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Giving Customers Green Power Options

Duke Energy provides options to customers who want to support the development of renewable energy or offset their carbon footprints.

Customers in the Carolinas, Indiana and Ohio can purchase blocks of green power each month. A green power program is planned for Kentucky in 2009. Green power is electricity generated using low or no-carbon renewable resources such as solar, wind, biomass and water. Purchases of green power help advance the development of environmentally friendly energy sources and avoid the release of carbon dioxide (CO₂) into the atmosphere. By the end of 2008, approximately 10,000 Duke Energy customers, less than 1 percent, were enrolled in these programs, representing 1.7 gigawatt-hours of green energy purchases per month.

Also in 2008, we introduced a program for customers in the Carolinas to purchase offsets that reduce or prevent the release of CO₂ emissions. As an incentive, Duke Energy offered to match the first $4 carbon offset each customer buys – up to $1 million through 2009. We plan to launch carbon offset programs in Indiana and Ohio in 2009.