Rate Hike Hearings

- December 27th, 2012

Are you ready for the clean energy future? Are you sick of the utilities dragging their feet on the way there? Then join us at the public hearings on Duke Energy’s rate-hike request and make your voice heard.

Here’s our Duke Energy Rate Hike Fact Sheet showing how Duke rigs rates against small customers.
Want to learn more Duke Energy rate hike secrets? Check out our Burning the Public series.

Our Energy Future: RePowering NC

Workshops & Trainings

Come learn about statewide efforts to shift Duke Energy away from using more fossils fuels and funding them with serial rate hikes imposed on residential and small business customers. We need a responsible energy future that will create better health, more jobs and less climate pollution!

Duke Energy wants to build more climate-wrecking power plants that we don’t need, while holding back thousands of clean energy and weatherization jobs.

This is Duke’s third rate hike since 2009 – it would boost average residential rates by 13.9% and rates for small to medium-sized businesses would go up as much as 10.7%.

The groundswell of public turnout to these hearings is having an effect. The N.C. Supreme Court rejected Duke’s 2012 rate hike, for now, after public opposition led Attorney General Roy Cooper to intervene.

There will be public hearings on the rate hike on June 19 in Winston-Salem, June 26 in Charlotte and July 2 in Hillsborough. The Speak Out Trainings below will give you the background and tools you need to tell your story compellingly at the rate hike hearings.

Help us ramp up efforts to challenge the nation’s largest electric utility! We can lead the clean energy revolution with your help! Click links to get more details and to register for these Speak Out Trainings that will help you learn to share your story at the Duke Energy rate hike hearings.

June 13, 6:30-8:00 p.m., Charlotte
June 13, 6:30-8:30 p.m., Winston-Salem
June 18, 6:30-8:00 p.m., Charlotte
June 20, 6:30-8:30 p.m., Durham
June 22, 1pm to 3pm, Muggs Coffee Shop, 5126 Park Rd #1, Charlotte, NC 28209

To schedule a workshop, or for more information, contact one of our organizers, Connie Leeper (704/701-6762) or Sammy Slade (919/951-5200).

Webinars

Monday, May 13: NC WARN’s Executive Director Jim Warren and Legal Counsel John Runkle explained the details of the Duke Energy rate hike request and how it unfairly impacts families and small businesses. Click here to watch and listen to the webinar.

How You Can Help

• Come to one of the hearings below.
• Write a letter to the editor.
• Sign our rate hike petition.
• View and print a PDF of the petition to gather signatures in your area.
• Send a short email to Utilities Commission Chairman Ed Finley to voice your
concerns
• Attend one of the workshops or webinars on the list above to learn more about the possibilities for action.
• Email us at ncwarn@ncwarn.org if you have questions or would like to be kept informed of our plans.

* July 2 hearing moved from Durham to Hillsborough due to new security requirements at the Durham courthouse. We will pursue options for getting the hearing moved back to Durham, where the bulk of local Duke ratepayers live. Stay tuned!