Following up on some earlier news and editorials about our neighbor, Dominion Power….
McDonnell signs Va utility regulation bill.
Activist Ivy Main has written an overview of the 2013 General Assembly session on the Power for the People VA blog:
The Virginia General Assembly will soon wrap up its work on the 2013 legislative session. Renewable energy advocates began the session with high hopes for a series of bills that promised to reform our renewable energy law, expand net-metering, and open up new opportunities for financing solar systems and small wind turbines.
So how did we do? Well, this is Virginia. Progress is slow, the utilities are powerful, and half the legislature doesn’t believe in climate change. On the other hand, they do believe in business. Under the circumstances, we did okay.