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Georgia Democrat Stacey Abrams is back from her world tour, apparently having successfully served as an election observer in Nigeria.
Published: Wednesday, March 29th, 2023 @ 6:20 am
By: Daily Wire
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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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In the past week, Duke Energy systematically shut down parts of the North Carolina and South Carolina power grid in what the utility described as an effort to stabilize energy usage during bitter cold holiday temperatures.
Published: Monday, January 16th, 2023 @ 8:18 am
By: Carolina Journal
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It seems like just a few days ago that The News & Observer (N&O) was running banner headlines and filing multiple stories about how bad power outages are for people.
Published: Monday, January 9th, 2023 @ 3:09 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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As the governor continues to tout an energy policy insistent on wind and solar, lawmakers leverage growth in natural gas and nuclear to meet future demand and lower emissions in a new energy proposal.
Published: Thursday, July 8th, 2021 @ 2:15 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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Here in North Carolina, in this century, per-capita carbon dioxide emissions from energy generation are down over 50 percent. We are witnessing falling emissions even as we are one of the nation's fastest-growth states.
Published: Wednesday, November 13th, 2019 @ 10:53 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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House Bill 589, passed earlier this year by the General Assembly, could put allies of North Carolina’s renewable energy industry somewhat at ease, said Randy Wheeless, a spokesman for Duke Energy, at a Nov. 1 meeting of renewable advocates
Published: Monday, November 13th, 2017 @ 3:36 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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"Since 2012," the Apple web site boasts, "all our data centers have been powered by 100 percent renewable energy sources."
Published: Sunday, January 10th, 2016 @ 11:20 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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A novel justification for governments heavily subsidizing otherwise unsustainable, expensive, inefficient renewable energy is to argue that all energy sources get subsidies. The general assertion is true as far as that goes. Still, the argument is often used as a variant of...
Published: Friday, January 8th, 2016 @ 11:16 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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California-based Apple promotes its 500,000-square-foot data center in Maiden, N.C., by saying it runs
Published: Thursday, January 7th, 2016 @ 7:53 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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The previous newsletter discussed in brief how the renewable energy lobby has, over decades, been promising politicians and voters some things they have yet to achieve. Those promises are that...
Published: Monday, September 14th, 2015 @ 2:17 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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In 2005, the North Carolina General Assembly established a 35 percent credit for investing in renewable energy. This credit was slated to sunset at the end of 2010. By 2010-11, the Tax Research Division of the Department of Revenue estimated, the credits taken would cost the state $5.65 million...
Published: Wednesday, September 9th, 2015 @ 10:53 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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The rhetorical case for renewable energy seems, at its core, to be this: Why rely on traditional sources that burn expensive energy and emit carbon dioxide when you can replace them with energy freely provided by nature that emits nothing?
Published: Wednesday, August 19th, 2015 @ 4:22 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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New research from the Institute for Energy Research shows more than ever before how the Obama administration's approach to energy policy is fulfilling the president's 2008 vision of "necessarily skyrocket[ing]" electricity rates.
Published: Sunday, July 19th, 2015 @ 7:20 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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In two previous articles, we examined how Republican political consultants in North Carolina have pushed the agenda of Big Solar - the solar power companies and their millionaire owners - in order to protect renewable power source mandates, thus driving up electricity bills and hampering the...
Published: Saturday, May 23rd, 2015 @ 3:11 pm
By: Civitas Insitute
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There is currently a bill in the legislature, introduced and sponsored by Representative Chris Millis, that would phase out North Carolina's coercive renewable energy mandates, which were passed in 2007. At the present time, North Carolina requires that utility companies provide 12.5 percent of...
Published: Friday, April 17th, 2015 @ 8:27 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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In the President’s Weekly Address on March 10, 2012, Barack Obama stated, “You and I both know that with only 2% of the world’s oil reserves, we can’t just drill our way to lower gas prices – not when we consume 20% of the world’s oil.
Published: Saturday, March 31st, 2012 @ 9:20 am
By: David Pring-Mill
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