The New York Times reports that the Trump administration is considering paying $133 million to buy out a French company’s lease of a potential offshore wind-energy site near the North Carolina coast. The potential offer would target the Carolina Long Bay project, which would go up about 22 miles south of Bald Head Island. Its […]
Gov. Josh Stein and the Trump administration agree data centers should bear the cost of any new power-generation capacity they require. Stein recently joined two U.S. cabinet secretaries and a bipartisan coalition of Mid-Atlantic and Midwest governors in urging the PJM Interconnection to revamp its pricing and resource planning. PJM runs the wholesale electricity market for […]
A federal judge has blocked the Trump administration’s attempt to shut down work on Dominion Energy’s Coastal Virginia Offshore Wind project. U.S. District Court Judge Jamar Walker ruled both that Dominion’s “likely to prevail” in its lawsuit against the administration’s stop-work order and that it needs a preliminary injunction to protect its interests. Dominion responded […]
Congress may not let the Trump administration have the last word on the legalization of supersonic flight over U.S. soil. Before the holidays, the U.S. House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee reported out H.R. 3410, the “Supersonic Aviation Modernization Act.” Its co-sponsors include several members of North Carolina’s congressional delegation — namely U.S. Reps. David Rouzer, […]
A federal judge has delayed until mid-January a hearing on Dominion Energy’s request that he block a Trump administration stop-work order targeting the utility’s $11.2 billion Coastal Virginia Offshore Wind project. U.S. District Court Judge Jamar Walker’s ruling came at the administration’s urging, and he’s already rejected Dominion’s request that he reconsider the delay. Previously, […]
Trump administration officials are urging the U.S. Supreme Court to shelve Duke Energy’s appeal of a lower-court ruling that went against it in an antitrust case. The case “arises out of a campaign by an established monopolist” — i.e. Duke — “to stop a more efficient rival from disturbing its long-dominant hold over a regional […]
The Stein administration’s plan to bolster rural healthcare program isn’t bold enough or innovative enough, at least in the eyes of State Treasurer Brad Briner and his aides. “We would have preferred a more transformative approach to actually deal with the dis-economies of scale that are endemic to rural health, through [the] use of technology, […]
