Utilities regulators are holding hearings across central and western North Carolina to let consumers share their thoughts about plans by Duke Energy Carolinas to raise electricity rates by $235 million a year.
The North Carolina Utilities Commission is in Winston-Salem on Wednesday for a public hearing on the utility’s request to collect an extra $205 million in the first two years, and $235 million a year after that. That’s less than half what the company originally requested regulators to approve.
