Center for Food, Power, and Life
The Center for Food, Power, and Life aims to protect and expand freedom in the vital policy areas of agriculture, energy, and the environment, which we believe will enhance North Carolinians' lives by better access to food, power, and more of life's needs and wants.
How Do the Carbon Plan’s Mandates Align with State Law? Part 3
The Utilities Commission’s initial Carbon Plan directs Duke to go ahead and procure 2,350 MWs of new solar generation — that’s on top of the 1,200 MWs of solar they…
How Do the Carbon Plan’s Mandates Align with State Law? Part 2
To meet the law’s requirements of being least-cost while maintaining grid reliability, the Utilities Commission’s initial “Carbon Plan” sees natural gas as a “bridge fuel” until sufficient zero-emissions resources “are…
How Do the Carbon Plan’s Mandates Align with State Law? Part 1
By law, the Utilities Commission’s Carbon Plan must chart the “reasonable,” “least cost path” to emissions reductions with “least cost planning of generation” that would “maintain and improve upon the…
Power Generation During Blackouts Shows the Importance of Nuclear
Hourly grid data during the Christmas Eve blackouts showed wobbles in increased coal and natural gas generation, where three plants experienced equipment failures that kept those generation sources from contributing…
New-Normaling: How They Try to Get You to Accept Bad Policy Outcomes
Preface: The political class has drifted far from Lincoln’s vision of a government “of the people, by the people, for the people” — something that those words and the solemn…
NCUC’s Initial Carbon Plan Raises Questions
Last Friday, the North Carolina Utilities Commission (NCUC) issued a press release announcing it completed the initial Carbon Plan, which they were mandated to do per House Bill 951, a…
Statement on NC’s Carbon Plan: Amy O. Cooke
RALEIGH – A statement from Amy O. Cooke, CEO of the John Locke Foundation: “While China emits enough carbon dioxide to eliminate any gains North Carolina makes in a matter of minutes, the…
FLASHBACK: Cooper Is Steering North Carolina Towards Electricity Blackouts
For years we have been warning about the dangers of replacing readily available, highly efficient, working power plants with highly expensive, extremely unreliable “renewable” sources — solar and wind —…
Reports Warn: Electric Grids Based on Renewables Don’t Need Bad Weather to Fail
It seems like just a few days ago that The News & Observer (N&O) was running banner headlines and filing multiple stories about how bad power outages are for people.…
Moore County Substation Attack Was One of Well Over 100 This Year
The attack on the Moore County substation that left over 45,000 homes and businesses without powers for days was one in a recent string of such attacks. Worse, such attacks…
Mere Minutes: What ‘China Carbon Time’ Means for North Carolinians
In the name of “fighting climate change,” forcing Gov. Roy Cooper’s reductions in North Carolina’s electricity-based CO2 emissions would cost $141.7 billion to $162.3 billion, raise household electricity bills by well…
When Is ‘China Carbon Time’ for Your State?
The U.S. is leading the world in cutting CO2 emissions even as China keeps increasing theirs, but environmental activists, politicians, and renewable energy producers are pushing the states to adopt…