Item 8.01 Other Events

Attached as Exhibit 100 to this report are documents that contain the following financial statements from the Progress Energy, Inc. Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the fiscal quarter ended September 30, 2008, filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on November 5, 2008, formatted in eXtensible Business Reporting Language ("XBRL"):

Progress Energy, Inc. (Progress Energy) Unaudited Condensed Consolidated Statements of Income Unaudited Condensed Consolidated Balance Sheets Unaudited Condensed Consolidated Statements of Cash Flows

Users of this data are advised pursuant to Rule 401 of Regulation S-T that the information contained in the XBRL documents is unaudited and these are not the official publicly filed financial statements of the Registrant. The purpose of submitting these XBRL-formatted documents is to test the related format and technology and, as a result, investors should continue to rely solely on the official filed version of the furnished documents and not rely on this information in making investment decisions.

In accordance with Rule 402 of Regulation S-T, the information in this Current Report on Form 8-K, including Exhibit 100, shall not be deemed to be "filed" for purposes of Section 11 of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the "Securities Act"), Section 18 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the "Exchange Act"), or otherwise subject to the liabilities of these sections, and are not part of any registration statement, and shall not be incorporated by reference into any filing or other document pursuant to the Securities Act, as amended, or the Exchange Act, except as shall be expressly set forth by specific reference in such filing or document.

Item 9.01 Financial Statements and Exhibits

(d) EXHIBITS.
EX-100.INS XBRL Report Instance Document EX-100.SCH XBRL Taxonomy Extension Schema Document EX-100.CAL XBRL Taxonomy Calculation Linkbase Document EX-100.LAB XBRL Taxonomy Label Linkbase Document EX-100.PRE XBRL Taxonomy Presentation Linkbase Document

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