Dominion Foundation Makes $500,000 Grant to The Science Museum of Virginia

February 7, 2008

RICHMOND, Va. – The Dominion Foundation has provided a grant of $500,000 to the Science Museum of Virginia to take lessons about energy and the environment on the road, especially to schools.

The foundation is the philanthropic arm of Dominion, one of the nation's largest energy producers.

"These resources will help the museum educate students about the links between energy, people and the environment," said William C. Hall Jr., Dominion vice president-Corporate Communications and Community Affairs and president of the Dominion Foundation. "It will fund learning activities about alternative energy."

“As global energy prices continue to increase, energy and environmental education becomes more important,” says Richard Conti, director of the Science Museum. “We applaud Dominion’s vision to help us inspire future scientists in the quest to discover new energy sources.”

The Dominion Foundation awarded approximately $15 million to 1,081 nonprofit organizations in 25 states and the District of Columbia last year, primarily to organizations in Virginia, Ohio, West Virginia, Pennsylvania, North Carolina and other states where Dominion operates power stations, natural gas and other energy facilities.

Dominion is one of the nation's largest producers and transporters of energy, with a portfolio of approximately 26,500 megawatts of generation, 14,000 miles of natural gas transmission, gathering and storage pipeline, 6,000 miles of electric transmission lines and 1 Tcfe of proved natural gas and oil reserves. Dominion also owns and operates the nation's largest underground natural gas storage system with over 970 billion cubic feet of storage capacity and serves retail energy customers in 11 states. For more information about Dominion, visit the company's Web site at http://www.dom.com.

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