Source: Travis Fain, WRAL, 4/17/18

The state's high court heard arguments Tuesday in a case that could change the solar power industry in North Carolina, allowing more small groups to do an end-around on regulated electric monopolies.  NC WARN, a climate change group that has fought Duke Energy and other large utilities for years, installed solar panels on the roof of a Greensboro church in 2015 and let the church pay for the system by charging a cut rate for power. Duke, the North Carolina Utilities Commission and the state Court of Appeals have all said it was an illegal sale of electricity, that …

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