Virginia

Electric power reforms gain ground in Virginia

Two big Bills designed to fix Virginia's broken electric power system have cleared the first legislative hurdle, on the road to becoming law.

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David Wojick

|2022-02-04T14:02:24-05:00February 4th, 2022|Comments Off

Tell lawmakers the Virginia “Clean” Economy Act is a dangerous mistake

Tell the Virginia House of Delegates the truth about which energy sources work and which don't.

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Craig Rucker

|2022-01-31T11:20:25-05:00January 31st, 2022|Comments Off

VCEA makes Virginia’s electric grid dangerously unreliable

The Virginia Clean Economy Act or VCEA mandates the phaseout of fossil fueled power generation by 2045, with deadlines all along the way.

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David Wojick

|2022-01-21T11:15:30-05:00January 21st, 2022|Comments Off

Virginia, your “green new deal” price tag is showing

BY DAVID T STEVENSON: Virginia's new Governor Glenn Youngkin is doing the right thing pulling out of the "carbon tax" Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI) program by executive action.

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CFACT Ed

|2022-01-20T12:53:06-05:00January 20th, 2022|Comments Off

The Virginia Clean Economy Act — WATCH NOW

The Virginia Clean Economy Act is pointless and reckless virtue signaling. It will accomplish nothing nothing, while having many negative effects on the people of Virginia. It needs to be repealed under the incoming administration.

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Tony Heller

|2022-01-09T08:18:08-05:00January 9th, 2022|Comments Off

Exiting RGGI is a win for Virginia producers and consumers

“RGGI describes itself as a regional market for carbon, but it is really a carbon tax that is fully passed on to ratepayers. It’s a bad deal for Virginians. It’s a bad deal for Virginia businesses,” Youngkin said.

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Gabriella Hoffman

|2022-01-04T11:59:42-05:00January 5th, 2022|Comments Off

Paving Virginia with solar slabs is bad law

The ill-conceived Virginia Clean Economy Act (VCEA) has created an enormous stampede of proposed solar projects. The lineup of "subsidy farms" in progress is breathtaking. It is also stupid.

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David Wojick

|2021-12-27T11:40:22-05:00December 27th, 2021|Comments Off

How and why Youngkin should quit the RGGI

The Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI) allowance auction tax program (where electric power ratepayers have to pay for the allowances) is particularly nasty because the tax is unpredictable and can become very volatile.

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David Wojick

|2021-12-20T16:28:42-05:00December 21st, 2021|Comments Off

Virginia’s coming elections to present showdown over renewable energy mandates

With the State-wide election in Virginia only two months away, it will be interesting to see how much the issue of “renewable energy” plays.

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Collister Johnson

|2021-09-01T10:21:54-04:00September 3rd, 2021|Comments Off

Virginia will pay trillions for renewable power

Virginia's 100% renewables mandate has been estimated to cost its people billions of dollars, but a more realistic estimate is trillions.

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David Wojick

|2021-02-08T01:23:47-05:00February 5th, 2021|Comments Off

Solar desert deep-sixed in rural Virginia

For the second time in 15 months, residents of rural Culpeper County, Virginia have risen up against a proposed massive solar array project.

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CFACT Ed, Bonner Cohen, Ph. D.

|2020-11-26T13:26:40-05:00November 30th, 2020|Comments Off

California’s energy nightmare is coming to Virginia

For a harbinger of their energy future, Virginians need look no further than California. It’s not a pretty picture.

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CFACT Ed, Bonner Cohen, Ph. D.

|2020-10-19T09:21:41-04:00October 18th, 2020|Comments Off

Unmasking the Virginia Clean Economy Act

Without all the subsidies, renewable generated electricity costs consumers twenty times more than electricity supplied by existing sources.

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CFACT Ed, Collister Johnson

|2020-09-21T21:45:11-04:00September 21st, 2020|Comments Off

CFACT leads the charge to challenge Virginia’s Green New Deal

Virginia is for lovers. But nowadays it is also for Green extremists.

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CFACT Ed, Craig Rucker

|2020-08-22T08:05:57-04:00August 21st, 2020|Comments Off

Virginia’s massive mistake

Want to increase the cost of electricity with no benefit to anyone but investors? Wind power is for you

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CFACT Ed, Craig Rucker

|2020-06-18T11:17:06-04:00June 19th, 2020|Comments Off