Category: Duke Energy
North Carolina utilities not reconnecting customers during COVID-19 pandemic
Thousands remain without electricity, gas, or water during crisis
Duke Energy Climate Report charts fossil fuel-laden path to net-zero, lagging behind peers
Key Points: Duke Energy released a new climate report describing potential pathways to achieve net-zero carbon emissions by 2050. Its main scenario relies heavily on fossil gas expansion, offsets, and...
Duke Energy refuses to consider climate-related risk in North Carolina rate case
Utility enters testimony that contradicts emissions commitments, dodges questions about climate preparedness while seeking to recover grid costs.
Utilities back anti-protest bills in Ohio and other states
Dominion Energy and Duke Energy are backing a controversial anti-protest bill in Ohio, the latest front in a national campaign by the American Legislative Exchange Council and its funders in...
Strings Attached: How utilities use charitable giving to influence politics and increase investor profits
Download full report Duke Energy Duke is a utility company that serves more than 7.7 million retail electric customers across North Carolina, South Carolina, Florida, Ohio, Indiana, and Kentucky. Its...
Duke Energy’s zero-carbon goal undermined by massive gas rush
Duke's proposed gas plants, pipeline call climate goal integrity into question
Duke Energy’s Allegiance to Gas Leads to Muddled Statements on Solar Emissions Impacts
Duke Energy peddles, then recants the myth that solar increases pollution. Gas investments may be driving its muddled stance.
Utilities gave $320K to Ohio House members who voted for bailout bill
Members of the Ohio House who voted in favor of a bill to bail out uncompetitive coal and nuclear power plants received over $320,000 in campaign money from four utilities...
Utility Carbon Targets Reflect Decarbonization Slowdown In Crucial Next Decade
Many of the nation's largest utilities are planning to slow down their efforts to decarbonize, according to the companies' own goals.
Dukeplicity on PURPA
Duke Energy is arguing that its monopoly utility in Florida should only have to buy electricity from renewable energy projects in two-year contracts, while its unregulated subsidiary that develops renewable...