NorthWestern Corporation (NASDAQ:NWE) Q3 2022 Earnings Conference Call October 25, 2022 3:30 PM ET

Company Participants

Travis Meyer - Director of Corporate Finance & Investor Relations Officer

Bob Rowe - CEO

Crystal Lail - VP & CFO

Brian Bird - President & COO

Conference Call Participants

Shar Pourreza - Guggenheim Securities

Sophie Karp - KeyBanc

Travis Meyer

Good afternoon, and thank you for joining NorthWestern Corporation's Financial Results Webcast for the Quarter Ending September 30, 2022. My name is Travis Meyer. I'm the Director of Corporate Finance and Investor Relations Officer for NorthWestern.

Joining us today to walk you through the results and provide an overall update are Bob Rowe, Chief Executive Officer; Brian Bird, President and Chief Operating Officer; and Crystal Lail, Vice President and Chief Financial Officer. All participant lines are currently muted. After the presentation, we have a lot of time for our Q&A session. I’ll provide instructions for asking questions at that time. [Operator Instructions]

NorthWestern's results have been released, and the release is available on our website at northwesternenergy.com. We also released our 10-Q pre-market this morning. Please note that this company's press release, this presentation and comments by presenters and responses to your questions may contain forward-looking statements. As such, I will direct you to the disclosures contained within our SEC filings and the safe harbor provisions included on the second slide of this presentation.

Please also note this presentation includes non-GAAP financial measures. Please see the non-GAAP disclosures, definitions and reconciliations also included in the presentation. The webcast is being recorded. The archived replay of today’s webcast will be available for one year beginning at 6 P.M. Eastern today and can be found in the Financial Results section of our website.

With that, I'll hand it over -- our presentation over for one last time to NorthWestern’s CEO, Bob Rowe.

Bob Rowe

Thank you very much, Travis. We're meeting this week in Sioux Falls, South Dakota. There's some great economic development activities over the weekend, and we're just delighted to be part of one of the most dynamic economies in the country, highlight of the board meeting was a presentation by PUC Chair, Chris Nelson and Chair Nelson reminded us of our responsibility to focus on the reliability of our system. And Chair Nelson is very, very clearly focused as are his colleagues on reliability and affordability. It's a message that he also delivered very eloquently at the ribbon cutting for the Bob Glanzer Generating Station. So we were really honored and appreciated the teammate’s time for us.