SC Utility News Digest - a Service of the Terreni Law Firm, LLC
Friday, July 6, 2012
Scammers sell customers feds will pay utility bills
To receive the money, scammers claim they need the customers’ Social Security and bank routing numbers. In return, customers are given a phony bank routing number that will supposedly pay their utility bills. In reality, there is no money, and customers believe they have paid their bills when in fact they have not.
Tuesday, July 3, 2012
Duke Energy closes merger with a surprise at CEO | CharlotteObserver.com & The Charlotte Observer Newspaper
Bruce Henderson
The new, 18-member board of directors voted to name Duke CEO Jim Rogers, 64, as president and chief executive of the new Duke, which will be the nation’s largest electric utility. He’ll also be chairman.
The new, 18-member board of directors voted to name Duke CEO Jim Rogers, 64, as president and chief executive of the new Duke, which will be the nation’s largest electric utility. He’ll also be chairman.
Monday, July 2, 2012
SC approves Duke Energy merger; deal set to close - Charlotte Business Journal
John Downey
Duke Energy Corp. and Progress Energy Inc. cleared the last hurdle to their proposed $26 billion merger with a vote by S.C. regulators at a brief meeting Monday morning.
Duke Energy Corp. and Progress Energy Inc. cleared the last hurdle to their proposed $26 billion merger with a vote by S.C. regulators at a brief meeting Monday morning.
Saturday, June 30, 2012
SCE&G wants rate hike for electricity - Business - TheState.com
Kristy Eppley Rupon
Paired with a fuel-cost reduction, the rate hike would come out to an extra $6.67 a month – or about $80 a year – for a customer who uses 1,000 kilowatt hours a month, the utility estimated.
Paired with a fuel-cost reduction, the rate hike would come out to an extra $6.67 a month – or about $80 a year – for a customer who uses 1,000 kilowatt hours a month, the utility estimated.
NC regulators clear hurdle to Duke-Progress merger - Businessweek
RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — North Carolina utilities regulators on Friday approved the long-planned takeover of Progress Energy by Duke Energy, clearing the last major hurdle to creating the largest American electric company.
Tuesday, June 26, 2012
NC regulators hear arguments in energy merger - Businessweek
A spokesman for the North Carolina Utilities Commission said the final verdict will not likely be handed down the day of the hearing, but could come this week.
Duke Energy and Progress agree to FERC conditions on merger | Financial News
The pair made a compliance filing with FERC, after saying earlier in June that the conditional orders by the regulator were a positive development which would allow them to wrap up the merger by the planned deadline on 1 July.
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