In January 2013, the Edison Electric Institute published a report titled Disruptive Challenges: Financial Implications and Strategic Responses to a Changing Retail Electric Business. It states: “…the pace of [electric industry] change is increasing and will likely increase further as costs of disruptive technologies” continue to decline.
NC CLEAN PATH 2025
In August 2017, NC WARN published North Carolina Clean Path 2025: Achieving an Economical Clean Energy Future, a plan for quickly transitioning the state’s electricity from fossil fuels to solar, battery storage and enhanced energy efficiency.
Local teams are working around the state to implement the plan. Learn more here. The articles below are either about the NC CLEAN PATH 2025 plan or about similar efforts underway in other places.
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Examining the feasibility of converting New York State’s all-purpose energy infrastructure to one using wind, water, and sunlight — Energy Policy
This study analyzes a plan to convert New York State’s all-purpose energy infrastructure to one derived entirely from wind, water, and sunlight.
Duke Energy CEO calls for competitive bids for NC solar sales — Charlotte Business Journal
Duke Energy CEO Jim Rogers talks in this week’s print edition of the Charlotte Business Journal about allowing commercial subsidiary Duke Energy Renewables to compete with solar developers in North Carolina to sell power to Duke Energy Carolinas and Duke Energy Progress.
Climate Change: No Breakthroughs Needed, Mr. President — Huffington Post
In his recent New Republic interview, President Obama said we “need some big technological breakthrough” to tackle climate change. Mr. President — our nation already has the technologies to protect the climate while advancing prosperity. Your National Renewable Energy Laboratory showed just last June how to produce 80 to 90 percent of America’s electricity from proven, reliable and increasingly competitive renewable sources like the sun and wind.
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.
Initiative brings solar power to recovery center – The News & Observer
Trish Hussey and Rita Leadem stretched a ribbon in front of a solar panel set up just outside the front door of the Freedom House Recovery Center on Thursday afternoon.
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 forrooftop solar power in North Carolina!
– Solar is affordable for most households andbusinesses.
– Solar helps owners do their part to cut pollutionand slow global warming.
– Solar is an essential part of the urgently neededstatewide 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.