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SHELBYVILLE, Ind. — Indiana's environmental agency and Duke Energy are moving ahead with the cleanup of a long-shuttered manufactured gas plant.

Duke Energy's Oconee Nuclear Station has received the Nuclear Energy Institute's prestigious "Best of the Best" Award for the first digital upgrade of a nuclear safety-related system in the U.S. Oconee's digital upgrade of a reactor protection system and engineered safeguards protection system also received the NEI Vision and Leadership Award.

No serious injuries were reported in a wreck Friday morning that knocked out power to some east Charlotte residents and closed an intersection for more than an hour.

Wreck about 10:45 pm at Mint and Stonewall Streets near Bank of America Stadium and Duke Energy between a van and a pickup truck.

A federal ruling on whether Progress Energy and Duke Energy can combine into the nation's largest electric utility could come as early as Friday, bringing closure to a deal announced 17 months ago.

Wall St. Watchdog reveals information about companies for which stock analysts either upgraded or downgraded the shares on May 24th.

When Duke Energy 's chief technology officer David Mohler visits China next week, he'll stop by the city of Langfang to check out a project that aims to show what a city of the future might look like if it incorporates coal-based and renewable energy generation, biofuel production and water recycling.

The N.C. Utilities Commission on Wednesday approved a 4.8-megawatt fuel cell generating station, the nation's largest private installation, at Apple's $1 billion data center in Maiden.

Seneca, SC, May 23, 2012 - Duke Energy's Oconee Nuclear Station has received the Nuclear Energy Institute's prestigious "Best of the Best" Award for the first digital upgrade of a nuclear safety-related system in the U.S. The award was presented during NEI's Nuclear Energy Assembly on May 23, 2012, in Charlotte, N.C. Oconee's digital upgrade of a ... (more)

Strong thunderstorms rolled through the Charlotte area Tuesday night knocking out power and forcing school officials to put a local high school on a two-hour delay.

Protestors denounced Charlotte's strong connections to coal this month, hanging banners from Bank of America Stadium, protesting outside the Duke Energy and Bank of America shareholders meetings and blocking a trainload of coal bound for Duke's Marshall Steam Station west of Lake Norman.

Amid an energy cluster in which a few companies tower like redwoods, Curtis Watkins decided the saplings needed a little fertilizer.

Conditions across the Catawba-Wateree Basin and factors affecting water supply were key topics at the Catawba-Wateree Drought Management Advisory Group's seventh annual meeting May 14.

Charlotte's Thursday night baseball game, an Atlantic 10 series-opener against St.

Here are the five best events going down in Charlotte and the surrounding area today, May 17, 2012 as selected by the folks at Creative Loafing .

Duke Energy plans an emergency power outage Thursday on the UNC Charlotte campus beginning at 5 p.m., a UNCC spokesperson said.

High Point City Manager Strib Boynton announced today the selection and appointment of Chief Rick McIntyre of Jacksonville, N. C., as High Point's new fire chief.

For 17 years, Calvin Mills has fished at Latta Plantation Park on Mountain Island Lake.

A dozen nonprofit advocacy groups are lining up to fight any effort to make it easier for electric utilities to raise rates to pay for nuclear plants years before the costly plants are built.