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Duke Energy CEO to leave in North Carolina merger settlement

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photo Jim Rogers, Chairman and CEO of Duke Energy gestures during a discussion about energy policy at the Commonwealth Club in San Francisco.

RALEIGH, N.C. – Duke Energy CEO Jim Rogers will step down as head

of the largest U.S. electric utility by the end of 2013 as part of a

settlement with the North Carolina utilities regulator that ends an

investigation into the company’s takeover of in-state rival Progress

Energy.