Item 8.01. Other Events.

On June 15, 2022, Duke Energy Corporation (the "Company") consummated the issuance and sale of the securities described below pursuant to an underwriting agreement, dated June 8, 2022 (the "Underwriting Agreement"), with Barclays Bank PLC, BNP Paribas, Banco Santander, S.A. and Wells Fargo Securities International Limited, as representatives of the several underwriters named therein (the "Underwriters"), pursuant to which the Company agreed to issue and sell to the Underwriters €600,000,000 aggregate principal amount of the Company's 3.10% Senior Notes due 2028 and €500,000,000 aggregate principal amount of the Company's 3.85% Senior Notes due 2034 (collectively, the "Securities"). The Securities were sold to the Underwriters at a discount 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-seventh Supplemental Indenture, dated as of June 15, 2022 (the "Supplemental Indenture"), 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 Supplemental Indenture, together with the form of global notes evidencing the Securities are included therein, is filed as Exhibit 4.1 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 such 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-seventh Supplemental Indenture, dated as of June 15, 2022, 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 of Robert T. Lucas III regarding validity of the Securities
  23.1       Consent of Robert T. Lucas III (included as part of Exhibit 5.1)
  99.1       Underwriting Agreement, dated June 8, 2022, among the Company and
           Barclays Bank PLC, BNP Paribas, Banco Santander, S.A. and Wells Fargo
           Securities International Limited, 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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