Duke Energy has as much as tripled incentives for energy efficiency and demand response programs for customers in South Carolina. (Utility Dive)
In May, a new state law directed regulators “to require utilities to plan for and invest in all reasonable, prudent, and available” efficiency and demand-side management resources.
Duke said, thanks to a string of heat waves in the Carolinas this summer, it set a preliminary new combined utility system summer usage record of 35,269 MWh in June. It has some 87K customers participating in demand response programs in SC.