As Duke Energy continues its six-year PR campaign touting CEO Jim Rogers’ concerns about climate change and North Carolina’s economic health, long-range plans filed this month with state regulators contradict his professions. The plans reflect serial rate hikes to pay for an aggressive expansion of generating plants, and high carbon emissions for the next two decades.
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Duke Merger’s Once-secret Deals with Big Users Set to Cost Other Customers $350 Million – News Release from NC WARN
This would slash purported public savings, thus it bolsters the call for commission to reopen hearings and “do the math”
Statewide Ad Campaign: “What is Duke Energy Hiding?” – NC WARN News Release
NC WARN today announced a statewide advertising campaign satirizing Duke Energy executives while calling for disclosure of billions in costs the nonprofit says the giant utility hid until after last month’s takeover of Progress Energy was approved.
Motion to Reopen Merger Hearings Remains Unrebutted – News Release from NC WARN
Duke Energy seems to believe it can simply avoid making a substantive argument against NC WARN’s motion to reopen evidentiary hearings based on the utility’s withholding of information in its merger with Progress Energy. Possibly Duke believes the NC Utilities Commission will simply defer to its corporate giant-ness as Florida commissioners did this week in their “welcome Mr. CEO” session with Jim Rogers.
Regulators say Most of Duke’s Merger Secrets Must be Unsealed – News Release by NC WARN
The NC Utilities Commission has ordered Duke Energy to unseal many of the 17 secret deals the utility used to gain large customers’ support for last month’s merger with Progress Energy.
Duke Energy Formally Dodges Charges it Concealed Billions During Merger Approval Process – News Release from NC WARN
Utility says regulators must delay action on re-opening merger hearings, while still avoiding key questions about billions in planned charges to customers
Prominent Voice for the Poor Calls for an End to Rate Discrimination by Duke Energy – News Release from NC WARN
Law professor Gene Nichol supports NC WARN’s call for a stand-alone examination of Duke’s rate scheme that favors the world’s richest corporations.
Bringing Solar Power to Those Most in Need – News Release from NC WARN
New campaign donates solar rooftop systems to nonprofits and heralds sun-power’s affordability for homes and businesses.
Compel Duke Energy to Justify Billions in Planned Rate Hikes, Watchdogs Urge Regulators in Merger Case – News Release from NC WARN
Duke claims it doesn’t have to reveal merger costs to the public; NC WARN argues nuclear fleet corrections dwarf public benefits and were key reasons in CEO firing
Commission Must Revisit Utility Merger Approval – NC WARN News Release
State regulators must reopen evidentiary hearings and require Duke Energy to prove why its already-sullied takeover of Progress Energy should not be revoked. Click here for news release and three legal motions.
Click here to listen to an audio recording of the press conference.