Stand up for Local Solar
NC WARN’s Sharing Solar proposal is the fastest, cheapest and fairest way to phase out climate-wrecking fossil fuels.
- Duke Energy is spending billions of dollars of customer money to build more fracking gas plants and power lines that are vulnerable to extreme weather. We need Duke to invest our money in resilient local solar and battery storage instead.
- By supporting local solar plus storage, North Carolina could finally begin helping to slow the climate crisis while building communities that can better withstand the effects of disasters like Helene.
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Sharing Solar
The Fastest, Cheapest, Fairest Way to Slow the Climate Crisis
NC WARN is proposing a major shift for the state. The 36-year-old nonprofit says the costs and benefits of local solar-plus-storage (SPS) – including lower power bills – should be shared by all customers the same way we all pay for polluting power. There would be no up-front cost, plus financial incentives for adding solar power and battery storage on homes, businesses and others.
Friends of Climate and Energy Justice:
We invite your organization or business to sign below to support our new Sharing Solar proposal. All Duke Energy’s customers can share in the costs and benefits of clean energy much like we currently pay for polluting power plants – through the electric rate system.
The climate crisis has become a desperate challenge for all humanity. NC WARN is convinced there is no chance of North Carolina meeting the climate demands of scientists unless we collectively lead a rapid and large expansion of local solar-plus-storage.
Please sign and share our proposal widely. We plan to use the list of supporters publicly in a number of ways during this statewide campaign.
Thanks for your consideration,
The NC WARN Team
*We will keep signers apprised of this campaign.
Sign The Resolution
Sharing Solar: The Best Way for North Carolina to Help Slow the Climate Crisis
We, the undersigned, support a sweeping shift away from the monopoly-captive electric power system that increasingly harms communities, drives up power bills and makes the climate crisis worse. All Duke Energy’s residential, commercial and nonprofit customers can share in the costs and benefits of clean energy much like we currently pay for polluting power plants – through the electric rate system.
Under NC WARN’s Sharing Solar proposal:
- Customers could get solar plus battery storage (SPS) installed at their home or business at no cost. Instead, it would be funded through the rate system – just as we now all pay for dirty power.
- Local SPS would expand across NC quickly, inexpensively and equitably – with priority given to disadvantaged communities and emergency facilities.
Solar companies would grow and create thousands of jobs in towns and cities, and Sharing Solar would also help during power outages. - It also would avoid the year-after-year rate hikes and high risks in Duke Energy’s multi-billion dollar plan to keep expanding fossil fuels, experimental nuclear reactors and unnecessary transmission, all of which would disproportionately impact communities of color and low-income areas.
North Carolina has twice the practical space on rooftops, parking areas, contaminated brownfields and vacant land close to towns and cities to meet our climate goals. It is past time for a genuine clean energy transition in North Carolina – not more false solutions.
Respectfully,
Jim Warren
Executive Director, NC WARN
Resolution Signers
- Environmental Working Group
- Dogwood Alliance
- Seeds of HOPE (Lumberton, NC)
- Down East Coal Ash Environmental and Social Justice Coalition
- Greenfaith
- Climate Reality Project Charlotte Metro Chapter
- NAACP Charlotte-Mecklenburg Branch
- U2U
- Balance & Accuracy in Journalism
- Firefly Solar
- Climate Times Newsletter
- Performance Impressions LLC
- LaPlaca and Associates LLC
- Elite Energy, LLC
- Integral Counseling Services PLLC
- NC Climate Justice Collective
- Students for Decarbonization at NC State
- West End Revitalization Association
- Doug Dotson Pottery
- Buck Schall Real Estate
- Earth Defenders
- Screen Creations
- H. Partner Landscape Architecture
- Douglas Beck Medicare Consultant
- Tice Group LLC
- The Groove Productions
- Drakes Gunsmithing
- Eric Waters Photography
- JB Pudlo Consulting
- My N.C. Homes
- Purgason Farms
- DTooDevelopment
- Sigma Capital
- Microgrid Design Group, LLC
- Twlight Honey
- Atlas Inspections Corporation
- Buddha LLC
- ACS Architect
- Interstate Hydrogen
- The JAN Collaborative
- SFCU
- Golden Egg Permaculture
- Healing Strength Massage Therapy
- Maloney Bookkeeping LLC
- Women's International League for Peace and Freedom - Triangle Branch
- System Smart
- Box Turtle Bakery
- Studio 309
- Silk Hope Catholic Worker
- Quiver Surf
- ChamBitt Enterprises
- Chatham Climate Action Network
- Carolina Total Wellness
- FernCrest Enterprises LLC
- Underscore, Inc
- TurfMasters LLC
- Marcoplos Construction, Inc.
- L&M Enterprises
- In Art Designs
- Beyond Extreme Energy
- Piedmont Environmental Alliance
- 828 Acupuncture and Apothecary
- The Earth Is Lit By One Light Foundation
- The School for Living Futures
- Appalachian Bicycle Institute
- South Lumberton Development Association Inc
- Better Diesel FBC, Inc
- Maloney Bookkeeping, LLC
- Creation Care Team, North Carolina Annual Conference of the United Methodist Church
- 350 Triangle
- Center for Progressive Reform
- Nuclear Information and Resource Service
- Mississippi Rising Coalition
- Democracy Out Loud
- Greennovations Global Solutions LLC
- The Asbury Covington Group LLC
- STDC1 LLC
- NC Alliance to Protect Our People and the Places We Live
- Do Justice Ministry, Community United Church of Christ
- Furr's Tree Care
- MTM Property LLC
- Green Church Committee, Elon Community Church
- North Carolina Interfaith Power and Light Energy Working Group
- The Crystal Garden
- ATHIL House LLC
- August Consulting
- We Get Women Healthy
- Solar Consciousness
- Copper Sun, LLC
- Kundalini Yoga Durham
- Kerley Gardens
- Sunrise Movement AVL
- Third Act North Carolina
- Teaching Ourselves Understanding & Resolution (T.O.U.R)
- Earth Justice Action Group of Eno River Unitarian Universalist Fellowship
- Affordable Durham LLC
- A Sustainable Design
- New Path Media Group, Inc.
- NC Climate Solutions Coalition
- Moore Beatty Investments, LLC