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Is North Carolina So Desperate for Jobs that It Makes Even Offshore Wind Seem...
Pres. Biden and Gov. Cooper tout government intervention to force offshore wind energy development off North Carolina beaches as a way to create jobs and grow the economyExpected electricity price...
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How Much More Would You Spend on Electricity for Tens of Thousands of Jobs Lost?
The question isn’t whether a massive buildout of offshore wind capacity off North Carolina beaches would lead to fewer jobs and less economic growth than otherwise, but how extensive the losses would...
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Duke’s Carbon Plan scenarios all flunk the reliability test
A 2021 law requires that the Utilities Commission and Duke Energy set a plan to cut CO2 emissions from electricity generation by 70% (from 2005 levels) by around 2030 and be “carbon neutral” by...
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Estimated Impacts to Electricity Costs and Reliability of Duke’s Portfolio 1
Background: Duke Energy Progress, LLC and Duke Energy Carolinas, LLC (jointly, “Duke”) recently filed its Carolinas Carbon Plan with the North Carolina Utilities Commission (UC) as directed by House...
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Estimated Impacts to Cost and Reliability of Duke’s Portfolio 2
Background: Duke Energy Progress, LLC and Duke Energy Carolinas, LLC (jointly, “Duke”) recently filed its Carolinas Carbon Plan with the North Carolina Utilities Commission (UC) as directed by House...
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Estimated Impacts to Cost and Reliability of Duke’s Portfolio 3
Background: Duke Energy Progress, LLC and Duke Energy Carolinas, LLC (jointly, “Duke”) recently filed its Carolinas Carbon Plan with the North Carolina Utilities Commission (UC) as directed by House...
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Estimated Impacts to Cost and Reliability of Duke’s Portfolio 4
Background: Duke Energy Progress, LLC and Duke Energy Carolinas, LLC (jointly, “Duke”) recently filed its Carolinas Carbon Plan with the North Carolina Utilities Commission (UC) as directed by House...
View ArticleFear Congressional Regulation, Not the Speech
On September 14, 2022, Locke CEO Amy Cooke testified before U.S. House Committee on Natural Resources Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations regarding the importance of free and open debate in...
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A Decarbonization Portfolio Must Be Low-Cost and Reliable
A law passed in 2021 required that the “decarbonization” plan approved by the state Utilities Commission to be reasonable, set forth the least-cost path to compliance, and maintain or improve grid...
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Hurricane Winds Can Destroy Offshore Wind Turbines
Research has estimated that nearly half the turbines in wind facilities placed in the most vulnerable areas — including the hurricane-prone waters of North Carolina — would face destruction from...
View ArticleBiden Promises to Shut Down Coal Plants, Replace Them With Wind and Solar
Andrew Miller writes for Fox Business about the president’s latest energy-related pronouncement. President Biden said Friday that coal plants are too expensive to operate, and “we’re going to be...
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Reports Warn: Electric Grids Based on Renewables Don’t Need Bad Weather to Fail
It seems like just a few days ago that The News & Observer (N&O) was running banner headlines and filing multiple stories about how bad power outages are for people. Now, even as North Carolina...
View ArticleFLASHBACK: Cooper Is Steering North Carolina Towards Electricity Blackouts
For years we have been warning about the dangers of replacing readily available, highly efficient, working power plants with highly expensive, extremely unreliable “renewable” sources — solar and wind...
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How Do the Carbon Plan’s Mandates Align with State Law? Part 1
By law, the Utilities Commission’s Carbon Plan must chart the “reasonable,” “least cost path” to emissions reductions with “least cost planning of generation” that would “maintain and improve upon the...
View ArticleHow Do the Carbon Plan’s Mandates Align with State Law? Part 2
To meet the law’s requirements of being least-cost while maintaining grid reliability, the Utilities Commission’s initial “Carbon Plan” sees natural gas as a “bridge fuel” until sufficient...
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How Do the Carbon Plan’s Mandates Align with State Law? Part 3
The Utilities Commission’s initial Carbon Plan directs Duke to go ahead and procure 2,350 MWs of new solar generation — that’s on top of the 1,200 MWs of solar they told Duke to procure just last...
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How Do the Carbon Plan’s Mandates Align with State Law? Part 4
The Utilities Commission wants Duke to model taking on onshore wind generation and study offshore wind generationOnshore wind generation is very expensive, needs costly transmission upgrades, and also...
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How Do the Carbon Plan’s Mandates Align with State Law? Part 5
The Carbon Plan acknowledges that Duke Energy Progress (DEP) customers pay electricity rates that are 19 percent higher than Duke Energy Carolinas (DEC) customers, because DEP has more solar and less...
View ArticleGreen Hydrogen Isn’t Nearly As Simple As Promised
The Wall Street Journal on February 16 took careful note of “Europe’s Lesson in Green Hydrogen.” That lesson places significant doubt on hydrogen as the “carbon-neutral fuel of the future”: A series of...
View ArticleFact Check: How Many Wind Energy Manufacturing Jobs Does North Carolina Have,...
The Cooper administration’s announcement of a “Memorandum of Understanding” with the nation of Denmark to share “knowledge, data, and best practices” over offshore wind energy development predictably...
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