{"id":73686,"date":"2026-05-18T11:57:31","date_gmt":"2026-05-18T16:57:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/18\/nextera-to-buy-dominion-in-67bn-deal-creating-us-utility-giant\/"},"modified":"2026-05-18T11:57:31","modified_gmt":"2026-05-18T16:57:31","slug":"nextera-to-buy-dominion-in-67bn-deal-creating-us-utility-giant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/18\/nextera-to-buy-dominion-in-67bn-deal-creating-us-utility-giant\/","title":{"rendered":"NextEra to buy Dominion in $67bn deal creating US utility giant"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Deal would create largest regulated US utility, serving 10 million customers as AI-driven demand for power surges<\/p>\n<p>NextEra, a US <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/environment\/energy\">energy<\/a> giant, announced on Monday that it will buy Dominion Energy in a $67bn deal, creating what the companies say will be the world\u2019s largest regulated utility business.<\/p>\n<p>The deal comes as the appetite for energy sources has swelled with the construction of massive datacenters across the country, built largely to supply rising demand for AI.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/business\/2026\/may\/18\/nextera-dominion-merger-us-energy\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Deal would create largest regulated US utility, serving 10 million customers as AI-driven demand for power surges NextEra, a US energy giant, announced on Monday that it will buy Dominion Energy in a $67bn deal, creating what the companies say will be the world\u2019s largest regulated utility business. The deal comes as the appetite for &#8230; <a title=\"NextEra to buy Dominion in $67bn deal creating US utility giant\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/18\/nextera-to-buy-dominion-in-67bn-deal-creating-us-utility-giant\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about NextEra to buy Dominion in $67bn deal creating US utility giant\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-73686","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73686","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73686"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73686\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73686"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73686"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73686"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}