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ACCESSION NUMBER:		0001104659-21-078136
CONFORMED SUBMISSION TYPE:	424B5
PUBLIC DOCUMENT COUNT:		3
FILED AS OF DATE:		20210608
DATE AS OF CHANGE:		20210608

FILER:

	COMPANY DATA:	
		COMPANY CONFORMED NAME:			Duke Energy CORP
		CENTRAL INDEX KEY:			0001326160
		STANDARD INDUSTRIAL CLASSIFICATION:	ELECTRIC & OTHER SERVICES COMBINED [4931]
		IRS NUMBER:				202777218
		STATE OF INCORPORATION:			DE
		FISCAL YEAR END:			1231

	FILING VALUES:
		FORM TYPE:		424B5
		SEC ACT:		1933 Act
		SEC FILE NUMBER:	333-233896
		FILM NUMBER:		211001754

	BUSINESS ADDRESS:	
		STREET 1:		550 SOUTH TRYON STREET
		STREET 2:		DEC45A
		CITY:			CHARLOTTE
		STATE:			NC
		ZIP:			28202
		BUSINESS PHONE:		980-373-9093

	MAIL ADDRESS:	
		STREET 1:		550 SOUTH TRYON STREET
		STREET 2:		DEC45A
		CITY:			CHARLOTTE
		STATE:			NC
		ZIP:			28202

	FORMER COMPANY:	
		FORMER CONFORMED NAME:	Duke Energy Holding Corp.
		DATE OF NAME CHANGE:	20050628

	FORMER COMPANY:	
		FORMER CONFORMED NAME:	Deer Holding Corp.
		DATE OF NAME CHANGE:	20050504
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                <font style="letter-spacing:-0.16pt;">to be registered </font>
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            <td style="padding:3.25pt 0pt 2.5pt 0pt;border-bottom:1px solid #000000; min-width:3.75pt; text-align:right; ">$</td>
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            <td style="padding:3.25pt 0pt 2.5pt 0pt;border-bottom:3pt double #000000; min-width:44.25pt; text-align:right; white-space:nowrap;">3,000,000,000</td>
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            <td style="padding:3.25pt 0pt 2.5pt 0pt;border-bottom:3pt double #000000; min-width:44.25pt; text-align:right; white-space:nowrap;">2,996,542,500</td>
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          <font style="letter-spacing:0.2pt;">The filing fee, calculated in accordance with Rule&#160;457(r) under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, has been transmitted to the Securities and Exchange Commission in connection with the securities offered by means of this prospectus supplement.</font>
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          <font style="letter-spacing:-0.16pt;">PROSPECTUS SUPPLEMENT </font> <br ><font style="letter-spacing:-0.16pt;">(To Prospectus dated September&#160;23, 2019)</font><font style="font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:0.16pt;"> </font></div>
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          <font style="letter-spacing:-0.24pt;">$3,000,000,000</font><font style="font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:0.24pt;"> </font>
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          <font style="letter-spacing:-0.24pt;">$500,000,000 Floating Rate Senior Notes due 2023</font><font style="font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:0.24pt;"> </font>
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          <font style="letter-spacing:-0.24pt;">$1,000,000,000 2.55% Senior Notes due 2031</font>
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          <font style="letter-spacing:-0.24pt;">$750,000,000 3.30% Senior Notes due 2041 </font>
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          <font style="letter-spacing:-0.24pt;">$750,000,000 3.50% Senior Notes due 2051</font><font style="font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:0.24pt;"> </font>
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          <font style="letter-spacing:0.16pt;">Duke Energy Corporation is offering $3,000,000,000 aggregate principal amount of Senior Notes in four new series. We are offering (i)&#160;$500,000,000 aggregate principal amount of Floating Rate Senior Notes due 2023 (the &#8220;Floating Rate Notes&#8221;), (ii)&#160;$1,000,000,000 aggregate principal amount of 2.55% Senior Notes due 2031 (the &#8220;2031 Fixed Rate Notes&#8221;), (iii)&#160;$750,000,000 aggregate principal amount of 3.30% Senior Notes due 2041 (the &#8220;2041 Fixed Rate Notes&#8221;), and (iv)&#160;$750,000,000 aggregate principal amount of 3.50% Senior Notes due 2051 (the &#8220;2051 Fixed Rate Notes&#8221;, and together with the 2031 Fixed Rate Notes and the 2041 Fixed Rate Notes, the &#8220;Fixed Rate Notes&#8221;; the Fixed Rate Notes together with the Floating Rate Notes, the &#8220;Notes&#8221;). </font>
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          <font style="letter-spacing:0.16pt;">The Floating Rate Notes will bear interest at a floating rate equal to Compounded SOFR (as defined herein), plus 25 basis points, payable quarterly in arrears on March 10, June 10, September 10 and December 10 of each year, beginning on September&#160;10, 2021, as further described in this prospectus supplement under the caption &#8220;Description of the Notes&#8212;Maturity, Interest and Payment&#8212;Floating Rate Notes.&#8221; The per annum interest rate on the 2031 Fixed Rate Notes will be 2.55%, the per annum interest rate on the 2041 Fixed Rate Notes will be 3.30% and the per annum interest rate on the 2051 Fixed Rate Notes will be 3.50%. We will pay interest on the Fixed Rate Notes of each series semi-annually in arrears on June&#160;15 and December&#160;15 of each year, beginning on December&#160;15, 2021. </font>
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          <font style="letter-spacing:0.16pt;">The Floating Rate Notes will mature as to principal on June 10, 2023, the 2031 Fixed Rate Notes will mature as to principal on June&#160;15, 2031, the 2041 Fixed Rate Notes will mature as to principal on June&#160;15, 2041 and the 2051 Fixed Rate Notes will mature as to principal on June&#160;15, 2051. </font>
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          <font style="letter-spacing:0.16pt;">We may not redeem the Floating Rate Notes prior to their maturity. We may redeem the Fixed Rate Notes of any series at our option at any time, in whole or in part and from time to time, as described in this prospectus supplement under the caption &#8220;Description of the Notes&#8212;Optional Redemption&#8212;Fixed Rate Notes.&#8221; The Notes will not have the benefit of any sinking fund. The Notes will be our direct, unsecured and unsubordinated obligations, ranking equally in priority with all of our existing and future unsecured and unsubordinated indebtedness and senior in right of payment to all of our existing and future subordinated debt. </font>
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          <font style="letter-spacing:0.16pt;">The Notes of each series are a new issue of securities with no established trading market. The Notes will not be listed on any securities exchange or included in any automated quotation system. Please read the information provided under the caption &#8220;Description of the Notes&#8221; in this prospectus supplement and &#8220;Description of Debt Securities&#8221; in the accompanying prospectus for a more detailed description of the Notes. </font>
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          <font style="letter-spacing:-0.2pt;">Investing in the Notes involves risks. See &#8220;Risk Factors&#8221; beginning on page <a href="#tRIFA">S-9</a> of this prospectus supplement.</font><font style="font-weight:normal;font-size:8pt;">&#8203;<font style="letter-spacing:0.16pt;"> </font></font>
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                <font style="letter-spacing:-0.16pt;">Proceeds to Duke </font>
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                <font style="letter-spacing:-0.16pt;">Energy Corporation </font>
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                <font style="letter-spacing:-0.16pt;">Before Expenses </font>
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            <td style="padding:1.5pt 0pt 0.5pt 0pt; min-width:3pt; text-align:right; ">&#8203;</td>
            <td style="padding:1.5pt 0pt 0.5pt 0pt; min-width:32.25pt; text-align:right; white-space:nowrap;">100.000<font style="position:absolute;">%</font></td>
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            <td style="padding:1.5pt 0pt 0.5pt 0pt; min-width:26.25pt; text-align:right; white-space:nowrap;">0.250<font style="position:absolute;">%</font></td>
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            <td style="padding:1.5pt 0pt 0.5pt 0pt; min-width:3pt; text-align:right; ">&#8203;</td>
            <td style="padding:1.5pt 0pt 0.5pt 0pt; min-width:32.25pt; text-align:right; white-space:nowrap;">99.750<font style="position:absolute;">%</font></td>
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            <td style="padding:1.75pt 0pt 0.5pt 0pt; min-width:3pt; text-align:right; ">$</td>
            <td style="padding:1.75pt 0pt 0.5pt 0pt; min-width:32.25pt; text-align:right; white-space:nowrap;">500,000,000 </td>
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            <td style="padding:1.75pt 0pt 0.5pt 0pt; min-width:26.25pt; text-align:right; white-space:nowrap;">1,250,000 </td>
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            <td style="padding:1.75pt 0pt 0.5pt 0pt; min-width:3pt; text-align:right; ">$</td>
            <td style="padding:1.75pt 0pt 0.5pt 0pt; min-width:32.25pt; text-align:right; white-space:nowrap;">498,750,000 </td>
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            <td style="padding:1.75pt 0pt 0.5pt 0pt; min-width:3pt; text-align:right; ">&#8203;</td>
            <td style="padding:1.75pt 0pt 0.5pt 0pt; min-width:32.25pt; text-align:right; white-space:nowrap;">99.868<font style="position:absolute;">%</font></td>
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            <td style="padding:1.75pt 0pt 0.5pt 0pt; min-width:26.25pt; text-align:right; white-space:nowrap;">0.650<font style="position:absolute;">%</font></td>
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            <td style="padding:1.75pt 0pt 0.5pt 0pt; min-width:32.25pt; text-align:right; white-space:nowrap;">99.218<font style="position:absolute;">%</font></td>
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            <td style="padding:0pt; width:6pt;">&#8203;</td>
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            <td style="padding:0pt; width:6pt;">&#8203;</td>
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          <font style="letter-spacing:0.16pt;">Plus accrued interest from June 10, 2021, if settlement occurs after that date. </font>
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          <font style="letter-spacing:0.16pt;">The underwriters have agreed to make a payment to us in an amount equal to $3,937,500, including in respect of expenses incurred by us in connection with these offerings. See &#8220;Underwriting (Conflicts of Interest).&#8221; </font>
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          <font style="letter-spacing:0.16pt;">The date of this prospectus supplement is June 7, 2021.</font>
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          <font style="letter-spacing:-0.2pt;">You should rely only on the information contained in or incorporated by reference in this prospectus supplement, the accompanying prospectus and any free writing prospectus authorized by us. We have not, and the underwriters have not, authorized anyone to provide you with information that is different. If anyone provides you with different or inconsistent information, you should not rely on it. We are not, and the underwriters are not, making an offer to sell these securities in any jurisdiction where the offer is not permitted. You should not assume that the information contained in or incorporated by reference in this prospectus supplement, the accompanying prospectus or any free writing prospectus authorized by us is accurate as of any date other than the date of the document containing the information or such other date as may be specified therein. Our business, financial condition, liquidity, results of operations and prospects may have changed since those respective dates.</font><font style="font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:0.2pt;"> </font>
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                <a href="#tSTPS"><font style="letter-spacing:0.2pt;">About this Prospectus Supplement </font></a>
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              <font style="letter-spacing:0.2pt;"><a href="#tSTPS">S-1</a></font> <a href="#tSTPS"></a></td>
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                <a href="#tCSRF"><font style="letter-spacing:0.2pt;">Cautionary Statement Regarding Forward-Looking Information </font></a>
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          <font style="letter-spacing:0.2pt;">This document is in two parts. The first part is this prospectus supplement, which describes the specific terms of these offerings. The second part, the accompanying prospectus, gives more general information, some of which does not apply to these offerings. </font>
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          <font style="letter-spacing:0.2pt;">If the description of the offerings varies between this prospectus supplement and the accompanying prospectus, you should rely on the information contained in or incorporated by reference in this prospectus supplement. </font>
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          <font style="letter-spacing:0.2pt;">It is important for you to read and consider all information contained in or incorporated by reference in this prospectus supplement and the accompanying prospectus in making your investment decision. You should also read and consider the information contained in the documents to which we have referred you in &#8220;Where You Can Find More Information&#8221; in this prospectus supplement and the accompanying prospectus. </font>
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          <font style="letter-spacing:0.2pt;">Unless we have indicated otherwise, or the context otherwise requires, references in this prospectus supplement and the accompanying prospectus to &#8220;Duke Energy,&#8221; &#8220;we,&#8221; &#8220;us&#8221; and &#8220;our&#8221; or similar terms are to Duke Energy Corporation and its subsidiaries. </font>
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          <font style="letter-spacing:0.2pt;">None of this prospectus supplement, the accompanying prospectus or any related free writing prospectus is a prospectus for the purposes of the Prospectus Regulation (as defined below). This prospectus supplement, the accompanying prospectus and any related free writing prospectus have been prepared on the basis that any offer of the Notes in any Member State of the European Economic Area (the &#8220;EEA&#8221;) will only be made to a legal entity which is a qualified investor under the Prospectus Regulation (&#8220;Qualified Investors&#8221;). Accordingly, any person making or intending to make an offer in that Member State of Notes which are the subject of one of the offerings contemplated in this prospectus supplement, the accompanying prospectus and any related free writing prospectus may only do so with respect to Qualified Investors. Neither Duke Energy Corporation nor the underwriters have authorized, nor do they authorize, the making of any offer of Notes other than to Qualified Investors. The expression &#8220;Prospectus Regulation&#8221; means Regulation (EU) 2017/1129. </font>
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          <font style="font-weight:bold;letter-spacing:-0.2pt;">Prohibition of Sales to EEA Retail Investors&#8212;</font><font style="letter-spacing:0.2pt;">The Notes are not intended to be offered, sold or otherwise made available to and should not be offered, sold or otherwise made available to any retail investor in the EEA. For these purposes, a retail investor means a person who is one (or more) of: (i)&#160;a retail client as defined in point (11) of Article&#160;4(1) of Directive 2014/65/EU, as amended (&#8220;MiFID II&#8221;); or (ii)&#160;a customer within the meaning of Directive (EU) 2016/97 (the &#8220;Insurance Distribution Directive&#8221;), where that customer would not qualify as a professional client as defined in point (10) of Article&#160;4(1) of MiFID II; or (iii)&#160;not a qualified investor as defined in the Prospectus Regulation. Consequently no key information document required by Regulation (EU) No 1286/2014, as amended (the &#8220;PRIIPs Regulation&#8221;) for offering or selling the Notes or otherwise making them available to retail investors in the EEA has been prepared and therefore offering or selling the Notes or otherwise making them available to any retail investor in the EEA may be unlawful under the PRIIPs Regulation. </font>
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          <font style="font-weight:bold;letter-spacing:-0.2pt;">Prohibition of Sales to United Kingdom Retail Investors&#8212;</font><font style="letter-spacing:0.2pt;">The Notes are not intended to be offered, sold or otherwise made available to and should not be offered, sold or otherwise made available to any retail investor in the United Kingdom. For these purposes, a retail investor means a person who is one (or more) of: (i)&#160;a retail client, as defined in point (8)&#160;of Article&#160;2 of Regulation (EU) No 2017/565 as it forms part of domestic law of the United Kingdom by virtue of the European Union (Withdrawal) Act 2018, as amended by the European Union (Withdrawal Agreement) Act 2020 (&#8220;EUWA&#8221;); or (ii)&#160;a customer within the meaning of the provisions of the United Kingdom&#8217;s Financial Services and Markets Act 2000, as amended (the&#160;&#8220;FSMA&#8221;) and any rules or regulations made under the FSMA to implement the Insurance Distribution Directive, where that customer would not qualify as a professional client, as defined in point (8)&#160;of Article&#160;2(1) of Regulation (EU) No 600/2014 as it forms part of domestic law of the United Kingdom by virtue of the EUWA; or (iii)&#160;not a qualified investor as defined in Article&#160;2 of Regulation (EU) 2017/1129 as </font>
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          <font style="letter-spacing:0.2pt;">it forms part of domestic law of the United Kingdom by virtue of the EUWA. Consequently no key information document required by Regulation (EU) No 1286/2014 as it forms part of domestic law of the United Kingdom by virtue of the EUWA (the &#8220;UK PRIIPs Regulation&#8221;) for offering or selling the Notes or otherwise making them available to retail investors in the United Kingdom has been prepared and therefore offering or selling the Notes or otherwise making them available to any retail investor in the United Kingdom may be unlawful under the UK PRIIPs Regulation. </font>
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          <font style="letter-spacing:0.2pt;">The communication of this prospectus supplement, the accompanying prospectus, any related free writing prospectus, and any other document or materials relating to the issue of the Notes offered hereby is not being made, and such documents and/or materials have not been approved, by an authorized person for the purposes of section 21 of the FSMA. Accordingly, such documents and/or materials are not being distributed to, and must not be passed on to, the general public in the United Kingdom. The communication of such documents and/or materials as a financial promotion is only being made to those persons in the United Kingdom who have professional experience in matters relating to investments and who fall within the definition of investment professionals (as defined in Article&#160;19(5) of the Financial Services and Markets Act 2000 (Financial Promotion) Order 2005, as amended (the &#8220;Financial Promotion Order&#8221;)), or who fall within Article&#160;49(2)(a) to (d)&#160;of the Financial Promotion Order, or who are any other persons to whom it may otherwise lawfully be made under the Financial Promotion Order (all such persons together being referred to as &#8220;relevant persons&#8221;). In the United Kingdom, the Notes offered hereby are only available to, and any investment or investment activity to which this prospectus supplement, the accompanying prospectus and any related free writing prospectus relates will be engaged in only with, relevant persons. Any person in the United Kingdom that is not a relevant person should not act or rely on this prospectus supplement, the accompanying prospectus or any related free writing prospectus or any of their contents.</font>
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            <font style="letter-spacing:-0.2pt;">PROSPECTUS SUPPLEMENT SUMMARY</font><font style="font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:0.2pt;"> </font>
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            <font style="letter-spacing:0.2pt;">The following summary is qualified in its entirety by, and should be read together with, the more detailed information that is included elsewhere in this prospectus supplement and the accompanying prospectus, as well as the information that is incorporated or deemed to be incorporated by reference in this prospectus supplement and the accompanying prospectus. See &#8220;Where You Can Find More Information&#8221; in this prospectus supplement for information about how you can obtain the information that is incorporated or deemed to be incorporated by reference in this prospectus supplement and the accompanying prospectus. Investing in the Notes involves risks. See &#8220;Risk Factors&#8221; in this prospectus supplement.</font><font style="font-style:normal;letter-spacing:0.2pt;"> </font>
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            <font style="letter-spacing:-0.2pt;">Duke Energy Corporation</font><font style="font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:0.2pt;"> </font>
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            <font style="letter-spacing:0.2pt;">Duke Energy, together with its subsidiaries, is a diversified energy company with both regulated and unregulated utility operations</font><font style="font-style:italic;letter-spacing:0.2pt;">.</font><font style="letter-spacing:0.2pt;"> We conduct business through the following operating business segments: Electric Utilities and Infrastructure, Gas Utilities and Infrastructure, and Commercial Renewables. </font>
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            <font style="letter-spacing:0.2pt;">Duke Energy&#8217;s Electric Utilities and Infrastructure segment conducts operations primarily through the regulated public utilities of Duke Energy Carolinas, LLC, Duke Energy Progress, LLC, Duke Energy Florida, LLC, Duke Energy Indiana, LLC and Duke Energy Ohio, Inc. Duke Energy&#8217;s Electric Utilities and Infrastructure segment provides retail electric service through the generation, transmission, distribution and sale of electricity to approximately 7.9&#160;million customers within the Southeast and Midwest regions of the U.S. The service territory is approximately 91,000 square miles across six states with a total estimated population of 25&#160;million people. The operations include electricity sold wholesale to municipalities, electric cooperative utilities and other load-serving entities. Duke Energy&#8217;s Electric Utilities and Infrastructure segment is also a joint owner of certain electric transmission projects. </font>
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            <font style="letter-spacing:0.2pt;">Duke Energy&#8217;s Gas Utilities and Infrastructure segment conducts natural gas operations primarily through the regulated public utilities of Piedmont Natural Gas Company, Inc., Duke Energy Ohio, Inc. and Duke Energy Kentucky, Inc. Duke Energy&#8217;s Gas Utilities and Infrastructure segment serves residential, commercial, industrial and power generation natural gas customers, including customers served by municipalities who are wholesale customers. Duke Energy&#8217;s Gas Utilities and Infrastructure segment has over 1.6&#160;million customers, including more than 1.1&#160;million customers located in North Carolina, South Carolina and Tennessee, and an additional 541,000 customers located within southwestern Ohio and northern Kentucky. </font>
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            <font style="letter-spacing:0.2pt;">Duke Energy&#8217;s Commercial Renewables segment primarily acquires, develops, builds, operates and owns wind and solar renewable generation throughout the continental U.S. The portfolio includes nonregulated renewable energy and energy storage businesses. Duke Energy&#8217;s Commercial Renewables segment&#8217;s renewable energy includes utility-scale wind and solar generation assets, distributed solar generation assets, distributed fuel cell assets and battery storage projects, which total 2,763 megawatts across 21 states from 21 wind facilities, 150 solar projects, 70 fuel cell locations and two battery storage facilities. </font>
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            <font style="letter-spacing:0.2pt;">Duke Energy is a Delaware corporation. The address of Duke Energy&#8217;s principal executive offices is 550 South Tryon Street, Charlotte, North Carolina 28202-1803 and its telephone number is (704) 382-3853. Duke Energy&#8217;s common stock is listed and trades on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbol &#8220;DUK.&#8221; </font>
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            <font style="letter-spacing:0.2pt;">The foregoing information about Duke Energy is only a general summary and is not intended to be comprehensive. For additional information about Duke Energy, you should refer to the information described under the caption &#8220;Where You Can Find More Information&#8221; in this prospectus supplement. </font>
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            <font style="letter-spacing:-0.2pt;">Recent Developments</font><font style="font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:0.2pt;"> </font>
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            <font style="letter-spacing:0.2pt;">On May&#160;17, 2021, Elliott Investment Management L.P. (&#8220;Elliott&#8221;), which claims to hold a material economic interest in our outstanding common stock, publicly released a letter it had sent to our board of directors which advocated for consideration of certain governance and strategic proposals, including (i)&#160;appointing new independent members to our board and (ii)&#160;creating a new strategic review committee to explore potential spin-offs of our utilities located in Florida and the Midwest. On May 17, 2021, we issued a response to Elliott in which we stated, among other things, that we believe that there is no strategic </font>
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            <font style="letter-spacing:0.2pt;">logic to breaking our company apart and that there is serious risk of dis-synergies that would weigh down the various spun-off entities and raise questions about the viability of the dividend to shareholders. </font>
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            <font style="letter-spacing:0.2pt;">We are unable to predict the outcome of this matter at this time. </font>
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            <font style="letter-spacing:0.2pt;">We are offering $500,000,000 aggregate principal amount of the Floating Rate Notes, $1,000,000,000 aggregate principal amount of the 2031 Fixed Rate Notes, $750,000,000 aggregate principal amount of the 2041 Fixed Rate Notes, and $750,000,000 aggregate principal amount of the 2051 Fixed Rate Notes. </font>
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            <font style="letter-spacing:0.2pt;">The Floating Rate Notes will mature on June&#160;10, 2023.</font>
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            <font style="letter-spacing:0.2pt;">The 2031 Fixed Rate Notes will mature on June&#160;15, 2031.</font>
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            <font style="letter-spacing:0.2pt;">The 2041 Fixed Rate Notes will mature on June&#160;15, 2041.</font>
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            <font style="letter-spacing:0.2pt;">The 2051 Fixed Rate Notes will mature on June&#160;15, 2051. </font>
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            <font style="letter-spacing:0.2pt;">The Floating Rate Notes will bear interest at an annual rate equal to Compounded SOFR (as defined below) plus 25 basis points. The level of Compounded SOFR and, therefore, the amount of interest payable with respect to each interest period (as defined below) will be determined on each corresponding Interest Payment Determination Date for such interest period. See &#8220;Description of the Notes&#8212;Maturity, Interest and Payment&#8212;Floating Rate Notes.&#8221;</font>
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            <font style="letter-spacing:0.2pt;">The per annum interest rate on the 2031 Fixed Rate Notes will be 2.55%.</font>
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            <font style="letter-spacing:0.2pt;">The per annum interest rate on the 2041 Fixed Rate Notes will be 3.30%.</font>
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            <font style="letter-spacing:0.2pt;">The per annum interest rate on the 2051 Fixed Rate Notes will be 3.50%. </font>
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            <font style="letter-spacing:0.2pt;">Interest on the Floating Rate Notes will be payable quarterly in arrears on March 10, June 10, September 10 and December&#160;10, beginning on September 10, 2021.</font>
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            <font style="letter-spacing:0.2pt;">Interest on the Fixed Rate Notes will be payable semi-annually in arrears on June&#160;15 and December&#160;15 of each year, beginning on December&#160;15, 2021. </font>
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            <font style="letter-spacing:0.2pt;">The Notes will be four new series of our direct, unsecured and unsubordinated obligations, ranking equally in priority with all of our existing and future unsecured and unsubordinated indebtedness and senior in right of payment to all of our existing and future subordinated debt. At March&#160;31, 2021, we had approximately $19.6&#160;billion of outstanding indebtedness, consisting of approximately $18.6&#160;billion of unsecured and unsubordinated indebtedness and $1.0&#160;billion of unsecured junior subordinated indebtedness. Our Indenture (as defined herein) contains no restrictions on the amount of additional indebtedness that we may issue under it.</font>
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            <font style="letter-spacing:0.2pt;">The Notes will be structurally subordinated to all liabilities and any preferred stock of our subsidiaries. At March&#160;31, 2021, our subsidiaries had approximately $43.2&#160;billion of indebtedness, payment upon approximately $650&#160;million of </font>
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            <font style="letter-spacing:0.2pt;">which is guaranteed by Duke Energy Corporation. All of such guarantees were granted to the holders of certain unsecured debt of our subsidiary Duke Energy Carolinas, LLC, in connection with changes in our corporate structure relating to the closing of our merger with Cinergy Corp. in 2006. </font>
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            <font style="letter-spacing:0.2pt;">We may from time to time, without the consent of existing holders, create and issue further notes having the same terms and conditions as the Floating Rate Notes, the 2031 Fixed Rate Notes, the 2041 Fixed Rate Notes or the 2051 Fixed Rate Notes being offered hereby in all respects, except for the issue date, the price to the public and, if applicable, the initial interest accrual date and the first interest payment date; provided, however, that any such additional notes must be fungible with the then outstanding Floating Rate Notes, the then outstanding 2031 Fixed Rate Notes, the then outstanding 2041 Fixed Rate Notes or the then outstanding 2051 Fixed Rate Notes, as the case may be, for U.S. federal income tax purposes, and any such additional notes, together with the then outstanding notes of such series, will be taken to constitute the same series of notes under the Indenture. </font>
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            <font style="letter-spacing:0.2pt;">We may not redeem the Floating Rate Notes prior to their maturity.</font>
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            <font style="letter-spacing:0.2pt;">We will have the right to redeem each series of the Fixed Rate Notes at any time before the applicable Par Call Date (as set forth in the table below), in whole or in part and from time to time, at a redemption price equal to the greater of (1)&#160;100% of the principal amount of such series of Fixed Rate Notes being redeemed and (2)&#160;the sum of the present values of the remaining scheduled payments of principal and interest on such series of Fixed Rate Notes being redeemed that would be due if such series of Fixed Rate Notes matured on the applicable Par Call Date (exclusive of interest accrued to the redemption date), discounted to the redemption date on a semi-annual basis (assuming a 360-day year consisting of twelve 30-day&#160;months) at the Treasury Rate (as defined herein) plus a number of basis points equal to the applicable Make-Whole Spread (as set forth in the table below), plus, in each case, accrued and unpaid interest on the principal amount of such series of Fixed Rate Notes being redeemed to, but excluding, such redemption date.</font>
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            <font style="letter-spacing:0.2pt;">We will have the right to redeem each series of the Fixed Rate Notes at any time on or after the applicable Par Call Date, in whole or in part and from time to time, at a redemption price equal to 100% of the principal amount of such series of Fixed Rate Notes being redeemed plus accrued and unpaid interest on the principal amount of such series of Fixed Rate Notes being redeemed to, but excluding, such redemption date. See &#8220;Description of the Notes&#8212;Optional Redemption&#8212;</font>&#8203;<font style="letter-spacing:0.2pt;">Fixed Rate Notes.&#8221; </font></div>
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            <font style="letter-spacing:0.2pt;">There will not be any sinking fund for the Notes. </font>
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            <font style="letter-spacing:0.2pt;">The aggregate net proceeds from the sale of the Notes, after deducting the respective underwriting discounts and related offering expenses and giving effect to the underwriters&#8217; payment to us, will be approximately $2.98 billion. We intend to use the aggregate net proceeds from the sale of the Notes (i)&#160;to redeem on June&#160;15, 2021, $500,000,000 aggregate principal amount of our outstanding 3.55% Senior Notes due September&#160;15, 2021 (the &#8220;3.55% Senior Notes&#8221;), (ii)&#160;to repay at maturity $750,000,000 aggregate principal amount of our outstanding 1.800% Senior Notes due September&#160;1, 2021 (the &#8220;1.800% Senior Notes&#8221;), (iii)&#160;to repay a portion of our outstanding commercial paper, of which a portion was issued to fund the repayment at maturity of $500&#160;million aggregate principal amount of our Floating Rate Senior Notes due May&#160;14, 2021, and (iv)&#160;for general corporate purposes. At May&#160;31, 2021, we had approximately $3.4&#160;billion of commercial paper outstanding with a weighted average interest rate of approximately 0.18% per year. We issue commercial paper from time to time to fund our working capital and other needs and those of our subsidiaries. A portion of the aggregate net proceeds may be invested temporarily in short-term interest-bearing accounts, securities or similar investments until they are used for their intended purposes. See &#8220;Use of Proceeds.&#8221;</font>
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            <font style="letter-spacing:0.2pt;">We expect that the sale of each series of the Notes will take place concurrently. However, the sales of the Floating Rate Notes, the 2031 Fixed Rate Notes, the 2041 Fixed Rate Notes and the 2051 Fixed Rate Notes are not conditioned upon each other, and we may consummate the sales of one or more series of Notes and not any of the other series of Notes, or consummate the sales at different times. </font>
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            <font style="letter-spacing:0.2pt;">Certain of the underwriters or their affiliates may own our outstanding commercial paper or some of the 3.55% Senior Notes and/or the 1.800% Senior Notes described above, which are expected to be redeemed or repaid with a portion of the aggregate net proceeds from the sale of the Notes. See &#8220;Underwriting (Conflicts of Interest)&#8212;Conflicts of Interest.&#8221; </font>
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            <font style="letter-spacing:0.2pt;">Each series of the Notes will be represented by one or more global securities registered in the name of and deposited with or on behalf of The Depository Trust Company (&#8220;DTC&#8221;) or its nominee. Beneficial interests in each series of the Notes will be represented through book-entry accounts of financial institutions acting on behalf of beneficial owners as direct and indirect participants in DTC. Investors may elect to hold interests in the global securities through either DTC in the United States or Clearstream Banking, S.A. (&#8220;Clearstream&#8221;) or Euroclear Bank SA/NV, as operator of the Euroclear System </font>
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            <font style="letter-spacing:0.2pt;">(the &#8220;Euroclear System&#8221;), in Europe if they are participants in those systems, or indirectly through organizations which are participants in those systems. This means that you will not receive a certificate for your Notes and Notes will not be registered in your name, except under certain limited circumstances described under the caption &#8220;Book-Entry System.&#8221; </font>
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            <font style="letter-spacing:0.2pt;">The Bank of New York Mellon Trust Company, N.A. </font>
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            <font style="letter-spacing:0.2pt;">The Bank of New York Mellon Trust Company, N.A. </font>
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            <font style="letter-spacing:0.2pt;">An investment in the Notes involves risks. You should carefully consider the discussion of risks under the caption &#8220;Risk Factors&#8221; in this prospectus supplement and the other information in this prospectus supplement and the accompanying prospectus, including under the caption &#8220;Cautionary Statement Regarding Forward-Looking Information&#8221; in this prospectus supplement, before making an investment decision. </font>
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          <font style="letter-spacing:0.2pt;">In addition to the risk factors described below, you should carefully consider the risk factors in our <a style="-sec-extract:exhibit" href="https://www.sec.gov/ix?doc=/Archives/edgar/data/17797/000132616021000063/duk-20201231.htm">Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December&#160;31, 2020</a> and our <a style="-sec-extract:exhibit" href="https://www.sec.gov/ix?doc=/Archives/edgar/data/17797/000132616021000136/duk-20210331.htm">Quarterly Report on Form&#160;10-Q for the quarterly period ended March&#160;31, 2021</a>, each of which has been filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the &#8220;SEC&#8221;) and is incorporated by reference in this prospectus supplement and the accompanying prospectus, as well as all of the other information included or incorporated by reference in this prospectus supplement and the accompanying prospectus, before making an investment decision. </font>
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          <font style="letter-spacing:-0.2pt;">Additional Risks Related to the Floating Rate Notes</font><font style="font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:0.2pt;"> </font>
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          <font style="letter-spacing:-0.2pt;">The Secured Overnight Financing Rate (&#8220;SOFR&#8221;) is a relatively new reference rate and its composition and characteristics are not the same as the London Inter-Bank Offered Rate (&#8220;LIBOR&#8221;).</font><font style="font-style:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:0.2pt;"> </font>
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          <font style="letter-spacing:0.2pt;">On June&#160;22, 2017, the Alternative Reference Rates Committee (&#8220;ARRC&#8221;) convened by the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System and the Federal Reserve Bank of New York identified the SOFR as the rate that, in the consensus view of the ARRC, represented best practice for use in certain new U.S. dollar derivatives and other financial contracts. SOFR is a broad measure of the cost of borrowing cash overnight collateralized by U.S. Treasury securities, and has been published by the Federal Reserve Bank of New York since April&#160;2018. The Federal Reserve Bank of New York has also begun publishing historical indicative Secured Overnight Financing Rates from 2014. Investors should not rely on any historical changes or trends in SOFR as an indicator of future changes in SOFR. </font>
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          <font style="letter-spacing:0.2pt;">The composition and characteristics of SOFR are not the same as those of LIBOR, and SOFR is fundamentally different from LIBOR for two key reasons. First, SOFR is a secured rate, while LIBOR is an unsecured rate. Second, SOFR is an overnight rate, while LIBOR is a forward-looking rate that represents interbank funding over different maturities (e.g., three&#160;months). As a result, there can be no assurance that SOFR (including Compounded SOFR) will perform in the same way as LIBOR would have at any time, including, without limitation, as a result of changes in interest and yield rates in the market, market volatility or global or regional economic, financial, political, regulatory, judicial or other events. </font>
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          <font style="letter-spacing:-0.2pt;">SOFR has a very limited history, and the future performance of SOFR cannot be predicted based on historical performance.</font><font style="font-style:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:0.2pt;"> </font>
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          <font style="letter-spacing:0.2pt;">The publication of SOFR began in April&#160;2018, and, therefore, it has a very limited history. The future performance of SOFR cannot be predicted based on the limited historical performance. Levels of SOFR going forward may bear little or no relation to the historical actual or historical indicative data. Prior observed patterns, if any, in the behavior of market variables and their relation to SOFR, such as correlations, may change in the future. While some pre-publication historical data have been released by the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, such analysis inherently involves assumptions, estimates and approximations. Because the future performance of SOFR cannot be predicted, no future performance of SOFR may be inferred from any of the historical actual or historical indicative data. Hypothetical or historical performance data are not indicative of, and have no bearing on, the potential performance of SOFR. There can be no assurance that SOFR will be positive. </font>
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          <font style="letter-spacing:-0.2pt;">SOFR may be more volatile than other benchmark or market rates.</font><font style="font-style:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:0.2pt;"> </font>
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          <font style="letter-spacing:0.2pt;">Since the initial publication of SOFR, daily changes in SOFR have, on occasion, been more volatile than daily changes in other benchmark or market rates, such as U.S. dollar LIBOR. Although changes in Compounded SOFR generally are not expected to be as volatile as changes in daily levels of SOFR, the return on and value of the Floating Rate Notes may fluctuate more than floating rate debt securities that are linked to less volatile rates. In addition, the volatility of SOFR has reflected the underlying volatility of the overnight U.S. Treasury repurchase agreement (&#8220;repo&#8221;) market. The Federal Reserve Bank of New York has at times conducted operations in the overnight U.S. Treasury repo market in order to help maintain the federal funds rate within a target range. There can be no assurance that the Federal Reserve Bank of New York will continue to conduct such operations in the future, and the duration and extent of any such operations </font>
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          <font style="letter-spacing:0.2pt;">is inherently uncertain. The effect of any such operations, or of the cessation of such operations to the extent they are commenced, is uncertain and could be materially adverse to investors in the Floating Rate Notes. </font>
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          <font style="letter-spacing:-0.2pt;">Any failure of SOFR to gain market acceptance could adversely affect the Floating Rate Notes.</font><font style="font-style:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:0.2pt;"> </font>
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          <font style="letter-spacing:0.2pt;">According to the ARRC, SOFR was developed for use in certain U.S. dollar derivatives and other financial contracts as an alternative to U.S. dollar LIBOR in part because it is considered a good representation of general funding conditions in the overnight U.S. Treasury repo market. However, as a rate based on transactions secured by U.S. Treasury securities, it does not measure bank-specific credit risk and, as a result, is less likely to correlate with the unsecured short-term funding costs of banks. This may mean that market participants would not consider SOFR a suitable replacement or successor for all of the purposes for which U.S. dollar LIBOR historically has been used (including, without limitation, as a representation of the unsecured short-term funding costs of banks), which may, in turn, lessen market acceptance of SOFR. Any failure of SOFR to gain market acceptance could adversely affect the return on and value of the Floating Rate Notes and the price at which you can sell the Floating Rate Notes in the secondary market. </font>
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          <font style="letter-spacing:0.2pt;">In addition, if SOFR does not prove to be widely used as a benchmark in securities that are similar or comparable to the Floating Rate Notes, the trading price of the Floating Rate Notes may be lower than those of securities that are linked to rates that are more widely used. Similarly, market terms for floating-rate debt securities linked to SOFR, such as the spread over the base rate reflected in interest rate provisions or the manner of compounding the base rate, may evolve over time, and trading prices of the Floating Rate Notes may be lower than those of later-issued SOFR-based debt securities as a result. Investors in the Floating Rate Notes may not be able to sell the Floating Rate Notes at all or may not be able to sell the Floating Rate Notes at prices that will provide them with a yield comparable to similar investments that have a developed secondary market, and may consequently suffer from increased pricing volatility and market risk. </font>
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          <font style="letter-spacing:-0.2pt;">The interest rate on the Floating Rate Notes is based on a Compounded SOFR rate and the SOFR Index, both of which are relatively new in the marketplace.</font><font style="font-style:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:0.2pt;"> </font>
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          <font style="letter-spacing:0.2pt;">For each interest period, the interest rate on the Floating Rate Notes is based on Compounded SOFR, which will be calculated using the SOFR Index (as defined below) published by the Federal Reserve Bank of New York according to the specific formula described in this prospectus supplement under the caption &#8220;Description of the Notes&#8212;Maturity, Interest and Payment&#8212;Floating Rate Notes&#8212;Compounded SOFR,&#8221; not the SOFR rate published on or in respect of a particular date during such interest period or an arithmetic average of SOFR rates during such period. For this and other reasons, the interest rate on the Floating Rate Notes during any interest period will not necessarily be the same as the interest rate on other SOFR-linked investments that use an alternative basis to determine the applicable interest rate. Further, if the SOFR rate in respect of a particular date during an interest period is negative, its contribution to the SOFR Index will be less than one, resulting in a reduction to Compounded SOFR used to calculate the interest payable on the Floating Rate Notes on the Floating Rate Interest Payment Date (as defined below) for such interest period. </font>
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          <font style="letter-spacing:0.2pt;">Very limited market precedent exists for securities that use SOFR as the interest rate and the method for calculating an interest rate based upon SOFR in those precedents varies. In addition, the Federal Reserve Bank of New York only began publishing the SOFR Index on March&#160;2, 2020. Accordingly, the use of the SOFR Index or the specific formula for the Compounded SOFR rate used in the Floating Rate Notes may not be widely adopted by other market participants, if at all. If the market adopts a different calculation method, that would likely adversely affect the liquidity and market value of the Floating Rate Notes. </font>
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          <font style="letter-spacing:-0.2pt;">Compounded SOFR with respect to a particular interest period will only be capable of being determined near the end of the relevant interest period.</font><font style="font-style:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:0.2pt;"> </font>
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          <font style="letter-spacing:0.2pt;">The level of Compounded SOFR applicable to a particular interest period and, therefore, the amount of interest payable with respect to such interest period will be determined on the Interest Payment Determination Date for such interest period. Because each such date is near the end of such interest period, </font>
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          <font style="letter-spacing:0.2pt;">you will not know the amount of interest payable with respect to a particular interest period until shortly prior to the related Floating Rate Interest Payment Date and it may be difficult for you to reliably estimate the amount of interest that will be payable on each such Floating Rate Interest Payment Date. In addition, some investors may be unwilling or unable to trade the Floating Rate Notes without changes to their information technology systems. An inability to reliably estimate accrued and unpaid interest as well as potential need for some investors to change their information technology systems could both adversely impact the liquidity and trading price of the Floating Rate Notes. </font>
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          <font style="letter-spacing:-0.2pt;">The SOFR Index may be modified or discontinued and the Floating Rate Notes may bear interest by reference to a rate other than Compounded SOFR, which could adversely affect the value of the Floating Rate Notes.</font><font style="font-style:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:0.2pt;"> </font>
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          <font style="letter-spacing:0.2pt;">The SOFR Index is published by the Federal Reserve Bank of New York based on data received by it from sources other than us, and we have no control over its methods of calculation, publication schedule, rate revision practices or availability of the SOFR Index at any time. There can be no guarantee, particularly given its relatively recent introduction, that the SOFR Index will not be discontinued or fundamentally altered in a manner that is materially adverse to the interests of investors in the Floating Rate Notes. If the manner in which the SOFR Index is calculated, including the manner in which SOFR is calculated, is changed, that change may result in a reduction in the amount of interest payable on the Floating Rate Notes and the trading price of the Floating Rate Notes. In addition, the Federal Reserve Bank of New York may withdraw, modify or amend the published SOFR Index or SOFR data in its sole discretion and without notice. The interest rate for any interest period will not be adjusted for any modifications or amendments to the SOFR Index or SOFR data that the Federal Reserve Bank of New York may publish after the interest rate for that interest period has been determined. </font>
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          <font style="letter-spacing:0.2pt;">If we (or our designee (which may be an independent financial advisor or any other designee of ours (any of such entities, a &#8220;Designee&#8221;)) determine that a Benchmark Transition Event and its related Benchmark Replacement Date (each as defined below) have occurred in respect of the SOFR Index, then the interest rate on the Floating Rate Notes will no longer be determined by reference to the SOFR Index, but instead will be determined by reference to a different rate, plus a spread adjustment, which is referred to as a &#8220;Benchmark Replacement&#8221;, as further described in this prospectus supplement under the caption &#8220;Description of the Notes&#8212;Maturity, Interest and Payment&#8212;Floating Rate Notes.&#8221; </font>
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          <font style="letter-spacing:0.2pt;">If a particular Benchmark Replacement (as defined below) or Benchmark Replacement Adjustment (as defined below) cannot be determined, then the next-available Benchmark Replacement or Benchmark Replacement Adjustment will apply. These replacement rates and adjustments may be selected, recommended or formulated by (i)&#160;the Relevant Governmental Body (as defined below) (such as the ARRC), (ii)&#160;the International Swaps and Derivatives Association (&#8220;ISDA&#8221;) or (iii)&#160;in certain circumstances, us (or our Designee). In addition, the terms of the Floating Rate Notes expressly authorize us (or our Designee) to make Benchmark Replacement Conforming Changes (as defined below) with respect to, among other things, changes to the definition of &#8220;interest period&#8221;, timing and frequency of determining rates and making payments of interest, rounding of amounts or tenors, and other administrative matters. The determination of a Benchmark Replacement, the calculation of the interest rate on the Floating Rate Notes by reference to a Benchmark Replacement (including the application of a Benchmark Replacement Adjustment), any implementation of Benchmark Replacement Conforming Changes and any other determinations, decisions or elections that may be made under the terms of the Floating Rate Notes in connection with a Benchmark Transition Event, could adversely affect the value of the Floating Rate Notes, the return on the Floating Rate Notes and the price at which you can sell the Floating Rate Notes. </font>
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          <font style="letter-spacing:0.2pt;">In addition, (i)&#160;the composition and characteristics of the Benchmark Replacement will not be the same as those of Compounded SOFR, the Benchmark Replacement may not be the economic equivalent of Compounded SOFR, there can be no assurance that the Benchmark Replacement will perform in the same way as Compounded SOFR would have at any time and there is no guarantee that the Benchmark Replacement will be a comparable substitute for Compounded SOFR (each of which means that a Benchmark Transition Event could adversely affect the value of the Floating Rate Notes, the return on the Floating Rate Notes and the price at which you can sell the Floating Rate Notes), (ii)&#160;any failure of the Benchmark Replacement to gain market acceptance could adversely affect the Floating Rate Notes, (iii)&#160;the Benchmark Replacement may have a very limited history and the future performance of the Benchmark Replacement </font>
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          <font style="letter-spacing:0.2pt;">may not be predicted based on historical performance, (iv)&#160;the secondary trading market for Floating Rate Notes linked to the Benchmark Replacement may be limited and (v)&#160;the administrator of the Benchmark Replacement may make changes that could change the value of the Benchmark Replacement or discontinue the Benchmark Replacement and has no obligation to consider your interests in doing so. </font>
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          <font style="letter-spacing:-0.2pt;">We (or our Designee) will make certain determinations with respect to the Floating Rate Notes, which determinations may adversely affect the Floating Rate Notes.</font><font style="font-style:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:0.2pt;"> </font>
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          <font style="letter-spacing:0.2pt;">We (or our Designee) will make certain determinations with respect to the Floating Rate Notes as further described in this prospectus supplement under the caption &#8220;Description of the Notes&#8212;Maturity, Interest and Payment&#8212;Floating Rate Notes.&#8221; For example, if a Benchmark Transition Event and its related Benchmark Replacement Date have occurred, we (or our Designee) will make certain determinations with respect to the Floating Rate Notes in our (or our Designee&#8217;s) sole discretion as further described in this prospectus supplement under the caption &#8220;Description of the Notes&#8212;Maturity, Interest and Payment&#8212;</font>&#8203;<font style="letter-spacing:0.2pt;">Floating Rate Notes.&#8221; Any determination, decision or election pursuant to the benchmark replacement provisions not made by our Designee will be made by us. Any of these determinations may adversely affect the value of the Floating Rate Notes, the return on the Floating Rate Notes and the price at which you can sell such Floating Rate Notes. Moreover, certain determinations may require the exercise of discretion and the making of subjective judgments, such as with respect to Compounded SOFR or the occurrence or non-occurrence of a Benchmark Transition Event and any Benchmark Replacement Conforming Changes. These potentially subjective determinations may adversely affect the value of the Floating Rate Notes, the return on the Floating Rate Notes and the price at which you can sell such Floating Rate Notes. For further information regarding these types of determinations, see &#8220;Description of the Notes&#8212;Maturity, Interest and Payment&#8212;Floating Rate Notes&#8212;Compounded SOFR.&#8221; </font></div>
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          <font style="letter-spacing:-0.2pt;">CAUTIONARY STATEMENT REGARDING FORWARD-LOOKING INFORMATION</font><font style="font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:0.2pt;"> </font>
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          <font style="letter-spacing:0.2pt;">This prospectus supplement, the accompanying prospectus, and the information incorporated by reference herein and therein, include forward-looking statements within the meaning of Section&#160;27A of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended and Section&#160;21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the &#8220;Exchange Act&#8221;). Forward-looking statements are based on management&#8217;s beliefs and assumptions and can often be identified by terms and phrases that include &#8220;anticipate,&#8221; &#8220;believe,&#8221; &#8220;intend,&#8221; &#8220;estimate,&#8221; &#8220;expect,&#8221; &#8220;continue,&#8221; &#8220;should,&#8221; &#8220;could,&#8221; &#8220;may,&#8221; &#8220;plan,&#8221; &#8220;project,&#8221; &#8220;predict,&#8221; &#8220;will,&#8221; &#8220;potential,&#8221; &#8220;forecast,&#8221; &#8220;target,&#8221; &#8220;guidance,&#8221; &#8220;outlook,&#8221; or other similar terminology. Various factors may cause actual results to be materially different than the suggested outcomes within forward-looking statements; accordingly, there is no assurance that such results will be realized. These factors include, but are not limited to: </font>
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          <font style="letter-spacing:0.2pt;">The extent and timing of costs and liabilities to comply with federal and state laws, regulations, and legal requirements related to coal ash remediation, including amounts for required closure of certain ash impoundments, are uncertain and difficult to estimate; </font>
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          <font style="letter-spacing:0.2pt;">The ability to recover eligible costs, including amounts associated with coal ash impoundment retirement obligations and costs related to significant weather events, and to earn an adequate return on investment through rate case proceedings and the regulatory process; </font>
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          <font style="letter-spacing:0.2pt;">The costs of decommissioning nuclear facilities could prove to be more extensive than amounts estimated and all costs may not be fully recoverable through the regulatory process; </font>
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          <font style="letter-spacing:0.2pt;">The risk that the credit ratings of Duke Energy or its subsidiaries may be different from what the companies expect; </font>
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          <font style="letter-spacing:0.2pt;">Federal and state regulations, laws and other efforts designed to promote and expand the use of energy efficiency measures and distributed generation technologies, such as private solar and battery storage, in Duke Energy service territories could result in customers leaving the electric distribution system, excess generation resources as well as stranded costs; </font>
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          <font style="letter-spacing:0.2pt;">The inherent risks associated with the operation of nuclear facilities, including environmental, health, safety, regulatory and financial risks, including the financial stability of third-party service providers; </font>
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          <font style="letter-spacing:0.2pt;">The results of financing efforts, including the ability to obtain financing on favorable terms, which can be affected by various factors, including credit ratings, interest rate fluctuations, compliance with debt covenants and conditions and general market and economic conditions; </font>
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          <font style="letter-spacing:0.2pt;">Construction and development risks associated with the completion of Duke Energy&#8217;s or its subsidiaries&#8217; capital investment projects, including risks related to financing, obtaining and complying with terms of permits, meeting construction budgets and schedules, and satisfying operating and environmental performance standards, as well as the ability to recover costs from customers in a timely manner, or at all; </font>
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          <font style="letter-spacing:0.2pt;">Additional risks and uncertainties are identified and discussed in our reports filed with the SEC and are available at the SEC&#8217;s website. In light of these risks, uncertainties and assumptions, the events described in the forward-looking statements included or incorporated by reference in this prospectus supplement and the accompanying prospectus might not occur or might occur to a different extent or at a different time than described. Forward-looking statements speak only as of the date they are made and we expressly disclaim an obligation to publicly update or revise any forward-looking statements, whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise. </font>
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          <font style="letter-spacing:0.2pt;">The aggregate net proceeds from the sale of the Notes, after deducting the respective underwriting discounts and related offering expenses and giving effect to the underwriters&#8217; payment to us, will be approximately $2.98 billion. We intend to use the aggregate net proceeds from the sale of the Notes (i)&#160;to redeem on June&#160;15, 2021, $500,000,000 aggregate principal amount of our outstanding 3.55% Senior Notes due September&#160;15, 2021 (the &#8220;3.55% Senior Notes&#8221;), (ii)&#160;to repay at maturity $750,000,000 aggregate principal amount of our outstanding 1.800% Senior Notes due September&#160;1, 2021 (the &#8220;1.800% Senior Notes&#8221;), (iii)&#160;to repay a portion of our outstanding commercial paper, of which a portion was issued to fund the repayment at maturity of $500&#160;million aggregate principal amount of our Floating Rate Senior Notes due May&#160;14, 2021, and (iv)&#160;for general corporate purposes. At May&#160;31, 2021, we had approximately $3.4&#160;billion of commercial paper outstanding with a weighted average interest rate of approximately 0.18% per year. We issue commercial paper from time to time to fund our working capital and other needs and those of our subsidiaries. A portion of the aggregate net proceeds may be invested temporarily in short-term interest-bearing accounts, securities or similar investments until they are used for their intended purposes. </font>
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          <font style="letter-spacing:0.2pt;">Certain of the underwriters or their affiliates may own our outstanding commercial paper or some of the 3.55% Senior Notes and/or the 1.800% Senior Notes described above, which are expected to be redeemed or repaid with a portion of the aggregate net proceeds from the sale of the Notes. See &#8220;Underwriting (Conflicts of Interest)&#8212;Conflicts of Interest.&#8221; </font>
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          <font style="letter-spacing:0.2pt;">We expect that the sale of each series of the Notes will take place concurrently. However, the sales of the Floating Rate Notes, the 2031 Fixed Rate Notes, the 2041 Fixed Rate Notes and the 2051 Fixed Rate Notes are not conditioned upon each other, and we may consummate the sales of one or more series of Notes and not any of the other series of Notes, or consummate the sales at different times. </font>
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          <font style="letter-spacing:0.2pt;">The following description of the terms of the Notes summarizes certain general terms that will apply to the Notes. The Notes will be issued as four new series of senior debt securities under an Indenture between us and The Bank of New York Mellon Trust Company, N.A. (formerly known as The Bank of New York Trust Company, N.A.), as Trustee, dated as of June&#160;3, 2008, as supplemented from time to time, including by the Twenty-fifth Supplemental Indenture, dated as of June 10, 2021, relating to the Notes, collectively referred to as the &#8220;Indenture.&#8221; </font>
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          <font style="letter-spacing:0.2pt;">Please read the following information concerning the Notes in conjunction with the statements under &#8220;Description of Debt Securities&#8221; in the accompanying prospectus, which the following information supplements and, in the event of any inconsistencies, supersedes. Capitalized terms not defined in this prospectus supplement are used as defined in the Indenture or as otherwise provided in the accompanying prospectus. </font>
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          <font style="letter-spacing:0.2pt;">The Notes are issuable in denominations of $2,000 or any integral multiple of $1,000 in excess thereof. </font>
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          <font style="letter-spacing:0.2pt;">The Floating Rate Notes will be issued in an initial aggregate principal amount of $500,000,000, the 2031 Fixed Rate Notes will be issued in an initial aggregate principal amount of $1,000,000,000, the 2041 Fixed Rate Notes will be issued in an initial aggregate principal amount of $750,000,000 and the 2051 Fixed Rate Notes will be issued in an initial aggregate principal amount of $750,000,000. </font>
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          <font style="letter-spacing:0.2pt;">We may from time to time, without the consent of existing holders, create and issue further notes having the same terms and conditions as the Floating Rate Notes, the 2031 Fixed Rate Notes, the 2041 Fixed Rate Notes or the 2051 Fixed Rate Notes being offered hereby in all respects, except for the issue date, the price to the public and, if applicable, the initial interest accrual date and the first interest payment date; provided, however, that any such additional notes must be fungible with the then outstanding Floating Rate Notes, the then outstanding 2031 Fixed Rate Notes, the then outstanding 2041 Fixed Rate Notes or the then outstanding 2051 Fixed Rate Notes, as the case may be, for U.S. federal income tax purposes, and any such additional notes, together with the then outstanding notes of such series, will be taken to constitute the same series of notes under the Indenture. </font>
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          <font style="letter-spacing:0.2pt;">As used in this prospectus supplement, &#8220;business day&#8221; means, with respect to the Notes, any day other than a Saturday or Sunday that is neither a legal holiday in New York, New York nor a day on which banking institutions in New York, New York are authorized or required by law, regulation or executive order to close, or a day on which the Corporate Trust Office is closed for business. </font>
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          <font style="letter-spacing:0.2pt;">The Notes will be our direct, unsecured and unsubordinated obligations, ranking equally in priority with all of our existing and future unsecured and unsubordinated indebtedness and senior in right of payment to all of our existing and future subordinated debt. At March&#160;31, 2021, we had approximately $19.6&#160;billion of outstanding indebtedness, consisting of approximately $18.6&#160;billion of unsecured and unsubordinated indebtedness and $1.0&#160;billion of unsecured junior subordinated indebtedness. The Indenture contains no restrictions on the amount of additional indebtedness that we may issue under it. </font>
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          <font style="letter-spacing:0.2pt;">The Notes will be structurally subordinated to all liabilities and any preferred stock of our subsidiaries. At March&#160;31, 2021, our subsidiaries had approximately $43.2&#160;billion of indebtedness, payment upon approximately $650&#160;million of which is guaranteed by Duke Energy Corporation. All of such guarantees were granted to the holders of certain unsecured debt of our subsidiary Duke Energy Carolinas, LLC, in connection with changes in our corporate structure relating to the closing of our merger with Cinergy Corp. in 2006. </font>
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          <font style="letter-spacing:0.2pt;">The Floating Rate Notes will bear interest from June 10, 2021 at a floating rate determined in the manner described below, payable quarterly in arrears on March 10, June 10, September 10 and December&#160;10 </font>
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          <font style="letter-spacing:0.2pt;">of each year (each, a &#8220;Floating Rate Interest Payment Date&#8221;), beginning on September 10, 2021. The Floating Rate Notes will bear interest at an annual rate equal to Compounded SOFR, determined as described below, plus 25 basis points (the &#8220;Margin&#8221;). </font>
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          <font style="letter-spacing:0.2pt;">The record date for interest payable on any Floating Rate Interest Payment Date shall be the close of business on (i)&#160;the business day immediately preceding such Floating Rate Interest Payment Date so long as all of the Floating Rate Notes remain in book-entry only form or (ii)&#160;the fifteenth calendar day immediately preceding such Floating Rate Interest Payment Date if any of the Floating Rate Notes do not remain in book-entry only form. Interest on the Floating Rate Notes will accrue from and including June 10, 2021 to, but excluding, the first Floating Rate Interest Payment Date. Starting on the first Floating Rate Interest Payment Date, interest on the Floating Rate Notes will accrue from and including the last Floating Rate Interest Payment Date to which we have paid, or duly provided for the payment of, interest on the Floating Rate Notes to, but excluding, the next succeeding Floating Rate Interest Payment Date. No interest will accrue on the Floating Rate Notes for the day that the Floating Rate Notes matures. The amount of interest payable for any interest period will be computed on the basis of a 360-day year and the actual number of days in the Observation Period (as defined below). </font>
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          <font style="letter-spacing:0.2pt;">If any Floating Rate Interest Payment Date falls on a day that is not a business day, we will make the interest payment on the next succeeding business day unless that business day is in the next succeeding calendar month, in which case (other than in the case of the maturity date) we will make the interest payment on the immediately preceding business day. If an interest payment is made on the next succeeding business day, no interest will accrue as a result of the delay in payment. If the maturity date of the Floating Rate Notes falls on a day that is not a business day, the payment due on such date will be postponed to the next succeeding business day, and no further interest will accrue in respect of such postponement. </font>
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          <font style="letter-spacing:0.2pt;">As further described herein, on each Interest Payment Determination Date relating to the applicable Floating Rate Interest Payment Date, the Calculation Agent (as defined below) will calculate the amount of accrued interest payable on the Floating Rate Notes by multiplying (i)&#160;the outstanding principal amount of the Floating Rate Notes by (ii)&#160;the product of (a)&#160;the interest rate for the relevant interest period multiplied by (b)&#160;the quotient of the actual number of calendar days in such Observation Period divided by 360. In no event will the interest rate on the Floating Rate Notes be less than zero. </font>
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          <font style="letter-spacing:0.2pt;">The term &#8220;interest period&#8221;, with respect to the Floating Rate Notes, means (i)&#160;the period commencing on any Floating Rate Interest Payment Date (or, with respect to the initial interest period only, commencing on the date of original issuance) to, but excluding, the next succeeding Floating Rate Interest Payment Date or, (ii)&#160;in the case of the last such period, the period from and including the Floating Rate Interest Payment Date immediately preceding the maturity date to, but excluding, the maturity date. </font>
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          <font style="letter-spacing:0.2pt;">The Secured Overnight Financing Rate (SOFR) is published by the Federal Reserve Bank of New York and is intended to be a broad measure of the cost of borrowing cash overnight collateralized by U.S. Treasury securities. </font>
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          <font style="letter-spacing:0.2pt;">The SOFR Index is published by the Federal Reserve Bank of New York and measures the cumulative impact of compounding SOFR on a unit of investment over time, with the initial value set to 1.00000000 on April&#160;2, 2018, the first value date of SOFR. The SOFR Index value reflects the effect of compounding SOFR each business day and allows the calculation of compounded SOFR averages over custom time periods. </font>
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          <font style="letter-spacing:0.2pt;">The Federal Reserve Bank of New York notes on its publication page for the SOFR Index that use of the SOFR Index is subject to important limitations, indemnification obligations and disclaimers, including that the Federal Reserve Bank of New York may alter the methods of calculation, publication schedule, rate revision practices or availability of the SOFR Index at any time without notice. The interest rate for any interest period will not be adjusted for any modifications or amendments to the SOFR Index or SOFR data that the Federal Reserve Bank of New York may publish after the interest rate for that interest period has been determined. </font>
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          <font style="font-style:italic;letter-spacing:0.2pt;">Compounded SOFR</font><font style="letter-spacing:0.2pt;">.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&#8220;Compounded SOFR&#8221; will be determined by the Calculation Agent in accordance with the following formula (and the resulting&#160;percentage will be rounded, if necessary, to the nearest one hundred-thousandth of a&#160;percentage point): </font>
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          <font style="letter-spacing:0.2pt;">&#8220;SOFR Index</font><font style=" position:relative; bottom:-2.25pt;font-size:7.5pt;letter-spacing:0.15pt;">Start</font><font style="letter-spacing:0.2pt;">&#8221; = For periods other than the initial interest period, the SOFR Index value on the preceding Interest Payment Determination Date, and, for the initial interest period, the SOFR Index value two U.S. Government Securities Business Days before the date of original issuance; </font>
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          <font style="letter-spacing:0.2pt;">&#8220;SOFR Index</font><font style=" position:relative; bottom:-2.25pt;font-size:7.5pt;letter-spacing:0.15pt;">End</font><font style="letter-spacing:0.2pt;">&#8221; = The SOFR Index value on the Interest Payment Determination Date relating to the applicable Floating Rate Interest Payment Date (or, in the final interest period, relating to the maturity date); and </font>
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          <font style="letter-spacing:0.2pt;">&#8220;d</font><font style=" position:relative; bottom:-2.25pt;font-size:7.5pt;letter-spacing:0.15pt;">c</font><font style="letter-spacing:0.2pt;">&#8221; is the number of calendar days in the relevant Observation Period. </font>
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          <font style="letter-spacing:0.2pt;">For purposes of determining Compounded SOFR: </font>
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          <font style="letter-spacing:0.2pt;">&#8220;Interest Payment Determination Date&#8221; means the date that is two U.S. Government Securities Business Days before each Floating Rate Interest Payment Date. </font>
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          <font style="letter-spacing:0.2pt;">&#8220;Observation Period&#8221; means, in respect of each interest period, the period from, and including, the date that is two U.S. Government Securities Business Days preceding the first date in such interest period to, but excluding, the date that is two U.S. Government Securities Business Days preceding the Floating Rate Interest Payment Date for such interest period (or in the final interest period, preceding the maturity date). </font>
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          <font style="letter-spacing:0.2pt;">&#8220;SOFR Index&#8221; means, with respect to any U.S. Government Securities Business Day: </font>
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          <font style="letter-spacing:0.2pt;">the SOFR Index value as published by the SOFR Administrator (as defined below) as such index appears on the SOFR Administrator&#8217;s Website at 3:00&#160;p.m. (New York time) on such U.S. Government Securities Business Day (the &#8220;SOFR Index Determination Time&#8221;); provided that: </font>
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          <font style="letter-spacing:0.2pt;">if a SOFR Index value does not so appear as specified in (1)&#160;above at the SOFR Index Determination Time, then: (i)&#160;if a Benchmark Transition Event and its related Benchmark Replacement Date have not occurred with respect to SOFR, then Compounded SOFR shall be the rate determined pursuant to the &#8220;SOFR Index Unavailable Provisions&#8221; described below; or (ii)&#160;if a Benchmark Transition Event and its related Benchmark Replacement Date have occurred with respect to SOFR, then Compounded SOFR shall be the rate determined pursuant to the &#8220;Effect of Benchmark Transition Event&#8221; provisions described below. </font>
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          <font style="letter-spacing:0.2pt;">&#8220;SOFR&#8221; means the daily secured overnight financing rate as provided by the SOFR Administrator on the SOFR Administrator&#8217;s Website. </font>
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          <font style="letter-spacing:0.2pt;">&#8220;SOFR Administrator&#8221; means the Federal Reserve Bank of New York (or a successor administrator of SOFR). </font>
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          <font style="letter-spacing:0.2pt;">&#8220;SOFR Administrator&#8217;s Website&#8221; means the website of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, currently at http://www.newyorkfed.org, or any successor source. </font>
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          <font style="letter-spacing:0.2pt;">&#8220;U.S. Government Securities Business Day&#8221; means any day except for a Saturday, a Sunday or a day on which the Securities Industry and Financial Markets Association recommends that the fixed income departments of its members be closed for the entire day for purposes of trading in U.S. government securities. </font>
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          <font style="letter-spacing:0.2pt;">Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in any transaction documents relating to the Floating Rate Notes, if we (or our Designee) determine on or prior to the relevant Reference Time (as defined below) that </font>
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          <font style="letter-spacing:0.2pt;">a Benchmark Transition Event and its related Benchmark Replacement Date have occurred with respect to determining Compounded SOFR, then the benchmark replacement provisions set forth below under &#8220;Effect of Benchmark Transition Event&#8221; will thereafter apply to all determinations of the rate of interest payable on the Floating Rate Notes. </font>
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          <font style="letter-spacing:0.2pt;">For the avoidance of doubt, in accordance with the benchmark replacement provisions, after a Benchmark Transition Event and its related Benchmark Replacement Date have occurred, the interest rate for each interest period on the Floating Rate Notes will be an annual rate equal to the sum of the Benchmark Replacement and the Margin. </font>
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          <font style="font-style:italic;letter-spacing:0.2pt;">SOFR Index Unavailable Provisions</font><font style="letter-spacing:0.2pt;">.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;If a SOFR Index</font><font style=" position:relative; bottom:-2.25pt;font-size:7.5pt;letter-spacing:0.15pt;">Start</font><font style="letter-spacing:0.2pt;"> or SOFR Index</font><font style=" position:relative; bottom:-2.25pt;font-size:7.5pt;letter-spacing:0.15pt;">End</font><font style="letter-spacing:0.2pt;"> is not published on the associated Interest Payment Determination Date and a Benchmark Transition Event and its related Benchmark Replacement Date have not occurred with respect to SOFR, &#8220;Compounded SOFR&#8221; means, for the applicable interest period for which such index is not available, the rate of return on a daily compounded interest investment calculated in accordance with the formula for SOFR Averages, and definitions required for such formula, published on the SOFR Administrator&#8217;s Website, initially located at https://www.newyorkfed.org/markets/treasury-repo-reference-rates-information. For the purposes of this provision, references in the SOFR Averages compounding formula and related definitions to &#8220;calculation period&#8221; shall be replaced with &#8220;Observation Period&#8221; and the words &#8220;that is, 30-, 90-, or 180- calendar days&#8221; shall be removed. If SOFR does not so appear for any day, &#8220;i&#8221; in the Observation Period, SOFRi for such day &#8220;i&#8221; shall be SOFR published in respect of the first preceding U.S. Government Securities Business Day for which SOFR was published on the SOFR Administrator&#8217;s Website. </font>
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          <font style="letter-spacing:0.2pt;">If we (or our Designee) determine that a Benchmark Transition Event and its related Benchmark Replacement Date have occurred prior to the Reference Time in respect of any determination of the Benchmark on any date, the Benchmark Replacement will replace the then-current Benchmark for all purposes relating to the Floating Rate Notes in respect of such determination on such date and all determinations on all subsequent dates. </font>
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          <font style=" text-decoration:underline #000000 solid;letter-spacing:0.2pt;">Benchmark Replacement Conforming Changes</font><font style="font-style:normal;letter-spacing:0.2pt;"> </font>
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          <font style="letter-spacing:0.2pt;">In connection with the implementation of a Benchmark Replacement, we (or our Designee) will have the right to make Benchmark Replacement Conforming Changes from time to time. </font>
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          <font style=" text-decoration:underline #000000 solid;letter-spacing:0.2pt;">Decisions and Determinations</font><font style="font-style:normal;letter-spacing:0.2pt;"> </font>
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          <font style="letter-spacing:0.2pt;">Any determination, decision or election that may be made by us (or our Designee) pursuant to the benchmark replacement provision described in this subsection &#8220;Effect of Benchmark Transition Event,&#8221; including any determination with respect to tenor, rate or adjustment or of the occurrence or non-occurrence of an event, circumstance or date and any decision to take or refrain from taking any action or any selection, will be conclusive and binding absent manifest error, will be made in our (or our Designee&#8217;s) sole discretion, and, notwithstanding anything to the contrary in any transaction documents relating to the Floating Rate Notes, shall become effective without consent from the holders of the Floating Rate Notes or any other party. </font>
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          <font style="letter-spacing:0.2pt;">Certain Defined Terms</font><font style="font-style:normal;letter-spacing:0.2pt;"> </font>
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          <font style="letter-spacing:0.2pt;">As used in this subsection &#8220;Effect of Benchmark Transition Event,&#8221; the following terms have the following meanings: </font>
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          <font style="letter-spacing:0.2pt;">&#8220;Benchmark&#8221; means, initially, Compounded SOFR, as such term is defined above; provided that if a Benchmark Transition Event and its related Benchmark Replacement Date have occurred with respect to Compounded SOFR (or the published SOFR Index used in the calculation thereof) or the then-current Benchmark, then &#8220;Benchmark&#8221; means the applicable Benchmark Replacement. </font>
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          <font style="letter-spacing:0.2pt;">&#8220;Benchmark Replacement&#8221; means the first alternative set forth in the order below that can be determined by us (or our Designee) as of the Benchmark Replacement Date: </font>
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          <font style="letter-spacing:0.2pt;">the sum of: (a)&#160;the alternate rate of interest that has been selected or recommended by the Relevant Governmental Body as the replacement for the then-current Benchmark and (b)&#160;the Benchmark Replacement Adjustment; </font>
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          <font style="letter-spacing:0.2pt;">the sum of: (a)&#160;the ISDA Fallback Rate and (b)&#160;the Benchmark Replacement Adjustment; and </font>
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          <font style="letter-spacing:0.2pt;">the sum of: (a)&#160;the alternate rate of interest that has been selected by us (or our Designee) as the replacement for the then-current Benchmark giving due consideration to any industry-accepted rate of interest as a replacement for the then-current Benchmark for U.S. dollar denominated Floating Rate Notes at such time and (b)&#160;the Benchmark Replacement Adjustment. </font>
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          <font style="letter-spacing:0.2pt;">&#8220;Benchmark Replacement Adjustment&#8221; means the first alternative set forth in the order below that can be determined by us (or our Designee) as of the Benchmark Replacement Date: </font>
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          <font style="letter-spacing:0.2pt;">the spread adjustment, or method for calculating or determining such spread adjustment, (which may be positive or negative value or zero) that has been selected or recommended by the Relevant Governmental Body for the applicable Unadjusted Benchmark Replacement; </font>
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          <font style="letter-spacing:0.2pt;">if the applicable Unadjusted Benchmark Replacement is equivalent to the ISDA Fallback Rate, then the ISDA Fallback Adjustment; and </font>
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          <font style="letter-spacing:0.2pt;">the spread adjustment (which may be a positive or negative value or zero) that has been selected by us (or our Designee) giving due consideration to any industry-accepted spread adjustment, or method for calculating or determining such spread adjustment, for the replacement of the then-current Benchmark with the applicable Unadjusted Benchmark Replacement for U.S. dollar denominated Floating Rate Notes at such time. </font>
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          <font style="letter-spacing:0.2pt;">The Benchmark Replacement Adjustment shall not include the Margin specified in this prospectus supplement and such Margin shall be applied to the Benchmark Replacement to determine the interest payable on the Floating Rate Notes. </font>
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          <font style="letter-spacing:0.2pt;">&#8220;Benchmark Replacement Conforming Changes&#8221; means, with respect to any Benchmark Replacement, any technical, administrative or operational changes (including changes to the definition or interpretation of &#8220;interest period&#8221;, timing and frequency of determining rates and making payments of interest, rounding of amounts or tenor, and other administrative matters), or any other changes to any other terms or provisions of the Floating Rate Notes, in each case that we (or our Designee) decide may be appropriate to reflect the adoption of such Benchmark Replacement in a manner substantially consistent with market practice (or, if we (or our Designee) decide that adoption of any portion of such market practice is not administratively feasible or if we (or our Designee) determine that no market practice for use of the Benchmark Replacement exists, in such other manner as we (or our Designee) determine is reasonably necessary or practicable). </font>
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          <font style="letter-spacing:0.2pt;">&#8220;Benchmark Replacement Date&#8221; means the earliest to occur of the following events with respect to the then-current Benchmark: </font>
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          <font style="letter-spacing:0.2pt;">in the case of clause (1)&#160;or (2)&#160;of the definition of &#8220;Benchmark Transition Event,&#8221; the later of (a)&#160;the date of the public statement or publication of information referenced therein and (b)&#160;the date on which the administrator of the Benchmark permanently or indefinitely ceases to provide the Benchmark; or </font>
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          <font style="letter-spacing:0.2pt;">in the case of clause (3)&#160;of the definition of &#8220;Benchmark Transition Event,&#8221; the date of the public statement or publication of information referenced therein. </font>
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          <font style="letter-spacing:0.2pt;">For the avoidance of doubt, if the event giving rise to the Benchmark Replacement Date occurs on the same day as, but earlier than, the Reference Time in respect of any determination, the Benchmark Replacement Date will be deemed to have occurred prior to the Reference Time for such determination. </font>
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          <font style="letter-spacing:0.2pt;">&#8220;Benchmark Transition Event&#8221; means the occurrence of one or more of the following events with respect to the then-current Benchmark (including the daily published component used in the calculation thereof): </font>
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          <font style="letter-spacing:0.2pt;">a public statement or publication of information by or on behalf of the administrator of the Benchmark (or such component) announcing that such administrator has ceased or will cease to provide the Benchmark (or such component), permanently or indefinitely, provided that, at the time of such statement or publication, there is no successor administrator that will continue to provide the Benchmark (or such component); </font>
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          <font style="letter-spacing:0.2pt;">a public statement or publication of information by the regulatory supervisor for the administrator of the Benchmark (or such component), the central bank for the currency of the Benchmark (or such component), an insolvency official with jurisdiction over the administrator for the Benchmark (or such component), a resolution authority with jurisdiction over the administrator for the Benchmark (or such component) or a court or an entity with similar insolvency or resolution authority over the administrator for the Benchmark (or such component), which states that the administrator of the Benchmark (or such component) has ceased or will cease to provide the Benchmark (or such component) permanently or indefinitely, provided that, at the time of such statement or publication, there is no successor administrator that will continue to provide the Benchmark (or such component); or </font>
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          <font style="letter-spacing:0.2pt;">a public statement or publication of information by the regulatory supervisor for the administrator of the Benchmark announcing that the Benchmark is no longer representative. </font>
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          <font style="letter-spacing:0.2pt;">&#8220;ISDA Definitions&#8221; means the 2006 ISDA Definitions published by the International Swaps and Derivatives Association, Inc. or any successor thereto, as amended or supplemented from time to time, or any successor definitional booklet for interest rate derivatives published from time to time. </font>
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          <font style="letter-spacing:0.2pt;">&#8220;ISDA Fallback Adjustment&#8221; means the spread adjustment (which may be a positive or negative value or zero) that would apply for derivatives transactions referencing the ISDA Definitions to be determined upon the occurrence of an index cessation event with respect to the Benchmark. </font>
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          <font style="letter-spacing:0.2pt;">&#8220;ISDA Fallback Rate&#8221; means the rate that would apply for derivatives transactions referencing the ISDA Definitions to be effective upon the occurrence of an index cessation date with respect to the Benchmark for the applicable tenor excluding the applicable ISDA Fallback Adjustment. </font>
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          <font style="letter-spacing:0.2pt;">&#8220;Reference Time&#8221; with respect to any determination of the Benchmark means (1)&#160;if the Benchmark is Compounded SOFR, the SOFR Index Determination Time, as such time is defined above, and (2)&#160;if the Benchmark is not Compounded SOFR, the time determined by us (or our Designee) in accordance with the Benchmark Replacement Conforming Changes. </font>
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          <font style="letter-spacing:0.2pt;">&#8220;Relevant Governmental Body&#8221; means the Federal Reserve Board and/or the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, or a committee officially endorsed or convened by the Federal Reserve Board and/or the Federal Reserve Bank of New York or any successor thereto. </font>
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          <font style="letter-spacing:0.2pt;">&#8220;Unadjusted Benchmark Replacement&#8221; means the Benchmark Replacement excluding the Benchmark Replacement Adjustment. </font>
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          <font style="letter-spacing:0.2pt;">Calculation of the Floating Interest Rate</font><font style="font-style:normal;letter-spacing:0.2pt;"> </font>
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          <font style="letter-spacing:0.2pt;">The &#8220;Calculation Agent&#8221; means a banking institution or trust company appointed by us to act as calculation agent, initially The Bank of New York Mellon Trust Company, N.A. </font>
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          <font style="letter-spacing:0.2pt;">Absent willful misconduct, bad faith or manifest error, the calculation of the applicable interest rate for each interest period by the Calculation Agent, or in certain circumstances described above, by us (or our Designee) will be final and binding on us, the Trustee, and the holders of the Floating Rate Notes. </font>
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          <font style="letter-spacing:0.2pt;">None of the Trustee, paying agent, registrar or Calculation Agent shall be under any obligation (i)&#160;to monitor, determine or verify the unavailability or cessation of SOFR or the SOFR Index, or whether or when there has occurred, or to give notice to any other transaction party of the occurrence of, any Benchmark </font>
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          <font style="letter-spacing:0.2pt;">Transition Event or related Benchmark Replacement Date, (ii)&#160;to select, determine or designate any Benchmark Replacement, or other successor or replacement benchmark index, or whether any conditions to the designation of such a rate or index have been satisfied, (iii)&#160;to select, determine or designate any Benchmark Replacement Adjustment, or other modifier to any replacement or successor index, or the business day convention, interest determination dates or any other relevant methodology for calculating any such substitute or successor benchmark, or (iv)&#160;to determine whether or what Benchmark Replacement Conforming Changes are necessary or advisable, if any, in connection with any of the foregoing. In connection with the foregoing, the Calculation Agent will be entitled to conclusively rely on any determinations made by us (or our Designee) and will have no liability for such actions taken at the direction of us (or our Designee). </font>
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          <font style="letter-spacing:0.2pt;">None of the Trustee, paying agent, registrar or Calculation Agent shall be liable for any inability, failure or delay on its part to perform any of its duties described in this prospectus supplement and the accompanying prospectus as a result of the unavailability of SOFR, the SOFR Index or other applicable Benchmark Replacement, including as a result of any failure, inability, delay, error or inaccuracy on the part of any other transaction party in providing any direction, instruction, notice or information contemplated by this prospectus supplement and the accompanying prospectus and reasonably required for the performance of such duties. </font>
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          <font style="letter-spacing:0.2pt;">The 2031 Fixed Rate Notes will mature on June&#160;15, 2031 and will bear interest at a rate of 2.55% per annum from June 10, 2021 or from the most recent interest payment date to which interest on the 2031 Fixed Rate Notes has been paid or duly provided for. </font>
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          <font style="letter-spacing:0.2pt;">The 2041 Fixed Rate Notes will mature on June&#160;15, 2041 and will bear interest at a rate of 3.30% per annum from June 10, 2021 or from the most recent interest payment date to which interest on the 2041 Fixed Rate Notes has been paid or duly provided for. </font>
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          <font style="letter-spacing:0.2pt;">The 2051 Fixed Rate Notes will mature on June&#160;15, 2051 and will bear interest at a rate of 3.50% per annum from June 10, 2021 or from the most recent interest payment date to which interest on the 2051 Fixed Rate Notes has been paid or duly provided for. </font>
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          <font style="letter-spacing:0.2pt;">Interest on the Fixed Rate Notes shall be payable semi-annually in arrears on June&#160;15 and December&#160;15 of each year, commencing on December&#160;15, 2021. </font>
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          <font style="letter-spacing:0.2pt;">If an interest payment date falls on a day that is not a business day, interest will be payable on the next succeeding business day (and without any interest or payment in respect of any such delay) with the same force and effect as if made on such interest payment date. If a due date for the payment of interest or principal on the Fixed Rate Notes falls on a day that is not a business day, then the payment will be made on the next succeeding business day, and no interest will accrue on the amounts payable for the period from and after the original due date and until the next business day. Interest will be paid to the person in whose name each Fixed Rate Note is registered at the close of business on the record date for the applicable interest payment date, which will be the close of business on (i)&#160;the business day immediately preceding such interest payment date so long as all of the Fixed Rate Notes remain in book-entry only form or (ii)&#160;the fifteenth calendar day next preceding such interest payment date (whether or not a business day) if any of the Fixed Rate Notes do not remain in book-entry only form. Interest on the Fixed Rate Notes will be calculated on the basis of a 360-day year, consisting of twelve 30-day&#160;months. </font>
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          <font style="letter-spacing:0.2pt;">We may not redeem the Floating Rate Notes prior to their maturity. </font>
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          <font style="letter-spacing:0.2pt;">We will have the right to redeem each series of the Fixed Rate Notes at any time before the applicable Par Call Date (as set forth in the table below), in whole or in part and from time to time, at a redemption price equal to the greater of (1)&#160;100% of the principal amount of such series of Fixed Rate Notes being </font>
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          <font style="letter-spacing:0.2pt;">redeemed and (2)&#160;the sum of the present values of the remaining scheduled payments of principal and interest on such series of Fixed Rate Notes being redeemed that would be due if such series of Fixed Rate Notes matured on the applicable Par Call Date (exclusive of interest accrued to the redemption date), discounted to the redemption date on a semi-annual basis (assuming a 360-day year consisting of twelve 30&#8209;day months) at the Treasury Rate plus a number of basis points equal to the applicable Make-Whole Spread (as set forth in the table below), plus, in each case, accrued and unpaid interest on the principal amount of such series of Fixed Rate Notes being redeemed to, but excluding, such redemption date. </font>
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          <font style="letter-spacing:0.2pt;">We will have the right to redeem each series of the Fixed Rate Notes at any time on or after the applicable Par Call Date, in whole or in part and from time to time, at a redemption price equal to 100% of the principal amount of such series of Fixed Rate Notes being redeemed plus accrued and unpaid interest on the principal amount of such series of Fixed Rate Notes being redeemed to, but excluding, such redemption date. </font>
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          <font style="letter-spacing:0.2pt;">For purposes of these redemption provisions relating to the Fixed Rate Notes, the following terms have the following meanings: </font>
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          <font style="letter-spacing:0.2pt;">&#8220;Comparable Treasury Issue&#8221; means the United States Treasury security selected by the Quotation Agent as having an actual or interpolated maturity comparable to the remaining term of the applicable series of Fixed Rate Notes to be redeemed (assuming, for this purpose, that the 2031 Fixed Rate Notes matured on the 2031 Par Call Date, the 2041 Fixed Rate Notes matured on the 2041 Par Call Date and the 2051 Fixed Rate Notes matured on the 2051 Par Call Date), that would be utilized, at the time of selection and in accordance with customary financial practice, in pricing new issues of corporate debt securities of a comparable maturity to the remaining term of such series of Fixed Rate Notes. </font>
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          <font style="letter-spacing:0.2pt;">&#8220;Comparable Treasury Price&#8221; means with respect to any redemption date for the Fixed Rate Notes of each series, (1)&#160;the average of the Reference Treasury Dealer Quotations for such redemption date, after excluding the highest and lowest of such Reference Treasury Dealer Quotations, or (2)&#160;if fewer than four of such Reference Treasury Dealer Quotations are obtained, the average of all such Reference Treasury Dealer Quotations as determined by us. </font>
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          <font style="letter-spacing:0.2pt;">&#8220;Quotation Agent&#8221; means one of the Reference Treasury Dealers appointed by us. </font>
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          <font style="letter-spacing:0.2pt;">&#8220;Reference Treasury Dealer&#8221; means each of (i)&#160;Barclays Capital Inc., BofA Securities, Inc., RBC&#160;Capital Markets, LLC and Wells Fargo Securities, LLC and (ii)&#160;a Primary Treasury Dealer (as defined below) selected by PNC Capital Markets LLC, or, in each case, their respective affiliates or successors, each of which is a primary U.S. Government securities dealer in the United States (a &#8220;Primary Treasury Dealer&#8221;); provided, however, that if any of the foregoing or their affiliates or successors shall cease to be a Primary Treasury Dealer, we shall substitute therefor another Primary Treasury Dealer. </font>
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          <font style="letter-spacing:0.2pt;">&#8220;Reference Treasury Dealer Quotations&#8221; means, with respect to each Reference Treasury Dealer and any redemption date, the average, as determined by the Quotation Agent, of the bid and asked prices for the applicable Comparable Treasury Issue (expressed in each case as a&#160;percentage of its principal amount) quoted in writing to the Quotation Agent by such Reference Treasury Dealer at 5:00&#160;p.m., New York City time, on the third business day preceding such redemption date. </font>
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          <font style="letter-spacing:0.2pt;">&#8220;Treasury Rate&#8221; means, with respect to any redemption date, the rate per annum equal to the semi-annual equivalent yield to maturity or interpolated maturity (on a day count basis) of the applicable Comparable Treasury Issue, assuming a price for such Comparable Treasury Issue (expressed as a&#160;percentage of its principal amount) equal to the applicable Comparable Treasury Price for such redemption date. </font>
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          <font style="letter-spacing:-0.2pt;">Redemption Procedures</font><font style="font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:0.2pt;"> </font>
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          <font style="letter-spacing:0.2pt;">We will provide not less than 10 nor more than 60&#160;days&#8217; notice mailed (or, as long as the Fixed Rate Notes are represented by one or more global securities, transmitted in accordance with DTC&#8217;s procedures) </font>
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          <font style="letter-spacing:0.2pt;">to each registered holder of the Fixed Rate Notes to be redeemed. If the redemption notice is given and funds deposited as required, then interest will cease to accrue from and after the redemption date on the Fixed Rate Notes or portions of such Fixed Rate Notes called for redemption. In the event that any redemption date is not a business day, we will pay the redemption price on the next business day without any interest or other payment due to the delay. If less than all of the Fixed Rate Notes of any series are being redeemed, the Fixed Rate Notes or portions of the Fixed Rate Notes of such series being redeemed shall be selected for redemption in accordance with DTC&#8217;s standard procedures. </font>
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          <font style="letter-spacing:-0.2pt;">Sinking Fund</font><font style="font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:0.2pt;"> </font>
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          <font style="letter-spacing:0.2pt;">There is no provision for a sinking fund applicable to the Notes. </font>
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          <font style="letter-spacing:-0.2pt;">Reports</font><font style="font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:0.2pt;"> </font>
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          <font style="letter-spacing:0.2pt;">We will provide the Trustee any information, documents or reports required to be filed by us with the SEC under Section&#160;13 or Section&#160;15(d) of the Exchange Act within 15&#160;days after the same is filed with the SEC. See &#8220;Where You Can Find More Information.&#8221; </font>
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          <font style="letter-spacing:-0.2pt;">Concerning the Trustee and Calculation Agent</font><font style="font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:0.2pt;"> </font>
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          <font style="letter-spacing:0.2pt;">The Bank of New York Mellon Trust Company, N.A. is the Trustee and the Calculation Agent for the Floating Rate Notes. We and some of our affiliates have banking relationships with The Bank of New York Mellon Trust Company, N.A. and its affiliates. The Bank of New York Mellon Trust Company, N.A. or its affiliate also serves as trustee or agent under other indentures and agreements pursuant to which our securities and securities of some of our affiliates are outstanding. BNY Mellon Capital Markets, LLC, one of the underwriters participating in the offerings, is an affiliate of the Trustee and the Calculation Agent.</font>
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          <font style="letter-spacing:-0.2pt;">CERTAIN U.S. FEDERAL INCOME TAX CONSIDERATIONS FOR NON-U.S. HOLDERS</font><font style="font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:0.2pt;"> </font>
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          <font style="letter-spacing:0.2pt;">The following discussion summarizes certain U.S. federal income tax considerations relevant to the acquisition, ownership and disposition of the Notes, and does not purport to be a complete analysis of all potential U.S. federal income tax considerations. This discussion only applies to Notes that are held as capital assets, within the meaning of section 1221 of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended (the &#8220;Code&#8221;), and that are purchased in the initial offering at the initial offering price by Non-U.S. Holders (as defined below). </font>
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          <font style="letter-spacing:0.2pt;">This summary is based on the Code, administrative pronouncements, judicial decisions and regulations of the Treasury Department, changes to any of which subsequent to the date of this prospectus supplement may affect the tax consequences described herein. This discussion does not describe all of the U.S. federal income tax considerations that may be relevant to Non-U.S. Holders in light of their particular circumstances or to Non-U.S. Holders subject to special rules, such as certain financial institutions, tax-exempt organizations, insurance companies, traders or dealers in securities or commodities, persons holding Notes as part of a hedge or other integrated transaction, accrual method taxpayers subject to special tax accounting rules as a result of their use of certain financial statements under Section&#160;451(b) of the Code or certain former citizens or residents of the United States. This discussion does not address any U.S. federal income tax consequences for U.S. taxpayers who purchase Notes. Persons considering the purchase of Notes are urged to consult their tax advisors with regard to the application of the U.S. federal income tax laws to their particular situations as well as any tax consequences arising under the laws of any state, local or foreign taxing jurisdiction. Furthermore, this discussion does not describe the effect of U.S. federal estate and gift tax laws or the effect of any applicable foreign, state or local laws. </font>
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          <font style="letter-spacing:0.2pt;">We have not and will not seek any rulings or opinions from the Internal Revenue Service (the &#8220;IRS&#8221;) with respect to the matters discussed below. There can be no assurance that the IRS will not take a different position concerning the tax consequences of the acquisition, ownership or disposition of the Notes or that any such position would not be sustained. </font>
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          <font style="letter-spacing:-0.2pt;">Prospective investors should consult their own tax advisors with regard to the application of the U.S. federal income tax considerations discussed below to their particular situations as well as the application of any state, local, foreign or other tax laws, including gift and estate tax laws.</font><font style="font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:0.2pt;"> </font>
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          <font style="letter-spacing:0.2pt;">For purposes of this summary, a &#8220;Non-U.S. Holder&#8221; means a beneficial owner of a Note that, for U.S. federal income tax purposes, is neither a partnership (including an entity or arrangement treated as a partnership for U.S. federal income tax purposes) nor (i)&#160;an individual that is a citizen or resident of the United States; (ii)&#160;a corporation or other entity treated as a corporation for U.S. federal income tax purposes that is created or organized under the laws of the United States, any state thereof or the District of Columbia; (iii)&#160;an estate the income of which is subject to U.S. federal income taxation regardless of its source; or (iv)&#160;a trust if (A)&#160;a court within the United States is able to exercise primary supervision over its administration and one or more United States persons (as defined in the Code) have the authority to control all substantial decisions of such trust, or (B)&#160;the trust has made an election under the applicable Treasury regulations to be treated as a United States person. </font>
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          <font style="letter-spacing:0.2pt;">If a partnership, or other entity or arrangement treated as a partnership for U.S. federal income tax purposes, holds Notes, the tax treatment of a partner in such a partnership will generally depend upon the status of the partner and the activities of the partnership. Partners in a partnership holding Notes should consult their tax advisor as to the particular U.S. federal income tax considerations relevant to the acquisition, ownership and disposition of the Notes applicable to them. </font>
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          <font style="letter-spacing:-0.2pt;">Interest</font><font style="font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:0.2pt;"> </font>
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          <font style="letter-spacing:0.2pt;">It is anticipated, and this discussion assumes, that the Notes will not be issued with more than a de minimis amount of original issue discount. Except if interest on the Notes is effectively connected with the conduct by a Non-U.S. Holder of a trade or business within the United States, and subject to the discussions below under &#8220;Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act&#8221; and &#8220;Information Reporting and Backup Withholding,&#8221; a Non-U.S. Holder generally will not be subject to U.S. federal income or withholding tax on payments of interest on the Notes provided that such Non-U.S. Holder (A)&#160;does not directly or indirectly, </font>
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          <font style="letter-spacing:0.2pt;">actually or constructively, own 10% or more of the total combined voting power of all classes of our stock entitled to vote, (B)&#160;is not a controlled foreign corporation that is related to us directly or constructively through stock ownership, (C)&#160;is not a bank receiving such interest on an extension of credit made pursuant to a loan agreement entered into in the ordinary course of its trade or business, and (D)&#160;satisfies certain certification requirements. Such certification requirements will be met if (x)&#160;the Non-U.S. Holder provides its name and address, and certifies on an IRS Form W-8BEN or IRS Form W-8BEN-E (or a substantially similar form), under penalties of perjury, that it is not a United States person or (y)&#160;a securities clearing organization or certain other financial institutions holding the Notes on behalf of the Non-U.S. Holder certifies on IRS Form W-8IMY, under penalties of perjury, that such certification has been received by it and furnishes us or our paying agent with a copy thereof. In addition, we or our paying agent must not have actual knowledge or reason to know that the beneficial owner of the Notes is a United States person. </font>
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          <font style="letter-spacing:0.2pt;">If interest on the Notes is not effectively connected with the conduct by the Non-U.S. Holder of a trade or business within the United States, but such Non-U.S. Holder does not satisfy the other requirements outlined in the preceding paragraph, interest on the Notes generally will be subject to U.S. withholding tax at a 30% rate (or a lower applicable treaty rate). </font>
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          <font style="letter-spacing:0.2pt;">If interest on the Notes is effectively connected with the conduct by a Non-U.S. Holder of a trade or business within the United States, and, if certain tax treaties apply, is attributable to a permanent establishment or fixed base within the United States, the Non-U.S. Holder generally will be subject to U.S. federal income tax on a net income basis at the rate applicable to United States persons generally (and, with respect to corporate holders, may also be subject to a 30% branch profits tax or a lower applicable treaty branch profits tax rate). If interest on the Notes is effectively connected with a conduct by a Non-U.S. Holder of a trade or business within the United States, such interest payments will not be subject to U.S. withholding tax so long as the Non-U.S. Holder provides us or our paying agent with the appropriate documentation (generally an IRS Form W-8ECI). </font>
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          <font style="letter-spacing:0.2pt;">Subject to the discussion below under &#8220;Information Reporting and Backup Withholding,&#8221; a Non-U.S. Holder generally will not be subject to U.S. federal withholding tax with respect to gain, if any, recognized on the sale, redemption, or other taxable disposition of the Notes. A Non-U.S. Holder will also generally not be subject to U.S. federal income tax with respect to such gain, unless (i)&#160;the gain is effectively connected with the conduct by such Non-U.S. Holder of a trade or business within the United States, and, if certain tax treaties apply, is attributable to a permanent establishment or fixed base within the United States, or (ii)&#160;in the case of a Non-U.S. Holder that is a nonresident alien individual, such Non-U.S. Holder is present in the United States for 183 or more days in the taxable year of the disposition and certain other conditions are satisfied. In the case described in (i)&#160;above, gain or loss recognized on the disposition of such Notes generally will be subject to U.S. federal income taxation in the same manner as if such gain or loss were recognized by a United States person, and, in the case of a Non-U.S. Holder that is a foreign corporation, may also be subject to the branch profits tax at a rate of 30% (or a lower applicable treaty branch profits tax rate). In the case described in (ii)&#160;above, the Non-U.S. Holder will be subject to a 30% tax (or a lower applicable treaty rate) on any capital gain recognized on the disposition of the Notes (after being offset by certain U.S. source capital losses). </font>
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          <font style="letter-spacing:0.2pt;">Information returns will be filed annually with the IRS in connection with payments we make on the Notes. Copies of these information returns may also be made available under the provisions of a specific tax treaty or other agreement to the tax authorities of the country in which the Non-U.S. Holder resides. Unless the Non-U.S. Holder complies with certification procedures to establish that it is not a United States person, information returns may be filed with the IRS in connection with the proceeds from a sale, redemption, or other disposition of the Notes, and the Non-U.S. Holder may be subject to backup withholding (currently at a rate of 24%) on payments on the Notes or on the proceeds from a sale, redemption, or other disposition of the Notes. The certification procedures required to claim the exemption from withholding on interest described above will satisfy the certification requirements necessary to avoid the backup withholding as well. The amount of any backup withholding from a payment to a Non-U.S. Holder </font>
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          <font style="letter-spacing:0.2pt;">generally will be allowed as a credit against the Non-U.S. Holder&#8217;s U.S. federal income tax liability and may entitle the Non-U.S. Holder to a refund, provided that the required information is furnished to the IRS in a timely manner. </font>
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          <font style="letter-spacing:0.2pt;">Under the Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act and related IRS guidance concerning foreign account tax compliance rules (&#8220;FATCA&#8221;), a 30% U.S. withholding tax is imposed on certain payments (which includes interest payments on the Notes) made to a non-United States entity that fails to take required steps to provide information regarding its &#8220;United States accounts&#8221; or its direct or indirect &#8220;substantial United States owners,&#8221; as applicable, or to make a required certification that it has no such accounts or owners. We will not be obligated to make any &#8220;gross up&#8221; or additional payments in respect of amounts withheld on the Notes if we determine that we must so withhold in order to comply with FATCA in respect of the amounts described above. Prospective investors should consult their own tax advisors regarding FATCA and whether it may be relevant to the ownership and disposition of the Notes. </font>
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          <font style="letter-spacing:-0.2pt;">BOOK-ENTRY SYSTEM</font><font style="font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:0.2pt;"> </font>
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          <font style="letter-spacing:0.2pt;">We have obtained the information in this section concerning DTC and its book-entry system and procedures from sources that we believe to be reliable, but we take no responsibility for the accuracy of this information. </font>
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          <font style="letter-spacing:0.2pt;">Each series of the Notes initially will be represented by one or more fully registered global securities. Each global security will be deposited with, or on behalf of, DTC or any successor thereto and registered in the name of Cede &amp; Co., DTC&#8217;s nominee. </font>
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          <font style="letter-spacing:0.2pt;">Investors may elect to hold interests in each global security through either DTC in the United States or Clearstream or the Euroclear System in Europe if they are participants of such systems, or indirectly through organizations which are participants in such systems. Clearstream and the Euroclear System will hold interests on behalf of their participants through customers&#8217; securities accounts in Clearstream&#8217;s and the Euroclear System&#8217;s names on the books of their respective depositaries, which in turn will hold such interests in customers&#8217; securities accounts in the depositaries&#8217; names on the books of DTC. Citibank N.A. will act as depositary for Clearstream and JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A. will act as depositary for the Euroclear System (in such capacities, the &#8220;U.S. Depositaries&#8221;). </font>
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          <font style="letter-spacing:0.2pt;">You may hold your interests in a global security in the United States through DTC, either as a participant in such system or indirectly through organizations which are participants in such system. So long as DTC or its nominee is the registered owner of the global securities representing the Notes, DTC or such nominee will be considered the sole owner and holder of the Notes for all purposes of the Notes and the Indenture. Except as provided below, owners of beneficial interests in the Notes will not be entitled to have the Notes registered in their names, will not receive or be entitled to receive physical delivery of the Notes in definitive form and will not be considered the owners or holders of the Notes under the Indenture, including for purposes of receiving any reports that we or the Trustee deliver pursuant to the Indenture. Accordingly, each person owning a beneficial interest in a Note must rely on the procedures of DTC or its nominee and, if such person is not a participant, on the procedures of the participant through which such person owns its interest, in order to exercise any rights of a holder of Notes. </font>
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          <font style="letter-spacing:0.2pt;">Unless and until we issue the Notes in fully certificated form under the limited circumstances described below under the heading &#8220;&#8212;Certificated Notes&#8221;: </font>
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          <font style="letter-spacing:0.2pt;">you will not be entitled to receive physical delivery of a certificate representing your interest in the Notes; </font>
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          <font style="letter-spacing:0.2pt;">all references in this prospectus supplement or in the accompanying prospectus to actions by holders will refer to actions taken by DTC upon instructions from its direct participants; and </font>
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          <font style="letter-spacing:0.2pt;">all references in this prospectus supplement or the accompanying prospectus to payments and notices to holders will refer to payments and notices to DTC or Cede &amp; Co., as the registered holder of the Notes, for distribution to you in accordance with DTC procedures. </font>
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          <font style="letter-spacing:0.2pt;">DTC will act as securities depositary for the Notes. The Notes will be issued as fully registered securities registered in the name of Cede &amp; Co. DTC is: </font>
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          <font style="letter-spacing:0.2pt;">a limited-purpose trust company organized under the New York Banking Law; </font>
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          <font style="letter-spacing:0.2pt;">a &#8220;banking organization&#8221; within the meaning of the New York Banking Law; </font>
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          <font style="letter-spacing:0.2pt;">a member of the Federal Reserve System; </font>
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          <font style="letter-spacing:0.2pt;">a &#8220;clearing corporation&#8221; within the meaning of the New York Uniform Commercial Code; and </font>
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          <font style="letter-spacing:0.2pt;">a &#8220;clearing agency&#8221; registered pursuant to the provisions of Section&#160;17A of the Exchange Act. </font>
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          <font style="letter-spacing:0.2pt;">DTC holds securities that its direct participants deposit with DTC. DTC also facilitates the post-trade settlement among direct participants of sales and other securities transactions in deposited securities, through </font>
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          <font style="letter-spacing:0.2pt;">electronic computerized book-entry transfers and pledges between direct participants&#8217; accounts, thereby eliminating the need for physical movement of securities certificates. </font>
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          <font style="letter-spacing:0.2pt;">Direct participants include securities brokers and dealers, banks, trust companies, clearing corporations and certain other organizations. DTC is a wholly-owned subsidiary of The Depository Trust &amp; Clearing Corporation (&#8220;DTCC&#8221;). DTCC is the holding company for DTC, National Securities Clearing Corporation and Fixed Income Clearing Corporation, all of which are registered clearing agencies. DTCC is owned by the users of its regulated subsidiaries. Access to the DTC system is also available to indirect participants such as securities brokers and dealers, banks, trust companies, and clearing corporations that clear through or maintain a custodial relationship with a direct participant, either directly or indirectly. The rules applicable to DTC and its participants are on file with the SEC. More information about DTC can be found at www.dtcc.com. The contents of such website do not constitute part of this prospectus supplement. </font>
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          <font style="letter-spacing:0.2pt;">If you are not a direct participant or an indirect participant and you wish to purchase, sell or otherwise transfer ownership of, or other interests in the Notes, you must do so through a direct participant or an indirect participant. DTC agrees with and represents to DTC participants that it will administer its book-entry system in accordance with its rules and by-laws and requirements of law. The SEC has on file a set of the rules applicable to DTC and its direct participants. </font>
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          <font style="letter-spacing:0.2pt;">Purchases of the Notes under DTC&#8217;s system must be made by or through direct participants, which will receive a credit for the Notes on DTC&#8217;s records. The ownership interest of each beneficial owner is in turn to be recorded on the records of direct participants and indirect participants. Beneficial owners will not receive written confirmation from DTC of their purchase, but beneficial owners are expected to receive written confirmations providing details of the transaction, as well as periodic statements of their holdings, from the direct or indirect participants through which such beneficial owners entered into the transaction. Transfers of ownership interests in the Notes are to be accomplished by entries made on the books of direct and indirect participants acting on behalf of beneficial owners. Beneficial owners will not receive physical delivery of certificates representing their ownership interests in the Notes, except as provided below in &#8220;&#8212;Certificated Notes.&#8221; </font>
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          <font style="letter-spacing:0.2pt;">To facilitate subsequent transfers, all Notes deposited by direct participants with DTC are registered in the name of DTC&#8217;s partnership nominee, Cede &amp; Co., or such other name as may be requested by an authorized representative of DTC. The deposit of Notes with DTC and their registration in the name of Cede &amp; Co. or such other DTC nominee has no effect on beneficial ownership. DTC has no knowledge of the actual beneficial owners of the Notes. DTC&#8217;s records reflect only the identity of the direct participants to whose accounts such Notes are credited, which may or may not be the beneficial owners. The direct and indirect participants will remain responsible for keeping account of their holdings on behalf of their customers. </font>
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          <font style="letter-spacing:0.2pt;">Conveyance of notices and other communications by DTC to direct participants, by direct participants to indirect participants and by direct and indirect participants to beneficial owners will be governed by arrangements among them, subject to any statutory or regulatory requirements as may be in effect from time to time. </font>
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          <font style="letter-spacing:-0.2pt;">Book-Entry Format</font><font style="font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:0.2pt;"> </font>
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          <font style="letter-spacing:0.2pt;">Under the book-entry format, the Trustee will pay interest and principal payments to Cede &amp; Co., as nominee of DTC. DTC will forward the payment to the direct participants, who will then forward the payment to the indirect participants or to the beneficial owners. You may experience some delay in receiving your payments under this system. </font>
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          <font style="letter-spacing:0.2pt;">DTC is required to make book-entry transfers on behalf of its direct participants and is required to receive and transmit payments of principal, premium, if any, and interest on the Notes. Any direct participant or indirect participant with which you have an account is similarly required to make book-entry transfers and to receive and transmit payments with respect to Notes on your behalf. We and the Trustee have no responsibility or liability for any aspect of the records relating to or payments made on account of beneficial ownership interests in the Notes or for maintaining, supervising or reviewing any records relating to such beneficial ownership interests. </font>
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          <font style="letter-spacing:0.2pt;">The Trustee will not recognize you as a holder of any Notes under the Indenture and you can only exercise the rights of a holder indirectly through DTC and its direct participants. DTC has advised us that it will only take action regarding a Note if one or more of the direct participants to whom the Note is credited direct DTC to take such action. DTC can only act on behalf of its direct participants. Your ability to pledge Notes to indirect participants, and to take other actions, may be limited because you will not possess a physical certificate that represents your Notes. </font>
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          <font style="letter-spacing:-0.2pt;">Certificated Notes</font><font style="font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:0.2pt;"> </font>
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          <font style="letter-spacing:0.2pt;">Unless and until they are exchanged, in whole or in part, for Notes in definitive form in accordance with the terms of the Notes, the Notes may not be transferred except as a whole by DTC to a nominee of DTC; as a whole by a nominee of DTC to DTC or another nominee of DTC; or as a whole by DTC or a nominee of DTC to a successor of DTC or a nominee of such successor. </font>
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          <font style="letter-spacing:0.2pt;">We will issue Notes to you or your nominees, in fully certificated registered form, rather than to DTC or its nominees, only if: </font>
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          <font style="letter-spacing:0.2pt;">DTC notifies us that it is no longer willing or able to discharge its responsibilities properly or DTC is no longer a registered clearing agency under the Exchange Act, and we are unable to locate a qualified successor within 90&#160;days; </font>
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          <font style="letter-spacing:0.2pt;">an event of default has occurred and is continuing under the Indenture and beneficial owners representing a majority in aggregate principal amount of the Notes represented by global securities advise DTC to cease acting as depositary; or </font>
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          <font style="letter-spacing:0.2pt;">we, at our option, and subject to DTC&#8217;s procedures, elect to terminate use of the book-entry system through DTC. </font>
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          <font style="letter-spacing:0.2pt;">If any of the above events occurs, DTC is required to notify all direct participants that Notes in fully certificated registered form are available through DTC. DTC will then surrender each global security representing the Notes along with instructions for re-registration. The Trustee will re-issue the Notes in fully certificated registered form and will recognize the registered holders of the certificated Notes as holders under the Indenture. </font>
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          <font style="letter-spacing:-0.2pt;">Global Clearance and Settlement Procedures</font><font style="font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:0.2pt;"> </font>
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          <font style="letter-spacing:0.2pt;">Initial settlement for the Notes will be made in immediately available funds. Secondary market trading between DTC participants will occur in the ordinary way in accordance with DTC rules and will be settled in immediately available funds using DTC&#8217;s Same-Day Funds Settlement System. Secondary market trading between Clearstream participants and/or Euroclear System participants will occur in the ordinary way in accordance with the applicable rules and operating procedures of Clearstream and the Euroclear System, as applicable. </font>
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          <font style="letter-spacing:0.2pt;">Cross-market transfers between persons holding directly or indirectly through DTC on the one hand, and directly or indirectly through Clearstream participants or Euroclear System participants on the other, will be effected through DTC in accordance with DTC rules on behalf of the relevant European international clearing system by its U.S. Depositary; however, such cross-market transactions will require delivery of instructions to the relevant European international clearing system by the counterparty in such system in accordance with its rules and procedures and within its established deadlines (European time). The relevant European international clearing system will, if the transaction meets its settlement requirements, deliver instructions to its U.S. Depositary to take action to effect final settlement on its behalf by delivering or receiving securities in DTC, and making or receiving payment in accordance with normal procedures for same-day funds settlement applicable to DTC. Clearstream participants and Euroclear System participants may not deliver instructions directly to their respective U.S. Depositaries. </font>
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          <font style="letter-spacing:0.2pt;">Because of time-zone differences, credits of Notes received in Clearstream or the Euroclear System as a result of a transaction with a DTC participant will be made during subsequent securities settlement processing and dated the business day following the DTC settlement date. Such credits or any transactions in such Notes settled during such processing will be reported to the relevant Euroclear System participant or </font>
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          <font style="letter-spacing:0.2pt;">Clearstream participant on such business day. Cash received in Clearstream or the Euroclear System as a result of sales of the Notes by or through a Clearstream participant or a Euroclear System participant to a DTC participant will be received with value on the DTC settlement date but will be available in the relevant Clearstream or the Euroclear System cash account only as of the business day following settlement in DTC. </font>
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          <font style="letter-spacing:0.2pt;">Although DTC, Clearstream and the Euroclear System have agreed to the foregoing procedures in order to facilitate transfers of Notes among participants of DTC, Clearstream and the Euroclear System, they are under no obligation to perform or continue to perform such procedures and such procedures may be discontinued or changed at any time. </font>
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          <font style="letter-spacing:-0.2pt;">UNDERWRITING (CONFLICTS OF INTEREST)</font><font style="font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:0.2pt;"> </font>
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          <font style="letter-spacing:0.2pt;">We have entered into an underwriting agreement with respect to the Notes with the underwriters listed below, for whom Barclays Capital Inc., BofA Securities, Inc., PNC Capital Markets LLC, RBC Capital Markets, LLC and Wells Fargo Securities, LLC are acting as representatives. Subject to certain conditions, each of the underwriters has severally agreed to purchase the principal amount of Notes indicated in the following table: </font>
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            <td style="padding:0pt; width:3pt;">&#8203;</td>
            <td style="padding:0pt; width:3pt;">&#8203;</td>
            <td style="padding:0pt;padding-left:1.795pt;width:0pt;">&#8203;</td>
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            <td style="padding:0pt; width:3pt;">&#8203;</td>
            <td style="padding:0pt; width:3pt;">&#8203;</td>
            <td style="padding:0pt;padding-left:1.795pt;width:0pt;">&#8203;</td>
            <td style="padding:3.5pt 0pt 1.5pt 0pt; min-width:3.75pt; text-align:right; ">&#8203;</td>
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            <td style="padding:3.5pt 0pt 1.5pt 0pt; min-width:3.75pt; text-align:right; ">&#8203;</td>
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            <td style="padding:0pt; width:3pt;">&#8203;</td>
            <td style="padding:0pt; width:3pt;">&#8203;</td>
            <td style="padding:0pt;padding-left:1.795pt;width:0pt;">&#8203;</td>
            <td style="padding:3.5pt 0pt 1.5pt 0pt; min-width:3.75pt; text-align:right; ">&#8203;</td>
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            <td style="padding:0pt;padding-left:4.18pt;width:0pt;">&#8203;</td>
            <td style="padding:3.5pt 0pt 1.5pt 0pt; min-width:3.75pt; text-align:right; ">&#8203;</td>
            <td style="padding:3.5pt 0pt 1.5pt 0pt; min-width:41.25pt; text-align:right; white-space:nowrap;">2,250,000 </td>
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            <td style="padding:0pt; width:3pt;">&#8203;</td>
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            <td style="padding:0pt;padding-left:4.18pt;width:0pt;">&#8203;</td>
            <td style="padding:3.5pt 0pt 1.5pt 0pt; min-width:3.75pt; text-align:right; ">&#8203;</td>
            <td style="padding:3.5pt 0pt 1.5pt 0pt; min-width:38.25pt; text-align:right; white-space:nowrap;">2,250,000 </td>
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            <td style="padding:0pt;border-bottom:1px solid #CCEEFF; width:3pt;">&#8203;</td>
            <td style="padding:0pt;border-bottom:1px solid #CCEEFF; width:3pt;">&#8203;</td>
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            <td style="padding:3.5pt 0pt 2.5pt 0pt;border-bottom:1px solid #000000; min-width:3.75pt; text-align:right; ">&#8203;</td>
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            <td style="padding:0pt;border-bottom:1px solid #CCEEFF; width:3pt;">&#8203;</td>
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            <td style="padding:3.5pt 0pt 2.5pt 0pt;border-bottom:1px solid #000000; min-width:3.75pt; text-align:right; ">&#8203;</td>
            <td style="padding:3.5pt 0pt 2.5pt 0pt;border-bottom:1px solid #000000; min-width:47.25pt; text-align:right; white-space:nowrap;">2,900,000</td>
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            <td style="padding:3.5pt 0pt 2.5pt 0pt;border-bottom:1px solid #000000; min-width:38.25pt; text-align:right; white-space:nowrap;">2,175,000</td>
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            <td style="padding:3.25pt 0pt 2.5pt 0pt;border-bottom:3pt double #000000; min-width:41.25pt; text-align:right; white-space:nowrap;">500,000,000 </td>
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            <td style="padding:3.25pt 0pt 2.5pt 0pt;border-bottom:3pt double #000000; min-width:47.25pt; text-align:right; white-space:nowrap;">1,000,000,000 </td>
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            <td style="padding:3.25pt 0pt 2.5pt 0pt;border-bottom:3pt double #000000; min-width:41.25pt; text-align:right; white-space:nowrap;">750,000,000 </td>
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            <td style="padding:3.25pt 0pt 2.5pt 0pt;border-bottom:3pt double #000000; min-width:38.25pt; text-align:right; white-space:nowrap;">750,000,000</td>
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          <font style="letter-spacing:0.2pt;">The underwriting agreement provides that the obligations of the several underwriters to pay for and accept delivery of the Notes are subject to certain conditions, including the receipt of legal opinions relating to certain matters. The underwriters must purchase all of the Floating Rate Notes, the 2031 Fixed Rate Notes, the 2041 Fixed Rate Notes or the 2051 Fixed Rate Notes, respectively, if they purchase any of the Floating Rate Notes, the 2031 Fixed Rate Notes, the 2041 Fixed Rate Notes or the 2051 Fixed Rate Notes. However, the sales of the Floating Rate Notes, the 2031 Fixed Rate Notes, the 2041 Fixed Rate Notes and the 2051 Fixed Rate Notes are not conditioned upon each other, and we may consummate the sales of one or more series of Notes and not any of the other series of Notes, or consummate the sales at different times. If an underwriter defaults, the underwriting agreement provides that the purchase commitments of the nondefaulting underwriters may be increased or the underwriting agreement may be terminated. </font>
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        <div style="text-indent:20pt; margin-top:6pt; width:456pt; line-height:12.5pt;">
          <font style="letter-spacing:0.2pt;">We have agreed to indemnify the several underwriters against certain liabilities, including liabilities under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, or to contribute to payments the underwriters may be required to make in respect of any of these liabilities. </font>
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        <div style="text-indent:20pt; margin-top:6pt; width:456pt; line-height:12.5pt;">
          <font style="letter-spacing:0.2pt;">The underwriters are offering the Notes subject to prior sale, when, as and if issued to and accepted by them, subject to approval of legal matters by their counsel, including the validity of the Notes, and other conditions contained in the underwriting agreement, such as the receipt by the underwriters of officers&#8217; certificates and legal opinions. The underwriters reserve the right to withdraw, cancel or modify offers to the public and to reject orders in whole or in part. </font>
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          <font style="letter-spacing:0.2pt;">S-32</font>
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          <font style="letter-spacing:-0.2pt;">Commissions and Discounts</font><font style="font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:0.2pt;"> </font>
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        <div style="text-indent:20pt; margin-top:6pt; width:456pt; line-height:11.5pt;">
          <font style="letter-spacing:0.2pt;">The Notes sold by the underwriters to the public will initially be offered at the applicable price to the public set forth on the cover of this prospectus supplement and may be offered to certain dealers at such price less a concession not in excess of (i) 0.150% of the aggregate principal amount of the Floating Rate Notes, (ii) 0.450% of the aggregate principal amount of the 2031 Fixed Rate Notes, (iii) 0.450% of the aggregate principal amount of the 2041 Fixed Rate Notes or (iv) 0.500% of the aggregate principal amount of the 2051 Fixed Rate Notes. The underwriters may allow, and those dealers may reallow, a discount not in excess of (i) 0.100% of the aggregate principal amount of the Floating Rate Notes, (ii) 0.200% of the aggregate principal amount of the 2031 Fixed Rate Notes, (iii) 0.300% of the aggregate principal amount of the 2041 Fixed Rate Notes or (iv) 0.350% of the aggregate principal amount of the 2051 Fixed Rate Notes, to certain other dealers. If all of the Floating Rate Notes, the 2031 Fixed Rate Notes, the 2041 Fixed Rate Notes or the 2051 Fixed Rate Notes are not sold at the applicable price to the public, the underwriters may change such price to the public and the other selling terms. </font>
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        <div style="text-indent:20pt; margin-top:6pt; width:456pt; line-height:12pt;">
          <font style="letter-spacing:0.2pt;">The expenses of the offerings, not including the respective underwriting discounts, are estimated to be approximately $2,340,000. The underwriters have agreed to make a payment to us in an amount equal to $3,937,500, including in respect of expenses incurred by us in connection with the offerings. </font>
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        <div style="margin-top:12pt; width:456pt; line-height:12pt;font-weight:bold;">
          <font style="letter-spacing:-0.2pt;">Settlement</font><font style="font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:0.2pt;"> </font>
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        <div style="text-indent:20pt; margin-top:6pt; width:456pt; line-height:12pt;">
          <font style="letter-spacing:0.2pt;">It is expected that delivery of the Notes will be made against payment for the Notes on or about the date specified on the cover page of this prospectus supplement, which is the third business day following the date of this prospectus supplement (such settlement cycle being referred to as &#8220;T+3&#8221;). Under Rule&#160;15c6-1 under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, trades in the secondary market generally are required to settle in two business days unless the parties to any such trade expressly agree otherwise. Accordingly, purchasers who wish to trade the Notes on the date of this prospectus supplement will be required, by virtue of the fact that the Notes initially will settle in T+3, to specify an alternative settlement cycle at the time of any such trade to prevent a failed settlement. Purchasers of the Notes who wish to trade the Notes on the date of this prospectus supplement should consult their own advisors. </font>
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        <div style="margin-top:12pt; width:456pt; line-height:12pt;font-weight:bold;">
          <font style="letter-spacing:-0.2pt;">New Issue of Notes</font><font style="font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:0.2pt;"> </font>
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        <div style="text-indent:20pt; margin-top:6pt; width:456pt; line-height:12pt;">
          <font style="letter-spacing:0.2pt;">Each series of the Notes is a new issue of securities with no established trading market. The Notes will not be listed on any securities exchange or included in any automated quotation system. We have been advised by the underwriters that the underwriters intend to make a market in each series of the Notes, but they are not obligated to do so and may discontinue market making at any time without notice. No assurance can be given as to the liquidity of any trading markets for the Notes. </font>
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          <font style="letter-spacing:-0.2pt;">Price Stabilization and Short Positions</font><font style="font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:0.2pt;"> </font>
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          <font style="letter-spacing:0.2pt;">In connection with the offerings, the underwriters may engage in transactions that stabilize, maintain, or otherwise affect the prices of the Notes. These transactions may include short sales, stabilizing transactions and purchases to cover positions created by short sales. Short sales involve the sale by the underwriters of a greater aggregate principal amount of each series of Notes than they are required to purchase in the offerings. Stabilizing transactions consist of certain bids or purchases made for the purpose of preventing or retarding a decline in the market price of each series of the Notes while the offerings are in process. </font>
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          <font style="letter-spacing:0.2pt;">These activities by the underwriters may stabilize, maintain or otherwise affect the market prices of the Notes. As a result, the price of each series of the Notes may be higher than the price that otherwise might exist in the open market. If these activities are commenced, they may be discontinued by the underwriters at any time. These transactions may be effected in the over-the-counter market or otherwise. </font>
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          <font style="letter-spacing:-0.2pt;">Other Relationships</font><font style="font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:0.2pt;"> </font>
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          <font style="letter-spacing:0.2pt;">The underwriters and their respective affiliates are full service financial institutions engaged in various activities, which may include, among other activities, securities trading and underwriting, commercial and investment banking, financial advisory, corporate trust, investment management, investment research, principal investment, hedging, financing and brokerage activities. In the ordinary course of their respective </font>
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          <font style="letter-spacing:0.2pt;">businesses, some of the underwriters and/or their affiliates have in the past and may in the future provide us and our affiliates with commercial banking, investment banking, financial advisory and other services for which they have received and in the future will receive customary fees. </font>
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          <font style="letter-spacing:0.2pt;">In addition, in the ordinary course of their respective business activities, the underwriters and their respective affiliates may make or hold a broad array of investments and actively trade debt and equity securities (or related derivative securities) and financial instruments (including bank loans) for their own account and for the accounts of their customers. Such investments and securities activities may involve securities and/or instruments of ours or our affiliates. </font>
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          <font style="letter-spacing:0.2pt;">Certain of the underwriters or their affiliates have a lending relationship with us and our affiliates. Certain of those underwriters or their affiliates routinely hedge, and certain other of those underwriters or their affiliates may hedge, their credit exposure to us and our affiliates consistent with their customary risk management policies. Typically, such underwriters and their affiliates would hedge such exposure by entering into transactions which consist of either the purchase of credit default swaps or the creation of short positions in our securities, including potentially the Notes offered hereby. Any such credit default swaps or short positions could adversely affect future trading prices of the Notes offered hereby. </font>
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          <font style="letter-spacing:0.2pt;">The underwriters and their respective affiliates may also make investment recommendations and/or publish or express independent research views in respect of such securities or financial instruments and may hold, or recommend to clients that they acquire, long and/or short positions in such securities and instruments. </font>
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          <font style="letter-spacing:0.2pt;">Theodore F. Craver, Jr., who serves as a member of Duke Energy Corporation&#8217;s Board of Directors, serves as a member of Wells Fargo &amp; Company&#8217;s Board of Directors, which is an affiliate of Wells Fargo Securities, LLC, one of the underwriters. </font>
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          <font style="letter-spacing:-0.2pt;">Conflicts of Interest</font><font style="font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:0.2pt;"> </font>
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          <font style="letter-spacing:0.2pt;">A portion of the aggregate net proceeds from the sale of the Notes is expected to be used (i)&#160;to redeem the 3.55% Senior Notes, (ii)&#160;to repay at maturity the 1.800% Senior Notes and (iii)&#160;to repay a portion of our outstanding commercial paper. To the extent any of the underwriters or their affiliates own our commercial paper or some of the 3.55% Senior Notes and/or the 1.800% Senior Notes, such party would receive a portion of the aggregate net proceeds from the sale of the Notes. Accordingly, any such underwriter may have a conflict of interest, in that it has an interest in the offerings beyond the underwriting discount it receives in connection with the offerings. </font>
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          <font style="letter-spacing:-0.2pt;">Selling Restrictions</font><font style="font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:0.2pt;"> </font>
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          <font style="letter-spacing:0.2pt;">The Notes may not be offered, sold or otherwise made available to any retail investor in the EEA. For the purposes of this provision: </font>
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          <font style="letter-spacing:0.2pt;">(a) the expression &#8220;retail investor&#8221; means a person who is one (or more) of the following: </font>
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          <font style="letter-spacing:0.2pt;">not a qualified investor as defined in the Prospectus Regulation; and </font>
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          <font style="letter-spacing:0.2pt;">(b) the expression &#8220;offer&#8221; includes the communication in any form and by any means of sufficient information on the terms of the offer and the Notes to be offered so as to enable an investor to decide to purchase or subscribe for the Notes. </font>
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          <font style="letter-spacing:0.2pt;">a customer within the meaning of the provisions of the FSMA and any rules or regulations made under the FSMA to implement the Insurance Distribution Directive, where that customer would not qualify as a professional client, as defined in point (8)&#160;of Article&#160;2(1) of Regulation (EU) No 600/2014 as it forms part of domestic law of the United Kingdom by virtue of the EUWA; or </font>
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          <font style="letter-spacing:0.2pt;">the expression &#8220;offer&#8221; includes the communication in any form and by any means of sufficient information on the terms of the offer and the Notes to be offered so as to enable an investor to decide to purchase or subscribe for the Notes. </font>
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          <font style="letter-spacing:0.2pt;">The Notes may be sold only to purchasers purchasing, or deemed to be purchasing, as principal that are accredited investors, as defined in National Instrument 45-106 </font><font style="font-style:italic;letter-spacing:0.2pt;">Prospectus Exemptions</font><font style="letter-spacing:0.2pt;"> or subsection&#160;73.3(1) of the </font><font style="font-style:italic;letter-spacing:0.2pt;">Securities Act</font><font style="letter-spacing:0.2pt;"> (Ontario), and are permitted clients, as defined in National Instrument 31-103 </font><font style="font-style:italic;letter-spacing:0.2pt;">Registration Requirements, Exemptions and Ongoing Registrant Obligations</font><font style="letter-spacing:0.2pt;">. Any resale of the Notes must be made in accordance with an exemption from, or in a transaction not subject to, the prospectus requirements of applicable securities laws. </font>
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          <font style="letter-spacing:0.2pt;">Securities legislation in certain provinces or territories of Canada may provide a purchaser with remedies for rescission or damages if this prospectus supplement and the accompanying prospectus (including any amendment thereto) contains a misrepresentation, provided that the remedies for rescission or damages are exercised by the purchaser within the time limit prescribed by the securities legislation of the purchaser&#8217;s province or territory. The purchaser should refer to any applicable provisions of the securities legislation of the purchaser&#8217;s province or territory for particulars of these rights or consult with a legal advisor. </font>
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          <font style="letter-spacing:0.2pt;">Pursuant to section 3A.3 of National Instrument 33-105 </font><font style="font-style:italic;letter-spacing:0.2pt;">Underwriting Conflicts</font><font style="letter-spacing:0.2pt;"> (NI 33-105), the underwriters are not required to comply with the disclosure requirements of NI 33-105 regarding underwriter conflicts of interest in connection with the offerings. </font>
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          <font style="letter-spacing:0.2pt;">The Notes have not been offered and will not be offered or sold in Hong Kong by means of any document other than (i)&#160;in circumstances which do not constitute an offer to the public within the meaning of the Companies (Winding Up and Miscellaneous Provisions) Ordinance (Cap. 32, Laws of Hong Kong), (ii)&#160;to &#8220;professional investors&#8221; within the meaning of the Securities and Futures Ordinance </font>
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          <font style="letter-spacing:0.2pt;">(Cap.&#160;571,&#160;Laws of Hong Kong) and any rules made thereunder or (iii)&#160;in other circumstances which do not result in the document being a &#8220;prospectus&#8221; within the meaning of the Companies (Winding Up and Miscellaneous Provisions) Ordinance (Cap. 32, Laws of Hong Kong); and no advertisement, invitation or document relating to the Notes may be issued or has been or may be in the possession of any person for the purpose of issue (in each case whether in Hong Kong or elsewhere), which is directed at, or the contents of which are likely to be accessed or read by, the public in Hong Kong (except if permitted to do so under the securities laws of Hong Kong) other than with respect to Notes which are or are intended to be disposed of only to persons outside Hong Kong or only to &#8220;professional investors&#8221; within the meaning of the Securities and Futures Ordinance (Cap. 571, Laws of Hong Kong) and any rules made thereunder. </font>
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          <font style="letter-spacing:0.2pt;">The Notes have not been and will not be registered under the Financial Instruments and Exchange Law of Japan (Law No. 25 of 1948, as amended) (the &#8220;Financial Instruments and Exchange Law&#8221;), and the Notes have not been offered or sold and will not be offered or sold, directly or indirectly, in Japan or to, or for the account or benefit of, any resident of Japan (which term as used herein means any person resident in Japan, including any corporation or other entity organized under the laws of Japan), or to others for re-offering or resale, directly or indirectly, in Japan or to, or for the account or benefit of any resident of Japan, except pursuant to an exemption from the registration requirements of, and otherwise in compliance with, the Financial Instruments and Exchange Law and any other applicable laws, regulations and guidelines promulgated by the relevant Japanese governmental and regulatory authorities and in effect at the relevant time. </font>
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          <font style="letter-spacing:-0.2pt;">Notice to Prospective Investors in Taiwan</font><font style="font-style:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:0.2pt;"> </font>
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          <font style="letter-spacing:0.2pt;">The Notes have not been and will not be registered with the Financial Supervisory Commission of Taiwan, the Republic of China (&#8220;Taiwan&#8221;), pursuant to relevant securities laws and regulations and may not be offered or sold in Taiwan through a public offering or in any manner which would constitute an offer within the meaning of the Securities and Exchange Act of Taiwan or would otherwise require registration with or the approval of the Financial Supervisory Commission of Taiwan. No person or entity in Taiwan has been authorized to offer, sell, give advice regarding or otherwise intermediate the offering or sale of the Notes in Taiwan. </font>
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          <font style="letter-spacing:-0.2pt;">Notice to Prospective Investors in Switzerland</font><font style="font-style:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:0.2pt;"> </font>
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          <font style="letter-spacing:0.2pt;">This prospectus supplement and the accompanying prospectus are not intended to constitute an offer or solicitation to purchase or invest in the Notes. The Notes may not be publicly offered, directly or indirectly, in Switzerland within the meaning of the Swiss Financial Services Act (&#8220;FinSA&#8221;) and no application has or will be made to admit the Notes to trading on any trading venue (exchange or multilateral trading facility) in Switzerland. Neither this prospectus supplement, the accompanying prospectus nor any other offering or marketing material relating to the Notes constitutes a prospectus pursuant to the FinSA, and neither this prospectus supplement, the accompanying prospectus nor any other offering or marketing material relating to the Notes may be publicly distributed or otherwise made publicly available in Switzerland. </font>
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          <font style="letter-spacing:-0.2pt;">Notice to Prospective Investors in the Republic of Korea</font><font style="font-style:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:0.2pt;"> </font>
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          <font style="letter-spacing:0.2pt;">The Notes may not be offered, sold and delivered directly or indirectly, or offered or sold to any person for reoffering or resale, directly or indirectly, in the Republic of Korea or to any resident of the Republic of Korea except pursuant to the applicable laws and regulations of the Republic of Korea, including, without limitation, the Financial Investment Services and Capital Markets Act and the Foreign Exchange Transaction Law and the decrees and regulations thereunder. The Notes have not been and will not be registered with the Financial Services Commission of Korea for public offering in the Republic of Korea. Furthermore, the Notes may not be resold to residents of the Republic of Korea unless the purchaser of the Notes complies with all applicable regulatory requirements (including but not limited to government approval requirements under the Foreign Exchange Transaction Law and its subordinate decrees and regulations) in connection with the purchase of the Notes. </font>
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          <font style="letter-spacing:-0.2pt;">Notice to Prospective Investors in the United Arab Emirates</font><font style="font-style:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:0.2pt;"> </font>
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          <font style="letter-spacing:0.2pt;">The Notes have not been, and are not being, publicly offered, sold, promoted or advertised in the United Arab Emirates (including the Dubai International Financial Centre) other than in compliance with the laws of the United Arab Emirates (and the Dubai International Financial Centre) governing the issue, offering and sale of securities. Further, this prospectus supplement and the accompanying prospectus do not constitute a public offer of securities in the United Arab Emirates (including the Dubai International Financial Centre) and are not intended to be a public offer. This prospectus supplement and the accompanying prospectus have not been approved by or filed with the Central Bank of the United Arab Emirates, the Securities and Commodities Authority or the Dubai Financial Services Authority. </font>
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          <font style="letter-spacing:-0.2pt;">LEGAL MATTERS</font><font style="font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:0.2pt;"> </font>
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        <div style="text-indent:20pt; margin-top:8pt; width:456pt; line-height:12pt;">
          <font style="letter-spacing:0.2pt;">The validity of the Notes will be passed upon for Duke Energy Corporation by Robert T. Lucas III, Esq., who is Deputy General Counsel of Duke Energy Business Services LLC, the service company affiliate of Duke Energy Corporation. Certain legal matters with respect to the offerings of the Notes will be passed upon for Duke Energy Corporation by Hunton Andrews Kurth LLP, New York, New York. Sidley Austin LLP, New York, New York, has acted as counsel to the underwriters. Sidley Austin LLP acts and, in the past has acted, as counsel to Duke Energy Corporation and certain of its subsidiaries in connection with various matters. </font>
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          <font style="letter-spacing:-0.2pt;">WHERE YOU CAN FIND MORE INFORMATION</font><font style="font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:0.2pt;"> </font>
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        <div style="text-indent:20pt; margin-top:8pt; width:456pt; line-height:12pt;">
          <font style="letter-spacing:0.2pt;">We are subject to the informational requirements of the Exchange Act, and, in accordance therewith, file annual, quarterly and current reports, proxy statements and other information with the SEC. Our filings with the SEC, as well as additional information about us, are available to the public through our website at http://www.duke-energy.com and are made available as soon as reasonably practicable after such material is filed with or furnished to the SEC. The information on our website is not a part of this prospectus supplement or the accompanying prospectus. Our filings are also available to the public through the SEC&#8217;s website at http://www.sec.gov. </font>
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        <div style="text-indent:20pt; margin-top:8pt; width:456pt; line-height:12pt;">
          <font style="letter-spacing:0.2pt;">The SEC allows us to &#8220;incorporate by reference&#8221; into this prospectus supplement the information we file with it, which means that we can disclose important information to you by referring you to those documents. The information incorporated by reference is considered to be a part of this prospectus supplement, and information that we file later with the SEC will automatically update and supersede this information. This prospectus supplement incorporates by reference the documents incorporated in the accompanying prospectus at the time the registration statement became effective and all later documents filed with the SEC, in all cases as updated and superseded by later filings with the SEC. We incorporate by reference the documents listed below and any future documents filed by us with the SEC under Section&#160;13(a), 13(c), 14 or 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, until the offerings are completed: </font>
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          <font style="letter-spacing:0.2pt;"><a style="-sec-extract:exhibit" href="https://www.sec.gov/ix?doc=/Archives/edgar/data/17797/000132616021000063/duk-20201231.htm">Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December&#160;31, 2020;</a> </font>
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          <font style="letter-spacing:0.2pt;"><a style="-sec-extract:exhibit" href="https://www.sec.gov/ix?doc=/Archives/edgar/data/17797/000132616021000136/duk-20210331.htm">Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the quarterly period ended March&#160;31, 2021</a>; and </font>
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          <font style="letter-spacing:0.2pt;">Current Reports on Form 8-K filed on <a style="-sec-extract:exhibit" href="https://www.sec.gov/ix?doc=/Archives/edgar/data/37637/000110465921004438/tm213132d1_8k.htm">January&#160;15, 2021</a>, <a style="-sec-extract:exhibit" href="https://www.sec.gov/ix?doc=/Archives/edgar/data/17797/000132616021000004/duk-20210122.htm">January&#160;25</a>, 2021, <a style="-sec-extract:exhibit" href="https://www.sec.gov/ix?doc=/Archives/edgar/data/81020/000110465921008865/tm214472d1_8k.htm">January&#160;28, 2021</a>, <a style="-sec-extract:exhibit" href="https://www.sec.gov/ix?doc=/Archives/edgar/data/1326160/000132616021000105/duk-20210225.htm">March&#160;3, 2021</a>, <a style="-sec-extract:exhibit" href="https://www.sec.gov/ix?doc=/Archives/edgar/data/1326160/000110465921043714/tm2111251d1_8k.htm">March&#160;30, 2021</a> and <a style="-sec-extract:exhibit" href="https://www.sec.gov/ix?doc=/Archives/edgar/data/1326160/000110465921064570/tm2115845d1_8k.htm">May&#160;11, 2021</a>. </font>
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          <font style="letter-spacing:0.2pt;">We will provide you without charge a copy of these filings, other than any exhibits unless the exhibits are specifically incorporated by reference into this prospectus supplement. You may request a copy by writing us at the following address or telephoning one of the following numbers: </font>
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          <font style="letter-spacing:0.2pt;">Investor Relations Department</font>
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          <font style="letter-spacing:0.2pt;">Duke Energy Corporation</font>
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          <font style="letter-spacing:0.2pt;">P.O. Box 1005</font>
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          <font style="letter-spacing:0.2pt;">Charlotte, North Carolina 28201</font>
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          <font style="letter-spacing:0.2pt;">(704) 382-3853 or (800) 488-3853 (toll-free)</font>
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          <font style="letter-spacing:-0.36pt;">Duke Energy Corporation</font><font style="font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:0.36pt;"> </font>
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          <font style="letter-spacing:-0.28pt;">Common Stock </font>
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          <font style="letter-spacing:-0.28pt;">Depositary Shares </font>
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          <font style="letter-spacing:-0.28pt;">Stock Purchase Units</font><font style="font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:0.28pt;"> </font>
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          <font style="letter-spacing:0.2pt;">From time to time, we may offer the securities described in this prospectus separately or together in any combination, in one or more classes or series, in amounts, at prices and on terms that we will determine at the time of the offering. </font>
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          <font style="letter-spacing:0.2pt;">We will provide specific terms of these offerings and securities in supplements to this prospectus. You should read carefully this prospectus, the information incorporated by reference in this prospectus and any prospectus supplement before you invest. This prospectus may not be used to offer or sell any securities unless accompanied by a prospectus supplement. </font>
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          <font style="letter-spacing:0.2pt;">Our common stock is listed on the New York Stock Exchange, or NYSE, under the trading symbol &#8220;DUK.&#8221; </font>
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          <font style="letter-spacing:-0.24pt;">Investing in our securities involves risks. You should carefully consider the information in the section entitled &#8220;Risk Factors&#8221; on page&#160;<a href="#tBRIFA1">2</a> of this prospectus before you invest in any of our securities.</font><font style="font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:0.24pt;"> </font>
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          <font style="letter-spacing:0.2pt;">We may offer and sell the securities directly, through agents we select from time to time or to or through underwriters or dealers we select. If we use any agents, underwriters or dealers to sell the securities, we will name them and describe their compensation in a prospectus supplement. The price to the public of those securities and the net proceeds we expect to receive from that sale will also be set forth in a prospectus supplement. </font>
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          <font style="letter-spacing:0.2pt;">Neither the Securities and Exchange Commission nor any state securities commission has approved or disapproved of these securities or passed upon the adequacy or accuracy of this prospectus. Any representation to the contrary is a criminal offense. </font>
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          <font style="letter-spacing:0.2pt;">The date of this prospectus is September&#160;23, 2019.</font>
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          <font style="letter-spacing:-0.2pt;">REFERENCES TO ADDITIONAL INFORMATION</font><font style="font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:0.2pt;"> </font>
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          <font style="letter-spacing:0.2pt;">This prospectus incorporates important business and financial information about us from other documents that are not included in or delivered with this prospectus. This information is available for you to review through the Securities and Exchange Commission&#8217;s, or SEC&#8217;s, website, </font><font style="font-style:italic;letter-spacing:0.2pt;">www.sec.gov.</font><font style="letter-spacing:0.2pt;"> You can also obtain those documents incorporated by reference in this prospectus by requesting them in writing or by telephone from us at the following address and telephone number: </font>
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          <font style="letter-spacing:0.2pt;">Investor Relations Department </font>
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          <font style="letter-spacing:0.2pt;">Duke Energy Corporation </font>
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          <font style="letter-spacing:0.2pt;">P.O. Box 1005 </font>
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          <font style="letter-spacing:0.2pt;">Charlotte, North Carolina 28201 </font>
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          <font style="letter-spacing:0.2pt;">(704) 382-3853 or (800) 488-3853 (toll-free) </font>
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          <font style="letter-spacing:0.2pt;">See &#8220;Where You Can Find More Information&#8221; in this prospectus. </font>
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          <font style="letter-spacing:-0.2pt;">ABOUT THIS PROSPECTUS</font><font style="font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:0.2pt;"> </font>
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          <font style="letter-spacing:0.2pt;">This prospectus is part of a registration statement that Duke Energy filed with the SEC utilizing a &#8220;shelf&#8221; registration process. Under the shelf registration process, we are registering an unspecified amount of our common stock, preferred stock, depositary shares, stock purchase contracts, stock purchase&#160;units and debt securities, and may issue any of such securities in one or more offerings. </font>
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          <font style="letter-spacing:0.2pt;">This prospectus provides general descriptions of the securities we may offer. Each time securities are sold, a prospectus supplement will provide specific information about the terms of that offering. The prospectus supplement may also add, update or change information contained in this prospectus. The registration statement filed with the SEC includes exhibits that provide more details about the matters discussed in this prospectus. You should read this prospectus, the related exhibits filed with the SEC and any prospectus supplement, together with the additional information described under the caption &#8220;Where You Can Find More Information.&#8221; </font>
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          <font style="letter-spacing:0.2pt;">Unless we have indicated otherwise, or the context otherwise requires, references in this prospectus to &#8220;Duke Energy,&#8221; &#8220;we,&#8221; &#8220;us&#8221; and &#8220;our&#8221; or similar terms are to Duke Energy Corporation and its subsidiaries. </font>
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          <font style="letter-spacing:-0.2pt;">FORWARD-LOOKING STATEMENTS</font><font style="font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:0.2pt;"> </font>
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          <font style="letter-spacing:0.2pt;">This prospectus and the information incorporated by reference in this prospectus include forward-looking statements within the meaning of Section&#160;27A of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and Section&#160;21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended. Forward-looking statements are based on our management&#8217;s beliefs and assumptions and can often be identified by terms and phrases that include &#8220;anticipate,&#8221; &#8220;believe,&#8221; &#8220;intend,&#8221; &#8220;estimate,&#8221; &#8220;expect,&#8221; &#8220;continue,&#8221; &#8220;should,&#8221; &#8220;could,&#8221; &#8220;may,&#8221; &#8220;plan,&#8221; &#8220;project,&#8221; &#8220;predict,&#8221; &#8220;will,&#8221; &#8220;potential,&#8221; &#8220;forecast,&#8221; &#8220;target,&#8221; &#8220;guidance,&#8221; &#8220;outlook,&#8221; or other similar terminology. Various factors may cause actual results to be materially different than the suggested outcomes within forward-looking statements; accordingly, there is no assurance that such results will be realized. </font>
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          <font style="letter-spacing:0.2pt;">In light of these risks, uncertainties and assumptions, the events described in the forward-looking statements included or incorporated by reference in this prospectus might not occur or might occur to a different extent or at a different time than described. Forward-looking statements speak only as of the date they are made and we expressly disclaim an obligation to publicly update or revise any forward-looking statements, whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise. </font>
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          <font style="letter-spacing:-0.2pt;">THE COMPANY</font><font style="font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:0.2pt;"> </font>
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          <font style="letter-spacing:0.2pt;">Duke Energy, together with its subsidiaries, is a diversified energy company with both regulated and unregulated utility operations. We conduct business through the following operating business segments: Electric Utilities and Infrastructure, Gas Utilities and Infrastructure, and Commercial Renewables. </font>
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          <font style="letter-spacing:0.2pt;">Duke Energy&#8217;s Electric Utilities and Infrastructure segment conducts operations primarily through the regulated public utilities of Duke Energy Carolinas, LLC, Duke Energy Progress, LLC, Duke Energy Florida, LLC, Duke Energy Indiana, LLC and Duke Energy Ohio, Inc. Duke Energy&#8217;s Electric Utilities and Infrastructure segment provides retail electric service through the generation, transmission, distribution and sale of electricity to approximately 7.7&#160;million customers within the Southeast and Midwest regions of the U.S. The service territory is approximately 95,000 square miles across six states with a total estimated population of 24&#160;million people. The operations include electricity sold wholesale to municipalities, electric cooperative utilities and other load-serving entities. Duke Energy&#8217;s Electric Utilities and Infrastructure segment is also a joint owner of certain electric transmission projects. </font>
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          <font style="letter-spacing:0.2pt;">Duke Energy&#8217;s Gas Utilities and Infrastructure segment conducts natural gas operations primarily through the regulated public utilities of Piedmont Natural Gas Company, Inc. and Duke Energy Ohio, Inc. Duke Energy&#8217;s Gas Utilities and Infrastructure segment serves residential, commercial, industrial and power generation natural gas customers, including customers served by municipalities who are wholesale customers. Duke Energy&#8217;s Gas Utilities and Infrastructure segment has over 1.6&#160;million customers, including more than 1.1&#160;million customers located in North Carolina, South Carolina and Tennessee, and an additional 531,000 customers located within southwestern Ohio and northern Kentucky. </font>
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          <font style="letter-spacing:0.2pt;">Duke Energy&#8217;s Commercial Renewables segment is primarily comprised of nonregulated utility-scale wind and solar generation assets located throughout the U.S. On April&#160;24, 2019, Duke Energy executed an agreement to sell a minority interest in a portion of certain renewable assets. The portion of Duke Energy&#8217;s commercial renewables energy portfolio sold includes 49&#160;percent of 37 operating wind, solar and battery storage assets and 33&#160;percent of 11 operating solar assets across the U.S. The sale will result in pretax proceeds to Duke Energy of $415&#160;million. Duke Energy will retain control of these assets, and, therefore, no gain or loss was recognized on the Condensed Consolidated Statements of Operations upon closing of the transaction in September&#160;2019. </font>
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          <font style="letter-spacing:0.2pt;">Duke Energy is a Delaware corporation. The address of Duke Energy&#8217;s principal executive offices is 550 South Tryon Street, Charlotte, North Carolina 28202-1803 and its telephone number is (704) 382-3853. Duke Energy&#8217;s common stock is listed and trades on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbol &#8220;DUK.&#8221; </font>
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          <font style="letter-spacing:0.2pt;">The foregoing information about Duke Energy is only a general summary and is not intended to be comprehensive. For additional information about Duke Energy, you should refer to the information described under the caption &#8220;Where You Can Find More Information&#8221; in this prospectus. </font>
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          <font style="letter-spacing:-0.2pt;">RISK FACTORS</font><font style="font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:0.2pt;"> </font>
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        <div style="text-indent:20pt; margin-top:8pt; width:456pt; line-height:12pt;">
          <font style="letter-spacing:0.2pt;">Investing in our securities involves risks. Before purchasing any securities we offer, you should carefully consider the risk factors that are incorporated by reference herein from the section captioned &#8220;Risk Factors&#8221; in our most recent Annual Report on Form 10-K as they may be updated by our subsequent Quarterly Reports on Form 10-Q, together with all of the other information included in this prospectus and any prospectus supplement and any other information that we have incorporated by reference, including filings made with the SEC subsequent to the date hereof. Any of these risks, as well as other risks and uncertainties, could harm our financial condition, results of operations or cash flows. </font>
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          <font style="letter-spacing:-0.2pt;">USE OF PROCEEDS</font><font style="font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:0.2pt;"> </font>
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        <div style="text-indent:20pt; margin-top:8pt; width:456pt; line-height:12pt;">
          <font style="letter-spacing:0.2pt;">Unless otherwise set forth in a prospectus supplement, we intend to use the net proceeds of any offering of securities sold by us for general corporate purposes, which may include acquisitions, repayment of debt, capital expenditures and working capital. When a particular series of securities is offered, the prospectus supplement relating to that offering will set forth our intended use of the net proceeds received from the sale of those securities. The net proceeds may be invested temporarily in short-term marketable securities or applied to repay short-term debt until they are used for their stated purpose. </font>
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          <font style="letter-spacing:-0.2pt;">DESCRIPTION OF COMMON STOCK</font><font style="font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:0.2pt;"> </font>
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          <font style="letter-spacing:0.2pt;">The following summary of our capital stock is subject in all respects to the applicable provisions of the Delaware General Corporation Law, or the DGCL, and our amended and restated certificate of incorporation. The following discussion is a summary of our amended and restated certificate of incorporation and by-laws and is qualified in its entirety by reference to those documents. </font>
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          <font style="letter-spacing:0.2pt;">Our total number of authorized shares of capital stock consists of 2&#160;billion shares of common stock, par value $0.001 per share, and 44&#160;million shares of preferred stock, par value $0.001 per share. </font>
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          <font style="letter-spacing:0.2pt;">Except as otherwise required by law and subject to the rights of the holders of any class or series of preferred stock, with respect to all matters upon which shareholders are entitled to vote or to which shareholders are entitled to give consent, the holders of any outstanding shares of common stock vote together as a class, and every holder of common stock is entitled to cast one vote in person or by proxy for each share of common stock standing in such holder&#8217;s name on our books. We do not have a classified board of directors nor do we permit cumulative voting. </font>
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          <font style="letter-spacing:0.2pt;">Holders of common stock are not entitled to any preemptive rights to subscribe for additional shares of common stock nor are they liable to further capital calls or to assessments by us. </font>
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          <font style="letter-spacing:0.2pt;">Subject to applicable law and the rights, if any, of the holders of any class or series of preferred stock having a preference over the rights to participate with the common stock with respect to the payment of dividends, holders of our common stock are entitled to receive dividends or other distributions as declared by our board of directors at its discretion. </font>
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          <font style="letter-spacing:0.2pt;">The board of directors may create a class or series of preferred stock with dividends the rate of which is calculated by reference to, and payment of which is concurrent with, dividends on shares of common stock. </font>
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          <font style="letter-spacing:0.2pt;">Our board of directors has the full authority permitted by law, at any time and from time to time, to divide the authorized and unissued shares of preferred stock into one or more classes or series and, with respect to each such class or series, to determine by resolution or resolutions the number of shares constituting such class or series and the designation of such class or series, the voting powers, if any, of the shares of such class or series, and the preferences and relative, participating, optional or other special rights, if any, and any qualifications, limitations or restrictions thereof, of the shares of any such class or series of preferred stock to the full extent now or as may in the future be permitted by the law of the State of Delaware. The powers, preferences and relative, participating, optional and other special rights of each class or series of preferred stock and the qualifications, limitations or restrictions thereof, if any, may differ from those of any and all other classes or series at any time outstanding. Except as otherwise required by law, as provided in the certificate of incorporation or as determined by our board of directors, holders of preferred stock will not have any voting rights and will not be entitled to any notice of shareholder meetings. </font>
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          <font style="letter-spacing:0.2pt;">Under our certificate of incorporation, the board of directors has the full authority permitted by Delaware law to determine the voting rights, if any, and designations, preferences, limitations and special rights of any class or any series of any class of the preferred stock. </font>
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          <font style="letter-spacing:0.2pt;">The certificate of incorporation also provides that a director may be removed from office with or without cause. However, subject to applicable law, any director elected by the holders of any series of preferred stock may be removed without cause only by the holders of a majority of the shares of such series of preferred stock. </font>
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          <font style="letter-spacing:0.2pt;">Our certificate of incorporation requires an affirmative vote of the holders of at least 80% of the combined voting power of the then outstanding shares of stock of all our classes entitled to vote generally in the election of directors, voting together as a single class, to amend, alter or repeal provisions in the certificate of incorporation which relate to the number of directors and vacancies and newly created directorships. </font>
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          <font style="letter-spacing:0.2pt;">Our certificate of incorporation provides that certain actions required or permitted to be taken at an annual or special meeting of shareholders may be effected without a meeting by written consent of the holders of our common stock, but only if such action is taken in accordance with our certificate of incorporation, our by-laws and applicable law. </font>
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          <font style="letter-spacing:0.2pt;">Our by-laws provide that, except as expressly required by the certificate of incorporation or by applicable law, and subject to the rights of the holders of any series of preferred stock, special meetings of the shareholders or of any series entitled to vote may be called for any purpose or purposes only by the Chairman of the board of directors or by the board of directors. In addition, special meetings of the shareholders or of any class or series entitled to vote may also be called by our Secretary upon the written request by the holders of record at the time such request is delivered representing at least fifteen&#160;percent (15%) of the outstanding shares of our common stock. </font>
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          <font style="letter-spacing:0.2pt;">The provisions of our certificate of incorporation and by-laws conferring on our board of directors the full authority to issue preferred stock, the restrictions on removing directors elected by holders of preferred stock, the supermajority voting requirements relating to the amendment, alteration or repeal of the provisions governing the number of directors and filling of vacancies and newly created directorships, and the requirement that shareholders act at a meeting unless all shareholders agree in writing, in certain instances could have the effect of delaying, deferring or preventing a change in control or the removal of existing management. </font>
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          <font style="letter-spacing:-0.2pt;">DESCRIPTION OF DEPOSITARY SHARES</font><font style="font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:0.2pt;"> </font>
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          <font style="letter-spacing:0.2pt;">We may issue depositary shares representing fractional interests in shares of our preferred stock of any series. In connection with the issuance of any depositary shares, we will enter into a deposit agreement with a depositary. The following description sets forth certain general terms and provisions of the depositary shares to which any prospectus supplement may relate. The particular terms of the depositary shares to which any prospectus supplement may relate and the extent, if any, to which the general terms and provisions may apply to the depositary shares so offered will be described in the applicable prospectus supplement. To the extent that any particular terms of the depositary shares, deposit agreements and depositary receipts described in a prospectus supplement differ from any of the terms described below, then the terms described below will be deemed to have been superseded by that prospectus supplement. We encourage you to read the applicable deposit agreement and depositary receipts for additional information before you decide whether to purchase any of our depositary shares. </font>
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          <font style="letter-spacing:0.2pt;">In connection with the issuance of any depositary shares, we will enter into a deposit agreement with a bank or trust company, as depositary, which will be named in the applicable prospectus supplement. Depositary shares will be evidenced by depositary receipts issued pursuant to the related deposit agreement. Immediately following our issuance of the security related to the depositary shares, we will deposit the shares of our preferred stock with the relevant depositary and will cause the depositary to issue, on our behalf, the related depositary receipts. Subject to the terms of the deposit agreement, each owner of a depositary receipt will be entitled, in proportion to the fractional interest in the share of preferred stock represented by the related depositary share, to all the rights, preferences and privileges of, and will be subject to all of the limitations and restrictions on, the preferred stock represented by the depositary receipt (including, if applicable, dividend, voting, conversion, exchange, redemption, sinking fund, subscription and liquidation rights). To the extent appropriate, the applicable prospectus supplement will describe the specific terms of the depositary shares offered thereby. The terms of any offered depositary shares will be described in a supplement to this prospectus. </font>
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          <font style="letter-spacing:-0.2pt;">DESCRIPTION OF STOCK PURCHASE CONTRACTS AND STOCK PURCHASE UNITS</font><font style="font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:0.2pt;"> </font>
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          <font style="letter-spacing:0.2pt;">We may issue stock purchase contracts, including contracts obligating holders to purchase from us, and obligating us to sell to the holders, shares of our common stock at a future date or dates. We may fix the price and the number of shares of common stock subject to the stock purchase contract at the time we issue the stock purchase contracts or we may provide that the price and number of shares of common stock will be determined by reference to a specific formula set forth in the stock purchase contracts. The stock purchase contracts may be issued separately or as part of&#160;units, often known as stock purchase&#160;units, consisting of a stock purchase contract and beneficial interests in either: </font>
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          <font style="letter-spacing:0.2pt;">our senior debt securities or subordinated debt securities, or </font>
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          <font style="letter-spacing:0.2pt;">securing the holders&#8217; obligations to purchase the common stock under the stock purchase contracts. </font>
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          <font style="letter-spacing:0.2pt;">The applicable prospectus supplement will describe the terms of the stock purchase contracts or stock purchase&#160;units, including, if applicable, collateral or depositary arrangements. The description in the applicable prospectus supplement will not contain all of the information you may find useful and reference will be made to the stock purchase contracts or stock purchase&#160;units and, if applicable, the collateral or depository arrangement relating to the stock purchase contracts or stock purchase&#160;units. </font>
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          <font style="letter-spacing:-0.2pt;">DESCRIPTION OF DEBT SECURITIES</font><font style="font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:0.2pt;"> </font>
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          <font style="letter-spacing:0.2pt;">Duke Energy will issue the debt securities, whether senior or subordinated, in one or more series under its Indenture, dated as of June&#160;3, 2008, as supplemented from time to time. Unless otherwise specified in the applicable prospectus supplement, the trustee under the Indenture, or the Indenture Trustee, will be The Bank of New York Mellon Trust Company, N.A. A copy of the Indenture is an exhibit to the registration statement, of which this prospectus is a part. </font>
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          <font style="letter-spacing:0.2pt;">Duke Energy conducts its business through subsidiaries. Accordingly, its ability to meet its obligations under the debt securities is dependent on the earnings and cash flows of those subsidiaries and the ability of those subsidiaries to pay dividends or to advance or repay funds to Duke Energy. In addition, the rights that Duke Energy and its creditors would have to participate in the assets of any such subsidiary upon the subsidiary&#8217;s liquidation or recapitalization will be subject to the prior claims of the subsidiary&#8217;s creditors. Certain subsidiaries of Duke Energy have incurred substantial amounts of debt in the operations and expansion of their businesses, and Duke Energy anticipates that certain of its subsidiaries will do so in the future. </font>
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          <font style="letter-spacing:0.2pt;">Holders of debt securities will generally have a junior position to claims of creditors of our subsidiaries, including trade creditors, debt holders, secured creditors, taxing authorities, guarantee holders and any holders of preferred stock. In addition to trade debt, certain of our operating subsidiaries have ongoing corporate debt programs used to finance their business activities. Unless otherwise specified in a prospectus supplement, the Indenture will not limit the amount of indebtedness or preferred stock issuable by our subsidiaries. </font>
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          <font style="letter-spacing:0.2pt;">The following description of the debt securities is only a summary and is not intended to be comprehensive. For additional information you should refer to the Indenture. </font>
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          <font style="letter-spacing:-0.2pt;">General</font><font style="font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:0.2pt;"> </font>
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          <font style="letter-spacing:0.2pt;">The Indenture does not limit the amount of debt securities that Duke Energy may issue under it. Duke Energy may issue debt securities from time to time under the Indenture in one or more series by entering into supplemental indentures or by its board of directors or a duly authorized committee authorizing the issuance. </font>
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          <font style="letter-spacing:0.2pt;">The debt securities of a series need not be issued at the same time, bear interest at the same rate or mature on the same date. </font>
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          <font style="letter-spacing:-0.2pt;">Provisions Applicable to Particular Series</font><font style="font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:0.2pt;"> </font>
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          <font style="letter-spacing:0.2pt;">The prospectus supplement for a particular series of debt securities being offered will disclose the specific terms related to the offering, including the price or prices at which the debt securities to be offered will be issued. Those terms may include some or all of the following: </font>
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          <font style="letter-spacing:0.2pt;">the title of the series; </font>
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          <font style="letter-spacing:0.2pt;">the total principal amount of the debt securities of the series; </font>
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          <font style="letter-spacing:0.2pt;">the date or dates on which principal is payable or the method for determining the date or dates, and any right that Duke Energy has to change the date on which principal is payable; </font>
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          <font style="letter-spacing:0.2pt;">the interest rate or rates, if any, or the method for determining the rate or rates, and the date or dates from which interest will accrue; </font>
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          <font style="letter-spacing:0.2pt;">any interest payment dates and the regular record date for the interest payable on each interest payment date, if any; </font>
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          <font style="letter-spacing:0.2pt;">whether Duke Energy may extend the interest payment periods and, if so, the terms of the extension; </font>
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          <font style="letter-spacing:0.2pt;">whether Duke Energy has the option to redeem the debt securities and, if so, the terms of its redemption option; </font>
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          <font style="letter-spacing:0.2pt;">any obligation that Duke Energy has to redeem the debt securities through a sinking fund or to purchase the debt securities through a purchase fund or at the option of the holder; </font>
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          <font style="letter-spacing:0.2pt;">whether the provisions described under &#8220;Satisfaction and Discharge; Defeasance and Covenant Defeasance&#8221; will not apply to the debt securities; </font>
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          <font style="letter-spacing:0.2pt;">the currency in which payments will be made if other than U.S. dollars, and the manner of determining the equivalent of those amounts in U.S. dollars; </font>
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          <font style="letter-spacing:0.2pt;">if payments may be made, at Duke Energy&#8217;s election or at the holder&#8217;s election, in a currency other than that in which the debt securities are stated to be payable, then the currency in which those payments may be made, the terms and conditions of the election and the manner of determining those amounts; </font>
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          <font style="letter-spacing:0.2pt;">if the principal payable on the maturity date will not be determinable on one or more dates prior to the maturity date, the amount which will be deemed to be such principal amount or the manner of determining it; </font>
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          <font style="letter-spacing:0.2pt;">Unless Duke Energy states otherwise in the applicable prospectus supplement, Duke Energy will issue the debt securities only in fully registered form without coupons, and there will be no service charge for any registration of transfer or exchange of the debt securities. Duke Energy may, however, require payment to cover any tax or other governmental charge payable in connection with any transfer or exchange (excluding certain exchanges not constituting a transfer as set forth in the Indenture). Subject to the terms of the Indenture and the limitations applicable to global securities, transfers and exchanges of the debt securities may be made at The Bank of New York Mellon Trust Company, N.A., 240 Greenwich Street, New York, New York 10286 or at any other office maintained by Duke Energy for such purpose. </font>
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          <font style="letter-spacing:0.2pt;">The debt securities will be issuable in denominations of $1,000 and any integral multiples of $1,000, unless Duke Energy states otherwise in the applicable prospectus supplement. Duke Energy may at any time deliver executed debt securities to the Indenture Trustee for authentication, and the Indenture Trustee shall authenticate such debt securities upon the written request of Duke Energy and satisfaction of certain other conditions set forth in the Indenture. </font>
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          <font style="letter-spacing:0.2pt;">Duke Energy may offer and sell the debt securities, including original issue discount debt securities, at a substantial discount below their principal amount. The applicable prospectus supplement will describe special United States federal income tax and any other considerations applicable to those securities. In addition, the applicable prospectus supplement may describe certain special United States federal income tax or other considerations, if any, applicable to any debt securities that are denominated in a currency other than U.S. dollars. </font>
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        <div style="text-indent:20pt; margin-top:8pt; width:456pt; line-height:12pt;">
          <font style="letter-spacing:0.2pt;">We may issue some or all of the Debt Securities as book-entry securities. Any such book-entry securities will be represented by one or more fully registered global certificates. We will register each global security with or on behalf of a securities depositary identified in the applicable prospectus supplement. Each global security will be deposited with the securities depositary or its nominee or a custodian for the securities depositary. </font>
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          <font style="letter-spacing:0.2pt;">As long as the securities depositary or its nominee is the registered holder of a global security representing Debt Securities, that person will be considered the sole owner and holder of the global security and the securities it represents for all purposes. Except in limited circumstances, owners of beneficial interests in a global security: </font>
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          <font style="letter-spacing:0.2pt;">may not have the global security or any Debt Securities registered in their names; </font>
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          <font style="letter-spacing:0.2pt;">may not receive or be entitled to receive physical delivery of certificated Debt Securities in exchange for the global security; and </font>
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          <font style="letter-spacing:0.2pt;">will not be considered the owners or holders of the global security or any Debt Securities for any purposes under the applicable securities or the related mortgage or indenture. </font>
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          <font style="letter-spacing:0.2pt;">We will make all payments of principal and any premium and interest on a global security to the securities depositary or its nominee as the holder of the global security. The laws of some jurisdictions require that certain purchasers of securities take physical delivery of securities in definitive form. These laws may impair the ability to transfer beneficial interests in a global security. </font>
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          <font style="letter-spacing:0.2pt;">Ownership of beneficial interests in a global security will be limited to institutions having accounts with the securities depositary or its nominee, which are called &#8220;participants&#8221; in this discussion, and to persons that hold beneficial interests through participants. When a global security representing Debt Securities is issued, the securities depositary will credit on its book-entry, registration and transfer system the principal amounts of Debt Securities the global security represents to the accounts of its participants. Ownership of beneficial interests in a global security will be shown only on, and the transfer of those ownership interests will be effected only through, records maintained by: </font>
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          <font style="letter-spacing:0.2pt;">the securities depositary, with respect to participants&#8217; interests; and </font>
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          <font style="letter-spacing:0.2pt;">any participant, with respect to interests the participant holds on behalf of other persons. </font>
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        <div style="text-indent:20pt; margin-top:8pt; width:456pt; line-height:12pt;">
          <font style="letter-spacing:0.2pt;">Payments participants make to owners of beneficial interests held through those participants will be the responsibility of those participants. The securities depositary may from time to time adopt various policies and procedures governing payments, transfers, exchanges and other matters relating to beneficial interests in a global security. None of the following will have any responsibility or liability for any aspect of the securities depositary&#8217;s or any participant&#8217;s records relating to beneficial interests in a global security representing Debt Securities, for payments made on account of those beneficial interests or for maintaining, supervising or reviewing any records relating to those beneficial interests: </font>
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          <font style="letter-spacing:0.2pt;">Duke Energy Corporation; </font>
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          <font style="letter-spacing:0.2pt;">the applicable trustee; or </font>
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          <font style="letter-spacing:0.2pt;">any agent of either of them. </font>
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          <font style="letter-spacing:-0.2pt;">Redemption</font><font style="font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:0.2pt;"> </font>
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          <font style="letter-spacing:0.2pt;">Provisions relating to the redemption of debt securities will be set forth in the applicable prospectus supplement. Unless Duke Energy states otherwise in the applicable prospectus supplement, Duke Energy may redeem debt securities only upon notice mailed at least thirty (30), but not more than sixty (60) days before the date fixed for redemption. Unless Duke Energy states otherwise in the applicable prospectus supplement, that notice may state that the redemption will be conditional upon the Indenture Trustee, or the applicable paying agent, receiving sufficient funds to pay the principal, premium and interest on those debt securities on the date fixed for redemption and that if the Indenture Trustee or the applicable paying agent does not receive those funds, the redemption notice will not apply, and Duke Energy will not be required to redeem those debt securities. If less than all the debt securities of a series are to be redeemed, the particular debt securities to be redeemed shall be selected by the Indenture Trustee by such method as the Indenture Trustee shall deem fair and appropriate. </font>
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          <font style="letter-spacing:0.2pt;">Duke Energy will not be required to: </font>
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          <font style="letter-spacing:0.2pt;">issue, register the transfer of, or exchange any debt securities of a series during the fifteen (15) day period before the date the notice is mailed identifying the debt securities of that series that have been selected for redemption; or </font>
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          <font style="letter-spacing:0.2pt;">register the transfer of or exchange any debt security of that series selected for redemption except the unredeemed portion of a debt security being partially redeemed. </font>
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          <font style="letter-spacing:-0.2pt;">Consolidation, Merger, Conveyance or Transfer</font><font style="font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:0.2pt;"> </font>
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        <div style="text-indent:20pt; margin-top:8pt; width:456pt; line-height:12pt;">
          <font style="letter-spacing:0.2pt;">The Indenture provides that Duke Energy may consolidate or merge with or into, or convey or transfer all or substantially all of its properties and assets to, another corporation or other entity. Any successor must, however, assume Duke Energy&#8217;s obligations under the Indenture and the debt securities issued under it, and Duke Energy must deliver to the Indenture Trustee a statement by certain of its officers and an opinion of counsel that affirm compliance with all conditions in the Indenture relating to the transaction. When those conditions are satisfied, the successor will succeed to and be substituted for Duke Energy under the Indenture, and Duke Energy will be relieved of its obligations under the Indenture and the debt securities. </font>
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          <font style="letter-spacing:-0.2pt;">Modification; Waiver</font><font style="font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:0.2pt;"> </font>
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          <font style="letter-spacing:0.2pt;">Duke Energy may modify the Indenture with the consent of the holders of a majority in principal amount of the outstanding debt securities of all series of debt securities that are affected by the modification, voting as one class. The consent of the holder of each outstanding debt security affected is, however, required to: </font>
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          <font style="letter-spacing:0.2pt;">change the maturity date of the principal or any installment of principal or interest on that debt security; </font>
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          <font style="letter-spacing:0.2pt;">reduce the principal amount, the interest rate or any premium payable upon redemption of that debt security; </font>
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          <font style="letter-spacing:0.2pt;">reduce the amount of principal due and payable upon acceleration of maturity; </font>
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          <font style="letter-spacing:0.2pt;">change the currency of payment of principal, premium or interest on that debt security; </font>
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          <font style="letter-spacing:0.2pt;">impair the right to institute suit to enforce any such payment on or after the maturity date or redemption date; </font>
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          <font style="letter-spacing:0.2pt;">reduce the&#160;percentage in principal amount of debt securities of any series required to modify the Indenture, waive compliance with certain restrictive provisions of the Indenture or waive certain defaults; or </font>
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          <font style="letter-spacing:0.2pt;">with certain exceptions, modify the provisions of the Indenture governing modifications of the Indenture or governing waiver of covenants or past defaults. </font>
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          <font style="letter-spacing:0.2pt;">In addition, Duke Energy may modify the Indenture for certain other purposes, without the consent of any holders of debt securities. </font>
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          <font style="letter-spacing:0.2pt;">Unless Duke Energy states otherwise in the applicable prospectus supplement, the holders of a majority in principal amount of the outstanding debt securities of any series may waive, for that series, Duke Energy&#8217;s compliance with certain restrictive provisions of the Indenture. The holders of a majority in principal amount of the outstanding debt securities of all series under the Indenture with respect to which a default has occurred and is continuing, voting as one class, may waive that default for all those series, except a default in the payment of principal or any premium or interest on any debt security or a default with respect to a covenant or provision which cannot be modified without the consent of the holder of each outstanding debt security of the series affected. </font>
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          <font style="letter-spacing:-0.2pt;">Events of Default</font><font style="font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:0.2pt;"> </font>
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          <font style="letter-spacing:0.2pt;">The following are events of default under the Indenture with respect to any series of debt securities, unless Duke Energy states otherwise in the applicable prospectus supplement: </font>
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          <font style="letter-spacing:0.2pt;">failure to pay principal of or any premium on any debt security of that series when due; </font>
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          <font style="letter-spacing:0.2pt;">failure to pay when due any interest on any debt security of that series that continues for sixty (60) days; for this purpose, the date on which interest is due is the date on which Duke Energy is required to make payment following any deferral of interest payments by it under the terms of debt securities that permit such deferrals; </font>
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          <font style="letter-spacing:0.2pt;">failure to make any sinking fund payment when required for any debt security of that series that continues for sixty (60) days; </font>
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          <font style="letter-spacing:0.2pt;">failure to perform any other covenant in the Indenture (other than a covenant expressly included solely for the benefit of other series) that continues for ninety (90) days after the Indenture Trustee or the holders of at least 33% of the outstanding debt securities of that series give Duke Energy and, if such notice is given by the holders, the Indenture Trustee written notice of the default; and </font>
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          <font style="letter-spacing:0.2pt;">certain bankruptcy, insolvency or reorganization events with respect to Duke Energy. </font>
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          <font style="letter-spacing:0.2pt;">In the case of the fourth event of default listed above, the Indenture Trustee may extend the grace period. In addition, if holders of a particular series have given a notice of default, then holders of at least the same&#160;percentage of debt securities of that series, together with the Indenture Trustee, may also extend the grace period. The grace period will be automatically extended if Duke Energy has initiated and is diligently pursuing corrective action within the original grace period. </font>
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          <font style="letter-spacing:0.2pt;">Duke Energy may establish additional events of default for a particular series and, if established, any such events of default will be described in the applicable prospectus supplement. </font>
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          <font style="letter-spacing:0.2pt;">If an event of default with respect to debt securities of a series occurs and is continuing, then the Indenture Trustee or the holders of at least 33% in principal amount of the outstanding debt securities of that series may declare the principal amount of all debt securities of that series to be immediately due and payable. However, that event of default will be considered waived at any time after the declaration, but before a judgment or decree for payment of the money due has been obtained if: </font>
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          <font style="letter-spacing:0.2pt;">Duke Energy has paid or deposited with the Indenture Trustee all overdue interest, the principal and any premium due otherwise than by the declaration and any interest on such amounts, and any interest on overdue interest, to the extent legally permitted, in each case with respect to that series, and all amounts due to the Indenture Trustee; and </font>
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          <font style="letter-spacing:0.2pt;">all events of default with respect to that series, other than the nonpayment of the principal that became due solely by virtue of the declaration, have been cured or waived. </font>
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          <font style="letter-spacing:0.2pt;">The Indenture Trustee is under no obligation to exercise any of its rights or powers at the request or direction of any holders of debt securities unless those holders have offered the Indenture Trustee security or indemnity against the costs, expenses and liabilities which it might incur as a result. The holders of a majority in principal amount of the outstanding debt securities of any series have, with certain exceptions, the right to direct the time, method and place of conducting any proceedings for any remedy available to the Indenture Trustee or the exercise of any power of the Indenture Trustee with respect to those debt securities. The Indenture Trustee may withhold notice of any default, except a default in the payment of principal or interest, or in the payment of any sinking or purchase fund installment, from the holders of any series if the Indenture Trustee in good faith considers it in the interest of the holders to do so. </font>
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          <font style="letter-spacing:0.2pt;">The holder of any debt security will have an absolute and unconditional right to receive payment of the principal, any premium and, within certain limitations, any interest on that debt security on its maturity date or redemption date and to enforce those payments. </font>
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        <div style="text-indent:20pt; margin-top:8pt; width:456pt; line-height:12pt;">
          <font style="letter-spacing:0.2pt;">Duke Energy is required to furnish each year to the Indenture Trustee a statement by certain of its officers to the effect that it is not in default under the Indenture or, if there has been a default, specifying the default and its status. </font>
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          <font style="letter-spacing:-0.2pt;">Payments; Paying Agent</font><font style="font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:0.2pt;"> </font>
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        <div style="text-indent:20pt; margin-top:8pt; width:456pt; line-height:12pt;">
          <font style="letter-spacing:0.2pt;">The paying agent will pay the principal of any debt securities only if those debt securities are surrendered to it. The paying agent will pay interest on debt securities issued as global securities by wire transfer to the holder of those global securities. Unless Duke Energy states otherwise in the applicable prospectus supplement, the paying agent will pay interest on debt securities that are not in global form at its office or, at Duke Energy&#8217;s option: </font>
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          <font style="letter-spacing:0.2pt;">by wire transfer to an account at a banking institution in the United States that is designated in writing to the Indenture Trustee at least sixteen (16) days prior to the date of payment by the person entitled to that interest; or </font>
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          <font style="letter-spacing:0.2pt;">by check mailed to the address of the person entitled to that interest as that address appears in the security register for those debt securities. </font>
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          <font style="letter-spacing:0.2pt;">Unless Duke Energy states otherwise in the applicable prospectus supplement, the Indenture Trustee will act as paying agent for that series of debt securities, and the principal corporate trust office of the Indenture Trustee will be the office through which the paying agent acts. Duke Energy may, however, change or add paying agents or approve a change in the office through which a paying agent acts. </font>
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        <div style="text-indent:20pt; margin-top:8pt; width:456pt; line-height:12pt;">
          <font style="letter-spacing:0.2pt;">Any money that Duke Energy has paid to the Indenture Trustee or a paying agent for principal, any premium or interest on any debt securities which remains unclaimed at the end of two&#160;years after that principal, premium or interest has become due will be repaid to Duke Energy at its request. After repayment to Duke Energy, holders should look only to Duke Energy for those payments. </font>
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          <font style="letter-spacing:-0.2pt;">Satisfaction and Discharge, Defeasance and Covenant Defeasance</font><font style="font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:0.2pt;"> </font>
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          <font style="letter-spacing:0.2pt;">Upon the written request of Duke Energy, the Indenture shall be satisfied and discharged (except as to certain surviving rights and obligations specified in the Indenture) when: </font>
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          <font style="letter-spacing:0.2pt;">either all debt securities have been delivered to the Indenture Trustee for cancellation or all debt securities not delivered to the Indenture Trustee for cancellation are due and payable within one year (at maturity or due to redemption) and Duke Energy has deposited with the Indenture Trustee money or government obligations sufficient to pay and discharge such debt securities to the applicable maturity or redemption date (including principal, any premium and interest thereon); </font>
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          <font style="letter-spacing:0.2pt;">Duke Energy has paid or caused to be paid all other sums payable under the Indenture by Duke Energy; and </font>
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          <font style="letter-spacing:0.2pt;">Duke Energy has delivered to the Indenture Trustee an officers&#8217; certificate and an opinion of counsel stating that all conditions precedent relating to the satisfaction and discharge of the Indenture have been complied with. </font>
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          <font style="letter-spacing:0.2pt;">The Indenture provides that Duke Energy may be: </font>
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          <font style="letter-spacing:0.2pt;">discharged from its obligations, with certain limited exceptions, with respect to any series of debt securities, as described in the Indenture, such a discharge being called a &#8220;defeasance&#8221; in this prospectus; and </font>
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          <font style="letter-spacing:0.2pt;">released from its obligations under certain restrictive covenants especially established with respect to any series of debt securities, as described in the Indenture, such a release being called a &#8220;covenant defeasance&#8221; in this prospectus. </font>
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          <font style="letter-spacing:0.2pt;">Duke Energy must satisfy certain conditions to effect a defeasance or covenant defeasance. Those conditions include the irrevocable deposit with the Indenture Trustee, in trust, of money or government obligations which through their scheduled payments of principal and interest would provide sufficient money to pay the principal and any premium and interest on those debt securities on the maturity dates of those payments or upon redemption. </font>
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          <font style="letter-spacing:0.2pt;">Following a defeasance, payment of the debt securities defeased may not be accelerated because of an event of default under the Indenture. Following a covenant defeasance, the payment of debt securities may not be accelerated by reference to the covenants from which Duke Energy has been released. A defeasance may occur after a covenant defeasance. </font>
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          <font style="letter-spacing:0.2pt;">Under current United States federal income tax laws, a defeasance would be treated as an exchange of the relevant debt securities in which holders of those debt securities might recognize gain or loss. In addition, the amount, timing and character of amounts that holders would thereafter be required to include in income might be different from that which would be includible in the absence of that defeasance. Duke Energy urges investors to consult their own tax advisors as to the specific consequences of a defeasance, including the applicability and effect of tax laws other than United States federal income tax laws. </font>
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          <font style="letter-spacing:0.2pt;">Under current United States federal income tax law, unless accompanied by other changes in the terms of the debt securities, a covenant defeasance should not be treated as a taxable exchange. </font>
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          <font style="letter-spacing:-0.2pt;">Concerning the Indenture Trustee</font><font style="font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:0.2pt;"> </font>
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          <font style="letter-spacing:0.2pt;">The Bank of New York Mellon Trust Company, N.A., is the Indenture Trustee. Duke Energy and certain of its affiliates maintain deposit accounts and banking relationships with the Indenture Trustee or its affiliates. The Indenture Trustee or its affiliates also serve as trustee or agent under other indentures and agreements pursuant to which securities of Duke Energy and of certain of its affiliates are outstanding. </font>
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          <font style="letter-spacing:0.2pt;">We may sell the securities directly or through agents we designate from time to time. Any agent involved in the offer or sale of the securities covered by this prospectus will be named in a prospectus supplement relating to such securities. Commissions payable by us to agents will be set forth in a prospectus supplement relating to the securities being offered. Unless otherwise indicated in a prospectus supplement, any such agents will be acting on a best-efforts basis for the period of their appointment. </font>
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          <font style="letter-spacing:0.2pt;">The consolidated financial statements incorporated in this prospectus by reference from Duke Energy Corporation&#8217;s Annual Report on Form 10-K, and the effectiveness of Duke Energy Corporation&#8217;s internal control over financial reporting have been audited by Deloitte &amp; Touche LLP, an independent registered public accounting firm, as stated in their reports, which are incorporated herein by reference. Such consolidated financial statements have been so incorporated in reliance upon the report of such firm given upon their authority as experts in accounting and auditing. </font>
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          <font style="letter-spacing:0.2pt;">Robert T. Lucas III, Esq., who is Deputy General Counsel of Duke Energy Business Services LLC, the service company affiliate of Duke Energy Corporation, and/or counsel named in the applicable prospectus supplement, will issue an opinion about the validity of the securities we are offering in the applicable prospectus supplement. Counsel named in the applicable prospectus supplement will pass upon certain legal matters on behalf of any underwriters. </font>
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          <font style="letter-spacing:0.2pt;">We are subject to the informational requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, and, in accordance therewith, file annual, quarterly and current reports, proxy statements and other information with the SEC. Our filings with the SEC, as well as additional information about us, are available to the public through Duke Energy&#8217;s website at http://www.duke-energy.com and are made available as soon as reasonably practicable after such material is filed with or furnished to the SEC. The information on our website is not a part of this prospectus. Our filings are also available to the public through the SEC website at http://www.sec.gov. </font>
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          <font style="letter-spacing:0.2pt;">The SEC allows us to &#8220;incorporate by reference&#8221; into this prospectus the information we file with it, which means that we can disclose important information to you by referring you to those documents. The information incorporated by reference is considered to be a part of this prospectus, and information that we file later with the SEC will automatically update and supersede this information. This prospectus incorporates by reference the documents incorporated in the prospectus at the time the registration statement became effective and all later documents filed with the SEC, in all cases as updated and superseded by later filings with the SEC. Duke Energy incorporates by reference the documents listed below and any future documents filed by Duke Energy Corporation with the SEC under Section&#160;13(a), 13(c), 14 or 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, until the offering is completed. </font>
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          <font style="letter-spacing:0.2pt;">P.O. Box 1005 </font>
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          <font style="letter-spacing:0.2pt;">You should rely only on the information contained or incorporated by reference in this prospectus. We have not authorized any other person to provide you with different information. If anyone provides you with different or inconsistent information, you should not rely on it. We are not making an offer to sell the securities described in this prospectus in any state where the offer or sale is not permitted. You should assume that the information contained in the prospectus is accurate only as of its date. Our business, financial condition, results of operations and prospects may have changed since that date.</font>
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