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Friday, June 12, 2020

The Virginia Clean Economy Act (VCEA) will be a very expensive disaster !

How about:

-- An annual additional 
electricity cost of 
$500 per household 
--  a 40% increase 
over levels without 
the VCEA over the 
next ten years;

-- An additional $30 billion 
in capital cost for electrical 
infrastructure, excluding 
engineering expenses.

-- Hundreds of thousands
of acres of Virginia countryside 
and wildlife habitat covered by 
solar farms, electric transmission 
lines, and ugly wind towers.

-- A degradation of 
electrical grid reliability.

VCEA was created by 
a Democratic controlled 
Legislature and signed by
Democrat Governor Northam.

It purports to provide electricity 
under a mandate of “net zero” 
carbon dioxide “emissions” 
by 2050 ( The release of 
manmade CO2 during the 
production of electricity
should be cut to zero. )

The State Corporation 
Commission has been 
stripped of its authority 
to regulate electricity 
generation in Virginia, 
because their goal was
both the lowest possible 
cost of electricity coupled 
with the highest reliability.


The construction of 
massive offshore wind 
facilities that will require 
significantly elevated 
levels of 
cement, steel, and 
rare earth metals 
because they will lie 
in the path of 
Atlantic hurricanes. 

The wind farms 
will be subject 
to the annual 
“Bermuda High”,
for weeks at a time during 
the summer, meaning that 
no wind will be activating
the turbine blades, 
and no electricity 
will be generated
for the air conditioners 
of Virginians who will be 
broiling in the summer heat. 

Every similar wind farm 
in the United States 
requires backup generation 
capability powered by diesel 
or natural gas, an expense 
not even included in the 
Dominion plan.

Because Dominion is 
a regulated monopoly,
every expense it incurs 
as a result of the VCEA 
will be paid by VA taxpayers, 
so Dominion shareholders 
earn a legally required return 
on capital.

The new solar fields 
required by the VCEA 
will cover 490 square miles 
of Virginia farm and forest land
 – nearly half the size
of the State of Rhode Island – 
to generate the solar power 
required by the VCEA.

Dominion will need 
to construct 
four massive interstate 
transmission lines at 
a costof $8.4 billion 
to carry electricity
from these solar fields 
to consumers.

Will county zoning 
commissions and voters 
try to block placement 
of these transmission 
lines and solar fields 
in their backyards ?



The VCEA will have 
a negative impact 
on the environment. 

Fifteen years from now, 
not a single Virginian 
will be able to feel, touch, 
or smell any difference 
or improvement in the 
environment resulting 
from the VCEA.