For more than 15 years, the Dominion Energy Innovation Center (DEIC) has been a hub for energy innovation in Ashland. That work is driven by two key efforts: DEIC Accelerate, its signature program connecting energy startups with utility customers, and the Strategic Cluster Advancement for Leading Energy (SCALE) project, a new initiative to grow Virginia’s advanced energy economy across regions.

Opportunity Zones are a federal tax incentive designed to encourage long-term private investment in low-income urban, suburban, and rural communities. The program has become one of the nation’s most significant economic development tools. Now the OZ program is about to change. Learn how Opportunity Zones work, who they help, and what the changes taking effect January 1, 2027 mean for investors, developers, and communities across Virginia.

As electricity demand surges and projects grow larger and more complex, Dominion Energy and Florida-based NextEra Energy have proposed combining their companies — raising key questions about reliability, customer bills, community impact, and leadership. Dominion Energy CEO Bob Blue discusses the merger in a live conversation on what the proposal would mean for customers and communities across Virginia.

The Virginia Innovation Partnership Corporation is fueling Virginia's innovation ecosystem. VIPC supports the full innovation lifecycle — from entrepreneurship and commercialization to early-stage investment — helping Virginia build, attract, and grow technology-based businesses statewide.

Two of the most transformative infrastructure projects in Virginia's history are well underway — and together, they are poised to reshape the economic future of the Richmond region and Hampton Roads corridor.

Richmond-based startup BRAINBox Solutions is developing an AI-enhanced, multimodal platform that measures both the biology and function of a mild traumatic brain injury — combining proprietary blood biomarkers with neurocognitive assessment to deliver a concussion diagnosis.

Virginia Commonwealth University researcher Dr. Richard Marconi is one of the nation’s leading experts in Lyme disease. He is the inventor behind the leading canine Lyme disease vaccine and his laboratory is developing a safe and effective human vaccine.

Old Dominion University and Google have launched the first of its kind AI incubator in higher education — an enterprise ecosystem that integrates secure cloud infrastructure, research acceleration, academic innovation, operational modernization, and industry collaboration into one unified model.

HRSD’s SWIFT project is leading one of the most innovative and forward-thinking water initiatives in the nation – taking wastewater and turning it into clean water.

Activation Capital and Startup Virginia — two of Metro Richmond’s most important players — are aligning efforts separately to accelerate entrepreneurship, innovation, and startup growth across the region.