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Settlement Reached in Largest U.S. Coal Ash Cleanup

January 2, 2020 admin cleanup, Coal, coal ash, deq, duke energy, Legal & Regulatory, news, North Carolina

Credit to Author: Darrell Proctor| Date: Thu, 02 Jan 2020 20:14:33 +0000

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Duke Energy will save about $1.5 billion in coal ash cleanup costs under a settlement between the utility and environmental and other groups announced Jan. 2 by North Carolina’s Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ). The DEQ said Duke Energy will need to excavate about 80 million tons of coal ash currently stored in basins at […]

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Indiana Utility Will Close Coal-Fired Units Early

December 10, 2019 admin AEP, aes, Business, Coal, duke energy, Energy Storage, Gas, indianapolis power & light, natural gas, news, pollution, Renewables, Sierra Club, vectren

Credit to Author: Darrell Proctor| Date: Tue, 10 Dec 2019 18:33:22 +0000

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Indianapolis Power & Light (IPL) on Dec. 9 announced it will close two of the four coal-fired units at its Petersburg Generating Station in southern Indiana, as the utility continues to move away from coal generation. IPL has been pressured by state political leaders and environmentalists to close the 1,700-MW Petersburg facility, the largest power […]

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Decarbonization: Utilities Leading the Way

December 4, 2019 admin AEP, american electric power, Business, carbon-free energy, climate change, Coal, decarbonization, duke energy, Environmental, news, Nuclear, renewable energy, Renewables, Solar, Wind, xcel energy

Credit to Author: POWER| Date: Mon, 02 Dec 2019 05:00:00 +0000

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Decarbonization is a word that seems to be used quite regularly these days. For the power industry, it refers to the shift in electric generating resources from carbon-heavy coal to carbon-free nuclear or

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Siemens Delivers World’s First HL-Class Gas Turbine to North Carolina Site

November 27, 2019 admin Business, duke energy, Gas, gas turbine, hl-class, lincoln county combustion turbine station, news, North Carolina, Plant Design, siemens, Technology

Credit to Author: Aaron Larson| Date: Wed, 27 Nov 2019 11:57:52 +0000

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Siemens has delivered its first-ever HL-class gas turbine to Duke Energy’s Lincoln County Combustion Turbine generation station, located near Denver, North Carolina. The HL-class gas turbine was derived from proven Siemens H-class technology in what the company calls “an evolutionary development step.” The advanced air-cooled gas turbine is a next-generation design that uses a series […]

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Utilities & Transit Poorly Positioned For Low-Carbon Transformation – Part 3

November 8, 2019 admin air quality, bc translink, Canada, clean power, clean transport, climate change, duke energy, Electric vehicles, ev charging, green economy, green jobs, Manufacturing, mass transit / public transit, policy & politics, Solar energy, transit, United States, utilities, wind energy

Credit to Author: Michael Barnard| Date: Fri, 08 Nov 2019 17:00:54 +0000

Utilities and transit are expected to transform at accelerated rates over the next 10 and 20 years to achieve the carbon-emission reduction goals necessary for minimizing global impacts of climate change. They need help to do so

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NRG Aligns Carbon Goals with 1.5-Degree-C Climate Trajectory

September 26, 2019 admin 1.5-degree, AEP, Business, ceres, climate change, climate goals, climate risks, Coal, duke energy, Environmental, Gas, International, Markets, news, Paris, Renewables, science-based climate targets

Credit to Author: Sonal Patel| Date: Thu, 26 Sep 2019 13:11:45 +0000

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NRG Energy has joined a growing list of major U.S. coal generators that want to achieve net-zero greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions by 2050. The Princeton, New Jersey-based energy company on Sept. 24 said it would accelerate carbon goals it set in 2014 to reach its 50% GHG reduction target (from a 2014 baseline) by 2025—not […]

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2015 BMW i3 REx Goes Long Distance To Find The Heart Of America — Florida To The Appalachians, Day 1

September 24, 2019 admin BMW, bmw i3, bmw i3 long-term review, bmw i3 rex, cars, chargepoint, clean transport, cleantechnica, cleantechnica exclusive, cleantechnica reviews, clipper creek, comfort inn, consumer technology, duke energy, earthfare, electric cars, electric road trips, Electric vehicles, electrify america, ev charging, ev charging stations, ev road trips

Credit to Author: Cynthia Shahan| Date: Sun, 22 Sep 2019 03:40:34 +0000

To begin, I want to thank my personal patron saint of long-distance small-EV travel, Zachary Shahan. He plotted my trip for me from charger to charger since my MacBook Air took a hiatus and blacked out on me the morning I left the Sunshine State for the Appalachians in a small 2015 BMW i3 REx. My travel log lost, Zach kept me abreast of each charging location on my phone, and updated them as the trip went along and plans changed. I also found some extra stations with the navigation on the dash of the i

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Adventures In Anti-Renewables PR: North Carolina Duke Energy Solar Edition

September 13, 2019 admin air quality, charles and david koch, clean power, disinformation, duke energy, Fossil Fuels, HEALTH, heartland institute, institute for energy research, Media, media bias, natural gas, North Carolina, nuclear energy, offshore wind energy, Solar energy, United States, wind energy

Credit to Author: Michael Barnard| Date: Sat, 14 Sep 2019 01:00:49 +0000

A North State Journal article on Duke Energy and solar was an anti-renewables PR hit piece funded by anti-renewables fossil fuel industry money in an outlet that is a right-wing broadsheet that pretends to have journalist standards. Yet it pretended to be otherwise. That’s the anti-renewables disinformation campaign in a nutshell

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Duke Energy Spreads FUD About Renewables In North Carolina

August 22, 2019 admin clean power, duke energy, environmental working group, natural gas, Solar energy, Solar power

Credit to Author: Steve Hanley| Date: Wed, 21 Aug 2019 15:34:02 +0000

The State of North Carolina is working on a plan to reduce carbon emissions to zero by 2025, but Duke Energy, the largest electricity provider in the state, is busy claiming solar power means more emissions, not less.

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Power Sector CEOs Join Top Execs in Redefining Corporate Purpose

August 22, 2019 admin AEP, Business, business roundtable, captial, ceos, climate change, duke energy, Environmental, investors, Markets, news, NRG, shareholders, Southern Co.

Credit to Author: Sonal Patel| Date: Thu, 22 Aug 2019 13:36:50 +0000

The list of 181 CEOs who earlier this week moved to publicly degrade shareholder value in a bid to redefine the “purpose of a corporation” includes several chief executives from power companies. The Aug. 19 statement issued by the Business Roundtable, an association of CEOs “to promote a thriving U.S. economy and expanded opportunity for […]

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