News Releases

TUCKASEGEE, N.C. -Improvements to Bear Creek Lake boating access area are complete, and the area is open to the public. The access area is located on Bear Creek Lake in Jackson County, N.C., at the end of Bear Lake Road. All the renovations were ...

WHITTIER AND CULLOWHEE, N.C. -Duke Energy has completed all the major work at the new Barkers Creek and Locust Creek access areas on the Tuckasegee River in Jackson County. They are free to the public.The Barkers Creek access area, located on Hwy. 74 ...

CHARLOTTE, N.C. -A Duke Energy installation in Gaston County, N.C., has been named one of the top projects of the year by the editors of POWERGRID International magazine and PennWell Corp.Duke Energy's battery installation at the Rankin Substation in ...

CHARLOTTE, N.C. - Duke Energy today announced that on March 8, the company will redeem all shares of three series of preferred stock issued by its subsidiary Progress Energy Carolinas, Inc. and all shares of five series of preferred stock issued by its...

CRYSTAL RIVER, FLA. -Following a comprehensive analysis, Progress Energy Florida, a subsidiary of Duke Energy, announced today that it will retire the Crystal River Nuclear Plant (CR3) in Citrus County, Fla. The plant has been safely shut down and ...

SENECA AND SALEM, S.C. -Duke Energy has completed improvement work at a number of the recreation and public access areas located on Lake Keowee in Oconee County and Lake Jocassee in Pickens County.The projects recently completed on Lake Keowee are the ...

CHARLOTTE, N.C. - Duke Energy Carolinas today filed a request with the North Carolina Utilities Commission (NCUC) to increase electric rates by approximately $446 million, for an overall increase of 9.7 percent. More than 90 percent of the request is...

ST. PETERSBURG, FLA. -Progress Energy Florida has selected Lake County’s Florida Energy and Aerospace Technology (FEAT) Park as its first Site Readiness location in Florida. According to Marc Hoenstine, economic development manager for Progress Energy ...

SALEM, S.C. -Employees at Duke Energy's Bad Creek Pumped Storage Hydroelectric Station are being honored today at the South Carolina Wildlife Federation’s annual awards banquet for their leadership in conservation and educational programs. The ...

CHARLOTTE, N.C. -Duke Energy’s Buck and Riverbend steam stations, coal-fired power plants in the Charlotte area, will retire two years earlier than scheduled, drawing to a close more than eight decades of operations at each facility. Both stations had ...