NC customers would pay higher rates to build Cliffside and nuclear plants so the power company can expand in South Carolina.
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EIGHT SEPARATE FACTORS Proving Cliffside Isn’t Needed – Statement from NC WARN
Duke Energy has insisted it must build the $2.4 billion, 800-megawatt Cliffside coal-fired unit due to growing population and electricity demand in its service area. Various factors are being treated in separate dockets by the NC Utilities Commission. The Commission needs to connect the dots, and avoid decades of soaring power bills for Duke’s electricity customers.
Duke Document Shows Demand Will DECLINE: More Evidence New Plants Aren’t Needed – News Release by NC WARN
More evidence proves Cliffside plant isn’t needed
Duke Appeals Ruling, Struggles to Justify Cliffside – Statement from NC WARN
Federal Regulators to Hear Appeal over Duke Energy Expansion Plans; Utility seeks to overturn state ruling, build Cliffside plant for outside customers
The Path to Clean Efficient Energy – News and Observer Oped by Dr. Blackburn, Jim Warren
Instead of risking $35 billion on new plants, there is a better, cheaper and more secure way to handle North Carolina’s energy needs.
U.S. Energy Chair Dismisses New Coal, Nukes – Reuters
http://uk.reuters.com/article/environmentNews/idUKTRE5447HI20090505 UK U.S. utilities, regulator disagree on generation Wed May 6, 2009 12:59am BST By Eileen O’Grady HOUSTON (Reuters) – The nation’s top power industry regulator on Tuesday suggested that U.S. utilities don’t need to build big nuclear or coal-fired power plants to fill the nation’s future power supply needs. …
Stop Cliffside Construction – New Legal Challenge by NC WARN
Environmentalists today called on the NC Utilities Commission to stop construction of Duke Energy’s Cliffside coal-fired power plant, saying several factors – individually – eliminate the need for the plant, and that 2007 state legislation requires the Commission to revoke permission to build it.
New Legal Challenge Seeks to Stop Duke Power Plant — New Release from NC WARN
Environmentalists today called on the NC Utilities Commission to stop construction of Duke Energy’s Cliffside coal-fired power plant, saying several factors – individually – eliminate the need for the plant, and that 2007 state legislation requires the Commission to revoke permission to build it.
FERC Head: No Need to Build new U.S. Coal or Nuclear Plants – Greenwire
By NOELLE STRAUB AND PETER BEHR, Greenwire http://www.greenwire.com No new nuclear or coal plants may ever be needed in the United States, the chairman of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission said today. “We may not need any, ever,” Jon Wellinghoff told reporters at a U.S. Energy Association forum. The FERC …
Duke Univ. Economist: Modest Increases in Efficiency, Renewables in NC Will Allow Closure of Coal-Fired Plants
The Duke University economics chairman emeritus argues that modest increases in efficiency and renewable power can allow North Carolina to retire coal-fired power plants instead of building new plants. See his study for NC WARN.