A North Carolina advocacy group argued before the N.C. Court of Appeals Thursday that it should be allowed to sell solar energy to a church in Greensboro. The court allowed oral arguments to be offered after the N.C. Utilities Commission banned NC WARN, an advocacy group, from selling energy to Faith Community Church.
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NC WARN partnered with Faith Community Church in Greensboro on a test case challenging Duke Energy’s blockade against competition from companies that install solar with little or no upfront cost. Learn more here and in the news items below.
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Durham nonprofit asks NC court to break Duke Energy’s power monopoly — News & Observer
Durham environmental advocacy group NC WARN is asking the state appeals court to break Duke Energy’s longstanding monopoly on electricity sales in the state by letting NC WARN resume selling solar-generated power directly to a Greensboro church.
Update on Solar-Church Test Case in NC Court of Appeals — News Release from NC WARN
NC WARN today filed a brief with the NC Court of Appeals in the test case over our sales of solar power to the Faith Community Church in Greensboro. We’re calling on the Court to overturn an April 15 NC Utilities Commission order that sided with Duke Energy and granted the utility’s request to heavily penalize NC WARN for selling solar electricity.
How to fight the power company — Scalawag
In 2015, Duke Energy’s state-sanctioned monopoly in North Carolina faced a pair of very different challenges from two vastly different communities. In western North Carolina, thousands of people – mostly White, middle-class, with little organizing experience–turned out in droves to attack Duke Energy’s plans for their beloved mountains. Two hundred miles away in Greensboro, a Piedmont church – serving a mostly Black, low-income community with a history of activism and advocacy stretching back decades – simply put solar panels on its roof.
Court Appeal of Church-Solar Test Case Ruling & Penalty Underway — News Release from NC WARN
NC WARN is moving the test case over our selling solar power to a Greensboro church to the courts, where we seek to overturn the NC Utilities Commission’s pro-Duke Energy ruling and a truly odd penalty it levied against us.
NC WARN, Church Reply to Regulators in Solar Test Case — News Release from NC WARN
NC WARN today filed a notice with the NC Utilities Commission replying to its April 15 order in the test case over our sales of solar power to the Faith Community Church in Greensboro.
Order, Penalty in Solar-Church Test Case vs Duke Energy — News Release from NC WARN
Late today, the NC Utilities Commission ruled for Duke Energy in the test case where NC WARN has been selling solar power to the Faith Community Church in Greensboro.
Utilities Commission rejects test of third-party green energy sales — Charlotte Observer
The N.C. Utilities Commission has rejected a Durham advocacy group’s test of a state law that allows only utilities to directly sell renewable energy.
Notch a win for Duke Energy in solar-power dispute — Charlotte Business Journal
Regulators say consumer and environmental advocate NC WARN broke state law by selling power to a Greensboro church on whose rooftop it built the solar project that produced the power.
Utilities Commission flunks local church in solar test case — News & Record
The North Carolina Utilities Commission shot down an advocacy group’s effort to sell solar power to a Greensboro church as a way of helping it to purchase the money-saving technology.