Solar Storage

Effective July 1, 2025, the Virginia Solar Energy Development and Energy Storage Authority was sunset and is no longer active. The enabling legislation that created the Authority in 2015 included a sunset clause for the Authority to expire after 10 years in 2025.

Virginia Solar Energy Development and Energy Storage Authority

In 2015, the Virginia General Assembly created the Virginia Solar Energy Development Authority (the Authority) - under Title 45.2 , Code of Virginia - for the purposes of facilitating, coordinating and supporting the development, either by the Authority or by other qualified entities, of the solar energy industry and solar energy projects. Learn more.

Members

• Skyler Zunk, Chair
  CEO and Founder
  Energy Right

• Paul Duncan, Vice Chair
  MPR Associates, Inc.
  

• Katharine Bond
  Vice President of Public Policy, State, and Local Affairs
  Dominion Energy

• Jo Anne Webb
  General Partner
  Scott Timberland Co., LP

• Rumy Mohta
  CEO, ATLAS Ventures

• Michael Herbert
  Managing Partner & Co-Founder
  Delorean Power

• Michael Walsh
  Partner,
  Shearman & Sterling LLP

• Colleen A. Lueken, Ph.D
  Director of Market Development
  AES Corporation

• Gregory Habeeb
  Partner
  Gentry Locke

• Harrison Godfrey
  Executive Director
  Virginia Advanced Energy Economy

• Robert Birdsey
  Managing Director
  Green Front Energy

Staff Contact

• Ken Jurman
  Renewable Program Manager
  Virginia Department of Energy