Jim Warren

NC WARN Hosts Dr. William Schlesinger

May 27, 2015

NC WARN hosts prominent climate scientist Dr. William Schlesinger for a discussion about the current state of the climate crisis and its impacts.

Utilities wage campaign against rooftop solar — The Washington Post

May 26, 2015

Three years ago, the nation’s top utility executives gathered at a Colorado resort to hear warnings about a grave new threat to operators of America’s electric grid: not superstorms or cyberattacks, but rooftop solar panels.

2015 Duke Energy Shareholder Meeting

May 8, 2015

On May 7th, 2015 NC WARN and our allies raised the pressure on Duke Energy to clean up their coal ash and get on board with rooftop solar. We had a presence outside and inside the meeting to stand up for energy and climate justice!

Tesla’s New Battery Doesn’t Work That Well With Solar — Bloomberg

May 6, 2015

Tesla Chief Executive Elon Musk introduced a new family of batteries designed to stretch the solar-power revolution into its next phase. There’s just one problem: Tesla’s new battery doesn’t work well with rooftop solar—at least not yet. Even Solar City, the supplier led by Musk, isn’t ready to offer Tesla’s battery for daily use.

Solar power and competition are good for all customers — Winston Salem Journal

May 2, 2015

Op-Ed by Rev. Nelson Johnson and Jim Warren. It is curious that Duke Energy is aggressively lobbying against the new Energy Freedom Act, bipartisan state legislation that would open the door to rooftop solar competition, thereby helping the same low-wealth communities for which Duke now professes concern.

Tesla Launches Batteries for Homes, Businesses, Utilities — Bloomberg

May 1, 2015

Tesla Motors Inc. Chief Executive Officer Elon Musk unveiled a suite of batteries to store electricity for homes, businesses and utilities, saying a greener power grid furthers the company’s mission to provide pollution-free energy.

Regulatory Contortion allows Duke, others to gouge customers — News Release from NC WARN

May 1, 2015

Despite huge amounts of excess power generation capacity on hand now and for decades to come – and dozens of large power plants sitting idle most of the year – protected monopoly utilities across the southeast keep building more plants instead of buying power from each other as federal regulators have urged.

Climate Change Will Accelerate Earth’s Sixth Mass Extinction — Smithsonian Magazine

April 30, 2015

The pace at which species disappear is picking up as temperatures rise, and things are looking especially troubling in the tropics.

Ministers’ Conference, Elected Leaders Support Solar Competition Bill and Local Solarize Program — News Release from Ministers Conference of Winston-Salem & Vicinity

April 10, 2015

State elected officials and a diverse Ministers’ Conference today announced their support for state legislation that would expand rooftop solar power to more customers across the economic spectrum while boosting investment and jobs across North Carolina.

I-Team: Flaw Found in Harris Nuclear Power Plant Reactor Head — ABC 11 News

April 9, 2015

Duke Energy officials describe the flaw as a small depression in a welding seam. They say the public was never in danger. Critics aren’t so sure.

“The industry has had this problem for a number of years and they haven’t been able to figure out how to prevent it from occurring,” said Jim Warren, with the nuclear watchdog group NC WARN.