DENR Report: Government Policies Guarantee Return Of 'Almost All' Investment In Solar | Eastern NC Now

    Publisher's note: The author of this post is Jon Sanders, who is Director of Regulatory Studies for the John Locke Foundation.

    In March 2015, the North Carolina Department of Environment and Natural Resources published "The Energy Report: A Snapshot of North Carolina's Energy Portfolio Seven Years After Session Law 2007-397."

    The report is well worth digesting, especially given the ongoing debate in North Carolina over state subsidies, incentives, tax credits, and the renewable energy portfolio standard (REPS) purchase mandate for renewable energy, partiucularly solar energy.

    Take this selection, for example, on the delightful combination of federal and state investment tax credits and accelerated depreciation schedules for investing in solar:


    The chart from the previous page that shows the cumulative total of how much solar energy investment is returned per year through those six years is available here.