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.
Estimated Impacts to Cost and Reliability of Duke’s Portfolio 3
Portfolio 3, like the other three portfolios, would rely heavily on new solar, but it ties with Portfolio 4 for the largest proposed addition of new nuclear capacity and would be less…
Estimated Impacts to Cost and Reliability of Duke’s Portfolio 2
This post discusses Portfolio 2 of the four Duke portfolios. Portfolio 2, like the other three portfolios, would rely heavily on new solar, but it would be the portfolio most…
Implementation of H.B. 951: What’s on the Road Ahead?
Click here to proceed to André Béliveau’s post, “Implementation of H.B. 951: What’s on the Road Ahead?“
Estimated Impacts to Electricity Costs and Reliability of Duke’s Portfolio 1
This post discusses Portfolio 1 of the four Duke portfolios. It evaluates it according to standards required by law of the UC.
Implementation of H.B. 951: What’s on the Road Ahead?
In October 2021, the General Assembly passed, and Gov. Roy Cooper signed H.B. 951, a transformational piece of energy legislation that could be the conservative response to the costly and…
Duke’s Carbon Plan scenarios all flunk the reliability test
A 2021 law requires that the Utilities Commission and Duke Energy set a plan to cut CO2 emissions from electricity generation by 70% (from 2005 levels) by around 2030 and…
An Important Judicial Check Against Hyperregulation
My latest article for the American Institute for Economic Research finds a flicker of good news amid the blizzard of bad news that has marked the Biden years so far.…
How Much More Would You Spend on Electricity for Tens of Thousands of Jobs Lost?
The question isn't whether a massive buildout of offshore wind capacity off North Carolina beaches would lead to fewer jobs and less economic growth than otherwise, but how extensive the losses would be. Households…
Is North Carolina So Desperate for Jobs that It Makes Even Offshore Wind Seem Worth a Gamble?
Pres. Biden and Gov. Cooper tout government intervention to force offshore wind energy development off North Carolina beaches as a way to create jobs and grow the economy. Expected electricity…
No More Gimmicks: Biden Needs to Unshackle American Oil and Gas
Gasoline prices are up a whopping 44.0 percent year-over-year. Unfortunately, it comes as no surprise to Americans suffering at the pump.
Offshore Wind Facilities Would Wreck N.C.’s Coastal Fishing Industry and Marine Ecosystems
Fishing communities in every coastal state have tried to alert the Biden administration to offshore wind energy's threat to their industry and marine habitats, biodiversity, and oceanography. The oceanic waters…
Offshore Wind Development Threatens Marine Wildlife, Including Endangered Species
There has been little examination of the extent of the impacts of "environmentally friendly" offshore wind development on affected marine ecologies, habitats, fisheries, and wildlife. A few studies attest to…