Consumer Energy Alliance (CEA) is a nonprofit, nonpartisan organization created to help expand the dialogue between the energy and consuming sectors to improve understanding of energy security, more effectively develop and use both renewable and oil & gas energy resources in an environmentally conscious manner, create sound energy policy and maintain stable energy prices for consumers.
Over the past 30 years, the cost of wind power has declined over 80 percent and now ranges from 4–6 cents per kilowatt-hour. Areas offshore in Virginia and North Carolina have high wind power prospects that could potentially be deployed to address the power needs of those states.