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At least 165,000 Charlotte-area Duke Energy customers remained without power Saturday morning, including 45,000 in Mecklenburg County, after former Hurricane Helene knocked down trees and power ...
In an email to The Charlotte Observer on Wednesday evening, Ben Williamson, a Duke Energy spokesperson, said all of the company’s lakes were at or below target levels when the hurricane’s ...
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Duke Energy also has created six additional boat access slips. [21] Selected islands in the lake are accessible during daytime hours, although Duke Energy generally prohibits overnight camping, fires, littering, and making any permanent structures on them or removing any vegetation from them. [22] Boating. Lake Keowee provides a marina for ...
The McGuire Nuclear Station is a nuclear power plant located about 17 miles (27 km) northwest of Charlotte, North Carolina, on the state's largest lake, Lake Norman. It is a 32,500-acre (13,200 ha) lake created in 1963 by Duke Power for the Cowans Ford Hydroelectric Station. The McGuire units use the lake's water for cooling.
A Duke Energy site assessment in 2015 reported that the basins had high levels of toxic heavy metals such as arsenic, antimony and thallium. [ 21 ] The flooded river in October 2016 flowed over the three inactive ash basins.
“Duke Energy’s hydro operations team began lowering lake levels at our Duke Energy lakes to create as much storage as possible ahead of the rain event,” Jennifer Garber, director of ...
The 1,065 megawatts (1,428,000 hp) power plant is owned by Duke Energy and its last generator was commissioned in 1991. The power station generates electricity by shifting water between an upper and lower reservoir. The upper Bad Creek Reservoir was created by damming Bad Creek and West Bad Creek while Lake Jocassee serves as the lower reservoir.