Duke Energy Florida, Tampa Bay Rays bring light to customers in need with $100000 donation, special tribute at Tropicana Field - Duke Energy News Center

• Company donates $1,000 for each winning game

• Tropicana Field glows bluish successful grant of disposable lawsuit assistance

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. – The Tampa Bay Rays winning play helped rise $100,000 for Duke Energy Florida customers successful need.

The institution contributed $1,000 to Share the Light Fund^SM agencies for each regular play triumph by the Tampa Bay region’s Major League Baseball team.

To item the collaboration and assistance rise consciousness of the disposable fiscal assistance for Florida individuals and families, Tropicana Field was lit up bluish connected Monday, Sept. 26, pursuing their past location game.

“Duke Energy Florida remains focused connected supporting customers with outgo assistance, tools and programs to assistance individuals and families successful need,” said Melissa Seixas, Duke Energy Florida authorities president. “Together with the Tampa Bay Rays, we tin lighten the load for our customers and proceed making a quality successful the communities we service done programs similar Share the Light Fund.”

The Share the Light Fund programme is simply a lawsuit assistance programme to assistance Florida residents successful request wage for inferior expenses specified arsenic electric, earthy gas, lipid oregon wood. Donations are matched dollar for dollar, up to $500,000, by the Duke Energy Foundation.

One 100 percent of funds collected are distributed locally by region connected a monthly ground to 14 United Way and different societal work agencies to assistance Duke Energy Florida customers, based connected need.

“The Tampa Bay Rays are arrogant to enactment Duke Energy Florida customers experiencing fiscal hardships done the Share the Light Fund,” said Rays President Brian Auld. “This is an important accidental to springiness backmost to the Tampa Bay assemblage and assistance families who request it most.”

Residents who request fiscal assistance are encouraged to visit duke-energy.com/sharethelight to find disposable resources. 

Click present for drone footage of the bluish lights astatine Tropicana Field.

Duke Energy Florida

Duke Energy Florida, a subsidiary of Duke Energy, owns 10,300 megawatts of vigor capacity, supplying energy to 1.9 cardinal residential, commercialized and concern customers crossed a 13,000-square-mile work country successful Florida.

Duke Energy (NYSE: DUK), a Fortune 150 institution headquartered successful Charlotte, N.C., is 1 of America’s largest vigor holding companies. Its electrical utilities service 8.2 cardinal customers successful North Carolina, South Carolina, Florida, Indiana, Ohio and Kentucky, and collectively ain 50,000 megawatts of vigor capacity. Its earthy state portion serves 1.6 cardinal customers successful North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Ohio and Kentucky. The institution employs 28,000 people.

Duke Energy is executing an assertive cleanable vigor modulation to execute its goals of net-zero methane emissions from its earthy state concern by 2030 and net-zero c emissions from energy procreation by 2050. The institution has interim c emanation targets of astatine slightest 50% simplification from electrical procreation by 2030, 50% for Scope 2 and definite Scope 3 upstream and downstream emissions by 2035, and 80% from electrical procreation by 2040. In addition, the institution is investing successful large electrical grid enhancements and vigor storage, and exploring zero-emission powerfulness procreation technologies specified arsenic hydrogen and precocious nuclear. 

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Tampa Bay Rays

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