We have lambasted US energy operator Duke Energy in the past for missing out on renewables and sticking so steadfastly to fossil fuels, and with lots of classic “toxic ash” clean ups at the bottom of some coal plants, and some cases of “poisoning” local lakes. But it is perhaps a misunderstood company, the product of America as it is today, fossil fuel obsessed, but also discouraged from “over-reacting” to climate change. Most US coverage of the moves pointed fingers and called it public enemy number one, with an outdated reliance on dirty, dangerous and expensive coal-fired power plants. It has brought forward the disposal of coal plants, but not half so much as consumers would like. One of Duke’s…