Please include rooftop solar in your 2018 plan.  

Virginia’s electric grid is easily compromised by hurricanes on the east coast and deep snows on the west. Rooftop solar, working with battery storage, provides an opportunity to interrupt those patterns.  I encourage you to make it the basis of a network that builds local power in Virginia communities and gives consumers the choice to benefit from their own energy production.

In addition, rooftop solar has the potential not only to reduce the cost of energy, but to actively assist those living on limited budgets, especially those below the poverty line by reducing their energy bills. It also reduces the health costs created by the over dependance on fossil fuels, and is  a reneweable source of energy.  Also consider, that it will creates local jobs related to installation, storage and maintenance. 

?Thank you for your consideration.