'an overt dereliction of duty by DOE'
Published: Wednesday, October 19th, 2022 @ 6:34 am
By: Daily Wire
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How the push to adopt solar energy for homes may ironically lead to dangerous heavy metal contamination
Published: Sunday, July 24th, 2022 @ 9:04 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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green energy boondoggle and Russian gas to blame
Published: Wednesday, April 20th, 2022 @ 9:03 am
By: John Steed
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The N.C. Court of Appeals has affirmed state regulators’ ruling against a proposed solar energy plant for North Carolina.
Published: Wednesday, January 19th, 2022 @ 9:37 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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If your business model requires ongoing subsidies and incentives, your business isn’t selling a product, it’s having to lobby nonstop. ZeroHedge reports on a major new threat to the rooftop solar business in California.
Published: Friday, January 14th, 2022 @ 11:27 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Collin Anderson of the Washington Free Beacon highlights inconvenient facts for solar energy advocates.
Published: Tuesday, April 13th, 2021 @ 2:28 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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It's a feature in reporting about solar energy to discuss how dramatically its costs have declined.
Published: Monday, December 30th, 2019 @ 7:35 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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In its application to build a solar facility on Gov. Roy Cooper’s Nash County property, Durham-based Strata Solar said its generating capacity would be about 5 megawatts.
Published: Sunday, May 26th, 2019 @ 11:37 am
By: Carolina Journal
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As state and federal agencies investigate GenX in groundwater, Carolina Journal has learned GenX and its family of unregulated emerging contaminants are present in some of the solar panels increasingly dotting North Carolina's landscape
Published: Wednesday, July 25th, 2018 @ 10:46 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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The sun keeps shining on North Carolina's renewable energy investors - at taxpayers' expense
Published: Monday, July 9th, 2018 @ 2:57 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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This week the administration of President Donald Trump announced a massive tariff against imported solar photovoltaic panels
Published: Wednesday, February 21st, 2018 @ 9:15 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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The Beaufort County Solar Farm Ordinance Committee will hold a meeting from 10:00 AM to 12:00 PM on Monday, September 11, 2017
Published: Friday, September 1st, 2017 @ 11:36 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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State Rep. Chris Millis says the renewable energy industry hoodwinked North Carolina about the costs of giving special deals to renewable producers, which exploded from an initial projection of less than $5 million to $1.6 billion in payouts through 2016
Published: Friday, May 26th, 2017 @ 5:11 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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In a major investigative story on WRAL News, reporter Mark Binker outlines an investigation by the U.S. Department of Energy of potential illegal self-dealing
Published: Friday, January 15th, 2016 @ 1:49 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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The Tennessee Valley Authority produced a recent study that found the premium it pays to solar energy producers is about 67 percent higher than solar's actual value (about 12 cents per kilowatt versus 7.2 cents/kw). As reported in the Chattanooga Times Free Press...
Published: Wednesday, January 6th, 2016 @ 5:52 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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We hear a lot of lip service from Republicans in Raleigh about the beauty of the free market.
Published: Thursday, October 8th, 2015 @ 4:27 am
By: Brant Clifton
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An interesting item suddenly appeared this week in the N.C. Senate farm bill. This item made its appearance a few short days after the new state budget was finally approved. Among other things, the new budget ended North Carolina's longtime, exceedingly generous 35 percent investment tax credit...
Published: Monday, September 28th, 2015 @ 12:06 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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An environmental group lauding North Carolina for ranking No. 4 nationally in solar energy capacity agrees with foes of renewable energy mandates — the state's purported boom in clean energy mostly results from the government forcing utilities to purchase the higher-cost energy, along with...
Published: Wednesday, September 16th, 2015 @ 3:25 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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In 2005, the North Carolina General Assembly established a 35 percent credit for investing in renewable energy. This credit was slated to sunset at the end of 2010. By 2010-11, the Tax Research Division of the Department of Revenue estimated, the credits taken would cost the state $5.65 million...
Published: Wednesday, September 9th, 2015 @ 10:53 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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In March 2015, the North Carolina Department of Environment and Natural Resources published "The Energy Report: A Snapshot of North Carolina's Energy Portfolio Seven Years After Session Law 2007-397."
Published: Tuesday, May 26th, 2015 @ 5:58 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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What do President Barack Obama and a growing number of Republicans in the North Carolina General Assembly have in common? The answer - their love of major solar energy companies - Big Solar, for short.
Published: Thursday, April 23rd, 2015 @ 4:45 am
By: Civitas Insitute
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There's a corner in my house that is highly attractive to cats. In a few short years, this place has gone from somewhere no cat would ever be seen to an area heavily visited by kitties. One might describe this spot as an Emerging Leader in Cat Corners.
Published: Wednesday, January 28th, 2015 @ 7:44 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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There's a corner in my house that is highly attractive to cats. In a few short years, this place has gone from somewhere no cat would ever be seen to an area heavily visited by kitties. One might describe this spot as an Emerging Leader in Cat Corners.
Published: Saturday, January 17th, 2015 @ 10:10 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Senator Kay Hagan's husband and son created a solar energy contracting company in August 2010, and then, using $250,644 in federal stimulus grant funds, her husband hired that same company to install solar panels at a building he owns.
Published: Saturday, October 11th, 2014 @ 1:36 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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A new poll released by the North Carolina Sustainable Energy Association shows strong support from North Carolinians for more renewable energy. That's the story.
Published: Monday, June 2nd, 2014 @ 2:08 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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In a recent press release, it was announced that "Governor Pat McCrory ... has proclaimed June as Solar Energy Month in North Carolina." In doing so, the governor...
Published: Wednesday, June 12th, 2013 @ 1:08 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Governor Pat McCrory announced today that he has proclaimed June as Solar Energy Month in North Carolina, stressing the role the growing industry is playing in creating jobs and helping make our state and nation energy independent.
Published: Thursday, June 6th, 2013 @ 8:51 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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