The major utility Duke Energy is aiming to build a small nuclear reactor at an existing coal plant site in North Carolina, hoping that the new technology can help it meet the state's clean energy ...

Nuclear power is making a comeback nationwide, though in North Carolina, it never went away. Duke Energy operates three nuclear power plants in the state, four if you count South Carolina’s ...

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Duke Energy Corp. proposed installing a small nuclear reactor at a North Carolina power plant and ending the facility’s decades-long use of coal, part of a sweeping plan to supply the region’s ...

Adopted in 2007, North Carolina’s renewable electricity standard mandates that investor-owned utilities meet up to 12.5 percent of their electricity needs through renewable energy sources such ...

Once the scourge of environmentalists for its radioactive waste, nuclear power is now “clean” in North Carolina. At least that’s the view of state law after both chambers of the General ...

The question of whether nuclear power should be part of North Carolina's efforts to cut carbon emissions from electricity generation is a complicated one. Even clean energy advocates don't agree ...

Another public power agency operates in the state - the North Carolina Municipal Power Agency Number 1 (NCMPA1) - which consists of 19 towns and cities in central and western North Carolina. This ...

Nuclear power is making a comeback nationwide, though in North Carolina, it never went away. Duke Energy operates three nuclear power plants in the state, four if you count South Carolina’s ...