NC customers would pay higher rates to build Cliffside and nuclear plants so the power company can expand in South Carolina.
New NC Coal Plants Aren't Needed
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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
Duke Appeals Ruling, Struggles to Justify Cliffside – Statement from NC WARN
The Path to Clean Efficient Energy – News and Observer Oped by Dr. Blackburn, Jim Warren
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
New Legal Challenge Seeks to Stop Duke Power Plant — New Release from NC WARN
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 …
