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Duke agrees to smaller rate hike

Published July 24, 2013 By Bill Poovey | GSA Business bpoovey@scbiznews.com Duke Energy in a settlement has agreed to a $119 million rate increase over two years, almost half as much as the utility originally proposed. If approved, the increase for 540,000 households and businesses in South Carolina will take effect in mid-September. The Charlotte, […]

Residential power bills to rise by more than 10 percent under Duke rate hike propos

By Frank Knapp / Press / July 23, 2013

July 23, 2013 By Rudolph Bell, Greenvilleonline.com Power bills for homeowners and renters would increases lightly more than 10 percent over two years – much more than business customers –under a proposed settlement of Duke Energy’s third rate hike in South Carolina since 2010. The settlement, which the state Public Service Commission will have to

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