American Electric Power Company, Inc. (NASDAQ:AEP) Q3 2023 Earnings Conference Call November 2, 2023 9:00 AM ET

Company Participants

Darcy Reese - VP, IR

Julia Sloat - Chairman, President & CEO

Charles Zebula - EVP & CFO

Conference Call Participants

Nicholas Campanella - Crédit Suisse

Jeremy Tonet - JPMorgan Chase & Co.

Jamieson Ward - Guggenheim Securities

David Arcaro - Morgan Stanley

Andrew Weisel - Scotiabank

Durgesh Chopra - Evercore ISI

Sophie Karp - KeyBanc Capital Markets

Anthony Crowdell - Mizuho Securities

Julien Dumoulin-Smith - Bank of America Merrill Lynch

Carly Davenport - Goldman Sachs Group

Operator

Thank you for standing by. My name is Eric, and I will be your conference operator today. At this time, I would like to welcome everyone to the American Electric Power Third Quarter 2023 Earnings Call. [Operator Instructions]. I would now like to turn the call over to Darcy Reese, Vice President of Investor Relations. Please go ahead.

Darcy Reese

Thank you, Eric. Good morning, everyone, and welcome to the third quarter 2023 earnings call for American Electric Power. We appreciate you taking time today to join us. Our earnings release, presentation slides and related financial information are available on our website at AEP.com.

Today, we will be making forward-looking statements during the call. There are many factors that may cause future results to differ materially from these statements. Please refer to our SEC filings for a discussion of these factors.

Joining me this morning for opening remarks are Julia Sloat, our Chair, President and Chief Executive Officer; and Chuck Zebula, our Chief Financial Officer. We will take your questions following their remarks. I will now turn the call over to Julie.

Julia Sloat

Thanks, Darcy. Welcome to American Electric Power's third quarter 2023 earnings call. It's good to be with everyone this morning. Before I discuss our third quarter performance, I would like to introduce our CFO, Chuck Zebula, who will walk us through the results today. Chuck has been with the company for 25 years and has a deep understanding of our business. He hit the ground running in his new role, and we're grateful for his leadership. Many of you are familiar with Chuck, and I'm confident that you enjoy working with him in the CFO role.

I'm pleased to share that the execution of our strategy is on track. AEP is well positioned to deliver on a robust and flexible 5-year $40 billion capital plan with an emphasis on our generation fleet transformation and investments in our energy delivery infrastructure as we need our customer needs. While our industry continues to transform amid this dynamic environment characterized by more extreme weather, rising interest rates and supply chain constraints, AEP has continued to adapt and take thoughtful actions to stay our course. We're keeping the customer at the center of every decision we make, while also balancing and listening to our stakeholders who are critical to our success.