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Advocating for making energy more affordable and reliable, Locke provides groundbreaking research and policy proposals that looks to halt the government’s destructive green energy transition.
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Energy
Mere Minutes: What ‘China Carbon Time’ Means for North Carolinians
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…
Research Brief
Energy
When Is ‘China Carbon Time’ for Your State?
The U.S. is leading the world in cutting CO2 emissions even as China keeps increasing theirs, but environmental activists, politicians, and renewable energy producers are pushing the states to adopt…
Energy
Biden Takes George III’s Imperial Approach to Regulation
Along with being one of the greatest documents for human liberty ever created, the Declaration of Independence provided an extensive list of how King George III had abused and usurped…
Energy
Policy Pizza: The Significant Center for Food, Power, and Life.
On this week’s Policy Pizza, Jon Sanders introduces us to his latest work as well as what’s happening at the John Locke Foundation’s Center for Food, Power, and Life. Right-to-Work…
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Energy
There’s Nothing “Market-Driven” About Cooper’s Trucking Order
Market decisions are voluntary and based in buyers and sellers exchanging their own property at prices they mutually agree upon — that is basic economics. Using executive orders, taxpayer money,…
Energy
How to Blow Over a Third of Trillion Dollars for Nothing but “Virtue”
The e U.S. has cut more CO2 emissions than any other nation, but China has increased its CO2 emissions by five times the amount cut by the U.S.
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Energy
Hurricane Winds Can Destroy Offshore Wind Turbines
Research has estimated that nearly half the turbines in wind facilities placed in the most vulnerable areas — including the hurricane-prone waters of North Carolina — would face destruction from…
Research Brief
Energy
A Decarbonization Portfolio Must Be Low-Cost and Reliable
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…
Energy
Fear Congressional Regulation, Not the Speech
On September 14, 2022, Locke CEO Amy Cooke testified before U.S. House Committee on Natural Resources Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations regarding the importance of free and open debate in…
Energy
CNN’s Incomplete Thought About “Savings” at the Pump
Paying much higher prices for gas, groceries, and your power bills since 2021 means having to “think of it” as a $225-a-month tax hike.
Energy
Estimated Impacts to Cost and Reliability of Duke’s Portfolio 4
Portfolio 4, like the other three portfolios, would rely heavily on new solar, but it ties with Portfolio 3 for the largest proposed addition of new nuclear capacity. It would add much…
Energy
Estimated Impacts to Cost and Reliability of Duke’s Portfolio 3
Portfolio 3, like the other three portfolios, would rely heavily on new solar, but it ties with Portfolio 4 for the largest proposed addition of new nuclear capacity and would be less…