Most North Carolinians want utilities to stop billing them for power plants that do not yet exist, a new statewide survey shows. A poll by Conservatives for Clean Energy, a Raleigh nonprofit that promotes clean power and utility competition, found that 85% of likely North Carolina voters oppose “construction work in progress” or CWIP. The practice lets Duke Energy add financing costs for new plants to monthly bills long before the units generate electricity. Dee Stewart of Conservatives for Clean Energy joined Jeff Hamlin to discuss the survey.
