In 2017, Buncombe County and the City of Asheville in western North Carolina adopted a resolution for the county operations to be powered by 100% renewable energy by 2030, and the entire community by 2042. This made the community only the second in the Tar Heel State to adopt a clean energy goal. Since then,...

Vietnamese solar panel manufacturer Boviet Solar is building a 1.1 million square foot facility in Pitt County, North Carolina, a move that will bring more than 900 new, high-paying jobs to the Greenville area.  The project involves renovating an existing 500,000 square foot building to create a state-of-the-art plant to produce high-performance photovoltaic panels.They will...

When Hurricane Helene knocked out the power to over 1.5 million homes, restoring electrical service was an extraordinarily difficult task in many areas. Heavily wooded mountainous terrain made the job a challenge from the start. However, thanks to groups like the Footprint Project, solar power is becoming an affordable way to get the lights back....

How does a community respond when they experience not one, but two “1,000-Year climate events” in the space of three years? That’s the question Hayward County in North Carolina is asking after it was hit first by Tropical Storm Fred in 2021 and then by Hurricane Helene in 2024. The increasing frequency of these gigantic...