Exhibit 24(a)(1)

DUKE ENERGY CORPORATION

Power of Attorney

Registration Statements on Form S-3 and Form S-8

The undersigned Duke Energy Corporation, a Delaware corporation and certain of its officers and directors, do each hereby constitute and appoint Julia S. Janson, Stephen G.

De May, David S. Maltz and Robert T. Lucas III, and each of them, to act as attorneys-in-fact for and in the respective names, places and stead of the undersigned, to execute, seal, sign and file with the Securities and Exchange Commission a registration statement or registration statements of said Duke Energy Corporation on Form S-3 and/or Form S-8 and any and all amendments thereto, hereby granting to said attorneys-in-fact, and each of them, full power and authority to do and perform all and every act and thing whatsoever requisite, necessary, or proper to be done in and about the premises, as fully to all intents and purposes as the undersigned, or any of them, might or could do if personally present, hereby ratifying and approving the acts of said attorneys-in-fact.

Executed as of the 25th day of August, 2016.

	DUKE ENERGY CORPORATION
	(Registrant)
	By:	/s/Lynn J. Good
		Name:	Lynn J. Good
		Title:	Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer
ATTEST:
/s/Nancy M. Wright
Nancy M. Wright
Assistant Corporate Secretary

SIGNATURE	TITLE
/s/Lynn J. Good	Director, Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer
Lynn J. Good	(Principal Executive Officer)
/s/Steven K. Young	Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer
Steven K. Young	(Principal Financial Officer)
/s/William E. Currens, Jr.	Senior Vice President, Chief Accounting Officer and Controller
William E. Currens, Jr.	(Principal Accounting Officer)
/s/Michael J. Angelakis	Director
Michael J. Angelakis
/s/Michael G. Browning	Director
Michael G. Browning
/s/Daniel R. DiMicco	Director
Daniel R. DiMicco
/s/John J. Forsgren	Director
John H. Forsgren
/s/Ann Maynard Gray	Director
Ann Maynard Gray
/s/John R. Herron	Director
John T. Herron
/s/James B. Hyler, Jr.	Director
James B. Hyler, Jr.
/s/William E. Kennard	Director
William E. Kennard

/s/E. Marie McKee	Director
E. Marie McKee
/s/Charles W. Moorman IV	Director
Charles W. Moorman IV
/s/Carlos A. Saladrigas	Director
Carlos A. Saladrigas