Black Hills Corporation (NYSE:BKH) Q1 2023 Earnings Conference Call May 4, 2023 11:00 AM ET

Company Participants

Dave Soderquist – Manager-Investor Relations

Linn Evans – President and Chief Executive Officer

Kimberly Nooney – Senior Vice President, Chief Financial Officer and Treasurer

Conference Call Participants

Andrew Weisel – Scotiabank

Brandon Lee – Mizuho

Operator

Good day and thank you for standing by. Welcome to the First 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. Dave Soderquist, manager of Investor Relations.

Dave Soderquist

Thank you and good morning, everyone. Welcome to Black Hills Corporation’s First 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 discussions today are Linn Evans, president and Chief Executive Officer and Kimberly Nuni, Senior Vice President, Chief Financial Officer and Treasurer; also, in attendance today are Marne Jones, vice President of Electric Utilities and Todd Jacobs, Vice President of Growth and Strategy.

Before we begin today, we would like to note that Black Hills will be attending the American Gas Association Financial Forum in the week of May 21st. Our leadership team will be meeting with investors at the conference and the investor presentation will be posted on our website prior to the conference. 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 two 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, Dave. Good morning, everyone and thank you for joining us. Before I begin my comments, I also want to welcome Marne and Todd this morning. going forward, they will be participating in our earnings calls and will help respond to your questions. They’re great leaders and I’m confident you will appreciate their perspectives.