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The 40-story tower under construction on South Tryon Street will be known as Duke Energy Plaza. When the building opens in 2023, it will house about 4,400 of Duke's current 6,000 uptown Charlotte employees and contractors. The facade of the structure is illuminated by hundreds of programmable color-changing LED and metal halide luminaires with design work by Gabler-Youngston Architectural Lighting Design. Due to the tower's high visibility over the east corner of Bank of America Stadium, the LED lights are used during key moments of sporting events played there.
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23 photos: Check out Duke Energy's modern and (obviously) energy efficient digs, including views from the top floor - Axios
23 photos: Check out Duke Energy's modern and (obviously) energy efficient digs, including views from the top floor.
Posted: Thu, 26 Jan 2017 08:00:00 GMT [source]
— Duke Energy today announced that Duke Energy Plaza, the 40-floor office tower currently under construction in Uptown Charlotte, will become the company’s new corporate headquarters. Formerly known as Metro Tower, Duke Energy Plaza will house approximately 4,400 employees and allow the company to reduce its overall real estate footprint in the Charlotte area and reduce costs to benefit customers. Located on the southernmost edge of uptown Charlotte, the Duke Energy Center anchors the Levine Center for the Arts.
Since 2022, helped customers access nearly $377 million in financial support
According to the Edison Electric Institute, the national monthly average for typical residential customers was $171.67 as of Jan. 1, 2023, before other utilities go through their own rate adjustments. Hodges Taylor is Charlotte’s longest-running gallery and consulting firm, founded in 1980. The women-owned gallery focuses on promoting Southeastern artists in a range of mediums and curating and presenting artists who share in common the power to spark curiosity, conversation, and collaboration. Duke plans to cut its Charlotte office space by about 60%, saving $90 million over five years.
The NoDa That Was: The Loss of an Arts District
Together, the sculpture and video are designed to capture the movement of time and light, creating an immersive experience for employees and visitors alike. The new real estate plan continues the company’s efforts to best house its approximately 6,000 employees and contractors in Charlotte to continue delivering affordable, reliable and increasingly clean energy, as well as customer-focused products and services. After a thorough review of the company’s current and future real estate needs in Uptown, the company also plans to exit the Duke Energy Center located at 550 South Tryon Street and Piedmont Town Center in South Park. Once the new tower is complete, the company plans to sell its 526 Church Street and 401 College Street facilities and exit 400 South Tryon Street. The plan will consolidate the space the company occupies in the Charlotte area over the next several years with the goal of reducing its footprint from approximately 2.5 million square feet to approximately 1 million square feet.
Another first-time aspect of this rate approval is the implementation of performance incentive mechanisms (PIMs). First allowed by North Carolina’s clean energy legislation (HB951), PIMs advance state policy goals through financial incentives and penalties that encourage utility performance in areas of shared interest with customers. The city will partner with Carolina Solar Energy, a North Carolina-based solar energy company, and Ecoplexus, an international solar energy company with offices in Durham, N.C., to build the solar farm, which is expected to be fully operational in 2022. Duke is consolidating much of its real estate holdings and office sites into this single building, projected to be the home of about 4,000 Duke employees. The site was previously home to a surface parking lot on South Tryon Street across from 550 South Tryon, the former Duke Energy Center.
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Duke Energy to mobilize first-of-its-kind microgrid-integrated fleet electrification center - Duke Energy News Center
Duke Energy to mobilize first-of-its-kind microgrid-integrated fleet electrification center.
Posted: Tue, 21 Feb 2023 08:00:00 GMT [source]
Wells Fargo has announced it would exit its lease at One Wells Fargo Center at the end of 2021. The company has been consolidating its Charlotte footprint with leasing the entire 300 South Brevard building,[19] expanding their employee space in the building following Duke's departure,[20] and relocating additional employees in Three Wells Fargo Center. Duke Energy Progress, a subsidiary of Duke Energy, owns 12,500 megawatts of energy capacity, supplying electricity to 1.7 million residential, commercial, and industrial customers across a 29,000-square-mile service area in North Carolina and South Carolina.
The art consulting firm provides services to both corporate and individual collectors and develops projects that integrate works of art into every aesthetic, environment, and concept. Over its forty-two-year history, the company established an extensive network of relationships with artist partners, reliable vendors, and industry contractors and consistently partners with and supports the arts community. Duke Energy was named to Fortune’s 2023 “World’s Most Admired Companies” list and Forbes’ “World’s Best Employers” list. The Duke Energy News Center contains news releases, fact sheets, photos and videos.
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Spokesperson Neil Nissan said the company is adopting a new flexible workplace model built on lessons learned during the pandemic. The company is adopting a new workplace model where some office employees will work onsite or remotely full-time, but the majority of office employees will have a hybrid schedule where they will split time between working in the office and working remotely. But for others in the Triad, particularly in more rural parts like Liberty, the transition could prove more challenging.
“Any time employers stand up and say, ‘Hey, we’ve got really good-paying jobs,’ students pay attention to that, and they flock to that,” Dr. Clarke said. Kevin Bangston, the chief executive of Thomas Built, said the company had hired more than 300 workers over the past 15 months. But he has found it difficult to hire for more skilled jobs that handle automated processes in the factory. But like many manufacturing regions, its fortunes started to decline in the 1970s. Jobs in textiles started being moved overseas or automated, furniture contracted with the arrival of cheaper Chinese imports, and tobacco contracted because of a decline in smoking.
High Point became known as the home furnishings capital of the world, with the city and surrounding areas accounting for 60 percent of the country’s furniture production at their peak. Along with furniture, Greensboro and Winston-Salem specialized in textiles and tobacco. And while the Research Triangle of Raleigh, Durham and Chapel Hill had renowned universities in the University of North Carolina, Duke and North Carolina State, the Triad had Wake Forest University.
This area was to have been shared by Wachovia and Wake Forest University, which was to use it for its MBA courses. It would have taken up 45,000 square feet (4,200 m2) and housed approximately 750 traders per floor.[8] Wachovia would also have used floors 36 through 48. Examples highlighted include the many ways in which Duke Energy offers customers options for controlling their energy use, as well as the assistance it provides to its customers in need. Over the past two years, the company has helped customers access nearly $377 million in financial support through a dedicated agency team of customer advocates.
Ivan Toth Depeña is an artist currently based in Charlotte, NC, after having lived and worked in Miami, FL and New York, NY. With a master’s degree in Architecture from Harvard University’s Graduate School of Design, Depeña’s artistic production is informed by his experience in art, architecture, technology and design, and encompasses a range of media. Depeña pursues the intersection between different disciplines with the aim of choreographing the moment when these aspects come together seamlessly. Using traditional avenues such as drawing, painting and sculpture then interweaving interactivity/responsiveness, video, light and high-tech methods of fabrication, Depeña explores the fine line between chance and intention. "Some employees will be working on site. Some will be working remotely full-time. But the majority of our office employees will have a hybrid schedule, where they're going to be splitting time between the office and working remotely," Nissan said. "And because of that, we're able to really reduce the amount of space that's required for our employees."
The cast-in-place concrete frame structure was constructed in record time, featuring long-span precast concrete floor panels for typical floors, topped with a steel framed crown. The signature handle bar design of the crown frames views to other downtown buildings. The open area below the bar contains cooling towers as well as a unique articulating-arm building maintenance machine. Duke Energy is executing an aggressive clean energy transition to achieve its goals of net-zero methane emissions from its natural gas business by 2030 and net-zero carbon emissions from electricity generation by 2050.
Duke Energy’s illumination features stories about people, innovations, community topics and environmental issues. Passersby outside Duke Energy Plaza’s main entrance on South Tryon Street will be greeted with two illuminated sculptures by Charlotte-based artist Ivan Toth Depeña. The pieces visualize photons, the smallest particles of light not visible to the human eye and the basis for solar generation. Behind the sculptures – the larger of which is nearly 40 feet tall – the building’s façade will feature a six-story panel with a silhouette of Depeña’s interpretation of a photon, creating a striking backdrop to the towering works of art. Duke Energy was named to Fortune’s 2021 “World’s Most Admired Companies” list and Forbes’ “America’s Best Employers” list.
This dynamic development transformed four acres of surface parking lots on three separate blocks within Charlotte’s Center City into a vibrant mixed-use district including office, retail, cultural arts and future residential uses. The tower features custom-designed daylight-harvesting blinds that reflect an abundance of natural daylight into the building, reducing the amount of energy used for lighting. Automatic daylight sensors, electronic dimming controls, and occupancy sensors further reduce the need for artificial lighting.
The company worked with Hodges Taylor, a Charlotte-based gallery and consulting firm, to facilitate the search for artists whose practices and designs reflected Duke Energy’s commitment to inclusion and a clean energy transformation. An immersive installation by Chicago-based art duo Luftwerk will be inside Duke Energy Plaza’s Experience Hall, an extension of the main lobby and casual gathering space during normal business hours. Titled Journey of the Sun, a sculpture of 85 colorful, translucent glass discs will be suspended from the ceiling in a slender, figure-eight curve representing the sun’s path across the sky over the course of a year. The piece also features complementary motion graphic animations to be displayed along the space’s nearly 60-foot-long AV wall.
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