Duke Energy and Progress Energy are pushing state politicians to make customers pay years in advance for power plants that aren’t needed and might never be built. Across the political spectrum, people are rejecting this corporate welfare.
- 70% of North Carolina Voters firmly reject the power companies’ Annual Rate Hikes bill according to a bi-partisan 2011 poll.
- North Carolina voters are adamant: Rising electricity rates are already harming seniors, families and businesses, and causing the price of everything to go up and up.
- Duke Energy and Progress Energy want the Annual Rate Hikes bill because the free market refuses to gamble on financially risky nuclear plant construction.
- In Florida similar legislation led to annually rising rates for a Progress nuclear plant that has quadrupled in price and won’t open for at least 12 years. The result has been bipartisan consumer revolt.
- The Duke-Progress business plan is to raise rates every year even though long-term electricity demand is falling and new power plants are not needed.
- Other states are avoiding new power plants by developing energy-saving programs that hold down power bills and generate thousands of jobs.
Tell your legislator to stop annual increases in our power bills. Call the legislative switchboard at 919-733-4111 and ask them to put you through to your state representative.
Why should North Carolina get stuck with last century’s energy plan that kills jobs while rewarding a single industry: investor-owned utilities?
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