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PART II
REPORT OF INDEPENDENT REGISTERED PUBLIC ACCOUNTING FIRM
To the Board of Directors of
Duke Energy Ohio, Inc.
Charlotte, North Carolina
We have audited the accompanying consolidated balance sheets of Duke Energy Ohio, Inc. and subsidiaries (the “Company”) as of December 31, 2015 and 2014,
and the related consolidated statements of operations and comprehensive income, changes in equity, and cash flows for each of the three years in the period ended
December 31, 2015. These financial statements are the responsibility of the Company’s management. Our responsibility is to express an opinion on these financial
statements based on our audits.
We conducted our audits in accordance with the standards of the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (United States). Those standards require that we
plan and perform the audit to obtain reasonable assurance about whether the financial statements are free of material misstatement. The Company is not required
to have, nor were we engaged to perform, an audit of its internal control over financial reporting. Our audits included consideration of internal control over financial
reporting as a basis for designing audit procedures that are appropriate in the circumstances, but not for the purpose of expressing an opinion on the effectiveness
of the Company’s internal control over financial reporting. Accordingly, we express no such opinion. An audit also includes examining, on a test basis, evidence
supporting the amounts and disclosures in the financial statements, assessing the accounting principles used and significant estimates made by management, as
well as evaluating the overall financial statement presentation. We believe that our audits provide a reasonable basis for our opinion.
In our opinion, the consolidated financial statements referred to above present fairly, in all material respects, the financial position of Duke Energy Ohio, Inc. and
subsidiaries at December 31, 2015 and 2014, and the results of their operations and their cash flows for each of the three years in the period ended December 31,
2015, in conformity with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America.
As discussed in Note 22 to the consolidated financial statements, Duke Energy Ohio, Inc. and subsidiaries adopted ASU 2015-17, Income Taxes (Topic 740); Balance
Sheet Classification of Deferred Taxes effective December 31, 2015, on a prospective basis.
/s/ Deloitte & Touche LLP
Charlotte, North Carolina
February 25, 2016