Dominion Has Ample Resources to Power Virginia with Clean Energy
By: floodguy
Published On: 3/26/2008 11:47:17 AM
Last week the Wall Street Journal reported a tremendous story in the alternative energy sector.
"This is the largest economic opportunity of the 21st century,"
John Doerr, partner in venture firm Kleiner Perkins Caufield and Byers, famous for its early backing of Sun Microsystems, Amazon.com and Google, said his firm has invested $250 million in various clean-tech start-ups, one involving making power from the methane produced by animal waste.
With all the bullsh!t coming out of Dominion, it appears we have found the solution to clean up Virginia in more ways than one.
Comments
Animal waste, landfill gas ... opportunities are endless (and stinky) (TheGreenMiles - 3/26/2008 2:03:04 PM)
Up at the University of New Hampshire, they're in the final stages of a project to pipe in methane from a nearby landfill. The $28 million project will pay for itself within 20 years.
Now for the carbon emission cuts. The project slashed emissions 21% in just the first year. And once the pipeline goes operational, emissions will drop 67% from 2005 levels.
But here in Virginia, our Glorious Goal is to cut emissions 7% by 2025.
Yes Miles, that's our weak state policy (floodguy - 3/26/2008 2:24:12 PM)
it compliments Dominion's business plans deep into its future. Toss in the fed's transmission plan to satisfy the needs elsewhere, and we are about to get a load of Dominion's waste and the cost attached for it as well.
Yuck (TheGreenMiles - 3/26/2008 3:34:00 PM)
A load of Dominion's waste ... so basically, if this was Back to the Future, we'd be Biff Tannen, Dominion would be Marty McFly, and our convertible would end up full of coal?
Top Contributors to Rick Boucher (D) during the 2006 Election Cycle (floodguy - 3/26/2008 4:29:29 PM)
Rank Donor Amount
1 Dominion Resources $ 22,693
4 American Electric Power $ 10,000
Sourcewatch
"I am very pleased by Dominion's selection of a site for the future development of a new clean-coal power generation plant in Wise County...I will work with Dominion to ensure all federal regulatory requirements are resolved as expeditiously as possible." May 11, 2006
Rick is all about coal (IechydDa - 3/27/2008 12:01:00 AM)
He was elected the year that his predecessor, William Wampler, Sr., refused to help the people of Brumley Gap defeat AEP's vast pumped storage dam. The Concerned Citizens of Brumley Gap won the right to stay in their homes on their land, but with no help from Wampler.
I hoped back ing 1982, that Rick Boucher learned a lesson from that, but apparently not.
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We need to incentivize proper utility behavior (IechydDa - 3/26/2008 11:57:23 PM)
by granting utilities a significantly higher rate of return for investing in their customers' energy efficiency.
Because Dominion has done nothing in the way of encouraging real conservation among its ratepayers, there is a vast resource of power available by simply investing in insulation, more efficient appliances and industrial processes, compact florescents and so forth. Additionally time of day pricing, interruptible service options can shave off peak demand.
Gaining power by employing efficiency is cleaner, eliminates GHG emissions, provides local employment, and reduces need for additional, nasty EHV transmission lines.
A similar approach could be used to dramatically encourage small power producers to sell excess energy back to the utility.