For 2015, Duke Energy's employees safety record received the top rank among large utilities as recognize by EEI.
— Lynn Good
We are accountable for what happened at Dan River and have learned from this event.
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.
I think about trust and confidence as something that you earn every day, and we will keep at it, earning it every day.
I don't think of myself as a powerful woman.
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.
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.
You see more women in the CFO ranks. It's an evolution.
I think we'll still be operating coal in 2030. Whether we will be in 2040, I think, is a question, or in 2050.
M&A is always an opportunistic tool to grow a company.
Utilities fall in love with their assets, and that's a danger we need to avoid.
Our highest priorities are safe operations and the well-being of the people and communities we serve.
2013 was a year of great accomplishment for Duke: our first full year as a combined company.
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 had never seen a computer when I went to college.
The closing of ash basins is really part of decommissioning a coal plant.
The way we grow is, we make investments. We've been building a natural-gas platform within Duke that started with the pipelines.
Always play to your strengths, whether your strengths are gender-based or just natural aptitude.
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.
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.
Nuclear is an important part of the heritage of Duke. We operate the largest regulated nuclear fleet in the U.S. We love the diversity of the generation.
It was exciting putting hundreds of millions of dollars to work buying and building wind farms in Texas.
We are setting a new standard for coal ash management and implementing smart, sustainable solutions for all of our ash basins.
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.
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.
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.'
There is growing demand for renewable energy.
If you feel like there is going to be an emotional reaction that won't be helpful to resolve the situation, anger or other things, disarm the situation in some way, and you can use different techniques to do that.
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.
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.
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.
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!
