North carolina

Solar Power Plant

Leeward Renewable Energy Completes 100-MW Solar Project for Verizon

Leeward Renewable Energy (LRE) announced that has completed construction of its 100-MW Oak Trail Solar project near Moyock, North Carolina, and the facility has…

Net Zero

Duke Energy Prefers Meeting North Carolina Carbon Target by 2035. But Regulators Have Final Say

(Pine Gate Renewables' 81 MW Sugar Solar project in Yadkinville, North Carolina. Sugar was one of the projects awarded under Duke Energy’s Competitive…

Electric Vehicles

Vinfast Breaks Ground at Its First Us Factory in North Carolina

From left: VinFast Global CEO Madame Thuy, North Carolina Governor Roy Cooper, and VinFast North America CEO Van Anh Nguyen ushered in the start of construction…

Solar project

Renu Energy Solutions Powers Credit Union With 352-Kw Solar Project

Credit: Truliant Federal Credit UnionRenu Energy Solutions completed a 742-panel solar installation on the roof of Truliant Federal Credit Union’s new Han…

Electric Vehicle Battery

Toyota to Assemble New 3-Row Electric SUV in Kentucky; Additional $2.1B Investment in North Carolina Battery Plant

Toyota will assemble an all-new, three-row, battery electric SUV at Toyota Kentucky starting in 2025. The company’s first US-assembled BEV will be powered…

Carbon Emissions

Montana’s New Anti-climate Law May Be the Most Aggressive in the Nation

The legislation, signed into law last week, is even more restrictive than North Carolina’s infamous 2012 law that prohibited policymakers from considering sea-…

Electric Vehicles

Study Finds Changes in Air Pollution Due to EV Adoption Are Not Distributed Equally

A team of researchers from the University of California, Berkeley; University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill; and University of Miami has analyzed the implicati…

Graphene

Researchers Design Battery Prototype With Fiber-Shaped Cathode

In a new study, North Carolina State University researchers made a cathode in the shape of a thread-like fiber. The researchers were then able to use the fiber …

Energy Storage Battery

North Carolina’s Largest Battery Storage Project Begins Operation

An 11 MW/11 MWh battery storage system is now operating in North Carolina, the state's largest system to date. The battery storage facility, located in Onsl…

Solar Power Plant

NC Regulators Approve Solar Net Metering Rule Changes

The North Carolina Utilities Commission approved Duke Energy’s plan to revise net metering compensation for rooftop solar and added a new $10 monthly fee …

Energy Storage Battery

Microstructure and Defect Engineering Improves Performance of Lithium-Ion Batteries

A new North Carolina State University study, performed in collaboration with battery testing researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy's Oak Ridge Nation…

Microgrid

This Microgrid Can Power an Entire North Carolina Town During an Outage

Duke Energy's Hot Springs microgrid consists of a 2 MW (AC) solar facility and a 4.4 MW lithium-based battery storage facility. During its testing phase, Du…

Thermal Plant

Duke Energy’s N.C. Coal Plants More Expensive to Run Than Building New Solar Farms, Report Finds

The Allen coal plant just west of Charlotte, North Carolina. Credit: Murr Rhame / Creative CommonsBy Elizabeth Ouzts, Energy News NetworkDuke Energy spends twic…

Gas power plant

Energy Storage Being Added to California Gas-Fired Peaker Plants

A North Carolina-based group that provides battery energy storage and software technology is set to co-locate 420 MWh of storage at four natural gas-fired facil…

Electric Car

Huck Cycles Begins Us Production of Stinger Electric Motorbikes

Huck Cycles is a North Carolina-based electric motorbike manufacturer that built a name for itself with retro-inspired electric mopeds hand-made by Americans, i…