The Cooper administration’s announcement of a “Memorandum of Understanding” with the nation of Denmark to share “knowledge, data, and best practices” over offshore wind energy development predictably set their media acolytes abuzz.
Published: Sunday, March 12th, 2023 @ 12:15 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Policymakers in the United States are focused on a renewable energy transition despite the geopolitical and economic risks that emerge from a lack of reliable and cheap power sources.
Published: Saturday, March 11th, 2023 @ 7:27 pm
By: Daily Wire
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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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It’s an axiom as old as history. “Those who have no power want it, and those who have power want more of it.” The current power struggles in North Carolina politics are proof of the truth.
Published: Monday, March 6th, 2023 @ 12:28 am
By: Tom Campbell
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Vice President Kamala Harris claimed on Wednesday that the Biden administration has decreased electricity prices for American families even as data indicate the exact opposite.
Published: Friday, March 3rd, 2023 @ 2:02 am
By: Daily Wire
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James O’Keefe announced a break with Project Veritas, the investigative group he founded, while hinting at a new journalism venture in the future.
Published: Monday, February 27th, 2023 @ 1:32 pm
By: Daily Wire
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Florida Governor Ron DeSantis is advocating for breaking up the federal government’s heavy presence in Washington, D.C., by moving agencies across the country.
Published: Sunday, February 26th, 2023 @ 8:55 pm
By: Daily Wire
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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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Manufacturer of Electric Vehicle Charging Stations Selects Durham County for New Production FacilityKempower will invest $41 million and create 300 jobs
Published: Thursday, February 9th, 2023 @ 9:19 pm
By: Governor's Office
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The North Carolina State Constitution unequivocally declares, “The legislative, executive, and supreme judicial powers shall be forever separate and distinct from each other”
Published: Thursday, February 9th, 2023 @ 2:43 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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How Gov. Roy Cooper’s green energy policies could devastate North Carolina’s energy generation
Published: Tuesday, February 7th, 2023 @ 2:21 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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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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The director of the National Intelligence Agency (NSA) asked Congress on Thursday to reauthorize a controversial surveillance power aimed at foreign nationals that can expose the communications of Americans.
Published: Wednesday, January 18th, 2023 @ 7:47 pm
By: Daily Wire
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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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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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Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell said that the central bank will refrain from advancing social policy, especially with respect to climate change.
Published: Sunday, January 15th, 2023 @ 10:50 am
By: Daily Wire
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Donna King, Carolina Journal editor-in-chief, discusses reaction to the recent Moore County power outage, which stemmed from intentional damage to two Duke Energy substations.
Published: Thursday, January 12th, 2023 @ 10:15 am
By: Carolina Journal
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For years we have been warning about the dangers of replacing readily available, highly efficient, working power plants with highly expensive, extremely unreliable “renewable” sources — solar and wind — that can produce power only when conditions allow and without respect for the needs of people.
Published: Wednesday, January 11th, 2023 @ 9:39 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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North Carolinians deserve reliable, sustainable electricity at a reasonable cost, but because of increasingly severe weather and aging fossil fuel plants, that result could be less certain
Published: Wednesday, January 11th, 2023 @ 7:58 am
By: Governor's Office
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Officials estimate that potential rolling blackouts could cause mass death across the continent
Published: Tuesday, January 10th, 2023 @ 12:08 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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Duke Energy announced Thursday that crews have restored power to all customers in Moore County and the surrounding counties affected by an attack on Saturday on two major substations.
Published: Saturday, January 7th, 2023 @ 9:41 am
By: Carolina Journal
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North Carolina Insurance Commissioner and State Fire Marshal Mike Causey called for more security at state power substations this week following the vandalization in Moore County that left tens of thousands of people in the dark for four days.
Published: Friday, January 6th, 2023 @ 4:26 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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RALEIGH: Today, Governor Cooper and staff from the Governor’s Office met with officials from Duke Energy to ask questions about the causes of power outages over the Christmas holiday, December 24, 25, and 26, and understand utility leaders’ plans to avoid similar outages
Published: Friday, January 6th, 2023 @ 10:07 am
By: Governor's Office
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More than one million homes and businesses have lost power as a severe winter storm sweeps the United States.
Published: Wednesday, January 4th, 2023 @ 5:26 pm
By: Daily Wire
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As 35,000 residents of Moore County remain without power, questions are being raised about what lawmakers in the General Assembly could do next year to address physical sabotage of the power grid or cyber-attacks.
Published: Tuesday, January 3rd, 2023 @ 2:32 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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The eyes of the entire world were on Kiev in the north and the artillery duel around Bakhmut to the east, as outnumbered and outgunned Ukrainian army units that chose to stand and fight were decimated by long-range Russian missile strikes.
Published: Sunday, January 1st, 2023 @ 2:30 pm
By: The Correspondent
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The Federal Bureau of Investigation has joined the case of widespread power outages across Moore County over the weekend.
Published: Wednesday, December 28th, 2022 @ 6:30 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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The Moore County Sheriff’s office held a press conference Sunday afternoon to update the public on widespread power outages this weekend impacting 40,000 homes and businesses across the sandhills region of central North Carolina.
Published: Wednesday, December 28th, 2022 @ 8:04 am
By: Carolina Journal
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NASA’s InSight lander shared one final selfie posted on Monday before losing power, likely ending its mission that started in 2018.
Published: Monday, December 26th, 2022 @ 9:38 am
By: Daily Wire
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The attack on the Moore County substation that left over 45,000 homes and businesses without powers for days was one in a recent string of such attacks. Worse, such attacks have increased tremendously just this year alone.
Published: Sunday, December 25th, 2022 @ 4:25 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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