Duke outlines several options to the NCUC for pass its tax savings onto its customers, but they would depend on whether your power comes from Duke Energy Carolinas or Duke…
The media oppose government getting cozy with big business. They tell us so. But when it happens, and it happens a lot, they tend to like it. Media actually upholding their principles…
For the proposed decrease to be a net decrease means, of course, that some factors are on the increase, but their effects are outweighed by the factors on the decrease. So…
Politicians and media cheered the passage into law of Senate Bill 305, which would allow the North Carolina Eastern Municipal Power Agency to sell its ownership in four power plants to…
A unanimous three-judge panel of the N.C. Court of Appeals affirmed this morning the N.C. Utilities Commission’s 2012 decision to permit the merger between electric utilities Duke Energy and Progress…
View in your browser. North Carolina’s renewable energy portfolio standards (RPS) survived an attempt to cap and end the mandate last year as crony politics won out over protection of…
A unanimous three-judge panel of the N.C. Court of Appeals affirmed this morning a lower-court ruling blocking implementation of a 2012 state law giving the N.C. Bail Agents Association the…
Duke says: “We have to balance providing affordable, reliable and increasingly clean electricity to our customers, and at the same time provide a return to our shareholders.” So clean energy…
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…
The NC Division of Water Quality is suing Progress Energy for unauthorized discharge of pollutants and groundwater contamination in excess of allowable thresholds.
Progress Energy has reportedly agreed to lower their rate hikes from the initially-proposed 11 and 14.5 percentages. Funny. I thought the major utility knew nothing about bargaining basics. A couple…
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…