A new study released today by the John Locke Foundation spells out just how superior nuclear and natural gas are in achieving carbon emission reduction goals for the state.
Published: Thursday, August 5th, 2021 @ 12:29 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Biden wants to bring this to rest of country; Cooper wants to bring it to NC
Published: Wednesday, July 21st, 2021 @ 10:09 am
By: John Steed
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Collin Anderson of the Washington Free Beacon highlights inconvenient facts for solar energy advocates.
Published: Tuesday, April 13th, 2021 @ 2:28 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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CISA is tracking a known compromise involving SolarWinds Orion products that are currently being exploited by a malicious actor.
Published: Saturday, December 26th, 2020 @ 11:05 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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North Carolina’s installed solar power is second only to California’s.
Published: Tuesday, November 3rd, 2020 @ 8:53 am
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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This week Bloomberg Energy issued an attention-grabbing report on a serious waste problem with wind turbines: retired turbine blades are clogging up landfills.
Published: Thursday, March 5th, 2020 @ 4:37 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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In response to a public records request, a document Gov. Roy Cooper said was an email appears to be something else.
Published: Thursday, February 20th, 2020 @ 3:27 am
By: Carolina Journal
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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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There is an unfinished piece of business from Beaufort County's now expired wind and solar farm moratorium.
Published: Monday, November 11th, 2019 @ 8:00 am
By: Conservative Voter
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The dispute between solar energy finance companies and the state’s revenue department has reached court.
Published: Tuesday, October 1st, 2019 @ 9:19 am
By: Carolina Journal
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For the first time, scientists searching for extraterrestrial life have found an exoplanet (a planet outside our solar system) that has water.
Published: Thursday, September 12th, 2019 @ 4:25 pm
By: Daily Wire
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Tax credits claimed by clients of Dan McCready’s solar investment company may be jeopardized by Gov. Roy Cooper’s Department of Revenue.
Published: Wednesday, August 21st, 2019 @ 10:32 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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Meredith Cooper, Gov. Roy Cooper’s sister-in-law, has been listed since April as manager of the company that owns the Cooper family’s Nash County solar farm property. That’s when Meredith filed an annual report with the N.C. Secretary of State.
Published: Monday, July 8th, 2019 @ 6:43 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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Just days after warning of the need to regulate solar panel disposal, Sen. Paul Newton, R-Cabarrus, scrapped his bill for a relaxed version.
Published: Friday, June 21st, 2019 @ 10:18 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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The Senate Committee on Agriculture and Natural and Economic Resources voted Thursday, June 13, to send Senate Bill 568 to the Finance Committee amid protests from some committee members.
Published: Monday, June 17th, 2019 @ 9:16 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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If all the solar panels from industrial-scale electric plants in North Carolina were laid end to end, they would stretch from Raleigh to San Francisco and back nearly four times.
Published: Saturday, June 15th, 2019 @ 1:58 am
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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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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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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Although top national environmental regulators confirmed GenX and related chemical compounds are used to produce solar panel components, they say their research does not prioritize what risks that might pose to the environment and human health
Published: Thursday, September 20th, 2018 @ 12:18 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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The Solar Ordinance Committee meeting that was cancelled for today has been rescheduled for Wednesday, September 19, 2018 at 1:30 PM in the boardroom located at 121 W. 3rd Street, Washington, NC
Published: Monday, September 17th, 2018 @ 1:43 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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The Solar Facility Ordinance Committee will meet Monday, September 17, 2018 at 2:30 PM and Thursday, September 20, 2018 at at 2:30 PM in the boardroom located at 121 W. 3rd St., Washington, NC
Published: Saturday, September 8th, 2018 @ 3:32 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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The Solar Facility Ordinance Committee will meet Monday, August 20, 2018 at 2:30 PM in the boardroom located at 121 W. 3rd St., Washington, NC
Published: Friday, August 10th, 2018 @ 8:57 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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As state and federal agencies investigate GenX in groundwater, Carolina Journal has learned GenX and its family of unregulated emerging contaminants are present in some of the solar panels increasingly dotting North Carolina's landscape
Published: Wednesday, July 25th, 2018 @ 10:46 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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The sun keeps shining on North Carolina's renewable energy investors - at taxpayers' expense
Published: Monday, July 9th, 2018 @ 2:57 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Ohio-based Fifth Third Bank claimed in a March press release it’s the “first Fortune 500 company and first bank to contract for 100 percent renewable power through a single new project.”
Published: Wednesday, June 6th, 2018 @ 9:19 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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