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Now’s your chance: Virginia seeks public input on carbon rules
Photo by Josh Lopez, courtesy of the Sierra Club. On June 2 the U.S. EPA proposed a Clean Power Plan for the states, and now the Virginia Department of Environmental Quality wants to know what...
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Finally, utility-scale solar for Virginia?
After a solar buying spree in other states, Dominion Power is at last taking a look at the possibility of building utility-scale solar in Virginia. As reported in the Richmond Times-Dispatch, Dominion...
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Children need the EPA’s carbon pollution standard
This post, from guest blogger Samantha Ahdoot, originally appeared in the August 21 edition of the Fairfax County Times. I’ve written about the threat that increasing summer temperatures poses for...
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Dominion’s ties to ALEC, McDonnell’s conviction, all part of one corrupt package
Protesters gather outside the Crystal City headquarters of ALEC A crowd of protesters gathered at the Arlington headquarters of the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) on September 4 to demand...
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McAuliffe’s Energy Plan has a little something for (almost) everyone
On October 1, the Virginia Department of Mines, Minerals and Energy released the McAuliffe administration’s rewrite of the Virginia Energy Plan. Tomorrow, on October 14, Governor McAuliffe is scheduled...
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Tiny Virginia subcommittee tasked with deciding future of bills related to...
Photo credit: Sierra Club The EPA’s proposed Clean Power Plan could reshape Virginia’s energy future for the next fifteen years, and possibly permanently. If the state takes advantage of this...
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Virginia’s General Assembly likes solar energy. Will that be enough?
Virginia’s General Assembly broke new ground in February when it passed legislation declaring up to 500 megawatts of utility solar power “in the public interest.” The language will help projects gain...
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2016 Virginia legislative session opens with stark choices for dealing with...
Setting an example for Virginia leaders. But will they follow? Photo courtesy of Glen Besa. One of the first bills filed in Virginia’s 2016 legislative session—and already passed through...
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Virginia legislators look to tax breaks and barrier-busting to boost...
Let’s get these projects moo-ving. Photo credit NREL The orchestrated mayhem of the Virginia General Assembly session is well underway. Thirteen days are gone and only twenty-one days remain until...
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Facing utility opposition, Virginia legislators punt on renewable energy bills
Expanding solar financing to include third-party ownership would allow more houses and farms to host solar arrays. Photo credit Dirk Franke via Wikimedia Commons. Most Virginia legislators say they...
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Only the good die young: A mid-way review of Virginia climate and energy bills
Photo credit: Corrina Beall Virginia’s 2016 legislative session is only half over, but it’s already clear that the General Assembly is no more capable of dealing with climate change and a...
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Basic change in utility business and regulation is inevitable: Advanced...
Photo credit: Sierra Club Occasionally I ask other people to write for this blog, not merely because I am lazy, but also because energy policy is such a broad topic that I sometimes overlook new...
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Dominion’s Own Model Shows that 15,000 MW of Solar Would Save Virginia...
Dominion Virginia Power has begun making good on its commitment to install 400 megawatts of solar in Virginia, a goal we have been cheering. Dominion argues its projects make economic sense. That leads...
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Renewable energy bills begin an uncertain journey through Virginia’s general...
Three Senate Republicans and one Democrat met on Thursday to consider the fate of many of this year’s renewable energy bills. Reported out were two bills introduced by Frank Wagner that were crafted by...
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Sen. Mark Warner’s tolerance of climate disinformation
CREDIT: VIRGINIA STUDENT ENVIRONMENTAL ASSOCIATION Virginia’s senior U.S. Senator Mark Warner cast a vote this week that will come back to haunt him in coming years. It will also haunt our...
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A Candidate’s Guide to Clean Energy and the Pipelines
Anti-pipeline activists gather at an event called Hands Across the Appalachian Trail on August 19. Photo courtesy of Chris Tandy. Recently I attended a forum where a candidate for statewide office...
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Show up and be counted
Just in case you own neither a television nor a mailbox, don’t read a newspaper, only use your computer to watch videos of a Japanese cat with a thing for boxes, and never answer a telephone call from...
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How Virginia could build 5,000 megawatts of wind and solar, and still have no...
No amount of new solar would enlarge the sliver of renewables in Dominion’s energy mix if it sells the RECs. Graph is from Dominion Energy Virginia’s 2018 Integrated Resource Plan. With the passage of...
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What will it take for Virginia’s largest jurisdiction to raise the bar on...
Cars caught in a flash flood during Northern Virginia’s intense rainstorm on July 17. Photo courtesy of Hayfield Varsity Gymnastics, https://twitter.com/hayfieldgvgym?lang=en. Last week, 40 drivers...
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Does the SCC finally see the light on customer-owned solar?
Photo credit NREL. Almost four years ago, Virginia’s State Corporation Commission (SCC) approved a request from Appalachian Power to impose “standby charges” on grid-connected homeowners who installed...
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