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NC WARN regularly challenges Duke Energy to make a rapid transition from fossil fuels to renewable energy and energy efficiency. We intervene at the NC Utilities Commission in cases involving Duke’s rate increases and 15-year Integrated Resource Plans (IRPs). And we have repeatedly reached out directly to the corporation’s executives, seeking to collaborate with them on finding ways to avert climate catastrophe. A few examples are listed here.

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Discrepancies in Duke Energy’s 20-year Plan Require Full Hearing, Cross Examination — News Release from NC WARN

In a motion filed yesterday, NC WARN, Greenpeace and the Blue Ridge Environmental Defense League thanked the NC Utilities Commission for its May 10 order questioning Duke’s compliance with state rules requiring “the least cost mix of generation and demand‑reduction measures which is achievable” and called on state regulators to schedule full hearings over discrepancies between statutory requirements, Duke’s official filings and public statements made by CEO Jim Rogers.

N.C. Utilities Commission Challenges Duke Energy on Long-Term Plan

Greenpeace, NC WARN and NC Interfaith Power and Light thank the North Carolina Utilities Commission for challenging Duke Energy to provide an explanation for why the company is not pursuing energy efficiency and renewable energy that would result in lower rates for North Carolina’s families and small businesses.

Climate, rates dominate Duke meeting — Charlotte Observer

Climate change and rate hikes dominated a Duke Energy shareholder meeting Thursday led for the last time by Jim Rogers, outgoing CEO of what the company says is the world’s largest publicly traded utility. Forcefully at times, Rogers defended Duke’s positions – and his own seven-year tenure – on questions ranging from renewable energy to pay raises for directors.

Green groups take protests into Duke Energy meeting — Charlotte Business Journal

Environmental groups came out in force for Jim Rogers’ final shareholders meeting as Duke Energy Corp.’s CEO. In addition to about 50 people gathered outside, dozens were inside to ask questions and make statements at the annual open session Rogers holds after the business session of the company’s annual meetings. When Rogers finally closed the session, several attendees continued to object. “Global warming is not an environmental issue — it is killing us,” shouted Beth Henry, a Charlotte activist. “You can’t build a good economy on a dead planet.”

Greenpeace Scolds Duke’s Jim Rogers on the Environment — Bloomberg

Greenpeace and a local environmental group called NC WARN bought a full-page ad in the May 1 edition of the Charlotte Observer to scold Rogers. “Jim Rogers has seven months to determine how history will remember his eight years as CEO: a leader who helped start a clean energy revolution, or a laggard who talked about global warming but never acted to stop it.”

Progress Energy tries to bolster case for rate increase — WRAL

Progress Energy called witnesses Monday to testify to the North Carolina Utilities Commission about the need for an electricity rate increase. “You have to weigh (lower industrial rates) against the economics of raising a lot of other people’s rates,” said Jim Warren, executive director of NC WARN, a watchdog group that is a frequent critic of Duke and Progress. “It takes away buying power. That kills jobs, too.”

Doing the math on Duke’s rate hike – Charlotte Observer

Duke Energy Carolinas filed 5,012 pages of written testimony, data analyses and appendices Monday in support of its request for an overall 9.7 percent North Carolina rate hike. Buried in all those numbers is one that’s most relevant to most customers: 14 percent. That’s the increase the majority of residential customers are being asked to pay.