Duke Energy would be allowed to charge North Carolina customers for power plants that haven’t yet been built, as well as to avoid fast-approaching climate change goals, under the terms of a new bill ...

Duke Energy’s poorest customers use more power per square foot than wealthier ones. A year-old program is connecting them ...

S.B. 261 would nix a goal set for North Carolina’s investor-owned utilities — primarily Duke Energy — to cut emissions 70 ...

Senate Bill 261, known as the Energy Security and Affordability Act, passed its second and third readings in the Senate ...

North Carolina’s clean energy growth faces uncertainty as federal spending freezes and state policy rollbacks threaten ...

When Duke Energy opened four floodgates at Cowans Ford Dam last fall, it made headlines. On that September day, water surged ...

Republican senators introduced a bill entitled “Energy Security and Affordability Act,” SB 261, which would repeal state requirements for Duke Energy to meet carbon reduction by 2030.

If the bill becomes law, Duke Energy could emit greater amounts of ... will be a daily occurrence by 2050, according to North Carolina’s Climate Risk Assessment and Resilience Plan.

The state’s growing population strikes concerns for state leaders about the future of energy, but a bill addressing the issue has an organization concerned for impacts on residential ratepayers.

Supporters say the proposal would slow the need for Duke to add more renewable energy sources, like wind and solar, thereby ...