A variety of electric rate options are available to both new and expanding customers. Below are links to rate information for North Carolina and South Carolina. You will need Adobe Acrobat Reader to read these files.

The following rates apply to manufacturing and non-manufacturing customers. To view details for the rate schedule, select the link appropriate for your state.

• Manufacturing Rate Options
• Non-Manufacturing Rate Options
• Growth / Incentives Options
• Innovative Rate Options

Manufacturing Rate Options

Industrial customers can be served from one of several available rate options.

Industrial Service, Schedule I
Schedule I is for manufacturing industries, which means that more than 50 percent of the electric usage is for manufacturing processes.

Optional Power Service, Time-of-Use-Schedule OPT
Schedule OPT is for all general service and industrial service customers. Charges vary on this schedule, depending on the time of day, day of the week and season.

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Non-Manufacturing Rate Options

Commercial customers can be served from one of several available rate options.

General Service, Schedule G
Schedule G is available for commercial customers who do not qualify for a residential or industrial rate schedule.

General Service, All Electric, Schedule GA
Schedule GA is available for commercial customers who do not qualify for a residential or industrial rate schedule and requires environmental space conditioning which must be supplied electrically, and through the same meter, as all other electric energy used in the establishment.

Optional Power Service, Time-of-Use, Schedule OPT
Schedule OPT is for all general service and industrial service customers. Charges vary on this schedule, depending on the time of day, day of the week, and season.

For new and existing companies that grow their business in the Duke Energy service area, an economic development incentive rider is available.

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Growth / Incentives Options

Rider EC-Economic Development
Rider EC (Economic Development) is available to customers on G, GA, I, or OPT rates that are not classified as Retail Trade or Public Administration. To qualify for this rider, the customer must sign a new 10-year contract with some qualifying circumstances.

Rider Economic Re-development Billing Credit
Rider ER provides qualifying customers locating in Duke Energy-served existing buildings a billing credit of 50% for their first year of operation beginning, at the customer's discretion, up to 12 months after the initial delivery of service. The monthly billing credit effectively offers a new customer in an existing Duke Energy-served building with adequate Duke Energy electrical service in place, the opportunity for 'half price energy' during their first year of operation.

To qualify for Rider ER, customers must sign a five-year contract with Duke Energy and add a minimum of 500 KW of new load on the Duke Energy system accompanied by either:

• 35 new full time employees on the Duke Energy system per 500 KW of load,
• or $200,000 in capital investment per 500 KW of new load with a net increase in full time employees on the Duke Energy system.

Rider ER is available to nonresidential establishments, provided the establishment is not classified as Retail Trade or Public Administration, for load associated with a new customer in an existing establishment served by Duke Energy, provided the establishment has been unoccupied and/or has remained dormant for a minimum period of six months.

Customers must make an application for consideration of Rider ER and must affirm that the availability of this Rider was a factor in their decision to locate the new load on the Duke Energy system. The 500 KW must be at one delivery point, at one voltage and must not result in additional investment in distribution facilities, other than minor alterations in the service which can be accomplished feasibly and economically.

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Innovative Rate Options

Marginal Cost Rates, Schedule HP, Hourly Pricing
Schedule HP (Hourly Pricing for Incremental Load) is available to limited non-residential customers. This schedule provides hourly prices, which reflect the company's generation costs.

Emergency On Site Generation, Rider SG, Standby Generation
Rider SG offers a payment to customers with standby generators who contract with the company to operate their standby generator upon request.

Electric Rate Options