CHARLOTTE — CEO Lynn Good reinforced Duke Energy Corp.’s interest in new nuclear construction, defended the diversity of its board and justified executive pay levels in answering questions today during the company’s annual shareholders meeting.
The meeting was held virtually, as has become tradition, with Good streaming live from an undisclosed location and shareholders participating online.
Still, protesters from dozens of clean energy and consumer organizations gathered outside Duke’s temporary headquarters on South Church Street.
The groups were there to protest Duke’s proposals to cut payments made to customers who sell it solar power from rooftop projects and other positions they say the company adopts to weaken the state’s solar policies.
None of that affected the official proceedings. Shareholders in short order elected the 14 nominees to Duke’s board of directors, defeated a shareholder proposal opposed by the board and handled other routine business items such as ratifying Deloitte & Touche as the company’s accounting firm.
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