At their Jan. 24 meeting, the Asheville City Council appointed members to a new independent review committee in the wake of last month’s water system failure, which left much of the service area without potable water during the holiday season. Beginning on Dec. 24, several water-treatment plants in the Asheville area began to experience issues,...
Raleigh is asking the N.C. Court of Appeals to take up a case of developers challenging city fees charged for new water and sewer users. Millions of dollars are at stake. Lawyers for the capital city filed paperwork Thursday with the state’s second-highest court.
A new audit revealed that the eastern North Carolina town of Belhaven failed to cut off utilities for 629 past-due accounts, leaving $429,888 in unpaid bills as of June 2015. Town officials say they inherited the problems from previous administrators, a contention challenged in the audit. Belhaven Town Manager Woody Jarvis acknowledges that the town has had...
RALEIGH — New energy mandates could drive up North Carolina’s regionally high electricity rates, even though consumers have shown little interest in paying more for renewable energy sources, a John Locke Foundation Spotlight report says.
RALEIGH — The N.C. Utilities Commission last week granted permission for the full merger of a gas startup into its partial owner, Piedmont Natural Gas Corp. Eastern North Carolina Natural Gas, which serves 14 counties in the northeastern part of the state that were previously without service, received $188.3 million of $200 million in gas bond funds that voters approved in 1998. However, ENCNG is unable to continue as a separate entity because it does not have a sufficient number of customers to sustain operations.
