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Duke Energy Corporation
Duke Energy Corporation (Charlotte NC; NYSE: DUK; ~$30B revenue; ~$80B market cap) is a major US regulated utility serving approximately 8.2 million electric customers across the Southeast and Midwest US. Duke operates ~50 GW of generation capacity including nuclear (~10 GW, 11 reactors across 3 plants), natural gas combined cycle, coal (declining), and growing renewables. Duke is the primary electricity supplier to industrial customers in the Carolinas, Florida, Indiana, Ohio, and Kentucky — a service territory that includes major industrial consumers in automotive manufacturing (BMW Spartanburg SC, Volvo Berkeley County SC), aerospace, chemicals, and data centers. Duke's industrial electricity rates (~$50-70/MWh) reflect Southeast US competitiveness. Duke has negotiated large renewable PPAs with hyperscale data centers (Microsoft, Google) expanding in North Carolina and South Carolina.
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Duke Energy Carolinas FGD Gypsum Operations →
USNorth Carolina / South Carolina · chemical_plant
Duke Energy sells synthetic FGD gypsum from coal plant scrubbers to wallboard manufacturers and cement mills in the Carolinas region. As Duke retires coal capacity (accelerating under its Clean Energy Transition plan), FGD gypsum supply from these units structurally declines. Each GW of retired coal capacity removes ~30,000-50,000 t/year of synthetic gypsum supply.
Duke Energy Catawba Nuclear Station (York County SC) →
USSouth Carolina · power-generation
Duke Energy Catawba Nuclear Station, York County SC; 2 Westinghouse PWR units, 2,258 MW total; one of the highest-capacity-factor nuclear plants in the US. Provides baseload power for Duke's Carolinas service territory including industrial load from BMW Spartanburg, Nucor steel mills, and data centers in the Charlotte NC/SC Piedmont corridor. Source: https://www.duke-energy.com/energy-education/energy-sources/nuclear/catawba-nuclear-station
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Did you know2023
Duke Energy — the US's largest electric utility — is a supplier of synthetic gypsum to US cement and wallboard plants. Duke's coal-fired generating units run wet limestone FGD scrubbers that produce calcium sulfate dihydrate (chemically identical to mined gypsum) as a byproduct, which Duke explicitly sells to drywall and cement manufacturers rather than disposing as waste. As Duke accelerates coal plant retirements under its Clean Energy Transition plan, each gigawatt retired removes approximately 30,000-50,000 tonnes/year of synthetic gypsum supply from nearby cement and wallboard plants. The energy transition is simultaneously eliminating a major raw material supply for construction.
Duke Energy Corporation ↗Origin2023
Duke Energy traces its roots to the Catawba Power Company founded in 1900 by James Buchanan Duke — the tobacco industrialist behind the American Tobacco Company — who saw electrification of North Carolina's textile mills as a new revenue stream. Duke Power grew by building a chain of hydroelectric dams on the Catawba River, then expanded into coal-fired generation as textile demand outpaced water flow. After a series of mergers with Progress Energy (2012) and Piedmont Natural Gas (2016), it became the US's largest electric utility by customer count.
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