The world has warmed more than one degree Celsius since the Industrial Revolution. The Paris climate agreement — the nonbinding, unenforceable and already unheeded treaty signed on Earth Day in 2016 — hoped to restrict warming to two degrees. The odds of succeeding, according to a recent study based on current emissions trends, are one in 20.
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In North Carolina, renewable energy losing its edge as a political wedge — Energy News Network
Two Dukes, PR and Biogas from Hog Manure– Letter from NC WARN
Popular Duke Energy solar rebates already tapped out — Charlotte Business Journal
A Pig Issue — Video on Hog Waste
The $3 Billion Plan to Turn Hoover Dam Into a Giant Battery — The New York Times
Hoover Dam helped transform the American West, harnessing the force of the Colorado River — along with millions of cubic feet of concrete and tens of millions of pounds of steel — to power millions of homes and businesses. It was one of the great engineering feats of the 20th century. Now it is the focus of a distinctly 21st-century challenge: turning the dam into a vast reservoir of excess electricity, fed by the solar farms and wind turbines that represent the power sources of the future.
End Fracking — News & Observer
Letter to the editor by William Delamar. The Republican legislators and Duke Energy have done all they can to slow the inevitable transition to clean, renewable energy as defined in HB 589. The continued support for and investment into fracked gas fails to recognize and acknowledge the effect that burning fracked gas and the related unresolved methane leakage issue have on global climate change.