Duke Energy

Duke Energy has been addressing the environment, energy security, and the increasing energy prices by offering a wide variety of incentive programs that enhance energy efficiency. The financial position of a utility is affected as they spend on these programs. One way earnings are affected is through recovery of the program’s direct costs; another is decreased sales, and investor spending on energy efficiency instead of investing in supply-side resources. Program cost recovery, lost margin recovery, and performance incentives are some mechanisms that tackle the impacts on utilities earnings which would result in utilities either investing in efficiency programs, or realizing that the benefits are outweighed. A direct impact is the program cost…

1. Duke Energy jBy merging with Progress Energy in 2012, Duke Energy Corporation (NYSE: DUK) became the largest electric utility in the United States. Headquartered in Charlotte, North Carolina, its regulated utilities business unit serves 7.3 million retail electric customers in six states in the Southeast and Midwest regions, boasting approximately 57,500 MW of electric generating capacity. Almost all of its electricity generation comes from coal, natural gas and oil. As of 2015, it has 28,000…

Recommendations Currently, Duke Energy is experiencing issues with transitioning leadership but if Duke Energy does not address these issues before the company loses fifty percent of its employees over the next five years due to expected retirements, these issues will more than likely become a much more serious problem that could lead to the company folding. Gary Dessler (2017), in the textbook Human Resource Management defines succession planning as “the ongoing process of systematically…

In 1997, Duke Power made its first big merger that would set the future of Duke Energy. Duke Power purchased PanEnergy Corp for $7.4 billion in order to help the utility company branch out nationally. After this buyout Duke Power changed its name to Duke Energy Corporation in order to set a new platform for expansion and growth. At the time Duke Energy had net assets of $13.5 billion while PanEnergy had $7.6 billion. The merger was a necessity for both companies because the gas and electricity…

Duke Energy’s strengths according to The Street are in multiple areas, such as its expanding profit margins, good cash flow from operations, solid stock price performance and notable return on equity. They also feel that even though Duke Energy has had sub-par growth in net-income the pros far outweigh the cons. The Street’s final rating for Duke energy Stock was a 5/5 must buy. Duke Energy Stock in my opinion is a great stock to invest in. Looking at the stock chart I believe that the stock is…

Poems happen to be words that mean more than they look. May they express a message, describe someone’s point of view of his/her life or anything, poems are able to do so much with so little. Such is how famous poet of the 19th century Robert Browning managed to do with his writings. Through his writings of My Last Duchess and Porphyria’s Lover, we will look upon the way that he believes men would become alongside women. Replaced for stronger than interesting To start it off, let’s discuss…

“Checking Out Me History” both express anger through a first person perspective, in the form of a dramatic monologue, although the poems offer two different portrayals of anger. In Browning’s poem, the reader is introduced to a seemingly expressive and biased rant from the Duke about his past Duchess, speaking to an envoy. ‘My’, the possessive pronoun, implies he sees women as possessions. The Duke thinks the world revolves around him because he owns "a nine-hundred-years-old name”, the reader…

and Christina Rossetti illustrate women’s oppression by men in Victorian society within their poems, “My Last Duchess” and “Goblin Market.” The Duchess, Laura, and Lizzie all act against the expectations set for them with varying ramifications. The poets use different narrative perspectives and careful word choice in order to depict the subjugation of these women, their rebellion against it, and the punishment they face for rebelling, calling public attention to the mistreatment of women. In…

Robert Browning was a genius when it came to his poetry, many thought him brilliant, yet they were also skeptical of his work because of how dark and disturbing some found it to be. Browning’s work was found to earry and sketchy by many because the treatment of women in multiple of his poems. Some of these poems include “My Last Duchess,” “Life in a Love,” and “Porphyria’s Lover.” Browning’s “My Last Duchess” is found disturbing because of the finale statements made by the speaker and even more…

With a further manifestation of the dukes possessiveness seen throughout the structure of the poem in which the numerous uses of caesura illustrates the duke’s control over the conversation and compliments the Duke’s own arrogance. Throughout the conversation the Duke is, in effect, manipulating his guest as if he were a puppet- sit down, stand up, look at this, notice that- a representation of just what his free-spirited wife would have resented to do. With this the impression is created that…