DUKE ENERGY® | illumination Stories that enlighten, inform and inspire Oct 13, 2024
Making a Difference
Rescued sweet potatoes help feed the hungry
Sifting through the produce bin, shoppers find sweet potatoes that are big and small, round and pointy, thin and lumpy. And still there are bigger and weirder-shaped sweet potatoes that never make it to the supermarket. Sweet potatoes must meet size and...
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Innovation
Power plant from 1960s gives gift to education today
About 25 miles northwest of Columbia, S.C., an unassuming grassy plot along the Broad River hides the long-gone memory of innovative technology.   The Parr experimental nuclear reactor once generated electricity there and stood as a symbol of the...
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Innovation
The world of da Vinci lives on today
Consider this: The guy who gave us “Mona Lisa” and “The Last Supper” was a part-time painter. He spent most of his day dreaming up flying machines and other engineering marvels to please Renaissance bosses in Italy and France. His peers considered...
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Expert Advice
How utilities united to fight scammers
Editor’s note: Jared Lawrence is vice president of Customer Operations – Piedmont Natural Gas and Metering Services, and chair of the Utilities United Against Scams Executive Committee I don’t know his name for sure. Often he calls himself David...
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