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Energy poverty is a serious issue. Research shows that higher energy prices cost lives.
Published: Friday, May 15th, 2020 @ 8:48 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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North Carolina had held the title “second in solar” for a few years now, but that title does not come cheap.
Published: Wednesday, May 13th, 2020 @ 2:42 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Bloomberg Energy this month issued an attention-grabbing report on a serious waste problem with wind turbines: Retired turbine blades are clogging up landfills.
Published: Thursday, February 20th, 2020 @ 2:51 am
By: Carolina Journal
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It's a feature in reporting about solar energy to discuss how dramatically its costs have declined.
Published: Monday, December 30th, 2019 @ 7:35 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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We can thank North Carolina law — and Gov. Roy Cooper — for the higher bills that come with long-term solar energy contracts Duke has been forced to accept.
Published: Sunday, April 21st, 2019 @ 11:34 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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Passage of House Bill 589 this year brought major changes to energy policy in North Carolina
Published: Monday, January 1st, 2018 @ 6:39 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Gov. Roy Cooper announced Wednesday that North Carolina would join 13 states and Puerto Rico in the U.S. Climate Alliance, a coalition opposed to President Trump's withdrawal from the Paris Agreement on climate change
Published: Tuesday, September 26th, 2017 @ 3:32 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Recently enacted North Carolina renewable energy regulations to control costs and help green energy flourish will be a model other states embrace. Or don't
Published: Friday, August 18th, 2017 @ 5:24 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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The 2017 legislative long session is over. Kind of. In the wee hours of June 30, on the eve of the new fiscal year, the General Assembly adjourned, only to schedule encore sessions in August and September
Published: Sunday, July 30th, 2017 @ 5:49 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Governor Roy Cooper released the following statement on HB 589
Published: Wednesday, June 7th, 2017 @ 12:56 am
By: Governor's Office
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The Nash County Republican sat through two legislative meetings in two weeks hearing Duke Energy officials describe subsidies and carve-outs handed over to the solar energy industry at taxpayer expense
Published: Thursday, March 23rd, 2017 @ 5:46 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Internet giant Google collected $262 million in incentives when it located a data center in North Carolina, and now is urging the General Assembly to continue offering hundreds of millions of dollars in subsidies to renewable energy investors.
Published: Wednesday, July 1st, 2015 @ 3:44 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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North Carolina utility customers would face $100 million annual rate increases for 15 years if all renewable energy facilities now under consideration were online and complied fully with a 1978 federal law requiring utilities to buy electricity from those more expensive renewable sources, a...
Published: Wednesday, January 15th, 2014 @ 9:25 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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As you know, this is an issue of not only statewide importance, but it is particularly significant to NC coastal taxpayers, ratepayers, businesses, environment, and the military.
Published: Sunday, December 22nd, 2013 @ 4:02 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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