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Early in the morning of June 24, amid a blistering heat wave affecting most of the nation, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) granted a request from Duke Energy Carolinas by issuing an emergency order authorizing Duke to exceed environmental emissions levels if needed
Published: Wednesday, August 20th, 2025 @ 9:58 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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North Carolina also at risk due to RINO Phil Berger's NC Green New Deal - HB951
Published: Thursday, July 31st, 2025 @ 9:05 am
By: John Steed
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how many landowners will get stuck with the cleanup?
Published: Monday, June 23rd, 2025 @ 8:56 pm
By: John Steed
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joins West Virginia and Montana in ending Renewable Portfolio standards
Published: Thursday, April 11th, 2024 @ 11:04 am
By: John Steed
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A solar energy company recently awarded $3 billion by the Biden administration has been accused of scamming elderly people, and Republican leaders in the House and Senate are now asking the Energy Department to provide more details about the deal.
Published: Thursday, December 28th, 2023 @ 9:57 pm
By: Daily Wire
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'an overt dereliction of duty by DOE'
Published: Wednesday, October 19th, 2022 @ 6:34 am
By: Daily Wire
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N.C. AG's office received 270 complaints against Pink Energy, formerly known as Power Home Solar.
Published: Sunday, October 16th, 2022 @ 3:40 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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Critics absolutely roasted Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm after she suggested that lower to middle class Americans could fight the rising cost of living by investing thousands in solar panels and other green energy initiatives.
Published: Friday, September 2nd, 2022 @ 11:56 pm
By: Daily Wire
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same is in store for NC thanks to Biden and to NC RINOs
Published: Monday, August 29th, 2022 @ 2:53 pm
By: John Steed
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How the push to adopt solar energy for homes may ironically lead to dangerous heavy metal contamination
Published: Sunday, July 24th, 2022 @ 9:04 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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wind and solar are expensive and unreliable energy
Published: Friday, June 24th, 2022 @ 8:39 am
By: John Steed
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green energy boondoggle and Russian gas to blame
Published: Wednesday, April 20th, 2022 @ 9:03 am
By: John Steed
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local opposition to wind and solar brings project rejections
Published: Sunday, February 27th, 2022 @ 4:10 pm
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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The N.C. Court of Appeals has affirmed state regulators’ ruling against a proposed solar energy plant for North Carolina.
Published: Wednesday, January 19th, 2022 @ 9:37 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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If your business model requires ongoing subsidies and incentives, your business isn’t selling a product, it’s having to lobby nonstop. ZeroHedge reports on a major new threat to the rooftop solar business in California.
Published: Friday, January 14th, 2022 @ 11:27 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Europe already seeing big price increases from imposition of wind and solar
Published: Wednesday, September 15th, 2021 @ 3:55 am
By: John Steed
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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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As the governor continues to tout an energy policy insistent on wind and solar, lawmakers leverage growth in natural gas and nuclear to meet future demand and lower emissions in a new energy proposal.
Published: Thursday, July 8th, 2021 @ 2:15 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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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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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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State tax credits for solar energy projects made for bad public policy. That doesn’t excuse recent action from the N.C. Revenue Department that denies those credits to solar energy finance companies.
Published: Wednesday, October 23rd, 2019 @ 3:01 am
By: Carolina Journal
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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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A major solar energy financing company says the N.C. Department of Revenue may be breaking the law. The company has formally asked DOR to justify a regulation rejecting state tax credits the company’s clients have claimed.
Published: Wednesday, August 14th, 2019 @ 11:23 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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Gov. Roy Cooper, an advocate for renewable energy whose family leases land for solar farms, is denying tax credits for solar energy investments.
Published: Friday, August 9th, 2019 @ 2:14 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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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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A special legislative investigative panel wants to know if Gov. Roy Cooper was in line to benefit personally from solar energy companies by creating a $57.8 million "slush fund" paid for by Atlantic Coast Pipeline developers.
Published: Thursday, November 15th, 2018 @ 9:44 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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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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This week the administration of President Donald Trump announced a massive tariff against imported solar photovoltaic panels
Published: Wednesday, February 21st, 2018 @ 9:15 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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A three-judge panel of the N.C. Court of Appeals on Tuesday unanimously reversed a Superior Court ruling supporting Currituck County’s authority to block a solar farm
Published: Wednesday, December 20th, 2017 @ 5:02 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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House Bill 589, passed earlier this year by the General Assembly, could put allies of North Carolina’s renewable energy industry somewhat at ease, said Randy Wheeless, a spokesman for Duke Energy, at a Nov. 1 meeting of renewable advocates
Published: Monday, November 13th, 2017 @ 3:36 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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The N.C. Utilities Commission approved a massive Beaufort County solar project in October after the developer relocated the portion of the project that would have surrounded the Terra Ceia Christian School
Published: Tuesday, October 24th, 2017 @ 1:42 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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The Beaufort County Solar Farm Ordinance Committee will hold a meeting from 10:00 AM to 12:00 PM on Monday, September 11, 2017
Published: Friday, September 1st, 2017 @ 11:36 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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