News Releases

The Better Business Bureau serving West Florida (BBB) is proud to announce another collaborative effort with leading utility providers Duke Energy Florida, Tampa Electric and Peoples Gas to raise awareness about the growing threat of utility scams. As part of Utility Scam Awareness Day on Nov. 15, 2023, the organizations are joining forces to educate consumers and businesses about the tactics used by scammers and empower them to protect themselves.

Duke Energy and its Foundation are contributing more than $56,000 to five organizations in Florida that are working to provide career pathways, housing repairs and other unique services for veterans and their loved ones. Since last year, Duke Energy has invested more than $290,000 in support for veterans.

Beginning Nov. 1, Duke Energy will kick off a monthlong campaign to support organizations in South Carolina that address food insecurities and inequities across the state. Duke Energy’s monthlong initiative will provide nearly $400,000 to more than 60 feeding programs leading up to the Thanksgiving holiday.

Duke Energy today announced it soon will break ground in DeBary, Fla., on the first demonstration project in the United States to successfully create clean energy using an end-to-end system to produce, store and combust 100% green hydrogen.

Duke Energy has selected 11 properties in Florida for inclusion in its 2023 Site Readiness Program, which prepares high-potential business and industrial sites for economic development investments and markets them nationwide to companies looking to expand or relocate their operations.

Duke Energy Florida está tomando medidas para reducir las tarifas de los clientes en 2024, mientras continúa agregando más energía solar y modernizando la red de energía para mejorar la confiabilidad, la seguridad y la resiliencia.

Duke Energy Florida is taking steps to reduce customer rates in 2024, while continuing to add more solar power and make grid improvements to enhance reliability, security and resilience.

Powered by tenacity, adrenaline and raw skills, Duke Energy lineworkers brought home four awards over the weekend after competing in one of the most prominent and celebrated lineworker events in the world – the International Lineman’s Rodeo.

Thanks to a recent collaboration between Duke Energy Florida and One Tree Planted, customers who subscribe to the company’s community solar program, Clean Energy Connection, will have the opportunity to support clean energy and contribute to restoration efforts at one of Florida’s most-treasured state forests.

Mientras las celebraciones del Mes de la Herencia Hispana continúan en toda Florida y más allá, la Fundación Duke Energy está comprometiendo $75,000 al Fondo de Becas de la Herencia Hispana para crear oportunidades educativas para estudiantes hispanos en el centro de Florida.