Aiiiieeee - RUN!!! Youngkin Warns Of Blackouts In Virginia If McAuliffe Is Elected [View all]

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Virginia Republican gubernatorial hopeful Glenn Youngkin warned that the state would face electricity problems if his opponent were to win this year’s election.

Youngkin, a former private equity executive and political newcomer, was harshly critical of the Virginia Clean Economy Act at the first debate of the general election Thursday, and slammed Democrat Terry McAuliffe’s plan to double down on it by committing the state to a decarbonized electricity sector by 2035, 15 years earlier than the deadline set in the law (E&E Daily, May 5).

“We see real challenges in getting to the goals that have been set in the original Virginia Clean Economy Act, and my opponent wants to accelerate them and destabilize our entire energy grid,” Youngkin said of the law passed last year by the Democratic-controlled Legislature and signed by Gov. Ralph Northam (D). “We’ve seen what happens in California when, in fact, you don’t have a reliable energy grid,” he continued. “So if you like what you just heard from my opponent, get ready for blackouts and brownouts and an unreliable energy grid.”

Youngkin said he wouldn’t have signed the clean energy legislation of he were governor, but did not outline a competing climate change plan, except to say that the state “should embrace all energy sources.” “We can use wind and solar, but we need to preserve our clean natural gas, and we can, in fact, have a reliable energy grid,” he said.

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