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The A.I. bias rating includes policy and politician portrayal leanings based on the author’s tone found in the article using machine learning. Bias scores are on a scale of -100% to 100% with higher negative scores being more liberal and higher positive scores being more conservative, and 0% being neutral.
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| "Solar energy is nationwide." | Positive | 38% Conservative |
| "Warren Buffet's Berkshire Hathaway Energy purchased 2,000 acres in West Virginia, where the company will provide solar energy to an aerospace enterprise, creating as many as 1,000 jobs." | Positive | 30% Conservative |
| "The intercoected grid means we can buy clean power elsewhere for now." | Positive | 22% Conservative |
| "It's been a slow process, but West Virginia will move forward -- powered by clean energy and demanded by its people." | Positive | 22% Conservative |
| "Of the nearly 28,000 MW of power that came online in 2021, wind power made up 41" | Positive | 20% Conservative |
| "According to Van Nostrand, the project will function more like a microgrid, generating onsite solar power, storing it in a battery, and sending it through a localized mini-grid." | Positive | 18% Conservative |
| "Meanwhile, West Virginia legislators passed bills so that the two biggest utilities -- AEP and FirstEnergy Corp. -- could install solar power in 50-megawatt increments." | Positive | 16% Conservative |
| "In 2005, it owned 24,000 MW of coal." | Positive | 12% Conservative |
| "Duke Energy, too, has retired 6,500 MW of coal since 2010, and it will close 1,900 more MW of coal by 2025." | Positive | 10% Conservative |
| "West Virginia's Public Service Commission is under the thumb of coal companies that still have political muscle." | Positive | 4% Conservative |
| "The state's Clean Energy Transformation Act eliminates coal and requires the grid to be decarbonized by 2045." | Negative | -2% Liberal |
| "Moving away from coal is needed to save the planet -- and it will result in lower electricity rates." | Negative | -10% Liberal |
| "The consumer education process is going to be challenging, says Van Nostrand, relating to communities that have long depended on coal." | Negative | -12% Liberal |
| "Ideally, utilities could run their coal plants at less capacity and buy wind and solar power more cheaply on the open market." | Negative | -14% Liberal |
| "Unfortunately, West Virginia's utility regulators have doubled down on coal." | Negative | -24% Liberal |
| "Nationally, the coal industry has lost its influence." | Negative | -24% Liberal |
| "Otherwise, we will go down the drain with coal." | Negative | -30% Liberal |
| "When the Biden administration aounced a new student-loan forgiveness plan for eligible borrowers last month, my social media accounts were automatically flooded with passionate statements on both sides of the aisle." | Positive | 8% Conservative |
| "Interestingly, the White House press release on student loan forgiveness says Biden's plan is to protect future students and taxpayers by reducing the cost of college and holding schools accountable when they hike up prices." | Negative | -2% Liberal |
| "Biden's forgiveness plan once again limits relief to individual borrowers with incomes of $125,000, or couples who earn $250,000 or less." | Negative | -4% Liberal |
| "When Hillary Clinton ran for president in 2016, for example, she proposed making state colleges and universities tuition-free for students whose families earn $125,000 or less." | Negative | -10% Liberal |
| "One big issue I have with Biden's forgiveness plan is that it is a one-time action that does nothing to fix our broken higher education system." | Negative | -26% Liberal |
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Contributing sentiments towards policy:
69% : Solar energy is nationwide.65% : Warren Buffet's Berkshire Hathaway Energy purchased 2,000 acres in West Virginia, where the company will provide solar energy to an aerospace enterprise, creating as many as 1,000 jobs.
61% : The interconnected grid means we can buy clean power elsewhere for now.
61% : It's been a slow process, but West Virginia will move forward -- powered by clean energy and demanded by its people.
60% : Of the nearly 28,000 MW of power that came online in 2021, wind power made up 41%, while solar energy comprised 36%.
59% : According to Van Nostrand, the project will function more like a microgrid, generating onsite solar power, storing it in a battery, and sending it through a localized mini-grid.
58% : Meanwhile, West Virginia legislators passed bills so that the two biggest utilities -- AEP and FirstEnergy Corp. -- could install solar power in 50-megawatt increments.
56% : In 2005, it owned 24,000 MW of coal.
55% : Duke Energy, too, has retired 6,500 MW of coal since 2010, and it will close 1,900 more MW of coal by 2025.
52% : West Virginia's Public Service Commission is under the thumb of coal companies that still have political muscle.
49% : The state's Clean Energy Transformation Act eliminates coal and requires the grid to be decarbonized by 2045.
45% : Moving away from coal is needed to save the planet -- and it will result in lower electricity rates."
44% : "The consumer education process is going to be challenging," says Van Nostrand, relating to communities that have long depended on coal.
43% : Ideally, utilities could run their coal plants at less capacity and buy wind and solar power more cheaply on the open market.
38% : Unfortunately, West Virginia's utility regulators have doubled down on coal.
38% : Nationally, the coal industry has lost its influence.
35% : Otherwise, we will go down the drain with coal."
*Our bias meter rating uses data science including sentiment analysis, machine learning and our proprietary algorithm for determining biases in news articles. Bias scores are on a scale of -100% to 100% with higher negative scores being more liberal and higher positive scores being more conservative, and 0% being neutral. The rating is an independent analysis and is not affiliated nor sponsored by the news source or any other organization.