Category Archives: Energy

Destroying the Commonwealth in Order to Save it

Posted on June 27, 2023 by Barbara Hollingsworth

Members of the General Assembly who voted for a  bill in 2021 mandating that new vehicles sold in Virginia must be all-electric by 2035 forgot to do the math to show exactly how that would work in real life. As the … Continue reading →

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Jefferson Institute Efforts Helped Youngkin Repeal RGGI

Posted on June 9, 2023 by Stephen D. Haner

  Virginia’s Air Pollution Control Board voted Wednesday to remove Virginia from the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative, keeping Republican Governor Glenn Youngkin’s promise to eliminate the related carbon tax that has been imposed on electricity ratepayers under RGGI since January 2021. It … Continue reading →

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Renewables or Fossil Fuels? Voters Want Both

Posted on May 23, 2023 by Stephen D. Haner

Given a choice between an energy future that is a) dependent on generation using sun, wind or falling water, or b) dependent on thermal sources using fossil fuels or uranium, or c) a combination of both, which do Americans prefer?  … Continue reading →

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FERC’s Mark Christie Warns Electricity Growing Unreliable

Posted on May 19, 2023 by Stephen D. Haner

Virginian Mark Christie is using his position on the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission as a national pulpit to preach a message of energy reliability doom, and he is being heard. It helps that he is not alone in spreading the … Continue reading →

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Power Lines Divide the Beach

Posted on May 18, 2023 by Stephen D. Haner

One four-hour public hearing was not enough. Virginia Beach City Council wants another such debate before it votes on a wind company’s request to bring power cables ashore at Sandbridge Beach. Last week’s hearing on Kitty Hawk North’s application for an easement … Continue reading →

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