NorthWestern Corporation (NASDAQ:NWE) Q1 2022 Earnings Conference Call April 29, 2022 2:30 PM ET

Company Participants

Travis Meyer - Director of Corporate Finance & IR Officer

Robert Rowe - CEO

Crystal Lail - VP and CFO

Brian Bird - President and 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 March 31, 2022. My name is Travis Meyer. I'm the Director of Corporate Finance and Investor Relations Officer from NorthWestern.

Joining us today to walk through the results and provide an overall update are Bob Rowe, Chief Executive Officer; Brian Bird, President and Chief Operating Officer; Crystal Lail, Vice President and Chief Financial Officer; as well as other members of management in the room with us. [Operator Instructions].

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

Also note this presentation includes non-GAAP financial measures. Please see the non-GAAP disclosures, definitions and reconciliations also included in the presentation.

This webcast is being recorded. The archived replay of the 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 to NorthWestern CEO, Bob Rowe.

Robert Rowe

Thank you, Travis, and thank you all for joining us. We are meeting this week in Butte America, where we're having yet another good heavy late season snowstorm, very much needed. We're continuing to build up snowpack across Montana, which is great.

The Board came in a day early, which was an opportunity to get them out meeting quite a lot of our employees and visiting some key facilities in the Butte area, our local distribution center, grid control, the new distribution operations center that we've been standing up in stages now for a number of years and also real-time trading desk, our cybersecurity team.

And then we had a fantastic community reception as well. As you know, we had an online Annual Shareholders Meeting earlier this morning, and there were a lot of good questions as part of that, which we also very much appreciated.