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Jan 22, 2024 · The lobby of Virginia’s new General Assembly Building in Richmond. (Sarah Vogelsong/Virginia Mercury) For the third year in a row, a tug-of-war is going on in the General Assembly over whether Virginia stays the course of the energy transition laid out in 2020 and 2021, or rolls it back hard. Democrats remain committed to a renewable energy ...
Mar 12, 2020 · The House voted 51-45 and the Senate voted 22-17; in each chamber, the bill received precisely one Republican vote. Virginia has now become the first state in the South to embark on a clean-energy ...
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- Overview
- Coal
- Natural Gas
- Petroleum
- Electricity
- Renewable Energy
- Endnotes
Virginia lies midway between the southern tip of Florida and the northern coast of Maine. The state stretches almost 430 miles from west to east and includes the southern end of the Delmarva Peninsula on the eastern side of the Chesapeake Bay.1 Most of the state's largest cities and the nation's largest coal export center at Hampton Roads are locat...
Virginia's 40 operating coal mines have less than 2% of the nation's total coal reserves and account for less than 2% of U.S. production.23 However, the state has the nation's largest coal port complex and is the leading exporter of U.S. coal.24 In 2022, about 38% of the nation's total coal exports were shipped through the Norfolk Customs District,...
Virginia accounts for less than 0.5% of the nation's total natural gas reserves and production.34,35 All of the state's natural gas fields are located in seven counties in southwestern Virginia.36 Two of those natural gas fields are among the nation's top 100 as ranked by proved reserves, and both produce coalbed methane.37,38 Coalbed methane is na...
Virginia has no appreciable crude oil reserves and only a very small amount of crude oil production, all of which is from wells in two counties in the far southwestern corner of the state.59,60,61 Virginia began producing crude oil in 1942, but the state's total cumulative crude oil production since then is less than 1 million barrels. In 1983, Vir...
Natural gas and nuclear power accounted for most of Virginia's total in-state electricity net generation in 2022. Natural gas fueled the largest share at 54%, and the state's two nuclear power plants supplied 31%.76,77 Renewable energy sources, including solar energy, biomass, and hydroelectric power, accounted for 11%. Coal fueled almost 4% of Vir...
Renewable resources provided about 11% of Virginia's total electricity generation in 2022. The largest share was from solar energy, which supplied almost 6% of the state's total net generation, primarily from utility-scale solar facilities (1-megawatt and larger). Solar energy's contribution to the state's total in-state electricity generation more...
1 NETSTATE, Virginia, The Geography of Virginia, updated February 25, 2016. 2 U.S. Census Bureau, 2010 Census: Virginia Profile. 3 U.S. Coal Exports, Estimated U.S. Coal Port Capacity, 2021 Update, accessed December 4, 2023. 4 U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA), Quarterly Coal Report, October-December 2022 (April 2023), Table 13, U.S. Coa...
Mar 6, 2020 · The primary feature of the law, SB 851, is its call for Dominion Virginia (the state’s dominant utility) and the smaller Appalachian Power Co. to supply 30 percent of their power from renewables ...
The pages that follow will focus on a subset of Virginia’s utility code: the statutes governing Virginia’s two largest electric utility companies, Dominion Energy Virginia (“Dominion”) and Appalachian Power Company (“Appalachian Power”). These statutes prescribe the rate-setting process and include the latest clean energy
An important first step is for Virginia to generate at least 20 percent of electricity from renewable sources by 2020, a goal readily achievable with today’s technology. Continuing to convert 15 percent of the state’s energy portfolio to renewable energy sources each decade could yield an energy profile of at least 65 renewables by 2050.
The Port of Hampton Roads in the Norfolk Customs District is the nation's largest coal export center. In 2022, natural gas accounted for 54% of Virginia's total in-state electricity net generation, nuclear power supplied 31%, renewables—mostly biomass and solar energy—provided 11%, and coal fueled less than 4%. Petroleum supplied the rest.
