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AG fights Duke Energy rake hikes before NC Supreme Court — WCNC

Attorney General Roy Copper’s office along with the environmental group North Carolina Waste Awareness and Reduction Network, or NC WARN say Duke is charging homeowners too much, and super consumers like server farms and factories too little.

Coalition pressures utilities — Tampa Bay Times

About three dozen people quietly gathered in the drizzling rain outside Duke Energy’s St. Petersburg headquarters for the inaugural effort of the group Floridians for Fair Rates, an organization led by Steyer’s political group NextGen Climate.

Strange Bedfellows

NC WARN and the conservative John Locke Foundation agree that increased competition in the North Carolina electricity market would help customers benefit from the rapid changes occurring in the U.S. electricity marketplace. The groups are sponsoring two public forums.

Read more and watch videos of the forums.
Read our news release about the collaboration.
Read the Locke Foundation news release.
NC WARN and John Locke on The State of Things
Read an op-ed by the two groups in the News & Observer

Critics question whether Duke-Progress merger really saved consumers money — WNCN

Attorney John Runkle asks, “Where are the savings for consumers? The merger was billed as a better deal for North Carolina consumers. Duke has gone up in rates in 2009, 2011 and then last year…Progress had their first rate case in over 20 years, so the rates are going up.” Runkle represents the energy watchdog group NC WARN, which is still in the process of appealing the merger.