News Releases

If saving money made your New Year’s resolution list, start by cutting your energy use, to save money year-round.

Smithfield Foods, Inc., in partnership with Duke Energy and OptimaBio, LLC, is now producing renewable natural gas from the wastewater treatment system at its Tar Heel, N.C. pork processing facility, which will help power more than 2,000 local homes and businesses.

Duke Energy Renewables announced that its 200-megawatt (MW) Mesteño Windpower project in Starr County, Texas began commercial operation on Dec. 31, 2019.

In a major achievement that puts the coal ash debate to rest in North Carolina, state regulators, community groups and Duke Energy have agreed to a plan to permanently close the company’s remaining nine coal ash basins in the state, primarily by excavation with ash moved to lined landfills.

Holiday lights are going up all across the country, bringing bright colors and welcome cheer. But if you wonder how much your energy bill will go up, Duke Energy has the solution.

Duke Energy and a consortium of other utilities are securing poultry waste renewable energy certificates from a $32 million Pitt County facility that started operating recently.

Duke Energy Progress customers in North Carolina will see a drop in their electric rates this winter season.

Duke Energy and the Carolina Panthers have teamed up to bolster contributions to “Share the Warmth” – a community assistance program established by Duke Energy in 1985 to help Carolinas residents in need pay for heating expenses.

With the fourth annual Utility Scam Awareness Week starting Nov. 17, Duke Energy is expanding its campaign to protect its nearly 8 million customers from utility-impostor scammers.

A pair of grants totaling $300,000 from Duke Energy Corp. will help two transit agencies in the Triangle area fund electric bus-charging stations that are being incorporated into their fleets.