Electric

The Electric Division represents the public in matters brought before the Utilities Commission involving electric providers. These matters encompass rates and tariffs, energy efficiency program approval and performance, generation plant siting, transmission line siting, power plant operations, fuel procurement, quality of service, and mergers and acquisitions.

In addition, the Electric Division also provides technical evaluations and recommendations to the Utilities Commission involving renewable energy and energy efficiency portfolio standard (REPS) compliance and electric resellers among other issues.

The Electric Division can be reached at 919-733-2267 or Electric@psncuc.nc.gov

Electric Utility Rate Schedules including Service Regulations and Line Extension Plans

Duke Energy Progress
Duke Energy Carolinas
Dominion North Carolina Power [Residential] [Non-Residential]

Bill Comparison for North Carolina's Electric Utilities

The three largest investor-owned electric utilities in North Carolina are Duke Energy Progress, Duke Energy Carolinas, and Dominion North Carolina Power. These companies provide electric service to customers in assigned service territories according to rates (or tariffs) approved by the Utilities Commission. These rates include various components that comprise the total bill such as customer charge, demand charge, energy charge, fuel charge, renewable energy charge, and energy efficiency charge.

Below are examples of total bills (excluding sales tax) for various customer classes at various levels of demand and energy use. These examples serve only as representative bills.¹ Other tariffs are available for the customer to take advantage of special time-of-use rates offered by each company.

Duke Energy Progress
Effective 2-1-2016

Customer Class	Rate Schedule	Demand (kW)	Energy (kWh)	Summer Bill	Winter Bill
Residential	RES	n/a	300	43.56	40.65
		n/a	500	64.40	59.56
		n/a	1,000	116.49	106.81
		n/a	1,500	168.59	154.07
		n/a	2,000	220.68	201.32
Commercial	SGS Single-Phase Commercial or Governmental	5	360	61.46
		10	720	99.80
		25	1,800	197.63
Industrial	MGS Three-Phase Industrial or Public Authority	50	18,000	1,606.54
		100	36,000	3,122.90
		500	72,000	7,799.62
		1,250	450,000	39,734.71
		1,500	540,000	47,638.51
	LGS	5,000	1,800,000	158,291.71
Industrial	Industrial or	10,000	3,600,000	311,517.71
	Public Authority	25,000	9,000,000	756,645.71
		50,000	18,000,000	1,498,525.71

Duke Energy Carolinas
Effective 9-1-2016

Customer Class	Rate Schedule	Demand (kW)	Energy (kWh)	Bill
		n/a	300	39.93
		n/a	500	58.07
Residential	RS (NC)	n/a	1,000	103.44
		n/a	1,500	148.80
		n/a	2,000	194.16
Commercial	SGS (NC)	5	360	65.21
		10	720	106.83
		25	1,800	231.71
		50	18,000	1,376.59
		100	36,000	2,704.05
Commercial	LGS (NC)	500	72,000	6,913.82
		1,250	450,000	37,192.60
		1,500	540,000	39,010.89
		5,000	1,800,000	128,733.56
Industrial	I (NC)	10,000	3,600,000	256,908.81
		25,000	9,000,000	641,434.56
		50,000	18,000,000	1,282,310.81

Dominion North Carolina Power
Effective 1-1-2016

Customer Class	Rate Schedule	Demand (kW)	Energy (kWh)	Summer Bill	Winter Bill
Residential	Schedule 1	n/a	300	42.13	38.31
		n/a	500	62.76	56.39
		n/a	1,000	114.33	101.58
		n/a	1,500	165.90	146.78
		n/a	2,000	217.47	191.97
Commercial	Schedule 5	5	360	54.98	52.46
		10	720	89.18	84.14
		25	1,800	191.12	178.55
		50	18,000	1,542.94	1,418.55
		100	36,000	2,986.13	2,737.92
Industrial	Schedule 6P	500	72,000	10,000.45
		1,250	450,000	35,996.68
		1,500	540,000	43,178.21
		5,000	1,800,000	141,474.69
		10,000	3,600,000	282,860.37
		25,000	9,000,000	707,017.44
		50,000	18,000,000	1,413,945.87

Note 1: Billing under non-residential schedules may vary because of contract demand, demand relative to other months, minimum or maximum demand provisions, and energy usage during on-peak versus off-peak periods. Billing under these schedules may also be subject to minimum monthly charges, additional charges for three-phase service and additional charges due to a power factor less than 0.85.