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" We don't believe carbon capture is a proven, scalable, commercially available technology. "
Lynn Good
Technology
Believe
Carbon
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" 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. "
Lynn Good
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" We are setting a new standard for coal ash management and implementing smart, sustainable solutions for all of our ash basins. "
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" M&A is always an opportunistic tool to grow a company. "
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" If you can, anticipate that life is going to be full of detours. "
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" I don't think of myself as a powerful woman. "
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Powerful
" 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. "
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" I am deeply honored by the trust the board has placed in me to lead Duke Energy. I have a high degree of confidence in the strength of our company's leadership and dedicated employees. "
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Trust
" People who love what they do get after it every day. "
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" We see natural gas as an important part of the electricity generation mix for many decades to come. "
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See
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" Volatility is not something that is a great fit for Duke if you look at the level of dividend we pay. "
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Look
Level
" I'll be the first one to tell you I burn coal... That fossil generation and the nuclear generation, frankly, is necessary in order for me to provide power. "
Lynn Good
Tell
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Burn
" 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. "
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Conversation
Work
" You move an organization when they understand where you want them to go. "
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Organization
You
Want
" I don't see a sea change by 2020, but I see migration in the direction of modernization and more flexibility in the generating system going forward. "
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Change
See
Sea
" As you think about developing people through their careers, you're looking for that transition from being the smartest person in the room - and caring so much about that - to being the most effective. "
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You
Looking
People
" My father was a World War II Marine who became a high school principal. He always had a heart for students who maybe were underprivileged or had difficulty of some sort. "
Lynn Good
School
High
Heart
" It was exciting putting hundreds of millions of dollars to work buying and building wind farms in Texas. "
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Building
Buying
Work
" 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. "
Lynn Good
Unfair
Story
You
" Our customers are at the center of everything we do. "
Lynn Good
Everything
Customers
Center
" I think about trust and confidence as something that you earn every day, and we will keep at it, earning it every day. "
Lynn Good
Trust
Day
Confidence
" 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. "
Lynn Good
Work
Without
Solar
" Always play to your strengths, whether your strengths are gender-based or just natural aptitude. "
Lynn Good
Strengths
Always
Just
" Leadership is a journey - you never arrive. "
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You
Never
Leadership
" 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! "
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Me
You
" I can be incredibly focused, and I can appear impatient. So I've learned to slow down, get to know people, and provide more context. There's nothing wrong with getting to the point pretty quickly, but it's also helpful to give people an opportunity to talk about their work. "
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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
" We should be building more nuclear today. "
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More
Building
Today
" 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. "
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Questions
Growing Up
" Our highest priorities are safe operations and the well-being of the people and communities we serve. "
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Priorities
Well-Being
" You see more women in the CFO ranks. It's an evolution. "
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You
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