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Nearly half a million Duke Energy customers experienced rolling blackouts on Dec. 24, 2022, during a very cold winter storm. This screenshot from Poweroutage.us shows that North Carolina’s ...
The lights are back on in North Carolina, but Duke Energy has left us in the dark on what caused the blackouts in the first place. This weekend, thousands of North Carolinians lost power amid one ...
[6] [20] By the morning of December 7, the number of affected residents without power was down to about 23,000, and power had been restored to the Moore County hospital. Additionally, the Duke Energy website stated "All substation equipment damaged from recent vandalism has either been fully repaired or replaced."
Duke Energy was also ordered to close all of its 32 ash ponds in the state of North Carolina by 2029. [73] In September 2016, the Government Pension Fund of Norway, then worth $900 billion, excluded Duke Energy and its subsidiaries from the fund, citing "risk of severe environmental damage". [74]
Duke Energy Progress is the majority owner (81.7%) and operator of the Brunswick nuclear plant. The North Carolina Eastern Municipal Power Agency owns the remaining 18.3%. In 2015, Duke Energy completed the process of buying the North Carolina Eastern Municipal Power Agency's 18.3% stake at Brunswick nuclear power plant. [2] (Duke Energy ...
Duke has around 18,000 employees working primarily in western North Carolina and upstate South Carolina to restore power as quickly as possible, said Jeff Brooks, a Duke Energy spokesman. Other ...
Progress Energy merged with Duke Energy in July 2012. [6] The three coal-fired units were shut down on 15 September 2012, and the four oil-fueled combustion turbine units ceased operation in October 2012. Wayne County combustion turbines continued to operate at the complex.