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Progress Energy is partnering with NC GreenPower to offer a new carbon offset program for our customers in North Carolina. This voluntary program enables customers to offset, or balance, the impacts their personal carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions have on the environment.
What is a carbon offset? Carbon offsets are an easy and inexpensive way to balance your environmental equation. Whether it's driving, flying or turning on the air conditioner, most of us produce some carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions just from daily living. A carbon offset is a program or technology that prevents or captures the emission of greenhouse gases; for example, planting forests or capturing methane gas escaping from landfills. Carbon offsets are purchased from a third party to help cancel out, or “offset” the environmental consequences produced by our energy-intensive lifestyles.
How does the Carbon Offset Program work? Similar to NC GreenPower's renewable energy program, customers can sign up to contribute on their monthly Progress Energy electric bill and have their funds passed directly through to the program. NC GreenPower will use these contributions to fund programs and technologies that prevent or capture the emission of greenhouse gases. Each $4 voluntary, tax-free contribution “cancels out” or offsets 500 pounds of CO2. This is approximately equivalent to offsetting the carbon emissions from two weeks of driving.
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Enroll in the program and purchase offsets
(Tip: be sure to choose NC Carbon Offsets from the drop-down menu)
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