Watchdog group tells NC Governor to walk his talk, stop a leading climate polluter from expanding fossil fuels and suppressing renewables The North Carolina state motto is “To be, rather than to seem.” But Governor Roy Cooper continues to support a years-long pretense that Duke Energy is transitioning to a …
Legal Challenge Filed vs Duke Energy’s Once-Hidden Attack on Commercial-Nonprofit Solar
NC WARN also redoubles call for Governor, Attorney General to demand transparency in utility’s two-pronged attack on local solar, as “customer calculator” remains a failure Unable to openly justify a major rule change for solar used by businesses, faith groups, schools and nonprofits, Duke Energy buried its proposal under thousands …
Powerful New Challengers Question Duke Energy’s $10 Billion Grid & Land Seizure Scheme
Attorney General, regulators’ Public Staff among skeptics of Duke’s inflated cost projections and failure to consider cheaper alternatives that can help immediately with climate crisis It’s no wonder that Duke Energy hid plans to waste billions on new and expanded power line corridors, but forces are already aligning against the …
Investigate Duke Energy’s $10B Land Seizure and Grid Scheme, Group Tells Gov, AG
NC WARN says Duke Energy has been hiding aggressive plans to waste billions on new and expanded, high-voltage transmission corridors that would target vulnerable communities while limiting large and local solar power projects for years.
Red States Go Renewable; Duke Holds NC Back — NC WARN News Release
Duke Energy is increasingly isolated as it expands fracked natural gas and suppresses solar Several recent advances in attitudes and actions to move the U.S. off fossil fuels are encouraging, even as the head of the United Nations last week demanded phase-out of coal, natural gas and oil while insisting …
Duke Energy Doubles Down on Squashing Rooftop Solar — NC WARN News Release
Customer calculator debacle appears intended to confound and stifle solar companies, which leaves the monopoly raising rates and destroying the climate It now seems clear that Duke Energy leaders are deliberately trying to further complicate rooftop solar marketing even before new, onerous rules go into effect as early as October …