This report explores four strategies for decarbonizing Virginia by 2050: efficiency in energy use, eliminating fossil fuels from electricity generation, electrifying transportation services and building energy use, and capturing and sequestering remaining CO2 emissions.

This report begins with a discussion of recent trends in Virginia's electricity demand, including the effects of the coronavirus pandemic.

This report explores how a smarter grid can enable Virginia to take advantage of clean energy resources, energy storage, and demand management technologies. It discusses the costs and benefits of smart grid applications, and discusses Virginia’s efforts to develop a smarter grid.

One-hour informational webinar hosted by Energy Transition Initiative at Weldon Cooper Center for Public Service at UVA; The Virginia Department of Mines, Minerals and Energy; and Diane Cherry Consulting.

This report describes the results of an economic development incentives survey administered to local economic developers in Virginia.  

This report reviews technologies that can potentially help Virginia cost-effectively reach net zero carbon energy, assesses them along multiple criteria, and provides recommendations for how Virginia should move forward.

This Legal Report on Executive Order 43 evaluates two questions: (1) what are the existing laws and regulations on the books today that will aid Virginia in meeting its decarbonization targets; and (2) what existing laws and regulations may (intentionally or not) pose barriers to implementation.

The increasing urgency of global sustainability issues argues for linking insights from environmental federalism with the literature on linked socio-ecological complex adaptive systems.

Charles Hartgrove, director of the Virginia Institute of Government, interviews Terry Rephann, a Cooper Center regional economist, about the economic impacts of COVID-19 in Virginia.

This report provides an initial look at the potential economic and fiscal impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on the Commonwealth of Virginia and its localities.

This study evaluates the economic contribution that Carilion Clinic makes to the state, its service region and individual service areas where it operates. 

This report describes the results of an economic development incentives survey undertaken as part of a major Joint Legislative Audit and Review Commission (JLARC) funded project.