Corporate Partners
Progress Energy (NYSE: PGN), headquartered in Raleigh, NC, is a Fortune 500 energy company with more than 21,000 megawatts of generation capacity and $9 billion in annual revenues. Progress Energy includes two major electric utilities that serve approximately 3.1 million customers in the Carolinas and Florida. The company has earned the Edison Electric Institute's Edison Award, the industry's highest honor, in recognition of its operational excellence, and was the first utility to receive the prestigious J.D. Power and Associates Founder's Award for customer service. The company is pursuing a balanced strategy for a secure energy future, which includes aggressive energy-efficiency programs, investments in renewable energy technologies, and a state-of-the-art electricity system. Progress Energy celebrated a century of service in 2008.
Building on a tradition of excellence in community banking that stretches back to 1872, BB&T continues to offer clients a complete range of financial services including banking, lending, insurance, trust, and wealth management solutions. We invite you to learn more about us, our company, and our philosophy.
Our core business is regulated retail natural gas distribution in the growing Southeast markets. We leverage the strengths of these markets and our core abilities to pursue complementary non-utility business opportunities with particular focus on wholesale and retail energy services. We provide safe and reliable service and continuously find and implement operational efficiencies. We market and deliver our products and services using best practices and cost effective technologies. We continue to be a leader in the natural gas industry and do so with integrity and in compliance with all applicable laws and regulations.
For more than a century, we have consistently provided innovative, reliable, high-quality products and services, and excellent customer care. Today, our mission is to connect people with their world, everywhere they live and work, and do it better than anyone else. We're fulfilling this vision by creating new solutions for consumers and businesses and by driving innovation in the communications and entertainment industry.
ElectriCities provides customer service and safety training, emergency and technical assistance, communications, government affairs, and legal services. Through consolidation of these services, members save their customers the expense of administering these functions locally. ElectriCities also provides management services to the state’s two municipal Power Agencies: North Carolina Municipal Power Agency Number 1 (NCMPA1) and North Carolina Eastern Municipal Power Agency (NCEMPA).