(Very interesting, Bruce! - promoted by Eileen)
As one opposed to the soon to be built through NOVA Dominion power line, I've been primarily focusing on the low hanging fruit of demand side management, but recently have been reflecting on the progressive environmental perspectives that seem to put us mostly into the "party of no" column. No mountain top removal, no nukes, no new coal plants, no offshore gas or wind... These are all righteous, but leave us with out the capability to propose real solutions.
I've recently become quite the zealot on Feed-In Tariffs (FIT) as THE way for us to promote dramatic increases in our renewable energy resources as well as take some of the power away from Dominion. The FIT program internationally had proven to increase renewable power and in some cases even reduced the Kw hour costs! It's often been described as Democratizing energy production as so many individuals, small businesses, co-ops etc generate the power.
This program is very new to Virginia and I'm seriously thinking of starting a PAC to move the conversation in the Commonwealth to a different agenda. Would you be interested in helping in some way?
I know this stuff is new so I've got a link to two recent forums on the topic to get you up to speed and a LINK of the Washington Monthly article on the Rooftop Revolution.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v...
http://www.worldfuturecouncil....
http://www.washingtonmonthly.c...
I've also prepared and delivered a FIT briefing book for Deeds and Bowerbank.
FIT's have the potential to really separate us from the pack with real proposals to reduce our dependence on carbon based power generation, and with Obama's new 'smart grid' allow us to move much closer to a generation centric distribution system as opposed to a grid centric one that now requires all that cheap coal electricity being shipped from parts unknown (losing electrons along the way).
Interested? EMAIL ME AT ROEMMELT[AT]EROLS.COM
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