Encouraging Green Energy Growth

It is crucial that Virginia have a strategy to encourage and increase our use of renewable energy sources while simultaneously creating jobs. At the moment Virginia encourages use of renewable energy sources through with a voluntary standard for power companies to produce 12% of their power from green energy sources by the year 2022. As part of Terry McAuliffe’s plan to increase use of renewable energy sources while also creating jobs, as Governor,  McAuliffe would make this standard mandatory.  McAuliffe believes this extra push is crucial to assuring job creation, improved environment and in the end the energy companies will make money, too.