Duke Energy

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Duke Energy Corporation

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legal form Corporation
ISIN US26441C2044
founding 1900
Seat Charlotte , United StatesUnited StatesUnited States 
management Lynn J. Good, CEO
Number of employees 29,060
sales $ 23.6 billion
Branch Energy supplier
Website www.duke-energy.com
As of December 31, 2017

Duke Energy is a United States based energy company headquartered in Charlotte , North Carolina . The company is listed on the S&P 500 stock index and the Dow Jones Utility Average .

Duke Energy operates in the United States, where it supplies electrical power in seven states , and in Canada . Duke Energy sold its Latin American subsidiaries to the private equity firm I Squared Capital in 2016 .

history

The Catawba Power Company was founded in 1900 when Walker Gill Wylie and his brother built a power station at India Hook Shoals on the Catawba River .

Acquisitions

In 2005 Duke Energy acquired the US energy company Cinergy .

In 2012 Duke Energy took over its competitor Progress Energy . As a purchase price, Progress shareholders received Duke shares valued at $ 13.7 billion, as well as Duke assumed debts totaling $ 12.2 billion.

In Peru, Duke Energy was the majority owner of Orazul Energy Egenor until December 2016, which operates the two large hydropower plants Cañón del Pato (in the department of Ancash ) and Carhuaquero (in the department of Cajamarca ).

Water pollution

Since 2010, Duke Energy in the US state of North Carolina has repeatedly violated water protection regulations in connection with the operation of its coal-fired power plants in Eden , Moncure, Asheville , Goldsboro and Mount Holly. Repeatedly, sludge contaminated with heavy metals such as arsenic , selenium , chromium and copper leaked from landfills for coal ash and slag .

For two years the company in Moncure failed to repair a leak in a drainage pipe that had been known since 2011. At Asheville, Duke Energy diverted sewage into the French Broad River . In February 2014, an incident occurred in a landfill on the Dan River . Contaminated mud contaminated the river for over 100 km. Duke Energy had failed to adequately monitor and maintain drainage pipes despite warnings from employees.

In May 2015, Duke Energy pleaded guilty to violating water pollution regulations in these three and six other cases. The company was fined a total of $ 102 million, the highest criminal fine ever imposed in the state of North Carolina.

Awards

In 1995, the company won the Edison Prize for Best Power Supply in the United States.

Web links

Commons : Duke Energy  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b 2017 Annual Report , at www.duke-energy.com ( Memento from September 5, 2015 in the Internet Archive ), accessed on June 30, 2018
  2. ↑ Our History . In: Duke Energy . Retrieved May 29, 2020.
  3. ↑ a b Orazul Energy Egenor S. en C. por A. (Orazul Perú) (Spanish), accessed on December 19, 2019.
  4. ^ Duke Energy and Progress Energy Have Merged. (No longer available online.) Duke Energy, archived from the original on July 29, 2012 ; accessed on May 15, 2015 .
  5. ↑ Duke takes over atomic rivals on N-TV.de (accessed on August 8, 2016)
  6. ↑ Michael Biesecker: Prosecutors: Duke Energy could have avoided Dan River spill. In: Washington Top News / Associated Press . May 14, 2015, archived from the original on May 17, 2015 ; accessed on May 15, 2015 .
  7. ↑ Duke Power Archive . ( Memento of December 3, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) In: Duke Energy . Retrieved November 27, 2013.