Charlotte Business Journal

Almost 87 percent of North Carolinians would support legislation that allowed them to buy electricity produced by clean renewable resource from power companies other than their local utilities, according to a new poll.

The survey, commissioned by the N.C. Sustainable Energy Association, polled 703 people statewide. It was conducted in late March by Fallon Research, based in Columbus, Ohio, and has a margin of error of 3.7 percent