Thomas Catenacci of the Washington Free Beacon highlights the impact of green energy mandates in one northern state. Delaware consumers have faced soaring electricity prices this winter—something experts and lawmakers…
House Bill 589 would be a major restructuring of energy policy in our state, writes JLF’s Jon Sanders. He provides a look into select aspects of the bill here. Summary:…
Advocates for least-cost, reliable electricity will welcome the ideas in Rep. Chris Millis’ “NC Ratepayers Protection Act” (House Bill 745). They will especially appreciate Millis’ call for studying the actual subsidies and…
Dan Way writes this morning in Carolina Journal about the “NC Ratepayers Protection Act” (House Bill 745). A snippet: If the bill passes, the REPS [renewable energy portfolio standards mandate] would remain…
First, Duke would pay to have anaerobic digesters extract biogas from swine waste in the Midwest. The biogas, which would be indistinguishable from natural gas, would be injected into pipelines…
North Carolina’s renewable energy cronies are supposedly threatened by the frightful prospect that the legislature might decide to (gasp) cap the renewable energy portfolio standards (REPS) mandate and study whether it’s…
Paul Chesser’s column today for the National Legal and Policy Center provokes that question. Chesser shows that “public records show the company [Apple] has received permits to install 44 pollutant-spewing…
Last year, when North Carolina lawmakers were debating capping and ending the state’s expensive renewable energy portfolio standards (RPS) mandate, I wrote that North Carolina was positioned to lead the…
My newsletter discusses the implications of a new poll of North Carolinians’ opinions about renewable energy. A snippet (with emphasis added): But a closer reading of the poll results and…
View in your browser. This week the John Locke Foundation worked with the environmental advocacy group NC WARN to cosponsor a forum on the benefits of increased competition in providing…
Now that football season is winding down, for those looking for a little excitement in their fantasy world, as is so often the case economists come to the rescue. The…
View in your browser. After contentious debate Wednesday, the Affordable and Reliable Energy Act passed a House Commerce subcommittee on a narrow vote, 11-10. In its original version, Rep. Mike…