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Duke Energy celebrates the power behind the power on National Lineworker Appreciation Day on April 18. The annual recognition spotlights lineworkers' role in powering the lives of millions of people across the U.S.

Before digging in your yard, call 811 – the national “Call Before You Dig” hotline – to ask that underground utility lines on your property be properly located and marked.

St. Petersburg College has opened a new Power Florida Training Center in collaboration with Duke Energy and PowerTown Line Construction. The center will house the college’s new electrical lineworker program.

Slightly warmer temperatures today than most meteorologists had predicted have resulted in fewer ice-related power outages than initially projected for Duke Energy’s Carolinas customers as a winter storm moves through the region.

Duke Energy today projected that the hazardous wintry precipitation and high-winds from the approaching winter storm could cause nearly 1 million power outages – some lasting several days – beginning Thursday in North Carolina and South Carolina.

Duke Energy proyectó hoy que la precipitación invernal peligrosa y los altos vientos de la tormenta invernal que se acerca pudieran ocasionar 1 millón de cortes de suministro eléctrico – algunos pudieran durar varios días – a partir del jueves en Carolina del Norte y Carolina del Sur. 

Southeast Energy Exchange Market members filed with the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission today for approval of an automated, intra-hour energy exchange that aims to lower costs to customers and optimize renewable energy resources.

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.

A group of energy companies providing electricity to about 50 million people in the southeast U.S. has proposed the creation of a centralized energy exchange, aiming to lower costs for customers and optimize renewable energy.

Duke Energy as of 5 p.m. ET today had restored power to nearly 90 percent of the company’s more than 500,000 North Carolina and South Carolina customers who lost electricity Thursday at the height of Tropical Storm Zeta.