{"id":25086,"date":"2025-09-11T17:58:15","date_gmt":"2025-09-11T22:58:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.edf.org\/climate411\/?p=25086"},"modified":"2025-12-02T14:55:12","modified_gmt":"2025-12-02T19:55:12","slug":"a-new-energy-task-force-for-north-carolina-putting-affordability-first","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.edf.org\/climate411\/2025\/09\/11\/a-new-energy-task-force-for-north-carolina-putting-affordability-first\/","title":{"rendered":"A New Energy Task Force for North Carolina: Putting Affordability First"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It\u2019s a new dawn. It\u2019s a new day. It\u2019s a new energy task force in North Carolina, and EDF is honored to have a role in this state initiative to meet the challenge of rising electricity demand. If we fail to build enough electricity generation to keep up with rising demand, that will mean bill shock for NC households. Many people have opened the highest electricity bill of their life this summer, a trend that will continue if we don\u2019t find a way to get costs under control while phasing out our coal fleet and finding the right mix of next-generation technologies.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">We\u2019re in a time of broader uncertainty, with federal policy in flux and high interest rates challenging developers and utilities who need to make investments in their growing systems.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">But North Carolina has a history of innovating in power sector regulation, regardless of what is happening in Washington, DC. The Clean Smokestacks Act in 2002 helped clean up an aging coal fleet, and <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ncleg.gov\/BillLookup\/2021\/h951\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">House Bill 951<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> in 2021 set power sector emission reduction targets to put the state on a path towards a cleaner, more diversified energy generation portfolio. We must set our own course and learn from other states who are experimenting with new ways to meet power demand, which is rising faster than traditional power plants like coal, gas or nuclear, and can realistically be built.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">We have to expand the range of options on the table to meet a surge in demand from data centers and new industrial sources. That means tapping into batteries on people\u2019s homes, incentivizing large facilities to reduce their usage during peak demand times and building as much of the quickest-to-market resources we can \u2014 which are primarily solar and batteries.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<h3><b>Two steps forward, one step back<\/b><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">We took a step backwards from that vision this year with the passage of Senate Bill 266 (S266), which relies on the false hope that slowing our investment in clean energy will save ratepayers money. But we can\u2019t meet rising demand simply by running more aging, dirty coal and gas. Not only does this lead, as it did in June, to the utilities <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.energy.gov\/ceser\/federal-power-act-section-202c-duke-energy-carolinas-june-2025\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">requesting emergency exemptions to exceed local air pollution limits<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, but it puts regular households on the hook for rising natural gas prices, which the federal Energy Information Agency <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eia.gov\/outlooks\/steo\/report\/natgas.php\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">projects to rise<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> as demand rises, while supply remains flat.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">That\u2019s a big part of why an <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/drive.google.com\/file\/d\/1-ZU9hz-hVh2gWopla5R1WdHN5uLiEI6L\/view\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">N.C. State University study<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> showed S266 could cost North Carolinians an additional $23 billion in power bill payments through 2050. Instead of modernizing the grid with affordable clean energy, the bill would encourage Duke Energy to rely on older plants and costly gas-fired facilities. EDF-commissioned <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/eq-research.com\/eq-publications\/summary-briefing-on-nc-266\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">analysis<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> also found S266 would saddle households with nearly $90 million in extra annual costs to finance power bill discounts for the state\u2019s largest commercial and industrial energy users. And an analysis of the last seven years of power bills shows that volatile gas prices are responsible for up to <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.edf.org\/sites\/default\/files\/documents\/Issue_Brief_Narrative_4_18_24.pdf\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">67%<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> of the recent rise in North Carolina energy costs.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">As EDF\u2019s NC State Director David Kelly put it in this <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wral.com\/news\/state\/north-carolina-duke-energy-bill-carbon-cutting-july-2025\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">WRAL article<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, S266 is \u201can energy tax in disguise,\u201d forcing families to pay more for gas plants we don\u2019t need, and that our climate and working families can\u2019t afford. Doubling down on expensive fossil fuels guarantees more of the same: higher bills and more pollution.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<h3><b>Leading the pack or falling behind?<\/b><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">But S266 does not mean that North Carolina can\u2019t chart a cheaper, cleaner course. The NC Energy Policy Task Force is composed of a set of experts, assembled to ensure that as our state\u2019s energy needs grow, we meet them affordably and transparently.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Along these lines, the new Task Force will tackle two critical priority areas:<\/span><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><strong>Large Load Growth Management<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li>North Carolina needs a plan for integrating large industrial power needs without overburdening residents or rolling back clean energy commitments. The Task Force will examine the full set of solutions \u2014 from accelerating clean generation to improving grid efficiency \u2014 so that rapid demand growth can be met fairly and sustainably.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>Modeling &amp; Transparency<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li>Right now, the long-term utility planning process is often opaque and inaccessible to the public. Utilities make multi-billion-dollar investment decisions with little visibility into the assumptions behind them. The Task Force will change that by creating a public, parallel modeling process \u2014 based on the same tools used by utilities \u2014 so stakeholders can see exactly how decisions are made, test assumptions, and explore cleaner, more affordable options.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<h3><b>Clean energy is the affordability solution North Carolina needs<\/b><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">North Carolina households are already feeling the pinch from volatile fuel prices and rising bills. By tracking best practices nationwide from other states tackling the same challenges, the Policy Energy Task Force can build consensus around a toolbox of policies for our General Assembly and Utilities Commission to protect ratepayers, meet our climate goals, and build a stronger energy future for everyone in North Carolina.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s a new dawn. It\u2019s a new day. 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