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Renewable Energy for COG localities
What utilities are doing,
what they should be doing,
and what localities can do in spite of them.
CEEPC Meeting, January 25, 2012Ivy Main, Virginia Chapter Sierra Club
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The hype: wind
Virginia’s RPS is broken
The reality: none
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What are utilities doing?
Virginia (Dominion Virginia Power): • Voluntary RPS hasn’t created wind or solar• Voluntary Green Power Program uses out-of-state RECs• Dominion hostile to competition
Maryland and DC (Pepco): • MD, DC have good RPS and incentives• Pepco shines by comparison, needs better net metering
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What should utilities do?• Support—not oppose—legislative reforms• Finance solar and renewable energy
improvements (like they do generators)• Get out of the way of private business
solutions• Practice transparency• Work with localities to achieve their goals
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What should localities do?• Focus on behind-the-meter strategies: energy
efficiency, solar, geothermal• Use financing, solar mapping• Coordinate, streamline permitting• Use orgs like VEPGA to negotiate wind power
purchases from utilities• Hold utilities accountable for real progress• Lobby!