Energy Services

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 – Planning for a Sustainable Fleet

June 23, 2026 | 2:00pm ET

In this webinar, the NC Clean Energy Technology Center (NCCETC) will be joined by Leke Fleet Services to discuss which steps should be taken when planning for a sustainable fleet. Speakers will address the following:

What data should be collected?
Which technologies should be considered?
Who should be involved from the beginning of the planning process?

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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

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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.

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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

Virginia Solar Procurement Guide for Local Communities

The NC Clean Energy Technology Center (NCCETC) conducted a survey of local governments in Virginia regarding solar procurement interests, and organized and conducted a SolSmart Virginia-wide cohort solar procurement meeting in Fairfax, with participation from over a dozen local governments. The workshop included speakers representing utility, distribution, solar developer and related nonprofit interests who presented…

Local Government Solar Policy Review

The Town of Apex, which operates its own municipal electric utility, requested a review of its solar policies to identify possible barriers to solar photovoltaics (PV) adoption for Apex residents. The NCCETC provided a review of relevant solar policies in North Carolina and identified policy items that might be impeding broad solar adoption. After receiving the…

Solar Assessments for Schools and Local Government Buildings

To help organizations prioritize and evaluate the potential for rooftop solar PV on their buildings, individual “Economic and Technical Analysis of Rooftop Solar PV” reports were prepared for several North Carolina school systems including Chapel Hill-Carrboro and New Hanover County Schools, as well as for Wake Technical Community College as well as for Orange County. The…

Municipal Utility Solar Feasibility Analysis

The Fayetteville Public Works Commission serves 87,000 customers as the state’s largest municipal utility. They enlisted the help of the NCCETC to conduct a technical and economic analysis of the viability of subscriber-based community solar program for their customers. The outcome resulted in the proposal of a 1MW community solar array, plus a 560kW battery storage system, which…

Peak Demand Reduction Strategies and Renewable Energy Solutions

The Town of Benson secured a zero percent financing loan, with the NCCETC’s assistance, from North Carolina Clean Water State Revolving Fund (CWSRF). The municipal wastewater treatment plant (WWTP) in Benson, North Carolina has aging infrastructure and the highest energy use of any of the town’s facilities. Through the CWSRF, the Town of Benson’s WWTP will be upgraded with…

Energy Efficiency Assessments & Reviews

TSG Finishing, LLC, in Hickory, requested a third-party engineering review from the NCCETC in order to apply for funding through the United States Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) Rural Energy for America Program (REAP). The facility was in need of a lighting retrofit project for their plant in order to upgrade and improve lighting throughout the…

Carbon Neutral Strategy

In 2019, the NCCETC worked with an international company to help develop a strategy to help the manufacturer reach their ambitious 2025 carbon neutrality goal. The NCCETC provided research, energy policy guidance and technical analysis culminating in a final report to help inform the executive level decision-making process for a company-wide and site-specific strategy, for…

Alternative Fuel Life Cycle Analysis

NCCETC’s Clean Transportation team has conducted alternative fuel life cycle cost analyses for multiple transit agencies across North Carolina where the team compared the total cost of ownership for vehicles over their expected lifetimes for vehicles using different fuel types. NCCETC can also: analyze upfront capital costs with long-term operating costs (including fuel and maintenance costs) compare…

Peak Demand Reduction Strategies and Solutions

The Center worked with the city of Fayetteville’s wastewater treatment facilities to identify opportunities to shift peak and incorporate solutions that could support peak demand reduction initiatives including the adoption of renewable energy. The team, which also represents the U.S. Department of Energy Southeast Combined Heat and Power Technical Assistance Partnership, provided technical assistance to help…

Testimonials

“We appreciated the opportunity to work with the [NCCETC] team on this project and will be relying upon the report David and the team produced to continue our work to provide leadership in terms of solar PV installation and use in towns and cities in North Carolina.”

Drew Havens | Apex Town Manager

“Anne Tazewell and the staff at NC Clean Energy Technology Center are knowledgeable about their work, and easy to work with. The study they completed is our primary resource in the decision-making process for installing solar PV on our roof tops.”

Valjeanne Estes | Energy Manager, New Hanover County Schools

“Since 2016, PWC has partnered with NCCETC for analytical services, non-residential auditing, and substantive research, to include the production modeling for our 1 MW community solar/560 kW battery storage project, the development of rate calculators for the PWC residential TOU rate, and contribution to the PWC Energy Storage, Electric Vehicle/EV Charging Study."

Kathy C. Miller | Marketing Manager, Fayetteville Public Works Commission