Dominion chases offshore wind as Virginia lags behind on renewables investment

摘要

Former Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell announced in 2012, upon signing several pieces of energy-related legislation, that the state was on its way tonbecoming the "energy capital of the East Coast." In a statement touting the state's energy resources, McDonnell pointed to Virginia's coal and naturalngas resources, as well as the "sustained winds off of the Atlantic coast."