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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With a large load forecast and a need for reliable electricity provision, Dominion Energy also balks at closing traditional power plants
Published: Wednesday, November 29th, 2023 @ 12:27 am
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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While states consider enormously expensive plans to rework their entire electricity systems to cut CO2 emissions, energy-based emissions are still increasing across most of the world, especially China
Published: Wednesday, November 8th, 2023 @ 5:56 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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RALEIGH: Today, Governor Roy Cooper visited Fayetteville Technical Community College (FTCC) to celebrate Clean Energy Week and highlight the community college’s innovative military workforce training programs.
Published: Wednesday, November 8th, 2023 @ 8:46 am
By: Governor's Office
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RALEIGH: Today, Governor Roy Cooper has proclaimed September 25 – 29, 2023 as Clean Energy Week to highlight the state’s progress in transitioning to a clean energy future.
Published: Tuesday, November 7th, 2023 @ 3:52 am
By: Governor's Office
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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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When government decides to buy something, cost increases are sure to follow. One reason is that people are generally less cost-conscious when they’re spending other people’s money. Government decision-makers are people spending revenues collected from other people.
Published: Wednesday, October 18th, 2023 @ 6:25 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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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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On Wednesday, the North Carolina House passed a bill that would transfer some appointment powers from the governor to other members of the executive branch and the General Assembly.
Published: Wednesday, July 19th, 2023 @ 9:35 am
By: Carolina Journal
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RALEIGH: Governor Roy Cooper announced nominations to boards and commissions today.
Published: Monday, May 29th, 2023 @ 11:49 pm
By: Governor's Office
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Under SB 678, North Carolina would recognize this fact about the state's most efficient, reliable electricity source
Published: Saturday, May 20th, 2023 @ 9:29 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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NC State researchers in 2016 found that 80 percent of North Carolina beachgoers would either not return to a beach rental if wind turbines were visible — or require an unreasonable discount for spoiled views
Published: Saturday, May 6th, 2023 @ 3:40 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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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 push for electric vehicles in North Carolina and across the country may be the step that broke the “power grid’s back,” according to a new report.
Published: Saturday, March 11th, 2023 @ 3:37 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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Duke Energy hopes that the North Carolina Utilities Commission will approve two proposed renewable energy plans for businesses and consumers.
Published: Monday, February 13th, 2023 @ 6:42 am
By: Carolina Journal
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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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Officials from renewable energy entities held a meeting recently to discuss the rolling blackouts that left thousands in North and South Carolina without power over the Christmas holidays and what can be done to avoid them in the future.
Published: Saturday, February 11th, 2023 @ 4:44 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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Deep Decarbonization Pathways Analysis highlights significant opportunities to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and deploy clean energy solutions across the state
Published: Monday, February 6th, 2023 @ 8:49 pm
By: Governor's Office
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HB951, pushed by RINOs, already causing pain
Published: Sunday, February 5th, 2023 @ 9:08 am
By: John Steed
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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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A Brief Analysis and Inquiry
Published: Tuesday, January 10th, 2023 @ 11:12 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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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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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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