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North Carolina groups fight regulator’s order to cancel solar for 2026
Last month, North Carolina’s top utility regulator abruptly halted Duke Energy’s solar farm investments for the year — an unforeseen blow to an industry already reeling from tariffs and a hostile federal government. Now, clean energy businesses and advocates have filed a motion to cancel the order, which they argue…
Why North Carolina’s electric co-ops are turning to grid batteries
In July 2022, a fierce summer storm rocked Wake Electric , a North Carolina cooperative serving nearly 60,000 households and other customers from the dense suburbs of Raleigh, the state capital, to rural areas along the Virginia border and in the coastal plain. Wind downed lines and knocked out power for thousands…
North Carolina bill would prop up coal until new nuclear is approved
North Carolina’s Republican-led House of Representatives passed a sweeping energy bill last week called the Ratepayer Protection Act, with backers saying it would reduce energy costs for families across the state. But Democrats and other critics of the legislation, Senate Bill 730 , are skeptical of that claim, for…
Virginia slaps data centers with big new tax — but no climate rules
Virginia Gov. Abigail Spanberger and her fellow state Democrats romped to a governing trifecta last year, pledging to curtail rising electric bills and ensure power-hungry data centers pay their fair share without undermining the state’s clean energy transition. But the party now looks poised to fall short on those…
Duke Energy proposes special rules for data centers in North Carolina
For months, clean energy and consumer advocates in North Carolina have pressed Duke Energy to follow the national trend and create special rules and prices for data centers. The state’s predominant utility insisted such rules were unnecessary, rejecting claims that the power-hungry facilities could overwhelm the grid…