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Report Argues Offshore Wind Development Activities Are Killing Whales and...
On November 2, Save Long Beach Island released a report arguing that offshore wind energy vessel surveys were responsible for the recent spike in whale and dolphin deaths off the coast of New Jersey....
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Discussing the Costs of North Carolina’s Different Electricity Generating...
Electricity from existing power plants is cheapest, and state law lets the cost of building new power plants fall on electricity consumers through increases in their power billsNew solar and wind...
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How Cooper and Clean Energy Cronies Use Blackouts to Argue for More Blackouts
Amy O. Cooke, retired Locke CEO, wrote a piece yesterday in Carolina Journal discussing the strange take in response to the Christmas Eve 2022 blackouts offered by Gov. Roy Cooper and his renewable...
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Duke’s Worrisome Text
Late afternoon on Thursday, January 4, customers of Duke Energy received a text message alerting them to expected high energy demand the next day and requesting they “take steps to minimize power use...
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How a Budget Provision Keeps the Cooper Administration from Creating a Tax...
The Biden administration seeks to fund extreme environmentalist initiatives at the state level, including cap and trade programsSuch programs amount to “an energy-rationing scheme that acts as an...
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Report Finds Vast Disparity Between Computer Models’ Predictions of Climate...
Pres. Joe Biden, Gov. Roy Cooper, and other leaders and bureaucrats would force wrenching changes to how people power their homes, drive, eat, and more in order to stave off a “climate emergency”...
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To Save North Carolina’s Endangered Farmland, Stop Overbuilding Solar Facilities
A recent report placed North Carolina second in the nation for threatened farmland from residential developmentMeanwhile, the amount of new solar facilities sought by Duke Energy could endanger more...
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Bombshell: Electricity Customers and Taxpayers Are the Same People
My recent piece in Washington Examiner looks at the issue of massive subsidization of certain energy sources and then pretending they’re not expensive. It also criticizes the central planning behind...
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Three Dead Whales in Three Days
From Corolla, North Carolina, to Virginia Beach, Virginia, three dead whales washed ashore in three days in early MarchInvestigations and studies from environmentalists, whale conservationists, and...
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Rising Power Bills Stem from Bad Policy Choices and Incentives
Power bills are going up quickly in North CarolinaThe problem is multifaceted, starting with the state’s Carbon Plan to close down working coal plants and dictate how to replace them and prepare for...
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Model Bill To Align Power Company Incentives with Customers’ Needs
Under current law, a power utility in North Carolina can expect full cost recovery and profits on building new power plants, regardless of their reliabilityThis structure incentivizes overbuilding the...
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WRAL Nixes ‘Renewable Energy Drives Higher Power Bills’ Headline
Raleigh news station WRAL has a consumer reports feature aimed at helping North Carolinians save money and be better consumers. It’s called “5 On Your Side.” On April 11, WRAL’s “5 On Your Side”...
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How “Only Pay for What You Get” Would Help North Carolina Electricity Customers
Model legislation known as the “Only Pay for What You Get” Act would let utilities earn a profit on only the reliable portions of power plantsAnalysis showed that, given current expansion plans, Only...
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Virginia Offshore Wind Project Sued to Save North Atlantic Right Whales
A lawsuit against the Coastal Virginia Offshore Wind project seeks redress from the courts to uphold the Endangered Species Act and save the critically endangered North Atlantic Right WhalesAmong...
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Lawsuit: Feds Zeroed Out Expected Right Whale Deaths from Virginia Offshore Wind
A lawsuit against a massive offshore wind project in Virginia says the project will result in far more North Atlantic Right Whale deaths than the critically endangered population can sustainThe suit...
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Congress Should Stop the EPA’s Dangerous Power Plant Rule
The EPA power plant rule would effectively close down all baseload coal power plants and prevent them from being replaced with natural gas plantsThe rule coincides dangerously with the Biden...
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Ecological Disaster from One Broken Offshore Wind Turbine Blade
Last week in The Carolina Journal, I discussed an emerging ecological disaster with ramifications for North Carolina. Policymakers should heed the warning. On July 13, a single blade broke on a wind...
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Without Nuclear, a Carbon-Neutral Grid Needs an Unthinkable Amount of Solar
A new report estimates how much energy infrastructure North Carolina would need to satisfy a recent state law requiring carbon neutrality by 2050 The report charts two paths: a Renewable Scenario and...
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“Jaw-Dropping”: How Much Wind Capacity Is Needed for Carbon Neutrality...
A new report charts two paths — a Renewable Scenario and a Nuclear Scenario — to satisfy a recent state law requiring carbon neutrality in electricity generation by 2050 The Renewable Scenario would...
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More Dead Whales Off the North Carolina Coast
On December 21, the News & Observer reported that a North Atlantic right whale entangled in fishing gear was spotted off North Carolina’s Outer Banks. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric...
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