CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Duke Energy says it will not move forward with offshore wind projects off the North Carolina coast after an independent review concluded the projects are simply too expensive compared to other options.

Those in favor of the decision say it will protect Duke Energy customers from higher bills, while clean energy advocates worry North Carolina risks falling behind.

Jon Sanders, the director of the Center for Food, Power and Life at the John Locke Foundation, celebrated the move in a statement to WRAL .

“Even with the most doctrinaire reading of climate change theory of emissions, because North Carolina is so infinitesimally small on the global scale, nothing that we can do is going to make a dime bit of difference with regard to the climate,” Sanders said. “But we can al

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