Recent Reports & Studies
Learn more about how clean energy is more affordable, more reliable, and more accessible for everyone.
- Clean Affordable, and Reliable: A Plan for Duke Energy's Future in the Carolinas. This report by Synapse Energy Economics shows that If Duke used more reasonable assumptions for costs for battery storage, wind, solar and energy efficiency, they could retire all the coal, not build any gas and save customers $7 billion dollars while reducing carbon emissions by 78% between now and 2035.
- How to Retire Early: Making accelerated coal plant retirements feasible and just.
- Allen Coal Plant Emissions Report: Duke Energy’s Allen Coal Plant, located just west of Charlotte, is producing far more pollution that it’s supposed to—which could be making COVID outcomes worse and disproportionately affecting Black and low-income communities.
- 2019 Clean Transportation Roadmap Report: Our recommendations on Governor Cooper's Executive Order 80, which lays out three goals for reducing North Carolina's contribution to climate change.
- NC Coastal Wind: North Carolina has the best energy resources in the East, which could bring tens of thousands of new jobs to the state.
- ACEEE Report - Energy Efficiency in NC: How energy efficiency can cut your utility bills and boost the economy
- RMI's Accelerated Coal Retirement Report: How to retire coal now, in a feasible and just manner.
- Energy Innovation's Coal Crossover Report: Clean energy is cheaper than coal in North Carolina.
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