Talk:Progress Energy Inc

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Here are other facts about Progress Energy. As I am an employee, I will let someone else make the decision whether or not to include them in this article. I have included third-party sources to verify the information listed below:

-In 2008, the Corporate Responsibility Officer named Progress Energy to its list of 100 Best Corporate Citizens. [Source: Corporate Responsibility Officer – 100 Best Corporate Citizens 2008 http://www.thecro.com/node/615]Progress Energy has been named to the Dow Jones Sustainability Index in 2008, 2007, 2006 and 2005 [source: Dow Jones Sustainability Indexes http://www.sustainability-indexes.com/].

-Progress Energy is part of a coalition of elected officials, environmental organizations and other stakeholders that developed environmental legislation in North Carolina. The first is the Clean Smokestacks Act of 2002[source: News & Observer, Raleigh NC June 19, 2002 “Air Quality Should Improve”], which will reduce SO2 and Nox emissions from coal-fired power plants, and the second is Senate Bill 3 [source: News &Observer, Raleigh NC August 3, 2007 “ Energy bill going to governor” http://www.newsobserver.com/business/story/658612.html], which was passed in 2007 and sets the first renewable portfolio standard in the Southeast of the United States. [source: Environmental Defense Fund “EDF Applauds Passage of Landmark Bill” http://www.edf.org/pressrelease.cfm?contentID=6753]

-Progress Energy is currently investing more than $2 billion to install emissions-control technology at its power plants, including flue gas desulferization and selective catalytic reduction. [source: News & Observer, Raleigh NC Dec. 8, 2005 “Scrubbers Freshens Smokestack’s Breath”]

-In the past three years, Progress Energy Florida has announced contracts to purchase more than 300 MW of electricity from biomass, municipal solid waste and other alternative resources. [source: St. Petersburg Times, “Progress Announces New Biomass Plant,” Dec. 18, 2007 http://blogs.tampabay.com/energy/biomass/index.html]

-In 2008, Progress Energy Carolinas announced contracts to purchase the output of three 1-megawatt-sized solar photovoltaic arrays. [source: News & Observer, Raleigh NC, Oct. 29 “Progress Energy to increase solar power” http://www.newsobserver.com/business/nc/story/1272693.html, Retrieved Nov. 14, 2008]

-Progress Energy is trying to meet the growing energy demands of its customers while addressing global climate change by developing new energy-efficiency programs, investments in renewable and alternative energy sources and state-of-the-art power plants. [sources: News & Observer, “Progress Energy proposes energy-saving programs” Apr. 29, 2008, http://www.newsobserver.com/business/story/1054365.html; News & Observer, “Progress Energy’s Alternative Power Fact Box” http://www.newsobserver.com/1004/story/426608.html; Orlanda Business Journal – State Asked to Consider New Nuclear Plants http://www.bizjournals.com/orlando/stories/2008/03/10/daily22.html Accessed on April 7, 2008.]

-In February 2008, Progress Energy joined with North Carolina State University to announce the creation of the Advanced Transportation Energy Center. The purpose of ATEC is to research and develop a better battery for use in plug-in hybrid electric vehicles. Progress Energy has purchased its own plug-in hybrid electric vehicles and helped support one of the nation’s first plug-in hybrid school buses, used by the Wake County school system. [sources: Green Car Congress http://www.greencarcongress.com/2008/02/duke-energy-and.html Accessed on April 7, 2008; Wake County Public School System http://www.wcpss.net/news/2007_may17_hybrid_bus/]

-Also in 2008, Progress Energy received a $123,000 grant from the Florida Department of Environmental Protection to install and test small-scale wind power technologies at locations across its service territory. [source: Florida Department of Environmental Protection Renewable Energy Technology Grants Program http://www.dep.state.fl.us/energy/energyact/files/grant/2007%20grants/PE%20Corrections%20to%201-pager-2-29-08.pdf] Wehaveplants (talk) 22:04, 14 November 2008 (UTC) _________________________________________

Progress Energy Answers to no goverment agency Their fraudulent billing can not be stopped. On the bill they give you each month they tell you if you have a compaint to call FPSC That agency was put together to regulate Florida utilites,but in truth this agency only protects Progress Energy TPPSC directer "Mary Bane" see to it that Progress Energy is above the law.They charge what they want.Will cut off your electricity without due processes of law. Florida heat with no electricity can kill. Killing is part of Progress energy theat because it is Mafia owned Right now I'm trying to get Gov. Jeb Bush to investigate Progress Energy Sincereley Herbert Glazier

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