Virginia
Virginia board looks to bolster solar opportunity for low-income residents
A new advisory board is tasked with coming up with a pilot program to finance solar projects for poorer residents.
Southeast
Entergy
How one company could transform energy in Southern states
Entergy Corp. is positioning itself as a utility company of the future — even if critics lament what that could mean for electricity choices and costs in the South.
biomass
Estonia is beginning to see the cost of wood pellets. Is North Carolina next?
Turning ancient forests into wood pellets is putting the country’s tourism and climate commitments at risk.
biomass
Wood pellets cause more climate pollution than coal when they’re burned. So why does Europe call them ‘carbon neutral’?
The panel I was moderating on the wood pellet trade was bombing. Precious minutes disappeared as we waited for a PowerPoint to load.
Opinion
Commentary: Don’t look to the energy sector to solve our waste problem
Whether waste-to-energy is “renewable” is debatable. It’s also irrelevant, writes Roger Ballentine, president of Green Strategies, Inc.
Dominion Energy
Virginia schools’ rapid solar growth is headed for ceiling without legislative fix
A 2013 state law limits how much solar power schools and other entities can buy from third-party projects.