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 Article | 09.19.2025

Resilience and Reliability: Solar + Storage in the Southeast

Duke Energy is piloting PowerPair, an incentive program in North Carolina to expand ‘virtual power plants’ that can bolster resilience and take strain off of centralized power plants.

 Article | 09.17.2025

Duke Energy Is Running Coal Plants Too Much, Costing Ratepayers

Between the Duke Energy Progress gas plant docket and fuel cost docket, we found that Duke's dispatch of coal units is limited but still too much, costing ratepayers

 Article | 09.16.2025

An Electrotech Revolution: Why America May Be Missing the Boat on the Energy Future

A new report shows an accelerating electrotech revolution — solar, wind, batteries, EVs, and heat pumps — rapidly outpacing forecasts, reshaping geopolitics, reducing fossil dependence, and...

 Article | 09.15.2025

Dr. Stephen A. Smith Talks Fossil Fuels, Climate Reality, and the AI Bubble on The Progressive South

On Headlights: Voices from The Progressive South, Smith joins host Jesse Mayshark to explore the urgency of climate action, the risks of fossil fuel dependence, and the distractions of AI hype.

 Article | 09.12.2025

Southeast Utilities Are Signing Gas Capacity Contracts That Will Burden Customers for Decades

"Adding even one more dekatherm of gas commitment to the Southeast is senseless,” writes SACE senior decarbonization manager Shelley Hudson Robbins.

 Article | 09.10.2025

New Report Confirms the Southeast Electric Vehicle Market Shows No Signs of Slowing Down, Yet

The 2025 Transportation Electrification in the Southeast Report crunched the data, revealing strong electric vehicle market momentum even as the political landscape shifts.

 Article | 09.10.2025

From Agriculture to E-Mobility: SOWEGA Rising Inspires Next Generation of Green Leaders in Georgia

SOWEGA Rising is growing Albany’s green workforce by connecting students to clean energy, e-mobility, and agri-tech careers through youth programs, workforce expos, and sustainability education...

 Article | 09.09.2025

Inside the EPA’s Disastrous Proposal to Eliminate the Endangerment Finding

The Trump Administration’s EPA political appointees have proposed prohibiting federal limits on greenhouse gas climate pollution

 Article | 09.08.2025

The Fight That United a Community

After two years of grassroots organizing, Cheatham County residents defeated TVA’s proposed gas plant. Community resistance prevailed, and celebrity intervention accelerated TVA’s retreat. The...

 Article | 09.04.2025

When Does a Gas Plant Become Too Expensive?

Duke Energy's proposed second gas plant in Person County will be too expensive and will hurt ratepayers.