Duke Energy

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This Sept. 16, 2016 photo shows the F.W. Woolworth's lunch counter at the International Civil Rights Center & Museum in Greensboro, N.C. Duke Energy could cut power to the museum in a dispute over an $18,000 credit deposit. (AP Photo/Skip Foreman)

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Contractors with Duke Energy work to restore power lines Thursday, May 11, 2017, in Bloomington, Ind., that was damaged by fallen trees from the severe thunderstorm that went through Wednesday night in Bloomington, Ind. (Chris Howell/The Herald-Times via AP)

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FILE - In this April 25, 2014, file photo, Bryant Gobble, left, embraces his wife, Sherry Gobble, right, as they look from their yard across an ash pond full of dead trees toward Duke Energy's Buck Steam Station in Dukeville, N.C. Duke Energy has agreed to remove millions of tons of coal ash containing toxic heavy metals from a power plant in North Carolina. The nation’s largest electricity company announced Wednesday, Oct. 5, 2016 that it would dig up three huge pits of water-logged ash at the Buck Steam Station near Salisbury. The ash will be dried and either offered for use in making concrete or moved to lined landfills elsewhere. (AP Photo/Chuck Burton, File)

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A station manager at the Duke Catawba Nuclear Power Station stands near a turbine at the nuclear plant near York, South Carolina. In 2004, construction for the site was estimated to cost $1.6 billion and was expected to be completed by 2007. However, more than $4 billion has been spent on construction, which is only 67 percent complete. Meanwhile, the site lost its contract with its only real customer, Duke Energy, in 2008 and hasn't found a replacement buyer for the fuel product. (Associated Press)

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Debbie Hall, of Sanford, N.C., holds a sign protesting coal ash ponds, outside the Duke Energy headquarters before the company's shareholders meeting in Charlotte, N.C., Thursday, May 7, 2015. (AP Photo/Chuck Burton)

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Vice President Joe Biden gestures as he speaks at the National Urban League Conference at the Duke Energy Center, Thursday, July 24, 2014, in Cincinnati. (AP Photo/The Cincinnati Enquirer, Cara Owsley) MANDATORY CREDIT; NO SALES

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Protesters carry signs and demonstrate in front of the Duke Energy office building in Charlotte, N.C., Thursday, May 1, 2014, as shareholders hold their annual meeting. Some Duke Energy investors plan to push the utility's board of directors to investigate issues surrounding a massive coal ash spill that dumped toxic sludge into a 70-mile stretch of a North Carolina river. (AP Photo/The Charlotte Observer, T. Ortega Gaines) MAGS OUT; TV OUT; NEWSPAPER INTERNET ONLY (REV-SHARE)

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Duke Energy shareholder Donna Lisenby holds two jars of coals ash from the Catawba and French Broad rivers, as she demonstrates with other protesters Thursday, May 1, 2014, before going into the annual shareholders meeting in Charlotte, N.C. Some Duke Energy investors plan to push the utility's board of directors to investigate issues surrounding a massive coal ash spill that dumped toxic sludge into a 70-mile stretch of a North Carolina river. (AP Photo/The Charlotte Observer, T. Ortega Gaines) MAGS OUT; TV OUT; NEWSPAPER INTERNET ONLY (REV-SHARE)

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Concern citizens, Kendell Hale, dressed as Lady Liberty, and her husband Steve Norris from Asheville, N.C. demonstrate with other protesters in front of the Duke Energy office building, Thursday, May 1, 2014, as shareholders hold their annual meeting in Charlotte, N.C. Some Duke Energy investors plan to push the utility's board of directors to investigate issues surrounding a massive coal ash spill that dumped toxic sludge into a 70-mile stretch of a North Carolina river. (AP Photo/The Charlotte Observer, T. Ortega Gaines) MAGS OUT; TV OUT; NEWSPAPER INTERNET ONLY (REV-SHARE)

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About 200 protesters carry signs and demonstrate in front of Duke Energy office building Thursday, May 1, 2014, as shareholders held their annual meeting in Charlotte, N.C. Some Duke Energy investors plan to push the utility's board of directors to investigate issues surrounding a massive coal ash spill that dumped toxic sludge into a 70-mile stretch of a North Carolina river. (AP Photo/The Charlotte Observer, T. Ortega Gaines) MAGS OUT; TV OUT; NEWSPAPER INTERNET ONLY (REV-SHARE)

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This aerial photo taken at Duke Energy’s Cape Fear Plant on March 10, 2014, by the environmental group WaterKeeper Alliance shows a large crack in the earthen dam holding back millions of tons of toxic coal ash and contaminated waste water. North Carolina regulators inspected the site twice in the following days, but now concede they failed to notice the crack clearly marked with metal stakes and bright orange streamers. State officials say they knew nothing of the potential hazard until Duke reported the crack on March 20, after the company was cited for illegally pumping 61 million gallons of contaminated wastewater into the Cape Fear River. The crack has since been repaired. (AP Photo/WaterKeeper Alliance, Rick Dove)