Source: Ned Barnett, NEWS & OBSERVER, 11/25/19


Climate change is becoming a story of two accelerations: First, global warming is happening faster than expected and second, renewable energy is coming into wider use faster than imagined. The first acceleration should be adding speed to the second. In some states it is, but not in North Carolina. A combination of generous federal and state tax credits and state requirements that utilities use some renewable energy led to North Carolina being ranked second in the nation, behind only California, for installed solar power.

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