Source: Francis De Luca, NC CIVITAS, 5/31/17

In what may be a first, the North Carolina Utilities Commission (NCUC) has put on  its docket a petition to declare that a renewable power facility is in fact a public utility under NC law. This action is the result of a filing I did on May 18 asking the NCUC to issue a “… declaratory ruling that Fresh Air Energy, LLC is a public utility pursuant to G.S 62-3(23) for the purposes of the public utilities act.” While much of what the NCUC does is legalistic, and seems complicated to the non-lawyer, this request is straightforward. I just want the NCUC to require the renewable companies to tell the public how much it costs them to produce the electricity they are selling us — just like Duke Power and the other power companies are forced to do.

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