threat exists for summer 2024
Published: Saturday, May 18th, 2024 @ 8:08 am
By: John Steed
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replacing dependable coal with intermittant wind and solar may mean blackouts
Published: Sunday, April 28th, 2024 @ 7:36 pm
By: John Steed
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WASHINGTON, N.C. –– Beaufort County officials urge all residents to make necessary preparations and stay alert to updates regarding a cold front that could bring hazardous weather to our region Tuesday and early Wednesday morning.
Published: Tuesday, January 9th, 2024 @ 4:56 pm
By: Eastern NC NOW Staff
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We need more control of these things in Beaufort County
Published: Wednesday, August 9th, 2023 @ 10:49 am
By: John Steed
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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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Japan will continue to purchase Russian crude oil above the $60 per barrel price cap imposed by G7 nations last year.
Published: Wednesday, April 26th, 2023 @ 10:53 am
By: Daily Wire
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Energy Department Secretary Jennifer Granholm gushed about China’s approach to green energy in a Friday interview, saying she hoped that the U.S. could learn from China’s approach.
Published: Sunday, March 19th, 2023 @ 7:23 pm
By: Daily Wire
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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 world faces a serious crisis: one that will ruin whole economies and lead to needless suffering and death. The crisis is related to climate change, but not in the way you’re probably thinking.”
Published: Thursday, March 9th, 2023 @ 1:02 am
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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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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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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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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The cost of charging an electric vehicle in Britain is soaring toward the cost of filling a car with gasoline amid the nation’s energy crisis.
Published: Saturday, October 29th, 2022 @ 3:12 pm
By: Daily Wire
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European banks have conducted stress tests complete with backup generators and dimmed lights to determine whether their operations will be impacted by energy rationing, according to a Wednesday report from Reuters.
Published: Saturday, September 24th, 2022 @ 5:12 pm
By: Daily Wire
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Asset management company BlackRock contends that the Federal Reserve is not effectively maintaining a balance between reducing inflation and avoiding a downturn amid widespread pressure to control higher prices.
Published: Friday, September 23rd, 2022 @ 12:36 am
By: Daily Wire
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On Aug. 16, President Joe Biden signed the “Inflation Reduction Act” into law. So how will North Carolinians be affected by the large, multi-faceted bill?
Published: Tuesday, August 23rd, 2022 @ 6:08 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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was at meeting in Wilmington yesterday to promote offshore wind
Published: Friday, February 4th, 2022 @ 9:48 am
By: John Steed
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intermittent wind and solar energy raise rates for electric customers
Published: Thursday, February 3rd, 2022 @ 10:20 am
By: John Steed
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Chances are pretty good that you don’t have an extra $40,000 to throw away on new government-mandated expenses this year.
Published: Wednesday, July 29th, 2020 @ 4:43 am
By: Carolina Journal
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UNC Hospitals is one step closer to regaining its clean reputation, but concerns remain.
Published: Friday, September 6th, 2019 @ 6:46 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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In its application to build a solar facility on Gov. Roy Cooper’s Nash County property, Durham-based Strata Solar said its generating capacity would be about 5 megawatts.
Published: Sunday, May 26th, 2019 @ 11:37 am
By: Carolina Journal
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Nuclear power advocates are jumping on the climate change bandwagon. They are repackaging the industry as a clean energy alternative, and making a case for government subsidies
Published: Friday, May 11th, 2018 @ 11:08 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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The Atlantic Coast Pipeline cuts a 600-mile underground swath through three states, beginning in Harrison County, West Virginia
Published: Wednesday, January 3rd, 2018 @ 3:55 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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"Since 2012," the Apple web site boasts, "all our data centers have been powered by 100 percent renewable energy sources."
Published: Sunday, January 10th, 2016 @ 11:20 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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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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What do President Barack Obama and a growing number of Republicans in the North Carolina General Assembly have in common? The answer - their love of major solar energy companies - Big Solar, for short.
Published: Thursday, April 23rd, 2015 @ 4:45 am
By: Civitas Insitute
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House Republicans are taking another whack at ending subsidies attached to government-mandated purchases of renewable energy. House Bill 681 would require solar and other "green" power to compete with traditional fuel sources in the government-regulated electricity industry and determine the energy
Published: Saturday, April 18th, 2015 @ 12:19 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Wind projects on the North Carolina coast are meeting resistance from three fronts: concerns over bird kills, worries about military training, and GOP presidential nominee Mitt Romney's opposition to favorable tax treatment for specific industries.
Published: Friday, August 31st, 2012 @ 6:40 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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