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15 Solar Companies Challenge Duke Rules Proposal — Note from NC WARN

March 10, 2022

Fifteen rooftop solar companies from across North Carolina today called on Gov. Roy Cooper to help protect rooftop solar from Duke Energy’s attempt to weaken the industry by changing state rules. See media coverage on WFAE, WUNC, WXII and the Energy News Network and in the Winston-Salem Journal, Greensboro News & Record, News & Observer/Charlotte Observer, Facing South and PV Magazine.

Clean Energy Advocates Outline Vision for North Carolina Carbon Plan — News Release from People Power NC

January 24, 2022

People Power NC, a coalition of clean energy and social justice organizations, released 12 principles that the North Carolina Utilities Commission should consider when crafting its carbon plan for the state.

“Killing” of Rooftop Solar in California Previews Duke Energy Fight in NC — News Release from NC WARN

January 24, 2022

Duke Energy’s attack on rooftop solar in North Carolina is being previewed in California as that state’s regulators have proposed rule changes projected to double the payback period for solar homes, cost up to 50,000 jobs and wreck efforts to slow the climate crisis.

Distortions Signal Duke Energy Can’t Honestly Win its Case to Overhaul Solar Rooftop Net Metering in NC — News Release from NC WARN

December 9, 2021

The decade-long Duke Energy campaign to slow-walk renewable power took a predictable turn last week as the monopoly corporation misled regulators and news media in a master-stroke of corporate weasel-wording.

Groups File Complaint that Duke Energy Rigged Net Metering Process to Push Plan to Undermine Rooftop Solar Power in NC — News Release from NC WARN and Appalachian Voices

November 15, 2021

NC WARN and Appalachian Voices today filed a complaint with state regulators about a stakeholder process they say was rigged to favor a Duke Energy scheme that would harm small-scale solar power companies and Duke Energy customers across North Carolina.

As climate emergency grows more urgent, Duke Energy seeks to supersize CO2 pollution — NC Policy Watch

June 17, 2021

Energy giant must halt planned fossil fuel expansion, aggressively embrace renewable energy, storage, conservation

Pressure Builds Against Duke Energy Solar Scheme — News Release from NC WARN

May 19, 2021

NC WARN said today that 23 other nonprofit organizations are backing its challenge to a pending Duke Energy proposal they say would limit rooftop solar to the affluent, stifle the growing solar market and amplify the global climate crisis.

Solar March Madness: US 20, Duke Energy 6 — NC WARN

March 23, 2021

Duke leaders keep conning the public with new greenwashing ads. New federal data show that nearly 20% of U.S. electricity* generation in 2020 came from renewable power – up from the earlier figure of 18% cited in NC WARN’s ongoing ad campaign.

Duke Energy Faces Challenges to its Push for New Natural Gas Plants — GreentechMedia

March 4, 2021

Duke Energy’s plan to build gigawatts of new natural gas generators to supply its grid over the next 15 years has already drawn fire from clean energy advocates, who say it violates the utility’s long-range decarbonization goals and could leave customers paying for power plants that can’t economically compete with cleaner alternatives.

Add 16 GW solar, 10 GW storage in North Carolina, says alternative resource plan — pv magazine

March 2, 2021

Duke Energy’s “flawed modeling assumptions” for its 2020 North Carolina resource plan favor new natural gas capacity over new renewables and storage, and the utility’s resource scenarios are “not least-cost,” says a regulatory filing from the North Carolina Sustainable Energy Association and the Carolinas Clean Energy Business Association.

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