Duke Energy closing Beckjord power plant by 2015

07/18/11 Duke Energy announces on Monday that they will be closing one of their power plants by the New Year in 2015.

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Progress Energy settles lawsuits contesting merger

07/18/11 Progress Energy has agreed to settle lawsuits that aimed to block its merger with Duke Energy by adding details to a proxy statement before an Aug. 23 shareholder vote on the deal.

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Duke Strengthening Substation Security In Wake of Fatal Burglary

07/19/11 A spokesperson for Duke Energy says the company is "taking measures to strengthen security" at its power substations in the Carolinas following another outage caused by a suspected copper thief. In this case, the suspect was electrocuted.    

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