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Energy Net on 29 Mar 10"High Point expects to see a 4.9 percent wholesale electric rate increase from North Carolina Municipal Power Agency Number 1 in June, and customers of the city's municipal electric service will likely see a corresponding rate increase on their July bills, although the High Point City Council has not yet set the retail rate. There may not be a city in North Carolina with more short-term problems than High Point: the collapse of its manufacturing industry, threats to its signature furniture market, 11.9 percent unemployment. But the City of High Point has also come up on the winning side of some long-term bets in infrastructure and energy that leave it with a competitive advantage over other cities. "