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After years of denials and delays, on Nov. 13 the Mountain Valley Pipeline (MVP) Southgate project finally received 401 Water Quality Certification (WCQ) from the North Carolina Department of Environmental…
America’s power grids are increasingly at risk, hobbled by power plant closings, unreliable and insufficient replacements, and increased demand for new power. “If these shadows remain unaltered by the future,”…
On July 2, Governor Josh Stein vetoed Senate Bill 266, a measure that would loosen 2021’s House Bill 951, which tells North Carolina power companies to cut power-sector carbon dioxide…
Shortly after Spain announced it had finally achieved 100 percent renewable power on the grid, the world got a reminder of the importance of baseload, dispatchable power. On April 22,…
From the outset, North Carolina utilities law has required electricity provision to be least-cost and reliable. Consumers have expected nothing less. In recent years, legislators passed the Carbon Plan law…
Collin Anderson of the Washington Free Beacon reports inconvenient facts for those pushing a green energy agenda. It’s a warm summer night in Texas, and as the sun goes down,…
Hourly grid data during the Christmas Eve blackouts showed wobbles in increased coal and natural gas generation, where three plants experienced equipment failures that kept those generation sources from contributing…
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.…
A 2021 law requires that the Utilities Commission and Duke Energy set a plan to cut CO2 emissions from electricity generation by 70% (from 2005 levels) by around 2030 and…
Andrew Stuttaford of National Review Online ponders government’s efforts to force a transition away from fossil fuels. Not for the first time, it strikes me that the transition away from…
Adam Kredo of the Washington Free Beacon documents concerns about security of the American electric grid. The U.S. electric grid has become increasingly vulnerable to what the federal government is…
Lachlan Markay of the Washington Free Beacon documents a disturbing level of coordination between a top Democratic donor and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. The business arm of billionaire Democrat…