They also show why the General Assembly was wise to put the least-cost and reliable guardrails into law
Published: Tuesday, January 30th, 2024 @ 9:15 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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North Carolina’s no-more-stringent law forbids state environmental agencies from imposing stricter environmental regulations than required by the federal government
Published: Wednesday, January 17th, 2024 @ 2:38 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Democrat Gov. Roy Cooper announced on Wednesday the formation of the North Carolina Climate Action Corps, which will focus on climate issues across the state.
Published: Monday, January 1st, 2024 @ 3:39 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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With a large load forecast and a need for reliable electricity provision, Dominion Energy also balks at closing traditional power plants
Published: Wednesday, November 29th, 2023 @ 12:27 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Duke Energy Corporation has filed its update resource plan with the North Carolina Utilities Commission (NCUC).
Published: Monday, November 6th, 2023 @ 6:50 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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When government decides to buy something, cost increases are sure to follow. One reason is that people are generally less cost-conscious when they’re spending other people’s money. Government decision-makers are people spending revenues collected from other people.
Published: Wednesday, October 18th, 2023 @ 6:25 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Investment from Inflation Reduction Act will help Tribes electrify homes, expand availability of clean energy in Indian Country
Published: Friday, September 8th, 2023 @ 9:07 am
By: Eastern NC NOW Staff
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The North Carolina Utilities Commission’s initial Carbon Plan would close over 9,000 MWs of coal-fired generation by 2035
Published: Monday, July 24th, 2023 @ 7:31 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Under SB 678, North Carolina would recognize this fact about the state's most efficient, reliable electricity source
Published: Saturday, May 20th, 2023 @ 9:29 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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The North Carolina Department of Transportation unveiled its Clean Transportation Plan Wednesday. They say it will reduce greenhouse gas emissions, advance “environmental justice,” and create good-paying jobs tied to clean transportation.
Published: Tuesday, March 21st, 2023 @ 1:20 am
By: Carolina Journal
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The Wall Street Journal on February 16 took careful note of “Europe’s Lesson in Green Hydrogen.” That lesson places significant doubt on hydrogen as the “carbon-neutral fuel of the future”:
Published: Sunday, March 5th, 2023 @ 11:59 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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The plan acknowledges adding more solar and wind generation raises rates and harms job creation
Published: Monday, February 13th, 2023 @ 5:54 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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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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They've already caused Duke to request a large rate hike
Published: Saturday, February 4th, 2023 @ 10:13 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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To meet the law’s requirements of being least-cost while maintaining grid reliability, the Utilities Commission’s initial “Carbon Plan” sees natural gas as a “bridge fuel” until sufficient zero-emissions resources “are available and can replace at scale what gas contributes to the system”
Published: Monday, January 30th, 2023 @ 6:13 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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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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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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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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Gov. Roy Cooper signed an “Memorandum of Understanding” with California Gov. Gavin Newsom to promote “zero-emissions” trucks and buses
Published: Thursday, December 8th, 2022 @ 6:51 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Gov. Roy Cooper has issued a sweeping executive order that directs the state’s Department of Environmental Quality (NCDEQ) to take a number of major actions to mandate increased use of zero-emissions vehicles (ZEVs) among public and private medium-and-heavy duty (MHD) vehicles.
Published: Sunday, November 20th, 2022 @ 2:56 am
By: Carolina Journal
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Market decisions are voluntary and based in buyers and sellers exchanging their own property at prices they mutually agree upon — that is basic economics
Published: Saturday, November 19th, 2022 @ 4:14 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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On May 16, Duke Energy filed the Carolinas Carbon Plan with the N.C. Utilities Commission. The plan calls for N.C. to become "carbon neutral" by 2050.
Published: Thursday, October 6th, 2022 @ 4:54 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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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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As winter approaches, much of Europe considering potentially life-threatening energy restrictions
Published: Wednesday, September 21st, 2022 @ 6:41 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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In an interview with Fox Business, Duke Energy CEO shares where the future of energy is heading for North Carolina
Published: Sunday, August 21st, 2022 @ 12:03 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Most Significant Climate Legislation in U.S. History Delivers for Overburdened Communities
Published: Saturday, August 20th, 2022 @ 5:48 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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By signing the Inflation Reduction Act, President Biden is delivering on his promise to meet the climate crisis and build an economy that works for working families.
Published: Thursday, August 18th, 2022 @ 10:27 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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In 2021 Gov. Cooper ordered the state to develop 2.8 gigawatts (GW) of offshore wind energy resources by 2030 and a whopping 8 GW by 2040
Published: Tuesday, May 31st, 2022 @ 11:24 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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My previous brief discussed Gov. Roy Cooper’s sweeping executive order to change the state’s entire economy and state senators’ letter questioning it.
Published: Thursday, February 24th, 2022 @ 11:18 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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We have written for years about the hidden but manifold environmental dangers posed by electric vehicles
Published: Thursday, January 13th, 2022 @ 10:28 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Gov. Roy Cooper has signed into law House Bill 951, which will change how power companies, namely, Duke Energy, produce energy and how they can charge customers.
Published: Sunday, November 14th, 2021 @ 7:08 am
By: Carolina Journal
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Charlotte Pence Bond writes for the Daily Wire about Biden climate czar John Kerry’s disturbing ideas involving carbon dioxide.
Published: Monday, May 3rd, 2021 @ 6:24 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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