DUKE POWER ANNOUNCES NEW SCUFFLETOWN ROAD TRANSMISSION LINE LOCATION AND SUBSTATION

GREENVILLE, S. C. -- Duke Power today announced a route for a new 100,000-volt transmission line in Simpsonville, South Carolina and its plans to build a new substation near the intersection of Scuffletown and East Georgia Roads.

"The new substation and transmission line will provide an ongoing supply of safe, reliable electricity to our customers in Greenville and Laurens Counties where steady growth in electrical demand is occurring" said Theopolis Holeman, Duke Power group vice president, power delivery. "Our long-range planning process monitors and tracks growth in population and electrical demand and indicates a strong need for this addition."  

The new 100,000-volt transmission line right of way will be 68 feet wide, and the new route is approximately 3.3 miles long.  The route was selected after a comprehensive and thorough siting study, which included input from property owners during two community workshops, questionnaires, and an array of environmental, cultural, land use, water quality, economic and aesthetic data collected from nine potential corridors.

The substation and transmission line will be in service by summer 2007.

Duke Power, a business unit of Duke Energy, is one of the nation’s largest electric utilities and provides safe, reliable, competitively priced electricity and value-added products and services to more than 2 million customers in North Carolina and South Carolina. The company operates three nuclear generating stations, eight coal-fired stations, 31 hydroelectric stations and numerous combustion turbine units. Total system generating capability is approximately 19,900 megawatts. More information about Duke Power is available on the Internet at: http://www.dukepower.com.

Duke Energy is a diversified energy company with a portfolio of natural gas and electric businesses, both regulated and unregulated, and an affiliated real estate company. Duke Energy supplies, delivers and processes energy for customers in the Americas. Headquartered in Charlotte, N.C., Duke Energy is a Fortune 500 company traded on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbol DUK. More information about the company is available on the Internet at: http://www.duke-energy.com.

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