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300 MW solar panel recycling center opens in Texas

The new facility, located in Breckenridge, Texas to minimize its carbon footprint, is equipped with technology that the company says fully extracts all materials for reuse.

Critics: Duke Energy’s new N.C. green tariff proposal still falls short

Though backed by some large customers, the revised program won’t add significant carbon-free electrons to the grid, advocates say.

Solar advocates, Duke Energy reach net metering agreement in North Carolina

Duke Energy and solar industry stakeholders have reached an agreement on net metering policy in North Carolina that will help expand distributed solar generation and benefit utility customers, the parties announced Tuesday.

North Carolina proves climate action can be bipartisan

North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper on Wednesday signed into law a bipartisan mandate that will require the state to reduce carbon emissions by 70% by 2030 and reach carbon neutrality by 2050.

N.C. offshore wind faces big challenges, even bigger opportunities, advocates say

A new coalition of environmental and clean energy groups is working to overcome barriers to offshore wind, including local pockets of opposition and an approaching ban on energy development in the southern Atlantic Ocean.