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  The company donated $50,000 to Cruz Roja Estadounidense before the awarding of the Huracan level of Helene

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. — Before Helene came to Florida recently, Duke Energy Florida received its customers, whose company serves 8,000 — about 4,000 people in The Villages in central Florida — in response to the Cortes general electrical equipment must be brought into permissible condition as soon as possible. The company also recommends its customers to keep them informed and alert before, during and after the ordeal.

“Hurricane Helene represents a significant message for Big Bend, Florida, and other communities along the state's east coast.” “The potency of a Category 4 torment means that this torment can go beyond our equipment as it impacts our customers in the long term,” said Todd Fountain, Torture Manager for Duke Energy Florida. “I am not exaggerating in criticizing that our customers in these areas will take priority over safety in the coming hours and days.”

On the other hand, in the run-up to Hurricane Helene, the Duke Energy Foundation donated $50,000 to Cruz Roja Estadounidense to provide the response to the disaster and social workers. It was a total of $3.5 million that the Foundation had donated specifically to the emergency response of the Cruz Roja Estadounidense in Florida over the last five years, with an advance of $100,000 for the emergency request organization.

“La Cruz Roja Estadounidense provides services that save lives from hurricanes and other disasters,” said Melissa Seixas, state president of Duke Energy Florida. “It is a privilege for us to contribute to this important mission and ensure our Floridians can recover as quickly as possible after Helene.”

We recommend that our customers implement the following security protocols:

• You have a radio or a portable television or a NOAA Meteorological Radio available to follow the development of the torment.
  
• In the case of residential, business and home visits, there are spaces there. Find it in a small indoor area, in a closet or in a small garden.
  
• To avoid charging the electrical circuits, do not necessarily disconnect the electrical devices from the power supply and turn them on automatically as soon as you restore the electrical device.
  
• Do not take the refrigerators and freezers that are absolutely necessary. Use the appliance in such a way that the food is cooled as quickly as possible. For more information, please consult the FDA safety regulations.

To report a power outage, please text the switch OUT to 57801, register online or through the mobile application, or call 800.228.8485. For more information, visit dukeenergyupdates.com/Florida.

Duke Energy Florida

Duke Energy Florida, a subsidiary of Duke Energy, has 12,300 megawatts of energy and power capacity serving 2 million residential, commercial and industrial customers in a 3,000-million-square-mile service territory in Florida.

Duke Energy

Duke Energy (NYSE: DUK), a Fortune 150 company headquartered in Charlotte, North Carolina, is a cartel corporation dedicated to the largest electric power generation in the United States. Its public service businesses serve approximately 8.4 million customers in North Carolina, North Carolina, Florida, Indiana, Ohio and Kentucky and have a total capacity of 54,800 megawatts of captive energy. Its natural gas businesses serve 1.7 million customers in North Carolina, North Carolina, Tennessee, Ohio and Kentucky.

Duke Energy has undertaken an ambitious transition to energy efficient energy, ensuring avant-garde reliability, uniformity and accessibility, and has set the company a mission to achieve zero net emissions in its natural gas operations for 2030 and zero carbon emissions in electricity generation for 2050. The company is familiar with the major energy sources of red electricity and has higher power generation, including a large energy source, renewable energy, natural gas and nuclear energy.

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