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Dominion Energy invested $46 million to construct a 200,000-panel solar array on 125 acres its owns along Lucky Hill Road near Remington. The installation started generating electricity in October 2017. These things will not be built . . . in Reston. They wonât be built where our Democratic colleagues live. Theyâll be built out here in rural areas and with untold consequences Del. Todd Gilbert (R-Shenandoah County)
By Sarah Vogelsong
Spotsylvania County: 6,350. Fauquier County: 3,500. King William County: 1,262.
Each number recited by Del. Charles Poindexter (R-Franklin) to a House panel during the second week of the 2021 General Assembly session represented the number of acres that local governments in Virginia have approved for solar projects to date.
This article first appeared in the Virginia Mercury.
When Del. Tony Wilt, R-Rockingham, introduced a budget amendment funding a study on creating a new 43-mile long rail trail in the Shenandoah Valley, the odds of the proposal making it into the final budget for the governor to sign looked slim.
After Wilt’s amendment was stricken from the House version of the budget, the idea appeared doomed.
However, thanks to the efforts of his regional ally, Sen. Emmet Hanger, R-Augusta, the measure made it into the Senate’s budget to be adopted by the two bodies’ conference committee in October. Now, a longshot proposal with broad popularity is set to take its first official step towards becoming a reality.
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