Mid-Atlantic Electrification Partnership (MAEP) EV-charging host site and general store owner, Jon Henry, has been elected as one of three finalists in a national award. The 2024 National Rural Grocery Summit’s Rural Grocer of the Year Award is run by the Rural Grocery Initiative and aims to support grocery stores outside of urban areas.

Jon Henry’s General Store is a ...

At the July 18th, 2024 VCC Board of Directors meeting, the Board elected new leadership roles for the coming year. The Board and VCC staff would like to sincerely thank outgoing board chair Nell Boyle for her excellent leadership and service.

Whitney Kopanko

Chair

Whitney is Director of Marketing and EV Program Manager ...

$65 million is available for Innovations to Manage Growing Building, Transportation, and Industrial Loads on the Electric Grid. Connected Communities 2.0 is a funding opportunity announcement (FOA) that seeks to validate grid-edge technology innovations in real-world situations and provide new tools for utilities, grid planners and operators, automakers and smart charge management service providers, and ...

On July 22, The EPA announced 25 recipients for funds awarded through the Climate Pollution Reduction Grants (CPRG) Program. This Program is established through the Inflation Reduction Act, and selected applicants are receiving over $4.3 billion in total to “implement community-driven solutions to the climate crisis, reduce air pollution, advance environmental justice, and ...

The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) has announced that $1.7 billion will be given across Michigan, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Georgia, Illinois, Indiana, Maryland and Virginia to support the conversion of 11 shuttered or at-risk auto manufacturing and assembly facilities. The conversion will reprogram these facilities to manufacture electric vehicles and ...

Written by Ella Sher

According to a recent study by Synapse Energy Economics Inc., the growth of Electric Vehicle (EV) usage in Virginia over the course of 11 years (2011-2021) has decreased electricity costs for EV users and all Virginians in electricity use. 

This downward cost trend can be attributed to the fact that ...

Funding from federal Investing in America Agenda Encourages Consumers to Safely Dispose of Used Batteries, Creating a Recycling Ecosystem that Boosts the Domestic Battery Supply Chain

The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) has announced $14 million to increase consumer battery recycling and create a more sustainable domestic battery supply chain. Supported by the ...

Written by Ella Sher

Last week, two colleagues and I attended the 2024 edition of the Virginia Brownfields Conference, sponsored by the Virginia Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ) and hosted by the City of Lynchburg. For context, brownfields are abandoned swaths of environmentally contaminated land formerly home to large industrial sites. ...

The GO-Zero Program is a fund offered by the Port of Virginia for truckers at the Port to have the opportunity to purchase zero emission vehicles. This program offers an incentive of up to $200,000 for each zero-emission truck purchased and up to $100,000 for each net-zero emission truck purchased. Additionally, there is no scrappage requirement to be eligible for the ...