"The state repealed the utility’s 2030 emissions target in July. Duke’s response? A plan to slash solar and wind, double down on gas — and burn more coal."
"When North Carolina’s GOP-led legislature nixed a key decarbonization deadline for Duke Energy in July, critics feared it would upend the state’s transition to clean energy.
Now, a proposal Duke just submitted to regulators shows they were right to worry as the utility, North Carolina’s largest, seeks to walk back its clean-energy ambitions and enact one of the most aggressive fossil-fuel expansions in the nation.
Without a mandate to cut climate-warming emissions 70% from 2005 levels by 2030, the utility intends to build about half as much wind and solar capacity over the next decade compared to its previous trajectory. It also now aims to delay the construction of new nuclear power plants until later in the 2030s. Battery storage is the sole bright spot for clean energy in the blueprint — Duke wants to invest in about 1.5 gigawatts more than it did before.
Meanwhile, the company proposes to extend the life of aging coal plants and develop more natural-gas units, bringing its total build-out of new fossil-fuel plants to 9.7 gigawatts by 2035 and as much as 12.3 gigawatts by 2040."
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