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Energy efficiency measures and solar and wind technologies are rapidly being deployed around the world. Help it happen in North Carolina by joining our NC Clean Path 2025 team that is working to replace fossil fuels with solar and battery storage around the state, including working to eliminate the obstacles put in place by Duke Energy and the state legislature. Find out how you can help.
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Duke Energy Monopoly Must Use Wasted Resource Instead of Building Power Plants, says Watchdog Group — News Release from NC WARN

Recent advances in a decades-old energy-saving technology could allow thousands of North Carolina facilities such as grocery stores, schools and hospitals to save over 30 percent of their annual energy usage. The energy savings from combined heat and power (CHP) at facilities in North Carolina could be roughly equal to the electricity from ten large power plants.
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Solar energy is ready. The U.S. isn’t. – Bloomberg Businessweek

Clean energy has become a dirty word in presidential politics….The candidates’ coolness to renewable energy comes at a time when the domestic supply of traditional energy sources, such as oil and natural gas, is at an all-time high. And yet this failure to make the promise of renewables a keynote in the debate is a huge missed opportunity. In particular, it ignores the dramatic reduction in the cost of photovoltaic solar power worldwide and the considerable benefits to U.S. consumers and the environment.

Bringing Solar Power to Those Most in Need – NC WARN News Release

NC WARN today announced a campaign to donate solar electric and hot water systems to nonprofit facilities providing services for needy North Carolinians. By working with local solar installation companies, the group is promoting solar power as solid, affordable investments for most homes and businesses, and a key element of the much-needed statewide shift to a climate-protecting renewable energy economy.

Solar Rooftop Donation Program

We’re spreading the word that the time is now for
rooftop solar power in North Carolina!


– Solar is affordable for most households and
businesses.
– Solar helps owners do their part to cut pollution
and slow global warming.
– Solar is an essential part of the urgently needed
statewide shift to a climate-protecting
renewable energy economy.
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Company plans to finish 15 solar farms this year – The News & Observer

Strata Solar plans 15 industrial-scale solar farms for completion this year – including three in Wake and Chatham counties – each with a power capacity of about 5 megawatts. Strata Solar executives are closing in on a deal that would be the state’s biggest solar farm, at about 20 megawatts.