{"id":542762,"date":"2010-04-25T09:23:13","date_gmt":"2010-04-25T13:23:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cleantechnica.com\/?p=8798"},"modified":"2010-04-25T09:23:13","modified_gmt":"2010-04-25T13:23:13","slug":"duke-energy-brings-solar-energy-home-with-ten-new-distributed-solar-projects","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/542762","title":{"rendered":"Duke Energy Brings Solar Energy Home with Ten New Distributed Solar Projects"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-8809\" href=\"http:\/\/cleantechnica.com\/2010\/04\/25\/duke-energy-brings-solar-energy-home-with-ten-new-distributed-solar-projects\/duke-energy-plans-ten-new-distributed-solar-energy-installations\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-8809\" title=\"Duke Energy plans ten new distributed solar energy installations\" src=\"http:\/\/go635254.s3.amazonaws.com\/cleantechnica\/files\/2010\/04\/Duke-Energy-plans-ten-new-distributed-solar-energy-installations.jpg\" alt=\"Duke Energy will install ten more mini solar power plants in North Carolina\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" \/><\/a><a title=\"duke website\" href=\"http:\/\/www.duke-energy.com\" >Duke Energy<\/a> of North Carolina is a diversified electric company that that still relies on fossil fuel operations, but the industry giant is also embracing sustainable energy (perhaps egged on by another sustainability-minded utility operating in the Southeast, <a title=\"cleantechnica.com article\" href=\"http:\/\/cleantechnica.com\/2009\/12\/01\/progress-energy-joins-stampede-away-from-coal\/\" >Progress Energy<\/a>).\u00a0 Duke is into <a title=\"cleantechnica.com article\" href=\"http:\/\/cleantechnica.com\/2009\/04\/01\/duke-energy-plans-third-wyoming-wind-farm-latest-step-on-renewable-path\/\" >wind power in Wyoming<\/a>, and last year the company announced that <a title=\"duke press release\" href=\"http:\/\/www.duke-energy.com\/news\/releases\/2009050702.asp\" >it will build between 100 and 400 mini solar power plants<\/a> throughout North Carolina over the next two years.<\/p>\n<p>Duke launched the program last October with four installations, and this week they announced plans for <a title=\"duke press release on prnewswire.com\" href=\"http:\/\/www.prnewswire.com\/news-releases\/duke-energy-selects-10-additional-sites-for-innovative-solar-program-91796884.html\" >ten new solar power installations<\/a> at schools, government facilities, and private businesses.\u00a0 Among the advantages Duke sees in distributed solar is the idea that people can see the installations during the course of their day, and familiarity will foster a better understanding of solar energy&#8217;s potential for growth.\u00a0 Now, if only Duke could do something about that pesky <a title=\"cleantechnica.com article\" href=\"http:\/\/cleantechnica.com\/2010\/02\/22\/southeastern-legal-foundation-challenges-u-s-epa-on-greenhouse-gas-emissions\/\" >U.S. Chamber of Commerce<\/a>&#8230;<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/cleantechnica.com\/2010\/04\/25\/duke-energy-brings-solar-energy-home-with-ten-new-distributed-solar-projects\/#more-8798\" class=\"more-link\">(more&#8230;)<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Duke Energy of North Carolina is a diversified electric company that that still relies on fossil fuel operations, but the industry giant is also embracing sustainable energy (perhaps egged on by another sustainability-minded utility operating in the Southeast, Progress Energy).\u00a0 Duke is into wind power in Wyoming, and last year the company announced that it [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6399,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-542762","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/542762","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6399"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=542762"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/542762\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=542762"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=542762"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=542762"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}