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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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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"With this kind of support at the federal level, it should be a wake-up call for regulatory reform to speed up the permitting process so we can build more nuclear," said SPN Energy Fellow, Amy Cooke.
Published: Thursday, October 26th, 2023 @ 4:36 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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Residents of the Village of Bald Head Island, a small community located off the coast of Brunswick County, are facing a substantial 21% tax hike as part of the recently approved budget by council.
Published: Tuesday, October 3rd, 2023 @ 3:49 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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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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Get ready to see higher electricity bills if the North Carolina Utilities Commission approves a requested price hike by Duke Energy Progress.
Published: Monday, May 15th, 2023 @ 12:18 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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Duke Energy Carolinas wants to increase residential rates for its customers between 16.2 and 16.6% by Sept. 1 and an additional 0.4% by Jan. 1. The utility is also seeking a rate hike for commercial and industrial customers. Rates would increase by 12.1% and 15.2%.
Published: Friday, April 14th, 2023 @ 8:15 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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As the North Carolina Utilities Commission works on a Carbon Plan that would dramatically shape the state’s energy future, the state grew by 133,088 people in 2022 alone, the third fastest-growing state in the nation.
Published: Wednesday, March 15th, 2023 @ 7:51 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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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 Wall Street Journal on February 16 took careful note of “Europe’s Lesson in Green Hydrogen.” That lesson places significant doubt on hydrogen as the “carbon-neutral fuel of the future”:
Published: Sunday, March 5th, 2023 @ 11:59 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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A series of systemic failures in Duke Energy's two utilities triggered outages over Christmas across North Carolina and South Carolina.
Published: Friday, January 20th, 2023 @ 11:50 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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Solar was useful for only a few hours but not available during peak demand
Published: Monday, January 16th, 2023 @ 12:00 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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This winter, North Carolina residents are paying more to heat their homes, and an upcoming decision by the N.C. Utilities Commission (NCUC) could add to the pain.
Published: Wednesday, January 11th, 2023 @ 9:23 am
By: Carolina Journal
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A Brief Analysis and Inquiry
Published: Tuesday, January 10th, 2023 @ 11:12 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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'Guarantees higher bills and colder homes over the winter.'
Published: Friday, January 6th, 2023 @ 3:37 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Gov. Roy Cooper signed an “Memorandum of Understanding” with California Gov. Gavin Newsom to promote “zero-emissions” trucks and buses
Published: Thursday, December 8th, 2022 @ 6:51 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Market decisions are voluntary and based in buyers and sellers exchanging their own property at prices they mutually agree upon — that is basic economics
Published: Saturday, November 19th, 2022 @ 4:14 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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In a late September letter to the N.C. Utilities Commission (NCUC), the Wilmington City Council asked that any path forward on reducing carbon also take into account price and grid reliability.
Published: Wednesday, October 12th, 2022 @ 10:31 am
By: Carolina Journal
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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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Customers Can Keep Their Current 910 Telephone Number
Published: Friday, August 26th, 2022 @ 10:41 pm
By: Eastern NC NOW Staff
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Customers Can Keep Their Current 910 Telephone Number
Published: Monday, February 7th, 2022 @ 3:56 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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On October 13, 2021, Governor Cooper signed into law House Bill 951 (S.L. 2021-165), directing the Commission to take all reasonable steps to achieve reductions in the emissions of carbon dioxide in this State from electric generating facilities owned or operated by certain electric public utilities
Published: Tuesday, February 1st, 2022 @ 10:47 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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The Pipeline Safety Section investigated this incident pursuant to the authority granted to the Commission by North Carolina General Statutes Section 62-50(b)
Published: Friday, May 28th, 2021 @ 10:41 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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The N.C. Utilities Commission on Friday, April 16, issued an order approving a partial rate increase for Duke Energy Progress and a settlement addressing coal ash cleanup costs.
Published: Thursday, April 22nd, 2021 @ 11:42 am
By: Carolina Journal
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As candidates for their respective offices, both Gov. Roy Cooper and Attorney General Josh Stein took bold stands defending electricity consumers from being made to pay for coal ash cleanup costs.
Published: Saturday, February 13th, 2021 @ 4:55 am
By: Carolina Journal
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Elizabeth City could go broke in August if Gov. Roy Cooper doesn’t lift restrictions on utility payments.
Published: Monday, June 22nd, 2020 @ 11:06 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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An executive order giving people a break on utility payments threw local governments across North Carolina into financial havoc.
Published: Friday, June 19th, 2020 @ 5:53 am
By: Carolina Journal
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We can thank North Carolina law — and Gov. Roy Cooper — for the higher bills that come with long-term solar energy contracts Duke has been forced to accept.
Published: Sunday, April 21st, 2019 @ 11:34 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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The state Utility Commission will weigh whether the GenX compound that has polluted the Cape Fear River Basin could contaminate the Wilkinson Solar Plant in the Terra Ceia community of Beaufort County
Published: Saturday, May 26th, 2018 @ 6:25 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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