According to a report from the National Rural Electric Cooperative Association (NREC), North Carolina is at an elevated risk blackouts this winter as a damaged and vulnerable electric grid faces the high-energy demands of winter weather. The study finds Hurricanes Helene and Milton have left poles, transformers and substations battered, and extreme cold could push...
As an advocate for conservative, small government climate solutions, I was proud to showcase the important work happening in Asheville as an example for the rest of the country.
Gov. Cooper & Sec. Granholm create new jobs in partnership with Siemens Energy under tax credit program.
During this legislative session alone Gov. Roy Cooper has vetoed nineteen bills from the Republican-led state legislature and fourteen have been overridden. On Tuesday, the remaining five are on the calendar.
Andre Beliveau, John Locke Foundation strategic projects and government affairs manager, speaks in favor of Senate Bill 678, Promote Clean Energy. Beliveau offered these comments during an April 25, 2023, meeting of the Senate Rules Committee.
As Russian aggression disrupts stability around the globe, we feel it here at home. Our economy continues to experience the ripple effect of President Biden’s dependence on foreign oil. As gas prices go up, the cost to produce and transport goods also increase. This means we don’t only pay more at the pump; we pay...
House Bill 951 would retire coal plants, increase natural gas, and mandate increases in renewable capacity, but high costs and erosion of N.C. Utilities Commission authorities unite stakeholders in opposition. It is a rarity for large, consequential, far-reaching legislative reforms to engender a consensus across a spectrum of stakeholders, but the energy reform of House...
Are offshore wind farms a job creating investment that makes North Carolina’s energy portfolio more environmentally friendly? That is debatable, but, more important, who gets to make the call one way or another? Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson doesn’t think it should be the left up to one partisan politician, and so, when Gov. Roy Cooper...
The News & Observer writes unquestioningly about another renewable energy industry report that promotes ongoing government favoritism for renewable energy. “Clean energy is becoming an increasingly important part of North Carolina’s economy,” begins the N&O. But the report itself, “Renewables on the Rise 2018” from the Environment N.C. Research & Policy Center and Frontier Group, reads like...
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