Duke Energy Life Jacket Loaner Board Program

Duke Energy Life Jacket Loaner Board Program is encouraging summer boating and swimming safety for everyone.  Its “Life Jacket Loaner Boards” are available at different boat launch and recreation areas in the area.  These boards offer life jackets for use on the honor system and vary in size at each location.  Any children 13 and under are required by law to wear a life jacket while on the water or on a boat, per the NC Wildlife Commission.

The Life Jacket Loaner Boards in the Lake Norman/Mtn. Island area are located at the following places:

• Beatty’s Ford Access
• Riverbend Access
• Neck Road Access

There are also locations on these bodies of water:

• Lake Wylie
• Lake Wateree
• Keowee-Toxaway Lakes
• Lake Keowee
• Lake Jocassee
• Nantahala Lakes
• Lake Glenville
• Hyco Lake

Duke Energy offers discounted CFL & LED bulbs

Duke Energy customers in North Carolina and South Carolina can take advantage of a program to purchase deeply-discounted CFL and LED bulbs for their home.    Current customers can click here to log-in and select which bulbs they would like for their home.  The web site offers many styles of bulbs:  candelabra, capsule, globe, relflector, and spiral.

The bulbs are discounted and the customer is offered a Duke coupon, reducing the price even more.  These additional discounts come from customer’s monthly Energy Efficiency Rider charge.  Each customer pays this rider charge each month, found on your bill.

Duke Energy indicates offering these discounted rates is a benefit to the company.   Per a report on WFAE, customers are also saving Duke Energy money by being energy efficient – it postpones the need for building a new power plant for a few more years to meet the demand.