Spanberger plan leans on clean energy

Before Relying on a Model, Look at the Assumptions

Last week Governor Abigail Spanberger (D) released a modeling-based energy plan for Virginia claiming it could end the use of natural gas, despite accelerating electricity demand. A year ago, Dominion Energy Virginia tested the same proposition in an integrated resource plan of its own. Lay the two “no gas” future energy generation outlines side by side, and they seem to

Spanberger is already making Virginia unaffordable

Gov. Abigail Spanberger (D-VA) campaigned as a centrist who promised to make Virginia more affordable for families. But her existing energy policies are poised to make electricity more expensive for ratepayers next year, and the full energy plan she released last week would make energy more expensive for decades to come. Shortly after taking office […]

Virginia’s Energy Future Needs the 3Rs: Reality, Reliability, and Resilience

Virginia Gov. Abigail Spanberger’s new 2026 energy plan has arrived in familiar packaging, promising affordability, reliability, economic growth, cleaner power, and a path to a net-zero electric sector by 2050. Under this plan, we’re to believe Virginians can have their green-energy cake and eat it, too. Unfortunately, they can’t. No matter how good her intentions, the governor’s mandates...

Virginia’s new energy plan: Make the AI boom work for — not against —…

For well over a year, the twin problems of rising utility bills and soaring electric demand spurred by the AI boom have consumed the energy policy debate in Virginia, the data center capital of the world. Clean energy foes — mostly Republicans — say the state’s landmark zero-carbon mandate should be scaled back or…

Spanberger lays out energy plan to meet growing demand and clean energy goals

Gov. Abigail Spanberger released the commonwealth’s latest energy plan earlier this week, marking the first long-range blueprint of her term for how Virginia can meet its growing energy demands and achieve the Virginia Clean Economy Act’s decarbonization and energy goals.

Nuclear, solar and wind: Spanberger's green dream for Virginia

Gov. Abigail Spanberger’s new energy plan, a sharp break from her GOP predecessor, pushes Virginia to adopt more nuclear, wind and solar power.