Energy
Advocating for making energy more affordable and reliable, Locke provides groundbreaking research and policy proposals that looks to halt the government’s destructive green energy transition.
How Cooper and Clean Energy Cronies Use Blackouts to Argue for More Blackouts
Amy O. Cooke, retired Locke CEO, wrote a piece yesterday in Carolina Journal discussing the strange take in response to the Christmas Eve 2022 blackouts offered by Gov. Roy Cooper…
Energy Rates in NC Going Up
Duke Energy's move to more "renewable" energy will take a bigger bite of your budget - with no benefit.
More on the Costs of North Carolina’s Different Electricity Generating Sources
Since 2016, the federal government has massively subsidized renewable sources of electricity — with wind receiving nearly 20 times more subsidies per unit of power generated than nuclear, and solar…
Discussing the Costs of North Carolina’s Different Electricity Generating Sources
Electricity from existing power plants is cheapest, and state law lets the cost of building new power plants fall on electricity consumers through increases in their power bills. New solar…
Report Argues Offshore Wind Development Activities Are Killing Whales and Dolphins
On November 2, Save Long Beach Island released a report arguing that offshore wind energy vessel surveys were responsible for the recent spike in whale and dolphin deaths off the…
Measuring the Reliability of North Carolina’s Different Electricity Generating Sources
In determining the reliability of different electricity generation sources, a source's "capacity factor" is a useful measure of how much it produces vs. how much it says it can produce.…
Offshore Wind Costs Are Getting Worse
UPDATE: A press release sent out by Orsted on October 31, 2023, stated that “Following a decision by its Board of Directors, Ørsted will cease development of the Ocean Wind…
New Law Stops North Carolina from Repeating Pennsylvania’s ‘Crazy’ Trucking Mistake
I recently wrote about “How the Budget Stops California from Setting North Carolina’s Transportation Policy.” I described how Gov. Roy Cooper had signed a “Memorandum of Understanding” in 2020 with…
Governor’s Vetoes Would Harm Ratepayers and Reliable Electricity
Gov. Cooper vetoed bills that would define nuclear energy as clean energy and help a new natural gas pipeline get permitting. Cooper and certain environmentalists seem to think the vetoes…
Virginia’s Power Provider Also Seeks More Natural Gas Plants
In August, Duke Energy filed an updated resource plan with the North Carolina Utilities Commission. The plan featured three possible portfolios, but Duke made it plain that the third portfolio (P3) was…
China Permits Two New Coal Plants Per Week
A key fact — and important graphic — in last week’s brief describing North Carolina’s China Carbon Time for 2023 has already been rendered obsolete. It’s even more bad news…
What Is “China Carbon Time,” and What Does It Mean for States’ Efforts to Decarbonize Their Grids?
While states consider enormously expensive plans to rework their entire electricity systems to cut CO2 emissions, energy-based emissions are still increasing across most of the world, especially China. China Carbon…