Carolinas Clean Energy Business Association
The Carolinas' Voice for the Clean Energy IndustryFocus Areas
This page provides helpful links and resources related to CCEBA’s core legislative and regulatory work. The links are organized around topic areas and are updated frequently.
Energy Storage
- How Standalone Energy Storage Will Transform Electricity: An Interview with East Point Energy
- Carolinas CEBA Negotiates Energy Storage Rights For Independent Power Producers
- Docket N0. E-100, Sub 101- Order Approving SISC Avoidance Requirements and Addressing Solar-Plus-Storage Qualifying Facility Installations
- The Importance of Energy Storage in the Carolinas: An Interview with Ron DiFelice
Integrated Resource Plans in North and South Carolina
- Synapse Economics Report
- Docket No. E-100, Sub 165 with comments submitted to N.C. Utilities Commission Evaluation of 2020 Duke Energy IRP
Interconnection and Transmission
Land Use
Market Reform
- Brattle Group: Potential Benefits of a Regional Wholesale Power Market to North Carolina’s Electricity Customers
- Duke University Nicholas Institute: Evaluating Options for Enhancing Wholesale Competition and Implications for the Southeastern United States
- Clark Hill Attorney Steven Shparber Discussed Energy Market Reform in the Carolinas
- Is the Southeast Energy Exchange Market (SEEM) the Utility Market Reform the Carolinas Need?
- Who is Afraid of a Study Bill?
North Carolina Carbon Plan - House Bill 951
- CCEBA Statement on the Carbon Plan
- Docket No. E-100, Sub 179, with comments submitted to N.C. Utilities Commission Evaluation of Duke Energy’s Carbon Plan.
- Carolinas CEBA Files Carbon Plan Comments
- Duke Energy’s Carbon Plan: What Missed the Mark and What Should Be Changed To Protect Ratepayers
From The Blog
NCSEA Releases 2025 Update to their North Carolina Solar Land Use and Agriculture Study
A report from the North Carolina Sustainable Energy Association (NCSEA) released in September provided an update on how utility-scale solar (USS) interacts with North Carolina’s agricultural landscape. North Carolina now hosts 773 USS installations with a combined...
The Carolinas rank among the top 10 U.S. states for farmland lost to real estate development—how does this compare to energy land use?
The Carolinas’ landscapes are defined by forests, farms, and communities that shape the region’s culture, economy, and environment. While working lands and natural areas remain dominant, the states face growing challenges from rapid residential and urban development....
The rapid rise of large loads presents both a challenge and an opportunity: CCEBA offers comments on NCUC large load proceedings
On October 14th, the North Carolina Utilities Commission (NCUC) will hold a technical conference on one of the state’s most pressing challenges: how to power the massive new electric loads driven by North Carolina’s economic development, advanced manufacturing, and...
Carolinas Clean Energy Business Association Statement on Proposed Duke Energy CP-IRP
The proposed Duke Energy Carbon Plan illustrates the difficulty of effective energy planning in an uncertain policy environment. Federal tax hikes on parts of the energy supply chain paired with new government red tape will both reduce electricity sources and raise...
A Smarter Grid is Both-And, not Either-Or
Last summer, Brattle Group Principal Michael Hagerty testified on CCEBA’s behalf before the South Carolina Public Service Commission (PSC). He delivered a clear message: the path to a reliable and affordable power system doesn’t require choosing between traditional...
Southeast Energy Opportunities Require a Bigger, Better, Faster Grid: Business Leaders Call for Regional Transmission Planning
Brattle Report Highlights Value of Regional Grid Investments — Long-term Regional Planning Offers Billions in Savings and Greater Reliability to Support Growing Southeast Economy April 2, 2025 – A new study from The Brattle Group, with support from the Southern...
From Coalition for Community Solar Access: “American Legislative Exchange Council Votes Unanimously for Community Solar and Agrivoltaics Permitting for Farmers”
Shared from Coalition for Community Solar Access; the original source can be found here. "The American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC), America’s largest membership organization of state legislators dedicated to the principles of free markets and federalism,...
Solar Energy Estimated to Generate a $19 Billion Boon for South Carolina’s Economy by 2035: Report
Study estimates a fourfold increase in the annual economic impact of the solar industry by 2035 if solar production increases at the projected rates reported in the most recent IRPs filed by the state’s three primary utilities The cumulative economic impact of the...