by Suzanne Sabin | Oct 5, 2021 | Renewable Energy Land Use, Utility Scale Solar
A New Kind of Farming Agriculture is a vital part of North Carolina’s economy. There are 52,000 farms in the state, encompassing 27 percent of our land area. But now, there’s a new crop: Solar electricity generation. North Carolina ranks third in the nation in...
by Suzanne Sabin | Jun 15, 2021 | Duke Energy Integrated Resource Plan (IRP) Critique
Photo courtesy of Business North Carolina from January 2019 article on the now abandoned Atlantic Coast Pipeline Duke Energy Plan Could Leave NC Customers Paying Off Nearly $5 Billion for Obsolete Technology A recent report by the Energy Transition Institute shows...
by Suzanne Sabin | May 31, 2021 | Energy Market Reform
Image courtesy of the Charlotte Business Journal In July of 2020, reporters discovered that Duke Energy had been in secret negotiations with at least sixteen other utilities to create SEEM — a bilateral trading market. Duke had maintained secrecy despite having...
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