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Duke Energy proposes Green Source Advantage

Staff Report //October 16, 2018//

Duke Energy proposes Green Source Advantage

Staff Report //October 16, 2018//

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Duke Energy has proposed a new program to expand renewable energy options for its commercial and industrial customers in South Carolina. The proposed Green Source Advantage program will provide large nonresidential customers the option to secure significant amounts of solar or other renewable energy to satisfy their sustainability or other clean energy goals, according to a news release.

"We've received significant interest from our large commercial and industrial customers in offering programs that help them meet their sustainability goals," said Kodwo Ghartey-Tagoe, Duke Energy's South Carolina president, in the release. "The Green Source Advantage program will leverage renewable energy options to do just that."

The program will provide Duke Energy's South Carolina large business customers an opportunity to participate in a renewable energy program where they receive bill credits for energy produced by a solar site not located on the customers' premises. The program also enables customers to retain the renewable energy certificates produced by the facility, the release said.

The program must be approved by the Public Service Commission of South Carolina before it can be offered to customers.

If approved, the program would provide up to a total of 150 megawatts of reserved renewable energy capacity. From that 150 MW, 113 MW of capacity will be reserved for customers of Duke Energy Carolinas, which primarily serves the Upstate, and 37 MW of capacity will be reserved for customers of Duke Energy Progress, primarily serving the Pee Dee region including Florence and Sumter counties.