The fate of two coal plants owned by AEP’s Appalachian Power is generating debate in a proceeding to approve the utility’s renewable portfolio standard plan at the Virginia State Corporation Commission.

FERC granted American Electric Power waivers to alter the capacity obligation calculation for four of its vertically integrated utilities in PJM to not include load growth outside their territories.

The Virginia SCC approved Appalachian Power's purchases under the state renewable portfolio standard for the next fiscal year.

The Virginia House Commerce and Energy Committee voted to tighten regulation of electric utility rates as disparate interests lined up behind two bills.

A Virginia Senate committee cleared a bill to expand Dominion’s "shared solar" target to 1.5 GW while changing how consumers who use the resource are charged.

FERC ruled that three municipal power providers would not violate their full requirements power contracts by installing battery storage.

Governor-elect Glenn Youngkin shook clean energy advocates with his controversial nomination of Andrew Wheeler to be Virginia’s secretary of natural resources.

Virginia’s landmark Clean Economy Act is unlikely to face major changes soon despite Republicans’ electoral victories, speakers told an Infocast conference.