DUKE ENERGY® | illumination Stories that enlighten, inform and inspire Jan 15, 2025
The Environment
World’s fifth oldest tree found in North Carolina
Drone footage Some of the oldest trees in the world are rooted along the swampy twists and turns of the Black River in eastern North Carolina. When University of Arkansas researcher David Stahle first saw the bald cypress trees in the 1980s, he knew...
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Insights
Why businesses need to tackle the education gap
Bill Gates once said that the first five years of a child’s life have a lot to do with how the next 80 will turn out. I couldn’t agree more.   Early childhood education doesn’t drive cable news. It won’t appear in your Instagram feed. Yet it’s...
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Innovation
How South Carolinians share solar energy and save
Christopher Keller, a practical man, sees much of his daily life as a collection of numbers. Number of computers he needs in his work-from-home job as a chief technical officer at a startup. Number of smart devices that require charging, daily, in his...
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Innovation
How the Envision Center in Kentucky helped pioneer the smart grid
Since it’s easier to understand something when you can see it, the Envision Center in Erlanger, Ky., embodied the adage “show, don’t tell.”   Created to demonstrate how emerging smart grid technologies could work together to use energy better, the...
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Retro
Retro photos: Are these smiling faces from Cincinnati?
Duke Energy’s Charlotte, N.C., headquarters houses thousands of old photos from Florida to Ohio, Kentucky, Indiana and the Carolinas. However, many of the photos are not properly identified. Help us improve our records by sending us your memories about...
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