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About That Proposed Rate Hike
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…
CenterPoint Energy
electric and natural gas utility
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CenterPoint head apologizes to Forsyth commissioners
After being called out by the Winston-Salem Journal— which suggested she resign due to her “obstinacy when it comes to the basic requirements of managing a large, publicly funded agency”…
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More questions about CenterPoint funding
Following an emotional debate during Monday’s Forsyth County Commissioners’ meeting over additional funding for CenterPoint Human Services, commissioners in Stokes County will take up the matter next week. And while…
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How dare public officials ask questions about taxpayer funding
Forsyth County commissioners are a few too many questions about CenterPoint Human Services’ request for $1.3 million. CenterPoint head Betty Taylor doesn’t like it, so she “has simply decided not…
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North Carolina ratepayers can’t afford corporate welfare going nuclear
View in your browser. The scuttlebutt is that the General Assembly could see a proposal to allow utilities to hike electricity rates automatically in order for them to recover the…
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Here’s Your Energy Sector, Mr. President, Sir!
George Washington said, “Government is fire,” in order to illustrate the disastrous consequences of letting a good thing follow its natural tendency to get out of control. Today, when the…
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Today’s Carolina Journal Online features
Today’s Carolina Journal Online exclusive highlights Roy Cordato’s latest research on sustainability. Cordato finds that free-market principles would work more effectively than government coercion to promote sustainable growth. John Hood’s…
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Why aren’t our electricity rates going down?
According to long-ago settled rate cases with the North Carolina Utilities Commission, Progress Energy and Duke Energy are allowed only a 12.5 percent rate of return on equity (Progress’s may…
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Surprise! Duke Energy Loves Raping Ratepayers
Ellen Ruff of Duke Energy today continues the spin that the “energy bill” making its way through the General Assembly is some sort of measured, balanced approach. Nothing could be…
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Turning to Light Rail News, Elsewhere
…we find that Houston has a small issue of electricity from its system leaking into the ground. The same company building Charlotte’s light rail cars and power system, Siemens Transportation…