The new law is necessary because the discretion given to the NCUC by the General Assembly in 2021 was abused.
As Trump has declared a national energy emergency, an examination of the handling of the energy crisis is in order.
Whether it's attracting new high-energy businesses, like data centers, allowing for a more traditional manufacturing resurgence; or lowering energy costs and uncertainty for families, canceling the misguided allegiance to carbon neutrality is vital to empowering the people of NC, now and in the future.
Environmental groups have, surprisingly, been opposed to the shift to nuclear energy, citing higher infrastructure costs while downplaying its reduced carbon emissions.
Critics say the lawsuit against Duke Energy is just more political theater. The Carrboro town council alleges the utility misled the public about fossil fuel emissions and the timeline for renewable energy adoption.
Moving all crypto production to the US would add enormous energy demands, likely leading to more-frequent outages and higher energy costs for residents, especially of net electricity-importer states such as NC.
Editor’s Note: This piece is adapted from a column that first appeared in the American Institute for Economic Research. IMPOVERISHING US IS NOT THE SOLUTION The Biden administration’s term of choice for the ridiculously named Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) is “historic.” One reason is its “climate change” promises. The monetary costs alone are enormous, which is strangely a point of...
Editor’s note: This story was updated Wednesday, March 2, to include new banned products. Russian vodka is no longer available in North Carolina. The N.C. Alcoholic Beverage Control Commission, through an executive order, has pulled the products from its more than 430 stores across the state. Executive Order No. 251, which Gov. Roy Cooper signed...
Gov. Roy Cooper has signed into law House Bill 951, which will change how power companies, namely, Duke Energy, produce energy and how they can charge customers. The bill, known as “Energy Solutions for North Carolina,” was introduced in June and has gotten bipartisan support. “I am grateful for the hard work that was done...
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...
Energy poverty is a serious issue. Research shows that higher energy prices cost lives. In 2018 the U.S. Energy Information Agency showed that one in three families struggled to pay energy bills, and one out of every five families had to forego food or medicine to do so. That same year, Bjorn Lomborg wrote in...
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