Alliance Files Comments to Help Shape North Carolina’s Clean Power Compliance Plan

The Alliance filed comments with the North Carolina Department of Environmental Quality, Division of Air Quality today urging the state to consider industrial energy-efficiency options, particularly combined heat and power (CHP) and waste heat to power (WHP), for inclusion in the state’s proposed Clean Power Compliance Plan. To date, North Carolina’s state compliance plan relies exclusively on heat rate improvements at affected power plants to reduce carbon dioxide emissions. We believe the state should adopt a system-wide approach to compliance and highlighted energy-efficiency as the easiest, fastest, and most cost-effective compliance tool available to help North Carolina achieve its emission reduction goals. You can read our full comments here.