Why your Duke Energy bills might be rising [Video]

SUMTER, S.C. — What are you paying for power? News19 has been hearing from Duke Energy customers who say they’re seeing high bills, but don’t know why.

“I don’t know what else to do other than sit in the freezing cold in the dark inside to get this light bill to drop,” Sumter resident Matthew Cusworth shrugged. “There’s nothing else I can do.”

Cusworth said he’s lived in his current house for three years.

“When I first moved here, my light bill was right at $180, maybe $220, I mean, for forever,” Cusworth explained. “And then all of a sudden we got one light bill that went up from like $270 and then it shot up to $430. And I was like, ‘Well, how’d it do that?”

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