A bit of good news for Duke Energy Progress customers: Duke is cutting their residential rates in North Carolina by 4.5% this week via its annual adjustment for power-plant fuel costs. The typical residential customer using 1,000 kilowatt-hours per month will see an overall decrease of $7.34. That average customer will be charged $154.63 versus […]
In its approval of Duke Energy’s new Carolinas Resource Plan, the N.C. Utilities Commission tossed an unexpected lifeline to the idea of building more large nuclear reactors to serve the region. The commission order includes a directive to Duke to report back by the end of this coming March on the licenses and infrastructure it […]
Duke Energy is warning that some of its customers in Western North Carolina could be without electricity “for an extended period of time.” The utility says “the vast majority” of those “who can receive power” should get it back by midnight Tuesday. Others should see a restoration of service “within a week,” but there’s a […]
Meanwhile, Duke Energy says it expects to have the power back on for “the majority of customers” in western North Carolina and upstate South Carolina by Friday evening. As of the mid-afternoon on Monday the company was reporting about 308,000 customers in western North Carolina were without electricity. Another 438,000 were in the dark in […]
Duke Energy appears to have made considerable inroads on the power-outage situation in the Carolinas. There are still almost 677,00 customers without power across North and South Carolina, and the utility is still promising to have the lights back on for most by Friday night. It’s worth noting here that the largest number of affected […]
As for electricity, Duke Energy reported hat about 375,000 customers in the west were without power as of 3 p.m. Sunday, along with 14,000 or so to the northeast of Charlotte. The largest cluster of Duke outages was in the Asheville area. There are also six electrical co-ops in the region — from west to […]
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