Yet until this month, PPAs were not available to public schools in Southwest Virginia. Without PPAs, net-metering, which was subject to a low cap on the program capacity, was largely unavailable, too.
“The opportunities [for solar] that exist in the rest of the state don’t happen here,” Appalachian Voices’ Regional Director of Community and Economic Development Adam Wells told SELC in a 2019 episode of our podcast Broken Ground. “It could be really easy if the laws were different.”
Now, they finally are. Thanks in part to the Solar Workgroup of Southwest Virginia, a coalition that includes both Appalachian Voices and SELC, the new contracts Appalachian Power will sign will give public schools and localities in the Virginian coalfields access to the financing options they need to tap into all the benefits of clean energy through solar.
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