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- VEPGA’s 24.9% Rate Shock Hits Henrico With a $5 Million Bill — Where Is the Public Autopsy?
Employee conservation memos are not enough; localities owe taxpayers rate-class spreadsheets and load-growth explanations.
- Democrats Suhas Subramanyam, James Walkinshaw Accept Big Tech Funds as Residents Fight Data Center Overreach
Northern Virginia stands as the epicenter of the global data center industry, where massive facilities have proliferated rapidly in recent years. Residents across the region have voiced strong opposition to further unchecked expansion of these energy-intensive structures that consume vast amounts of electricity and alter community landscapes.
- Loudoun Families Face Sky-High Towers as Democratic Leaders Fail to Protect Neighborhoods
Loudoun County residents continue to confront the harsh reality of massive high-voltage transmission lines planned through residential areas to support the explosive growth of data centers in Northern Virginia. Dominion Energy’s projects, including segments of the Loudoun Reliability Loop connecting substations near Ashburn, involve towers reaching 185 feet in height that would cut near homes,
- Virginia’s return to RGGI – Another ratepayer scam in the making
Virginia has re-joined the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative, and residential ratepayers are going to feel it again. Virginians spent more than 600 million dollars over three years during the last time Virginia was part of the program.
- Assembly and Spanberger made zero progress on Virginia energy challenges
By Steve Haner, The General Assembly’s order to purchase power instead of real power generation The Jefferson Forum’s June commentary outlines the energy challenges that Virginia faces in advance of the 2025 elections. Virginia is still lagging behind in the work of the 2026 Energy Legislation, despite the fact that the General Assembly and Abigail
- Virginia Republicans and demographic change
By James C. Sherlock A Virginia Republican Convention was attended by the author about a decade ago.
- Virginia’s Clean Energy Act: High Costs, Low Benefits
Abigail Spanberger and the Democrat majority in the Virginia General Assembly have gone all-in on the Virginia Clean Energy Act (VCEA)—a law that hikes energy costs, weakens grid reliability, and delivers no measurable reduction in global greenhouse gas emissions. The VCEA calls for 13,000 megawatts (MW) of solar power to reach its 2045 clean energy