The Utilities Commission’s initial Carbon Plan directs Duke to go ahead and procure 2,350 MWs of new solar generation — that’s on top of the 1,200 MWs of solar they…
Energy poverty is a serious issue. Research shows that higher energy prices cost lives. The U.S. Energy Information Agency showed in 2018 that one in three families struggled to pay…
Carolina Journal was the first media outlet to raise questions about the curious timing of an unusual $57.8 million fund linked to the Atlantic Coast Pipeline in North Carolina. A…
You’ve heard of GenX, but did you know this? Carolina Journal’s Dan Way reports: The state Utility Commission will weigh whether the GenX compound that has polluted the Cape Fear…
You probably know that solar energy advocates acknowledge that solar is an unsustainable industry without lots of government aid.
It's a two-pronged, self-defeating argument that solar advocates make without seeming to notice how the second prong makes an utter shambles of the first. Solar energy is a powerhouse new…
Imposing a tariff on solar panels crosses that line between freeing up the energy market for fairer competition (this is government's proper role) and picking favorites in that competition (this…
I’ve long noticed two prongs of the solar lobby‘s message to legislators and the media — two messages that I think are completely at odds with one another: Solar is…
There are lost of reasons to be concerned about the impact of the solar industry on NC’s economy. Aside from higher energy costs and subsides for decades, what to do…
Did you know that NC is the only state in the southeast that has a renewable energy portfolio standard…..? Take a look at the map below.
The Asheville Citizen-Times pulls back the curtain on the patient that’s been hooked up to life support apparently for 38 years (i.e., “a solar tax incentive has existed in the…
Do this math: 30% federal investment tax credit 35% state investment tax credit 30% federal depreciation 5% state depreciation Or, as described by the N.C. Dept. of Environment and Natural…