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As North Carolina prepares for a major winter storm that will likely be a primarily ice event, Duke Energy says it is well prepared for it.
Published: Sunday, January 25th, 2026 @ 11:26 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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Holiday lights bring cheer and joy, until the electric bill arrives at the end of the month. However, Duke Energy, the largest energy company in North Carolina, offers tips to help its customers reduce their utility usage and minimize the impact on their monthly bills.
Published: Monday, December 8th, 2025 @ 4:39 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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allows Duke to operate coal plants at full capacity to guarantee electricity
Published: Tuesday, June 24th, 2025 @ 9:07 pm
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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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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Republican presidential candidate Ron DeSantis unveiled his energy agenda during an event in Midland, Texas, on Wednesday, promising that his policies will bring back $2 gas and turn the United States into the world’s leading energy producer.
Published: Friday, September 29th, 2023 @ 8:08 pm
By: Daily Wire
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just in time for hurricane season
Published: Sunday, July 23rd, 2023 @ 9:09 am
By: John Steed
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Get ready to see higher electricity bills if the North Carolina Utilities Commission approves a requested price hike by Duke Energy Progress.
Published: Monday, May 15th, 2023 @ 12:18 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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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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On Wednesday, the North Carolina House passed a bill that would prohibit local governments from blocking consumers from certain types of energy sources, by a vote of 76-38.
Published: Wednesday, April 5th, 2023 @ 8:24 am
By: Carolina Journal
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NC Dept. of Ag has 278 vacancies, with a turnover rate of 19%.
Published: Sunday, April 2nd, 2023 @ 2:23 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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In a recent post, I discussed the sudden war on gas-fired stoves and appliances being waged by environmental extremists in government, not just in the Biden administration but even in many cities and counties and some states, too.
Published: Tuesday, March 21st, 2023 @ 12:56 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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As the North Carolina Utilities Commission works on a Carbon Plan that would dramatically shape the state’s energy future, the state grew by 133,088 people in 2022 alone, the third fastest-growing state in the nation.
Published: Wednesday, March 15th, 2023 @ 7:51 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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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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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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North Carolina Attorney General Josh Stein officially kicked off the state’s 2024 race for governor Wednesday morning throwing his hat in the ring by tweeting out a video that takes aim squarely at N.C.’s current lieutenant governor, and possible opponent, Mark Robinson.
Published: Monday, February 6th, 2023 @ 5:00 am
By: Carolina Journal
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How following California’s disastrous policies on electric vehicles will likely lead the state to ruin
Published: Sunday, January 29th, 2023 @ 12:56 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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On Friday, the North Carolina Utilities Commission (NCUC) released its long-awaited Carbon Plan, which aims to significantly reduce carbon emissions by 2030 and reach carbon neutrality by 2050.
Published: Saturday, January 21st, 2023 @ 9:51 am
By: Carolina Journal
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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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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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The New-Normaling Process in General
Published: Sunday, January 15th, 2023 @ 7:00 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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House Republicans, who are now in control of the legislative body, voted Monday evening to cut billions of dollars to the Internal Revenue Service after the agency received a significant boost in funding in the Democrats’ Inflation Reduction Act.
Published: Saturday, January 14th, 2023 @ 4:01 pm
By: Daily Wire
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solar is intermittent source of power unlike steady nuclear, coal, and gas
Published: Saturday, January 14th, 2023 @ 10:38 am
By: John Steed
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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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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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Despite an economy on the brink of recession, Congress to vote on bill filled with pointless pork
Published: Saturday, January 7th, 2023 @ 6:35 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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'Guarantees higher bills and colder homes over the winter.'
Published: Friday, January 6th, 2023 @ 3:37 pm
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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In the name of “fighting climate change,” forcing Gov. Roy Cooper’s reductions in North Carolina’s electricity-based CO2 emissions would cost $141.7 billion to $162.3 billion, raise household electricity bills by well over a thousand dollars per year, and risk capacity shortfalls and rolling blackou
Published: Thursday, December 22nd, 2022 @ 8:12 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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A law passed in 2021 required that the “decarbonization” plan approved by the state Utilities Commission to be reasonable, set forth the least-cost path to compliance, and maintain or improve grid adequacy and reliability
Published: Saturday, October 8th, 2022 @ 1:08 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen spoke Tuesday in the Triangle about the promises of reducing climate change through the Inflation Reduction Act.
Published: Thursday, October 6th, 2022 @ 9:59 am
By: Carolina Journal
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House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) rolled out a new agenda for House Republicans that he said the conference will pursue should they retake control of the chamber after the midterm elections in November.
Published: Sunday, September 25th, 2022 @ 8:16 pm
By: Daily Wire
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