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Duke Energy Rate Hike Decision Expected in December

By | October 21, 2020

If approved, the rate increase could disproportionately impact low-income households in North Carolina.

TVA’s Covid relief fund should be a starting point

By | October 13, 2020

We’ve joined dozens of organizations to demand that TVA provide funding for a moratorium on electricity shutoffs in the region and debt relief for families struggling from Covid-related economic hardship.

Energy cost hike would burden N.C. families

By | October 6, 2020

The Covid and economic crisis has laid bare the monthly struggle too many Americans have faced for a long time — whether to pay their electric bill or buy other essentials like food, medicine or school supplies and risk having their power shut off.

More Than 1 Million North Carolinians Face Utility Shutoffs

By | September 22, 2020

The last of North Carolina’s moratoriums on utility shutoffs expired in August. While Gov. Roy Cooper allocated $175 million in rent and utility bill assistance, consumer advocates say that it won’t be nearly enough.

Duke Energy’s sham plan for net-zero carbon

By | August 28, 2020

Duke Energy’s failure to move quickly to clean energy would worsen global warming, put the public’s health at risk, and hurt North Carolina families and businesses.

One million N.C. households at risk of losing electricity and water during pandemic

By | August 27, 2020

CONTACT: Rory McIlmoil, Sr. Energy Analyst, Appalachian Voices, rory@appvoices.org, (423) 433-9415 Al Ripley, Director, Consumer, Housing and Energy Project, NC Justice Center, al@ncjustice.org, (919) 274-8245 William Barber, III, Environmental Justice Committee Co-Chair, NC Poor People’s Campaign, william.barber.iii@gmail.com, (202) 567-6800 Maria…

Groups sue TVA over never-ending contracts

By | August 24, 2020

Appalachian Voices has joined three other organizations in a lawsuit that challenges the Tennessee Valley Authority’s long-term contracts with local power companies. These perpetual contracts undermine the local power companies’ bargaining power to negotiate for cleaner, cheaper electricity.

Groups challenge TVA’s plan to lock local power companies into perpetual contracts

By | August 18, 2020

Utility affordability in the time of Coronavirus

By | August 14, 2020

Equitable access to affordable water and energy services — fundamental to human well-being and public health — has been a significant though largely unseen problem for decades. Then Covid struck.

Legal action challenges Duke Energy’s buildout of unapproved gas-fired power units

By | July 30, 2020

Duke Energy's W.S. Lee Natural Gas Power Plant

CONTACT: Jim Warren, NC WARN, 919-416-5077, jim@ncwarn.org Jean Su, Center for Biological Diversity, 415-770-3187, jsu@biologicaldiversity.org Matt Wasson, Appalachian Voices, 828-252-1500, matt@appvoices.org Durham, N.C.— Climate-justice groups filed a legal petition with the North Carolina Utilities Commission today asserting that Duke Energy…