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North Carolina

As the latest energy and climate debates continue, Consumer Energy Alliance remains an advocate for distilling the challenges ahead to implement all of the various state and federal renewable energy policy proposals and carbon reduction requirements. We hope communities and policymakers not only work to ensure reliability and economic efficiency, but a cleaner, more diverse energy mix that is able to access large amounts of energy, such as hydropower, without putting downward pressure on the budgets of families and small businesses.

Hydro In Our State

State Resources

Hydroelectric power is the second-largest source of renewable generation in North Carolina.

North Carolina has one pumped storage hydroelectric facility, with 86 megawatts of generating capacity, located near the border with Tennessee.

Hydroelectric power accounted for about 5 percent of North Carolina’s total power generation in 2019.

Cowans Ford, built in 1963, overlooks the Catawba River and Lake Norman, the largest man-made lake in North Carolina.

Local Initiatives

House Bill 529
To reduce the burden of high energy costs on the citizens of North Carolina by eliminating renewable energy portfolio standards and to provide for cost recovery by public utilities for certain costs of compliance with renewable energy portfolio standards.

Senate Bill 358
To advance building resiliency and utility efficiency in North Carolina by authorizing a statewide program to utilize assessments to repay nonpublic financing of commercial building improvements that will promote economic development, reduce utility bill costs, and harden commercial buildings against storm and flood damage.

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