Here if you live in Smithfield, NC power ranges from $300 in the Winter to $450 in the summer. In Selma, NC its even worse. On month the bill was $187 the next it was $650 a month with no change in electric use. So we moved out of town where you can get the Electricity directly from Progress Energy Co. without the town as middle man. The bill runs from $175 to $250 a month. With one $300 month that was an outlier. In Raliegh NC that had a guy with a $1500 a month bill. These cities buy the electricity and jack up the price. We need to end these Town electric companies and allow us to buy it direct.
Progress Enegry will be raising there rates because the need another plant. Sharon Harris Nuclear Plant used to cover most of Central NC with ease no it is struggling cause of an increase in population. Progress Energy tried to build a Coal plant to help it but the environmentalist shot it down. Thanks Al Gore!
Wait. The power company doesn't own the grid in NC?
Your right I am not sure who tried to build it but it was still torpedoed by Enviros
The bolded part seems funny to me. I live in San Francisco & nobody cares that PG&E owns the power grid. Yet environmentalists in NC are obstructing the construction of a private power grid there. Just seems kind of funny. 
Very weird.
Maybe what I said was too simplistic. Whover owns the grid here trid to build a Coal plant to take some of the load of the Nuclear Plant but they were denied the permit to build from the state or whoever they had to get it from largely because of opposition from Environmentalists.
