WECT: A new report says North Carolina is ranked in the top ten states in the country leading the solar energy initiative.
That's according to Environment North Carolina's latest study titled "Lighting the Way." The report says it's not necessarily the amount of sunlight in the state that makes it a leader but the public policies created by state and local governments to make clean energy a priority.
"North Carolina's solar capacity more than doubled in 2014, bringing the total capacity to 557 megawatts....