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North Carolina Secretary of Commerce Machelle Baker Sanders announced Wednesday that the state has entered into an international agreement with Denmark to advance its offshore wind energy production.
Published: Sunday, March 19th, 2023 @ 9:38 am
By: Carolina Journal
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Policymakers in the United States are focused on a renewable energy transition despite the geopolitical and economic risks that emerge from a lack of reliable and cheap power sources.
Published: Saturday, March 11th, 2023 @ 7:27 pm
By: Daily Wire
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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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The belief that North Carolina’s electricity-based CO2 emissions are still going up is wrong; they’ve fallen by 46.1 percent since 2005
Published: Thursday, March 9th, 2023 @ 6:26 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Vice President Kamala Harris claimed on Wednesday that the Biden administration has decreased electricity prices for American families even as data indicate the exact opposite.
Published: Friday, March 3rd, 2023 @ 2:02 am
By: Daily Wire
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wind / solar mandates include NC's Greeen New Deal, HB951
Published: Wednesday, March 1st, 2023 @ 4:58 pm
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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North Carolinians deserve reliable, sustainable electricity at a reasonable cost, but because of increasingly severe weather and aging fossil fuel plants, that result could be less certain
Published: Wednesday, January 11th, 2023 @ 7:58 am
By: Governor's Office
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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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Five electricity substations in Oregon and Washington were targeted in November, according to three energy companies who reported the attacks to the FBI.
Published: Wednesday, December 14th, 2022 @ 1:19 am
By: Daily Wire
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FBI Looking Into Northwest Electricity Substations Attacks
Published: Monday, December 12th, 2022 @ 12:24 am
By: Daily Wire
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this is a lesson for NC as Cooper and RINOs want to end coal for us
Published: Thursday, October 6th, 2022 @ 8:39 pm
By: John Steed
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As green energy is failing around the world, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) is claiming credit for the Democratic Party’s embrace of climate change chicanery as found in President Joe Biden’s legislative agenda.
Published: Saturday, September 24th, 2022 @ 10:07 pm
By: Daily Wire
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As residents of Great Britain suffer from soaring natural gas and electricity costs, new Prime Minister Liz Truss sounded the call for producing more energy through opening the North Sea for oil drilling and building more nuclear power plants.
Published: Saturday, September 24th, 2022 @ 9:59 pm
By: Daily Wire
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Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-CA) reminded residents of the Golden State to reduce power consumption on Tuesday to avoid blackouts less than two months after he mocked Texas for similar problems.
Published: Thursday, September 22nd, 2022 @ 11:46 pm
By: Daily Wire
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Local man Davis Hoffman has decided to take his fiancée out for nice, romantic dinner lit by lightbulb light — a special treat currently unavailable in California.
Published: Thursday, September 22nd, 2022 @ 10:29 am
By: Babylon Bee
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Hey there, person! Are you still using electricity? We all know electricity makes the earth cry, which is why California recently banned it altogether.
Published: Monday, September 19th, 2022 @ 1:27 am
By: Babylon Bee
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Governor Gavin Newsom has declared a power grid emergency due to energy usage being at a 5-year high.
Published: Sunday, September 18th, 2022 @ 12:23 am
By: Babylon Bee
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Days ago, officials in California unveiled a plan to phase out new gas-powered cars. Now, officials are asking residents to avoid charging their electric vehicles in the interest of not overwhelming the power grid.
Published: Sunday, September 11th, 2022 @ 8:28 am
By: Daily Wire
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The question isn’t whether a massive buildout of offshore wind capacity off North Carolina beaches would lead to fewer jobs and less economic growth than otherwise, but how extensive the losses would be
Published: Tuesday, August 23rd, 2022 @ 9:55 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Gov. Cooper’s desire for building 8 gigawatts (GW) of offshore wind in North Carolina would have severe impacts on our electricity bills
Published: Monday, June 20th, 2022 @ 5:09 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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risk of blackouts also peaking
Published: Tuesday, June 14th, 2022 @ 12:51 pm
By: John Steed
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An internet café in New York City is asking customers for donations to pay for skyrocketing electricity bills.
Published: Sunday, February 27th, 2022 @ 2:23 pm
By: Daily Wire
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Real Clear Energy tells the tale on EU's self-made energy crisis
Published: Wednesday, February 16th, 2022 @ 10:48 am
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 Taliban has stopped paying foreign electricity providers, leaving Kabul, Afghanistan, on the verge of a blackout.
Published: Monday, November 15th, 2021 @ 1:58 pm
By: Daily Wire
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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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Here in North Carolina, in this century, per-capita carbon dioxide emissions from energy generation are down over 50 percent. We are witnessing falling emissions even as we are one of the nation's fastest-growth states.
Published: Wednesday, November 13th, 2019 @ 10:53 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Socialist Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's (D-NY) "Green New Deal" - a massive government takeover of large portions of the U.S. economy - is projected to cost up to $93 trillion.
Published: Monday, March 4th, 2019 @ 10:54 am
By: Daily Wire
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If the beneficial effects of the Trump tax cut result in the North Carolina Utilities Commission deciding to lower electricity rates, that will be good news for electricity consumers
Published: Thursday, February 8th, 2018 @ 12:56 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Electricity is a basic human need. I think people already knew that on an abstract level, but widespread and long-term power outages after Hurricane Matthew made it more personal
Published: Friday, December 9th, 2016 @ 3:21 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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A novel justification for governments heavily subsidizing otherwise unsustainable, expensive, inefficient renewable energy is to argue that all energy sources get subsidies. The general assertion is true as far as that goes. Still, the argument is often used as a variant of...
Published: Friday, January 8th, 2016 @ 11:16 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Solar energy is said to be renewable because it is "naturally replenished." One source defines solar power as renewable because "there is an endless supply." But the truth of the matter is that in any meaningful technological, economic, or practical sense solar is anything but renewable...
Published: Wednesday, January 6th, 2016 @ 1:19 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Two of three drivers of higher electricity costs in North Carolina are renewable energy investments by utilities and the Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency Portfolio Standards (REPS) mandate, according to a new report released by the North Carolina Sustainable Energy Association (NCSEA).
Published: Tuesday, June 2nd, 2015 @ 11:15 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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