Duke Energy's Save-a-Watt Proposal Rejected by South Carolina Utility Regulators
For Immediate Release: February 26, 2009
Contacts:
Gudrun Thompson (attorney) or Kathleen Sullivan, SELC, 919-967-1450 or ksullivan@selcnc.org
Michael Regan, EDF, 919-862-6593 or mregan@edf.org
Ben Moore, SCCCL, 843-725-2063 or benm@scccl.org
Christina Honkonen, SACE, 865-228-1567 or christina@cleanenergy.org
The commission’s concerns and desires are shared by clean energy advocates Environmental Defense Fund, Southern Alliance for Clean Energy, the South Carolina Coastal Conservation League, and the Southern Environmental Law Center. The commission’s encouragement is an opportunity to look forward to developing stronger programs by Duke Energy and other stakeholders that encourage energy efficiency while protecting consumers and the environment.
The groups opposed the Save-a-Watt proposal because it would have yielded meager energy savings at an excessive cost to customers. To pay for the program, Duke Energy proposed a compensation scheme that would have billed customers an amount much higher than the actual cost of the measures—85 percent of the cost of new power plants the company would have built if not for the energy efficiency measures.
A nearly-identical case is pending in North Carolina , with a ruling in that case expected at any time.
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