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Microgrids Could Enhance Grid Resilience

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By Rory McIlmoil
| NREL Transforming Energy
NREL Researcher’s Personal Experience Inspires His Passion To Improve Local Grid Resilience This installment of the National Renewable Energy Laboratory’s (NREL’s) Tell Me Something Grid series features Rory McIlmoil, a researcher in NREL’s Grid Planning and Analysis Center. McIlmoil shares how microgrids could unlock greater grid resilience in the wake of natural disasters like Hurricane Helene. “Energy resilience” is a very broad term.
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Letter to the editor: With electricity costs rising, local utilities should tap into federal clean energy funds

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By Rory McIlmoil
| Watauga Democrat Verified
High Country residents are facing higher electric bills than in previous years, and this likely will continue beyond 2023. The war in Ukraine and other factors have sent prices for natural gas skyrocketing, and natural gas is the dominant fuel used for electricity generation in North Carolina. Blue Ridge Energy CEO Doug Johnson recently said, “Fuels used to generate electricity such as natural gas have almost tripled in cost in the past year.
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Duke Energy rate hike harms low-income families

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By Rory McIlmoil
| The Appalachian Voice
A few weeks ago, the North Carolina Utilities Commission issued its final order approving a 7.6% rate increase for the majority of residential customers of Duke Energy Carolinas, which serves about 2 million such customers in the western third of the state and is the largest of two Duke Energy subsidiaries operating in North Carolina.
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