Expanding fossil fuels and suppressing climate solutions is lousy legacy In an interview in his final days as Governor of North Carolina, Roy Cooper repeated the pretense that North Carolina is transitioning to clean energy. Cooper said he regrets that Duke Energy leaders are planning to add “a little more …
Carbon Plan
In 2021, HB951 instructed the NC Utilities Commission to establish a state carbon plan to reduce CO2 emissions 70% by 2030 and achieve carbon neutrality by 2050. The carbon plan will be in place by December 2022 and reviewed every 2 years thereafter.
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Rubber-stamping Regulator Approves Duke Energy’s PRO-Carbon Plan — NC WARN News Release
Anti-science NC Utilities Commission tragically sides with Duke as usual The utilities commission gave Duke essentially everything it wanted – as usual – in its order issued late Friday. They’re expanding fossil fuels and suppressing renewables – exactly backward from the demands of climate scientists. Duke and the commission seem …
Duke Officials Admit “High Risk” of Key Carbon Plan Element — NC WARN News Release
“Extremely difficult” to build billions in new power lines and towers through eastern NC; “so much opposition” can mean “you can’t get it done” Duke Energy’s 2022 promise to investors (see footnote 5) that it will pour $75 billion into high-voltage transmission projects in its monopoly states was belied recently …
Statewide Ads Plug Local Solar as Fastest, Cheapest, Fairest Way to Help with Climate Crisis — NC WARN News Release
State leaders, media must tell North Carolinians we are not captive to Duke Energy’s climate-wrecking PRO-Carbon Plan Duke Energy’s years-long strategy remains intact: to keep the public clueless about alternatives to the utility’s climate-wrecking expansion of fossil fuels and its crushing of climate solutions. Will one of the world’s largest …
With Humanity on “highway to climate hell,” Local Solar is a Must if NC is to do its Part — NC WARN News Release
Everything Duke Energy leaders propose is very high risk, extremely costly and would guarantee failure for climate efforts United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres said recently that world leaders must quickly find “an exit ramp off the highway to climate hell” and slammed fossil fuel “godfather” corporations such as Duke Energy …
With Humanity on “highway to climate hell,” Scores of Businesses, Nonprofits Contest Duke Energy’s (Pro) Carbon Plan — NC WARN News Release
NC Attorney General, regulators’ Public Staff, City of Charlotte, others oppose fossil fuel expansion and call to expand rooftop solar Amid a ghastly global escalation of crippling heat waves, wildfires and superstorms, United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres said last week that world leaders must quickly find “an exit ramp off …
Lovins, Experts Support Solar-Plus-Storage as NC WARN proposes — NC WARN News Release
NC WARN’s sweeping new Sharing Solar campaign coincides with years of advocacy by leading proponents of a US transition to renewable energy “The cheapest, most reliable power can be produced renewably and produced at/or near the customers — that is ‘distributed.’” That’s how clean energy guru Amory Lovins of the Rocky Mountain …
NC nonprofit argues Duke opposes rooftop solar due to profitability, proposes alternative carbon plan — Port City Daily
By Peter Castagno A prominent clean energy nonprofit issued a new proposal to revise Duke Energy’s carbon plan to expand rooftop solar throughout the state, arguing the strategy would address climate change and result in lower costs for ratepayers. NC WARN is a Durham-based nonprofit focused on promoting the clean …
Sweeping New Approach for Electricity System in NC — NC WARN News Release
More Proof that Duke Energy Leaders Hate Renewable Power — NC WARN News Release
New documents show Duke to keep strangling large-scale solar companies; highly touted solar build-out won’t even begin for years – and won’t last long Despite a years-long campaign to greenwash its corporate image by misleading the news media and decision-makers, Duke Energy remains a leading driver of the global climate …