Q3 2023 Black Hills Corp Earnings Call
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Good day and thank you for standing by welcome to the Q3 2023 Black Hills Corporation earnings Conference call. At this time, all participants are in a listen only mode. After the speaker's presentation there'll be a question and answer session to ask a question. During this session. Please press star one one on your telephone.
And wait for your name to be announced to withdraw your question. Please press star. One again, please be advised that today's conference is being recorded I would now like turn the conference over to your speaker today Jerome Nichols.
Director of Investor Relations.
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Thank you good morning, everyone welcome to Black Hills Corporation's third quarter 2023 earnings Conference call you.
You can talk to our earnings release and materials for this call on our website at Www Dot Black Hills Corp, Dot com under the Investor Relations heading.
Leading our quarterly earnings discussion today are <unk>, President and Chief Executive Officer.
And Kimberly Nooney, senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer.
Also attending this morning, or Marni Jones, senior Vice President of utilities, and Todd Jacobs Senior Vice president of growth and strategy.
Before we begin today, we would like to note that Black Hills will be attending the Edison Electric Institute Financial Conference on November 12 through November 14th or.
Our leadership team will be meeting with investors at the conference in 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 supplied to the Investor presentation on our website.
In 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 Lynn happens.
Jerome and thank you all for joining us today.
I will provide an overview of our third quarter, Kimberly will provide our financial update and Marty and Todd will provide more detail on our ongoing operational performance and strategy.
I'll begin my comments on slide three.
We delivered excellent operational and financial performance in the third quarter continuing to build upon our team's accomplishments during the first half of the year.
I'm, especially pleased with our team's success in providing safe and reliable service to our customers our most important priority and.
And while on the topic of reliability the Edison Electric Institute once again recognized all three of our electric utilities as being among the most reliable in the country.
In addition to operational excellence, we are focused on three additional key objectives for the year.
Delivering earnings in line with our guidance expectations, continuing to strengthen our balance sheet and advancing our regulatory plan and growth initiatives.
We delivered solid earnings for the quarter through continued execution of our strategy and regulatory plan, coupled with our team's efforts to control expenses.
We expect to deliver at the top end of our earnings guidance range for this year, assuming normal fourth quarter weather and operating conditions as outlined in our guidance assumptions.
We also delivered on our financial plan to improve credit metrics and further strengthen our balance sheet through strong operating cash flows successfully refinancing our debt.
Debt maturity and issuing stock under our ATM program.
On the rate review front, we recently negotiated a constructive settlement for Wyoming gas. We're also working toward our year end resolution for Colorado gas and we're preparing an application for Arkansas gas that we plan to file next months.
In July we served a remarkable 10th consecutive year of new peak customer loads for our Wyoming electric system, representing an increase of nearly 70% over the last decade to a new peak of 312 megawatts.
These peaks are driven in part by our strategic objective to expand the data center business and the Cheyenne region.
And most recently by attracting a large blockchain customer.
We remain optimistic about the growth of these expanding industries and Cheyenne.
We continue to advance our resource plan strategies to serve our customers growing energy needs and add renewable generation to our portfolio as we achieved key milestones in our work to add 500 megawatts of new renewable resources.
We recently updated our strategic objectives as part of our annual review of our strategy and Todd will share some details in his comments.
And to wrap up my quarterly review, we appreciate our stakeholders interest regarding wildfire mitigation, which we take very seriously and have managed throughout our 140 year history. We recently provided transparency into the many strategic and operational measures we have in place and how these programs support our industry leading reliability.
And the resiliency of our systems.
Marty will provide more color on this topic during her comments.
Slide four lists out our financial outlook with our solid results to date and our positive outlook for the remainder of the year. We are guiding to the top end of our 2023 earnings guidance.
Our ongoing execution and clarity around growth opportunities supports our 4% to 6% long term earnings per share growth target, which is based off of our 2023 guidance midpoint.
We're continuing to deploy prudent and strategic capital in a way that serves customers and strengthens our balance sheet. Our current five year capital plan, which we announced last year totaled $3 $5 billion. As a reminder, our five year plan does not yet include new investments stemming from our Rfps in Colorado.
Or South Dakota.
As we stated last quarter, we will provide you additional and updated insights during our Q4 earnings call. Our updates will include our 2024 earnings guidance, our dividend growth plans and an updated capital forecast for 2024 through 2028 that will include some of our growing pipeline of customer focused investment opt.
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With that Kimberly will provide a financial review Kimberly.
Thank you Lynn and good morning, everyone.
I'll begin my comments on slide six with earnings per share compared to the same period last year.
As Lynn noted earlier.
Strong financial performance for the third quarter with EPS of <unk> 67 cents compared to <unk> 54 last year.
Quarterly results were driven primarily by new rates and rider recovery solid expense management and higher than planned interest income.
Slide seven highlights the after tax drivers of change in net income for Q3 2023 compared to Q3 2022.
Improvement in electric and natural gas utility margins was primarily driven by 10 cents of EPS from new rates and rider investment recovery and.
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These were partially offset by <unk> <unk> of net negative weather when comparing current and prior year Q3 results.
Our O&M expenses were lower than last year due to expense management and a strategic sale of land a customer to support further load growth in the Cheyenne area.
Interest expense was up slightly for the quarter compared to last year as interest income on our cash balance offset impacts from higher interest rates.
Slide eight represents year to date operating results.
At our electric utilities higher margins were primarily driven by <unk> 18 per share of new rates and rider recovery margin.
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At our gas utilities, we benefited from 12 cents of new rates and rider recovery margin.
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From residential growth and usage.
This was partially offset by three items.
A 6% net change in mark to market valuation of natural gas commodity contracts year over year.
A net weather impact of 10 cents year over year.
And a onetime benefit of 12 cents related to winter storm here last year.
O&M expenses increased two 1% compared to the same period last year.
Really driven by the inflationary impacts on labor and outside service costs.
These were partially offset by the impact of gains from the sale of wind assets in Q1.
And strategic land sale during the quarter as I mentioned earlier.
Interest expense increased due to higher interest rates and new debt issuances.
Partially offset by interest income on our available cash.
We have been and will continue to manage our controllable operating expenses.
As Lynn noted earlier, we are reaffirming our 2023 earnings guidance and expect to deliver results at the top end of the range.
Additional details regarding our financial results are available in our earnings release, and 10-Q released yesterday.
Moving to slide nine.
One of our key strategic objectives for this year is to strengthen our balance sheet.
Since last year, we have significantly improved our credit metrics with execution of our operating and financial plans.
Cash flows from operation.
And disciplined capital investment.
We have reduced our net debt to total capitalization by 300 basis points from 68% at year end 2022 to 57, 8% as of September 30th 2023.
We continue to improve our <unk> to debt metrics at all three rating agencies.
We are managing our capital plan to approximately $615 million for the year.
Recall, we sold our non core Iowa wind farm assets in the first quarter, which provided additional cash resources for the remainder of the year.
Our financing plan for the year began with issuing $350 million in new notes in March with.
With proceeds used to repay all our commercial paper balances.
In September we issued $450 million of debt and in combination with available cash we will repay our $525 million of notes maturing at the end of November.
We have issued new shares of stock throughout the year under our ATM equity program.
We've issued $108 million to date compared to our planned range of $140 million to $160 million for the year.
Overall, we are delivering on our commitment to strengthen our balance sheet and improve our credit metrics.
The benefit of our work detailed on slide nine is reflected in the charts on slide 10, which display our financial position through the lens of credit quality capital structure and liquidity.
As previously discussed we continue to remain focused on improving the quality of our balance sheet and credit metrics.
At quarter end, we had nearly $600 million of cash with no short term borrowings on our $750 million revolving credit facility.
Total liquidity was nearly $1 4 billion.
Or $825 million when you net out the $525 million debt repayment to be completed later this month.
Slide 11 displays our industry, leading dividend track record.
Dependable and increasing dividend is a component of our strategy for growing long term value for our shareholders.
We expect to continue our 53 year track record of annual dividend increases.
In line with our long term EPS growth rate of 4% to 6%.
Our growth rate is based on the midpoint of our earnings guidance of $3 75 per share.
We will continue to target a payout ratio of 55% to 65%.
I will now turn the call over to Marty for a business update.
Thank you Kimberly I'd like to start by recognizing our team for your ongoing efforts in maintaining a safe reliable and resilient system.
And congratulations for a solid quarter.
I recognize this once again during the quarter as top quartile for our combined rank P. B.
Just on 2022 reliability outage minutes where city.
This reflects the prudency of our long standing investment.
Long term planning and team execution and responsiveness to our customers every day.
This industry, leading reliability is even more of an achievement as was reflected earlier this quarter considering that we completed a decade of consecutive annual increases and new peak loads for Wyoming electric.
Slide 14 lays out the progress of our electric resource plan, one of our key strategic initiatives for our Colorado and South Dakota Electric systems.
We plan to add 500.
Lots of renewable resources to our systems.
Megawatts of build transfer generation in 2026 for South Dakota Electric and 400 megawatts of renewable resources by 2030 for Colorado Electric.
For South Dakota, we evaluated the bids received in response to a request for proposals and are currently in negotiations.
We expect to share the project proposal with the South Dakota Public utility Commission in the first quarter of 2024.
The project is also targeted to be filed as part of a certificate of public convenience and necessity with the Wyoming Public Service Commission in Q1 of 2024.
In Colorado, we received a strong and diverse response to our RFP supporting the clean energy plan.
We are currently evaluating bids and we'll provide a bid summary, this year to the Colorado Public utility Commission.
Part of the approval process.
We will also plan to update the capital forecast with those details when we have more certainty.
And we will likely be able to provide an estimate of the capital investment for South Dakota Electric and our capital refresh in early February.
Moving to slide 15, I'm excited for our ready Wyoming electric transmission project to be underway.
We are working through our land rights of way now and are planning to start on a substation expansion near Cheyenne with tweaks.
The 260 mile project will better serve our customers through a larger more interconnected system essentially closing the loop between our South Dakota, and Wyoming electric system.
This transmission expansion is expected to enhance resiliency.
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And provide long term stabilization of transmission costs for customers.
Increase transmission capacity will enhance our ability to reliably serve our growing customer base.
The project will be constructed and energized and multiple phases and is targeted to be completed by year end 2025.
The ready Wyoming assets will be owned by our Wyoming electric utility and recovery of the investment is expected through our Wyoming based transmission rider.
Slide 16 outlines our wildfire mitigation efforts.
And reliability go here and then add in our top priorities for us for.
For decades, we've embedded a wide variety of wildfire mitigation measures and initiatives.
Protect our energy delivery systems.
Safeguarding our facilities and the surrounding environment.
From an operations perspective wildfire safety is a daily focus and we use a combination of tools and practices and programs to support our risk mitigation efforts.
And driving reliability.
Broadly, we manage wildfire risk through a three layered approach.
Asset programs.
Integrity programs and operational response.
Our asset programs focus on preventative measures such as the management.
Safety and integrity inspections.
Our integrity programs include our ongoing long term investments in our systems.
And other initiatives like underground electric distribution.
Our operational response includes day to day assessment of conditions.
Management of our systems and activities such as construction work.
We also leveraged the solid relationships with local state and federal agencies that appropriately manage public lands within our service territories, providing another meaningful layer of security against wildfires.
Additional information about our wildfire mitigation programs can be found on our Black Hills energy website.
And in our recently distributed press release.
With that I will turn it over to Todd for an update on our regulatory strategy and growth progress.
Thanks, Marni as Lynn mentioned, we are advancing our regulatory and growth initiatives and we've recently updated our strategic objectives.
Start with a regulatory update on slide 18.
In Wyoming, we recently filed a settlement agreement for our natural gas rate review, which is pending review by the Wyoming Commission.
The settlement provides $13 9 million of new annual revenue based on a return on equity of 985%.
And our capital structure of 51% equity and 49% debt.
The agreement provides for new rates, starting January 1st of 'twenty four.
And includes the renewal of our integrity investment rider for four years.
The agreement also provides the establishment of our Green forward program.
Voluntary RMG and carbon offset program that is being successfully offered and several other gas utility territories, we serve.
With our ongoing growth in Wyoming, we appreciate and value the constructive regulatory environment.
Supports our ability to provide safe and reliable service to our customers.
Our other active gas rate review is in Colorado, which continues to advance through the regulatory process.
Seeking new rates in Q1 of 'twenty four.
We're hopeful for resolution this year, having reached a settlement earlier this year for RMG, our intrastate pipeline in Colorado with new rates implemented early in the third quarter.
In addition, we are preparing to file a natural gas rate review in Arkansas by year end.
Which is driven by ongoing investment to support our growing communities in northwest Arkansas.
Looking forward, we expect to file three rate reviews per year as normal course of business.
We continue to evaluate our regulatory plan in light of rising interest rates and inflation.
Slide 19 lays out our updated strategic priorities.
Over the last year, we undertook a comprehensive review of our strategy.
Through this process, we made a connected set of choices for our business.
Trading strong alignment within our team and provided greater clarity on our <unk>.
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From this process, we narrowed our focus to the following strategic priorities and objectives.
They include growth and financial performance.
Operational excellence.
Transformation, which is focused on our internal processes and how we serve our customers.
And people and culture.
We're excited to share more over the coming year about these strategic priorities and the objectives and key results, we will use to measure value for stakeholders.
These strategic priorities did not represent a dramatic shift in our underlying plan.
But better aligned people processes and capital to more effectively and efficiently deliver strong operational and financial performance.
As part of this effort.
We strategically reviewed the entire organization needs to have the right people and the right rules.
Due to the current macroeconomic environment.
Affordability for our customers.
And our investors earnings expectations.
We made the difficult choice to make a targeted reduction in our workforce.
While these decisions are never easy.
They will make the organization stronger and.
And help us deliver more cost effective service for our customers.
Slide 20 shows our disciplined growth plan and potential upside.
We are seeing in the core needs of our customers through our $3 5 billion five year capital plan.
Improving our infrastructure with incremental investment focused on safety and reliability.
And we are pursuing profitable growth.
In a variety of other customer focused growth and efficiency initiatives.
As we prepare to refresh our five year capital forecast at our fourth quarter earnings call. We.
We expect recurring core investments.
Of about $700 million annually in safety reliability and growth.
We do not include large generation or other infrastructure projects in our forecast until we have high certainty of investment amounts timing and avenues for recovery.
The forecast will be updated as we gain more certainty around our larger strategic projects.
Beyond this capital forecast and major incremental projects.
We are aggressively pursuing profitable growth in a variety of other ways.
Our team is focused on cultivating opportunities that drive new margin streams through innovative and creative solutions living into our vision to be an energy partner of choice.
Slide 21 lays out our other customer focused initiatives in five areas.
Transmission and storage.
Data centers blockchain.
Renewable natural gas.
And driving organizational effectiveness and efficiency.
An example of a strategic infrastructure project is already Wyoming transmission expansion project.
As part of a larger and longer term vision.
We expect the project to unlock a host of future opportunities through expanded access to market energy and more renewable generation to serve our customers energy needs.
We are particularly excited about serving the Cheyenne region, which has a robust business environment and conditions that are ideal for datacenters renewable generation and blockchain and crypto mining.
Our existing data center customers in Cheyenne are expecting continued load growth.
And our block chain customer has exercised their option for an additional 30 megawatts of energy demand.
Which will take their load up to a total of 75 megawatts.
In addition to ready Wyoming, we are also actively pursuing other incremental transmission opportunities and our long term plan and we are always evaluating other needs.
Such as natural gas pipelines and storage projects.
We continue to see the expansion of our renewable natural gas business as an attractive opportunity in our agriculture Rich service territories with.
We've leveraged our utility operations experience to.
To support six pipeline Interconnects to date in.
And expect to add four new interconnect projects in the short term.
We continue evaluating a range of orange opportunities that could be more meaningful in scale for both earnings contribution and de carbonization impact for our natural gas system.
We are also fostering ongoing sustainable cost savings through innovation and continuous improvement in how we do business and serve our customers through our energy forward initiative.
This is critical to our overall strategy and as part of the transformation objective listed earlier.
Through that initiative, we will seek out and drive efficiencies in how we operate our business and serve our customers.
In closing and before I turn it back to Lynn we are truly excited about our future at Black Hills energy.
We are successfully realizing our near term initiatives.
Aggressively developing our growth opportunity pipeline and continuing to improve clarity around how we can better execute our strategy.
In the evolving macroeconomic environment.
We are confident that we will deliver strong results through our current plan as well as through long term sustained value for our stakeholders Lynn.
Thank you Todd in summary, we delivered strong operational and financial performance in the third quarter and made meaningful progress on our strategic initiatives.
We are well positioned to achieve the top end of our earnings guidance for the year and to further strengthen our balance sheet.
We will remain disciplined in managing expenses and deploying capital to serve customers. Our team continues to execute a regulatory plan and we are excited about our growth initiatives, which support confidence in our 4% to 6% long term growth target with that we're happy to entertain questions.
Thank you.
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Our first question comes from Julien Dumoulin Smith with Bank of America You May proceed.
Hey, good morning team. Thank you guys for all the update this morning pretty exhaustive set.
Thank you again, but if we can can we pivot to talking about the 24 outlook here and just wanted to make sure. We understand clearly so it seems that you guys are a FERC reaffirming here are your growth 46 of the 23 midpoint into 'twenty four and beyond can we talk a little bit about what gives you that comp.
<unk> here into 24, more specifically, obviously, there's some more one time ish type items that are reflected and seem to have been contemplated in guidance. Originally in 'twenty, three but to be able to grow off of that level into 'twenty. Four is notable can you talk a little bit about the pieces, there, especially considering the incremental headwinds from interest.
It sounds like if I hear you right that the O&M.
Leavers that you announced just now it stand out in particular in enabling that visibility.
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Good morning, Julien. Thanks for the question. This is Lynn we are about.
Less than two months now from 24, so we've been working on 24 hard obviously doing well in 'twenty three watching the momentum that we're building in 'twenty three taking that into 24 I'm going to turn this question over to Kimberly in a moment. So she can dive into the details for you, but we have replaced our debt for 2023, we've considered that into our model as you indicate.
Before you go.
And to your question. We've also considered the equity issuance that we are doing as well.
I'm proud of our team and how we are leaning in working on controlling costs, especially and we think we can take that momentum into 2024 again. Thank you for pointing out based off of that 2023 mid point of our guidance and I'll turn it over to Kimberly for more detail yeah. Good morning, Julien. Thank you so much.
When we reestablished our earnings guidance earlier this year, we took a lot of the macroeconomic environment challenges.
Into consideration as we designed not only the earnings guidance for 2023, but also how we looked at our growth rate of 4% to 6%. So you can think about your questions around higher interest costs and a potential for higher inflation, we evaluated those and included those in the plan.
You commented on onetime items those items that we talked about today were contemplated and included in our guidance range and so when you look at the holistic picture I think that's what makes us confident around our 4% to 6% growth.
On top of a lot of the capital growth opportunities that Todd and Marnie discussed that we are going to be providing you with more updates here in.
Q4.
Well said I'd just also emphasize the continued load growth we're seeing from customers has been very beneficial for us.
Absolutely yes.
If you don't mind, let's lean into that last comment a little bit further.
So fourth quarter, it seems like a little bit of a bigger update in just 24 as you guys unveil a number of projects that you guys have been working on for a bit it seems what's going to be quote unquote ready.
In terms of just having the visibility from a permitting or regulatory perspective to really talk to you on fourth quarter. I know you have a lot of different especially long term initiatives.
Which that things will be right to talk about our fourth quarter.
What could those included if you can kind of take through those and then if I can throw on that at the same time here. How do you think about eligibility to own perhaps disproportionate quantities of these renewable.
Resources, we obviously saw your peer <unk> go in Colorado here proposed something thats well above their historical norms on ownership in the renewable space of late you could elaborate on that front too.
Yes lots of things to unpack there Julien I'll do my best This is Len speaking again.
Starting with our load growth, we're still seeing and migration of customers into our territories. We've been seeing very strong nice and migration that continues we're seeing data center expansions. We had mentioned in our opening comments about the the main one.
Blockchain mining organization that we are now serving they've exercised their option to expand that not a huge impact in 'twenty four but the point is those kinds of customers are growing for US you mentioned, the clean energy plan and our ERP at least I think you mentioned both of them in South Dakota.
We asked for.
Could design build build transfer contracts and so that's what we are currently negotiating with those bidders. So we believe we will be owning that trend that those assets in the long term.
Visit with our South Dakota Commissioner is about the the advantage of ownership versus Ppas, we think they understand that well with the clean energy plan, we're watching what's happening with our counterpart excel closely. They are ahead of us the least about six months.
<unk> that closely we have about 400 megawatts that we intend to add there and as the statute says we can own up to 50% of that reasonable costs. So we have lots of bids for that that we are evaluating currently very strong bids we'll be refiling. Our reports relatively soon with the commission and I might look tomorrow to see.
Do you have something to add to that Marnie just a couple of additional comments on that Julien. So in South Dakota for that build transfer we are planning to have that in service in mid 2026.
So just to give you some timeframe on that.
And then if are there for the Colorado resources those will be in service between 2026 and 2029.
That will drive us to meet our clean energy plan requirements of the 80% reduction by 2030.
The other asset I do want to mention too.
Just follow up on is already Wyoming asset. So that is currently under way and permitting is in progress from a <unk>.
Land rights of way.
That asset is expected to be in service by year end 2025.
Got it excellent and then last little twist here on the equity obviously, a number of further projects you've already got done a good chunk of the ATM here, but still how do you think about resolving needs that are created.
Our expected in 'twenty for the remainder of 'twenty. Three here do you think continue to leverage ATM or given increasing size your pursue other avenues.
Yeah, Julian we obviously look at all opportunities. It could include our ATM. It could include block trade opportunities I just want to be clear. This year's equity was specifically focused on strengthening our balance sheet as we move forward. Obviously, you heard Lin and Marnie talk a lot about our capital.
With opportunities as we think about capital going forward.
It's focused on maintaining triple B plus credit quality.
So it really is going to depend on timing and what those opportunities look at that at that point, but we do expect equity in the future to finance, our future growth opportunities from a capital investment perspective.
Awesome. Thanks, Jim Alright, Thank you guys all the best.
Thank you. Thank you.
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And our next question comes from Richard Granger with Mizuho you May proceed.
Hi, good morning.
Good morning.
Thanks for taking my question just wanted to touch on the rate review progress.
Are there any other rate cases that you are looking at for 2024.
That that we should be thinking about besides Arkansas gas.
They are currently under review, it's nothing that we.
Our publicly to scope disclosing at this point so just to recap.
Cases that we have in progress right now 23 are in Wyoming, Colorado, and we've indicated filing in Arkansas, we expect to file about three a year, but we haven't specifically identified jurisdictions.
Well, we typically like to do this this is Lynn we always like to talk to our regulators first let them know what they can anticipate having those discussions at a time always helps so we will be doing that but as Todd answered nicely in response to the question. His opening comments, we expect about three rate reviews, a year going forward.
That's helpful.
And that would be.
Contemplated in that 4% to 6%.
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Yes.
Got it.
Yeah I appreciate the time, thanks, I'll leave it there.
Thank you will thank you.
Thank you I'd now like to turn the call back over to Linn Evans for any closing remarks.
Well. Thank you for your interest in Black Hills Corporation Black Hills energy very proud of what our team performed this quarter and year to date, we're already experiencing winter here in our service territories and we're glad that we see some relatively low natural gas prices for our customers as we enter into that peak winter heating.
Heating season, and we're happy to pass along those lower cost to our customers and we will look forward to seeing many of you in a couple of weeks at the EI Financial conference and I encourage all of you. Please have a black hills energy Safe day. Thank you.
Thank you. This concludes today's conference call. Thank you for participating you may now disconnect.
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