Full Title: How Virginia Can Meet Its Clean Power Plan Targets
Author(s): Kristen Meek, Rebecca Gasper, and Noah Kaufman
Publisher(s): World Resources Institute
Publication Date: October 1, 2015
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Description (excerpt):
In August 2015, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) finalized the Clean Power Plan (CPP), the first-ever carbon pollution standards for existing power plants (Box 1). The CPP builds on progress already under way to move the country toward a cleaner electricity system, including rapidly falling prices of renewables and increased deployment of moneysaving energy efficiency measures. The plan enables states to use a wide range of options to meet their standards, such as existing clean energy policies and power plants (the focus of this analysis), other tools to cut electricity use and increase the use of renewables, and broader initiatives such as participation in a capand-trade program or use of a carbon tax (Box 2).