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Duke Energy { 52 images } Created 17 Dec 2010

Duke Energy is the largest supplier of electricity to the South and parts of the Midwest. Photos show construction of a controversial addition to Cliffside, a coal-fired plant in North Carolina, protesters who claim the plant is hazardous to air quality, power plants, coal ash ponds, coal piles.
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  • View of project looking north.  Concrete stack on left is new stack for Unit 5 & Unit 6.  Stack is 550 feet high with 2 gas flue liners inside which extend 25 feet above top of concrete stack.  Current Unit 5 concrete stack is in the background (between new stack and steel).  Tall steel in middle of picture is the Boiler Building.  It is approximately 275 feet high.  Lower steel structure on right is the Turbine Building.
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  • Duke Energy Cliffside plant under construction in Rutherford/Cleveland Counties, western North Carolina. One of 24 hoppers being set into place in the Bag House. The hoppers collect particulate from the combustion process for disposal. The "Bag House" refers to the place where the particulate is collected.  New Unit 6 stack and old Unit 5 stack are visible in the background.
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  • Duke Energy Cliffside plant under construction in Rutherford/Cleveland Counties, western North Carolina. One of 24 hoppers being set into place in the Bag House. The hoppers collect particulate from the combustion process for disposal. The "Bag House" refers to the place where the particulate is collected.  New Unit 6 stack and old Unit 5 stack are visible in the background.
    Cliffside-Construction_03.jpg
  • Duke Energy Cliffside plant under construction in Rutherford/Cleveland Counties, western North Carolina. Flyash Silo foundation being constructed in foreground.  Unit 5 & 6 Absorber Building structure in the background.
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  • Duke Energy Cliffside plant under construction in Rutherford/Cleveland Counties, western North Carolina. Looking into the Boiler, the "guts" of the operation which will of course be contained within the boiler walls and not visible to the eye.   The red panels are boiler tubes.  The boiler fire will heat the tubes which makes steam to drive the turbine and ultimately generate electricity.
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  • Duke Energy Cliffside plant under construction in Rutherford/Cleveland Counties, western North Carolina. . View looking into the Boiler.  The "reddish" items are some of the boiler tubes.  The "white" background is the waterwall tubes of the boiler.  This area will be where the boiler fire will heat the tubes which makes steam to drive the turbine and ultimately generate electricity.
    Cliffside-Construction_06.jpg
  • Duke Energy Cliffside plant under construction in Rutherford/Cleveland Counties, western North Carolina. View of project looking south.  Limestone conveyor and silos are shown in the center of the photo (for coal ash recycling to gypsum)  Unit 6 Boiler Building is shown in the background.
    Cliffside-Construction_07.jpg
  • Duke Energy Cliffside plant under construction in Rutherford/Cleveland Counties, western North Carolina. View looking south across Unit 5 coal inventory and construction of new Unit 6 coal reclaim structure (left side of photo).  Background shows current Unit 5 stack, new Unit 5 & 6 stack and boiler building.
    Cliffside-Construction_08.jpg
  • Duke Energy Cliffside plant under construction in Rutherford/Cleveland Counties, western North Carolina. View looking south across Unit 5 coal inventory and construction of new Unit 6 coal reclaim structure (left side of photo).  Background shows current Unit 5 stack, new Unit 5 & 6 stack and boiler building.
    Cliffside-Construction_09.jpg
  • Duke Energy Cliffside plant under construction in Rutherford/Cleveland Counties, western North Carolina. View looking northwest across the Unit 6 Cooling Tower structure (right side of photo).  The Cooling Tower consist of 22 mechanical draft fans to cool the condenser water.  Turbine Building and Boiler Building are in the background
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  • Duke Energy's expansion of its coal plant Cliffside, which straddles Rutherford and Cleveland Counties in Western North Carolina, has long been a focal point for opponents of coal power plants by mans of protests (here in April 2009) and lawsuits. In December 2010 NC Administrative Law Judge Randall Mays rules that the environmental groups deserve a full hearing on whether the $1.8 billion 825-megawatt coal-fuled unit will be a mionor source of pollution. As of December 2010 the unit was about 80-% complete and is scheduled to begin producing power in 2012.
    Cliffside-Protest_01.jpg
  • Duke Energy's expansion of its coal plant Cliffside, which straddles Rutherford and Cleveland Counties in Western North Carolina, has long been a focal point for opponents of coal power plants by mans of protests (here in April 2009) and lawsuits. In December 2010 NC Administrative Law Judge Randall Mays rules that the environmental groups deserve a full hearing on whether the $1.8 billion 825-megawatt coal-fuled unit will be a mionor source of pollution. As of December 2010 the unit was about 80-% complete and is scheduled to begin producing power in 2012.
    Cliffside-Protest_02.jpg
  • Duke Energy's expansion of its coal plant Cliffside, which straddles Rutherford and Cleveland Counties in Western North Carolina, has long been a focal point for opponents of coal power plants by mans of protests (here in April 2009) and lawsuits. In December 2010 NC Administrative Law Judge Randall Mays rules that the environmental groups deserve a full hearing on whether the $1.8 billion 825-megawatt coal-fuled unit will be a mionor source of pollution. As of December 2010 the unit was about 80-% complete and is scheduled to begin producing power in 2012.
    Cliffside-Protest_03.jpg
  • Duke Energy's expansion of its coal plant Cliffside, which straddles Rutherford and Cleveland Counties in Western North Carolina, has long been a focal point for opponents of coal power plants by means of protests (here in downtown Charlotte, in April 2009) and lawsuits. In December 2010 NC Administrative Law Judge Randall Mays rules that the environmental groups deserve a full hearing on whether the $1.8 billion 825-megawatt coal-fuled unit will be a mionor source of pollution. As of December 2010 the unit was about 80-% complete and is scheduled to begin producing power in 2012.
    Cliffside-Protest_04.jpg
  • Allen Steam Station on Lake Wylie (Catawba River), a five-unit coal-fired generating facility owned by Duke Energy.
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  • Duke Energy Riverbend Steam Station coal ash pond. Coal ash is pumped into these ponds to settle. In response to  Environmental Protection Agency mandate and recommendations to ensure structural integrity, the coal ash basins have vegetative buffering around the edges.
    Riverbend Coal Ash-01.jpg
  • Coal ash ponds at Duke Energy's coal-fired Riverbend Steam Station in Gaston County, NC on the Catawba River. The plant, put into service in 1953, was shuttered on April 1, 2013. but environmental groups say that the coal ash ponds are seeping pollutants into the Catawba River, the drinking water source for the city of Charlotte. The Catawba River is not visible in this photo, the visible water is part of a series of coal ash settling ponds. Duke Energy monitors the stream of water that flows to the river as well as several deep wells drilled around the ponds, to ascertain levels of seepage.
    Riverbend Coal Ash-02.jpg
  • Duke Energy Riverbend Steam Station . Coal ash sludge is pumped through these pipes to the coal ash ponds (impoundments) where the coal ash settles and the water, once deemed clean, is pumped into the Catawba River.  Duke Energy is under a mandate from the EPA to closely monitor seepage and runoff from the ponds.
    Riverbend Coal Ash-03.jpg
  • Duke Energy Riverbend Steam Station . Duke Energy Riverbend Steam Station . Coal ash sludge is pumped to coal ash ponds (impoundments) where the coal ash settles and the water, once deemed clean, is pumped into the Catawba River.  Duke Energy is under a mandate from the EPA to closely monitor seepage and runoff from the ponds. These wells on the perimeter of the ponds are tested regularly for evidence of groundwater contamination including heavy metals and other pollutants such as arsenic.
    Riverbend Coal Ash-04.jpg
  • Duke Energy Riverbend Steam Station . Duke Energy Riverbend Steam Station . Coal ash sludge is pumped to coal ash ponds (impoundments) where the coal ash settles and the water, once deemed clean, is pumped into the Catawba River.  Duke Energy is under a mandate from the EPA to closely monitor seepage and runoff from the ponds. These wells on the perimeter of the ponds are tested regularly for evidence of groundwater contamination including heavy metals and other pollutants such as arsenic.
    Riverbend Coal Ash-05.jpg
  • Duke Energy Riverbend Steam Station . Duke Energy Riverbend Steam Station . Coal ash sludge is pumped  to the coal ash ponds (impoundments) where the coal ash settles and the water, once deemed clean, is pumped into the Catawba River.  Duke Energy is under a mandate from the EPA to closely monitor seepage and runoff from the ponds. Here, a Duke worker tests the water as it runs off from  the ponds to the River.
    Riverbend Coal Ash-06.jpg
  • Duke Energy Riverbend Steam Station . Duke Energy Riverbend Steam Station . Coal ash sludge is pumped  to the coal ash ponds (impoundments) where the coal ash settles and the water, once deemed clean, is pumped into the Catawba River.  Duke Energy is under a mandate from the EPA to closely monitor seepage and runoff from the ponds. Here, a Duke worker tests the water as it runs off from  the ponds to the River.
    Riverbend Coal Ash-07.jpg
  • Coal ash ponds at Duke Energy's coal-fired Riverbend Steam Station in Gaston County, NC on the Catawba River. The plant, put into service in 1953, was shuttered on April 1, 2013. but environmental groups say that the coal ash ponds are seeping pollutants into the Catawba River, the drinking water source for the city of Charlotte. The foreground  water is part of a series of coal ash settling ponds, the River is in the background. Duke Energy monitors the stream of water that flows to the river as well as several deep wells drilled around the ponds, to ascertain levels of seepage.
    Riverband Coal Ash-08.jpg
  • The Duke Energy Center, viewed frpm South Tryon Street in downtown Charlotte, NC is 786 feet tall, 48 floors, complete in 2010. The building was built by Wachovia Bank to be its headquarters but when the bank was purchased by Wells Fargo,  Duke Energy became the primary tenant and the building was renamed. The lights on the building are ever-changing. The colors are adjusted for specific events, such as pink for breast cancer awareness, purple when the Carolina Panthers are playing at the nearby Bank of America Stadium, or rainbow colors for a gay pride event. It is Duke Energy's headquarters.
    Duke Energy Center-01.tif
  • The Duke Energy Center, viewed frpm South Tryon Street in downtown Charlotte, NC is 786 feet tall, 48 floors, complete in 2010. The building was built by Wachovia Bank to be its headquarters but when the bank was purchased by Wells Fargo,  Duke Energy became the primary tenant and the building was renamed. The lights on the building are ever-changing. The colors are adjusted for specific events, such as pink for breast cancer awareness, purple when the Carolina Panthers are playing at the nearby Bank of America Stadium, or rainbow colors for a gay pride event.  It is Duke Energy's headquarters.
    Duke Energy Center-02.tif
  • The Duke Energy Center in downtown Charlotte, NC is 786 feet tall, 48 floors, complete in 2010. The building was built by Wachovia Bank to be its headquarters but when the bank was purchased by Wells Fargo,  Duke Energy became the primary tenant and the building was renamed. The lights on the building are ever-changing. The colors are adjusted for specific events, such as pink for breast cancer awareness, purple when the Carolina Panthers are playing at the nearby Bank of America Stadium, or rainbow colors for a gay pride event.  It is Duke Energy's headquarters.
    Duke Energy Center-04.jpg
  • The Duke Energy Center in downtown Charlotte, NC is 786 feet tall, 48 floors, complete in 2010. The building was built by Wachovia Bank to be its headquarters but when the bank was purchased by Wells Fargo,  Duke Energy became the primary tenant and the building was renamed. The lights on the building are ever-changing. The colors are adjusted for specific events, such as pink for breast cancer awareness, purple when the Carolina Panthers are playing at the nearby Bank of America Stadium, or rainbow colors for a gay pride event.  It is Duke Energy's headquarters.
    Duke Energy Center-05.jpg
  • The Duke Energy Center in downtown Charlotte, NC is 786 feet tall, 48 floors, complete in 2010. The building was built by Wachovia Bank to be its headquarters but when the bank was purchased by Wells Fargo,  Duke Energy became the primary tenant and the building was renamed. The lights on the building are ever-changing. The colors are adjusted for specific events, such as pink for breast cancer awareness, purple when the Carolina Panthers are playing at the nearby Bank of America Stadium, or rainbow colors for a gay pride event.  It is Duke Energy's headquarters.
    Duke Energy Center-06.tif
  • The Duke Energy Center in downtown Charlotte, NC is 786 feet tall, 48 floors, complete in 2010. The building was built by Wachovia Bank to be its headquarters but when the bank was purchased by Wells Fargo,  Duke Energy became the primary tenant and the building was renamed. The lights on the building are ever-changing. The colors are adjusted for specific events, such as pink for breast cancer awareness, purple when the Carolina Panthers are playing at the nearby Bank of America Stadium, or rainbow colors for a gay pride event.  It is Duke Energy's headquarters.
    Duke Energy Center-07.jpg
  • Duke Energy CEO Jim Rogers
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  • Duke Energy CEO Jim Rogers
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  • Lake Wylie Dam on the Catawba River, South Carolina.  Duke Energy hydro dam.  A Tailrace is popular for fishing and kayaking
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  • Lake Wylie Dam on the Catawba River, South Carolina.  Duke Energy hydro dam.  A Tailrace is popular for fishing and kayaking
    Wylie Dam-2.jpg
  • Lake Wylie Dam on the Catawba River, South Carolina.  Duke Energy hydro dam.  A Tailrace is popular for fishing and kayaking
    Wylie Dam-3.jpg
  • Mtn Island Lake Dam, built in 1924 as a hydro station,on the Catawba River above Charlotte. The resulting 3,281 acre lake is the water supply for Charlotte and surrounding communities. It also cools the water from Duke Energy's Riverbend Steam Station.
    MtnIsland_001.jpg
  • Historic Great Falls of the Catawba, now dry, diverted for hydro power to run Mills in 1907. In the foreground is the village of Great Falls, once a prosperous textile town, now all three mills are closed, demolished or burnt. As part of Duke Energy's hydro re-licesning, Duke will release water through the dry river channel just below center left( in the photo) for whitewater kayaking. Great Falls wants to re-invent itself as an outdoor adventure destination. The forested shores of the  reservoirs formed by the several dams have been protected by the Katawba Valley Land Trust and will be a wilderness state park.
    Great Falls Diversion-1.jpg
  • Fishing Creek Dam (locally known as Nitrolee) and US Hwy 21/SC Hwy 200 near Great Falls, SC
    FishingCreek_001.jpg
  • Green utensils and cups at Duke Energy headquarters cafeteria, run by Eurest Dining Services, in Charlotte, North carolina. These coffee cups are for sale in the cafeteria and users get a break on the price of coffee. They are made from recycled plastic and corn.
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  • Green utensils and cups at Duke Energy headquarters cafeteria, run by Eurest Dining Services, in Charlotte, North carolina. These coffee cups are for sale in the cafeteria and users get a break on the price of coffee. They are made from recycled plastic and corn.
    Recycled cups-02.jpg
  • Lynn Good, who succeeded Jim Rogers On July 1, 2013 as Duke Energy's  CEO after servings as the company's CFO for four years.
    Lynn Good-Duke Energy_30.jpg
  • Lynn Good, who succeeded Jim Rogers On July 1, 2013 as Duke Energy's  CEO after servings as the company's CFO for four years.
    Lynn Good-Duke Energy_19.jpg
  • Lynn Good, who succeeded Jim Rogers On July 1, 2013 as Duke Energy's  CEO after servings as the company's CFO for four years.
    Lynn Good-Duke Energy_18.jpg
  • Lynn Good, who succeeded Jim Rogers On July 1, 2013 as Duke Energy's  CEO after servings as the company's CFO for four years.
    Lynn Good-Duke Energy_15.jpg
  • Lynn Good, who succeeded Jim Rogers On July 1, 2013 as Duke Energy's  CEO after servings as the company's CFO for four years.
    Lynn Good-Duke Energy_14.jpg
  • Lynn Good, who succeeded Jim Rogers On July 1, 2013 as Duke Energy's  CEO after servings as the company's CFO for four years.
    Lynn Good-Duke Energy_11.jpg
  • Lynn Good, who succeeded Jim Rogers On July 1, 2013 as Duke Energy's  CEO after servings as the company's CFO for four years.
    Lynn Good-Duke Energy_09.jpg
  • Lynn Good, who succeeded Jim Rogers On July 1, 2013 as Duke Energy's  CEO after servings as the company's CFO for four years.
    Lynn Good-Duke Energy_08.jpg
  • Lynn Good, who succeeded Jim Rogers On July 1, 2013 as Duke Energy's  CEO after servings as the company's CFO for four years.
    Lynn Good-Duke Energy_07.jpg
  • Lynn Good, who succeeded Jim Rogers On July 1, 2013 as Duke Energy's  CEO after servings as the company's CFO for four years.
    Lynn Good-Duke Energy_06.jpg
  • Lynn Good, who succeeded Jim Rogers On July 1, 2013 as Duke Energy's  CEO after servings as the company's CFO for four years.
    Lynn Good-Duke Energy_04.jpg
  • Lynn Good, who succeeded Jim Rogers On July 1, 2013 as Duke Energy's  CEO after servings as the company's CFO for four years.
    Lynn Good-Duke Energy_02.jpg
  • Lynn Good, who succeeded Jim Rogers On July 1, 2013 as Duke Energy's  CEO after servings as the company's CFO for four years.
    Lynn Good-Duke Energy_03.jpg