Black Hills Corporation (NYSE:BKH) Q2 2023 Earnings Conference Call August 3, 2023 11:00 AM ET

Company Participants

Jerome Nichols - Director, Investor Relations

Linn Evans - President and Chief Executive Officer

Kimberly Nooney - Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer

Marne Jones - Senior Vice President, Utilities

Todd Jacobs - Senior Vice President, Growth and Strategy

Conference Call Participants

Julien Dumoulin - Bank of America

Andrew Weisel - Scotiabank

Christopher Ellinghaus - Siebert Williams

Operator

Good day and thank you for standing by. Welcome to the Second Quarter 2023 Black Hills Corporation Earnings Conference Call. At this time, all participants are in a listen-only mode. After the speakers’ presentation, there will be a question-and-answer session. [Operator Instructions] Please be advised that today’s conference is being recorded.

I would now like to hand the conference over to your speaker today, Jerome Nichols, Director of Investor Relations.

Jerome Nichols

Thank you, and good morning, everyone. Welcome to Black Hills Corporation’s second quarter 2023 earnings conference call. You can find our earnings release and materials for this call on our website at www.blackhillscorp.com under the Investor Relations heading. Leading our quarterly earnings discussion this morning are Linn Evans, President and Chief Executive Officer; and Kimberly Nooney, Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer. Also attending this morning are Marne Jones, Senior Vice President of Utilities; and Todd Jacobs, Senior Vice President of Growth and Strategy.

During our earnings discussion today, some of the comments we make may contain forward-looking statements as defined by the Securities and Exchange Commission, and there are a number of uncertainties inherent in such comments. Although we believe that our expectations are based on reasonable assumptions, actual results may differ materially. We direct you to our earnings release, Slide 2 of the investor presentation on our website and our most recent Form 10-K and Form 10-Q filed with the SEC for a list of some of the factors that could cause future results to differ materially from our expectations.

I will now turn the call over to Linn Evans.

Linn Evans

Thank you, Jerome, and thank you all for joining us today. As Jerome said, Kimberly and I are pleased to be joined this morning by 2 additional members of our senior leadership team. Marne will provide our business update. Todd will provide updates on our regulatory plan and our progress on growth initiatives. I’ll begin my prepared comments on Slide 3. I’m very proud of our team’s operational performance as we continue to deliver upon our #1 priority, and that’s serving our customers safely and reliably. As recent extreme weather events across our country continue to remind us, keeping our customers comfortable and safe, whether it’s bitterly cold or blistering hot, requires long-term planning and a continuous focus on operations excellence.