What is Duke Energy doing to support the environment?
A. Offsetting carbon dioxide a greenhouse gas: Duke Energy was the first utility to publicly announce its voluntary Greenhouse Gas (GHG) management goal for our Indiana, Ohio and Kentucky operations. Our goal is to reduce our Greenhouse Gas emissions 5 percent below the 2000 levels by 2010 and maintain those levels of emissions between 2010 through 2012. In addition, we have pledged to spend $21 million between 2004 and 2010 to begin the process of reducing our GHG emissions. Through our voluntary program to offset greenhouse gases, we are making progress in reducing air emissions. In 2005, we implemented 15 carbon dioxide (CO2) projects to reduce our emissions by 236,000 tons of CO2. This is in addition to our CO2 reduction of 343,000 tons in 2004.
