North Carolina’s Carbon Plan law requires retiring certain baseload electricity resources (coal and eventually natural gas). Present plans would attempt to replace them by overbuilding solar facilities. This policy threatens…
Editors at National Review Online explore the growing popular opposition to data centers. Anti-data-center sentiment is sweeping the nation, and, this being an election year, politicians of both parties are…
During extreme heat waves and cold snaps, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) under President Donald Trump has been issuing emergency orders that allow utilities to exceed their environmental emissions…
Rich Lowry of National Review Online assesses the recent public outcry against data centers. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez stole the show at a recent congressional hearing with two jars of brown water.…
AN ACT TO ENSURE RETIRING BASELOAD ELECTRIC GENERATING CAPACITY IS REPLACED WITH AN EQUAL OR GREATER AMOUNT OF NEW BASELOAD ELECTRIC GENERATING CAPACITY Whereas, electricity is a basic human need;…
On Feb. 1, citing expected “[e]xtremely cold temperatures,” Duke Energy sent an alert to its customers requesting that they “voluntarily reduce their energy use from 4–10 a.m. on Monday, Feb.…
Duke Energy’s latest Carolinas Resource Plan filing with the North Carolina Utilities Commission (NCUC) provides a glimpse into the productivity expected from the different sources of electricity it plans to…
On Oct. 1, Duke Energy Carolinas and Duke Energy Progress (jointly, Duke) made its latest filing of the Carolinas Resource Plan with the North Carolina Utilities Commission (NCUC). The Carbon…
Early in the morning of June 24, amid a blistering heat wave affecting most of the nation, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) granted a request from Duke Energy Carolinas…
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…
RALEIGH – The John Locke Foundation is disappointed in Governor Josh Stein’s veto of Senate Bill 266, the Power Bill Reduction Act. This legislation would eliminate the state’s statutory goal to cut carbon emissions…
John Hinderaker writes for the Powerline blog about an inconvenient truth for the activists and politicians who constantly push a so-called green agenda for America’s energy future. Relying on their…