Net Metering

North Carolina AG asks delay to Duke’s solar net metering plan — Renewable Energy World

March 17, 2022

The office of North Carolina Attorney General Josh Stein, a Democrat, wrote in a filing with the North Carolina Utilities Commission that Duke’s process to update net metering only examined the costs of customer-sited generation, not the benefits.

Rooftop solar installers say Duke Energy’s proposed prices would kill the industry — News & Observer/Charlotte Observer

March 17, 2022

Solar panel installation companies in North Carolina are alarmed at a Duke Energy proposal that they say could imperil thousands of jobs and make it difficult for the state to reach its clean energy targets.

Statewide Ads Point to Duke Energy’s “Choking” Solar Proposal — News Release from NC WARN

March 15, 2022

Thursday’s legal challenge and open appeal for NC Gov. Roy Cooper’s protection by North Carolina’s rooftop solar industry is drawing widespread attention to Duke Energy’s attempt to change state rules. Today, NC WARN began rallying support for solar with a statewide ad buy on TV stations and a host of on-line outlets.

15 Solar Companies Challenge Duke Rules Proposal — Note from NC WARN

March 10, 2022

Fifteen rooftop solar companies from across North Carolina today called on Gov. Roy Cooper to help protect rooftop solar from Duke Energy’s attempt to weaken the industry by changing state rules. See media coverage on WFAE, WUNC, WXII and the Energy News Network and in the Winston-Salem Journal, Greensboro News & Record, News & Observer/Charlotte Observer, Facing South and PV Magazine.

“Killing” of Rooftop Solar in California Previews Duke Energy Fight in NC — News Release from NC WARN

January 24, 2022

Duke Energy’s attack on rooftop solar in North Carolina is being previewed in California as that state’s regulators have proposed rule changes projected to double the payback period for solar homes, cost up to 50,000 jobs and wreck efforts to slow the climate crisis.

Distortions Signal Duke Energy Can’t Honestly Win its Case to Overhaul Solar Rooftop Net Metering in NC — News Release from NC WARN

December 9, 2021

The decade-long Duke Energy campaign to slow-walk renewable power took a predictable turn last week as the monopoly corporation misled regulators and news media in a master-stroke of corporate weasel-wording.

Groups File Complaint that Duke Energy Rigged Net Metering Process to Push Plan to Undermine Rooftop Solar Power in NC — News Release from NC WARN and Appalachian Voices

November 15, 2021

NC WARN and Appalachian Voices today filed a complaint with state regulators about a stakeholder process they say was rigged to favor a Duke Energy scheme that would harm small-scale solar power companies and Duke Energy customers across North Carolina.

Pressure Builds Against Duke Energy Solar Scheme — News Release from NC WARN

May 19, 2021

NC WARN said today that 23 other nonprofit organizations are backing its challenge to a pending Duke Energy proposal they say would limit rooftop solar to the affluent, stifle the growing solar market and amplify the global climate crisis.

Duke Energy Seeks to Undermine Solar Growth in NC – Yet Again — News Release from NC WARN

February 23, 2021

NC WARN, allies to challenge deal they say would limit rooftop solar to the affluent and lock in constant rate hikes for a massive expansion of climate-busting gas-fired power.

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