Item 8.01. Other Events.

On September 11, 2020, Duke Energy Corporation (the "Company") consummated the issuance and sale of the securities described below pursuant to an underwriting agreement, dated September 9, 2020 (the "Underwriting Agreement"), with Barclays Capital Inc., BofA Securities, Inc., Credit Suisse Securities (USA) LLC, J.P. Morgan Securities LLC, Morgan Stanley & Co. LLC, RBC Capital Markets, LLC and Truist Securities, Inc., as representatives of the several underwriters named therein (the "Underwriters"), pursuant to which the Company agreed to issue and sell to the Underwriters $650,000,000 aggregate principal amount of the Company's 0.90% Senior Notes due 2025 (the "2025 Notes") and $350,000,000 aggregate principal amount of the Company's 2.45% Senior Notes due 2030 (the "2030 Notes" and, together with the 2025 Notes, the "Securities"). The 2025 Notes were sold to the Underwriters at a discount to their principal amount. The 2030 Notes were sold to the Underwriters at a premium to their principal amount. The Securities were issued pursuant to an Indenture, dated as of June 3, 2008 (the "Indenture"), by and between the Company and The Bank of New York Mellon Trust Company, N.A., as trustee (the "Trustee"), as amended and supplemented by various supplemental indentures thereto, including the Twenty-third Supplemental Indenture, dated as of May 15, 2020, relating to the 2030 Notes (the "Twenty-third Supplemental Indenture") and the Twenty-fourth Supplemental Indenture, dated as of September 11, 2020, relating to the 2025 Notes (the "Twenty-fourth Supplemental Indenture"), each between the Company and the Trustee. The disclosure in this Item 8.01 is qualified in its entirety by the provisions of the Indenture, the Twenty-third Supplemental Indenture and the Twenty-fourth Supplemental Indenture, together with the forms of global notes evidencing the Securities included therein, which are filed as Exhibit 4.1 and Exhibit 4.2 hereto, and the Underwriting Agreement, which is filed as Exhibit 99.1 hereto. Such exhibits are incorporated herein by reference. Also, in connection with the issuance and sale of the Securities, the Company is filing a legal opinion regarding the validity of the Securities as Exhibit 5.1 to this Form 8-K for the purpose of incorporating the opinion into the Company's Registration Statement on Form S-3 No. 333-233896.

Item 9.01. Financial Statements and Exhibits.





(d)         Exhibits.

  4.1         Twenty-third Supplemental Indenture, dated as of May 15, 2020, to
            the indenture, dated as of June 3, 2008, between the Company and The
            Bank of New York Mellon Trust Company, N.A., as Trustee (incorporated
            by reference to Exhibit 4.1 to the Company's Current Report on Form
            8-K filed on May 15, 2020, File No. 001-32853)

  4.2         Twenty-fourth Supplemental Indenture, dated as of September 11,
            2020, to the indenture, dated as of June 3, 2008, between the Company
            and The Bank of New York Mellon Trust Company, N.A., as Trustee

  5.1         Opinion regarding validity of the Securities

  23.1        Consent (included as part of Exhibit 5.1)

  99.1        Underwriting Agreement, dated September 9, 2020, among the Company
            and Barclays Capital Inc., BofA Securities, Inc., Credit Suisse
            Securities (USA) LLC, J.P. Morgan Securities LLC, Morgan Stanley &
            Co. LLC, RBC Capital Markets, LLC and Truist Securities, Inc., as
            representatives of the several underwriters named therein

104         Cover Page Interactive Data file (the Cover Page Interactive Data
            file is embedded within the Inline XBRL document)

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