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Utilities & Rates
A settlement in the Duke Energy Progress rate case would raise rates in two steps from January 1, 2027, if the North Carolina Utilities Commission approves it. The size is known, the date is known, and a business in eastern North Carolina or the Asheville area has four months to decide how much of it to pay.
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Agriculture
The Georgia Department of Agriculture expects to pay out $531.236 million in USDA block grant funds for uncompensated Hurricane Helene losses by the end of fall, prorated across more than 4,200 eligible applications. The money answers what was lost. What to rebuild differently is a separate question, with a deadline of its own.
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Carolinas
Duke Energy Progress has asked the South Carolina Supreme Court to overturn regulators' July 15 denial of a 4% increase for its Pee Dee customers under the state's new rate stabilization law. The court will decide the timing. The part of a commercial bill a facility controls does not wait for a ruling.
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Grid & Resilience
Duke Energy's 2026 Carolinas Resource Plan, filed with South Carolina regulators in August, asks to add about 18.5 GW of solar and 13 GW of battery storage by 2041. A utility planning that much storage has decided what flexibility is worth, and a Carolina facility can own the same thing at its own meter.
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Incentives
USDA rescinded the 2025-2027 REAP notice of funding opportunity on April 15, 2026 and will accept new applications only after a revised regulation is published. Applications without a signed agreement must be refiled. The pause is time to get the technical report, the interconnection and the tax numbers in order.
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Incentives
The IRS confirms the Section 179 expensing limit is $2.5 million for property placed in service in tax years beginning after December 31, 2024, with the phase-out starting at $4 million, and 100 percent bonus depreciation is permanent for property acquired after January 19, 2025. Here is what that does to the first year of a commercial solar project.
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Carolinas
North Carolina's interconnection procedures give a commercial solar or storage system three paths onto the grid: a simplified process for certified inverter systems up to 20 kW, a fast track with technical screens for certified systems up to 2 MW depending on the line, and a full study for everything else. Which path a project takes is decided at design.
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Carolinas
Santee Cooper's published rate schedules now include an experimental large load schedule that is mandatory for data centers above 50,000 kW and for portable loads above 1,000 kW. For the ordinary South Carolina business on the general service rate, the number that matters is still the $12.21 per kW demand charge, and there is something to do about it.
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