Duke Energy, North Carolina’s monopoly utility and the largest power company in the country, is about to launch a major attack on solar energy. On Jan. 7, Duke’s president of North Carolina operations, Paul Newton, fired the first shots of the war. Speaking in front of a joint energy committee of the state’s legislature, Newton attacked net metering, one of the key policies to North Carolina’s solar growth. Net metering allows customers with rooftop solar panels to get credit for any extra electricity that they send back to the grid, like rollover minutes on a cell phone bill.
Posted on: Fri, 24 Jan 2014 01:45:44 +0000
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