Overview
The NC Clean Energy Technology Center offers a wide range of services to businesses, industry leaders, government agencies, and utilities to help optimize their sustainability and energy goals.
Our mission is to advance a sustainable energy economy through education, hands-on demonstration, and customized support for clean energy technologies, practices, and policies.
Our team of subject matter experts delivers unbiased, data-driven, and technical fee-for-service solutions tailored to each client’s unique needs. With deep expertise in clean energy, renewable technologies, transportation, energy policy, and workforce training, we provide comprehensive, integrated solutions to meet today’s energy challenges.
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Webinars
In 2026, the NC Clean Energy Technology Center kicked off the new Energy Insights Webinar Series – part of an initiative to promote Center-wide services that contribute to the advancement of a sustainable energy economy. These quarterly webinars feature experts from each program at the Center: Policy & Markets, Clean Power & Industrial Efficiency (CPIE), Clean Transportation, and Training & Workforce Development.
Upcoming Webinars:
Q3 – Clean Transportation
Q4 – Training & Workforce Development
Past Webinars:
Q1 | January 15, 2026 – Solar and Wind and Gas, Oh My!
In this webinar, NCCETC’s Policy & Markets team discuss utilities’ changing capacity needs and provide an outlook for the coming year. Speakers discuss:
- What an Integrated Resource Plan (IRP) is
- The importance of IRPs on a national level
- States that require IRPs
- Trends in IRPs filed during 2025
- Load forecasts
- Impacts of 2025 IRP regulations & policy actions
- Insights on what to expect in the future
Q2 | March 5, 2026 – Continuous Onsite Energy Generation for Data Centers
Meeting new data center energy needs can impose large demands on the power grid and lead to rate increases to support investments in new generation. Powering data centers with onsite generation as a primary energy source is an important tool to lower costs, increase energy efficiency and enhance resilience. This webinar, hosted by the DOE Southeast Onsite Energy Technical Assistance Partnership (TAP) and NCCETC’s CPIE team is informative for end users, utilities and policymakers looking for ways to navigate in these fast times.
Services
Technical Assistance
- Strategies to reduce peak electric demand
- Rate design and program development for municipal and cooperative utilities
- Project implementation support including third party reviews
- Customer Rate Comparison Tool
Technical assessments:
- Alternative fuel fleet assessments, fleet utilization and right-sizing analyses
- Energy efficiency, renewable energy and resilience
Research and Market Analysis
- Energy-related policy review, best practices and design
- State and national market intelligence and scoping
- Identifying funding opportunities including grant research and writing
Educational Opportunities, Training and Professional Development
- Customized solar PV and storage design, installation, operations, maintenance and policy training
- Eco-driving and sustainable fleet management training
- Organizing an eco-fair, workshop, local solar community aggregation purchase campaign (i.e. “Solarize” Campaigns) and energy and/or sustainability training for your employees, stakeholders or community
Planning and Guidance
- Carbon reduction/carbon neutral strategy development
- Baseline development including energy use intensity
- Energy resilience planning, including facilitation of mini and micro-grid development and vehicle to grid applications
Projects
