{"id":106282,"date":"2022-12-28T19:08:02","date_gmt":"2022-12-28T19:08:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/?p=106282"},"modified":"2022-12-28T19:08:03","modified_gmt":"2022-12-28T19:08:03","slug":"nc-energy-regulators-face-a-choice-with-duke-carbon-cutting-plan-how-fast-and-how-far-to-go","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/?p=106282","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;NC energy regulators face a choice with Duke carbon-cutting plan: How fast and how far to go?&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wunc.org\/2022-12-21\/nc-energy-regulators-face-a-choice-with-duke-carbon-cutting-plan-how-fast-and-how-far-to-go\" target=\"_blank\">WUNC<\/a>: &#8220;State regulators face a year-end deadline to decide how Duke Energy will eliminate carbon emissions at power plants to meet the state&#8217;s climate goals. After a year of debate, the North Carolina Utilities Commission is expected to issue an order next week.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Power plants are the state&#8217;s second-largest source of the heat-trapping pollutants that cause global warming. Last year, legislative Republicans and Democratic Gov. Roy Cooper agreed on a&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.wfae.org\/energy-environment\/2021-10-13\/nc-governor-signs-energy-bill-despite-concerns-by-some-it-doesnt-go-far-enough\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">compromise energy reform law<\/a>&nbsp;to address the problem. But it left the details to the North Carolina Utilities Commission, which has spent 2022 gathering ideas and concerns through filings and&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.wfae.org\/energy-environment\/2022-07-29\/at-rally-and-hearing-speakers-challenge-duke-carbon-plan\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">public hearings<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>North Carolina&#8217;s 2021 legislation wrote the state&#8217;s climate goals into law &#8211; something that only about one-third of the states have done. For most, 100% clean energy is still just a goal spelled out in roadmaps and action plans. But some states, including North Carolina, Washington and Connecticut, are using regulatory processes to draw up rules to meet those goals.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In May,\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wfae.org\/energy-environment\/2022-05-16\/a-duke-energy-plan-would-cut-co2-and-add-renewables-but-at-a-price\" target=\"_blank\">Duke Energy submitted\u00a0<\/a>its proposed carbon plan \u2014 actually four plans that offer different routes to eliminate and replace coal-fired power plants. Duke supplies most of North Carolina&#8217;s electricity. Glen Snider, who oversees resource planning for the company, said at the time: &#8220;You&#8217;re fundamentally transforming the energy system in a way that I think is good for customers.&#8221;&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WUNC: &#8220;State regulators face a year-end deadline to decide how Duke Energy will eliminate carbon emissions at power plants to meet the state&#8217;s climate goals. After a year of debate, the North Carolina Utilities Commission is expected to issue an order next week. Power plants are the state&#8217;s second-largest source of the heat-trapping pollutants that&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-106282","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newsstory"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106282","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=106282"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106282\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":106283,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106282\/revisions\/106283"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=106282"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=106282"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=106282"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}