Energy
Split Appeals Court upholds ruling against NC WARN
A panel of the N.C. Court of Appeals has ruled, 2-1, that environmental activist group NC WARN violated the state’s utility monopoly when it installed and maintained a solar panel…
NC WARN
Energy
We’re already reducing energy emissions. No need to force it with unworkable schemes.
This great news. It also removes any justification to kill off entire industries, throw thousands of people out of work, and hide the enormous costs to people to make a…
Liberty
The laughable idea that renewable energy is or ever will be ‘least cost’
View in your browser. The Utilities Commission has approved Duke’s plan for converting one of its coal plants to natural gas. Duke will build two combined cycle turbines with an option…
Energy
Why to avoid a ‘carbon tax’
Roy Cordato’s newsletter discusses the issue of taxing carbon dioxide, which to me sounds as dumb as wanting mandatory labels warning of foods that contain DNA, but which has become the new obsession…
Energy
Time to return NC utilities to the standard of least-cost reliable power
My Daily Journal column today explores the importance of reviving this crucial standard in a state that guarantees its electric utilities a locked-in consumer base. The NC Ratepayers Protection Act,…
Law & Public Safety
N.C. Supreme Court upholds Utilities Commission ruling allowing Duke Energy Progress rate increase
A unanimous N.C. Supreme Court issued an opinion today upholding the N.C. Utilities Commission’s 2013 decision to award Duke Energy Progress a rate increase of $178 million, including a 10.2…
Energy
Intermittency has big costs: Brookings study
The Economist discusses a new study from Charles Frank of the Brookings Institution that uses a cost-benefit analysis to rank various forms of energy, going beyond levelized cost (click the…
Energy
N.C. Court of Appeals blocks NC WARN’s attempt to intervene in the Duke Energy-Progress Energy merger
A unanimous three-judge panel of the N.C. Court of Appeals has upheld this morning the N.C. Utilities Commission’s decision not to allow environmental activist group NC WARN to intervene in…
Liberty
Carolina Journal’s work attracts attention and other items of interest
Both the Lumberton Robesonian and Mount Airy News published Carolina Journal Associate Editor Michael Lowrey‘s recent column explaining how groupthink about Charlotte Douglas International Airport hurt the Queen City’s economic…
Liberty
How Government Impacts Your Electric Bill
It’s called ‘Construction Work in Progress,’ but don’t let the dry-sounding phrase lead you to believe it’s nothing you should concern yourself with. In fact, ‘CWIP’ could impact on how…
Energy
The Four P’s of Electricity Competition
The Four P’s of Electricity Competition was the unofficial title of my introductory remarks at last week’s forum on the benefits of increased competition in providing electricity to North Carolinians,…
Liberty
JLF, NC WARN tout benefits of N.C. electricity competition
The John Locke Foundation and NC WARN — yes, you are reading that right — co-sponsored a forum highlighting the need for increased competition in North Carolina’s electric market. The…