NCUC's Approval of Second Big Gas Plant Is Based on Speculative Load Forecasts but Will Have Real Rate Impacts - Southern Alliance for Clean Energy (SACE)

NCUC's Approval of Second Big Gas Plant Is Based on Speculative Load Forecasts but Will Have Real Rate Impacts - Southern Alliance for Clean Energy (SACE)

On October 16, the North Carolina Utilities Commission approved a second mammoth Duke combined cycle (CC) gas plant based on Duke’s speculative load forecasts. This gas plant, which will be located across the street from Woodland Elementary School in Person County, will expose Duke customers to significant rate increases and expensive fossil gas costs for decades and drive significant pollution, including greenhouse emissions. That the approval …