Below are reports published by NC WARN and coalitions we are part of.
Other publications can be found on these pages:
Opinion Articles
Fact Sheets
News Releases
Legal Filings
Reports and Letters
Your Personal Legacy – Fueling or Slowing the Climate Crisis?
Letter to Duke Energy CEO Lynn Good
By NC WARN
October 2024
Need for unprecedented, open review of Duke Energy’s plans for questionable projects that would hamper climate action and harm communities
Sign on letter to Governor Roy Cooper
By NC WARN
December 2023
Your criticism of Duke Energy’s plans for dozens of experimental nuclear reactors was validated by the collapse of the US Department of Energy’s lead project
Open letter to Governor Roy Cooper
By NC WARN
November 2023
Appreciation and Duke Energy gambling North Carolina’s future on “Hydrogen-Capable” natural gas
Open letter to Governor Roy Cooper
By NC WARN with technical support from Bill Powers, P.E.
November 2023
Duke Energy’s Pro-Carbon Plan and Urgent Need for Your Genuine Climate Leadership Instead of Pretense
Open letter to Governor Roy Cooper
By NC WARN
September 2023
Moving North Carolina Forward: The Case for Local Solar-Plus-Storage
By NC WARN with technical support from Bill Powers, P.E.
June 2023
Letter to Governor Cooper and Attorney General Stein
More info on local solar campaign
Continuing Public Health, Safety, and Environmental Threats from the Atlantic Coast Pipeline Pipe Coating
By William F. Limpert
June 2020
It’s Time to Abandon the Atlantic Coast Pipeline
By Thomas Hadwin
Published by Friends of the Earth and NC WARN
May 2020
Monopoly Money: How Duke Energy Uses Campaign Contributions to Rewrite the Rules and Increase Profits
By Rory McIlmoil, Senior Energy Analyst, Appalachian Voices
Published by Energy Justice NC: End the Duke Monopoly
April 2019
North Carolina Clean Path 2025: Achieving an Economical Clean Energy Future
By Bill Powers, P.E.
August 2017 (original report)
December 2018 update
January 2019 update
More info on Clean Path 2025 campaign
Reports on Duke University Fracked Gas Plant Proposal
Analysis of and Alternatives to the Proposed Duke University Natural Gas-Fired CHP Plant
By Anna Henry, Rita Leadem and Jim Warren, with technical support from Bill Powers, P.E.
October 2016
A Nitrogen Oxide Limit of 2.5 ppm or Less is the Best-In-Class Control Level for the Proposed Duke University 21.7 MW CHP Plant, Not 25ppm as Proposed by Duke Energy
By Bill Powers, P.E.
January 2017
Proposed CHP Plant and Alternatives
Letter from Jim Warren to Duke University President Price, with technical assistance from Bill Powers, P.E.
December 2017
A Responsible Energy Future for North Carolina
Original report:
North Carolina’s Energy Future: Data shows we can close power plants instead of building new ones
By John Blackburn and John Runkle
March 2009
A Responsible Energy Future for North Carolina: An Alternative to the Duke Energy-Progress Energy Plans for the Crucial Years 2013–2032
By John Runkle and Jim Warren
February 2013
(Summary of 2013 report)
2014 Update
2014 Flyer
2014 News release
2014 Filing with Utilities Commission
2015 Update
2015 Talking Points
Duke Energy’s Move Toward a Fracking Gas Future Would be Disastrous for Climate Change and for the North Carolina Economy
By Harvard Ayers and Nancy LaPlaca
December 2015
Challenging Duke Energy’s Corporate Charter: Arguments for the Urgent Need to Reduce Greenhouse Gas Emissions
October 2015
Combined Heat and Power in North Carolina: Replacing Large Power Plants by Putting Wasted Energy to Work
By Anna Moorefield and Jim Warren
February 2013
(Summary)
NC Rates to Double Under Duke Plans
Economists say a proposed “annual rate hike bill” to fund new nuclear plants would be an interest-free loan to Duke from ratepayers – without saving any money
By Synapse Energy Economics, Inc. for Consumers Against Rate Hikes
December 2012
On the Backs of Families and Small Businesses: Duke Energy Carolinas Justifies New Power Plants by Giving Breaks to the World’s Richest Corporations
By Jim Warren
May 2012
Fukushima and the Westinghouse-Toshiba AP1000
By Fairewinds Associates, Inc. for The AP1000 Oversight Group
November 2011
New Nuclear Power is Ruining Climate Protection Efforts and Harming Customers
By Jim Warren
October 2011
Too Much Baseload
Report filed with the North Carolina Utilities Commission
February 2011
Nuclear Containment Failures: Ramifications of the AP1000 Containment Design
By Fairewinds Associates, Inc. for The Ap1000 Oversight Group
December 2010
Solar and Nuclear Costs – The Historic Crossover
By John Blackburn and Sam Cunningham
July 2010
Matching Utility Loads with Solar and Wind Power in North Carolina – Dealing with Intermittent Electricity Sources
By John Blackburn (published by the Institute for Energy and Environmental Research)
March 2010
Fire When NOT Ready
By NC WARN, Beyond Nuclear, and Union of Concerned Scientists
October 2008
Delaying with Fire: The Shearon Harris Nuclear Plant and 14 Years of Fire Safety Violations
By NC WARN, Nuclear Information and Resource Service, and Union of Concerned Scientists
September 2006