News Releases

As an arctic blast of winter weather reaches the tri-state, Duke Energy crews are ready in the event that frigid temperatures impact the company’s energy system.

Duke Energy today said it will elevate Melissa Seixas to serve as president of Duke Energy Florida. Currently vice president government and community relations for Duke Energy Florida, Seixas will succeed Catherine Stempien.

Duke Energy’s commitment to helping customers through the Covid pandemic while also advancing a robust clean energy transformation kept the company among Fortune magazine’s 2021 list of the World’s Most Admired Companies for the fourth year in a row.

Duke Energy today announced a major step to help large businesses and municipalities with planning, financing, acquisition and deployment services to electrify their fleets.

Duke Energy has received a perfect score for the fourth year in a row on the Human Rights Campaign Foundation’s 2021 Corporate Equality Index, a national benchmarking study that annually ranks companies on LGBTQ-friendly corporate practices and policies.

Duke Energy, alongside GIC, today announced that it has entered into a definitive agreement for an acquisition of a 19.9 percent interest in Duke Energy Indiana, a subsidiary of Duke Energy, by an affiliate of GIC Private Limited, Singapore’s sovereign wealth fund and an experienced investor in U.S. infrastructure.

In a milestone settlement that resolves the last remaining major issues on coal ash management in North Carolina, the North Carolina Attorney General, North Carolina Public Staff, Sierra Club and Duke Energy have reached an agreement on costs related to coal ash management and safe basin closure.

Solar power continued to grow in North Carolina in 2020 with more Duke Energy customers using solar power than ever before.

Duke Energy Florida, consumer representatives and business groups have reached a sweeping agreement that will advance the clean energy vision for the state, introduce innovative programs for customers, retire coal plants faster and bring additional certainty to rates through 2024.

Duke Energy today announced it has deposited $5 million into Optus Bank, a Black-owned bank based in South Carolina, furthering the company’s support for diverse and minority-owned businesses, individuals and low income communities.