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Editorial: Weekly Wrap – Good vote for solar energy; they put the knock on wood

Merit: For the Robeson County Zoning Board of Adjustment, which unanimously reversed county commissioners’ denial of a permit for a solar farm in Rowland. The commissioners’ denial was based on Rowland residents’ vague, unsubstantiated fears about the effects of solar farms on health and property values. On Monday, Strata Solar of Chapel Hill, which sought [...]

The Robesonian – Permit OK’d for solar farm

LUMBERTON — After hearing additional evidence, the Robeson County Zoning Board of Adjustment on Monday reversed last month’s decision by the Board of Commissioners to deny a conditional-use permit for a solar farm in a Residential Agricultural district just outside of Rowland. The five commissioners making up the board — Noah Woods, Raymond Cummings, Tom [...]

Robeson County Zoning Board of Adjustment reverses decision on Rowland solar farm, OKs permit

The Robeson County Zoning Board of Adjustment unanimously reversed a decision of the Board of Commissioners on Monday night to deny a conditional use permit for a solar farm in Rowland. The town of Rowland and several adjoining property owners have repeatedly voiced their opposition to the solar farm, citing health concerns and the possible [...]

NC’s new energy economy / News & Observer

By John Murawski — jmurawski@newsobserver.com Their work experience includes fast food, pest control, nursing homes, state government, Walmart, military service and a stint in prison. Some are fresh out of school and have no work history at all. This is North Carolina’s new solar workforce – the installers who assemble the racks and mounts for solar panels [...]

State Sen. Eleanor Kinnaird: Solar is progressive | Letters to the Editor | NewsObserver.com

Solar is progressive Two letters to the editor (“Solar subsidies” “Need some numbers” April 29) challenged Aaron Nelson’s op-ed (“Renewable energy an economic boon” April 22) in support of the N.C. renewable energy standards, saying that solar power is subsidized, so is not a viable energy source. However, both ignore that conventional energy is much [...]

John E.P. Morrison: How the renewable energy standard really works | Letters to the Editor | NewsObserver.com

How the renewable energy standard really works Rep. Mike Hager is holding our state hostage to a national political interest that offers no benefit to North Carolina and harms rural communities and individuals (“Hager digs deep to keep bill alive,” May 1 news story). Unfortunately, Hager and the national groups backing his effort do not [...]

Duke Energy’s Jim Rogers opposes repeal of NC renewable-energy law – Charlotte Business Journal

Duke Energy Corp. CEO Jim Rogers on Thursday put himself squarely on the side of the North Carolina’s law promoting the use of renewable energy sources, as the law remains under attack in the N.C. General Assembly. During a 90-minute question-and-answer period at Duke’s annual shareholder meeting in Charlotte, Justin Danhof of the conservative National [...]

North Carolina SB3 at Work – Infographic

For Immediate Release: REPS Repeal Bill Hits the Wall

REPS Repeal Bill Hits the Wall H 298 goes down in defeat in sponsor’s own committee RALEIGH – In a dramatic turn of events that electrified the room, the North Carolina General Assembly’s Public Utilities and Energy Committee today voted down its Chairman’s own bill, House Bill 298, by a very solid bipartisan vote of [...]

RALEIGH: Push to end NC’s renewable energy program dies in committee | State Politics | NewsObserver.com

RALEIGH — The push to terminate North Carolina’s renewables program is over for the foreseeable future after a House committee in the state legislature defeated the measure with the help of key Republicans. The vote in Raleigh was closely watched by national conservative organizations that had targeted North Carolina as the first domino in a national [...]