Piedmont Natural Gas is planning to build a new pipeline to deliver gas supplies to Duke Power’s Mill Creek gas turbine electric generation facility, which is scheduled to go into service by June 2003. The peaking plant will use eight simple cycle turbines to generate 640 MW of power. It will be located in Cherokee County, SC.

The agreement marks the fifth contract for power generation-related pipeline investments by Piedmont in the Carolinas, and its second such project with Duke Power. Piedmont already serves Duke Power’s Lincoln County plant in North Carolina. Through these five agreements, Piedmont will have invested over $10 million dollars to deliver natural gas to over 4,500 MW of generating capacity in the Carolinas by 2003.

Duke Power, a division of Duke Energy, provides electricity to two million customers in North Carolina and South Carolina. It operates 19,300 MW of power generation. Piedmont distributes gas to 710,000 residential, commercial and industrial customers in North Carolina, South Carolina and Tennessee.

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