---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001104659-26-028490"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "DUK"
cik: "0001326160"
company_name: "Duke Energy CORP"
filed_at: "2026-03-16T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-15T11:26:58.047425+00:00"
event_type: "debt"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.3
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.3
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Duke Energy extends revolving credit facility maturity to March 2031

## Summary
- Termination date extended by one year to March 16, 2031 via Amendment No. 3 to the existing credit agreement.
- Borrowers include Duke Energy Corp. and subsidiaries (Carolinas, Progress, Florida, Ohio, Indiana, Kentucky, Piedmont).
- Technical amendments added: Term SOFR floor, removal of Adjusted Term SOFR, Specified Foreign Entity provisions.
- Effective March 16, 2026; all existing lenders (Wells Fargo, Bank of America, JPMorgan, etc.) consented as Extending Lenders.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001104659-26-028490
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: DUK
- cik: 0001326160
- company_name: Duke Energy CORP
- filed_at: 2026-03-16T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: debt
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.3
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.3
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 1.01, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1326160/000110465926028490/0001104659-26-028490-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/17797/000110465926028490/tm268816d1_8k.htm

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## Key facts
- Material Agreements
  Duke Energy CORP amended Amendment No. 3 and Consent with Wells Fargo Bank, National Association, as Administrative Agent and Swingline Lender (effective 2026-03-16).
  - Action: amendment
  - Agreement: credit facility
  - Counterparty: Wells Fargo Bank, National Association, as Administrative Agent and Swingline Lender
  - Effective: 2026-03-16
  source text: On March 16, 2026, Duke Energy Corporation (the “Corporation”), Duke Energy Carolinas, LLC, Duke Energy Florida, LLC, Duke Energy Indiana, LLC, Duke Energy Kentucky, Inc., Duke Energy Ohio, Inc., Duke Energy Progress, LLC, and Piedmont Natural Gas Company, Inc., entered into an Amendment No. 3 and Consent (the “Amendment”) to amend the existing Amended and Restated Credit Agreement dated as of March 18, 2022, among the Corporation and each of such subsidiaries, as Borrowers, the lenders listed therein, and Wells Fargo Bank, National Association, as Administrative Agent and Swingline Lender.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1326160/000110465926028490/0001104659-26-028490-index.htm

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