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Power bills are getting worse in North Carolina. While families try to cope, high rates have grabbed the attention of news media and politicians such as Gov. Josh Stein, Attorney…
A new report from the John Locke Foundation, “Energy Poverty in North Carolina: Securing Affordable, Reliable Power,” features a county-by-county energy poverty index for North Carolina. The previous research brief…
Eric Florack writes for PJMedia.com about bad news for wind power advocates. Wind power has been sold to us as an environmental utopia, with lower costs, but ends up being…
Thomas Catenacci of the Washington Free Beacon highlights a dubious source in media reports about recent Trump administration energy policy shifts. Recent reports in NPR, CBS News, and CNBC have…
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…
Nick Pope writes for the Daily Caller about a surprising element of the United Nations’ climate agenda. It appears the UN thinks it’s important to extend the principles of climate…
Electricity from existing power plants is cheapest, and state law lets the cost of building new power plants fall on electricity consumers through increases in their power bills. New solar…
Note: This post is a compilation of the five-part series of research briefs on the initial Carbon Plan. They discussed the plan’s mandates for nuclear power and coal (Part 1),…
A couple of years ago, I asked whether Gov. Roy Cooper could finally support nuclear power, since even Pres. Joe Biden was. Our existing nuclear power plants have pulled off…
By law, the Utilities Commission’s Carbon Plan must chart the “reasonable,” “least cost path” to emissions reductions with “least cost planning of generation” that would “maintain and improve upon the…
Editors at Issues and Insights pan one of the Biden administration’s latest bad ideas. In the same way our “superiors” think that their food comes from the grocery store rather…
It seems like just a few days ago that The News & Observer (N&O) was running banner headlines and filing multiple stories about how bad power outages are for people.…