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North Carolina was the first Southeastern state to adopt a renewable energy portfolio standard. The current RPS requires investor-owned utilities to supply 12.5% of retail electricity sales from renewable energy and energy efficiency sources by 2021.

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State Resources

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Siting Analysis for Potential Near-Term Offshore Wind Farm Development: Georgia, South Carolina, and North Carolina- Phase 2A of the Southeast Ocean-Based Renewable Energy Infrastructure Project Georgia Environmental Facilities Authority (GEFA); North Carolina State Energy Office (NCSEO); South Carolina State Energy Office (SCEO); Southern Alliance for Clean Energy (SACE); US Department of Energy (DOE) Mar 2 2011
Siting Analysis for Potential Near-Term Offshore Wind Farm Development: Georgia, South Carolina, and North Carolina- Phase 2A of the Southeast Ocean-Based Renewable Energy Infrastructure Project Georgia Environmental Facilities Authority (GEFA); North Carolina State Energy Office (NCSEO); South Carolina State Energy Office (SCEO); Southern Alliance for Clean Energy (SACE); US Department of Energy (DOE) Mar 29 2012
State of the North Carolina Workforce 2011-2020 North Carolina Commission on Workforce Development May 23 2011
Temporary Moratorium on Wind Projects Proposed in North Carolina North American Windpower Mar 23 2017
Threading a Moving needle: The Spatial Dimensions Characterizing US Offshore Wind Policy Drivers Elsevier Aug 19 2021
U.S. Coast Guard (USCG) Evaluation of North Carolina Areas Under Consideration for Wind Development US Coast Guard (USCG) Aug 2 2012
U.S. OFFSHORE WIND POWER: AN INDUSTRY IN MOTION Kleinman Center for Energy Policy: University of Pennsylvania Aug 1 2018
UNC Offshore Wind Power Development Follow-Up Study: Suggested Revisions to AOI #3 and Suggested Cautions to AOI #4 University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC-CH), Institute of Marine Sciences (IMS) Aug 2 2012
Vessel Traffic Data and Analysis US Coast Guard (USCG) Oct 6 2011
Visualization Study for Offshore North Carolina Mangi Environmental Group; TJ Boyle Associates, LPES, Inc. Aug 2 2012

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