Land seizure, secrecy, broken trust are keys to Duke’s unneeded grid expansions A rural community in South Carolina is vigorously challenging Duke Energy’s plans to plow through residential and business properties with high voltage transmission towers, lines and a substation. The energy giant has responded by invoking eminent domain, a …
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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 …
New Studies Boost Case for Local Solar-Plus-Storage — NC WARN News Release
Duke Energy seeks to block regulatory and media/public debate over NC WARN’s sweeping solar alternative to Dukes’ PRO-Carbon Plan The renowned Rocky Mountain Institute (RMI) and the University of Texas-Austin (UTA) each have new studies showing that using clean energy resources at the local level can save customers millions, protect …
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 …
Sweeping New Approach for Electricity System in NC — NC WARN News Release
NC WARN to state leaders: Stop suppression of local solar; ALL customers can benefit by sharing solar costs just as we pay for dirty power – through the rate system With the global climate crisis at a point of desperation, power bills soaring and Duke Energy stifling renewables while aggressively …
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 …
Duke Energy on Defense at NC Court of Appeals over Regulators’ Agreement to Slash Solar Incentives — News Release from NC WARN & EWG
Leading solar company official says widespread damage already underway; outcome of case is pivotal for clean energy, climate efforts Lawyers for Duke Energy were on defense today before the North Carolina Court of Appeals* over the decision last year by state regulators, at the behest of the monopoly power company, …
BREAKING: Duke’s Destruction of Rooftop Solar — NC WARN News Release / N&O Article
The article below is tough news on a vitally important topic. Our challenge to Save NC Solar is now 3.5 years old and still roiling. NC WARN and allies have a very strong case at the Court of Appeals – we intend to reverse the regulators’ rotten, pro-Duke ruling. NC WARN is …