"You can always have shortages, but by and large, the Carolinas are in pretty good shape as far as the power we have and what's being built," Randy Wheeless, a corporate affairs associate for the Charlotte-based company, tells Globest.com.
"We are aggressively executing our strategy--creating energy solutions for customers and positive results for shareholders," CEO Richard B. Priory says in a prepared statement announcing the company's first-quarter results.
Duke has about two million commercial and residential customers in the Carolinas, most of them or 75% of them in North Carolina. The company has grown consistently at the rate of 40,000 customers a year.
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David Wilkening
David Wilkening began his long journalism career as a police reporter for Chicago-area newspapers. He became a writer-editor for major newspapers in Chicago, Washington, Detroit and Florida. He has been a business editor, political editor and travel editor for newspapers and magazines. He tried for a while to be a political operative but did better as an adjunct college professor teaching English and journalism. He is the author of several books, both ghost-written and under his own name. He is also a widely published freelance writer who currently lives in Orlando.
