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ProfileEarnings HistoryForecast OGE Energy EPS ResultsActual EPS$0.53Consensus EPS $0.58Beat/MissMissed by -$0.05One Year Ago EPS$0.51OGE Energy Revenue ResultsActual Revenue$741.60 millionExpected Revenue$719.97 millionBeat/MissBeat by +$21.63 millionYoY Revenue Growth+11.90%OGE Energy Announcement DetailsQuarterQ2 2025Date7/29/2025TimeBefore Market OpensConference Call DateWednesday, July 30, 2025Conference Call Time9:00AM ETConference Call ResourcesConference Call AudioConference Call TranscriptSlide DeckPress Release (8-K)Earnings HistoryCompany ProfileSlide DeckFull Screen Slide DeckPowered by OGE Energy Q2 2025 Earnings Call TranscriptProvided by QuartrJuly 30, 2025 ShareLink copied to clipboard.Key Takeaways Positive Sentiment: Our consolidated earnings were $0.53 per diluted share, up from $0.51 year-over-year, and we remain on track to deliver in the top half of our guidance range. Positive Sentiment: Weather-normalized load grew 6.5% year-to-date with nearly 1% customer growth in Q2, driven by strong residential and commercial demand. Positive Sentiment: We are adding approximately 550 MW of generation capacity this year and have filed to add another 450 MW by 2029 to meet growing demand. Positive Sentiment: Legislative and regulatory approvals for CWIP recovery on generation and transmission projects are expected to save customers $190 million and fund a $240 million Fort Smith-Muskogee line. Negative Sentiment: Industrial and oilfield load showed softness in Q2 due to unplanned outages, though management expects recovery as new projects come online. AI Generated. May Contain Errors.Conference Call Audio Live Call not available Earnings Conference CallOGE Energy Q2 202500:00 / 00:00Speed:1x1.25x1.5x2xTranscript SectionsPresentationParticipantsPresentationSkip to Participants Operator00:00:00Good day and thank you for standing by. Welcome to the OGE Energy Corp. Twenty twenty five Second Quarter Earnings and Business Update Call. At this time, all participants are in listen only mode. After the speakers' presentation, there will be a question and answer session. Operator00:00:15To ask a question during the session, you will need to press 11 on your telephone. You will then hear automated message advising your hand is raised. To withdraw your question, please press 11 again. Please be advised that today's conference is being recorded. I would like to hand the conference over to your first speaker today, Jason Bailey, Director of Investor Relations. Please go ahead. Jason BaileyDirector of Investor Relations at OGE Energy00:00:34Thank you, Marvin, and good morning, everyone, and welcome to our call. With me today is Sean Trotsky, our Chairman, President, and CEO and Chuck Wallward, our CFO and Treasurer. In terms of the call today, we will first hear from Sean, followed by an explanation from Chuck of financial results, And finally, as always, we will answer your questions. I'd like to remind you that this conference is being webcast and you may follow along at oge.com. In addition, the conference call and accompanying slides will be archived following the call on that same website. Jason BaileyDirector of Investor Relations at OGE Energy00:01:09Before we begin the presentation, I'd like to direct your attention to the Safe Harbor statement regarding forward looking statements. This is an SEC requirement for financial statements and simply states that we cannot guarantee forward looking financial results, but this is our best estimate to date. I will now turn the call over to Sean for his opening remarks. Sean? Sean TrauschkeChairman, President & CEO at OGE Energy00:01:30Thank you, Jason, and good morning, everyone. Thank you for joining us today. It's certainly great to be with you. Our service area is continuing to grow, and I couldn't be more excited about this growth we're experiencing. Here in Oklahoma City, we've truly entered the global stage. Sean TrauschkeChairman, President & CEO at OGE Energy00:01:46Our Thunder secured their first NBA championship and more than half a million people descended on downtown to help celebrate during the championship parade. But that's not all. In 2028, we will host the softball and canoe slalom events as part of the Los Angeles Olympics. And as we celebrate these milestones, it's important to stay focused on our goals for the year and the years ahead. So here we are, halfway through the year, and we've achieved a lot. Sean TrauschkeChairman, President & CEO at OGE Energy00:02:14And we're confident in our plans for the year and expect to deliver in the top half of our earnings guidance range. This morning, we reported consolidated earnings of $0.53 per diluted share, with the holding company flat for the quarter. We built a strong foundation for future growth and remain committed to providing safe, reliable and affordable service to our customers. The second quarter usually includes severe weather in our service area, and I'm happy to report the system performed well and impacts on our customers were minimal as a result of our investment and outstanding team. I'm very proud of our people and the work they do every day. Sean TrauschkeChairman, President & CEO at OGE Energy00:02:54This month, the weather is heating up and as always, our system will be prepared. Moving on to customer growth and demand, our service area is poised for continued growth across all customer segments. Additional generation projects under construction are all on time and all on budget. Our growth and performance continues to excel, providing three future opportunities, new generation capacity, transmission and large loads that I'm happy to update you on. To address the growing customer demand, we are adding approximately five fifty megawatts of capacity today. Sean TrauschkeChairman, President & CEO at OGE Energy00:03:32This includes the new natural gas combustion turbines at Tinker as well as construction of new natural gas combustion turbines at Horseshoe Lake Units 11 And 12, and we expect these units all to be operational within the next year. We've also filed for approval of two more natural gas combustion turbines, again at Horseshoe Lake Units 13 And 14, which would add approximately four fifty megawatts to our generation capacity in 2029. We're not finished. We'll continue to explore options to meet our growing generation needs, and I expect we will continue to add generation at the same pace for the next few years. On the transmission side, next month, we will accept an NTC for a line from Fort Smith, Arkansas to Muskogee, which help address reliability in the Fort Smith area. Sean TrauschkeChairman, President & CEO at OGE Energy00:04:24And Chuck will tell you more about that in just a moment. And data centers continue to have an interest in our service area. Negotiations and conversations continue to progress, and our load projections are solid even without the data centers. So any data centers that we're adding we add to our service area will certainly be accretive to our business. In preparation for these opportunities, we supported the passage of legislation that would help minimize customer impacts, specifically CWIP for generation, and we filed for and received CWIP for this future transmission project as well. Sean TrauschkeChairman, President & CEO at OGE Energy00:05:02Turning to economic development. The Oklahoma Department of Commerce announced the 2025 Oklahoma Innovation Expansion Program, which includes 83 companies in our service area. This program supports high impact, new capital investment across a broad range of industries to help diversify the state's economy, lead to new product development, or increase capacity at Oklahoma's existing companies. In addition to encouraging new capital investment, these awards support existing jobs and the creation of new jobs. And this is just another example of the growth opportunities in our service area. Sean TrauschkeChairman, President & CEO at OGE Energy00:05:41We continue to see diversified growth, including tribal and defense sectors. In late February, O'Connor, a 400,000,000 resort and water park opened along the still developing Oklahoma River in Oklahoma City, and their traffic this summer has really taken off. Tinker Air Force Base announced the purchase of 131 acres of land adjacent to the base, allowing for future expansion, including more than 1,000 new jobs. Additionally, we see retail and restaurant chains expand in our service area, including Bass Pro Shops and Fort Smith, which is set to open early next year. And then just last month, conceptual designs for the new $900,000,000 Thunder Arena were shared with the arena set to open in the '28. Sean TrauschkeChairman, President & CEO at OGE Energy00:06:28Our economies remain strong with unemployment in Oklahoma and Arkansas continuing to outpace the national average. For the forty sixth straight month, Oklahoma City unemployment rate is below 4%. The city also had the lowest unemployment rate in the nation for April and May. And US News and World Report just named Oklahoma City the number one best big city to live in in The US, underscoring the Metro's national rise as a destination for both opportunity and quality of life. As I close my remarks and prepare to hand it over to Chuck, I hope you hear how excited we are about the future and our confidence in delivering on our commitments, and we are on track to deliver in the top half of our guidance range. Sean TrauschkeChairman, President & CEO at OGE Energy00:07:13So as we close the books on another successful quarter, our strategic initiatives, our sustainable business model position us well to achieve our goals and to continue to grow the company and provide excellent service to our customers. So thank you. I'll turn it over to Chuck. Chuck? Charles WalworthCFO & Treasurer at OGE Energy00:07:31Thank you, Sean, and thank you, Jason. Good morning, everyone. I'm pleased to review twenty twenty five second quarter and year to date results with you and provide an update on our 2025 financial plan. Halfway through the year, we are confident in achieving results in the top half of our earnings guidance range. More importantly, we execute today with an eye on our long term success. Charles WalworthCFO & Treasurer at OGE Energy00:07:55I'm excited to discuss some of those benefits with you today, but first let's review our recent performance. Starting on slide five, for the second quarter, consolidated net income was $108,000,000 or $0.53 per diluted share compared to $102,000,000 or $0.51 per share in the same period of 2024. In our core business, the electric company achieved net income of $108,000,000 or $0.53 per diluted share compared to $109,000,000 or $0.54 per share in the same period of 2024. The main drivers of the year over year net income decrease were milder weather and higher interest and depreciation expense on a growing asset base, partially offset by increased recovery of capital investments, higher weather normalized load and lower operation and maintenance expense. The holding company reported a small loss of less than 1,000,000 or flat on a per diluted share basis compared to a loss of $7,000,000 or $03 per share in the same period of 2024. Charles WalworthCFO & Treasurer at OGE Energy00:09:03The change was primarily attributed to a one time pre tax benefit of 8,700,000.0 related to our legacy midstream operations. Let's review our load results by turning to slide six. Year over year customer growth continued at its healthy multi year pace, near 1% in the second quarter. Our weather normalized load continues to be historically strong and has grown 6.5% year to date compared to the same period in 2024. Year to date growth of our two largest customer classes, residential and commercial, was 125% respectively, putting them on pace to meet or exceed our full year guidance. Charles WalworthCFO & Treasurer at OGE Energy00:09:48Industrial and oilfield load continued to show some softness this year. As I mentioned last quarter, some of that performance can be explained by unplanned customer outages. We are excited about the future growth of these sectors. For example, one update is ONEOK's plan to have their natural gas liquids fractionator in Medford online in 2027. Sean discussed the strength of the local economy and communities, which are buoyed by our intentional efforts to drive economic and business development. Charles WalworthCFO & Treasurer at OGE Energy00:10:21The additional industrial and oilfield opportunities expected to result from our efforts should spur increased residential and commercial growth. This is our sustainable business model at work, attracting new customers for our service area with low rates, excellent service, helping communities grow and prosper. Let's turn our attention to our 2025 financial plan on slide seven. As we pass the midyear mark, we anticipate consolidated earnings in the top half of our guidance range. We've completed our planned financing activities for the year. Charles WalworthCFO & Treasurer at OGE Energy00:10:59As a reminder, our refinancing risk is low. Our next refi isn't until 2027 and it's a modest $125,000,000 It's also our highest coupon debt. Our balance sheet remains one of the strongest in the industry and is an important competitive advantage, one that we are committed to maintaining. Shawn mentioned our successful legislative session that resulted in several new customer benefiting and credit accretive provisions. In Oklahoma and Arkansas, new legislation allows for CWIP recovery during the construction phase of certain generation capacity projects. Charles WalworthCFO & Treasurer at OGE Energy00:11:38We are now going through the regulatory steps of putting relevant CWIP recovery mechanisms in place in both states. The CWIP benefits of the legislation will save customers $190,000,000 on our proposed Horseshoe Lake Units 13 And 14 over the life of the units. In Oklahoma, the new legislation also allows for plant and service accounting. The combined benefits to all our stakeholders of this legislation should reduce customer costs, facilitate new investment, which strengthens the grid with new dispatchable generation, and provide additional strength to an already strong balance sheet. There is one other credit accretive development I can update you on. Charles WalworthCFO & Treasurer at OGE Energy00:12:24We received a notice to construct from the SPP to build a transmission line from Fort Smith, Arkansas to Muskogee, Oklahoma, and we are near the final acceptance of this project. This important line will address reliability and capacity issues in the Fort Smith area. We have received approval from the FERC to utilize SeaWhip Recovery during the construction phase of this project. We estimate this line to cost approximately $240,000,000 and to be constructed in multiple phases coming online in 2027, 2028, and 2029, with recovery primarily through our FERC formula. Together, these regulatory and legislative changes give us greater flexibility to minimize customer impacts and to finance the construction of projects. Charles WalworthCFO & Treasurer at OGE Energy00:13:15Once we receive the appropriate approvals, we will share our plans for the proposed natural gas combustion turbines in the SPP transmission project, including prospective financing with you. As we continue to grow the company, we will keep our financial plan objectives at the forefront, which include maintaining our competitive low rate advantage by focusing on our cost structure, minimizing the time between investments in their return and recovery, and growing OGE Energy by maintaining a highly credible total return proposition for our shareholders. I'll close by summarizing our progress this quarter. With the first half historically representing only 30% or so of the electric company earnings for a year, our financial plan is on track and we expect results in the top half of our guidance range. Our legislative successes provide additional flexibility that will benefit our customers and we plan to file an Oklahoma rate review by the end of the year with Arkansas to follow thereafter. Charles WalworthCFO & Treasurer at OGE Energy00:14:25We are confident in our ability to achieve our consolidated earnings growth rate of 5% to 7% based on the midpoint of our 2025 guidance. The strength of the current year's plan allows us to continue to focus on the future, address our customers' expectations of a safe and reliable system, and to deliver power at some of the lowest rates in the nation. As always, our confidence remains based on the dedication of our employees and their ability to get the job done. That concludes our prepared remarks and we'll now open the line for your questions. Operator00:15:02Thank you. At this time, we'll conduct a question and answer session. And our first question comes from the line of Nicholas Campanella of Barclays. Your line is now open. Nathan RichardsonAVP - Equity Research at Barclays00:15:28Hey everybody, it's actually Nathan Richardson on for Nick. Sean TrauschkeChairman, President & CEO at OGE Energy00:15:31Hey, good morning, Nathan. Nathan RichardsonAVP - Equity Research at Barclays00:15:33Good morning. Just a few questions here. Can you please provide a little bit of color on what is driving the weaker industrial sales? Charles WalworthCFO & Treasurer at OGE Energy00:15:45Yes, Nathan. So we've talked about this, addressed this in the comments a little bit. I mean, these types of customers, first of all, they're a little more chunky, if you will, right? I mean, they're a little more power intensive customers and they're going to have cycles for maintenance and so it's going to be a little noticeable when they go down for areas like that. And like I said earlier, we've got line of sight to many of those coming back online as well as incremental load coming in the foreseeable future. Charles WalworthCFO & Treasurer at OGE Energy00:16:23So I think again, that's just one section. Take a step back and you look at the overall growth, we're at 6.5% and so really seeing strong performance across the portfolio as a whole. Nathan RichardsonAVP - Equity Research at Barclays00:16:40Got it. Okay, that makes sense. Thank you. And then excluding the midstream operations one time legacy benefit, how can we think about parent drag for 2025 and how could that grow for the remainder of the forecast period as you finance your growth plan? Charles WalworthCFO & Treasurer at OGE Energy00:16:57So I think the one time benefit that we mentioned is just that it's a one time benefit. So I think you should largely ignore that from that perspective. And so we're really squarely on our guidance for this year excluding that item. Nathan RichardsonAVP - Equity Research at Barclays00:17:18Okay, got it. And then just one more. So you're still exploring options for generation capacity additions into 2019. Mentioned a few things, but I was wondering how could it end up shaping out for ownership versus PPA and could there be an update on year end? Sean TrauschkeChairman, President & CEO at OGE Energy00:17:37Yes, this is Sean. Absolutely, I think we've expressed our strong preference to own these assets. While we're building them, we do secure kind of short term bridge capacity to kind of as we're building those out. I would expect and we're going through all those right now, what we filed for earlier this summer was what we concluded in terms of negotiations, but we're still negotiating other agreements and when we get those finalized, we'll file for those. Nathan RichardsonAVP - Equity Research at Barclays00:18:12Got it. That's all I had. Thank you so much. Sean TrauschkeChairman, President & CEO at OGE Energy00:18:14Thanks. Have a great day. Operator00:18:17Thank you. One moment for our next question. And our next question comes from the line of Julien Dumoulin Smith of Jefferies. Your line is now open. [SPEAKER Brian RussoResearch Analyst at Jefferies00:18:34Yes. Hi, good morning. It's Brian Russo on for Julien. JULIEN Sean TrauschkeChairman, President & CEO at OGE Energy00:18:37Hey, good morning, Brian. Brian RussoResearch Analyst at Jefferies00:18:39Hey, good morning. Hey, just maybe to follow-up on the upcoming additional capacity procurement. Can you kind of tie that into to what's been outlined in the 2025 draft IRP? I think it's at least 800 megawatts maybe by 02/1930. And what is kind of the update there with, like you mentioned, ongoing negotiations with bidders and owned versus PPAs or bridge PPAs? Sean TrauschkeChairman, President & CEO at OGE Energy00:19:15Yeah. What I'm sorry, Brian. Couple of things are going on at the same time with the updated IRP, right? I mean, so we've made some assumptions in there for some potential large loads that we're negotiating on. As I said before, those don't all occur at once. Sean TrauschkeChairman, President & CEO at OGE Energy00:19:38There's a ramp schedule. So there's a little bit of movement there. And then the second piece is, we're still in negotiations from the last RFP we did. So to the extent we feel some of that you're looking for what the gap looks like and I think what we're trying to convey is we're probably going to continue to add generation capacity over the next few years, but the absolute amount and timing is going to be somewhat dependent upon some of these loads coming in. And so instead of give I'm not really in a position to give you a definitive number, but I think what I'm doing is giving you a directional number that you should expect us to continue to add capacity. Brian RussoResearch Analyst at Jefferies00:20:23Okay. Great. And then also, the mention of company X and then company Y in the 2025 draft IRP, Just curious, are there any updates in the development of the Google Stillwater data center site? Sean TrauschkeChairman, President & CEO at OGE Energy00:20:44Yeah. I think those negotiations are progressing. And I think we're getting closer and closer to achieving our objectives in terms of protecting our existing customers and make sure it's value accretive to us. And so those negotiations are getting closer and closer. Brian RussoResearch Analyst at Jefferies00:21:08Okay, great. And then just lastly, just to clarify, now that you're at the top end of your guidance, does that include the one time midstream tax gain? Otherwise, you'd probably still be in the middle or is July weather a factor as well? Charles WalworthCFO & Treasurer at OGE Energy00:21:28So just to clarify, we're pointing towards the top half of the range and yes, that does include the impact. It's on the earnings we will report at the end of the year, that would include this benefit that was mentioned. Brian RussoResearch Analyst at Jefferies00:21:48Okay, great. Thank you very much. Sean TrauschkeChairman, President & CEO at OGE Energy00:21:51Thanks, Brian. Operator00:21:52Thank you. One moment for our next question. Our next question comes from the line of Dylan Litner of Ladenburg Thalmann. Your line is now open. Dylan LipnerAssociate - Equity Research at Ladenburg Thalmann00:22:05Hey, guys. Congrats on a good quarter. Sean TrauschkeChairman, President & CEO at OGE Energy00:22:07Hey, good morning. Dylan LipnerAssociate - Equity Research at Ladenburg Thalmann00:22:09Good morning. Just a quote real quick, kind of piggybacking. With the four fifty megawatts from Horseshoe Lake coming on in 2029, is the company expected to be long capacity at the end of the decade? And if so, how do you see that need being filled? Sean TrauschkeChairman, President & CEO at OGE Energy00:22:28Yeah, don't anticipate us being long. I think we've been very consistent in saying that we're going to be in a continuous adding capacity mode and we're doing that into the load growth. So you should expect us to if there is any surplus, it's de minimis and will quickly be filled by future growth. Dylan LipnerAssociate - Equity Research at Ladenburg Thalmann00:22:55Great. That's all I got for you guys. Thank you very much. Sean TrauschkeChairman, President & CEO at OGE Energy00:22:57Thanks. Have a great day. Operator00:23:01Thank you. I'm showing no further questions at this time. I would now like to turn it back to Sean Trotsky for closing remarks. Sean TrauschkeChairman, President & CEO at OGE Energy00:23:07Thank you, Marvin. Well, thank you all for joining us today. Thank you for your interest and I look forward to seeing everyone very soon. Have a great day. Operator00:23:18Thank you for your participation in today's conference. This does conclude the program. 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PresentationSkip to Participants Operator00:00:00Good day and thank you for standing by. Welcome to the OGE Energy Corp. Twenty twenty five Second Quarter Earnings and Business Update Call. At this time, all participants are in listen only mode. After the speakers' presentation, there will be a question and answer session. Operator00:00:15To ask a question during the session, you will need to press 11 on your telephone. You will then hear automated message advising your hand is raised. To withdraw your question, please press 11 again. Please be advised that today's conference is being recorded. I would like to hand the conference over to your first speaker today, Jason Bailey, Director of Investor Relations. Please go ahead. Jason BaileyDirector of Investor Relations at OGE Energy00:00:34Thank you, Marvin, and good morning, everyone, and welcome to our call. With me today is Sean Trotsky, our Chairman, President, and CEO and Chuck Wallward, our CFO and Treasurer. In terms of the call today, we will first hear from Sean, followed by an explanation from Chuck of financial results, And finally, as always, we will answer your questions. I'd like to remind you that this conference is being webcast and you may follow along at oge.com. In addition, the conference call and accompanying slides will be archived following the call on that same website. Jason BaileyDirector of Investor Relations at OGE Energy00:01:09Before we begin the presentation, I'd like to direct your attention to the Safe Harbor statement regarding forward looking statements. This is an SEC requirement for financial statements and simply states that we cannot guarantee forward looking financial results, but this is our best estimate to date. I will now turn the call over to Sean for his opening remarks. Sean? Sean TrauschkeChairman, President & CEO at OGE Energy00:01:30Thank you, Jason, and good morning, everyone. Thank you for joining us today. It's certainly great to be with you. Our service area is continuing to grow, and I couldn't be more excited about this growth we're experiencing. Here in Oklahoma City, we've truly entered the global stage. Sean TrauschkeChairman, President & CEO at OGE Energy00:01:46Our Thunder secured their first NBA championship and more than half a million people descended on downtown to help celebrate during the championship parade. But that's not all. In 2028, we will host the softball and canoe slalom events as part of the Los Angeles Olympics. And as we celebrate these milestones, it's important to stay focused on our goals for the year and the years ahead. So here we are, halfway through the year, and we've achieved a lot. Sean TrauschkeChairman, President & CEO at OGE Energy00:02:14And we're confident in our plans for the year and expect to deliver in the top half of our earnings guidance range. This morning, we reported consolidated earnings of $0.53 per diluted share, with the holding company flat for the quarter. We built a strong foundation for future growth and remain committed to providing safe, reliable and affordable service to our customers. The second quarter usually includes severe weather in our service area, and I'm happy to report the system performed well and impacts on our customers were minimal as a result of our investment and outstanding team. I'm very proud of our people and the work they do every day. Sean TrauschkeChairman, President & CEO at OGE Energy00:02:54This month, the weather is heating up and as always, our system will be prepared. Moving on to customer growth and demand, our service area is poised for continued growth across all customer segments. Additional generation projects under construction are all on time and all on budget. Our growth and performance continues to excel, providing three future opportunities, new generation capacity, transmission and large loads that I'm happy to update you on. To address the growing customer demand, we are adding approximately five fifty megawatts of capacity today. Sean TrauschkeChairman, President & CEO at OGE Energy00:03:32This includes the new natural gas combustion turbines at Tinker as well as construction of new natural gas combustion turbines at Horseshoe Lake Units 11 And 12, and we expect these units all to be operational within the next year. We've also filed for approval of two more natural gas combustion turbines, again at Horseshoe Lake Units 13 And 14, which would add approximately four fifty megawatts to our generation capacity in 2029. We're not finished. We'll continue to explore options to meet our growing generation needs, and I expect we will continue to add generation at the same pace for the next few years. On the transmission side, next month, we will accept an NTC for a line from Fort Smith, Arkansas to Muskogee, which help address reliability in the Fort Smith area. Sean TrauschkeChairman, President & CEO at OGE Energy00:04:24And Chuck will tell you more about that in just a moment. And data centers continue to have an interest in our service area. Negotiations and conversations continue to progress, and our load projections are solid even without the data centers. So any data centers that we're adding we add to our service area will certainly be accretive to our business. In preparation for these opportunities, we supported the passage of legislation that would help minimize customer impacts, specifically CWIP for generation, and we filed for and received CWIP for this future transmission project as well. Sean TrauschkeChairman, President & CEO at OGE Energy00:05:02Turning to economic development. The Oklahoma Department of Commerce announced the 2025 Oklahoma Innovation Expansion Program, which includes 83 companies in our service area. This program supports high impact, new capital investment across a broad range of industries to help diversify the state's economy, lead to new product development, or increase capacity at Oklahoma's existing companies. In addition to encouraging new capital investment, these awards support existing jobs and the creation of new jobs. And this is just another example of the growth opportunities in our service area. Sean TrauschkeChairman, President & CEO at OGE Energy00:05:41We continue to see diversified growth, including tribal and defense sectors. In late February, O'Connor, a 400,000,000 resort and water park opened along the still developing Oklahoma River in Oklahoma City, and their traffic this summer has really taken off. Tinker Air Force Base announced the purchase of 131 acres of land adjacent to the base, allowing for future expansion, including more than 1,000 new jobs. Additionally, we see retail and restaurant chains expand in our service area, including Bass Pro Shops and Fort Smith, which is set to open early next year. And then just last month, conceptual designs for the new $900,000,000 Thunder Arena were shared with the arena set to open in the '28. Sean TrauschkeChairman, President & CEO at OGE Energy00:06:28Our economies remain strong with unemployment in Oklahoma and Arkansas continuing to outpace the national average. For the forty sixth straight month, Oklahoma City unemployment rate is below 4%. The city also had the lowest unemployment rate in the nation for April and May. And US News and World Report just named Oklahoma City the number one best big city to live in in The US, underscoring the Metro's national rise as a destination for both opportunity and quality of life. As I close my remarks and prepare to hand it over to Chuck, I hope you hear how excited we are about the future and our confidence in delivering on our commitments, and we are on track to deliver in the top half of our guidance range. Sean TrauschkeChairman, President & CEO at OGE Energy00:07:13So as we close the books on another successful quarter, our strategic initiatives, our sustainable business model position us well to achieve our goals and to continue to grow the company and provide excellent service to our customers. So thank you. I'll turn it over to Chuck. Chuck? Charles WalworthCFO & Treasurer at OGE Energy00:07:31Thank you, Sean, and thank you, Jason. Good morning, everyone. I'm pleased to review twenty twenty five second quarter and year to date results with you and provide an update on our 2025 financial plan. Halfway through the year, we are confident in achieving results in the top half of our earnings guidance range. More importantly, we execute today with an eye on our long term success. Charles WalworthCFO & Treasurer at OGE Energy00:07:55I'm excited to discuss some of those benefits with you today, but first let's review our recent performance. Starting on slide five, for the second quarter, consolidated net income was $108,000,000 or $0.53 per diluted share compared to $102,000,000 or $0.51 per share in the same period of 2024. In our core business, the electric company achieved net income of $108,000,000 or $0.53 per diluted share compared to $109,000,000 or $0.54 per share in the same period of 2024. The main drivers of the year over year net income decrease were milder weather and higher interest and depreciation expense on a growing asset base, partially offset by increased recovery of capital investments, higher weather normalized load and lower operation and maintenance expense. The holding company reported a small loss of less than 1,000,000 or flat on a per diluted share basis compared to a loss of $7,000,000 or $03 per share in the same period of 2024. Charles WalworthCFO & Treasurer at OGE Energy00:09:03The change was primarily attributed to a one time pre tax benefit of 8,700,000.0 related to our legacy midstream operations. Let's review our load results by turning to slide six. Year over year customer growth continued at its healthy multi year pace, near 1% in the second quarter. Our weather normalized load continues to be historically strong and has grown 6.5% year to date compared to the same period in 2024. Year to date growth of our two largest customer classes, residential and commercial, was 125% respectively, putting them on pace to meet or exceed our full year guidance. Charles WalworthCFO & Treasurer at OGE Energy00:09:48Industrial and oilfield load continued to show some softness this year. As I mentioned last quarter, some of that performance can be explained by unplanned customer outages. We are excited about the future growth of these sectors. For example, one update is ONEOK's plan to have their natural gas liquids fractionator in Medford online in 2027. Sean discussed the strength of the local economy and communities, which are buoyed by our intentional efforts to drive economic and business development. Charles WalworthCFO & Treasurer at OGE Energy00:10:21The additional industrial and oilfield opportunities expected to result from our efforts should spur increased residential and commercial growth. This is our sustainable business model at work, attracting new customers for our service area with low rates, excellent service, helping communities grow and prosper. Let's turn our attention to our 2025 financial plan on slide seven. As we pass the midyear mark, we anticipate consolidated earnings in the top half of our guidance range. We've completed our planned financing activities for the year. Charles WalworthCFO & Treasurer at OGE Energy00:10:59As a reminder, our refinancing risk is low. Our next refi isn't until 2027 and it's a modest $125,000,000 It's also our highest coupon debt. Our balance sheet remains one of the strongest in the industry and is an important competitive advantage, one that we are committed to maintaining. Shawn mentioned our successful legislative session that resulted in several new customer benefiting and credit accretive provisions. In Oklahoma and Arkansas, new legislation allows for CWIP recovery during the construction phase of certain generation capacity projects. Charles WalworthCFO & Treasurer at OGE Energy00:11:38We are now going through the regulatory steps of putting relevant CWIP recovery mechanisms in place in both states. The CWIP benefits of the legislation will save customers $190,000,000 on our proposed Horseshoe Lake Units 13 And 14 over the life of the units. In Oklahoma, the new legislation also allows for plant and service accounting. The combined benefits to all our stakeholders of this legislation should reduce customer costs, facilitate new investment, which strengthens the grid with new dispatchable generation, and provide additional strength to an already strong balance sheet. There is one other credit accretive development I can update you on. Charles WalworthCFO & Treasurer at OGE Energy00:12:24We received a notice to construct from the SPP to build a transmission line from Fort Smith, Arkansas to Muskogee, Oklahoma, and we are near the final acceptance of this project. This important line will address reliability and capacity issues in the Fort Smith area. We have received approval from the FERC to utilize SeaWhip Recovery during the construction phase of this project. We estimate this line to cost approximately $240,000,000 and to be constructed in multiple phases coming online in 2027, 2028, and 2029, with recovery primarily through our FERC formula. Together, these regulatory and legislative changes give us greater flexibility to minimize customer impacts and to finance the construction of projects. Charles WalworthCFO & Treasurer at OGE Energy00:13:15Once we receive the appropriate approvals, we will share our plans for the proposed natural gas combustion turbines in the SPP transmission project, including prospective financing with you. As we continue to grow the company, we will keep our financial plan objectives at the forefront, which include maintaining our competitive low rate advantage by focusing on our cost structure, minimizing the time between investments in their return and recovery, and growing OGE Energy by maintaining a highly credible total return proposition for our shareholders. I'll close by summarizing our progress this quarter. With the first half historically representing only 30% or so of the electric company earnings for a year, our financial plan is on track and we expect results in the top half of our guidance range. Our legislative successes provide additional flexibility that will benefit our customers and we plan to file an Oklahoma rate review by the end of the year with Arkansas to follow thereafter. Charles WalworthCFO & Treasurer at OGE Energy00:14:25We are confident in our ability to achieve our consolidated earnings growth rate of 5% to 7% based on the midpoint of our 2025 guidance. The strength of the current year's plan allows us to continue to focus on the future, address our customers' expectations of a safe and reliable system, and to deliver power at some of the lowest rates in the nation. As always, our confidence remains based on the dedication of our employees and their ability to get the job done. That concludes our prepared remarks and we'll now open the line for your questions. Operator00:15:02Thank you. At this time, we'll conduct a question and answer session. And our first question comes from the line of Nicholas Campanella of Barclays. Your line is now open. Nathan RichardsonAVP - Equity Research at Barclays00:15:28Hey everybody, it's actually Nathan Richardson on for Nick. Sean TrauschkeChairman, President & CEO at OGE Energy00:15:31Hey, good morning, Nathan. Nathan RichardsonAVP - Equity Research at Barclays00:15:33Good morning. Just a few questions here. Can you please provide a little bit of color on what is driving the weaker industrial sales? Charles WalworthCFO & Treasurer at OGE Energy00:15:45Yes, Nathan. So we've talked about this, addressed this in the comments a little bit. I mean, these types of customers, first of all, they're a little more chunky, if you will, right? I mean, they're a little more power intensive customers and they're going to have cycles for maintenance and so it's going to be a little noticeable when they go down for areas like that. And like I said earlier, we've got line of sight to many of those coming back online as well as incremental load coming in the foreseeable future. Charles WalworthCFO & Treasurer at OGE Energy00:16:23So I think again, that's just one section. Take a step back and you look at the overall growth, we're at 6.5% and so really seeing strong performance across the portfolio as a whole. Nathan RichardsonAVP - Equity Research at Barclays00:16:40Got it. Okay, that makes sense. Thank you. And then excluding the midstream operations one time legacy benefit, how can we think about parent drag for 2025 and how could that grow for the remainder of the forecast period as you finance your growth plan? Charles WalworthCFO & Treasurer at OGE Energy00:16:57So I think the one time benefit that we mentioned is just that it's a one time benefit. So I think you should largely ignore that from that perspective. And so we're really squarely on our guidance for this year excluding that item. Nathan RichardsonAVP - Equity Research at Barclays00:17:18Okay, got it. And then just one more. So you're still exploring options for generation capacity additions into 2019. Mentioned a few things, but I was wondering how could it end up shaping out for ownership versus PPA and could there be an update on year end? Sean TrauschkeChairman, President & CEO at OGE Energy00:17:37Yes, this is Sean. Absolutely, I think we've expressed our strong preference to own these assets. While we're building them, we do secure kind of short term bridge capacity to kind of as we're building those out. I would expect and we're going through all those right now, what we filed for earlier this summer was what we concluded in terms of negotiations, but we're still negotiating other agreements and when we get those finalized, we'll file for those. Nathan RichardsonAVP - Equity Research at Barclays00:18:12Got it. That's all I had. Thank you so much. Sean TrauschkeChairman, President & CEO at OGE Energy00:18:14Thanks. Have a great day. Operator00:18:17Thank you. One moment for our next question. And our next question comes from the line of Julien Dumoulin Smith of Jefferies. Your line is now open. [SPEAKER Brian RussoResearch Analyst at Jefferies00:18:34Yes. Hi, good morning. It's Brian Russo on for Julien. JULIEN Sean TrauschkeChairman, President & CEO at OGE Energy00:18:37Hey, good morning, Brian. Brian RussoResearch Analyst at Jefferies00:18:39Hey, good morning. Hey, just maybe to follow-up on the upcoming additional capacity procurement. Can you kind of tie that into to what's been outlined in the 2025 draft IRP? I think it's at least 800 megawatts maybe by 02/1930. And what is kind of the update there with, like you mentioned, ongoing negotiations with bidders and owned versus PPAs or bridge PPAs? Sean TrauschkeChairman, President & CEO at OGE Energy00:19:15Yeah. What I'm sorry, Brian. Couple of things are going on at the same time with the updated IRP, right? I mean, so we've made some assumptions in there for some potential large loads that we're negotiating on. As I said before, those don't all occur at once. Sean TrauschkeChairman, President & CEO at OGE Energy00:19:38There's a ramp schedule. So there's a little bit of movement there. And then the second piece is, we're still in negotiations from the last RFP we did. So to the extent we feel some of that you're looking for what the gap looks like and I think what we're trying to convey is we're probably going to continue to add generation capacity over the next few years, but the absolute amount and timing is going to be somewhat dependent upon some of these loads coming in. And so instead of give I'm not really in a position to give you a definitive number, but I think what I'm doing is giving you a directional number that you should expect us to continue to add capacity. Brian RussoResearch Analyst at Jefferies00:20:23Okay. Great. And then also, the mention of company X and then company Y in the 2025 draft IRP, Just curious, are there any updates in the development of the Google Stillwater data center site? Sean TrauschkeChairman, President & CEO at OGE Energy00:20:44Yeah. I think those negotiations are progressing. And I think we're getting closer and closer to achieving our objectives in terms of protecting our existing customers and make sure it's value accretive to us. And so those negotiations are getting closer and closer. Brian RussoResearch Analyst at Jefferies00:21:08Okay, great. And then just lastly, just to clarify, now that you're at the top end of your guidance, does that include the one time midstream tax gain? Otherwise, you'd probably still be in the middle or is July weather a factor as well? Charles WalworthCFO & Treasurer at OGE Energy00:21:28So just to clarify, we're pointing towards the top half of the range and yes, that does include the impact. It's on the earnings we will report at the end of the year, that would include this benefit that was mentioned. Brian RussoResearch Analyst at Jefferies00:21:48Okay, great. Thank you very much. Sean TrauschkeChairman, President & CEO at OGE Energy00:21:51Thanks, Brian. Operator00:21:52Thank you. One moment for our next question. Our next question comes from the line of Dylan Litner of Ladenburg Thalmann. Your line is now open. Dylan LipnerAssociate - Equity Research at Ladenburg Thalmann00:22:05Hey, guys. Congrats on a good quarter. Sean TrauschkeChairman, President & CEO at OGE Energy00:22:07Hey, good morning. Dylan LipnerAssociate - Equity Research at Ladenburg Thalmann00:22:09Good morning. Just a quote real quick, kind of piggybacking. With the four fifty megawatts from Horseshoe Lake coming on in 2029, is the company expected to be long capacity at the end of the decade? And if so, how do you see that need being filled? Sean TrauschkeChairman, President & CEO at OGE Energy00:22:28Yeah, don't anticipate us being long. I think we've been very consistent in saying that we're going to be in a continuous adding capacity mode and we're doing that into the load growth. So you should expect us to if there is any surplus, it's de minimis and will quickly be filled by future growth. Dylan LipnerAssociate - Equity Research at Ladenburg Thalmann00:22:55Great. That's all I got for you guys. Thank you very much. Sean TrauschkeChairman, President & CEO at OGE Energy00:22:57Thanks. Have a great day. Operator00:23:01Thank you. I'm showing no further questions at this time. I would now like to turn it back to Sean Trotsky for closing remarks. Sean TrauschkeChairman, President & CEO at OGE Energy00:23:07Thank you, Marvin. Well, thank you all for joining us today. Thank you for your interest and I look forward to seeing everyone very soon. Have a great day. Operator00:23:18Thank you for your participation in today's conference. This does conclude the program. 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