Members of the North Carolina General Assembly are back in Raleigh Tuesday to vote on overriding another round of vetoes from Governor Roy Cooper.
Published: Monday, February 5th, 2024 @ 6:40 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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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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On Monday, Gov. Roy Cooper signed seven bills, vetoed two, and let three become law, including the 2023 Appropriations Act, or the state budget, which passed both chambers on Sept. 22.
Published: Friday, January 26th, 2024 @ 7:44 am
By: Carolina Journal
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Gov. Roy Cooper has declared the week of Sept. 25 “Clean Energy Week.” Whether that indicates he will sign Senate Bill 678, “Clean Energy/Other Changes,” remains unclear.
Published: Friday, January 12th, 2024 @ 7:47 am
By: Carolina Journal
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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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So every two months, China adds more coal power than North Carolina can possibly retire
Published: Saturday, November 18th, 2023 @ 1:42 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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RALEIGH: Today, Governor Roy Cooper signed the following bills into law:
Published: Tuesday, November 14th, 2023 @ 3:33 pm
By: Governor's Office
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Breaking Down Locke's Latest Policy Victory
Published: Friday, November 10th, 2023 @ 9:30 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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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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"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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Cooper wants expensive and unreliable wind and solar
Published: Tuesday, October 3rd, 2023 @ 8:00 am
By: John Steed
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China bribes to Biden family influene pendalling scheme paying off
Published: Saturday, August 19th, 2023 @ 11:50 am
By: John Steed
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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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auto workers union blasts electric vehcile provision in "Inflation Reduction Act"
Published: Wednesday, July 12th, 2023 @ 7:43 am
By: John Steed
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a lesson for North Carolina and its Green New Deal, HB 951
Published: Friday, June 30th, 2023 @ 9:10 am
By: John Steed
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Senate Bill 678, “Promote Clean Energy,” currently in the N.C. House Rules Committee, could pave the way for more investment in nuclear energy in North Carolina.
Published: Saturday, June 24th, 2023 @ 7:33 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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Dr. Jordan B. Peterson noted the harmful effects of closing nuclear power facilities for ideological purposes as Germany shuttered the nation’s remaining nuclear plants and Elon Musk strongly advised against the move.
Published: Saturday, May 27th, 2023 @ 2:56 pm
By: Daily Wire
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North Carolina Democrats and RINOs want to follow same path
Published: Friday, May 26th, 2023 @ 11:05 am
By: John Steed
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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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Germany will shutter the nation’s three remaining nuclear energy plants on Saturday, marking an end to the economic bellwether’s utilization of the power source despite threats to energy security posed by the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
Published: Friday, May 19th, 2023 @ 5:17 pm
By: Daily Wire
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Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WV) contended alongside more than three dozen Republican colleagues that the Treasury Department is pressuring state insurance regulators to consider factors linked to the environmental, social, and corporate governance movement, also known as ESG.
Published: Thursday, May 18th, 2023 @ 6:07 pm
By: Daily Wire
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The Environmental Protection Agency released new carbon emissions standards for power plants that burn coal and natural gas, a move which some energy experts and lawmakers caution will decrease power reliability and artificially increase electricity costs for households.
Published: Friday, May 12th, 2023 @ 11:40 pm
By: Daily Wire
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costs of new CO2 restrictions on power plants will be passed on to consumers
Published: Friday, May 12th, 2023 @ 8:39 am
By: John Steed
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China has close ties to green energy group that produced study used
Published: Wednesday, May 10th, 2023 @ 12:16 pm
By: John Steed
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massive increase hit almost overnight - same in store for NC with HB951
Published: Saturday, May 6th, 2023 @ 8:24 am
By: John Steed
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Green agenda strangles country
Published: Wednesday, April 12th, 2023 @ 11:00 am
By: John Steed
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A 5,000-mile-wide bunch of seaweed, roughly twice the width of the United States, is bearing down on the southwest coast of Florida, where residents may suffer respiratory problems as a result.
Published: Monday, March 20th, 2023 @ 10:53 pm
By: Daily Wire
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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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wind / solar mandates include NC's Greeen New Deal, HB951
Published: Wednesday, March 1st, 2023 @ 4:58 pm
By: John Steed
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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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