Advanced Energy is a non-profit corporation, formerly known as Alternative Energy Corporation. The Corporation was established by the NC Utilities Commission in 1980. The company’s President, Robert Koger, was a member of the Utilities Commission that established AEC. Koger worked 22 years at the Utilities Commission serving as Director of Engineering and Economics, Commissioner and Chairman. Advanced Energy Corporation, is affiliated with NC GreenPower, which Koger serves as President also. The 2013 – IRS 990 …

On April 1, 2015 the Neuse River Foundation and the Pamlico-Tar River Foundation merged and formed Sound Rivers.

Both groups were formed in the 1980’s with similar missions – to protect and promote the rivers. Over the years and with the financial backing of the Z. Smith Reynolds Foundation, the groups branched out from being focused on the the rivers’ water quality to full-fledged environmental activist groups with expanded mission statements and focus issues such as:

Opposition to fracking
Joining Coal …

According to the NC Clean Energy Business Alliance’s website, NCCEBA is a 501(c)(6) non-profit trade association for the clean energy industry located or operating in North Carolina. NCCEBA was incorporated in February 2013 by the North Carolina Sustainable Energy Association and by top industry leaders in the state.

On its LinkedIn page NCCEBA describes itself as a political organization and states that it “strengthens the clean energy industry’s political voice through legislative lobbying and regulatory engagement, …

Formerly named NC Solar Center. The N.C. Clean Energy Technology Center is a UNC System-chartered Public Service Center administered by the College of Engineering at North Carolina State University. North Carolina taxpayers pay over $630,000 for staff salaries.

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NC GreenPower, a 501(c)3, was established in 2003. It is affiliated with Advanced Energy, a non-profit corporation, formerly known as Alternative Energy Corporation. Robert Koger serves as President for both NC GreenPower and Advanced Energy Corporation. The AEC was established by the NC Utilities Commission in 1980. Robert Koger was a member of the Utilities Commission that established AEC. Koger worked 22 years at the Utilities Commission serving as Director of Engineering and Economics, Commissioner and …

You can always find the SELC at the forefront of environmental policy in North Carolina. They are the first to the litigation table and work hand in glove with the Democrats when they are at the helm at NC DEQ, sometimes appearing as an adversary, but always pushing the most leftist policies.

The Southern Environmental Law Center (SELC) has received more than $3 million, in 4 grants, from Z. Smith Reynolds Foundation since 2003. SELC has …

Two massive, radical extremist environmental out-of-state groups spent millions in 2014 to defeat North Carolina legislators. The Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC), whose headquarters is in China and New York, worked with the Southern Environmental Law Center (SELC) to defeat six Republican legislative candidates by creating and funneling money to a shell group known as North Carolina Environmental Partnership (NCEP).

Civitas filed a complaint with the North Carolina State Board of Elections (SBOE) against NRDC and …

Formerly Western North Carolina Alliance.

Mountain True contains the French Broad and Watauga Riverkeepers. It has received support from radical leftists funders like the Tides Foundation, Energy Foundation, Park Foundation and Z Smith Reynolds Foundation. In fact since 2003, Mountain True has received over fifty-eight percent of its grant monies from these four foundations. Mountain True’s radical progressive agenda also includes the leftists induced Climate Change theory.

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Member of North Carolina Environmental Partnership

Financials: Source IRS 990s
 
 

Year
Revenue
 
Expenditures
 
Net Assets

2013
$104,113
 
$103,615
 
$60,540

2014
$102,648
 
$110,804
 
$52,384

2015
$471,578
 
$96,434
 
$427,528

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