As filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on August 3, 2010

Registration No. 333-132933

 

 

 

SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

Washington, D.C. 20549

POST-EFFECTIVE AMENDMENT NO. 2 TO

FORM S-8

DUKE ENERGY CORPORATION

Delaware (State or Other Jurisdiction of Incorporation or Organization)		20-2777218 (I.R.S. Employer Identification No.)

 

 

EXPLANATORY NOTE

     Duke Energy Corporation, a Delaware corporation (the “Registrant”), registered, pursuant to a Registration Statement on Form S-8 filed on April 3, 2006 (No. 333-132933) (the “Registration Statement”), the offer and sale of 9,997,573 shares of the Registrant’s Common Stock, par value of $0.001 per share (the “Common Stock”), issuable under the Duke Energy Corporation 1998 Long-Term Incentive Plan (the “1998 Plan”) and 1,649,741 shares issuable under the Cinergy Corp. 1996 Long-Term Incentive Compensation Plan (the “1996 Plan”). The Registrant’s Board of Directors has adopted, and its stockholders have approved, the 2010 Long-Term Incentive Plan (the “2010 Plan”). The number of shares of Common Stock available for issuance under the 2010 Plan is 75,000,000 shares (inclusive of the above-described shares previously registered with respect to the 1998 Plan and the 1996 Plan). The 2010 Plan replaced the 2006 Plan (as defined in the Explanatory Note to Post-Effective Amendment No. 1 to the Registration Statement), with respect to awards to be issued in the future, as of the date that the Registrant’s stockholders approved the 2010 Plan. No future awards will be made under the 2006 Plan.

     In accordance with the principles set forth in Interpretation 212.26 under “Securities Act Rules,” of the Compliance and Disclosure Interpretations of the Division of Corporation Finance of the Securities and Exchange Commission and Instruction E of the General Instructions to Form S-8, the Registrant filed Post-Effective Amendment No. 1 to the Registration Statement on March 2, 2007, to remove 11,647,314 shares of Common Stock registered for issuance under the 1998 Plan and the 1996 Plan from registration under this Registration Statement, and now files Post-Effective Amendment No. 2 thereto to remove from the Registration Statement the remaining 14,217,179 shares registered for issuance under the 1998 Plan, as to which no awards were made under such plan. Such remaining registered shares were described in the Explanatory Note to Post-Effective Amendment No. 1.

     The shares of Common Stock that are hereby removed from registration will be carried over to and continue to be registered under a Registration Statement on Form S-8 (the “New Registration Statement”) that will be filed contemporaneously with the filing of this Post-Effective Amendment No. 2. The New Registration Statement will register the offer and sale of a total of 75,000,000 shares of Common Stock issuable under the 2010 Plan.

Item 8. Exhibits

Exhibit
Number				Description of Document
24.1				Power of Attorney of certain officers and directors of Duke Energy Corporation

SIGNATURES

     Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, Duke Energy Corporation certifies that it has reasonable grounds to believe that it meets all of the requirements for filing on Form S-8 and has duly caused this Post-Effective Amendment No. 1 to the Registration Statement to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized, in the City of Charlotte, State of North Carolina, on August 3, 2010.

     Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, this Registration Statement has been signed by the following persons in the capacities and on the date indicated.

(i) Principal executive officer:

James E. Rogers*

Director and Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer

(ii) Principal financial officer:

Lynn J. Good*

Group Executive and Chief Financial Officer

(iii) Principal accounting officer:

Steven K. Young*

Senior Vice President and Controller

(iv) All of the Directors:

William Barnet III*

G. Alex Bernhardt, Sr.*

Michael G. Browning*

Daniel R. DiMicco*

John H. Forsgren*

Ann Maynard Gray*

James H. Hance, Jr.*

E. James Reinsch*

James T. Rhodes*

James E. Rogers*

Philip R. Sharp*

Date: August 3, 2010

EXHIBIT INDEX

Exhibit
Number				Description of Document
24.1				Power of Attorney of certain officers and directors of Duke Energy Corporation