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I love nuclear.
I don't see any new coal.
I respect passionate views.
There weren't many women ahead of me.
We should be building more nuclear today.
Leadership is a journey - you never arrive.
There is growing demand for renewable energy.
I had never seen a computer when I went to college.
When you're in a crisis, there's really no playbook.
Our customers are at the center of everything we do.
M&A is always an opportunistic tool to grow a company.
You see more women in the CFO ranks. It's an evolution.
If you can, anticipate that life is going to be full of detours.
I find, at times, people underestimate me. That's really an asset.
You move an organization when they understand where you want them to go.
The closing of ash basins is really part of decommissioning a coal plant.
If you keep an open mind, you can learn so much from the people around you.
Utilities fall in love with their assets, and that's a danger we need to avoid.
We are accountable for what happened at Dan River and have learned from this event.
What we are investing in, from a generation standpoint, are renewables and natural gas.
We don't believe carbon capture is a proven, scalable, commercially available technology.
2013 was a year of great accomplishment for Duke: our first full year as a combined company.
Always play to your strengths, whether your strengths are gender-based or just natural aptitude.
We see natural gas as an important part of the electricity generation mix for many decades to come.
Our highest priorities are safe operations and the well-being of the people and communities we serve.
Volatility is not something that is a great fit for Duke if you look at the level of dividend we pay.
When you are in a situation or a crisis, you need to define, what is the unique role that I can play?
It's important to keep your long term perspective and communicate well both externally and internally.
Our nation's power plant fleet must include a mix of solar, wind, hydro, natural gas and nuclear plants.
It was exciting putting hundreds of millions of dollars to work buying and building wind farms in Texas.
There are no coal plants on the drawing board for Duke, which leaves us with gas, renewables, and nuclear.
More than 40 percent of the electricity we generated in the Carolinas in 2015 was from carbon-free sources.
The regulations keep on coming. And we are trying to make decisions that we will be happy with for decades.
I think we'll still be operating coal in 2030. Whether we will be in 2040, I think, is a question, or in 2050.
At a certain career level, it's no longer about whether you are the smartest subject-matter expert in the room.
For 2015, Duke Energy's employees safety record received the top rank among large utilities as recognize by EEI.
There's nothing about Lynn Good at age 30 or age 35 that would have said, 'I am setting my sights on being a CEO.'
If we're going to be serious about decarbonizing the bulk-power system, nuclear has to be part of the conversation.
Anytime we make additional investment in a coal plant, we are really challenging whether that investment is economic.
I think about trust and confidence as something that you earn every day, and we will keep at it, earning it every day.
Natural gas is an important part of delivering energy, whether you're producing power or other solutions for customers.
I believe that nuclear needs to be a part of the solution if the U.S. really wants to be aggressive about reducing carbon.
We are setting a new standard for coal ash management and implementing smart, sustainable solutions for all of our ash basins.
The way we grow is, we make investments. We've been building a natural-gas platform within Duke that started with the pipelines.
Reliable and competitively priced electricity is fundamental to growing our economy and creating jobs. Our customers expect nothing less.
You were in the midst of a chaotic, unfair, didn't-know-how-it-was-going-to-end story, and the only thing you could do was... keep moving.
All options to produce, transmit, and store electricity should be considered, driven by clear price signals and constructive government policy.
The enthusiasm around carbon capture and sequestration was probably greater before the shale-gas discovery and the low prices were so prevalent.
On two occasions, utility executives I'd never met had looked at me and said, 'I thought you'd be bigger!' In a way, I took that as a compliment!
I am honored to be named chairman of Duke Energy's board and privileged to lead our company forward for our customers, employees, and shareholders.