{"id":5377,"date":"2018-04-14T09:02:44","date_gmt":"2018-04-14T13:02:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/Life-Insurance-Blog\/?guid=1dd62c43255244576efc9898f32344e3"},"modified":"2018-04-14T09:02:44","modified_gmt":"2018-04-14T13:02:44","slug":"court-sees-if-church-solar-panels-break-electricity-monopoly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/2018\/04\/14\/court-sees-if-church-solar-panels-break-electricity-monopoly\/","title":{"rendered":"Court sees if church solar panels break electricity monopoly"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>RALEIGH, N.C. &#8212; North Carolina&#8217;s highest court is taking up a case that could force new competition on the state&#8217;s electricity monopolies.<\/p>\n<p>The state Supreme Court on Tuesday will consider the Utilities Commission&#8217;s decision to fine clean-energy advocacy group NC WARN for putting solar panels on a church rooftop and then charging it below-market rates for power.<\/p>\n<p>The commission told the group that it was producing electricity illegally and fined the group $60,000. The group said it was acting privately and appealed to the high court.<\/p>\n<p>If the group prevails, it could put new pressure on Duke Energy&#8217;s monopoly. State officials say a ruling for NC WARN would allow companies to install solar equipment and sell power on site, shaving away customers and forcing Duke Energy to raise rates on everyone else.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>RALEIGH, N.C. &mdash; North Carolina&rsquo;s highest court is taking up a case that could force new competition on the state&rsquo;s electricity monopolies. The state Supreme Court on Tuesday will consider the Utilities Commission&rsquo;s decision to fine clean-energy advocacy group NC WARN for putting solar panels on a church rooftop and then charging it below-market rates [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":578,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5377"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/578"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5377"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5377\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5382,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5377\/revisions\/5382"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5377"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5377"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5377"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}