attorney’s Fees)

16. The Plaintiff would show that based solely upon the Defendant’s actions and/or inactions, she has been forced to hire an attorney to protect her legal interests and those of the minor child by filing this action. The Plaintiff does not have funds to afford a sustained and protracted legal battle. She would therefore request that this Court require the Defendant to reimburse her for her attorney fees and costs in bringing this action, both pendente lite and permanently.

WHEREFORE, the Plaintiff prays that this Honorable Court inquire into this matter and that it issues Its Order granting unto her: a. Sole custody of the minor child; b. Visitation at the Plaintiff’s sole discretion; c. An order transferring the Defendant’s monthly child support obligation of Five Hundred Dollars ($500.00) to the State of South Carolina State Disbursement Unit; d. An order setting up a 02 account and placing the Defendant’s arrearage totaling ThirtySeven Thousand Five Hundred Dollars ($37500) into such account and requiring a monthly payment of One Hundred Dollars ($100.00) in addition to his ongoing monthly obligation; e. Restraining order as to harassment or contact and conduct around the minor child; f. An order allowing the Plaintiff to obtain a passport for the minor child without involvement or consent of the Defendant; g. Attorney fees; h. Discovery; and i. For such other and further relief as this Court may deem just and proper.

Respectfully Submitted, Lisa M. Carver Attorney for Plaintiff 8203 Nigels Drive, Suite 201 Myrtle Beach, SC 29572 (843) 213-1576 Tel (843) 213-1588 Fax lisa@carverlawfirmllc.com November 10, 2022

STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA IN THE FAMILY COURT FIFTEENTH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT COUNTY OF HORRY | 2022-DR26-2446 Nur Abushakra Plaintiff, versus COMPLAINT Yaser Mahmoud Elkhatib, Defendant

TO THE DEFENDANT ABOVENAMED: YASER MAHMOUD ELKHATIB: YOU ARE HEREBY SUMMONED and required to answer the Complaint in this action, a copy of which is herewith served upon you, and to serve a copy of your Answer to the said Complaint on the Plaintiff’s attorney, Lisa M. Carver, Esq. at 8203 Nigels Drive, Suite 201, Myrtle Beach, South Carolina 29572 within thirty (30) days after the service hereof, exclusive of the day of such service, and if you fail to answer the Complaint within the time aforesaid, the Plaintiff in this action will apply to the Court for the relief demanded in the Complaint and judgment by default will be rendered against you for the relief demanded in the Complaint. Your Answer must be in writing and signed by you or by your attorney and you must state your address or the address of your attorney, if signed by your attorney.

STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA IN THE FAMILY COURT FIFTEENTH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT COUNTY OF HORRY | 2022-DR26-2446

Nur Abushakra Plaintiff, versus COMPLAINT

Yaser Mahmoud Elkhatib, Defendant

Pursuant to Rule 21 of the South

Carolina Rules for Family Court, the Plaintiff hereby moves for this Court’s Order granting her the following pendente lite relief: a. Sole custody; b. Visitation at the Plaintiff’s discretion; c. An order transferring child support from North Carolina to South Carolina with payments going through the State Disbursement Unit; d. An order recognizing the Defendant’s arrearage totaling Thirty-Seven Thousand Five Hundred Dollars ($37500.00), setting up an 02 account and requiring the Defendant to remit One Hundred Dollars ($100.00) per month toward this arrearage amount in addition to ongoing monthly child support; e. Restraining Orders as to harassment, contact and conduct around the minor child; f. Attorney’s Fees; and g. For such other and further relief as this Court deems just and proper.

Notice Of Hearing

(to be completed by scheduling clerk only)

A HEARING HAS BEEN SET IN THIS MATTER ON THE 13th DAY OF MARCH, 2023, AT 10:30 am BEFORE THE HONORABLE Melissa Frazier IN FAMILY COURTROOM NUMBER TBD

MOTION OR RULE REQUEST (to be completed by moving party)

CAPTION: Nur Abushakra v. Yaser Mahmoud Elkhartib CASE NUMBER: 2022-DR-262446 DATE MOTION FILED: 11/14/22 MOVING ATTORNEY: Lisa M. Carver REPRESENTS: Plaintiff TELEPHONE: 8432131576 FAX: 8432131588 GUARDIAN AD LITEM: None

NATURE OF MOTION: Motion for Temporary Relief IF OTHER: ESTIMATED TIME NEEDED: 15 minutes

Dates

AVAILABLE: November 30; December NONE; January NONE; February 13, 21; March 13, 15-16, 20, 22, 29; April 10-12; May 1-5, 22-25; and June 1-3, 6-8, 13-15, 19-23, 26-30

Falls Church News-Press Vol. VII, No. 45 • January 22, 1998

Brangman, Scully Announce They Won’t Seek Re-Election This May

At least two incumbents on the Falls Church City Council — Mayor Alan Brangman and Council member Jane Scully — won’t seek re-election this May, the NewsPress learned this week

Dorothy Werner, former resident of Lake Barcroft, passed away on January 8th at The Virginian Assisted Living in Fairfax. She was 99 years of age and was just within two weeks of turning 100.

Born on January 22, 1923 in Lexington, Tennesse and raised in Jackson, Tennesse. Dorothy began her career as a photojournalist with the Commercial Appeal in Memphis and later moved to New York and worked as a public relations executive in the New York fashion industry. While in New York, she met her husband to be, Merle Werner, a veteran foreign correspondent and U.S. Foreign Service officer, and they began a lengthy career of traveling the world with their two sons, residing in five foreign countries: Sweden, Vienna, Manila, Taipei and Seoul Korea. Dorothy loved the foreign service and had a natural talent for the role of diplomat’s wife.

After relocating permanently back to Northern Virginia in 1969, Mrs. Werner resumed her career in public relations

Falls Church News-Press Vol. XXII, No. 48 • January 24, 2013

F.C. Council, School Board, Already On News Budget Collision Course in 1972 when she joined the staff of the Northern Virginia Regional Park Authority (now known as NOVA Parks). Her achievements include publicizing the W&OD Trail and designing the trail brochure; the Bluebell Week at Bull Run Regional Park; and the opening of five regional pools, including the Pohick Bay swimming pool and the wave pool at Cameron Run Regional Park.

F.C. School Superintendent Dr. Toni Jones presented an enrollment-growth-driven budget to the School Board tonight that called for a net increase of $3,231,000, an 8.5 percent increase to $41,389,240.

“Dorothy’s respect for accuracy and dedication to telling the citizens of Northern Virginia about regional parks has shaped the Northern Virginia Regional Park Authority’s public information policy,” said Darrell G. Winslow, the authority’s former executive director.

“I think of her as the grand dame of public relations, in the nicest sense of the word,” said Diane Bechtol, former head of media relations for the Alexandria Tourist Council.

Outside of her career work, Dorothy’s favorite pastimes included gardening and geneological research, but most of all she loved her time in the Lake

Mrs. Werner is survived by her son Michael of Falls Church, son Douglas of Fremont, California, daughterin-law Vicki and grandson Peter also of Fremont, California; two nephews in Dallas, Texas, and a nephew and neice in Jackson, Tennesse.

Of Petition

TO THE PUBLIC

Notice

BY VIRGINIA ELECTRIC AND POWER COMPANY FOR REVISION OF A RATE ADJUSTMENT CLAUSE, DESIGNATED RIDER PPA, FOR THE RATE YEAR COMMENCING SEPTEMBER 1, 2023 CASE NO. PUR-2022-00202

•Virginia Electric and Power Company d/b/a Dominion Energy Virginia (“Dominion”) has applied for approval to revise its rate adjustment clause, Rider PPA, for recovery of projected and actual costs associated with certain power purchase agreements for the energy, capacity, ancillary services, and renewable energy credits owned by third parties.

•Dominion requests approval for recovery in Rider PPA of a total revenue requirement of ($22,045,000), which represents a net credit to customers. According to Dominion, this amount would decrease the bill of a typical residential customer using 1,000 kilowatt hours of electricity per month by $0.22.

•A Hearing Examiner appointed by the Commission will hold a telephonic hearing in this case on May 23, 2023, at 10 a.m., for the receipt of public witness testimony.

•The Hearing Examiner will hold an evidentiary hearing in this case on May 24, 2023, at 10 a.m.

•Further information about this case is available on the SCC website at: scc.virginia.gov/pages/Case-Information

On December 1, 2022, Virginia Electric and Power Company (“Dominion” or “Company”) filed a petition (“Petition”) with the State Corporation Commission (“Commission”) pursuant to Code § 56-585.1 A 5 d for approval of a revision to its Rider PPA. Through its Petition, the Company seeks to recover projected and actual costs associated with certain power purchase agreements (“PPAs”) for the energy, capacity, ancillary services, and renewable energy credits owned by third parties. Specifically, the Company seeks cost recovery related to the PPAs approved by the Commission in Case No. PUR-2020-00134 (“CE-1 PPAs”), Case No. PUR-2021-00146 (“CE-2 PPAs”), and the PPAs currently pending approval in Case No. PUR-2022-00124 that will enter commercial operations during the rate year in this proceeding (“CE-3 PPAs”). In total, Dominion has incorporated costs associated with six CE-1 PPAs, 17 CE-2 PPAs, and seven CE-3 PPAs that are scheduled to be operational on or before August 31, 2024.

Rider PPA is one of the rate mechanisms included in the overarching framework approved by the Commission in Case No. PUR-2020-00134 for the recovery of non bypassable costs and benefits related to the mandatory renewable energy portfolio standards program in Code § 56-585.5. The Company states that Rider PPA will recover the PPA costs and the associated benefits that support the procurement targets in Code § 56-585.5 D and E, which include utility-scale solar or wind, utility-scale energy storage, and distributed solar PPAs. In its Petition, Dominion notes that the costs and benefits of these PPAs will be recovered through Rider PPA from all retail customers, regardless of electric supplier, with limited exceptions.

In this proceeding, Dominion asks the Commission to approve Rider PPA for the rate year beginning September 1, 2023, and ending August 31, 2024 (“Rate Year”). The Company is requesting a total revenue requirement of ($22,045,000) for recovery in Rider PPA for the Rate Year, which represents a net credit to customers. If the proposed Rider PPA is approved for the Rate Year, the impact on customer bills would depend on the customer’s rate schedule and usage. According to Dominion, implementation of its proposed Rider PPA on September 1, 2023, would decrease the bill of a residential customer using 1,000 kilowatt¬hours per month by $0.22.

Interested persons are encouraged to review Dominion’s Petition and supporting documents in full for details about these and other proposals.

TAKE NOTICE that the Commission may apportion revenues among customer classes and/or design rates in a manner differing from that shown in the Petition and supporting documents and thus may adopt rates that differ from those appearing in the Company’s Petition and supporting documents.

The Commission has taken judicial notice of the ongoing public health issues related to the spread of the coronavirus, or COVID-19. In accordance therewith, all pleadings, briefs or other documents required to be served in this matter shall be submitted electronically to the extent authorized by 5 VAC 5-20-150, Copies and format, of the Commission’s Rules of Practice and Procedure (“Rules of Practice”). Confidential and Extraordinarily Sensitive Information shall not be submitted electronically and should comply with 5 VAC 5-20-170, Confidential information, of the Rules of Practice. Any person seeking to hand deliver and physically file or submit any pleading or other document shall contact the Clerk’s Office Document Control Center at (804) 371-9838 to arrange the delivery.

Pursuant to 5 VAC 5-20-140, Filing and service, of the Rules of Practice, the Commission has directed that service on parties and the Commission’s Staff in this matter shall be accomplished by electronic means. Please refer to the Commission’s Order for Notice and Hearing for further instructions concerning Confidential or Extraordinarily Sensitive Information.

The Commission entered an Order for Notice and Hearing that, among other things, scheduled public hearings on Dominion’s Petition. On May 23, 2023, at 10 a.m., the Hearing Examiner assigned to this case will hold a telephonic hearing, with no witness present in the Commission’s courtroom, for the purpose of receiving the testimony of public witnesses. On or before May 16, 2023, any person desiring to offer testimony as a public witness shall provide to the Commission (a) your name, and (b) the telephone number that you wish the Commission to call during the hearing to receive your testimony. This information may be provided to the Commission in three ways: (i) by filling out a form on the Commission’s website at scc.virginia.gov/pages/Webcasting; (ii) by completing and emailing the PDF version of this form to SCCInfo@scc.virginia.gov; or (iii) by calling (804) 371-9141. This public witness hearing will be webcast at scc.virginia.gov/pages/Webcasting

On May 24, 2023, at 10 a.m., in the Commission’s second floor courtroom located in the Tyler Building, 1300 East Main Street, Richmond, Virginia 23219, the Hearing Examiner will convene a hearing to receive testimony and evidence related to the Petition from the Company, any respondents, and the Commission’s Staff.

Electronic copies of the public version of the Petition may be obtained by submitting a written request to counsel for the Company: Elaine S. Ryan, Esquire, McGuireWoods LLP, Gateway Plaza, 800 East Canal Street, Richmond, Virginia 23219, or eryan@mcguirewoods.com

On or before May 16, 2023, any interested person may submit comments on the Petition electronically by following the instructions on the Commission’s website: scc.virginia.gov/casecomments/Submit-Public-Comments. Those unable, as a practical matter, to submit comments electronically may file such comments by U.S. mail to the Clerk of the State Corporation Commission, c/o Document Control Center, P.O. Box 2118, Richmond, Virginia 23218-2118. All comments shall refer to Case No. PUR-202200202.

On or before March 1, 2023, any person or entity wishing to participate as a respondent in this proceeding may do so by filing a notice of participation with the Clerk of the Commission at: scc.virginia.gov/clk/efiling. Those unable, as a practical matter, to file a notice of participation electronically may file such notice by U.S. mail to the Clerk of the Commission at the address listed above. Such notice of participation shall include the email addresses of such parties or their counsel, if available. A copy of the notice of participation as a respondent also must be sent to counsel for the Company. Pursuant to 5 VAC 5-20-80 B, Participation as a respondent, of the Commission’s Rules of Practice, any notice of participation shall set forth: (i) a precise statement of the interest of the respondent; (ii) a statement of the specific action sought to the extent then known; and (iii) the factual and legal basis for the action. Any organization, corporation or government body participating as a respondent must be represented by counsel as required by 5 VAC 5-20-30, Counsel, of the Rules of Practice. All filings shall refer to Case No. PUR-2022-00202.

On or before April 5, 2023, each respondent may file electronically with the Clerk of the Commission at scc.virginia.gov/clk/efiling any testimony and exhibits by which the respondent expects to establish its case, and each witness’s testimony shall include a summary not to exceed one page. Any respondent unable, as a practical matter, to file testimony and exhibits electronically may file such by U.S. mail to the Clerk of the Commission at the address listed above. All testimony and exhibits shall be served on the Commission’s Staff, the Company, and all other respondents simultaneous with its filing. In all filings, respondents shall comply with the Commission’s Rules of Practice, as modified by the Commission’s Order for Notice and Hearing, including, but not limited to: 5 VAC 5-20-140, Filing and service, and 5 VAC 5-20-240, Prepared testimony and exhibits. All filings shall refer to Case No. PUR-2022-00202.

Any documents filed in paper form with the Office of the Clerk of the Commission in this docket may use both sides of the paper. In all other respects, except as modified by the Commission’s Order for Notice and Hearing, all filings shall comply fully with the requirements of 5 VAC 5-20-150, Copies and format, of the Commission’s Rules of Practice.

The Commission’s Rules of Practice, the Commission’s Order for Notice and Hearing, and the public version of the Petition and other documents filed in this case may be viewed on the Commission’s website at: scc.virginia.gov/pages/Case Information

VIRGINIA ELECTRIC AND POWER COMPANY