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4055
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After almost ninety years, Duke Power Co. is closing, in January, 1999, the last remaining twelve of its once sixty-three appliance stores. In a time when electric customers lacked outlets to purchase appliances, the stores, which were located mostly in the company's branch offices, were a convenience. With the coming of Wal-Mart and other megastores, the company can no longer compete pricewise.
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North Carolina (NoCar F 251 W4), Vol. 57 Issue 1, Jan 1999, p42
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32554
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William S. Lee of Charlotte is the President and Chief Operating Officer of Duke Power Company. This article discusses Lee’s business background, his views on nuclear power, and the accident at the Three Mile Island nuclear generating plant in Pennsylvania.
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21598
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The first in a series of articles examining of the formative years of industrial electric supply systems, specifically the Southern Power Company that would become the Duke Power Company in 1924. The Duke company differed from most other investor-owned utilities in that the power was generated from a single system, it was financially autonomous thanks to the large investment of capital from the Duke brothers, plants and dams were designed and built by in-house engineers, the dams provided conservation benefits long before such things were mandated or tax funded, and Duke power became a national leader in its field by pioneering with numerous technologies.
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21629
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The second in a series of articles examining of the formative years of industrial electric supply systems, specifically the Southern Power Company that would become the Duke Power Company in 1924. By that time, the company was already important to the region's industrial development. Storm and flood damage in 1916 led to the construction of three more dams along the Catawba River and the company gained a rate increase in 1921 as well. In 1924, the company also established the Duke Endowment and Charitable Foundation and reorganized Trinity College into Duke University. For its philanthropic work, the Duke Power Company was given even better rates.
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24314
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Bill Grigg served as CEO of Duke Power Co. and closed a 7.7 billion dollar merger with PanEnergy Corp. that brought the struggling company into a whole new light. Duke's market will now stretch coast to coast.
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24351
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Bill Lee, CEO of Duke Power Co. discusses his upbringing and how he has managed the company over the years.
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15721
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A chance meeting between James B. Duke and Dr. W. Gill Wylie led to a meeting with William States Lee, a young engineer who knew a great deal about electricity. Together the three men planned a power firm that began with the name Southern Power Company in 1905 and later became the Duke Power Company. Today there are 20,000 miles of lines in the system which serves over a million people.
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The State (NoCar F 251 S77), Vol. 22 Issue 11, Oct 1954, p14-15, il, map
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