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" Utilities fall in love with their assets, and that's a danger we need to avoid. "
Lynn Good
Need
Love
Fall
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" You're well-spoken, or you're very analytical, or you're a great team-builder, or you're great with relationships... Playing to your strengths is always something good to build on because you're trying to develop a foundation to keep growing, as a professional and as a leader. "
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" If we just isolate distributed solar all by itself, it does not work without the utility around it. And so the utility needs to be paid for the services it provides. "
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" For 2015, Duke Energy's employees safety record received the top rank among large utilities as recognize by EEI. "
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Energy
Top
Rank
" More than 40 percent of the electricity we generated in the Carolinas in 2015 was from carbon-free sources. "
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Electricity
Than
" If I were to share with you the number of attacks that come into the Duke network every day, you would be astounded. And it's not from people working out of their garage; it's from nation-states that are trying to penetrate systems. "
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You
Trying
People
" Our nation's power plant fleet must include a mix of solar, wind, hydro, natural gas and nuclear plants. "
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Gas
Power
Plants
" 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. "
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People
" I hope nuclear becomes a part of the conversation, at the right time when we recognize the importance of that resource. I hope we can work that out as a country and figure out how we are going to put nuclear in the mix. "
Lynn Good
Country
Conversation
Work
" If you can, anticipate that life is going to be full of detours. "
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Going
Full
Anticipate
" I find, at times, people underestimate me. That's really an asset. "
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Asset
Underestimate
People
" I don't see any new coal. "
Lynn Good
Any
Coal
New
" All options to produce, transmit, and store electricity should be considered, driven by clear price signals and constructive government policy. "
Lynn Good
Policy
Government
Electricity
" There are no coal plants on the drawing board for Duke, which leaves us with gas, renewables, and nuclear. "
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Gas
Drawing
Us
" There is growing demand for renewable energy. "
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Growing
Energy
Renewable Energy
" 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! "
Lynn Good
Thought
Me
You
" 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. "
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More
Over
Coal
" The closing of ash basins is really part of decommissioning a coal plant. "
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Really
Part
Plant
" 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. "
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Energy
Employees
I Am
" We should be building more nuclear today. "
Lynn Good
More
Building
Today
" 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. "
Lynn Good
More
Level
Energy
" 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.' "
Lynn Good
CEO
Said
I Am
" 2013 was a year of great accomplishment for Duke: our first full year as a combined company. "
Lynn Good
Accomplishment
Company
Great
" I went to work in accounting at Arthur Andersen. At one point, it was the creme de la creme. I wanted to work there because it looked like the hardest thing I could find, and I loved being on a steep learning curve. I progressed quickly, and two years out of college, I was managing a small team of people. "
Lynn Good
Learning
Team
Work
" People who love what they do get after it every day. "
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Who
People
Every Day
" We support regional generation, particularly for nuclear. It's just a large investment. We think it's something a community comes around to make those investments work, and South Carolina is very committed to nuclear generation. "
Lynn Good
Support
Work
Community
" If we're going to be serious about decarbonizing the bulk-power system, nuclear has to be part of the conversation. "
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Going
System
Conversation
" I get energized around a plan - what's it going to be like in three months? Six months? You're not going to let it defeat you. You got to keep going. "
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Three
Plan
Defeat
" I think about trust and confidence as something that you earn every day, and we will keep at it, earning it every day. "
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Trust
Day
Confidence
" We see natural gas as an important part of the electricity generation mix for many decades to come. "
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Important
See
Electricity