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Sharing Solar with Affordable Housing Tenants
Through the Sharing Solar fund, NC WARN’s Solarize programs help low-income homeowners and renters benefit from solar. In 2015, we put solar on land trust apartments in Durham. It’s expected to save the 4 tenants $1,700 per year. Read more.
As planet warms, the world’s lakes are heating up even faster — The Washington Post
Climate crisis won’t wait for world leaders — The News & Observer
Environmental groups question planned Duke plant — Asheville Citizen Times
Green groups want Duke Energy to cut the size of its planned Asheville gas plant — Charlotte Business Journal
Groups Contest Duke Energy’s Application for New Gas-fired Plant — News Release from NC WARN
State regulators must fully examine Duke Energy’s upcoming application to build a large gas-fired power plant or reject the plant. The project is already highly controversial and will grow more so as the public learns that the plant is not needed, that it would accelerate the climate crisis and would create the risk of soaring electricity rates due to the extreme volatility of natural gas supply and pricing.
Paris Agreement of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change
Plant Vogtle’s Price Tag Climbs to $21 Billion as Commission Experts Predict Further Delays and Cost Increases for Southern Company’s Proposed Reactors — News Release from The Southern Alliance for Clean Energy
During yesterday’s day-long hearing before the Georgia Public Service Commission (PSC) on the 13thsemi-annual Vogtle Construction Monitoring report, expert witnesses on behalf of the PSC predicted that additional delays beyond the current 39-month delay are likely for the two nuclear reactors under construction at Plant Vogtle near Waynesboro, Georgia along the Savannah River. Though five years into the project, only 26 percent of construction is complete.
Africa is set to Burn — Media Advisory from Friends of the Earth Africa
The Paris draft agreement says its purpose is to limit global warming to ‘well below’ 2 degrees and to ‘pursue efforts’ to limit it to 1.5 degrees. But it cuts all links with the means of doing this and in reality puts the world on track for 3 to 4 degrees warming. That means 5 to 8 degrees warming for Africa with terrible heatwaves, droughts and floods.