Attorney General among critics of gold-plated, wasteful grid projects and attacks on non-residential solar buried in separate rate case; a ruling is forthcoming Duke Energy Carolinas sought an approval short-cut by hiding $170 million in over-priced grid projects under thousands of pages in a mostly unrelated rate-hike case. It did …
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NC WARN Denounces Duke Energy Carbon Plan — Statement from NC WARN
Legal Challenge Filed vs Duke Energy’s Once-Hidden Attack on Commercial-Nonprofit Solar — NC WARN News Release
NC WARN also redoubles call for Governor, Attorney General to demand transparency in utility’s two-pronged attack on local solar, as “customer calculator” remains a failure Unable to openly justify a major rule change for solar used by businesses, faith groups, schools and nonprofits, Duke Energy buried its proposal under thousands …
Powerful New Challengers Question Duke Energy’s $10 Billion Grid & Land Seizure Scheme — NC WARN News Release
Attorney General, regulators’ Public Staff among skeptics of Duke’s inflated cost projections and failure to consider cheaper alternatives that can help immediately with climate crisis It’s no wonder that Duke Energy hid plans to waste billions on new and expanded power line corridors, but forces are already aligning against the …
Duke Energy’s Solar Sneak Attack is Scandalous — NC WARN News Release
As a fiercely contested, two-year challenge over rules for residential solar power heads into the courts, Duke Energy is quietly seeking changes that would similarly damage the state’s solar power companies and their business and nonprofit customers. Today some 68 pro-solar nonprofits and businesses are calling for Gov. Roy Cooper and Attorney General Josh Stein to insist on full and open proceedings.