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Strings Attached: How utilities use charitable giving to influence politics and increase investor profits

Download full report Duke Energy Duke is a utility company that serves more than 7.7 million retail electric customers across North Carolina, South Carolina, Florida, Ohio, Indiana, and Kentucky. Its...

/ December 10, 2019

Duke Energy spends big on Republicans, “soft money” groups in 2020 election

Key Points: Duke Energy contributed handily to North Carolina Republicans, incumbents, and loyal utility allies in the state’s high-stakes 2020 General Assembly elections.  The company gave extensively to 527 “soft...

/ November 1, 2020

Pollution Payday: Analysis of executive compensation and incentives of the largest U.S. investor-owned utilities

Download full report Duke Energy Duke Energy is a utility company that serves electric customers across North Carolina, South Carolina, Florida, Ohio, Indiana, and Kentucky. Its gas subsidiary, Piedmont, provides...

/ September 22, 2020
Duke Energy's Sutton Gas Plant

Duke Energy’s zero-carbon goal undermined by massive gas rush

Duke's proposed gas plants, pipeline call climate goal integrity into question

/ September 17, 2019

Duke Energy refuses to consider climate-related risk in North Carolina rate case

Duke Energy Carolinas has submitted rate case testimony in North Carolina that appears inconsistent with its parent company Duke Energy’s enterprise-wide goal of reaching net-zero carbon emissions by 2050. […]

/ March 10, 2020

Duke Energy’s customers fund groups behind campaigns on coal ash, more

Duke Energy customers in North Carolina pay millions of dollars each year to fund industry groups that have spent years fighting against strong coal ash regulations, and have engaged […]

/ March 1, 2018

Duke Energy doubles down on gas in updated NC Carbon Plan, despite unreliability during Winter Storm Elliott

Duke Energy plans to deepen its reliance on methane gas, the volatile fuel responsible for consumers’ skyrocketing bills, according to the utility’s mid-August proposal to comply with North Carolina’s […]

/ October 24, 2023

Duke, Southern disclose misleading descriptions of climate policy advocacy to ESG investors

[…] to climate policy, but the disclosures are incomplete and misleading in significant ways.  The companies, Duke Energy and Southern Company, have come under fire from a growing cadre of...

/ March 15, 2021
Offshore wind turbines

Duke Energy “Carbon Plan” proceeding in North Carolina highlights the utility’s preference for monopolization over customer savings

Duke Energy’s “Carbon Plan” proceeding at the North Carolina Utilities Commission (NCUC) is under fire from clean energy advocates who say Duke is betting big on new gas-fired power […]

/ November 4, 2022
PURPA Attack EEI Duke

Dukeplicity on PURPA

Duke Energy is arguing that its monopoly utility in Florida should only have to buy electricity from renewable energy projects in two-year contracts, while its unregulated subsidiary that develops […]

/ March 13, 2019