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border-top-style:solid;border-top-width:1px;border-bottom-style:solid;border-bottom-width:1px;text-align:right;border-color:#000000;min-width:12px;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td colspan="2"  style="width: 62px; border-top-style:solid;border-top-width:1px;border-bottom-style:solid;border-bottom-width:1px;text-align:right;border-color:#000000;min-width:62px;"&gt;&lt;font style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold;FONT-FAMILY: Arial;FONT-SIZE: 8pt;COLOR: #000000;TEXT-ALIGN: right;"&gt;Duke Energy Progress&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 12px; border-top-style:solid;border-top-width:1px;border-bottom-style:solid;border-bottom-width:1px;text-align:right;border-color:#000000;min-width:12px;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td colspan="2"  style="width: 62px; border-top-style:solid;border-top-width:1px;border-bottom-style:solid;border-bottom-width:1px;text-align:right;border-color:#000000;min-width:62px;"&gt;&lt;font style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold;FONT-FAMILY: Arial;FONT-SIZE: 8pt;COLOR: #000000;TEXT-ALIGN: right;"&gt;Duke Energy Florida&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr style="height: 12px"&gt;&lt;td colspan="2"  style="width: 314px; 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border-top-style:solid;border-top-width:1px;text-align:right;background-color:#CEE8E6;border-color:#000000;min-width:12px;"&gt;&lt;font style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial;FONT-SIZE: 8pt;COLOR: #000000;TEXT-ALIGN: right;"&gt;$&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 50px; border-top-style:solid;border-top-width:1px;text-align:right;background-color:#CEE8E6;border-color:#000000;min-width:50px;"&gt;&lt;font style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial;FONT-SIZE: 8pt;COLOR: #000000;"&gt; 12&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 12px; border-top-style:solid;border-top-width:1px;text-align:right;background-color:#CEE8E6;border-color:#000000;min-width:12px;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 12px; border-top-style:solid;border-top-width:1px;text-align:right;background-color:#CEE8E6;border-color:#000000;min-width:12px;"&gt;&lt;font style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial;FONT-SIZE: 8pt;COLOR: #000000;TEXT-ALIGN: right;"&gt;$&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 50px; border-top-style:solid;border-top-width:1px;text-align:right;background-color:#CEE8E6;border-color:#000000;min-width:50px;"&gt;&lt;font style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial;FONT-SIZE: 8pt;COLOR: #000000;"&gt; 43&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 12px; border-top-style:solid;border-top-width:1px;text-align:left;background-color:#CEE8E6;border-color:#000000;min-width:12px;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 12px; border-top-style:solid;border-top-width:1px;text-align:right;background-color:#CEE8E6;border-color:#000000;min-width:12px;"&gt;&lt;font style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial;FONT-SIZE: 8pt;COLOR: #000000;TEXT-ALIGN: right;"&gt;$&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 50px; border-top-style:solid;border-top-width:1px;text-align:right;background-color:#CEE8E6;border-color:#000000;min-width:50px;"&gt;&lt;font style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial;FONT-SIZE: 8pt;COLOR: #000000;"&gt; 23&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 12px; border-top-style:solid;border-top-width:1px;text-align:left;background-color:#CEE8E6;border-color:#000000;min-width:12px;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 12px; border-top-style:solid;border-top-width:1px;text-align:right;background-color:#CEE8E6;border-color:#000000;min-width:12px;"&gt;&lt;font style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial;FONT-SIZE: 8pt;COLOR: #000000;TEXT-ALIGN: right;"&gt;$&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td   style="width: 50px; 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