Client: Mothers Out Front
Liz Stanton, PhD, and Eliandro Tavares
September 2019
On behalf of Mothers Out Front, Clinic Director and Senior Economist Liz Stanton, PhD, and Assistant Researcher Eliandro Tavares prepared a white paper that analyzed the need for the Hampton Roads spur of the Atlantic Coast Pipeline. The white paper concludes that: Virginia Natural Gas (VNG) has substantially overstated its annual peak demand growth forecasts; VNG has presented no evidence that any gas supply constraint could affect electric supply in the region; and any industrial gas curtailments in the Hampton Roads area appear to have been voluntary in exchange for price reductions.