3+ week, 1+ day ago   (474+ words) After Hurricane Helene left more than 700,000 Duke Energy customers in North Carolina without electricity, rising power bills are sharpening a question for many households: how would they handle the next major outage? In parts of North Carolina not served by…...

1+ mon, 2+ week ago   (641+ words) North Carolina's demand for electricity is rising faster than many new power plants can be built. Duke Energy is increasingly relying on battery storage to help meet that growth, making facilities such as its Knightdale battery installation a larger part…...

1+ mon, 2+ week ago   (347+ words) RALEIGH, N.C. – North Carolina’s top officials are challenging the state’s largest electric utility to legally cement its promise to protect everyday consumers from the soaring energy demands of tech data centers. “Duke just promised the federal government that it won’t shift…...

3+ mon, 1+ day ago   (514+ words) VIRGINIA BEACH — Dominion Energy will purchase 32 acres in a Virginia Beach business park for an onshore substation and grid connection point to serve a wind farm project planned off the coast of North Carolina. The land sale in Corporate Landing…...

3+ mon, 2+ week ago   (633+ words) As North Carolina prepares for a surge in electricity demand from data centers, manufacturing and population growth, some energy experts and policymakers are looking at microgrids as a way to improve reliability, reduce strain on the power grid and keep…...

4+ mon, 2+ week ago   (459+ words) North Carolina regulators have ordered Duke Energy to pause its next round of solar development, delaying decisions on new projects as the state finalizes a broader long-term energy plan. In an order, issued April 23, the North Carolina Utilities Commission directed…...

4+ mon, 1+ week ago   (338+ words) Your summer electric bill keeps climbing, and now researchers know one reason why. A new University of Cambridge study analyzing satellite data from 2004 to 2024 found that AI-focused data centers create significant heat islands, raising local land surface temperatures an average…...

7+ mon, 1+ week ago   (1516+ words) The windowless buildings rising across North Carolina look more like warehouses than engines of climate change. Across the state, proposals for hyperscale data centers built to support artificial intelligence and cloud computing are driving unprecedented demand for electricity and water....

5+ mon, 1+ week ago   (259+ words) Regulatory filing highlights 400 MW of untapped battery capacity in Duke Energy’s long-term resource plan. Image: American Public Power Association / Unsplash Vote Solar and the Southern Environmental Law Center filed expert testimony with the North Carolina Utilities Commission regarding the Duke…...

5+ mon, 2+ week ago   (151+ words) (The Center Square) – North Carolina’s 301-mile coastline has been spared from a potential wind project of TotalEnergies by the U.S. Department of the Interior. The United States will reimburse the company dollar-for-dollar to redirect $1 billion that was designated for…...