Carolinas Resource Plan

Our Carolinas Resource Plan is Duke Energy’s proposed road map for delivering a path to cleaner energy without compromising grid reliability, energy affordability or the energy demands of a growing region.

Duke Energy operates robust, diverse and increasingly clean electric systems that serve over 4.7 million retail customers across the Carolinas. The Carolinas Resource Plan is developed to reliably meet the energy needs of our vibrant and growing region over the next 15 years, while also planning for the longer-term energy transition.

Duke Energy is actively executing a transition to increasingly clean energy and is further diversifying its resource portfolio to support grid stability and resilience as reliability is increasingly challenged by extreme weather. As load and resource dynamics continue to evolve, Duke Energy continues to optimize its existing fleet and integrate innovative demand-side solutions as part of its commitment to ensuring reliable and affordable service for customers.

The resource planning process considers potential paths for Duke Energy’s utilities in the Carolinas to meet future energy and demand requirements while considering customer impacts. A resource plan identifies the supply- and demand-side resources needed to meet a utility’s anticipated energy demand over time to ensure reliable service to customers under certain conditions projected at the time the IRP is prepared.

By Sept. 1, 2025, we will file our plan with the North Carolina Utilities Commission. We will also file an IRP update with the Public Service Commission of South Carolina by November 2025.

The 2025 Carolinas Resource Plan will incorporate execution-informed assumptions as well as current industry and market conditions, including the latest data on equipment lead times, transmission in-service timing, labor availability, infrastructure dependencies and other factors critical to large-scale execution of the energy transition.

Duke Energy will engage with stakeholders in the first half of 2025 to discuss the development of the Carolinas Resource Plan. Throughout the engagement, Duke Energy seeks to build upon areas of agreement, clarify and seek to build consensus around areas of disagreement, and discover opportunities for thoughtful collaboration.