- Progress Energy Inc
Progress Energy, Inc. (nyse|PGN) is an energy company based in
Raleigh, North Carolina , formed in2000 from the merger ofCarolina Power & Light andFlorida Progress Corporation . It sells power and energy-related products to electric and gas customers in the Southeast of theUnited States . The company's chairman andCEO is William D. Johnson; his predecessor wasMr. Bob McGehee , who died onOctober 9 ,2007 at the age of 64 of astroke while on a business trip to London.Progress Energy is the majority owner and operator of the Brunswick, Crystal River 3, Robinson, and Shearon Harris
nuclear power plants .The company's current slogan is, "People, performance, excellence."
Environmental record
Researchers at the
University of Massachusetts Amherst have identified Progress Energy as the 29th-largest corporate producer ofair pollution in the United States in 2002, when it released roughly 39 million pounds of toxic chemicals into the air. Major pollutants includednickel compounds,chromium compounds,sulfuric acid , andhydrochloric acid [ [http://www.peri.umass.edu/Toxic-100-Table.265.0.html Political Economy Research Institute Toxic 100] retrieved 14 Aug 2007] . Progress has also been named a potentially responsible party at the Carolina Transformer Co.Superfund toxic waste site, according to theCenter for Public Integrity . [ [http://projects.publicintegrity.org/Superfund/SiteResults.aspx?act=progress%20energy Center for Public Integrity] ]Naming rights
Progress Energy owns the naming rights to the
University of Central Florida 's "Progress Energy Welcome Center". It also owns the naming rights to St. Petersburg's "Progress Energy Park , home of Al Lang Field".References
External links
* [http://www.progress-energy.com/ Progress Energy website]
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