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Critics say Duke Energy's Save-A-Watt won't save a lot

Duke Energy Corp., while pushing ahead with plans for a new coal-burning power plant in Cliffside, west of Charlotte, and perhaps additional nuclear reactors to supply its electricity customers, insists it's committed to energy conservation as a "virtual" fuel source for the future. Several public interest advocacy groups, however, say it isn't.

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Opposition to Duke Energy plan heated

Duke Energy's plan to save its customers energy and money is facing some heated opposition this week as the company makes its case for government approval.

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Sparks fly at utility's save-a-watt proposal

Calculations about Duke Power's Save-a-Watt program are complex and some of the evidence offered in the case is sealed from public view. But in simplest terms, Duke would recoup the cost of programs that help consumers save energy by recouping 90 percent of what it would cost to build a power plant to meet the energy needs offset by the conservation effort.

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Protesters say utility will gouge customers

Duke Energy on Monday began defending save-a-watt against charges that it would gouge Duke Energy customers and benefit the company's shareholders. Duke Energy touts save-a-watt as a national model for energy efficiency that would provide power companies a generous financial incentive to promote energy conservation.

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As critics scowl, Duke praises Save-a-Watt

Duke Energy on Monday began defending Save-a-Watt against charges that it would gouge Duke Energy customers and benefit the company's shareholders. Duke Energy touts Save-a-Watt as a national model for energy efficiency that would provide power companies a generous financial incentive to promote energy conservation.

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Group: Some Retailers Misleading About DTV

Beware of what you hear about the upcoming Digital Television Transition. That warning was issued after a national consumer group found that some retailers have been misleading consumers. 

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Stores misinform shoppers about digital TV switch, group says

Employees at the nation's top retail stores are giving out bad information about the country's upcoming switch to digital TV.

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Save-a-watt, loose common sense

Electricity consumers soon may face higher rates in order to pay utility companies not to produce electricity and not to build power plants. The General Assembly, by approving last year's Senate Bill 3, created this absurdity through a legislative provision promoting new energy efficiency programs.

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Retailers Misleading Consumers on the Digital Television (DTV) Transition

In one year, 22 million Americans who rely on free over-the-air analog broadcasting – including many elderly and other vulnerable populations – will be at risk of losing access to TV, which for many is a primary source of news and emergency information as well as entertainment.

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Duke Energy plan puts a price on cutting back

Duke Energy has won over some skeptics in South Carolina on a novel energy efficiency program that would allow the utility to charge customers up to four times as much as utilities typically charge to pay for such programs.

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