Lynn Good

Lynn J. Good
Alma mater	Miami University
Occupation(s)	Chair, president and CEO ofDuke Energy
Years active	CEO of Duke Energy on July 1, 2013
Board member of	Duke Energy Boeing
Spouse	Brian
Children	3

Lynn J. Goodis chair, president and chief executive officer ofDuke Energy,aFortune 500company. Good is anOhionative and graduated fromMiami Universitywhere she earned a BS in Systems Analysis and in Accounting (1981).In 2023, she ranked 65th in Forbes list of "World's 100 most powerful women".She was ranked 31st on Fortune's list of Most Powerful Women in 2023.

Early life and education

Good grew up inFairfield,Ohio.Her father was a math teacher who later became a high school principal. She earned degrees in accounting and systems analysis fromMiami Universityof Ohio.

Career

Early career

Good became an auditor at theCincinnatibranch ofArthur Andersen & Co.While at Andersen, Good broke the barrier to females playing major roles in auditing when she participated in the audit of Andersen's most prestigious account, Cincinnati Gas & Electric.Good rose to supervise that audit, and in 1992 she became one of Andersen's few women partners.In 2002 she became a partner atDeloitte.

Cinergy

Following the collapse of Arthur Andersen in 2002, Good joined Cinergy Corp. as senior vice president of accounting and finance. In 2005, Good was named executive vice president and chief financial officer of Cinergy. In 2006, following the merger of Cinergy into Duke Energy, Good was named senior vice president and treasurer of Duke in the company's Charlotte, North Carolina, headquarters. She went on to head the unregulated commercial business. Good was named Duke's executive vice president and chief financial officer as of July 2009.She began to make large investments in renewable energy such as wind and solar facilities that sell their power to utilities and towns.

Duke Energy

In 2011 Duke of Charlotte andProgress EnergyofRaleighagreed to merge. The deal stipulated that Progress CEO Bill Johnson was to replace Duke CEOJim Rogers.But in June 2012, on the day that the deal closed, the board fired Johnson and re-hired Rogers instead.North Carolinaregulators, following an investigation, reached an agreement with Duke in which the company was required to choose a new CEO by the middle of 2013. Good was selected by a board composed of both Duke and Progress members. Lynn Good became CEO of Duke Energy on July 1, 2013.Good was also elected to the Duke board. In 2016, she was elected chairman of the board. In 2018, Duke Energy awarded Good just under $14 million in total compensation.

Energy policy positions

TheCenter for Strategic & International Studies(CSIS) held a wide-ranging interview of Good on June 21, 2018; among the topics werecarbon capture and sequestration.Carbon capture and storage technology can capture up to 90 percent of carbon dioxide (CO₂) emissions made from afossil fuelselectricity generation plant, thus releasing much less carbon dioxide into the atmosphere.Good told CSIS that the carbon capture and sequestration process was not quite ready for general use, even though it has potential for keeping fossil fuels in the power-generation mix. According toDaily Energy Insider,"On paper, a gas or coal plant that does not release carbon dioxide into the air would be a logical asset to fill in any lags in purely green power production”, but Good indicated that while Duke was still collaborating on various research projects involving carbon capture, the big breakthroughs necessary to launch a commercially viable carbon-capture plant were not yet in sight. "

Other affiliations

Good was a member of the board of theCincinnati Balletfor about eight years, from the 1990s,and has been a member of theboard of directorsatBoeingsince 2015.She is on the board of directors of theBusiness Roundtableand has served as chair of its Smart Regulation Committee since 2020.