Lynn Good

“You see more women in the CFO ranks. It's an evolution.”

“More than 40 percent of the electricity we generated in the Carolinas in 2015 was from carbon-free sources.”

“Leaders play a unique role in periods of crisis and chaos. Because if you don't, you're not going to harness the power of all the people behind you.”

“For 2015, Duke Energy's employees safety record received the top rank among large utilities as recognize by EEI.”

“I will work to ensure Duke Energy is positioned to continue its track record of outstanding customer service and operational and financial excellence.”

“Effectiveness comes from those qualitative things that give you the ability to network, communicate, and lead people toward an outcome they can't see.”

“As we look ahead, we see increasing opportunities for Duke in natural gas - not just for producing electricity, but in providing gas for our customers. We have been investing in renewables as well throughout the U.S.”

“The regulations keep on coming. And we are trying to make decisions that we will be happy with for decades.”

“M&A is always an opportunistic tool to grow a company.”

“Fracking has been a real technological change that has caused great innovation in our business, and we've had the benefit of very low gas prices for our customers as a result of that.”

“I actually had someone say to me, 'Lynn, you're going to have very good days, and you're going to have very bad days. But It's rare that things are as good as they look, and it's rare that things are as bad as they seem.' So having perspective, and challenging perspective, is important to making good decisions.”

“Over the long term, we should develop and implement new technologies to capture and store coal's carbon emissions. We also must make our electric grid more resilient.”

“Volatility is not something that is a great fit for Duke if you look at the level of dividend we pay.”

“An investor in Duke Energy is expecting a dividend payment. That's roughly 70 to 75 percent of the earnings I produce. The business that goes with that level of dividend is a business that has more predictability, more stability.”

“The enthusiasm around carbon capture and sequestration was probably greater before the shale-gas discovery and the low prices were so prevalent.”

“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 accountable for what happened at Dan River and have learned from this event.”

“When I was growing up, we had a widow living next door to us. So the habit was that if we went to the grocery store, we called her first. If we cut our yard, we cut her yard, no questions asked.”

“Leadership is a journey - you never arrive.”

“You move an organization when they understand where you want them to go.”