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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 Riverbend Steam Station was a former 454-MW coal-fired electrical power plant in Gaston County, North Carolina, owned by Duke Energy. It was originally slated for decommissioning in 2015, but was closed in April 2013. [1] The four-unit station was named for a bend in the Catawba River on which it was located. Riverbend was considered a ...
Even North Carolina’s small electric cooperatives are at the whims of the company: their largest source of power, the Catawba Nuclear Station in South Carolina, is operated by Duke Energy.
G. G. Allen Steam Station was a 1.140 GW coal-fired electricity generating facility, located in South Point Township, Gaston County, North Carolina, on man-made Lake Wylie (part of the Catawba River). Units 1 and 2 (165 MW each) began operating in 1957; units 3, 4, and 5 (275 MW each) in 1959, 1960, and 1961 respectively. [1]
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.
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 ...
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".