Maintaining affordability through customer-centered energy solutions.
8x
increase in NC customer energy needs over the next 15 years over that of the past 15 years.
13.9%
approved rate increases for Duke Energy customers between 2022-2025.
2.4%
projected annual rate increase for Duke Energy customers over the next 15 years.
North Carolina’s energy future is at an important inflection point. Demand for electricity is soaring. Electricity rates are rising. It’s imperative that we design residential and commercial customer solutions today for a better, more affordable tomorrow.
Residential
Design solutions that empower homeowners to reduce utility costs, keep the lights on, and maintain freedom behind the meter.
Business
Enable solutions that allow businesses to mitigate increasing utility costs, meet their own energy goals, and ensure 24/7 reliability for operations.
Our Solutions
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Behind-the-Meter Freedom protects the rights of North Carolina homeowners to install generation resources on their own property without facing punitive rate structures, excessive delays, or red tape.
This policy ensures that families can invest their own resources in energy independence, property improvement, and backup power, while making our electric grid more resilient and reducing peak demand—all without new government spending.
By guaranteeing access to local, homegrown power solutions, North Carolina strengthens consumer choice, respects property rights, and creates a more secure energy future driven by free-market innovation, not mandates.
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The Industrial Energy Independence Program empowers major North Carolina employers—manufacturers, data centers, and logistics facilities—to develop their own on-site power generation to support reliability, reduce strain on the electric grid, and keep energy costs stable for everyone.
By allowing businesses to responsibly invest in on-site generation technologies, the program strengthens grid resilience, enhances energy security, and promotes private-sector innovation without new mandates or rate increases.
This voluntary, market-driven approach ensures that North Carolina remains a national leader in attracting job creators who need dependable, affordable, 24/7 energy to grow and compete globally.
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Permitting reform streamlines and standardizes permitting for home and business energy technologies.
Today, installers and homeowners face inconsistent requirements across counties and municipalities, resulting in unnecessary delays, higher costs, and administrative burdens that strain local governments.
Reform can create a uniform statewide permitting framework that reduces government waste, cuts red tape, saves local governments money, and accelerates private-sector investment in energy reliability and home resilience.
By simplifying permitting, North Carolina becomes more competitive for manufacturing and technology jobs, while giving homeowners and businesses faster, fairer access to modern energy solutions—all without new mandates or new government spending.
