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For speaker after speaker inside a Mecklenburg County courtroom Wednesday night, Duke Energy’s proposed rate hike wasn’t about percentages or filings, it was about whether another jump in monthly ...

Duke Energy (DUK) said Wednesday it has filed a request with the North Carolina Utilities Commission to raise customer rates to recover more than $800M in higher fuel and power purchase costs incurred ...