GSA BusinessOctober 18, 2013 By Scott Miller smiller@scbiznews.com Regulators and utilities should move cautiously toward a plan that incorporates renewable energies, particularly solar power, into the mix of electricity delivered to consumers without raising costs, an executive with Duke Energy said Thursday. “Getting the rules right, now, allows the economic impacts of solar to spread […]
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I had a great time last night attending the lecture by Bill McKibben (founder of 350.org, internationally known environmentalist and author) in Charleston. Thanks goes out to the Coastal Conservation League (CCL) for coordinating the well-attended event. Following the lecture I had dinner with Bill and his wife, Sue, along with Hamilton Davis (CCL) and Jim
Yesterday was a good day for small businesses concerned about climate-change induced sea levels rising along the South Carolina coast. The South Carolina Small Business Chamber, American Sustainable Business Council and the Winyah River Foundation held a press event in North Myrtle Beach to layout the case that sea levels are rising, there will be
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(The small business clean energy industry is growing and producing jobs twice as fast as the rest the state’s businesses. A new survey (story below) shows that the state has about 18,000 workers in the clean energy field with most of these businesses (73.8%) reporting annual revenue below $1 million. Congratulation to the S.C. Clean
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The Hill’s Energy & Environment BlogBy Ben Geman A United Nations climate science panel has concluded there’s at least a 95 percent chance human activities are the main driver of global warming over the last six decades. “Warming of the climate system is unequivocal, and since the 1950s, many of the observed changes are
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Seven times either I or the SC Small Business Chamber has intervened in rate hearings for SCE&G and Duke Energy. Seven times the public was told that these power companies had to have every penny of their rate hike proposal or their world would come to an end. Seven times their rate increases have been
InsideClimate NewsSeptember 12, 2013 By Maria Gallucci, InsideClimate News A handful of U.S. utilities have discovered they can save money by encouraging small rooftop solar projects—the same projects utility industry leaders have insisted were too expensive and unreliable to be practical. The Long Island Power Authority (LIPA) in New York, for instance, is paying developers
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The South Carolina Public Service Commission has approved the settlement reached between the South Carolina Small Business Chamber of Commerce, Duke Energy, SC Office of Regulatory Staff and other intervenors in Duke’s recent rate hike request. This is another big victory for the work of the SC Small Business Chamber. Our track record of successfully
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National Geographic MagazineSeptember 2013 Rising Seas As the planet warms, the sea rises. Coastlines flood. What will we protect? What will we abandon? How will we face the danger of rising seas? By Tim Folger (Excerpts) In May the concentration of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere reached 400 parts per million, the highest since three
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