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Welcome!

Welcome to Duke Energy’s Carolina economic development Web site! If you’re searching for buildings or sites anywhere in North Carolina or South Carolina, or if you’re searching for information about suppliers, competitors or customers in the Southeastern U.S., this Web site combined with our free Carolina industry site selection services, will provide you with the most current economic development data available. You’ll also find demographic profiles and details about the cost of doing business, relevant to your industry, for communities throughout North Carolina and South Carolina.

To begin your Carolina industry site selection search immediately, begin your search now. Or to better familiarize yourself with the complete functionality of our Carolina economic development search engine, view a demo.

Our Site Selection Services

Duke Energy has been involved in Carolina economic development for more than 100 years, helping businesses thrive in the regions we serve—making our team a preferred choice in Carolina economic development services. Our nationally recognized Carolina industry site selection specialists provide the latest industry- and site-specific information to help you grow your business.

• Building and industry site searches
• Detailed community data
• Proposal preparation related
• Industrial building and site screenings
• Custom economic development GIS maps
• Site visit and community meeting coordination

Since 1904, Duke Energy practiced Carolina economic development, helping to build the Carolinas’s economy with the textile industry, furniture industry and others. As the global economy evolves, the number of Carolina economic development success stories is still booming, and Duke Energy continues to play a consulting role, assisting industries as they participate in Carolinas industry site selection.

Reliable, High Quality Transmission & Distribution Systems

With the financial strength and stability of Duke Energy behind us, we can ensure our transmission and distribution systems deliver high quality, reliable 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 (SAIF) ranks high among other utility companies in low frequency of outages.

As an industry leader we employ reliability engineers whose sole purpose is to prevent outages before they can occur. More significantly, Duke Energy doesn’t represent any manufacturer or technology. Our unbiased access to vendors, technologies and equipment enables us to offer cost-effective recommendations and solutions that are both vendor- and solution-neutral. That means we can provide you with ”best fit solutions“ unique to your situations—with one purpose in mind: to ensure you achieve the highest levels of power reliability availability.

Begin Your Search for Carolina Economic Development Sites

If you’re unfamiliar with economic development or not sure which criteria to consider as you locate your business, we recommend that you click the Community Search tab found below the map for a step-by-step approach to Carolina industry site selection. The questionnaire we’ve developed will assist you in thinking through the criteria considered by almost all companies in the process of industry site selection. The map is also interactive and has identical search capabilities.

Good luck with your search. Please call or e-mail us if we can assist you with using this Web site or your industry site selection process. All inquiries will be kept confidential. Begin your search now.