Op-Ed by Jim Warren and Jon Sanders. What would inspire a prominent free-market nonprofit and an assertive environmental nonprofit to join forces in a very public way? Mutual concern over policies that keep the cost of a basic household necessity higher than it ought to be – not a luxury good, but something no family should be without.
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Duke-Progress Merger OK’d by Appeals Court — News Release from NC WARN
The NC Court of Appeals today denied NC WARN’s challenge to the 2012 corporate merger that created the world’s largest electric utility. We believe the Court erred and we are likely to appeal to the NC Supreme Court.
Group to protest Duke Energy rates, pay-in-person fees — WNCN
The Triangle Duke Energy Action group will hold a rally Friday to call on Duke Energy to stop making people pay a fee if they pay their electric bills in person.
Duke Energy Action Group (DAG)
Activists will hold a rally Friday to call on Duke Energy to stop making people pay a fee if they pay their electric bills in person.The Triangle Duke Energy Action group plans to gather at a check cashing business in Durham to protest what they say are high rates.
NC WARN and the John Locke Foundation Team Up For Electricity Competition — WUNC
The State of Things host Frank Stasio talks with Jim Warren, NC WARN’s executive director, and Jon Sanders, the John Locke Foundation’s director of regulatory studies, about the two groups’ public forum calling for increased competition in the power industry and challenging Duke Energy’s monopoly on electricity in the state.
Strange Bedfellows
NC WARN and the conservative John Locke Foundation agree that increased competition in the North Carolina electricity market would help customers benefit from the rapid changes occurring in the U.S. electricity marketplace. The groups are sponsoring two public forums.
Read more and watch videos of the forums.
Read our news release about the collaboration.
Read the Locke Foundation news release.
NC WARN and John Locke on The State of Things
Read an op-ed by the two groups in the News & Observer
Strange Bedfellows to Call for Electricity Competition — News Release from NC WARN
In a state where economic, energy and environmental concerns grow more intensely intertwined, the assertive environmental nonprofit group NC WARN is working with the conservative nonprofit John Locke Foundation to sponsor two public forums calling for increased competition in the electricity market.
Critics question whether Duke-Progress merger really saved consumers money — WNCN
Attorney John Runkle asks, “Where are the savings for consumers? The merger was billed as a better deal for North Carolina consumers. Duke has gone up in rates in 2009, 2011 and then last year…Progress had their first rate case in over 20 years, so the rates are going up.” Runkle represents the energy watchdog group NC WARN, which is still in the process of appealing the merger.
Proven Solar Power Program Lands on Durham Rooftops — News Release from NC WARN
NC WARN has launched a program that expands solar power on homes and businesses. The Durham-based clean energy nonprofit announced Solarize Durham today at a press conference at the office of Yes! Solar Solutions, a locally-owned company that has been chosen to install systems for Solarize Durham.
Duke-Progress Merger Argued Before NC Court of Appeals — News Release from NC WARN
The NC Court of Appeals will hear oral arguments tomorrow in NC WARN’s challenge to a 2012 corporate merger that created the world’s largest electric utility.