Lydia Sinemus

Virginia Department of Energy

The Virginia Department of Energy (Virginia Energy) serves a large and varied group of people, organizations and agencies throughout the Commonwealth. Through its programs, the agency deploys renewable energy and promotes renewable energy, energy efficiency, regulates mining and natural gas industries and protects citizens near those areas, protects and improves the environment through enforcement and reclamation and works to improve the economy through development and job growth with a special focus in coal-impacted communities. The agency is resource for localities to know where commodities exist within their geology and, through extensive mapping data, to know where historic and current mining is occurring as well as opportunities to develop land through reclamation.