@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”
www.bayjournal.com/news/energy/...
Wondering about recent developments in #fusion technology? Watch this presentation from Ben Byboth of Commonwealth Fusion Systems from the 2025 VMI Environment Virginia Symposium: Our Fusion Future youtu.be/llahg2d2uWQ?si…
25.04.2025 13:22 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0“Over the course of last fall, the Commission on Electric Utility Regulation hammered out what I think is truly good legislation to … be sure our utilities are making the decisions that will improve our energy position and put the needs of ratepayers ahead of corporate profits.”
02.04.2025 11:42 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
All the signs of Spring 🌱 from my backyard homestead 🌷 including some buds from my growing orchard. 🍊
📷: Fujifilm X-T10
A federal judge has limited ICE raids in certain places of worship including Friends Meetings that are plaintiffs in the case. In Virginia, there are 17 #Quaker Meetings in the Baltimore Yearly Meeting, including Richmond Friends Mtg. #RVA
mainemorningstar.com/2025/02/24/r...
“The accumulation of all powers, legislative, executive, and judiciary, in the same hands, whether of one, a few, or many, and whether hereditary, self-appointed, or elective, may justly be pronounced the very definition of tyranny.” -James Madison, The Federalist Papers No. 47
26.02.2025 05:12 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0Solar and battery storage will lead new generation in 2025, per EIA. 63 GW of utility-scale generation capacity will be brought online this year, and 81% of that capacity will be solar and battery storage.
www.utilitydive.com/news/solar-a...
“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.
06.02.2025 15:05 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Despite having on-the-record support from both the Farm Bureau and the Virginia Forestry Association, Chesapeake Bay Fndtn, and many others.
06.02.2025 15:04 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Additionally, 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.
It also aimed to create an advisory committee to issue nonbinding opinions on individual solar proposals at the local level.
06.02.2025 15:00 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0The proposals would have created a public university technical assistance center to research renewable energy implementation and offer help to localities in picking solar projects.
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CEUR ED Carrie Hearne told @VPM.org the siting bill’s goal was to get stakeholders on the same page.
“…we felt like focusing in on all the different stages of planning in the commonwealth and connecting local, regional and state was an important path to take.”
www.vpm.org/news/2025-02...
Levitating color chaos 🌈
26.01.2025 01:05 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0I just heard a great definition of research: it’s an opportunity for people’s voices to be heard. I love this! Yes it’s a human-centered definition: flora, fauna, mineral and mycological representation matters too of course.
16.11.2024 21:19 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Saturday! Loving these blue sky fall days. This project is about to head off to the longarm quilter. Finally! 😅 #quilting #chaos #colorchaos #tradition
16.11.2024 18:57 — 👍 10 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
