The Squeaky Clean Energy Podcast

Thanks Matt and the NCSEA team for the all great work you’re doing to steer our state in the right direction.

I’ve been reviewing North Carolina policy issues for years and I really wish I had discovered this show sooner. Excellent discussions and analysis of legislative and regulatory topics relevant to utilities and energy.

Although the podcast often focuses on North Carolina, the issues are relevant to all the bigger clean energy community. Issues in North Carolina are the microcosm of the other communities that are focused on a clean energy transition. The hosts are respected clean energy leaders. The podcast offer great insights, lessons and is making a meaningful impact on the our clean energy transition. Great work!

The show has become a bit of a utility defender and really not defending clean energy in NC. Heavily noticed this in the episode on Net Metering 2.0 (NEM 2.0) where they defended the new policy, as not much worse than existing net metering policy in the state. This is really not the case. The new net metering policy is a huge win for Duke Energy and a huge loss in benefits for residential solar customers in NC. Moving to the avoided cost rate compensation in net metering during for basically all solar generation hours wipes out a huge portion of the benefit for solar customers. Otherwise the show does a good job of keeping up to date on current NC clean energy topics. Just a bit of a utility plug piece as well.