IN RE: Application of DUKE ENERGY PROGRESS (2026)

Court of Appeals of North Carolina.

IN RE: Application of DUKE ENERGY PROGRESS, LLC, Relating to Fuel and Fuel-Related Charge Adjustments for Electric Utilities Pursuant to N.C.G.S. § 62-133.2 and Commission Rule R8-55

No. COA25-310

Decided: February 18, 2026

McGuireWoods LLP, by Jonathan Y. Ellis, E. Brett Breitschwerdt, and H. Brent McKnight, Jr., and Jack E. Jirak and Ladawn S. Toon, Counsel for Duke Energy Corporation, for applicant-appellees. William S. F. Freeman, Lucy E. Edmondson, and William E. H. Creech, for The Public Staff of the North Carolina Utilities Commission, intervenor-appellant. No brief filed by Ward and Smith, P.A., by Christopher S. Edwards, Alex C. Dale, and Christina D. Cress, Counsel for Carolina Utility Customers Association, Inc. and Carolina Industrial Group for Fair Utility Rates III, intervenors.

This case was consolidated for oral argument with a companion case, In The Matter of Application of Duke Energy Carolinas, LLC, ––– N.C. App. ––––, (No. COA 25-203, 2026). For the reasons stated in that opinion, we reverse and remand the order of the Utilities Commission.

REVERSED AND REMANDED.

Report per Rule 30(e).

ARROWOOD, Judge.

Judges GRIFFIN and STADING concur.

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