Consider the Carolinas

The Duke Energy Carolinas Business and Economic Development team provides hands-on, high-quality services tailored to meet the needs of any client and their unique business requirements. Services are performed timely, accurately, confidentially and always free of charge. Duke Energy is committed to provide all customers with a continuous flow of service and expertise and quickly respond to new opportunities. We stand ready to connect you with the best resources and sites in the Carolinas.

Welcome!

Welcome to Duke Energy Carolinas!  This region of Duke Energy serves approximately 2.4 million customers across 24,000 square miles in North Carolina and South Carolina.  Our utility rates are some of the lowest in the nation:  20% - 30% below the U.S. national average.  Our Economic Development team is divided into three departments to better serve your specific business, economic development and site selection needs:

Economic Development Team

Our team of Economic Development professionals covers the entire 24,000 square mile service territory of Duke Energy Carolinas.  Each team member has over 20 years of experience in working for Duke Energy.  Whether you are a site selection consultant or company that is self performing its site selection effort, our team of experts can help you with:

• Industrial building searches and screening
• Greenfield and/or brownfield industrial site searches and screening
• Demographic and detailed community data
• Product development via our Site Readiness & Building Readiness Programs
• Preparation of RFPs (Request For Proposals)
• Custom economic development information and GIS maps
• Site visits, along with state, regional and local community meeting coordination

Business Development Team

Our team of Business Development professionals covers the entire 48,000 square mile service territory of Duke Energy, which includes North Carolina, South Carolina, Indiana, Ohio and Kentucky.  Each team member has both national and international experience in industrial recruitment.  The Business Development team specializes in:

• Targeted industrial recruitment
• Product development
• Initial/Early phase project development and coordination
• Industrial building searches and screening
• Greenfield and/or brownfield industrial site and searches and screening
• Site visits, along with state, regional and local community meeting coordination

Territorial Strategies Team

Our Territorial Strategies team is specialized in assessing service territory rights within our North Carolina and South Carolina state borders.  Within our service territory, one can find buildings and land designated as:

• Assigned (exclusive rights to serve designated to one utility provider)
• Unassigned (rights to serve are open to a few utility providers )
• Customer choice (several utility providers, customer selects which utility company as its service provider)

Team Focus

The Duke Energy Carolinas team focuses primarily on industrial prospects/clients in the following sectors:

• Aerospace
• Automotive OEMs and Related Industries
• Data Centers and Mission Critical Facilities
• Energy Equipment Manufacturers
• Federal Government/Homeland Security/Defense Industry
• Food & Beverage
• Life Sciences and Medical Devices
• Plastics

Confidentiality

All of our work with site selection consultants, corporate clients and economic development professionals is cloaked in order to preserve confidentiality.  We welcome the opportunity to work with you and are accustomed to executing Non-Disclosure Agreements upon request by our clients.

Reliable, Safe, Affordable Electricity

Given the stability and financial strength of Duke Energy Corporation, we can assure you that our transmission and distribution systems deliver safe, high quality, reliable and affordable electric service.  Our service availability is among the highest in the nation – 99.97%.  According to the Southeastern Electric Exchange’s (SEE) Distribution Reliability Report, Duke Energy’s System Average Interruption Frequency Index (SAIFI) ranks high among other utility companies in low frequency outages.

Duke Energy

Duke Energy Carolinas is part of the Duke Energy Corporation that collectively serves North Carolina, South Carolina, Indiana, Ohio and Kentucky.   Headquartered in Charlotte, N.C., Duke Energy Corporation is one of the largest electric power holding companies in the United States. A Fortune 500 company, Duke Energy is listed on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbol DUK.  Duke Energy had 2008 Operating Revenues of $13.2 billion (for year ended Dec. 31, 2008) and total assets of $53.1 billion (as of Dec. 31, 2008).  It currently has over 18,000 employees and its total U.S. generating capacity is approximately 35,000 megawatts (owned capacity).  With more than 27,000 megawatts of owned regulated generation capacity, U. S. Franchised Electric and Gas is the largest segments of the company.  Its service territory is approximately 48,000 square miles, with total transmission lines of approximately 21,000 miles and total distribution lines of approximately 151,000 miles.  It serves approximately 4 million utility customers.

Duke Energy Carolinas • Economic Development
526 South Church Street • Charlotte, NC 28202 • 1.800.777.9898
www.ConsiderTheCarolinas.com