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joins West Virginia and Montana in ending Renewable Portfolio standards
Published: Thursday, April 11th, 2024 @ 11:04 am
By: John Steed
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BlackRock CEO Larry Fink told investors on Wednesday that the asset management company views climate change as a risk to portfolio companies.
Published: Thursday, March 23rd, 2023 @ 11:13 pm
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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Crucially, the law requires that the plan approved by the UC must, with emphasis added:
Published: Thursday, September 22nd, 2022 @ 1:05 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Published: Thursday, March 15th, 2018 @ 10:45 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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Many of us have a 401-k plan, a pension or private investment portfolio. We often seek investment advice from stock brokers, money managers, newsletters, tips from friends or our own research, but none of us has a $93 billion investment portfolio like the Teachers and State Employees Retirement Fund
Published: Friday, August 11th, 2017 @ 9:42 am
By: Tom Campbell
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A new study authored by energy expert Dr. Timothy Considine of the University of Wyoming finds that North Carolina's 12 percent renewable portfolio standard (RPS) will increase electricity prices by 42 percent by 2020, and cost the Tar Heel State up to 50,000 jobs.
Published: Tuesday, November 15th, 2016 @ 7:52 pm
By: Civitas Insitute
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In the Tar Heel State, government mandates require that 12.5 percent of electricity must come from wind, solar, and other forms of renewable energy by 2021.
Published: Friday, September 30th, 2016 @ 11:02 pm
By: Civitas Insitute
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Published: Thursday, September 29th, 2016 @ 3:26 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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Today, the Civitas Institute released a new study authored by energy expert Dr. Timothy Considine of the University of Wyoming, which finds that North Carolina’s 12 percent renewable portfolio standard (RPS) will increase electricity prices by 42 percent by 2020 and destroy 50,000 jobs by 2020
Published: Monday, September 26th, 2016 @ 4:48 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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North Carolina taxpayers are about to get stuck with a big bill - if the General Assembly continues the state's "Renewable Energy Portfolio Standard" (REPS) and renewable energy tax credit policies.
Published: Thursday, September 3rd, 2015 @ 7:09 pm
By: Civitas Insitute
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North Carolinians are forced to pay twice to prop up the state's renewable energy lobby: once in the form of higher taxes and again for higher electric bills to support a Renewable Energy Portfolio Standard (REPS).
Published: Thursday, August 20th, 2015 @ 6:15 am
By: Civitas Insitute
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As the name implies, North Carolina's 2007 renewable energy and energy-efficiency portfolio standards, REPS, mandate involves a portion of energy efficiency. As described in a 2008 John Locke Foundation report on the subject, the belief from the start was that the...
Published: Tuesday, July 14th, 2015 @ 10:42 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Two of three drivers of higher electricity costs in North Carolina are renewable energy investments by utilities and the Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency Portfolio Standards (REPS) mandate, according to a new report released by the North Carolina Sustainable Energy Association (NCSEA).
Published: Tuesday, June 2nd, 2015 @ 11:15 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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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."
Published: Tuesday, May 26th, 2015 @ 5:58 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Renewable energy lobbyists wailed that the mere appearance of a bill to repeal North Carolina's renewable energy portfolio standards mandate "dramatically disrupts" investment and jobs in renewable energy and "sends shock waves" through the industry.
Published: Monday, April 27th, 2015 @ 7:19 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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In 2013, RTI International teamed with LaCapra Associates to report on "The Economic, Utility Portfolio, and Rate Impact of Clean Energy Development in North Carolina." Prepared for the North Carolina Sustainable Energy Association (NCSEA), the report made fantastic findings that North Carolina's...
Published: Sunday, April 5th, 2015 @ 2:03 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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A new study this week estimated that North Carolina's Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency Portfolio Standards (RPS) has increased electricity costs by $276 million, and that the bulk of those costs are concentrated on commercial electricity consumers and residential consumers...
Published: Tuesday, March 24th, 2015 @ 12:03 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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North Carolina's renewable energy portfolio standards (RPS) survived an attempt to cap and end the mandate last year as crony politics won out over protection of poor ratepayers.
Published: Saturday, February 15th, 2014 @ 12:47 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Skyrocketing tuitions. Degree inflation. Politicized curriculums. Lowered job expectations upon graduation. Higher education in America is tangled with problems to such a degree that many have started to ask the question: is getting a traditional college education still worth it? So far, most...
Published: Friday, September 27th, 2013 @ 1:45 pm
By: John William Pope Center
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Is state spending on education an investment or a political payoff? Critics of the North Carolina state budget just approved by...
Published: Sunday, July 28th, 2013 @ 5:23 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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A bill allowing the treasurer more leeway to invest the state pension plan in riskier portfolios is set tonight for its first Senate floor vote.
Published: Tuesday, May 7th, 2013 @ 12:56 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Published: Monday, April 15th, 2013 @ 10:25 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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After two hours of discussion and comment earlier this afternoon, a measure freezing the state’s renewable energy portfolio standard squeaked through a House Commerce subcommittee...
Published: Sunday, April 7th, 2013 @ 1:35 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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In 2007, the General Assembly passed major energy legislation, SB 3, that would deliberately raise electricity prices in North Carolina through a Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency Portfolio Standard (RPS)
Published: Saturday, March 30th, 2013 @ 10:39 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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A bill currently before the state House, H.B. 298, introduced by Rep. Mike Hager, would eliminate North Carolina's renewable energy portfolio standards (RPS) -- a state mandate that requires electric utilities to provide 7.5 percent of their power from renewable energy sources...
Published: Tuesday, March 26th, 2013 @ 9:48 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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In 2007 the North Carolina General Assembly passed far-reaching electricity regulations, typically referred to as Senate Bill 3. At the heart of this bill is a 12.5 percent "renewable energy and energy efficiency portfolio standard."
Published: Friday, October 26th, 2012 @ 11:01 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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