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Energy Freedom

SCC Asked to Put Wind Failure Risk on Dominion, Not Customers

In promoting its proposed Coastal Virginia Offshore Wind (CVOW) project, Dominion Energy Virginia has made many specific projections about its costs and performance.   The State Corporation Commission is now being...

Stephen D. Haner
June 30, 2022

SCC Is Reminded: Ratepayers Bear All Risk of Dominion Wind Turbines

First of Two ArticlesBy Stephen D. Haner Virginia’s State Corporation Commission has now received a series of legal briefs offering opinions on what steps, under the law, it can take...

Stephen D. Haner
June 29, 2022

The Increased Gas Taxes You Didn’t Know You Were Paying

Virginia’s gasoline and diesel taxes will rise 7% on July 1, about three more cents per gallon when all the elements of the tax are combined. This is theinflation-driven cost...

Stephen D. Haner
June 24, 2022

More Rules for Virginia, Made in California

Virginia’s auto industry overlords in California have a new set of proposed mandates for both electric and internal combustion vehicles which, once adopted, will automatically apply here in the Commonwealth. ...

Stephen D. Haner
June 22, 2022

You Just Paid More RGGI Tax, Virginia!

Last week Virginia collected another $76 million in carbon tax dollars through the ongoing Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative allowance auction. That was the sixth such sale since Virginia joined RGGI,...

Stephen D. Haner
June 10, 2022

Miyares Challenges Secrecy

Virginia Attorney General Jason Miyares (R) has moved to open to public inspection much of the secret data and analysis about Dominion Energy Virginia’s proposed Coastal Virginia Offshore Wind project....

Stephen D. Haner
May 3, 2022

SCC Staff Review Opens the Door to “No”

Testimony filed by the State Corporation Commission staff on April 8 opened a slight possibility that the Commission could reject Dominion Energy Virginia’s proposed $10 billion wind project off Virginia...

Stephen D. Haner
April 11, 2022

If U.S. Copies Europe, “It Will End in Tears”

“Don’t follow our path. Don’t copy the Europeans. It will end in tears,” Peiser said....
Stephen D. Haner
April 1, 2022

Green New Deal Still Rules in Virginia

The elections of a Republican Virginia governor and a new Republican majority in the House of Delegates have not changed Virginia’s status as one of the greenest of Green New...

Stephen D. Haner
March 11, 2022

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