Sweeping New Solar Approach For NC Electricity System

NC WARN proposes a sweeping shift in the profit-driven monopoly mindset 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.

Support Our Cause. Tell State Regulators To Expand Local Solar.

Tell the NCUC We Want SHared Solar Now!

Step 1

Launch the North Carolina Utilities Commission website.

Step 2

Use “E-100 Sub 190” in the “Docket Number” field on the NCUC website.

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Step 3

Copy one of the messages provided below and paste it into the “Comment” field on the NCUC website. You can edit the message to put it in your own words. Thank you!

Message 1

NC Utilities Commission,

Scores of scientists, solar companies and thousands of North Carolinians have been urging you to stop Duke Energy’s climate-wrecking actions.

Our communities are being devastated by hurricanes and other disasters. But Duke Energy leaders are greatly expanding the use of fracked gas and blocking cheaper solutions, like local solar-plus-storage, that could be implemented quickly.

Please reject Duke Energy’s monopoly-driven greenwashing and pursue climate solutions that work!

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NC Utilities Commission,

United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres said recently that world leaders must quickly find “an exit ramp off the highway to climate hell.”

Despite the horrifying weather disasters pummeling civilization this summer, Duke leaders plan to greatly expand their use of fossil fuels, gamble our future on high-risk and super-costly transmission and failed nuclear technologies, and suppress clean energy climate solutions.

There is no chance of North Carolina helping avoid Guterres’ “climate hell” without a rapid and large expansion of local solar-plus-storage.

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Message 3

NC Utilities Commission,

North Carolina is on the wrong path. Duke’s plans to gamble on high-risk, super-costly experimental technologies and to greatly expand the use of methane gas for power generation will only raise electric rates and worsen the climate crisis.

Please reject Duke Energy’s monopoly-driven greenwashing and pursue climate solutions that work, like local solar-plus-storage!

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.

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NC Utilities Commission,

North Carolina is past due for a shift in the profit-driven monopoly mindset that increasingly harms communities, drives up power bills, and makes the climate crisis worse.

Many experts agree that local solar-plus-storage is the best tool we have to address the climate crisis. It is clear that the only way North Carolina can finally get aligned with the climate scientists is to rapidly expand local solar.

All Duke Energy’s residential, commercial and nonprofit customers can share in the costs and benefits of local solar much like we currently pay for polluting power plants – through the electric rate system.

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Hit “Submit” on the NCUC website.

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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

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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.

Respectfully,

Jim Warren
Executive Director, NC WARN

Areas of Impact

Parking Areas

Locating solar panels and storage batteries where power is used will generate jobs in towns and cities across the state.

Residential Rooftops

All Duke Energy’s residential customers can share in the costs and benefits of clean energy.

Industrial Rooftops

North Carolina has twice the practical space needed to meet climate goals on rooftops.

Corporate Rooftops

North Carolinians and businesses would rather be buying clean power.

Transmission Lines

Duke leaders plan to waste billions building transmission lines … using land seizures against farmers and low-income communities.

Climate Crisis

NC communities are already being devastated by worsening climate disasters.

Dirty Power Plants

Duke Energy wants to keep building dirty power plants for decades!

Supporters of Local Solar

"Right now, we’re at the mercy of the Duke monopoly and its unclean energy … and what they charge us for it. We’re paying for our own demise."

Bobby Jones

President of the Down East Coal Ash Environmental and Social Justice Coalition

"The more that you could just supply local load with local resources that don’t use transmission, you’re not driving a need for more transmission or for more utility-scale generation built on desert habitats or farmland."