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Knox County Customers To Help Pay For New Duke Energy Facility

Last updated on Sunday, January 27, 2008

(KNOX COUNTY) - Duke Energy customers in Knox County will see their bills increase by 16% between this year and 2012.

The increase will help pay for Duke's new $2-billion dollar coal gasification power plant. The company won a state environmental air permit Friday for the plant in Southwest Indiana.

Duke says the plant will be make history for being one of the cleanest coal-fired power plants in the world.

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