The powerful North Carolina utility is cagey about the exact location, but there are clues, and environmentalists want to know. In any event, a fossil fuel buildout is on.By Lisa SorgDuke Energy could build a 1,360-megawatt natural gas power plant on company-owned land in western Davidson County, which, if approved by the N.C. Utilities Commission, would add tons of climate-heating greenhouse gases into the air each year.Â
Observations from the Little Bunker
Last updated: January 16, 2026 04:30 AM
Atmospheric COâ‚‚
428.7 ppm
+18.1
ppm/year
Atmospheric CHâ‚„
1940.59 ppb
+-0.24
ppb/year
Global Temperature
+1.48 °C
Peak: +1.73°C
World Population
8.1 billion
+67
million/year