About 50 people unfurled a 300-foot-long petition outside Dominion Virginia Power's main office in downtown Richmond today calling for the company to invest more in renewable energy.
"What do we want? Clean energy," the group chanted.
"I feel very strongly we've got to deploy renewable energy resources and move off coal," said Susan Stillman, a retired technology saleswoman from Vienna.
The activists and clean-energy business owners then marched down the State Corporation Commission offices to deliver over 2,500 public comments urging the commission to approve Dominion Virginia Power's plan to phase out two of its coal-fired power plants and support investments in solar power, wind farms and energy efficiency.
"We share their desire to have a larger renewable energy portfolio," said Dan Genest, a spokesman for the state's largest utility company. "But we believe that our customers in Virginia are best served by a mix of generation that includes renewables, nuclear, coal, natural gas and hydro."
The SCC is reviewing Dominion’s long-term energy plan. The Richmond-based electric utility has about 2.3 million customers in Virginia.
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