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.

NC approves 300MW coastal wind farm – Charlotte Business Journal

May 12, 2011

N.C. regulators have issued a permit for construction of a proposed 300-megawatt wind farm near Elizabeth City.

Solar power market tops $71 billion in 2010 – The San Francisco Chronicle

March 14, 2011

The latest report, released today, shows a decade of remarkable growth. The market for solar power, wind power and biofuels still pales when compared with that for fossil fuels (Exxon Mobil, for example, made $383.2 billion last year). But clean-energy technology is no longer stuck in a niche.

Large Power Plants Sit Idle in North Carolina while Duke Wants to Raise Rates to Build New Ones – News Release by NC WARN

February 16, 2011

Duke Energy has a hefty surplus of generation capacity; it should promptly retire at least one newer coal-burning plant and stop trying to build nuclear reactors.
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Groups don’t want utilities to raise rates to build nuclear plants – WRAL

February 1, 2011

Several organizations fired a pre-emptive strike Tuesday against plans by two North Carolina utilities.

Nuclear Prices Soar 37% as Solar Prices Keep Falling – News Release by NC WARN

December 21, 2010

John Locke Foundation attacks continue despite federal data fortifying NC WARN’s July finding that solar power is now cheaper than juice from new nukes.

Full-page ads claim state panel caved to builders on home energy efficiency standards – NC Independent News

December 8, 2010

Ads by NC WARN say NC Building Code Council cut back on new home standards that would produce long-term savings for buyers

Why Do Home Builders Want You to Waste Money? – News Release by NC WARN

December 8, 2010

The NC Building Code Council capitulated to pressure by the NC Home Builders Association, which will cost homeowners higher power bills while squandering state efforts to help curb global climate change.

Watchdog Group: Sun is Setting on Nuclear Power in NC – Public News Service

October 11, 2010

Solar and nuclear power now cost about the same to generate, at least in North Carolina. That’s according to a study conducted by NC WARN, a nonprofit focusing on climate protection. The group’s new report finds that solar and nuclear power production costs are at about 16 cents per kilowatt hour.

Wind energy can power much of East Coast, study says – McClatchy Newspapers

September 28, 2010

The strong winds off the Atlantic Ocean could become a cost-effective way to power much of the East Coast — especially North and South Carolina, Delaware, Massachusetts, New Jersey and Virginia, a new study released Tuesday says.

Executive Director, Jim Warren, Interviewed on UNC-TV

September 8, 2010

Jim Warren was interviewed on NC Now – a program broadcast statewide on public television, UNC-TV – on NC WARN’s current focus to increase energy efficiency and adopt renewable energy sources in North Carolina.

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