The rebate was approved by the Public Service Commission of South Carolina on 15 July.

The rebate is another step forward in implementing Duke Energy's Distributed Energy Resource (DER) program – a result of several years of collaboration with the state's environmental leaders, businesses and community voices, and creation of historic legislation passed by the General Assembly.

The DER program is designed to support customer use of solar energy and grow the company's renewable footprint in the state from less than 2MW today to at least 110MW and potentially 170MW by 2021. 

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