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Energy Freedom

Vision for Virginia 2025: Energy Policy

Virginia’s energy policy is at a crossroads: either Virginia continues down a path of expensive mandates and unreliable generation, leading to higher costs and likely shortages, or we pivot toward...

Jefferson Forum
July 16, 2025

This Week Proves Again Wind and Solar Cannot Take the Heat

Once again, a spell of hot weather has proven that our economy and comfort depend on hydrocarbon fuels. As you can see from these simple pie graphs from the PJM...

Stephen D. Haner
June 27, 2025

Energy Policy: The Biggest Problem Facing Virginia’s Next Governor

When the smoke clears on the November elections and Virginia has a new governor and a different House of Delegates, energy policy will still head the list of crucial issues....

Stephen D. Haner
June 9, 2025

Legislature Warned Again of Electricity Shortage

Here we go again. As the 2025 election year heats up and warnings rise about electricity shortfalls this summer, the legislators behind Virginia’s coming ban on hydrocarbon electricity are pretending...

Jefferson Forum
May 27, 2025

Youngkin Acts to Prevent Energy Price Hikes, Labels Virginia Clean Economy Act ‘Failed’

With one exception, Virginia Governor Glenn Youngkin (R) has now vetoed the contested energy bills that he sought to amend at the 2025 General Assembly’s reconvened session last month. The...

Stephen D. Haner
May 4, 2025

Lawsuit Challenges the Nuclear Regulatory Commission’s Over Regulation of Small Reactors

Virginia is not directly involved, but with our nuclear industrial base, a pending federal lawsuit over the authority of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission is crucial for our energy future. At the end of...

Bill Stewart
May 3, 2025

‘Green’ Energy Mandates, Profit Demands Drive Dominion Price Hikes, Not Data Centers

The pending price increase for electricity from Dominion Energy Virginia is higher than the 14% jump reported by the news media which basically parroted company releases. Should all of Dominion’s...

Stephen D. Haner
April 8, 2025

Youngkin Vetoes Many Bad Energy Bills, Uses Substitutes to Flip Others to Good Bills

Wielding irony like a razor-sharp butcher’s knife, Governor Glenn Youngkin (R) has proposed a series of amendments on bills intended to promote renewable energy that basically reverse the impact and...

Stephen D. Haner
March 26, 2025

Rapid Federal Policy Changes Make Dominion’s Energy Resource Plan Moot

The expanded use of natural gas as a fuel for electricity is the key debate in Dominion Energy Virginia’s integrated resource plan pending before the State Corporation Commission. Not waiting...

Stephen D. Haner
March 11, 2025

Jefferson Forum concentrates on policies that affect everyday life in Virginia

Economic Freedom

Lower taxes and fewer regulations

Education Freedom

More choices for Virginia families

Energy Freedom

Reliable, affordable energy

Worker Freedom

Protecting Virginia’s right-to-work tradition

These are the building blocks of a more competitive and prosperous Virginia.