The Front Porch Blog, with Updates from AppalachiaThe Front Porch Blog, with Updates from Appalachia

Promoting equity in the transition to clean energy

Friday, June 26th, 2020 | Posted by AV's Intern Team | No Comments

A new report examines the economic, social and health disparities associated with energy development, and highlights promising points of intervention to reduce inequities in the transition to clean energy. [ Read More ]


A shady, dangerous attack on clean energy

Wednesday, June 3rd, 2020 | Posted by Emily Piontek | No Comments

In a major threat to clean energy advances across the U.S., a special interest group wants federal regulators to change the rules for solar owners -- in a bad way. [ Read More ]


What do Virginia’s new energy laws mean for the coalfields

Thursday, April 23rd, 2020 | Posted by Chelsea Barnes | No Comments

New energy laws in Virginia provide significant opportunity for solar development in the state's historic coalfields, but not enough direct support for communities hit by the clean energy transition. [ Read More ]


The change in Richmond can bring change statewide

Wednesday, January 15th, 2020 | Posted by Peter Anderson | No Comments

Advocates for clean energy, environmental justice and fair electricity pricing are leveraging the shift in political power in Richmond to advance their missions. Here's some of the bills Appalachian Voices is working on this session. [ Read More ]


A policymaker’s guide to fostering community solar development

Wednesday, November 6th, 2019 | Posted by Chelsea Barnes | No Comments

Pro-solar policy is crucial to bringing clean, renewable energy to Southwest Virginia and Appalachia as a whole. [ Read More ]


Customer-owned utilities should be leaders on clean energy. Why do most of them fail to deliver?

Tuesday, July 9th, 2019 | Posted by Guest Contributor | No Comments

Clean energy expert Ivy Main looks at how a lack of transparency and democracy at many Virginia electric cooperatives is causing them to fall behind on renewable energy. Member-owners at Rappahannock Electric Cooperative are trying to change that. [ Read More ]


When “clean” energy isn’t

Thursday, June 13th, 2019 | Posted by AV's Intern Team | No Comments

Once the planet's temperature rises 1.5 degrees Celsius due to global warming, "the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse polish off their martinis, look at each other, and say, ‘It’s go time.’” [ Read More ]


Revitalizing Ouachita: How One Electric Co-op is Moving Forward

Thursday, November 15th, 2018 | Posted by AV's Intern Team | 2 Comments

Ouachita Electric Cooperative in Arkansas offers programs that make energy efficiency and high-speed internet accessible and affordable, and is using solar to help grow the local economy and save money. If Ouachita can do it, what's stopping other electric co-ops from following suit? [ Read More ]


Blue Ridge Energy: An uncooperative cooperative?

Friday, July 6th, 2018 | Posted by Rory McIlmoil | 2 Comments

As a resident of the North Carolina High Country and a member of Blue Ridge Energy, Appalachian Voices' Rory McIlmoil believes the co-op can and must do better by its members. [ Read More ]


Duke Energy’s grid modernization pilot still shortchanges ratepayers

Tuesday, June 19th, 2018 | Posted by Brian Sewell | No Comments

Appalachian Voices and our allies are raising concerns related to the process and substance behind Duke Energy's grid modernization pilot. [ Read More ]


Virginia inches closer to a carbon market

Thursday, July 13th, 2017 | Posted by Guest Contributor | No Comments

Virginia’s Department of Environmental Quality is developing a rule that could significantly limit carbon emissions from power plants in the commonwealth. Developing a carbon trading program would be a sound option. [ Read More ]


Environmental regulations didn’t cause coal’s decline — and rollbacks won’t save it.

Tuesday, May 16th, 2017 | Posted by Elizabeth E. Payne | No Comments

Despite his repeated promises to do so, President Trump is unlikely to revive the coal industry through federal policy, and CEOs of electric utilities and coal mining companies know it. [ Read More ]



 

 


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