Duke Energy Plans $1 Billion Swap from Coal to Gas at Asheville

GALWAY, IRELAND--June 2, 2015--Written by Martin Lynch, European News Editor for Industrial Info (Galway, Ireland) Duke Energy (NYSE:DUK) (Charlotte, North Carolina) is hoping to clean up its energy mix with plans to shut its coal-fired Asheville plant and replace it with a larger, gas-fired plant that features solar generation.