Virginia should be a Climate Leader in the US and globally.  Creating more clean power and moving towards a 100% renewable power system won't be easy but the threat of Climate Change is very real and there are real, practical solutions we can start implementing today.  Some, but by no means all, of these, are: 

• Eliminating barriers to customer-owned and third-party financed solar power
• Encouraging customer-owned battery storage
• Developing pumped hydroelectric storage facilities to store wind and solar power -- NOT more fossil fuel generated power -- and to construct them on brownfields, not greenfields
• Requiring all utilities and regulators to work harder to reduce retail electricity consumption by 10% by or before 2020
• Placing a moratorium on new fracked gas pipelines because existing infrastructure can already meet our energy needs
• Eliminate the $20 million mining pool bond cap, so that funds will be there to clean up land previously mined for coal