Community solar projects provide solar energy directly to individual users.
>> From an Article on Climate Change by Elizabeth Kolbert, New Yorker Magazine, Nov. 28, 2022
Jobs, jobs, jobs ~ Six years ago, Beta and Form didn’t exist, and CarbiCrete consisted of four men holding meetings at a Starbucks. Today, more than four hundred people work for Beta, three hundred work for Form, and forty work for CarbiCrete. Ørsted’s operations in North America employ more than six hundred people directly and thousands indirectly, through contracts for components, shipping, and logistical support.
Study after study has concluded that cutting emissions creates jobs. Recently, a Princeton-based team issued a report detailing how the U.S. could reduce its net emissions to zero by 2050. The researchers considered several possible decarbonization “pathways.”
Consider the extreme case. The pathway labelled “high electrification” would, they projected over time, eliminate sixty-two thousand (62,000) jobs in the coal industry and four hundred thousand (400,000) in the natural-gas sector. But it was expected to produce nearly eight hundred thousand (800,000) jobs in construction, more than seven hundred thousand (700,000) in the solar industry, and more than a million (1,000,000) in upgrading the grid.
“For too long, we’ve failed to use the most important word when it comes to meeting the climate crisis,” President Biden declared last year. “Jobs, jobs, jobs. For me, when I think climate change, I think jobs.”
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See Also: West Virginia Looks at Community Solar as Legislative Priority, Mike Tony, The Charleston Gazette-Mail, November 7, 2022
(TNS) —West Virginia’s leaders, from Sens. Joe Manchin and Shelley Moore Capito to Gov. Jim Justice and members of the state Public Energy Authority, have a pet phrase for their preferred approach to energy policy: “All of the above.”
Community solar allows customers to receive solar energy without having to install their own systems, allowing them to benefit from energy generated offsite, and could save residential customers about 10 percent in electricity costs.
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Legislative Updates, Evan Hansen, WV Delegate, 1/10/23
I’ll go live on Facebook and Twitter every Sunday at 6:30 pm with a weekly Legislative Update. I’ll provide some commentary on the good, the bad, and the ugly. As always, I would love to hear your feedback. The easiest ways to get notified of these updates are to like and follow the “Delegate Evan Hansen” Facebook page or to follow “Delegate Evan Hansen” on Twitter. My first Legislative Update will be on Sunday, January 15, at 6:30 pm.
Community Solar
One of my priorities this session is to pass a community solar bill, which will bring investments and jobs to West Virginia while reducing greenhouse gas emissions. Community solar allows people to subscribe to a portion of a large solar project and save money on their electricity bills. Yesterday, the Joint Interim Energy Committee heard testimony from solar developers that they would invest hundreds of millions of dollars in West Virginia if community solar were allowed!
PFAS Protection Act
One issue that most people can agree on is that we all deserve access to clean and safe drinking water. But recent studies have uncovered dangerous levels of PFAS in the raw water supplies for many community water systems across the state. PFAS, also known as “forever chemicals,” are used to manufacture consumer and industrial products and are known to cause many adverse health issues, even at very low levels. The PFAS Protection Act helps hold polluters responsible for cleaning up PFAS, not water utilities or their ratepayers.