TFCC Congratulates Duke Energy, Winner of the 2006 Platts Industry Leadership Award

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December 15, 2006

Columbus, Ohio:  The Platts Global Energy Awards are given to companies which demonstrate the vision to change the way the industry works. These companies strive to find new ways of doing things, setting new benchmarks by which others measure themselves.

The Judges were impressed by Duke Energy’s turnaround since 2003; The April 2006 merger with Cinergy; Duke’s forthright environmental position and its advocacy of an end to “patchwork” environmental policies and the introduction of an economy-wide US climate change policy.

Duke Energy is ranked as the number-one diversified utility in North America in the 2006 Platts Top 250 Global Energy Companies rankings and currently ranks top in the 2006 Fortune 500 Gas and Electric Utilities list.

Twenty First Century Communications is pleased to support Duke Energy with High Volume Call Answering (HVCA®) services. Duke has been a client of Twenty First Century since 1996.