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intermittent weather dependent wind and solar power favored by Democrats is unreliable and expensive
Published: Tuesday, February 3rd, 2026 @ 4:01 pm
By: John Steed
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allows Duke to operate coal plants at full capacity to guarantee electricity
Published: Tuesday, June 24th, 2025 @ 9:07 pm
By: John Steed
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Climate Industrial Complex grifters strike again
Published: Monday, April 28th, 2025 @ 10:14 pm
By: John Steed
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"The history of tariffs ... does not support what you're saying."
Published: Tuesday, January 21st, 2025 @ 4:15 pm
By: Daily Wire
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time for more common sense like the new Trump administration
Published: Tuesday, January 21st, 2025 @ 10:54 am
By: John Steed
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replacing dependable coal with intermittant wind and solar may mean blackouts
Published: Sunday, April 28th, 2024 @ 7:36 pm
By: John Steed
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They also show why the General Assembly was wise to put the least-cost and reliable guardrails into law
Published: Tuesday, January 30th, 2024 @ 9:15 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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"Having access to the Mountain Valley Pipeline would reduce customer costs by $1.7 billion by 2038, and $2.6 billion by 2050."
Published: Friday, November 24th, 2023 @ 11:02 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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So every two months, China adds more coal power than North Carolina can possibly retire
Published: Saturday, November 18th, 2023 @ 1:42 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Breaking Down Locke's Latest Policy Victory
Published: Friday, November 10th, 2023 @ 9:30 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Duke Energy Corporation has filed its update resource plan with the North Carolina Utilities Commission (NCUC).
Published: Monday, November 6th, 2023 @ 6:50 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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The old proverb states that April showers bring May Flowers. So, what does August heat bring? Answer: Huge electric bills. My July bill was so high I was convinced my meter was broken and called to get a service person to my house.
Published: Thursday, October 19th, 2023 @ 8:56 am
By: Tom Campbell
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Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has determined that this summer is excessively hot — and rather than the earth’s tilt coupled with the time of year, it’s “MAGA Republicans” who are at fault.
Published: Sunday, August 13th, 2023 @ 8:49 am
By: Daily Wire
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We need more control of these things in Beaufort County
Published: Wednesday, August 9th, 2023 @ 10:49 am
By: John Steed
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The North Carolina Utilities Commission’s initial Carbon Plan would close over 9,000 MWs of coal-fired generation by 2035
Published: Monday, July 24th, 2023 @ 7:31 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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unreliable intermittant "green energy" fails again as it will with NC's Green New Deal
Published: Saturday, June 17th, 2023 @ 9:00 am
By: John Steed
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North Carolina Democrats and RINOs want to follow same path
Published: Friday, May 26th, 2023 @ 11:05 am
By: John Steed
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JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon called for lawmakers to take drastic action in favor of a renewable energy transition, including the seizure of private property to make more land available for solar and wind farms.
Published: Tuesday, May 2nd, 2023 @ 5:40 pm
By: Daily Wire
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The belief that North Carolina’s electricity-based CO2 emissions are still going up is wrong; they’ve fallen by 46.1 percent since 2005
Published: Thursday, March 9th, 2023 @ 6:26 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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The plan acknowledges adding more solar and wind generation raises rates and harms job creation
Published: Monday, February 13th, 2023 @ 5:54 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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They've already caused Duke to request a large rate hike
Published: Saturday, February 4th, 2023 @ 10:13 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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To meet the law’s requirements of being least-cost while maintaining grid reliability, the Utilities Commission’s initial “Carbon Plan” sees natural gas as a “bridge fuel” until sufficient zero-emissions resources “are available and can replace at scale what gas contributes to the system”
Published: Monday, January 30th, 2023 @ 6:13 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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By law, the Utilities Commission’s Carbon Plan must chart the “reasonable,” “least cost path” to emissions reductions with “least cost planning of generation” that would “maintain and improve upon the reliability of the grid”
Published: Wednesday, January 25th, 2023 @ 7:12 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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On Friday, the North Carolina Utilities Commission (NCUC) released its long-awaited Carbon Plan, which aims to significantly reduce carbon emissions by 2030 and reach carbon neutrality by 2050.
Published: Saturday, January 21st, 2023 @ 9:51 am
By: Carolina Journal
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solar is intermittent source of power unlike steady nuclear, coal, and gas
Published: Saturday, January 14th, 2023 @ 10:38 am
By: John Steed
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In the name of “fighting climate change,” forcing Gov. Roy Cooper’s reductions in North Carolina’s electricity-based CO2 emissions would cost $141.7 billion to $162.3 billion, raise household electricity bills by well over a thousand dollars per year, and risk capacity shortfalls and rolling blackou
Published: Thursday, December 22nd, 2022 @ 8:12 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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President Joe Biden (D) snapped at a young woman who attended a political rally that he hosted on Sunday at Sarah Lawrence College in New York for gubernatorial candidate Kathy Hochul.
Published: Monday, November 14th, 2022 @ 10:33 am
By: Daily Wire
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West Virginia Sen. Joe Manchin blasted fellow Democrat President Joe Biden as “divorced from reality” Saturday in an extraordinary rebuke prompted by Biden’s vow to close coal-fired power plants.
Published: Monday, November 14th, 2022 @ 7:15 am
By: Daily Wire
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A law passed in 2021 required that the “decarbonization” plan approved by the state Utilities Commission to be reasonable, set forth the least-cost path to compliance, and maintain or improve grid adequacy and reliability
Published: Saturday, October 8th, 2022 @ 1:08 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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President Joe Biden’s special climate envoy John Kerry is asking the world’s poorest to cut back on oil and other fossil fuels for the sake of the planet.
Published: Friday, October 7th, 2022 @ 1:25 pm
By: Daily Wire
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Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts defended the court from attacks on its legitimacy.
Published: Friday, September 30th, 2022 @ 1:06 am
By: Daily Wire
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The policy is sound; the soundness of the policy’s implementation is still yet to be determined.
Published: Wednesday, September 14th, 2022 @ 10:41 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Prominent scientist backs up claim that there is ‘no climate emergency’
Published: Thursday, September 8th, 2022 @ 8:14 am
By: Countrygirl1411
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Germany will likely proceed with shutting down its three remaining nuclear power plants despite an uncertain supply of gas ahead of the winter season, economy minister Robert Habeck said on Sunday.
Published: Saturday, September 3rd, 2022 @ 6:28 pm
By: Daily Wire
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