Duke Energy: Hoarding the Alternative Energy Market {?}

Tain't just Duke, and frankly at least they're doing something.

Remember our new, now some thirty years plus old, capitalist ideology, push the wealth to the top and it will 'trickle down' keeping the economic growth machine well greased and everyone prospers, Not {one of the only things keeping that going, after it collapsed shortly after bringing it on, has been the many changing credit schemes.}! We've been talking alternatives for decades now, we even were the innovators and developers of some thirty to forty years ago, Solar, Wind etc., now we trail even so called third world countries, as the detractors then, now using climate change not existing as their argument, put the breaks on that development. Then we had cheaper fossil fuel, that ended a decade ago as the past decade brought ever growing Huge bottom line profit to the developers of fossil fuel and they want to keep it that way, thus Very Little Investments Into Known Alternatives nor in Possible New Source Research! We've exported our trades and we now trail, far behind, Countries and Economies that once Envied Us, product development and workers innovations, as even Corporations like Duke join in partnerships with other countries like China in helping them develop and build whole cities running on alternatives! And who do we look to for investments in our economic growth, foreign capital that we cheer on when landed as our wealthy grow wealthier and even go to the plus on growth paying little in tax revenue and those reps they hire, we pay, fight to even keep public capital investment out as the long ignored infrastructure goes needing!

Duke Energy, first in N.C. solar power, has its critics

Company denies claims by advocacy group and other firms that it's hoarding the market, preventing industry's growth.

Workers for Argand Energy Solutions, based in Charlotte, install hardware for additional solar arrays at an airport in Ellenboro on Thursday. JEFF WILLHELM

Jun. 22, 2011 - Duke Energy, which earns billions from coal and nuclear power, has become sun-splashed North Carolina's biggest source of solar power - and, critics charge, an obstacle to growing the new industry.

Duke Energy Carolinas ranked 10th-largest among U.S. utilities for the amount of solar energy it brought online last year. That's because of a state law that, for the first time, required N.C. utilities to make a smidgen of their electricity from the sun.

That law, combined with state tax credits, ignited the solar industry. North Carolina leapt from the bottom 10 solar-producing states five years ago to 11th-largest now. {continued}