After years of gearing electricity policy to political choices apart from affordability and reliability of service, policymakers in North Carolina are becoming concerned about rising power bills. Electricity is a…
AN ACT TO ENSURE RETIRING BASELOAD ELECTRIC GENERATING CAPACITY IS REPLACED WITH AN EQUAL OR GREATER AMOUNT OF NEW BASELOAD ELECTRIC GENERATING CAPACITY Whereas, electricity is a basic human need;…
In a bipartisan vote on July 29, the North Carolina General Assembly passed Senate Bill (SB) 266, “The Power Bill Reduction Act,” over Gov. Josh Stein’s veto. The bill eliminates…
From the outset, North Carolina utilities law has required electricity provision to be least-cost and reliable. Consumers have expected nothing less. In recent years, legislators passed the Carbon Plan law…
Introduction Because electricity is a basic human need, North Carolina law has long required least-cost, reliable electricity at the flip of a switch. It’s what people expect, and true public…
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A recent report placed North Carolina second in the nation for threatened farmland from residential development. Meanwhile, the amount of new solar facilities sought by Duke Energy could endanger as…
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…
You can’t have a competitive environment when utilities have to purchase any renewable power that’s produced and when state and federal subsidies and tax credits artificially lower their actual costs…
The following is from my recent Rights & Regulation newsletter. You can receive the newsletter by signing up here. Before there was ObamaCare, North Carolina had its own individual mandate.…
NC WARN released a report that argues new solar power is less expensive than new nuclear power. The report was discussed in this N & O article. I. Costs According…
Today’s Journal has doom-and-gloom lead editorial on Duke Energy’s proposed Cliffside plant: The N.C. Division of Air Quality made a serious and costly mistake when it issued a final permit…