News Releases

The Duke Energy Foundation recently awarded nearly $300,000 in grants to 11 South Carolina organizations that impact communities served by Duke Energy through nonprofit capacity-building efforts, expanding access to arts and culture, and other strategic community initiatives.

Duke Energy has received the 2018 Secretary of Defense Employer Support Freedom Award, the highest honor the U.S. Department of Defense gives to companies for their outstanding support for employees who serve in the National Guard and Reserve. Duke Energy was one of only 15 companies nationwide to be selected out of more than 2,300 nominations.

Duke Energy Chairman, President and CEO Lynn Good was elected chairman of the Edison Electric Institute.

Duke Energy today celebrated the opening of the new 750-megawatt combined-cycle natural gas plant at the W.S. Lee Station in Anderson County, S.C.

Two Duke Energy leaders will have new roles beginning June 1. Jim Henning – currently Duke Energy’s Ohio and Kentucky state president – will become senior vice president of customer services. Amy Spiller – currently vice president of Ohio government and community affairs – will succeed Henning as president of Duke Energy Ohio and Duke Energy Kentucky.

Duke Energy today announced two executive appointments in the company's drive to provide customers with more reliable, secure and increasingly clean energy.

Piedmont Natural Gas has been designated a 2017 Utility Customer Champion, according to a report based on surveys of more than 50,000 customers of the nation’s 130 largest utilities. Piedmont’s score on the index was high enough to place it fourth among all utilities – natural gas and electric – nationwide.

Duke Energy Indiana customers set a new all-time winter peak record for energy usage on Tuesday, Jan. 2. The unofficial winter peak record is now 7,281 megawatt-hours in the hour ending at 9 a.m.

Duke Energy Carolinas customers set a new all-time peak record for energy usage on Friday, Jan. 5. The unofficial peak record is now 21,623 megawatt-hours in the hour ending at 8 a.m.

Spiller will be responsible for local and state government affairs in Ohio and local community relations efforts in southwest Ohio. She currently serves as deputy general counsel, responsible for Duke Energy’s regulatory matters in Kentucky and Ohio.