Talk:Progress Energy Inc

message: Here are other facts about Progress Energy. As I am an employee, I will let someone else make the decision whether or not to include them in this article. I have included third-party sources to verify the information listed below:
-In 2008, the Corporate Responsibility Officer named Progress Energy to its list of 100 Best Corporate Citizens. [Source: Corporate Responsibility Officer – 100 Best Corporate Citizens 2008 http://www.thecro.com/node/615]Progress Energy has been named to the Dow Jones Sustainability Index in 2008, 2007, 2006 and 2005 [source: Dow Jones Sustainability Indexes http://www.sustainability-indexes.com/]. 
-Progress Energy is part of a coalition of elected officials, environmental organizations and other stakeholders that developed environmental legislation in North Carolina. The first is the Clean Smokestacks Act of 2002[source: News & Observer, Raleigh NC June 19, 2002 “Air Quality Should Improve”], which will reduce SO2 and Nox emissions from coal-fired power plants, and the second is Senate Bill 3 [source: News &Observer, Raleigh NC August 3, 2007 “ Energy bill going to governor” http://www.newsobserver.com/business/story/658612.html], which was passed in 2007 and sets the first renewable portfolio standard in the Southeast of the United States. [source: Environmental Defense Fund “EDF Applauds Passage of Landmark Bill” http://www.edf.org/pressrelease.cfm?contentID=6753]
-Progress Energy is currently investing more than $2 billion to install emissions-control technology at its power plants, including flue gas desulferization and selective catalytic reduction. [source: News & Observer, Raleigh NC Dec. 8, 2005 “Scrubbers Freshens Smokestack’s Breath”]
-In the past three years, Progress Energy Florida has announced contracts to purchase more than 300 MW of electricity from biomass, municipal solid waste and other alternative resources. [source: St. Petersburg Times, “Progress Announces New Biomass Plant,” Dec. 18, 2007  http://blogs.tampabay.com/energy/biomass/index.html] 
-In 2008, Progress Energy Carolinas announced contracts to purchase the output of three 1-megawatt-sized solar photovoltaic arrays. [source: News & Observer, Raleigh NC, Oct. 29 “Progress Energy to increase solar power” http://www.newsobserver.com/business/nc/story/1272693.html, Retrieved Nov. 14, 2008]
-Progress Energy is trying to meet the growing energy demands of its customers while addressing global climate change by developing new energy-efficiency programs, investments in renewable and alternative energy sources and state-of-the-art power plants. [sources: News & Observer, “Progress Energy proposes energy-saving programs” Apr. 29, 2008, http://www.newsobserver.com/business/story/1054365.html; News & Observer, “Progress Energy’s Alternative Power Fact Box” http://www.newsobserver.com/1004/story/426608.html; Orlanda Business Journal – State Asked to Consider New Nuclear Plants http://www.bizjournals.com/orlando/stories/2008/03/10/daily22.html Accessed on April 7, 2008.]
-In February 2008, Progress Energy joined with North Carolina State University to announce the creation of the Advanced Transportation Energy Center.  The purpose of ATEC is to research and develop a better battery for use in plug-in hybrid electric vehicles. Progress Energy has purchased its own plug-in hybrid electric vehicles and helped support one of the nation’s first plug-in hybrid school buses, used by the Wake County school system. [sources: Green Car Congress  http://www.greencarcongress.com/2008/02/duke-energy-and.html  Accessed on April 7, 2008; Wake County Public School System http://www.wcpss.net/news/2007_may17_hybrid_bus/]
-Also in 2008, Progress Energy received a $123,000 grant from the Florida Department of Environmental Protection to install and test small-scale wind power technologies at locations across its service territory. [source: Florida Department of Environmental Protection Renewable Energy Technology Grants Program http://www.dep.state.fl.us/energy/energyact/files/grant/2007%20grants/PE%20Corrections%20to%201-pager-2-29-08.pdf]
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