{"url_path":"/sec/duk/8-k/2026-07-17/item-7-01","section_key":"item-7-01","section_title":"Item 7.01 Regulation FD Disclosure.**","topic":"sec","document":{"doc_type":"8-K","doc_date":"2026-07-17","source_url":"https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1326160/0001104659-26-084653-index.html","accession_number":"0001104659-26-084653","cik":"0001326160","ticker":"DUK","issuer_name":"Duke Energy CORP","edgar_url":"https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1326160/0001104659-26-084653-index.html","primary_entity_key":"0001326160","primary_entity_name":"Duke Energy CORP"},"word_count":326,"has_tables":true,"body_markdown":"**Item 7.01. Regulation FD Disclosure.**\n\n** **\n\nOn July 17, 2026, Duke Energy\nCarolinas, LLC (“DEC”) filed a Comprehensive Revenue Requirement Settlement (the “Comprehensive Settlement”\nand collectively with all other stipulations, “the Stipulations”) with the Public Staff\n– North Carolina Utilities Commission (the “Public Staff”) and other intervenors (together, “Intervening Parties”)\nin connection with DEC's application for adjustment of rates and charges and for Performance Based Regulation (\"PBR\") filed\nwith the North Carolina Utilities Commission (\"NCUC\") on November 20, 2025. Testimony consistent with the Comprehensive Settlement\nwill be filed next week. The Comprehensive Settlement resolves all remaining revenue requirement items in the case including,\namong other things, (i) a return on equity of 9.8% based on a 53% equity component in the capital structure, (ii) a retail rate base of\napproximately $25.7 billion for the historic base case, (iii) approximately $3.8 billion\nof capital in the multi-year rate plan (“MYRP”) along with an annual MYRP refund mechanism, and\n(iv) agreement to evaluate the potential to delay its next base rate case filing until no earlier than November 1, 2028, so long\nas the NCUC grants deferral of costs of certain new generating assets. Additionally, the Intervening Parties agreed to pursue good faith\nsettlement discussions in the ongoing Duke Energy Progress (“DEP”) rate case proceeding (Docket No. E-2, Sub 1380) to reach\na substantially similar settlement framework for the DEP proceeding.\n\n \n\nThe Stipulations are expected\nto result in one-time pre-tax accounting charges of approximately $40 million, to be recognized by DEC in 2026. These charges are expected\nto be treated as special items and excluded from adjusted earnings.\n\n \n\nAn overview providing additional\ndetail on the Comprehensive Settlement is attached to this Form 8-K as Exhibit 99.1. The information in Exhibit 99.1 is being furnished\npursuant to this Item 7.01 and shall not be deemed “filed” for purposes of Section 18 of the Securities and Exchange Act of\n1934, as amended, or otherwise subject to the liabilities of that section."}