electric and natural gas utility
Imagine a car without an engine. It doesn’t need expensive gasoline. It can reach fairly high speeds — if it’s going down a steep and long enough grade. Now imagine…
Did you know there are also magic words that can make your power bill go up? They were just used in the coal-ash cleanup settlement agreement between the Cooper administration,…
Customers of many other utilities across the nation have been happy to see their electricity rates fall thanks to recent federal tax cuts. North Carolinians have to be wondering if we…
Some takeaways from Dan Way’s Carolina Journal report yesterday: 1. Your facility can get all its electricity from traditional fuel sources and pretend they’re powered by renewable sources. (Media, environmentalists, corporate PR people,…
View in your browser. This week’s newsletter looks at a debate over the value of solar generation in Tennessee, which in part echoes and in part illuminates the discussion here.…
View in your browser. An amended version of the regulatory reform bill (HB 760), sponsored by Reps. Chris Millis (R-Pender), John R. Bell IV (R-Wayne), and Dennis Riddell (R-Alamance), would…
View in your browser. The John W. Pope Civitas Institute has issued a new poll this week that found "Voters soundly opposed to paying more for so-called Green Energy." Those…
Carolina Journal’s Rick Henderson reports here on a bill that narrowly cleared a House committee vote today to freeze the costly SB 3 renewable energy portfolio mandate at its current…
You may be familiar with SB 3, the legislation that instituted North Carolina’s daft “renewable energy and energy efficiency portfolio standard.” But what, you may ask, is CWIP? CWIP (not…
View in your browser. Corporate welfare for energy, whether it’s for renewables (nationally or statewide, directly or indirectly through "crucifixion") or nuclear, is at such a high pitch that choiceless…
Sam Hieb profiles the NC. House District 65 election for Carolina Journal Online. John Hood’s Daily Journal examines the political and public policy implications of proposed electricity rate hikes in…
JLF’s John Hood points out in today’s column the consequences of the energy policies endorsed by previous legislatures. His viewpoint comes as the new Duke Energy requests a double-digit hike…