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NC WARN Membership Drive!

November 5, 2013

NC WARN turns 25 this year and we’re celebrating with our first-ever membership drive. If you haven’t joined yet, now’s the time!

Visit our Membership page
and join today.

Thank you in advance!

Clean, Affordable Power Advances as Duke Energy Struggles — WCHL

November 1, 2013

Commentary by Jim Warren. Long-predicted and hopeful changes are quickly occurring in the electric power industry … Duke Energy could become a climate game-changer.

NC Utility Warrior Seeks a Greener Peace — News & Observer

October 27, 2013

Jim Warren…is by vocation a scrapper who for years has taken on one of the biggest powers in North Carolina – its electric utilities.

Natural gas fuels Duke Energy’s 15-year plan — Charlotte Business Journal

October 25, 2013

Duke Energy Corp. customers in the Carolinas looking for relief from rate hikes are likely to be disappointed over the next several years. That is particularly true for customers at Duke Energy Progress, which forecasts the need for as many as five new natural gas plants between now and 2022.

NC WARN Takes Duke Rate Hike to NC Supreme Court — News Release from NC WARN

October 23, 2013

NC WARN is challenging Duke Energy’s monopoly control over North Carolina electricity customers by appealing a highly controversial rate hike to the NC Supreme Court.

Duke Plans Minimal Increase To Renewable Energy Over 15 Years — WFAE

October 23, 2013

Over the next 15 years, Duke Energy plans to increase how much it relies on renewable energy only modestly—from 1 percent next year to just 2 percent in 2028… Jim Warren of environmental group NC WARN says that is too little.

NC Voters Want Competition in Electricity Market — News Release from NC WARN

October 23, 2013

A recent poll shows that 78 percent of North Carolina voters are tired of suffering under the rate-hiking, anti-competitive control of Duke Energy and its subsidiary Progress Energy.

Will Solar Save the Planet? — The Nation

October 21, 2013

Danny Kennedy, a former top Greenpeace activist who helps run the global solar company Sungevity, says that solar and wind power are growing so fast worldwide that they will displace fossil fuels much sooner than usually thought.

More Rate Hikes, Climate-Wrecking Power Plants for Duke Customers — News Release from NC WARN

October 16, 2013

New filings show Duke-Progress risking corporate death spiral by ignoring rapid US shift toward solar, wind, energy storage… Duke Energy and subsidiary Progress Energy yesterday filed long-range plans to stick with a 20th-century business model.

Shutdown brings furloughs to Nuclear Regulatory Commission — WTVD

October 10, 2013

The latest casualty of the federal shutdown means furloughs for thousands of workers at the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.

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