As N.C. lawmakers debate the future of the state’s renewable energy mandate, their discussions have been hampered by misleading information circulated by the N.C. Sustainable Energy Association, a lobbying group for the renewable energy industry.
A new John Locke Foundation Spotlight report dissects flaws in the NCSEA report:
Among the flaws: NCSEA downplays the role of renewable mandates in three of the four “drivers” of higher N.C. electricity costs; dilutes the mandate’s negative impact by measuring electricity prices during years before the mandate took effect; ignores another critical, government-induced driver of electricity costs since 2002; fails to note that the renewable mandate is slated to become more stringent and costly in the coming years; relies on faulty analysis that was discredited publicly two years ago; misleads readers about relative costs of renewable and traditional energy sources; and avoids the impact of shale gas in lowering energy costs in recent years.
Learn more here and by watching the video clip below with report author Jon Sanders.
