Liam Denning, Columnist

Dominion Aims to Clean Up a Nuclear Disaster

But the risks of regulatory roadblocks or rival bidders emerging are real.

January 3, 2018 at 4:10 PM UTC

Liam Denning is a Bloomberg Opinion columnist covering energy. A former banker, he edited the Wall Street Journal’s Heard on the Street column and wrote the Financial Times’s Lex column.

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While some brag about the size of their button, Dominion Energy just went ahead and pushed it.

The Virginia-based utility is getting the new year started off right with a $14.6 billion deal, including assumed debt, for Scana Corp. You may recall that Scana was undone last year as it abandoned two half-built nuclear reactors in its home state of South Carolina; its stock fell by almost half in 2017.