Duke Energy sets record for use in Carolinas
CHARLOTTE, NORTH CAROLINA - Customers of Duke Energy Corp. in the Carolinas have set a record for winter electricity demand as prolonged freezing temperatures prompted residents to use more energy to heat their homes.
The Charlotte-based utility says it generated 17,282 megawatt-hours of electricity between 7 a.m. and 8 a.m. January 11. That topped a previous winter demand record of 16,968 megawatt hours on February 5, 2009.
Duke Energy President Brett Carter says the record shows providers need to make sure customers have a wide array of energy resources available when demand escalates.
On January 11, Raleigh-based Progress Energy said its Carolinas customers set a winter demand record, using more than 12,500 megawatt-hours of electricity during the same time frame.
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Ottawa sets out to protect its hydro heritage
OTTAWA - The city of Ottawa is looking to designate five hydro substations built nearly a century ago as heritage structures, a move intended to protect the architectural history of Ottawa's earliest forays into the electricity business.
All five buildings are still used by Hydro Ottawa to reduce the voltage coming from transmission lines before the electricity is transmitted to homes and businesses.
Electricity came to Ottawa in 1882 when two carbon lamps were installed on LeBreton Flats, heritage planner Anne Fitzpatrick told the city's built heritage subcommittee on Tuesday. It became a lucrative business, and soon a privately owned monopoly.
In 1905,…
