Carrie Hearne
@carrieella.bsky.social
Energy nerd; climate pragmatist. Utility regulation and energy policy in Virginia’s state government (#CEUR). Quaker; dog mom. WV native based in RVA. Posts my own!
Read more about how Virginia is positioned to host the world’s first fusion plant in this Chesapeake Bay Journal article by Lauren Hines-Acosta (Feb ‘25)
“Virginia joins the nuclear fusion race as region shifts to clean energy”
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“Virginia joins the nuclear fusion race as region shifts to clean energy”
www.bayjournal.com/news/energy/...
Virginia joins the nuclear fusion race as region shifts to clean energy
The core of our Sun is a nuclear inferno so unfathomably dense that it strips atoms of their electrons and forms new atoms. And, in an attempt to meet its
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April 25, 2025 at 1:24 PM
Read more about how Virginia is positioned to host the world’s first fusion plant in this Chesapeake Bay Journal article by Lauren Hines-Acosta (Feb ‘25)
“Virginia joins the nuclear fusion race as region shifts to clean energy”
www.bayjournal.com/news/energy/...
“Virginia joins the nuclear fusion race as region shifts to clean energy”
www.bayjournal.com/news/energy/...
“Not passing something or even continuing the conversation this session is not going to do a whole lot to give the market the kind of certainty it needs to be able to invest in solar projects in Virginia,” [CEUR Chairman and Senate Majority Leader Scott] Surovell said.
February 6, 2025 at 3:05 PM
“Not passing something or even continuing the conversation this session is not going to do a whole lot to give the market the kind of certainty it needs to be able to invest in solar projects in Virginia,” [CEUR Chairman and Senate Majority Leader Scott] Surovell said.
Despite having on-the-record support from both the Farm Bureau and the Virginia Forestry Association, Chesapeake Bay Fndtn, and many others.
February 6, 2025 at 3:04 PM
Despite having on-the-record support from both the Farm Bureau and the Virginia Forestry Association, Chesapeake Bay Fndtn, and many others.
Additionally, localities would have been required to set clean energy goals in their comprehensive plans…
But concerns over local land use authority, and impacts to forest and farmland stymied the measure.
But concerns over local land use authority, and impacts to forest and farmland stymied the measure.
February 6, 2025 at 3:01 PM
Additionally, localities would have been required to set clean energy goals in their comprehensive plans…
But concerns over local land use authority, and impacts to forest and farmland stymied the measure.
But concerns over local land use authority, and impacts to forest and farmland stymied the measure.
It also aimed to create an advisory committee to issue nonbinding opinions on individual solar proposals at the local level.
February 6, 2025 at 3:01 PM
It also aimed to create an advisory committee to issue nonbinding opinions on individual solar proposals at the local level.
The proposals would have created a public university technical assistance center to research renewable energy implementation and offer help to localities in picking solar projects.
February 6, 2025 at 3:00 PM
The proposals would have created a public university technical assistance center to research renewable energy implementation and offer help to localities in picking solar projects.