Ball Corporation recently signed a 15-year virtual power purchase agreement (VPPA) with Duke Energy for 161 megawatts from the energy provider’s largest wind power project. Construction on the 350-MW Frontier Windpower II project is set to begin later this summer in Kay County, Oklahoma.
Hurricane Michael left approximately 2.5 million electricity customers in the southeast without power. As of Monday morning, the Edison Electric Institute reported that electricity had been restored to all but around 241,000.
Floodwaters from Hurricane Florence breached a dam at Duke Energy’s L.V. Sutton plant near Wilmington, North Carolina late last week. The flooding prompted the utility to shut down its natural gas power units at the site, and raised concerns about a coal ash spill into the nearby Cape Fear River.
Half a million customers were still without power in the wake of Florence as of 10 am EDT Monday morning, the Edison Electric Institute reported. Outages affecting approximately 504,000 customers are mainly in North Carolina.
Business and non-profit energy users in North Carolina are eligible for solar rebates through a new program from Duke Energy. The $62 million solar rebate program – which will help customers with the upfront cost of installing solar panels on their properties – has been approved by the North Carolina Utilities Commission.
A newly completed swine waste-to-energy project in North Carolina is producing pipeline quality biogas from hog farms — and using that to generate electricity for Duke Energy customers.
Drones used to be on the futuristic wish list of energy management tools a few years ago. But now real-life commercial drone deployments are picking up, and not just for inspections. Duke Energy reported this week that the company’s drone team used the drones to … Read more…
Duke Energy submitted a request to North Carolina regulators asking for a hike in electricity rates on Friday. If approved, commercial and industrial customers would see an average increase in rates of 10.9%, The Charlotte Observer reported. More than half of the increase would go … Read more…
The advent of electric vehicles (EVs) is a big deal to energy managers because they will be tasked with supplying electricity to units on their premises. Such stations are becoming more common. For instance, Duke Energy, under its “EV Charging Infrastructure Project,” will install more than … Read more…
If an application filed this week is approved, a $55 million, 21 MW CHP project on the Duke University campus will increase energy efficiency and cut carbon emissions by 25 percent.
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