DUK: Other company developments

Item 8.01. Other Events. On August 13, 2026, Duke Energy Corporation (the “Company”) consummated the issuance and sale of the securities described below pursuant to an underwriting agreement, dated August 10, 2026 (the “Underwriting Agreement”), with Barclays Capital Inc., BofA Securities, Inc. and Mizuho Securities USA LLC, as representatives of the several underwriters named therein (the “Underwriters”), pursuant to which the Company agreed to issue and sell to the Underwriters 40 ,000,000 equity units, initially in the form of corporate units (the “Corporate Units”). The Corporate Units include 5,000,000 of the Company’s Corporate Units purchased pursuant to the full exercise of the Underwriters’ over-allotment option. Each Corporate Unit has a stated amount of $50 and is comprised of (i) a purchase contract (each, a “stock purchase contract”) which will obligate the holder to purchase from the Company, no later than August 1, 2029, a certain number of shares of the Company’s common stock, $0.001 par value (the “Common Stock”), for $50 in cash; (ii) a 1/40 undivided beneficial ownership interest in $1,000 principal amount of the Company’s 4.85% Remarketable Senior Notes due 2032 (the “2032 RSNs”); and (iii) a 1/40 undivided beneficial ownership interest in $1,000 principal amount of the Company’s 4.85% Remarketable Senior Notes due 2036 (the “2036 RSNs” and, together with the 2032 RSNs, the “RSNs”). Total annual distributions on the Corporate Units will be at the rate of 7.75% of the stated amount, consisting of quarterly contract adjustment payments under the stock purchase contracts in the amount of 2.90% per year and interest on the RSNs in the amount of 4.85% per year. The RSNs were issued pursuant to an Indenture, dated as of June 3, 2008 (the “Indenture”), by a