---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001140361-24-025705"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "DUK"
cik: "0001326160"
company_name: "Duke Energy CORP"
filed_at: "2024-05-13T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-02T02:00:03.807332+00:00"
event_type: "other"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.35
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.35
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Duke Energy shareholders re-elect all directors, approve auditor, reject supermajority elimination at May 9 meeting

## Summary
- All 14 director nominees elected with majority support; highest % for Michael J. Pacilio (98.74%), lowest for Theodore F. Craver (90.52%).
- Ratification of Deloitte & Touche as auditor approved with 95.88% of votes cast for.
- Advisory say-on-pay vote passed with 90.63% of votes cast for.
- Proposal to eliminate supermajority voting requirements failed; received 64.26% of outstanding shares, below 80% threshold.
- Two shareholder proposals (executive stock retention and climate-change financial assumptions) both defeated with less than majority support.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001140361-24-025705
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: DUK
- cik: 0001326160
- company_name: Duke Energy CORP
- filed_at: 2024-05-13T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: other
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.35
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.35
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.03, 5.07, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1326160/000114036124025705/0001140361-24-025705-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1326160/000114036124025705/ef20028749_8k.htm

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## Key facts
- Shareholder Votes
  Duke Energy CORP shareholders approved Advisory vote to approve the Company's named executive officer compensation at the 2024-05-09 meeting.
  - Proposal: say on pay
  - Outcome: passed
  - Meeting: 2024-05-09
  source text: The advisory vote to approve the Corporation’s named executive officer compensation received the support of a majority of the votes cast.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1326160/000114036124025705/0001140361-24-025705-index.htm
- Shareholder Votes
  Duke Energy CORP shareholders approved Ratification of Deloitte & Touche LLP as the Company's independent registered public accounting firm for 2024 at the 2024-05-09 meeting.
  - Proposal: auditor ratification
  - Outcome: passed
  - Meeting: 2024-05-09
  source text: The ratification of Deloitte & Touche LLP as the Corporation’s independent registered public accounting firm for 2024 received the support of a majority of the shares represented.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1326160/000114036124025705/0001140361-24-025705-index.htm
- Shareholder Votes
  Duke Energy CORP shareholders rejected Shareholder proposal regarding executives to retain significant stock at the 2024-05-09 meeting.
  - Outcome: failed
  - Meeting: 2024-05-09
  source text: The shareholder proposal regarding executives to retain significant stock failed to receive the support of a majority of the votes cast.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1326160/000114036124025705/0001140361-24-025705-index.htm
- Shareholder Votes
  Duke Energy CORP shareholders rejected Shareholder proposal regarding financial statement assumptions and climate change at the 2024-05-09 meeting.
  - Outcome: failed
  - Meeting: 2024-05-09
  source text: The shareholder proposal regarding financial statement assumptions and climate change failed to receive the support of a majority of the votes cast.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1326160/000114036124025705/0001140361-24-025705-index.htm
- Shareholder Votes
  Duke Energy CORP shareholders approved Election of Director Nominees at the 2024-05-09 meeting.
  - Proposal: director election
  - Outcome: passed
  - Meeting: 2024-05-09
  source text: Each director nominee was elected to the Board of Directors with the support of a majority of the votes cast.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1326160/000114036124025705/0001140361-24-025705-index.htm
- Shareholder Votes
  Duke Energy CORP shareholders rejected Amendment to the Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation of Duke Energy Corporation to eliminate supermajority voting requirements at the 2024-05-09 meeting.
  - Proposal: charter amendment
  - Outcome: failed
  - Meeting: 2024-05-09
  source text: The amendment to the Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation of Duke Energy Corporation to eliminate supermajority voting requirements failed to receive the support of 80% of the shares outstanding.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1326160/000114036124025705/0001140361-24-025705-index.htm

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