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Duke Energy is committed to finding affordability solutions for customers amid rising demand — and opposition to the company's $103 billion spending plan, company leaders said during a Tuesday earnings call.
Duke has recently adopted a “customer protection plus” commitment to reinforce a requirement that large users of energy pay for the cost of serving their facilities, potentially saving existing Duke Energy customers billions of dollars over time, said President and CEO Harry Sideris.
Sideris also said the utility is considering rate structures that would highlight customer savings by visibly returning savings from large load contracts to existing customers via electric bills.
More than 5 GW of new data centers are already under construction within Duke Energy's six-state service territory, and the company has signed 7.8 GW of electric service agreements with data center customers, he said.
