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Search Results for: PIPP
Correction: My Story on PIPP Was Wrong
Virginia’s Department of Social Services (DSS) has prepared a plan for the implementation of a cap on electricity costs for low-income customers of Virginia’s two main utilities. My report on June 27 that the plan was “missing in action” was … Continue reading
SCC Hikes Electricity Bills For New PIPP Subsidy
By Steve Haner All customers of Dominion Energy Virginia and Appalachian Power in Virginia will begin soon to pay an extra monthly charge related to the coming Percentage of Income Payment Program, the General Assembly’s new electricity cost subsidy for … Continue reading
Posted in Energy, General Assembly, Poverty & income gap, Regulation, Social services
Tagged Dominion, Stephen D. Haner
Updates: PPP, PIPP, Dominion’s School Buses
by Steve Haner Tax on Paycheck Protection Program Grants The General Assembly session deadlines require final decisions on various revenue bills before the final budget bill is adopted, in theory keeping the two issues separate. What is good tax policy … Continue reading
Posted in Budgets, Energy, Entitlements, General Assembly, Poverty & income gap, Regulation, Taxes, Transportation
Tagged Dominion, Stephen D. Haner
Your PIPP Tax Will Buy Heat Pumps For Poor
by Steve Haner Lower-income Virginians who are customers of the two largest electricity providers may begin to receive subsidies on their residential bills in March 2022 under legislation moving forward in the General Assembly. The money for the subsidies will … Continue reading
Posted in Energy, Environment, General Assembly, Poverty & income gap, Regulation
Tagged APCO, Dominion, Stephen D. Haner
Energy “PIPP” Proposal Just the TIP of an Iceberg
By Steve Haner As the State Corporation Commission prepares to set up Virginia’s first electricity cost shifting program, using a tax on all electric bills to provide discounts to low-income customers, advocates are already pushing to expand and enrich it. … Continue reading
Posted in Energy, General Assembly, Poverty & income gap, Regulation, Taxes
Tagged APCO, Dominion. RGGI, Stephen D. Haner
A PIPP of an Idea: Electricity Transfer Payments
By Steve Haner Green energy advocates never tire of telling us that accomplishing their zero-carbon electricity supply will lower our costs. If so, why does their dream bill include a new income transfer entitlement program for low-income customers? It is … Continue reading
Posted in Energy, Environment, General Assembly, Poverty & income gap
Tagged Dominion, Stephen D. Haner
As Dominion and APCO $oar, NOVEC Drops Rates
By Steve Haner The major “rural” electric cooperative serving very urban Northern Virginia is drastically lowering its rates as of this month, because the cost it is paying for bulk power purchases has dropped. The contrast with what is happening … Continue reading
Posted in Business and Economy, Energy, General Assembly, Regulation, Utilities
Tagged Stephen D. Haner
Why are the Poor Still Paying for Dominion Wind?
by Steve Haner Virginia’s new electricity bill subsidy program for customers of Dominion Energy Virginia has cleared its final hurdle at the State Corporation Commission and will begin enrolling participants in time for this coming winter. It is largely following … Continue reading
Posted in Energy, Entitlements, General Assembly, Utilities
Tagged Dominion, PIPP, Stephen D. Haner
Dominion “Bill Relief” Disappears September 1
By Steve Haner Homeowners willing to cut back power usage when Dominion Energy Virginia asks them could earn rebates of up to $28 a year. So reports the Richmond Times-Dispatch, citing yet another final order from the State Corporation Commission. … Continue reading
Posted in Energy, Entitlements, General Assembly, Utilities
Tagged CVOW, Dominion, RGGI, Stephen D. Haner
Electricity Bill Caps for Poor Start in November
by Steve Haner Beginning next winter, low- income customers of Dominion Energy Virginia or Appalachian Power Company will be eligible to have their monthly bills capped under a new state financial assistance program. The income cut off to qualify for … Continue reading
Posted in Energy, Entitlements, General Assembly, Utilities
Tagged APCO, Dominion, PIPP, Stephen D. Haner
Consumers Be Wary When Energy Elephants Dance
By Steve Haner First published this morning by the Thomas Jefferson Institute for Public Policy. The Virginia House of Delegates is expected to vote this week to exempt certain Virginia manufacturers, which ones to be determined later, from the coming … Continue reading
Posted in Business and Economy, Energy, Environment, General Assembly, Manufacturing, Utilities
Tagged APCO, CVOW, Dominion, Stephen D. Haner
When Politicians Run Power Companies
by Steve Haner Residential customers of Dominion Energy Virginia will soon be paying 55% more for electricity than they were when the Virginia General Assembly took over micromanaging utility regulation in 2007. The Western Virginia customers of Appalachian Power will … Continue reading
Posted in Energy, Environment, General Assembly, Regulation, Utilities
Tagged APCO, Dominion, Stephen D. Haner
What the Wind Project Costs You and Who Pays
by Steve Haner If the project goes as planned, the consumer cost for Dominion Energy Virginia’s offshore wind installation will rapidly rise to a peak in 2027 and then descend annually over the following 20 years. If it produces power … Continue reading
Posted in Energy, Environment, General Assembly, Poverty & income gap, Regulation
Tagged CVOW, Dominion, Stephen D. Haner
Virginia’s Greens Need to Change Their Strategy
by James C. Sherlock When you ask a question you have to be prepared for the answer. McKinsey Global Institute, in collaboration with McKinsey Sustainability and the Global Energy & Materials and Advanced Industries practices released in January a massive study of the costs … Continue reading
Poll: Most Democrats Dislike RGGI Carbon Tax
by Steve Haner First published today by the Thomas Jefferson Institute for Public Policy. The high consumer cost of Virginia’s forced conversion to a fossil fuel-free economy remains unpopular with Republican and Independent voters, but is supported by many Democrats, … Continue reading
Posted in Energy, Environment, General Assembly, Regulation, Taxes
Tagged Stephen D. Haner
