A ruling is expected any day on a regulatory hearing that could determine if North Carolina will finally join growing global efforts to avert runaway climate chaos or allow Duke Energy to continue driving humanity toward the cliff.
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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North Carolina groups call for end to utility monopoly, 100% renewable energy — PV MAGAZINE
CLEAN ENERGY IS THE BEST WAY FORWARD — NEWS & RECORD
Op-ed by Beth McKee-Huger. For an expert engineer’s detailed analysis of opportunities for clean energy to transform our environment, mitigate climate change and create new employment, download North Carolina Clean Path 2025. With only a short time to turn around climate change, he describes what is economically and technologically feasible if we take bold action.
Critics to state regulators: Duke Energy must do much more to combat climate change — NC Policy Watch
Since Colson Combs was born just over 15 years ago, the planet Earth has recorded more than 10 of its hottest years on record. If humans have not dialed back greenhouse gas emissions by the time Combs reaches his late 20s, the world will likely be headed toward a climate crisis that will stalk him for his entire life.
DUKE ENERGY GRID BOONDOGGLE — LETTER TO BERGER, MOORE FROM NC WARN AND APPALACHIAN VOICES
PUBLIC BADLY NEEDS CLARITY ON CLIMATE URGENCY AND OPTIONS IN 2019 — NEWS RELEASE FROM NC WARN
Solar microgrid helps return Great Smoky Mountains National Park land to the wild — Solar Power World
Duke Energy a Laggard on Renewables vs U.S. Leaders — News Release from NC WARN
Energy Storage by Businesses, Cities, Other Big Power Users Set to Slash Duke Energy Revenue — News Release from NC WARN
Examining The Future Of Energy In North Carolina — Charlotte Talks
NC WARN Executive Director Jim Warren was a guest on Charlotte Talks, the local talk show of NPR member station WFAE. He deftly countered Duke Energy’s corporate PR weasel-wording. It was a lively and feisty discussion that finally got the debate over North Carolina’s energy future out in the open. Listen here.