Wednesday morning, Duke Energy filed its updated plan to reduce carbon pollution and meet growing energy demand. In most scenarios, the company modeled, emissions for its Carolinas operations will increase through the mid-2030s, according to Duke’s analysis:
“As load continues to increase over time, the total emissions of the system rise until the late 2030s as solar deployments continue and nuclear begins contributing significant volumes of incremental emissions of free energy.”
Glen Snider, Duke’s managing director for the plan, said the utility still aims to attain net neutrality by 2050, despite making large near-term investments in natural gas plants. Those plants would need to switch to hydrogen fuel or implement carbon sequestering technology to keep the plan on track.
“There’s just a couple of technologies that we see on the horizon that will allow us to continue on a…
