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Utilities continue to push back against retail choice in Virginia

Despite a recent decision partially in favor of efforts to open up the retail electric market in Virginia, questions remain unresolved as utilities continue to push back.

By Jim Pierobon . 14 April 2017
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Q&A: A Virginia lawmaker challenges utility over customer charges

Virginia state Sen. J. “Chap” Petersen is challenging Dominion Virginia Power over the outsized influence he says it has with policymakers and a controversial provision of a law that became effective in 2015.

By Jim Pierobon . 12 April 2017
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Q&A: A Virginia lawmaker challenges utility over customer charges

Virginia state Sen. J. “Chap” Petersen is challenging Dominion Virginia Power over the outsized influence he says it has with policymakers and a controversial provision of a law that became effective in 2015.

By Jim Pierobon . 12 April 2017
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North Carolina regulators approve solar microgrid in Smokies

Duke Energy got the official go-ahead Thursday for a renewable energy project that’s drawing praise from some of its most frequent critics.

By Elizabeth Ouzts . 7 April 2017
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Why Alabama still lags the rest of the Southeast on solar

While other Southeastern states are surging ahead with solar energy, advocates say a unique combination of policy obstacles, burdensome fees, and one reluctant utility company has Alabama lagging behind.

By Lyndsey Gilpin . 6 April 2017
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Duke University eyes biogas, not fossil fuels, for new power plant

In the latest twist on the controversial power plant Duke University proposed last spring, an influential group of students, faculty and staff says it should be fueled from methane captured from hog waste, not natural gas.

By Elizabeth Ouzts . 5 April 2017
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Appalachian coal mine waste could provide key ingredients for clean energy

Researchers at state universities in the Southeast are closing in on whether one of the region’s biggest liabilities – coal mine waste – might become a valuable asset by supplying rare earth elements needed for clean energy and other applications.

By Jim Pierobon . 29 March 2017
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Even after Avangrid’s winning bid, ‘no urgency’ for offshore wind in North Carolina

Unless North Carolina enacts aggressive renewable energy goals like those in other Atlantic Coast states, experts say the state’s first offshore wind farm is still a decade or more away.

By Elizabeth Ouzts . 28 March 2017
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Amid setbacks in other states, Virginia utility moves forward with nuclear plan

While cost overruns at two Southeast nuclear projects have brought the contractor building them to bankruptcy, a Virginia utility is forging ahead with plans for a new reactor provided by a different company.

By Jim Pierobon . 27 March 2017
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Commentary: Virginia should take advantage of vast clean energy opportunities

With dozens of Fortune 500 companies looking to run their facilities on renewable energy, Virginia has a golden opportunity to ensure that these investments — and the jobs that come with them — are being made in the Old Dominion State.

20 March 2017