Lynn Good

Anytime we make additional investment in a coal plant, we are really challenging whether that investment is economic.

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.

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.

I don't believe you can absolutely have it all.

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.

I become the face of the company, and that's a responsibility.

People who love what they do get after it every day.

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.

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.

Our highest priorities are safe operations and the well-being of the people and communities we serve.

We are setting a new standard for coal ash management and implementing smart, sustainable solutions for all of our ash basins.

We are accountable for what happened at Dan River and have learned from this event.

2013 was a year of great accomplishment for Duke: our first full year as a combined company.

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.

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.

I think about trust and confidence as something that you earn every day, and we will keep at it, earning it every day.

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.'

I don't think of myself as a powerful woman.

The closing of ash basins is really part of decommissioning a coal plant.