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Duke Energy awarded $50M for grid upgrades (opens the original)
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CHARLOTTE — Duke Energy is getting $50 million in federal funding to improve and modernize its power grid across parts of the Carolinas. The U.S. Department of Energy announced the award during a visit to South Carolina. It is part of the nearly $2 billion SPARK initiative, which aims to improve power reliability while making better use of existing infrastructure. The Duke Energy project will focus on Greenville and Spartanburg counties in South Carolina and Polk and Henderson counties in wester
Charlotte Water solar project to feed power into Huntersville grid (opens the original)
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HUNTERSVILLE, N.C. — Charlotte Water opened a new solar facility on 10 acres of utility property on Jim Kidd Road in Huntersville. The system generates enough power to supply electricity to roughly 380 homes annually. That production capacity can also offset the energy used by one of Charlotte Waterâs treatment plants. >>CLICK HERE to read more WSOC climate stories Solar developer EnerWealth owns the facility, which was constructed on property owned by Charlotte Water that was previously sitti
Volunteers are making a map of Charlotteâs trees (opens the original)
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CHARLOTTE — Charlotte volunteers are preparing for planting season by doing a âcheckupâ on the trees already in the ground. Channel 9âs climate reporter Michelle Alfini followed one tree-mapping mission. When a neighborhood has plenty of trees, itâs cooler, the air is healthier and itâs more livable. Thatâs why TreesCharlotte is investing in neighborhoods to grow the canopy. But first, they need good data on whatâs already there. To know your neighborhood trees, Heather Brent with
Drought makes trees more susceptible to invasive species. The NC Forest Service is fighting back. (opens the original)
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CALDWELL COUNTY, N.C. — Our lakes and rivers are already improving from the worst of the drought, but it could take years for trees to fully recover. Right now, theyâre more vulnerable to threats like invasive species; but Channel 9 climate reporter Michelle Alfini learned that the North Carolina Forest Service is fighting back. Towering high in this Caldwell County forest, these hemlocks have had to fight to survive, says Brian Heath with the NC Forest Service. âItâs a very important spec
Dept. of Energy launches new initiative to fill mining jobs, meet U.S. lithium needs (opens the original)
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KINGS MOUNTAIN, N.C. — A North Carolina lithium mine says it needs hundreds of trained workers in order to reopen, so the Department of Energy was in Kings Mountain on Monday to announce a new federal education initiative to get workers into mines. To run our phones, laptops, even the camera that shot this story, we use lithium. The head of the Department of Energyâs Critical Minerals Office, Audrey Robertson, says itâs a shame we import most of it. âWe need lithium for lithium ion batteri
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