News Releases

RALEIGH, N.C. - Reflecting the cost of building state-of-the-art, low-emission power generation, as well as higher operating expenses, Progress Energy Carolinas, a subsidiary of Duke Energy, today filed a request to increase North Carolina retail rates...

CHARLOTTE, N.C. -Energy usage in uptown Charlotte is headed in the right direction – down, according to preliminary data Duke Energy has been gathering for nearly a year as part of the company’s Smart Energy Now® energy reduction pilot program that ...

CHARLOTTE, N.C. -Duke Energy and its subsidiaries, including Progress Energy Carolinas and Progress Energy Florida, have joined with a dozen other companies and the Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI) in supporting the new Water Research Center ...

CHARLOTTE, N.C. -Duke Energy will release its third quarter 2012 earnings results at 7 a.m. ET on Thursday, Nov. 8. Duke Energy Corporation and Progress Energy Inc. completed their merger on July 2, 2012. In connection with the merger, Progress Energy ...

RALEIGH, N.C. -As announced in July, Progress Energy Carolinas, a subsidiary of Duke Energy, on Oct. 1 will officially retire two coal-fired power plants, including the utility’s first coal-fueled facility built in 1923.The utility will close the Cape ...

CHARLOTTE, N.C. -Below are excerpts from remarks made today by Duke Energy CEO Jim Rogers at the Triangle Business Journal’s “Power Breakfast,” a gathering of business and community leaders held at the Raleigh Marriott City Central.___________Thank ...

CHARLOTTE, N.C. -Lloyd Yates, Duke Energy’s executive vice president of customer operations, has been named to Black Enterprise Magazine’s list of the “100 Most Powerful” black executives in corporate America. The publication selected executives based ...

CHARLOTTE, N.C. - Duke Energy and The National Theater for Children will begin this month presenting $1,000 checks to schools in North Carolina, South Carolina and Ohio whose students, along with their families, completed home energy surveys and received...

CHARLOTTE, N.C. - Duke Energy today unveiled a new corporate logo representing a new identity for the nation’'s largest electric utility following its merger with Progress Energy in July. The logo, which can be downloaded here, was developed internally...

GOLDSBORO, N.C. -Progress Energy Carolinas, a subsidiary of Duke Energy, will officially close the coal-fired H.F. Lee power plant near Goldsboro, N.C., Sept. 15. This is the second such retirement under the utility’s fleet-modernization program, ...