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Officials from renewable energy entities held a meeting recently to discuss the rolling blackouts that left thousands in North and South Carolina without power over the Christmas holidays and what can be done to avoid them in the future.
Published: Saturday, February 11th, 2023 @ 4:44 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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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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Avangrid Renewables wants to erect 69 wind turbines, spread out over 50,000 acres, 27 miles offshore of Corolla, North Carolina.
Published: Monday, October 4th, 2021 @ 4:43 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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Today, U.S. Senator Thom Tillis (R-NC) issued the following statement following the U.S. Solar Market Insight Report from Wood Mackenzie Power & Renewables and the Solar Energy Industries Association (SEIA) that section 201 solar tariffs played a role in the decline of utility-scale solar
Published: Thursday, December 20th, 2018 @ 12:41 am
By: Thom Tillis
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The News & Observer recently ran an op-ed from Froma Harrop arguing that renewable energy has become competitive with traditional energy resources
Published: Monday, February 12th, 2018 @ 8:26 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Two highly regarded Republican political consultants told an audience of state lawmakers, lobbyists, and renewable-energy entrepreneurs Tuesday they should consider government intervention into the renewable energy market a "slam dunk" conservative issue that wins at the ballot box
Published: Tuesday, May 23rd, 2017 @ 9:18 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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CLF filed suit against the NC Department of Environmental Quality on behalf of county residents Stephen Owens and Jillanne Gigi Badawi, alleging that they were aggrieved by the agency's determination that Iberdrola Renewables' Amazon Wind Farm East was not subject to state permitting standards.
Published: Saturday, January 9th, 2016 @ 9:39 pm
By: Civitas Insitute
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Despite earlier claims by Iberdrola Renewables officials that the $400 million, 300-megawatt Amazon Wind Farm that will cover 22 acres near Elizabeth City would be built totally from company funds, another Iberdrola official says the project requires some tax incentives to be viable economically.
Published: Monday, October 19th, 2015 @ 9:09 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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For those of us who have been fighting to eliminate solar and other renewable energy subsidies from the burden being born by North Carolina's taxpayers, the new state budget is very welcome. As of January 1, the 35 percent tax credit for renewables in general and solar in particular, by far the...
Published: Saturday, September 19th, 2015 @ 5:18 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Governor Pat McCrory will join leaders from Iberdrola Renewables and Amazon tomorrow to break ground on North Carolina’s first commercial-scale wind energy facility, Amazon Wind Farm U.S. East.
Published: Tuesday, July 14th, 2015 @ 11:10 pm
By: McCrory Communications
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Opponents of the state's preferential treatment of renewable energy sources said North Carolina ratepayers should be relieved by the passage of House Bill 760 by a 77-32 vote on Wednesday after numerous delays, repeated compromises, and contentious debate.
Published: Wednesday, May 13th, 2015 @ 1:43 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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North Carolina consumers would have saved $4.2 billion since 2007 if mandates on electric power utilities to purchase expensive renewable energy had not driven costs well above the U.S. average, said a nationally recognized energy and environmental policy analyst.
Published: Wednesday, April 23rd, 2014 @ 2:45 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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Over the last several years there have been a great many claims about energy subsidies and which sources get more, renewables or traditional sources like coal or oil.
Published: Sunday, November 17th, 2013 @ 3:33 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Gov. Pat McCrory, speaking recently to the Appalachian Energy Summit in Boone, subtly and without fanfare dropped what has to be considered a...
Published: Tuesday, July 30th, 2013 @ 6:42 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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