Sharing Solar: The Best Way for North Carolina to Help Slow the Climate Crisis
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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:
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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.
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Local SPS would expand across NC quickly, inexpensively and equitably – with priority given to disadvantaged communities and emergency facilities.
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Solar companies would grow and create thousands of jobs in towns and cities, and Sharing Solar would also help during power outages.
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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.
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.
Respectfully,
Jim Warren
Executive Director, NC WARN
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