Category: Clean Energy Solutions

STOP Dominion’s Brunswick gas plant. Attend Hearing Apr 24 in Richmond.

By Eileen Levandoski on Apr 20, 2013 in Beyond Natural Gas, Clean Energy Solutions, Safeguarding Communities

Dominion Virginia Power has proposed an unnecessary $1.1 billion dollar, fracked-gas plant, this time in Brunswick County, that will commit Virginia families and businesses to using harmful and increasingly expensive fossil fuels for decades.
This Wednesday, April 24th, Dominion will seek the required permit to construct and operate the Brunswick plant from the State Corporation Commission [...]

Hundreds of Virginians Dance the Electric Slide for Clean Energy

By Eileen Levandoski on Apr 15, 2013 in Clean Energy Solutions, Featured

On Sunday, April 14th hundreds of Virginians called on the State Corporation Commission (SCC) to put efficiency and clean energy first rather than allow continued investments in fossil fuels by Dominion Virginia Power. Participants danced the popular 1980s dance known as the Electric Slide in front of Dominion’s Richmond headquarters.

Dominion has proposed another major investment [...]

Let the Sun Shine in on Virginia! Tell the SCC to Support More Solar.

By Eileen Levandoski on Feb 06, 2013 in Clean Energy Solutions

Demand that the SCC approve a value for solar power that forges our path to clean energy!

Tell the Feds: Offshore wind power NOW! Deadline: Feb. 1

By Eileen Levandoski on Jan 05, 2013 in Clean Energy Solutions, Offshore Wind

2012 was a big year for Atlantic offshore wind and 2013 promises to be an even bigger year for its development off the coast of Virginia.
In 2012, our Virginia WEA (wind energy area) – a 112,799 acre area 23 miles off the coast of Virginia Beach – was identified and cleared for development [...]

Take a Day for the Planet on Jan. 17

By Eileen Levandoski on Jan 01, 2013 in Clean Energy Solutions, Offshore Wind, Solar

With the start of the Virginia General Assembly on January 9, we begin the annual competition between high priced lobbyists and the people power that groups like the Sierra Club represent. Your support for Sierra Club permits us to speak the truth of many voices to money and power of polluting corporations. This January provides [...]

You and Delegate Toscano: Solar Energy Champions!

By Eileen Levandoski on Dec 04, 2012 in Clean Energy Solutions, Solar

Thanks to you and Delegate David Toscano, Virginia recently took a small but significant step towards realizing its clean energy future.
First, Delegate Toscano championed legislation that allowed Dominion Virginia Power to propose to the State Corporation Commission (SCC) a 30 megawatt pilot solar project. Then activists like you petitioned the SCC to approve this proposal, [...]

Virginia Positioned for Offshore Wind Lease Sale, Ball in Dominion’s Court Now!

By Eileen Levandoski on Nov 30, 2012 in Clean Energy Solutions, Offshore Wind

Today, the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management announced competitive lease sales for renewable energy development in two wind energy areas (WEAs) to include federal waters off Virginia’s coast.
Sierra Club Virginia Chapter Director Glen Besa offers the following statement in response:
[Richmond, Virginia] – The federal government has taken this important step towards allowing offshore wind to [...]

Offshore Wind Power Town Hall Meeting Oct. 11

By Eileen Levandoski on Oct 03, 2012 in Clean Energy Solutions

Wondering what all the fuss is about wind energy?!? Here’s your chance to learn all about it. Ready yourself to be blown away!
Join us for an exciting Town Hall meeting on Virginia Offshore Wind energy and learn more from key industry leaders about this wonderful opportunity to together build Virginia’s clean energy future!
Thursday, October [...]

Support Solar Energy in Virginia!

By Admin on Oct 03, 2012 in Clean Energy Solutions, Solar

Solar energy is the cleanest, most abundant, renewable energy source available, and the U.S. has an ample and infinite supply of sun. With this tremendous potential, it is no surprise that solar is one of the fastest growing sectors of the American economy, with more than 5,500 solar companies employing people in every state in [...]