By Mike Tony, Charleston Gazette-Mail
CHARLESTON, W.Va. — Gov. Patrick Morrisey’s office has shrugged off the Trump administration’s termination of a program through which the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency last year selected the West Virginia Office of Energy to receive $106.1 million to deliver solar power to low-income and disadvantaged residents.
Morrisey’s office isn’t heeding West Virginia consumer and environmental advocates’ call to do something about the cancellation.
The EPA on Aug. 7 announced it is terminating the Solar for All program, through which the Office of Energy’s $106.1 million award was expected to lower residential energy bills for state consumers. The award was one of 49 state-level awards the EPA had announced under the Biden administration in April 2024 through the Solar for All program totaling $5.5 billion. Eleven more awards to serve multistate recipients and tribes totaled another $1.5 billion.
