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Duke Energy to Invest $3 Billion in Grid

Duke Energy to Invest $3 Billion in Grid

Duke Energy to Invest $3 Billion in Grid

With the devastation following hurricane Irma this past year, Ryan Mosier, a Greenville-based Spokesman sheds light as to why the energy company has decided to bury their lines in an article published in the earlier this month.

Mosier states, 鈥淚 would never use the words ‘hurricane’ and ‘help’ in the same sentence, but we have certainly learned with recent experience from Irma and Matthew. They helped add more information to what we were already planning 鈥 areas where we need to look at things differently.鈥

In addition to the $1.3 billion line burial project, Duke Energy plans to invest another $1.7 billion in a power/forward Carolina initiative to build a smarter and more secure grid for the future.

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Restoring Power for 10.5 Million

Restoring Power for 10.5 Million

Restoring Power for 10.5 Million

Irma triggered one of the nation’s largest natural disaster-related power outages ever measured, leaving 10.5 million Florida households without power.

article that illustrates how restoring power for such a large number of customers simply takes time. Click to read how Florida electric providers (including , and ) tackled this enormous task.

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Mississippi鈥檚 Investment to Strengthen the Grid

Mississippi鈥檚 Investment to Strengthen the Grid

Mississippi鈥檚 Investment to Strengthen the Grid

In order for the electrical assets to grow as Mississippi grows, plans to invest $16.6 million to make their system more resistant to storm outages, as well as cyber-attacks and physical threats.

Visit to learn more about what projects has in the works to improve their grid and prevent future power outages.

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Construction Continues on Vogtle Nuclear Expansion

Construction Continues on Vogtle Nuclear Expansion

Construction Continues on Vogtle Nuclear Expansion

A recommendation has been filed to move forward with the construction of Vogtle nuclear expansion projects 3 and 4. The construction of the new Vogtle units is driving thousands of American jobs and will create nearly 800 new nuclear careers once operational, including careers for many veterans of the armed services.

To see when expects these projects to reach commercial operation, the full article at .

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