Statement from Executive Director Jim Warren — Don’t be surprised if Duke Energy soon reduces power generation from its nuclear fleet in the Carolinas as record-breaking drought and heatwaves continue across the region. It’s happened in Europe. It happened in the US South a few years ago. Each of Duke’s …
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Data Center Scandal Grows; NC Governor Must Ban Duke Energy Monopoly from “24/7” Recruiting Used to Justify $63 Billion Expansion — NC WARN News Release
State regulator’s expert calls for data center moratorium after Duke execs’ testimony indicates no other reason for massive buildout of gas-fired and nuclear power plants Watchdog NC WARN today called on Gov. Josh Stein to lead efforts to ban a state-sanctioned monopoly from aggressively recruiting hotly contested data centers – …
Scandal at Duke Energy Hearing Kills the Case for $63 Billion Fossil Fuel and Nuclear Expansion — NC WARN News Release
Duke CEO admits “24/7” recruiting of data centers; regulator decries corporate focus on profits over public, calls for pause on new data centers Statement by Executive Director Jim Warren: Durham, N.C. – In a regulatory hearing this week, Duke Energy’s top executives admitted that they recruit the very data centers …
Clean Energy Expert Shows Quick, Inexpensive Path to Phase Out Fossil Fuels in North Carolina — NC WARN News Release
At regulatory hearing, lawyer and expert discredit Duke Energy’s “blind faith” claims of huge upcoming growth and new climate-wrecking power plants A prominent clean energy expert has provided written testimony in a regulatory proceeding that challenges Duke Energy’s plans for a massive buildout of failure-prone nuclear plants and climate-wrecking fracked …
Duke Energy Recruits Data Centers to NC Using Millions of Customer Dollars Each Year — NC WARN News Release
New info bolsters need for NC Governor Josh Stein and the legislature to stop the climate- and rate-wrecking corporate polluter from building unneeded power plants Why is a monopoly corporate utility allowed to recruit more and more power-hungry businesses into its territory? And why is it allowed to spend millions …
Expert Exposes Duke Energy’s Orwellian Claims about Failure-Prone Nuclear Reactors and Mythical Need for Power Plants — NC WARN News Release
NC Governor Josh Stein must stop the giant polluter from – once again – squandering billions on failed nukes, hugely expanding fracked gas and thwarting climate protections War is peace. Ignorance is strength. Darkness is light. And a $36 billion nuclear construction debacle in Georgia proves the next attempt will …
Short Documentary Blasts Duke Energy for Deception and Key Role in Accelerating Climate Crisis — NC WARN News Release
Leading scientist urges NC Gov. Josh Stein to treat climate change as emergency, “use all the levers” to get Duke Energy off fossil fuels Today NC WARN released an 18-minute documentary that goes right at one of the world’s worst climate polluters and features a globally prominent scientist insisting that …
Duke Energy Plans to Gamble Tens of Billions of Public Dollars and our Climate Future on Failure-prone, Experimental Reactors — NC WARN News Release
National nuclear “relapse” filled with corporate deception, taxpayer subsidies and abuse of monopoly customers; Duke officials quietly cite risk of more failures 65 times Despite cancelling 18 past reactors prior to completion, thus wasting billions of customer dollars, and while quietly loading a regulatory filing with 65 cautions of complexities …
In Statewide Ads, Top Climatologist Again Calls for Duke Energy to Stop Expanding Fossil Fuels — NC WARN News Release
NC WARN says Gov. Stein should be pushing the giant NC-based polluter A globally prominent climate scientist is again speaking out against Duke Energy’s accelerating and massive expansion of fossil fuels and its suppression of renewable power. NC WARN has launched statewide ads asking why Governor Josh Stein isn’t pushing …
Duke Energy Doubles Down on Climate Destruction and Soaring Power Bills — Statement by Executive Director Jim Warren
Statement by Executive Director Jim Warren: Duke Energy’s newly filed resource plan continues the horrible record of one of the world’s worst climate polluters. Duke proposes to greatly increase methane gas for power and experimental nuclear plants while extending its burning of coal for at least 15 years. The plan slashes projections …