Dominion Energy
Virginia regulators just rejected Dominion’s long-range resource plan
The SCC gave the utility 90 days to correct and refile an integrated resource plan based on PJM forecasts.
solar
The key to easing land-use disputes? Listening, says Virginia solar developer
A Prince William County project offers hope that Virginia solar developers can navigate land-use politics in the region.
nuclear
Virginia county at a crossroads as U.S. Supreme Court hears uranium case
As the nuclear industry makes a play for a bigger role in a carbon-free economy, Virginia landowners challenge the state’s decades-long ban on uranium mining at the U.S. Supreme Court.
air pollution
Study: Ohio and Pennsylvania would lose lots from clean air rollbacks
Areas of Ohio that benefited the most from the Clean Air Act’s cross-state and mercury rules were primarily white and backed Trump in 2016, researchers report.
offshore wind
Offshore wind training center could anchor Virginia’s workforce efforts
Virginia’s start, stop and start-again relationship with offshore wind hasn’t scared off entrepreneur Scott Chierepko. The retired Navy SEAL is aiming to construct the premier safety training facility for workers charged with installing and maintaining turbines destined for the East Coast — and beyond. As early as next year, he’s hoping to break ground on 25 acres near Virginia Beach, a region with the potential to be the jobs, training and manufacturing wheelhouse of Virginia’s nascent offshore wind industry. The training niche he wants to fill is just one piece of the larger puzzle of how to build out the state’s wind workforce. “We want to be the company that is the go-to globally for offshore energy safety training,” he says about the $20 million to $30 million enterprise he and a business partner have been fine-tuning for about four years.