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Virginia Republican gubernatorial hopeful Glenn Youngkin warned that the state would face electricity problems if his opponent were to win this years election.
Youngkin, a former private equity executive and political newcomer, was harshly critical of the Virginia Clean Economy Act at the first debate of the general election Thursday, and slammed Democrat Terry McAuliffes plan to double down on it by committing the state to a decarbonized electricity sector by 2035, 15 years earlier than the deadline set in the law (E&E Daily, May 5).
We see real challenges in getting to the goals that have been set in the original Virginia Clean Economy Act, and my opponent wants to accelerate them and destabilize our entire energy grid, Youngkin said of the law passed last year by the Democratic-controlled Legislature and signed by Gov. Ralph Northam (D). Weve seen what happens in California when, in fact, you dont have a reliable energy grid, he continued. So if you like what you just heard from my opponent, get ready for blackouts and brownouts and an unreliable energy grid.
Youngkin said he wouldnt have signed the clean energy legislation of he were governor, but did not outline a competing climate change plan, except to say that the state should embrace all energy sources. We can use wind and solar, but we need to preserve our clean natural gas, and we can, in fact, have a reliable energy grid, he said.
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https://www.eenews.net/articles/va-republican-warns-of-blackouts-and-brownouts-if-he-loses-2/
Lovie777
(12,218 posts)coupled with nothing but lies. Gov. Northam should remind Virginia of Texas.
underpants
(182,599 posts)Sounds more like hes priming to swoop in and vulture it up.
Doesn't he mean Texas? The only blackouts in Cali are caused by conventional power utilities transmission lines coming down, resulting in large wildfires. Texas is the state with unreliable conventional utilities, the solar and wind power have been just fine.
Repubs always lie and claim everything is ass backwards.