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Holiday lights bring cheer and joy, until the electric bill arrives at the end of the month. However, Duke Energy, the largest energy company in North Carolina, offers tips to help its customers reduce their utility usage and minimize the impact on their monthly bills.
Published: Monday, December 8th, 2025 @ 4:39 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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New Chowan County High School Funding and Fremont-Eureka Utility Agreement Also Approved
Published: Sunday, March 3rd, 2024 @ 9:13 am
By: ENC NOW
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New Chowan County High School, Fremont-Eureka Utility Agreement on Agenda
Published: Friday, February 23rd, 2024 @ 1:07 pm
By: ENC NOW
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The city lied to you about your utility bill and you ought to be angry.
Published: Monday, November 6th, 2023 @ 4:50 am
By: Gary Ceres
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Government officials in Maui are blaming mismanagement by the utility company for the devastating fires that ripped through the island earlier this month, killing at least 115 people.
Published: Monday, September 18th, 2023 @ 7:59 am
By: Daily Wire
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Hawaiian Electric is under scrutiny for allegedly slow-walking modernization and repairs of its electrical grid before the fire that ripped through the island of Maui last week.
Published: Thursday, September 14th, 2023 @ 9:29 am
By: Daily Wire
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Three electric utility companies in California proposed a fixed-rate billing plan under which high-income households would pay more than low-income households.
Published: Friday, May 26th, 2023 @ 9:16 am
By: Daily Wire
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While tax increases and utility rate hikes have been stopped, budget shenanigans continue.
Published: Tuesday, May 16th, 2023 @ 9:32 pm
By: Gary Ceres
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Tax Increases are coming to Washington behind your back.
Published: Thursday, April 27th, 2023 @ 2:26 pm
By: Gary Ceres
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More than any other thing I hear from visitors and residents alike is that Washington "has potential".
Published: Saturday, April 15th, 2023 @ 12:29 pm
By: Gary Ceres
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Duke Energy Carolinas wants to increase residential rates for its customers between 16.2 and 16.6% by Sept. 1 and an additional 0.4% by Jan. 1. The utility is also seeking a rate hike for commercial and industrial customers. Rates would increase by 12.1% and 15.2%.
Published: Friday, April 14th, 2023 @ 8:15 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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A local construction worker was relieved to hear that his money will be used to bail out failing banks used by billionaire elites, despite the fact that he is having a hard time paying his utility bills and putting food on his family's table.
Published: Wednesday, March 22nd, 2023 @ 4:29 am
By: Babylon Bee
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In the past week, Duke Energy systematically shut down parts of the North Carolina and South Carolina power grid in what the utility described as an effort to stabilize energy usage during bitter cold holiday temperatures.
Published: Monday, January 16th, 2023 @ 8:18 am
By: Carolina Journal
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RALEIGH: Today, Governor Cooper and staff from the Governor’s Office met with officials from Duke Energy to ask questions about the causes of power outages over the Christmas holiday, December 24, 25, and 26, and understand utility leaders’ plans to avoid similar outages
Published: Friday, January 6th, 2023 @ 10:07 am
By: Governor's Office
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would declare Google to be a public utility and prohibit bias
Published: Sunday, December 11th, 2022 @ 11:05 am
By: John Steed
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Reward Matched by Duke Energy, Moore County
Published: Friday, December 9th, 2022 @ 4:37 am
By: Governor's Office
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More than 2.5 million businesses and homes in Florida were left without power in the aftermath of Hurricane Ian on Thursday morning as utility companies work to repair the state’s electrical grid.
Published: Saturday, October 1st, 2022 @ 12:16 pm
By: Daily Wire
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70% concerned about higher utility rates
Published: Thursday, January 6th, 2022 @ 3:25 pm
By: John Steed
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HOPE Program has increased cap on awards and is now accepting landlord referrals
Published: Wednesday, October 27th, 2021 @ 1:55 pm
By: Governor's Office
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funds voter suppression ads on Facebook
Published: Tuesday, October 19th, 2021 @ 8:50 am
By: John Steed
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Today, Governor Roy Cooper and Chief Operating Officer of the North Carolina Office of Recovery and Resiliency (NCORR) Laura Hogshead shared an update on the application process for the N.C. Housing Opportunities and Prevention of Evictions (HOPE) Program.
Published: Tuesday, June 8th, 2021 @ 11:21 pm
By: Governor's Office
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Governor and health officials urge continued vigilance as certain metrics rise
Published: Saturday, October 17th, 2020 @ 12:26 pm
By: Governor's Office
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Governor Roy Cooper announced the N.C. Mortgage, Utility and Rent Relief (MURR) program to offer financial aid to North Carolina’s small businesses whose operations were impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic.
Published: Friday, September 25th, 2020 @ 3:57 am
By: Governor's Office
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Governor Cooper Announces $175 Million to Assist with Rental, Utility Payments for North CaroliniansFunding covers three new initiatives to help North Carolinians
Published: Friday, August 28th, 2020 @ 1:33 am
By: Governor's Office
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Elizabeth City could go broke in August if Gov. Roy Cooper doesn’t lift restrictions on utility payments.
Published: Monday, June 22nd, 2020 @ 11:06 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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An executive order giving people a break on utility payments threw local governments across North Carolina into financial havoc.
Published: Friday, June 19th, 2020 @ 5:53 am
By: Carolina Journal
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Governor Roy Cooper signed Executive Order No. 142 to extend the prohibition of utility shut-offs and implement a moratorium on evictions.
Published: Monday, June 1st, 2020 @ 9:19 am
By: Governor's Office
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A recent audit centered around Rocky Mount uncovered some questionable fiscal behavior.
Published: Thursday, May 21st, 2020 @ 2:13 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Several Rocky Mount officials prevented the city’s utility payment office from attempting to collect $47,704 Mayor Pro-Tem Andre Knight owed in past due utility bills.
Published: Monday, May 18th, 2020 @ 9:59 am
By: Carolina Journal
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On April 13, 2020, the City of Washington’s Council voted to approve a one-time thirty percent (30%) reduction in the electric utility rate for all customers in the current (April) billing cycle.
Published: Friday, April 17th, 2020 @ 2:24 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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Governor Roy Cooper today announced another step to help families by prohibiting utilities from disconnecting people who are unable to pay during this pandemic.
Published: Wednesday, April 1st, 2020 @ 10:06 am
By: Governor's Office
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Most of us get the general idea of diminishing returns and diminishing marginal utility — even if we don’t know the technical terms.
Published: Tuesday, October 1st, 2019 @ 9:03 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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Funding is available to help North Carolinians in crisis pay utility bills or secure fuel or cooling resources.
Published: Saturday, July 6th, 2019 @ 10:58 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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Ken Eudy, Gov. Roy Cooper's policy adviser, was the governor's key negotiator with Duke Energy in developing a $57.8 discretionary Atlantic Coast Pipeline fund Duke and its utility partners would pay to Cooper.
Published: Saturday, January 26th, 2019 @ 12:48 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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A State of Emergency declared by Governor Cooper this weekend remains in effect as utility workers are quickly restoring power across the Triad area and some Western North Carolina counties.
Published: Thursday, January 17th, 2019 @ 12:40 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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Today, U.S. Senator Thom Tillis (R-NC) issued the following statement following the U.S. Solar Market Insight Report from Wood Mackenzie Power & Renewables and the Solar Energy Industries Association (SEIA) that section 201 solar tariffs played a role in the decline of utility-scale solar
Published: Thursday, December 20th, 2018 @ 12:41 am
By: Thom Tillis
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The state Utility Commission will weigh whether the GenX compound that has polluted the Cape Fear River Basin could contaminate the Wilkinson Solar Plant in the Terra Ceia community of Beaufort County
Published: Saturday, May 26th, 2018 @ 6:25 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Yesterday, Senator Thom Tillis (R-NC) led a letter to Ambassador Robert Lighthizer, Secretary Wilbur Ross, and Secretary Rick Perry urging them to exclude 72 cell, 1500 volt utility-scale solar panels, a large source of U.S. jobs and investment in our domestic solar industry, from the tariffs recent
Published: Thursday, May 10th, 2018 @ 4:02 pm
By: Thom Tillis
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The Civitas Institute has filed a state ethics complaint against Gov. Roy Cooper, seeking a ruling and possible investigation into questions of his handling of $57.8 million from a utility coalition building the Atlantic Coast Pipeline
Published: Thursday, February 22nd, 2018 @ 2:09 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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