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ProfileEarnings HistoryForecast Dominion Energy EPS ResultsActual EPS$0.79Consensus EPS $0.68Beat/MissBeat by +$0.11One Year Ago EPS$0.75Dominion Energy Revenue ResultsActual Revenue$4.48 billionExpected Revenue$4.04 billionBeat/MissBeat by +$435.99 millionYoY Revenue Growth+17.60%Dominion Energy Announcement DetailsQuarterQ2 2026Date7/31/2026TimeBefore Market OpensConference Call DateFriday, July 31, 2026Conference Call Time11:00AM ETConference Call ResourcesConference Call AudioConference Call TranscriptSlide DeckPress Release (8-K)Quarterly Report (10-Q)Earnings HistoryCompany ProfileSlide DeckFull Screen Slide DeckPowered by Dominion Energy Q2 2026 Earnings Call TranscriptProvided by QuartrJuly 31, 2026 ShareLink copied to clipboard.Key Takeaways Positive Sentiment: Dominion reaffirmed its 2026 financial guidance, citing strong first-half results, completed common-equity financing, and FFO-to-debt metrics above 15%. Positive Sentiment: Electricity demand remains robust, with data-center contracts increasing by more than 5 gigawatts since year-end 2025 and record peak-demand days in Dominion’s service territory. Negative Sentiment: The Coastal Virginia Offshore Wind project’s final turbine installation target was pushed back six months to year-end 2027, while the cost estimate rose approximately 2% to $11.65 billion, although management said the project is 81% complete and substantially de-risked. Positive Sentiment: Dominion reported constructive regulatory progress, including approval of 100% of its 2025 rider revenue request and settlements in South Carolina, while its proposed NextEra combination proceeds through shareholder and regulatory reviews. Neutral Sentiment: Dominion is advancing nearly 5 gigawatts of new gas-fired generation at Kennedy Station and Mount Storm and expects to accelerate battery-storage development to meet rising demand and new legislative requirements. AI Generated. May Contain Errors.Conference Call Audio Live Call not available Earnings Conference CallDominion Energy Q2 202600:00 / 00:00Speed:1x1.25x1.5x2xTranscript SectionsPresentationParticipantsPresentationSkip to Participants Operator00:00:00Welcome to the Dominion Energy second quarter 2026 earnings conference call. At this time, each of your lines is in a listen-only mode. At the conclusion of today's presentation, we will open the floor for questions. Instructions will be given for the procedure to follow if you would like to ask a question. I would now like to turn the call over to David McFarland, Senior Vice President, Investor Relations and Treasurer. David McFarlandSenior VP of Investor Relations and Treasurer at Dominion Energy00:00:25Good morning. Thank you for joining Dominion Energy's second quarter 2026 earnings call. Earnings materials, including today's prepared remarks, contain forward-looking statements and estimates that are subject to various risks and uncertainties. Please refer to our SEC filings, including our most recent annual report on Form 10-K and our quarterly reports on Form 10-Q, for a discussion of factors that may cause results to differ from management's estimates and expectations. This morning, we will discuss some measures of our company's performance that differ from those recognized by GAAP. Reconciliation of our non-GAAP measures to the most directly comparable GAAP financial measures, which we can calculate, are contained in the earnings release kit. I encourage you to visit our investor relations website to review webcast slides as well as the earnings release kit. David McFarlandSenior VP of Investor Relations and Treasurer at Dominion Energy00:01:11Joining today's call are Bob Blue, Chair, President, and Chief Executive Officer, Steven Ridge, Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer, and other members of senior management. I will now turn the call over to Steven. Steven RidgeEVP and CFO at Dominion Energy00:01:24Thank you, David. Good morning, everyone. Since the conclusion of the business review almost two and a half years ago, we've remained steadfastly focused on three top priorities. First, consistent achievement of our financial commitments. Second, continued achievement of major construction milestones for the Coastal Virginia Offshore Wind project. Third, constructive achievement of regulatory outcomes that demonstrate our ability to work cooperatively with regulators and stakeholders to benefit both customers and shareholders. As we'll discuss today, we continue to demonstrate success against these priorities, extending our track record of high quality and consistent execution. I'll cover financial results and demand trends in my remarks. Bob will provide updates on the NextEra Energy combination, CVOW, regulatory results, and other business items. Turning first to second quarter results, as shown on slide three. Second quarter operating earnings were $0.79 per share, which includes $0.03 of RNG 45Z credits. Steven RidgeEVP and CFO at Dominion Energy00:02:34A summary of earnings drivers relative to the prior year period is included in Schedule four of the earnings release kit. Second quarter GAAP results were $0.37 per share. A summary of all adjustments between operating and GAAP results is included in Schedule two of the earnings release kit. Similar to last year, we've had a strong first half, which positions us well to deliver strong full-year results. Additionally, we are reaffirming all financial guidance provided on our fourth quarter earnings call, including operating earnings, credit, dividend, and long-term growth guidance. Turning to financing on slide four. We've now completed our common equity program for 2026, consistent with our ATM guidance on the fourth quarter call. Full year 2025 and Q2 LTM FFO/D debt metrics are both above 15%, demonstrating our continuing commitment to our previously communicated credit-related targets. Turning briefly to sales. Steven RidgeEVP and CFO at Dominion Energy00:03:40We're continuing to see strong sales in our service areas, driven by continued economic growth and data center expansion. Notably, nine of the Dominion Zone's top 10 all-time peak days have occurred this year, including the eight highest summer peak days, which have all occurred in the last two months. We want to take a moment to acknowledge the outstanding work of our colleagues who have maintained exemplary system reliability in the face of record-setting demand and difficult weather conditions. Their commitment and dedication on behalf of our customers and communities is worthy of special recognition, even if most of them would tell you they were simply doing their job. Turning to data centers on slide five. We now have over 53 GW of data center capacity in various stages of contracting, including approximately 12 GW of capacity contracted under electric service agreements. Steven RidgeEVP and CFO at Dominion Energy00:04:42To put that in context, we've added over 5 GW of contracts, or roughly 11%, since the end of last year. Since our last update, we continue to see robust and durable demand from our differentiated, high quality, low risk data center customers. Importantly, these customers consistently tell us that many of their highest value workloads need to be built and need to stay in Virginia because of the unique network density, connectivity, and ecosystem advantages that have made Virginia the world's leading data center market. We're bringing those customers onto our system in the right way, protecting existing customers from cost shifts while mitigating stranded cost risk by utilizing a large load framework that ensures these customers pay their fair share of the investments required to support their growth. Steven RidgeEVP and CFO at Dominion Energy00:05:41In closing, we've had a strong first half of the year, I am highly confident in our ability to deliver on our financial commitments, including our 2026 operating EPS and credit targets. Our financial plan strikes the right balance of appropriately conservative, but not unreasonably so. With that, I'll turn the call over to Bob. Bob BlueChair, President, and CEO at Dominion Energy00:06:05Thank you, Steven. Bob BlueChair, President, and CEO at Dominion Energy00:06:06I will begin with safety on slide six. Our employee OSHA injury recordable rate for the first half of the year was 0.36, which remains well below industry average. Safety is our first core value, and we must continue to focus relentlessly on improving our safety performance. Turning next to our announced combination with NextEra Energy. As we detailed in May, this transaction represents a truly transformational opportunity to bring together two world-class utilities with 238 years of collective industry experience to even better serve millions of regulated customers across four states. Looking ahead, we believe we can accomplish far more together than we can apart. Under the proposed terms of the merger, Dominion Energy customers would receive $2.25 billion in shareholder-funded bill credits representing meaningful customer value. Bob BlueChair, President, and CEO at Dominion Energy00:07:00Over the longer term, customers and communities would benefit from a stronger company with the scale and capabilities to buy, build, finance, and operate critical energy infrastructure more efficiently, helping support reliability, affordability, and economic growth. Earlier this month, we filed our joint proxy statement on Form S-4, as well as our state and federal regulatory applications with the Virginia State Corporation Commission, the North Carolina Utilities Commission, and the Public Service Commission of South Carolina, as well as the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission and the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. The Virginia State Corporation Commission has now issued a procedural schedule, including evidentiary hearings beginning on November 17th. In South Carolina, the proposed scheduling order would set a hearing date of December 8th, with a final order by January 29th, 2027. Bob BlueChair, President, and CEO at Dominion Energy00:07:51The South Carolina Senate, House, and Office of Regulatory Staff have indicated they do not object to the company's proposed schedule. We expect the commission to rule on the proposed timeline next week. The timelines for each of the proceedings are shown on slide seven. I could not be more excited about the combination of these two companies. We will continue to share updates as we progress through shareholder and regulatory processes. Turning next to offshore wind. As illustrated on slide eight, CVOW continues to achieve significant de-risking milestones, as evidenced by its 81% completion status. Let me highlight a few factors that give me great confidence in the successful completion of this project. First, supply chain. We are making excellent progress toward completing all remaining equipment, a key project milestone. 100% of nacelles, 99% of towers, and 85% of blades have now been fabricated. Bob BlueChair, President, and CEO at Dominion Energy00:08:45Towers will be completed in the coming days, followed by final blades in October. Second, installation. As of today, we've successfully installed 31 turbines, with the installation of the 32nd currently in progress, averaging approximately two days of operations per installation from jack up to jack down, in line with our prior assumptions. It's worth noting that the 31 turbines installed to date have a capacity of more than 450 MW, rivaling the magnitude of some of our fossil units. We expect the third and final offshore substation to be energized by year-end, which is especially meaningful because it will signify that approximately half of project investment, adjusted for network upgrade costs, has achieved in-service status. That's a meaningful milestone toward project de-risking. Third, proof of concept. We've now successfully completed every major fabrication, construction, commissioning, and operation evolution multiple times. Bob BlueChair, President, and CEO at Dominion Energy00:09:41This is noteworthy because we've clearly and affirmatively answered the question, will this work? Every type of component is in service and functioning as expected. Turbines, inter-array cables, substations, export cables, and onshore transmission and distribution infrastructure are all working together to provide much-needed power to our customers. In fact, in recent weeks, as we've set new demand peaks, we've done everything possible at the request of system operators to deliver the maximum possible amount of power from CVOW. In my mind, it's critical to note that CVOW is significantly different from a traditional power plant, and that we're not waiting for a final switch to be flipped to confirm proof of concept or to qualify investment for regulatory recovery. Rather, CVOW is effectively 176 individual power plants, each entering service upon completion. Bob BlueChair, President, and CEO at Dominion Energy00:10:31This allows the project to clearly demonstrate technical feasibility and deliver energy to the grid well before the final turbine begins to spin. That's why for CVOW, it's important to note the project's de-risking is heavily front-end loaded, and in our view, mostly behind us. Turning to slide nine, let me update you on expected timing of installation of the project's final turbine, which we're adjusting by six months to reflect three updated assumptions. First, given previously reported delays with Charybdis and BOEM suspension order, weather and vessel maintenance contingency had been significantly reduced. Today, we're adding incremental weather and vessel maintenance schedule contingency to the plan, which assumes somewhat better-than-normal weather consistent with our overall weather experience thus far, as well as the continued optimization of our installation iterations. Bob BlueChair, President, and CEO at Dominion Energy00:11:18Second, we're adjusting the schedule to account for additional time required for our load outs at PMT based on observed performance times to date relative to our prior assumption. Finally, based on continued data gathering, we're adjusting the schedule to account for what we expect will be longer duration jacking operations for certain remaining turbine locations. Relative to the other approximately 80% of turbine locations, we expect, based on sub-sea geotechnical analysis, this subgroup to require additional time for jacking operations. Moving now to capital investment. As shown on slide 10, we're updating the project cost estimate by a little less than $250 million. Our most recent budget was $11.4 billion, inclusive of $123 million of unused contingency. As highlighted on our last call, we've added $228 million for additional tariff costs associated with revisions to the prior steel and aluminum guidance. Bob BlueChair, President, and CEO at Dominion Energy00:12:13We've subtracted $502 million to account for the reallocation of certain PJM assigned network upgrade costs. We've also added about $234 million of miscellaneous costs that primarily reflect additional cable protection to account for faster underwater currents, fuel costs, mitigation costs for the more difficult jacking locations, and final onshore construction costs. The total of all these adjustments is a net reduction to project costs of around $40 million, so essentially a wash. From there, we've added about $288 million to account for the incremental two quarters to complete the final turbine installation. You'll note that this averages out to about $144 million per additional quarter, which is below the low end of our prior rule of thumb guidance of $150 million-$200 million per quarter. Bob BlueChair, President, and CEO at Dominion Energy00:13:06We're increasing our project cost estimate by approximately 2% to $11.65 billion, which continues to include $123 million of unused contingency. Turning to slide 11, the project's cost sharing and risk-sharing continue to work as intended to protect customers and shareholders with minimal changes to LCOE or customer bill impacts. We anticipate that approximately one-third of the most recent cost increase will be shared with our financing partner. CVOW remains one of the most affordable sources of energy for our customers. Our analysis indicates that the project is expected to generate fuel savings of approximately $5 billion for customers during the project's first 10 years of operation. On regulatory, we received a final order in our 2025 rider filing proceeding on July 29th, approving 100% of our revenue requests. Bob BlueChair, President, and CEO at Dominion Energy00:13:59I mentioned last quarter, in all of the above approach to energy supply, including CVOW, is critical to ensuring continued reliability amidst real-time growing demand in our service areas, as evidenced by new demand peaks that Steven mentioned earlier. Building new energy generation is a core competency of ours, as demonstrated in recent years with our successful development of thousands of megawatts of renewable generation, as well as combined cycle plants at Greensville, Brunswick, and Warren County. We continue to advance the development of new generation capacity consistent with our update last quarter. We recently filed the air permits for two new natural gas-fired combined cycle plants at Kennedy Station in South Carolina and at Mount Storm in West Virginia, representing nearly five gigawatts of new capacity. Bob BlueChair, President, and CEO at Dominion Energy00:14:44In addition to producing much-needed energy for our customers, these projects will be an economic benefit for the states in which they operate, generating thousands of new jobs, billions of dollars of economic investment, and meaningful local tax revenue. Bob BlueChair, President, and CEO at Dominion Energy00:14:59We'll turn to other business updates, as shown on slide 12. In South Carolina, the comprehensive settlement agreements in DESC's electric rate case were unanimously approved by the Public Service Commission of South Carolina in June, with rates becoming effective at the beginning of July. We appreciate the engagement of all parties. We've now achieved successful settlements in each of our last four South Carolina base rate cases across our electric and gas businesses. Finally, on Millstone. Bob BlueChair, President, and CEO at Dominion Energy00:15:26We've heard recently from the regulators in Connecticut. We expect a solicitation decision from the Connecticut Department of Energy and Environmental Protection regarding the facility's bid in the zero-carbon energy request for proposals in the near term. Consistent with the process laid out previously, we anticipate negotiations with local state utilities will begin thereafter, and contracts will then be submitted to the Connecticut Public Utilities Regulatory Authority for approval, the timeline for which is up to 180 days. The facility's existing PPA has delivered tremendous value to customers, lower costs, and significantly dampened volatility. Despite being priced at the time in 2019 above prevailing price outlooks, the contract is expected to save customers over $300 million this year, including $190 million year to date, in addition to the $200 million in savings to customers last year. Bob BlueChair, President, and CEO at Dominion Energy00:16:20Based on current forward curves, the contract is expected to save customers in Connecticut over $900 million over the 10-year life. We remain focused on achieving a constructive outcome for the facility, which has delivered tremendous value and produced bill reductions for customers in Connecticut through its existing contract. We will continue to provide updates as things develop. With that, let me summarize our remarks on slide 13 by reiterating our focus on our three top priorities: consistently achieving our financial commitments, continued achievement of major construction milestones for the Coastal Virginia Offshore Wind project, and achieving constructive regulatory outcomes that demonstrate our ability to work cooperatively with regulators and stakeholders to deliver results that benefit both customers and shareholders. Operator00:17:34Ask a question at this time, please press star one now. Our first question comes from Nick Campanella with Barclays. Please go ahead. Nick CampanellaAnalyst at Barclays00:17:47Good morning. Thank you. Bob BlueChair, President, and CEO at Dominion Energy00:17:49Good morning. Nick CampanellaAnalyst at Barclays00:17:50Maybe just on the offshore wind timeline, just part of this seems to be getting a better sense of your sequencing and installing the turbines, which you're just kind of repeating now. How would you frame risk of further slippage? Are there any ongoing activities, I guess, that you're going to get new data on that should be monitored? What kind of informs confidence that year-end 2027 is the right date now? Thank you. Bob BlueChair, President, and CEO at Dominion Energy00:18:17Yeah, that's a great question, Nick. The short answer is I'm confident in the updated timeline. Let me take a step back. The strategic value of CVOW hasn't changed. It remains one of the fastest ways to bring a lot of power to our customers, it also remains one of the most affordable sources of energy for customers. The financial plan, as we outlined, remains durable and resilient as we finish construction. There are really sort of two ways to think about progress and de-risking. Things are largely the same. You don't have final completion, you don't have power. CVOW is different. As I mentioned, we already have more than 450 MW on the grid. That's comparable to a sizable generating unit. It's also different from a regulatory recovery perspective. This isn't a project where the entire asset waits on one final COD event. Bob BlueChair, President, and CEO at Dominion Energy00:20:03We expect approximately half of project investment adjusted for network upgrade costs to be in service by the end of the year. That's also a very meaningful de-risking milestone. As we think about the schedule on remaining work, we continue to get better. Our most recent reload of towers and nacelles and blades at the Portsmouth Marine Terminal was our fastest we've had so far. We're continuing to refine our jackup times, our sequencing, our installation, our execution. Once we're jacked up, the installation process continues to get better. That's the same learning curve we've seen elsewhere on the project, whether it was monopiles or transition pieces. At the same time, the updated schedule reflects what we have learned based on actual load-out timing in Portsmouth. Bob BlueChair, President, and CEO at Dominion Energy00:20:56We've added cushion for weather and vessel maintenance contingency, and we now have added some longer jacking durations at certain and more challenging locations. It's not a theoretical schedule, it's based on experience, which is what we said we would base it on prior calls. The way I would summarize it is this way, the final turbine date has moved, but the project has been substantially de-risked. CVOW is already producing power, it's already benefiting customers, it's already supporting regulatory recovery. We don't have to wait until the last turbine is installed at the end of 2027 to see the value of this project. We can see it now. Nick CampanellaAnalyst at Barclays00:21:40Thank you. All fair points. Appreciate that. Maybe just moving to the merger. It's great to see the documents got filed at the respective regulators. I know there have been some headlines in Virginia that certain folks would like to see a more extended time period for review. To your point in the prepares, the procedural schedule's been set, just your expectation that the procedural schedule stays as is and just any data points you would highlight there. Thanks. Bob BlueChair, President, and CEO at Dominion Energy00:22:10I would echo what John said on NextEra's call. The conversations that we've had with stakeholders thus far have gone well. As to the specific timeline and the discussion that you mentioned, worth noting that at a June meeting of the Energy Commission of Virginia, the SCC staff indicated the SCC's used to working with statutory deadlines, and they did not, when directly asked, didn't indicate they needed more time or more resources. We also happen to believe the current timeframe is sufficient, particularly when you look at the level of expertise on the Virginia Commission and the Virginia staff. They've done mergers before. They're used to working in these kind of timelines. They handle rate cases of great complexity with statutory timelines all the time. Bob BlueChair, President, and CEO at Dominion Energy00:23:18When we look at it that way, we think that the schedule that has been set forward makes a lot of sense, we don't think it makes a lot of sense to change the rules in the middle of the game. Nick CampanellaAnalyst at Barclays00:23:30All right. Thank you very much. Appreciate it. Operator00:23:33Thank you for your question. Our next question comes from Paul Zimbardo with Jefferies. Please go ahead. Paul ZimbardoAnalyst at Jefferies00:23:41Hi. Good morning, team. Thank you. Bob BlueChair, President, and CEO at Dominion Energy00:23:44Good morning, Paul. Paul ZimbardoAnalyst at Jefferies00:23:46Thank you. The first thing I was going to ask that there was another report in Virginia just around a grid disruption, some of the data centers turning on their backups, voltage or otherwise on the transmission line. Do you see a need to incrementally strengthen the system, whether it's transmission, storage or elsewhere, just as you have a very critical, the most critical infrastructure in the U.S. in your service territory? Any change you see coming out of these events? Bob BlueChair, President, and CEO at Dominion Energy00:24:18Hey, Paul. It's a great question. At a high level, I'll answer that and then turn it over to Ed Baine, who is our EVP of EVP of Utility Operations. The high level is that this event is one that our planners handled very well, our system operators handled very well, worked with PJM. We can always learn. To the sort of broader question that you asked before Ed gets into a little more of the specifics, we've been working very hard to upgrade the transmission system for some time. We feel like we're as good as anyone at operating a transmission system with these kinds of large loads. We have more experience than anyone else. We've been investing heavily, as you are aware, in the transmission system over the years, including some very specific projects, in that part of our territory in the last few years. Bob BlueChair, President, and CEO at Dominion Energy00:25:17We'll keep that up. We'll keep learning from this event. Ed, is there anything you want to sort of talk about specifically on that? Ed BaineEVP of Utility Operations at Dominion Energy00:25:27Paul, you're right. We did have a transmission line that experienced a fault last week that did go out of service. These are rare on our reliable grid, but they do occasionally occur. We do expect, typically, the data centers would ride through these momentary events without shifting to backup power, but they didn't in this case. As Bob mentioned, we have and will continue to collaborate closely with these customers to identify other mitigation opportunities. We've been sharing information and will continue to do so and implement lessons learned. We don't feel like there is significant investments that need to be made because we've been doing that in the grid, but we do believe there will continue to be other mitigating items that we'll implement. Paul ZimbardoAnalyst at Jefferies00:26:16Okay. Great. Somewhat related, but just on the battery investment, the mandate by legislature this year, any timeline or incremental color that you can give on when we should start seeing kind of more proposals to meet those needs? Bob BlueChair, President, and CEO at Dominion Energy00:26:34Yeah, Paul. Similar to what we shared on the last call, the legislation calls for an acceleration and an increase in the target, and we're in the process now of ramping up. As I mentioned, we have $2 billion in the current five-year forecast, represents about 3% of the total five-year capital plan. The two sort of milestones I'd point you to to think about is there will be a technical conference this fall where we'll go through. It'll be sponsored by the commission, permitting and feasibility technical analyses around the ability for us to deploy battery more quickly. In the IRP that will come out, we'll incorporate our latest perspectives and views on our ability to accelerate on the battery side. Bob BlueChair, President, and CEO at Dominion Energy00:27:16I think as we mentioned in the last call, we would expect, given the policy, that that's going to require that we're going to need to ramp up more quickly. That means developing additional development expertise and building a pipeline for supply chain, as well as building sort of a pipeline of developers, much the same way we did on the solar side when we ramped up after the Virginia Clean Economy Act was passed. Paul ZimbardoAnalyst at Jefferies00:27:41Okay. No, makes total sense. Thank you, team. Bob BlueChair, President, and CEO at Dominion Energy00:27:44Thanks, Paul. Operator00:27:46Thank you for your question. Our next question comes from Carly Davenport with Goldman Sachs. Please go ahead. Carly DavenportAnalyst at Goldman Sachs00:27:53Hey, good morning. Thanks for taking the questions. Just to start a follow-up on the turbine installation, are you able to expand a bit more on where you see the most opportunity for efficiency in the timeline, just with the reduction in the days per turbine that is sort of embedded in the new target relative to where you have trended over the last couple of earnings calls? Bob BlueChair, President, and CEO at Dominion Energy00:28:13Yeah, Carly. I think we laid it out. The areas that we would be looking for would be quicker turnarounds at Portsmouth when we are in reloading. As I mentioned, the turnaround this past weekend was the fastest one that we have had so far. The ability to jack the vessel up and jack the vessel down faster as we get into the more challenging locations. Those would be probably the two places that we would look the most to try to continue to pick up pace. As we have experienced throughout the project, as we do these iterations more times, we tend to get faster and more efficient. Carly DavenportAnalyst at Goldman Sachs00:29:03Great. Okay. That's helpful. Thank you. The follow-up, you had mentioned the proposed Mount Storm combined cycle plant. Just to confirm, that would be incremental to the base capital plan? Just want to make sure that's accurate. It seems like there's growing focus on West Virginia, with the state's focus on building out incremental data center capacity there. Just anything you could share on other opportunities you might see there and just how we should think about the timing and path to regulatory filings. Steven RidgeEVP and CFO at Dominion Energy00:29:33Carly, I'll take the first half, and Bob, you can speak to the second. Carly, this is not an incremental project to the current capital plan. We had outlined an acceleration of capital towards the back end of our plan driven by some of these natural gas investments. If you look at the most recent IRP, it actually sort of continues into the early thirties as well, where we project a continued build-out of these resources to support the reliable service to our customers. Bob BlueChair, President, and CEO at Dominion Energy00:30:01Carly, as to the second part, the focus on West Virginia is certainly not new for us. We've been operating the Mount Storm power station there for decades. That's been a really important workhorse of our fleet and continues to be. Bob BlueChair, President, and CEO at Dominion Energy00:30:16We saw the opportunity to support our regulated footprint and the generation needed to serve growing demand that we've been describing for some time. We have the available property there. We can get gas there. It's a great opportunity for us to help our build program that we need to serve our regulated customers, which is our focus. Carly DavenportAnalyst at Goldman Sachs00:30:44Great. Thank you for the color. Operator00:30:49Thank you for your question. This concludes our Q&A session. I'll turn it back to Bob Blue for closing remarks. Bob BlueChair, President, and CEO at Dominion Energy00:30:56Thanks, everyone, for taking the time to join the call today. Enjoy the rest of the day. Operator00:31:01The conference has now concluded. Thank you for attending today's presentation. 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Email Address About Dominion EnergyDominion Energy (NYSE:D), Inc., headquartered in Richmond, Virginia, is a diversified energy company that primarily operates regulated electricity and natural gas utilities and develops energy infrastructure. The company’s core activities include the generation, transmission and distribution of electricity to residential, commercial and industrial customers, as well as the purchase, storage and delivery of natural gas. Dominion combines traditional utility operations with energy infrastructure businesses to provide essential services across its service territories. Dominion’s electricity portfolio spans multiple technologies and fuel sources, including nuclear, natural gas-fired generation and renewable resources such as utility-scale solar and wind. The company also owns and operates natural gas pipelines, storage facilities and distribution systems that serve local and regional needs. In addition to commodity supply and delivery, Dominion invests in grid modernization, energy efficiency programs, and energy infrastructure projects intended to support reliability and the integration of cleaner energy resources. With roots in early 20th-century utility operations in Virginia, Dominion has evolved into a major regional energy provider serving millions of customers in Virginia and other parts of the eastern United States. The company operates under a regulated utility model in its core service areas while also participating in wholesale and project development markets. 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PresentationSkip to Participants Operator00:00:00Welcome to the Dominion Energy second quarter 2026 earnings conference call. At this time, each of your lines is in a listen-only mode. At the conclusion of today's presentation, we will open the floor for questions. Instructions will be given for the procedure to follow if you would like to ask a question. I would now like to turn the call over to David McFarland, Senior Vice President, Investor Relations and Treasurer. David McFarlandSenior VP of Investor Relations and Treasurer at Dominion Energy00:00:25Good morning. Thank you for joining Dominion Energy's second quarter 2026 earnings call. Earnings materials, including today's prepared remarks, contain forward-looking statements and estimates that are subject to various risks and uncertainties. Please refer to our SEC filings, including our most recent annual report on Form 10-K and our quarterly reports on Form 10-Q, for a discussion of factors that may cause results to differ from management's estimates and expectations. This morning, we will discuss some measures of our company's performance that differ from those recognized by GAAP. Reconciliation of our non-GAAP measures to the most directly comparable GAAP financial measures, which we can calculate, are contained in the earnings release kit. I encourage you to visit our investor relations website to review webcast slides as well as the earnings release kit. David McFarlandSenior VP of Investor Relations and Treasurer at Dominion Energy00:01:11Joining today's call are Bob Blue, Chair, President, and Chief Executive Officer, Steven Ridge, Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer, and other members of senior management. I will now turn the call over to Steven. Steven RidgeEVP and CFO at Dominion Energy00:01:24Thank you, David. Good morning, everyone. Since the conclusion of the business review almost two and a half years ago, we've remained steadfastly focused on three top priorities. First, consistent achievement of our financial commitments. Second, continued achievement of major construction milestones for the Coastal Virginia Offshore Wind project. Third, constructive achievement of regulatory outcomes that demonstrate our ability to work cooperatively with regulators and stakeholders to benefit both customers and shareholders. As we'll discuss today, we continue to demonstrate success against these priorities, extending our track record of high quality and consistent execution. I'll cover financial results and demand trends in my remarks. Bob will provide updates on the NextEra Energy combination, CVOW, regulatory results, and other business items. Turning first to second quarter results, as shown on slide three. Second quarter operating earnings were $0.79 per share, which includes $0.03 of RNG 45Z credits. Steven RidgeEVP and CFO at Dominion Energy00:02:34A summary of earnings drivers relative to the prior year period is included in Schedule four of the earnings release kit. Second quarter GAAP results were $0.37 per share. A summary of all adjustments between operating and GAAP results is included in Schedule two of the earnings release kit. Similar to last year, we've had a strong first half, which positions us well to deliver strong full-year results. Additionally, we are reaffirming all financial guidance provided on our fourth quarter earnings call, including operating earnings, credit, dividend, and long-term growth guidance. Turning to financing on slide four. We've now completed our common equity program for 2026, consistent with our ATM guidance on the fourth quarter call. Full year 2025 and Q2 LTM FFO/D debt metrics are both above 15%, demonstrating our continuing commitment to our previously communicated credit-related targets. Turning briefly to sales. Steven RidgeEVP and CFO at Dominion Energy00:03:40We're continuing to see strong sales in our service areas, driven by continued economic growth and data center expansion. Notably, nine of the Dominion Zone's top 10 all-time peak days have occurred this year, including the eight highest summer peak days, which have all occurred in the last two months. We want to take a moment to acknowledge the outstanding work of our colleagues who have maintained exemplary system reliability in the face of record-setting demand and difficult weather conditions. Their commitment and dedication on behalf of our customers and communities is worthy of special recognition, even if most of them would tell you they were simply doing their job. Turning to data centers on slide five. We now have over 53 GW of data center capacity in various stages of contracting, including approximately 12 GW of capacity contracted under electric service agreements. Steven RidgeEVP and CFO at Dominion Energy00:04:42To put that in context, we've added over 5 GW of contracts, or roughly 11%, since the end of last year. Since our last update, we continue to see robust and durable demand from our differentiated, high quality, low risk data center customers. Importantly, these customers consistently tell us that many of their highest value workloads need to be built and need to stay in Virginia because of the unique network density, connectivity, and ecosystem advantages that have made Virginia the world's leading data center market. We're bringing those customers onto our system in the right way, protecting existing customers from cost shifts while mitigating stranded cost risk by utilizing a large load framework that ensures these customers pay their fair share of the investments required to support their growth. Steven RidgeEVP and CFO at Dominion Energy00:05:41In closing, we've had a strong first half of the year, I am highly confident in our ability to deliver on our financial commitments, including our 2026 operating EPS and credit targets. Our financial plan strikes the right balance of appropriately conservative, but not unreasonably so. With that, I'll turn the call over to Bob. Bob BlueChair, President, and CEO at Dominion Energy00:06:05Thank you, Steven. Bob BlueChair, President, and CEO at Dominion Energy00:06:06I will begin with safety on slide six. Our employee OSHA injury recordable rate for the first half of the year was 0.36, which remains well below industry average. Safety is our first core value, and we must continue to focus relentlessly on improving our safety performance. Turning next to our announced combination with NextEra Energy. As we detailed in May, this transaction represents a truly transformational opportunity to bring together two world-class utilities with 238 years of collective industry experience to even better serve millions of regulated customers across four states. Looking ahead, we believe we can accomplish far more together than we can apart. Under the proposed terms of the merger, Dominion Energy customers would receive $2.25 billion in shareholder-funded bill credits representing meaningful customer value. Bob BlueChair, President, and CEO at Dominion Energy00:07:00Over the longer term, customers and communities would benefit from a stronger company with the scale and capabilities to buy, build, finance, and operate critical energy infrastructure more efficiently, helping support reliability, affordability, and economic growth. Earlier this month, we filed our joint proxy statement on Form S-4, as well as our state and federal regulatory applications with the Virginia State Corporation Commission, the North Carolina Utilities Commission, and the Public Service Commission of South Carolina, as well as the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission and the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. The Virginia State Corporation Commission has now issued a procedural schedule, including evidentiary hearings beginning on November 17th. In South Carolina, the proposed scheduling order would set a hearing date of December 8th, with a final order by January 29th, 2027. Bob BlueChair, President, and CEO at Dominion Energy00:07:51The South Carolina Senate, House, and Office of Regulatory Staff have indicated they do not object to the company's proposed schedule. We expect the commission to rule on the proposed timeline next week. The timelines for each of the proceedings are shown on slide seven. I could not be more excited about the combination of these two companies. We will continue to share updates as we progress through shareholder and regulatory processes. Turning next to offshore wind. As illustrated on slide eight, CVOW continues to achieve significant de-risking milestones, as evidenced by its 81% completion status. Let me highlight a few factors that give me great confidence in the successful completion of this project. First, supply chain. We are making excellent progress toward completing all remaining equipment, a key project milestone. 100% of nacelles, 99% of towers, and 85% of blades have now been fabricated. Bob BlueChair, President, and CEO at Dominion Energy00:08:45Towers will be completed in the coming days, followed by final blades in October. Second, installation. As of today, we've successfully installed 31 turbines, with the installation of the 32nd currently in progress, averaging approximately two days of operations per installation from jack up to jack down, in line with our prior assumptions. It's worth noting that the 31 turbines installed to date have a capacity of more than 450 MW, rivaling the magnitude of some of our fossil units. We expect the third and final offshore substation to be energized by year-end, which is especially meaningful because it will signify that approximately half of project investment, adjusted for network upgrade costs, has achieved in-service status. That's a meaningful milestone toward project de-risking. Third, proof of concept. We've now successfully completed every major fabrication, construction, commissioning, and operation evolution multiple times. Bob BlueChair, President, and CEO at Dominion Energy00:09:41This is noteworthy because we've clearly and affirmatively answered the question, will this work? Every type of component is in service and functioning as expected. Turbines, inter-array cables, substations, export cables, and onshore transmission and distribution infrastructure are all working together to provide much-needed power to our customers. In fact, in recent weeks, as we've set new demand peaks, we've done everything possible at the request of system operators to deliver the maximum possible amount of power from CVOW. In my mind, it's critical to note that CVOW is significantly different from a traditional power plant, and that we're not waiting for a final switch to be flipped to confirm proof of concept or to qualify investment for regulatory recovery. Rather, CVOW is effectively 176 individual power plants, each entering service upon completion. Bob BlueChair, President, and CEO at Dominion Energy00:10:31This allows the project to clearly demonstrate technical feasibility and deliver energy to the grid well before the final turbine begins to spin. That's why for CVOW, it's important to note the project's de-risking is heavily front-end loaded, and in our view, mostly behind us. Turning to slide nine, let me update you on expected timing of installation of the project's final turbine, which we're adjusting by six months to reflect three updated assumptions. First, given previously reported delays with Charybdis and BOEM suspension order, weather and vessel maintenance contingency had been significantly reduced. Today, we're adding incremental weather and vessel maintenance schedule contingency to the plan, which assumes somewhat better-than-normal weather consistent with our overall weather experience thus far, as well as the continued optimization of our installation iterations. Bob BlueChair, President, and CEO at Dominion Energy00:11:18Second, we're adjusting the schedule to account for additional time required for our load outs at PMT based on observed performance times to date relative to our prior assumption. Finally, based on continued data gathering, we're adjusting the schedule to account for what we expect will be longer duration jacking operations for certain remaining turbine locations. Relative to the other approximately 80% of turbine locations, we expect, based on sub-sea geotechnical analysis, this subgroup to require additional time for jacking operations. Moving now to capital investment. As shown on slide 10, we're updating the project cost estimate by a little less than $250 million. Our most recent budget was $11.4 billion, inclusive of $123 million of unused contingency. As highlighted on our last call, we've added $228 million for additional tariff costs associated with revisions to the prior steel and aluminum guidance. Bob BlueChair, President, and CEO at Dominion Energy00:12:13We've subtracted $502 million to account for the reallocation of certain PJM assigned network upgrade costs. We've also added about $234 million of miscellaneous costs that primarily reflect additional cable protection to account for faster underwater currents, fuel costs, mitigation costs for the more difficult jacking locations, and final onshore construction costs. The total of all these adjustments is a net reduction to project costs of around $40 million, so essentially a wash. From there, we've added about $288 million to account for the incremental two quarters to complete the final turbine installation. You'll note that this averages out to about $144 million per additional quarter, which is below the low end of our prior rule of thumb guidance of $150 million-$200 million per quarter. Bob BlueChair, President, and CEO at Dominion Energy00:13:06We're increasing our project cost estimate by approximately 2% to $11.65 billion, which continues to include $123 million of unused contingency. Turning to slide 11, the project's cost sharing and risk-sharing continue to work as intended to protect customers and shareholders with minimal changes to LCOE or customer bill impacts. We anticipate that approximately one-third of the most recent cost increase will be shared with our financing partner. CVOW remains one of the most affordable sources of energy for our customers. Our analysis indicates that the project is expected to generate fuel savings of approximately $5 billion for customers during the project's first 10 years of operation. On regulatory, we received a final order in our 2025 rider filing proceeding on July 29th, approving 100% of our revenue requests. Bob BlueChair, President, and CEO at Dominion Energy00:13:59I mentioned last quarter, in all of the above approach to energy supply, including CVOW, is critical to ensuring continued reliability amidst real-time growing demand in our service areas, as evidenced by new demand peaks that Steven mentioned earlier. Building new energy generation is a core competency of ours, as demonstrated in recent years with our successful development of thousands of megawatts of renewable generation, as well as combined cycle plants at Greensville, Brunswick, and Warren County. We continue to advance the development of new generation capacity consistent with our update last quarter. We recently filed the air permits for two new natural gas-fired combined cycle plants at Kennedy Station in South Carolina and at Mount Storm in West Virginia, representing nearly five gigawatts of new capacity. Bob BlueChair, President, and CEO at Dominion Energy00:14:44In addition to producing much-needed energy for our customers, these projects will be an economic benefit for the states in which they operate, generating thousands of new jobs, billions of dollars of economic investment, and meaningful local tax revenue. Bob BlueChair, President, and CEO at Dominion Energy00:14:59We'll turn to other business updates, as shown on slide 12. In South Carolina, the comprehensive settlement agreements in DESC's electric rate case were unanimously approved by the Public Service Commission of South Carolina in June, with rates becoming effective at the beginning of July. We appreciate the engagement of all parties. We've now achieved successful settlements in each of our last four South Carolina base rate cases across our electric and gas businesses. Finally, on Millstone. Bob BlueChair, President, and CEO at Dominion Energy00:15:26We've heard recently from the regulators in Connecticut. We expect a solicitation decision from the Connecticut Department of Energy and Environmental Protection regarding the facility's bid in the zero-carbon energy request for proposals in the near term. Consistent with the process laid out previously, we anticipate negotiations with local state utilities will begin thereafter, and contracts will then be submitted to the Connecticut Public Utilities Regulatory Authority for approval, the timeline for which is up to 180 days. The facility's existing PPA has delivered tremendous value to customers, lower costs, and significantly dampened volatility. Despite being priced at the time in 2019 above prevailing price outlooks, the contract is expected to save customers over $300 million this year, including $190 million year to date, in addition to the $200 million in savings to customers last year. Bob BlueChair, President, and CEO at Dominion Energy00:16:20Based on current forward curves, the contract is expected to save customers in Connecticut over $900 million over the 10-year life. We remain focused on achieving a constructive outcome for the facility, which has delivered tremendous value and produced bill reductions for customers in Connecticut through its existing contract. We will continue to provide updates as things develop. With that, let me summarize our remarks on slide 13 by reiterating our focus on our three top priorities: consistently achieving our financial commitments, continued achievement of major construction milestones for the Coastal Virginia Offshore Wind project, and achieving constructive regulatory outcomes that demonstrate our ability to work cooperatively with regulators and stakeholders to deliver results that benefit both customers and shareholders. Operator00:17:34Ask a question at this time, please press star one now. Our first question comes from Nick Campanella with Barclays. Please go ahead. Nick CampanellaAnalyst at Barclays00:17:47Good morning. Thank you. Bob BlueChair, President, and CEO at Dominion Energy00:17:49Good morning. Nick CampanellaAnalyst at Barclays00:17:50Maybe just on the offshore wind timeline, just part of this seems to be getting a better sense of your sequencing and installing the turbines, which you're just kind of repeating now. How would you frame risk of further slippage? Are there any ongoing activities, I guess, that you're going to get new data on that should be monitored? What kind of informs confidence that year-end 2027 is the right date now? Thank you. Bob BlueChair, President, and CEO at Dominion Energy00:18:17Yeah, that's a great question, Nick. The short answer is I'm confident in the updated timeline. Let me take a step back. The strategic value of CVOW hasn't changed. It remains one of the fastest ways to bring a lot of power to our customers, it also remains one of the most affordable sources of energy for customers. The financial plan, as we outlined, remains durable and resilient as we finish construction. There are really sort of two ways to think about progress and de-risking. Things are largely the same. You don't have final completion, you don't have power. CVOW is different. As I mentioned, we already have more than 450 MW on the grid. That's comparable to a sizable generating unit. It's also different from a regulatory recovery perspective. This isn't a project where the entire asset waits on one final COD event. Bob BlueChair, President, and CEO at Dominion Energy00:20:03We expect approximately half of project investment adjusted for network upgrade costs to be in service by the end of the year. That's also a very meaningful de-risking milestone. As we think about the schedule on remaining work, we continue to get better. Our most recent reload of towers and nacelles and blades at the Portsmouth Marine Terminal was our fastest we've had so far. We're continuing to refine our jackup times, our sequencing, our installation, our execution. Once we're jacked up, the installation process continues to get better. That's the same learning curve we've seen elsewhere on the project, whether it was monopiles or transition pieces. At the same time, the updated schedule reflects what we have learned based on actual load-out timing in Portsmouth. Bob BlueChair, President, and CEO at Dominion Energy00:20:56We've added cushion for weather and vessel maintenance contingency, and we now have added some longer jacking durations at certain and more challenging locations. It's not a theoretical schedule, it's based on experience, which is what we said we would base it on prior calls. The way I would summarize it is this way, the final turbine date has moved, but the project has been substantially de-risked. CVOW is already producing power, it's already benefiting customers, it's already supporting regulatory recovery. We don't have to wait until the last turbine is installed at the end of 2027 to see the value of this project. We can see it now. Nick CampanellaAnalyst at Barclays00:21:40Thank you. All fair points. Appreciate that. Maybe just moving to the merger. It's great to see the documents got filed at the respective regulators. I know there have been some headlines in Virginia that certain folks would like to see a more extended time period for review. To your point in the prepares, the procedural schedule's been set, just your expectation that the procedural schedule stays as is and just any data points you would highlight there. Thanks. Bob BlueChair, President, and CEO at Dominion Energy00:22:10I would echo what John said on NextEra's call. The conversations that we've had with stakeholders thus far have gone well. As to the specific timeline and the discussion that you mentioned, worth noting that at a June meeting of the Energy Commission of Virginia, the SCC staff indicated the SCC's used to working with statutory deadlines, and they did not, when directly asked, didn't indicate they needed more time or more resources. We also happen to believe the current timeframe is sufficient, particularly when you look at the level of expertise on the Virginia Commission and the Virginia staff. They've done mergers before. They're used to working in these kind of timelines. They handle rate cases of great complexity with statutory timelines all the time. Bob BlueChair, President, and CEO at Dominion Energy00:23:18When we look at it that way, we think that the schedule that has been set forward makes a lot of sense, we don't think it makes a lot of sense to change the rules in the middle of the game. Nick CampanellaAnalyst at Barclays00:23:30All right. Thank you very much. Appreciate it. Operator00:23:33Thank you for your question. Our next question comes from Paul Zimbardo with Jefferies. Please go ahead. Paul ZimbardoAnalyst at Jefferies00:23:41Hi. Good morning, team. Thank you. Bob BlueChair, President, and CEO at Dominion Energy00:23:44Good morning, Paul. Paul ZimbardoAnalyst at Jefferies00:23:46Thank you. The first thing I was going to ask that there was another report in Virginia just around a grid disruption, some of the data centers turning on their backups, voltage or otherwise on the transmission line. Do you see a need to incrementally strengthen the system, whether it's transmission, storage or elsewhere, just as you have a very critical, the most critical infrastructure in the U.S. in your service territory? Any change you see coming out of these events? Bob BlueChair, President, and CEO at Dominion Energy00:24:18Hey, Paul. It's a great question. At a high level, I'll answer that and then turn it over to Ed Baine, who is our EVP of EVP of Utility Operations. The high level is that this event is one that our planners handled very well, our system operators handled very well, worked with PJM. We can always learn. To the sort of broader question that you asked before Ed gets into a little more of the specifics, we've been working very hard to upgrade the transmission system for some time. We feel like we're as good as anyone at operating a transmission system with these kinds of large loads. We have more experience than anyone else. We've been investing heavily, as you are aware, in the transmission system over the years, including some very specific projects, in that part of our territory in the last few years. Bob BlueChair, President, and CEO at Dominion Energy00:25:17We'll keep that up. We'll keep learning from this event. Ed, is there anything you want to sort of talk about specifically on that? Ed BaineEVP of Utility Operations at Dominion Energy00:25:27Paul, you're right. We did have a transmission line that experienced a fault last week that did go out of service. These are rare on our reliable grid, but they do occasionally occur. We do expect, typically, the data centers would ride through these momentary events without shifting to backup power, but they didn't in this case. As Bob mentioned, we have and will continue to collaborate closely with these customers to identify other mitigation opportunities. We've been sharing information and will continue to do so and implement lessons learned. We don't feel like there is significant investments that need to be made because we've been doing that in the grid, but we do believe there will continue to be other mitigating items that we'll implement. Paul ZimbardoAnalyst at Jefferies00:26:16Okay. Great. Somewhat related, but just on the battery investment, the mandate by legislature this year, any timeline or incremental color that you can give on when we should start seeing kind of more proposals to meet those needs? Bob BlueChair, President, and CEO at Dominion Energy00:26:34Yeah, Paul. Similar to what we shared on the last call, the legislation calls for an acceleration and an increase in the target, and we're in the process now of ramping up. As I mentioned, we have $2 billion in the current five-year forecast, represents about 3% of the total five-year capital plan. The two sort of milestones I'd point you to to think about is there will be a technical conference this fall where we'll go through. It'll be sponsored by the commission, permitting and feasibility technical analyses around the ability for us to deploy battery more quickly. In the IRP that will come out, we'll incorporate our latest perspectives and views on our ability to accelerate on the battery side. Bob BlueChair, President, and CEO at Dominion Energy00:27:16I think as we mentioned in the last call, we would expect, given the policy, that that's going to require that we're going to need to ramp up more quickly. That means developing additional development expertise and building a pipeline for supply chain, as well as building sort of a pipeline of developers, much the same way we did on the solar side when we ramped up after the Virginia Clean Economy Act was passed. Paul ZimbardoAnalyst at Jefferies00:27:41Okay. No, makes total sense. Thank you, team. Bob BlueChair, President, and CEO at Dominion Energy00:27:44Thanks, Paul. Operator00:27:46Thank you for your question. Our next question comes from Carly Davenport with Goldman Sachs. Please go ahead. Carly DavenportAnalyst at Goldman Sachs00:27:53Hey, good morning. Thanks for taking the questions. Just to start a follow-up on the turbine installation, are you able to expand a bit more on where you see the most opportunity for efficiency in the timeline, just with the reduction in the days per turbine that is sort of embedded in the new target relative to where you have trended over the last couple of earnings calls? Bob BlueChair, President, and CEO at Dominion Energy00:28:13Yeah, Carly. I think we laid it out. The areas that we would be looking for would be quicker turnarounds at Portsmouth when we are in reloading. As I mentioned, the turnaround this past weekend was the fastest one that we have had so far. The ability to jack the vessel up and jack the vessel down faster as we get into the more challenging locations. Those would be probably the two places that we would look the most to try to continue to pick up pace. As we have experienced throughout the project, as we do these iterations more times, we tend to get faster and more efficient. Carly DavenportAnalyst at Goldman Sachs00:29:03Great. Okay. That's helpful. Thank you. The follow-up, you had mentioned the proposed Mount Storm combined cycle plant. Just to confirm, that would be incremental to the base capital plan? Just want to make sure that's accurate. It seems like there's growing focus on West Virginia, with the state's focus on building out incremental data center capacity there. Just anything you could share on other opportunities you might see there and just how we should think about the timing and path to regulatory filings. Steven RidgeEVP and CFO at Dominion Energy00:29:33Carly, I'll take the first half, and Bob, you can speak to the second. Carly, this is not an incremental project to the current capital plan. We had outlined an acceleration of capital towards the back end of our plan driven by some of these natural gas investments. If you look at the most recent IRP, it actually sort of continues into the early thirties as well, where we project a continued build-out of these resources to support the reliable service to our customers. Bob BlueChair, President, and CEO at Dominion Energy00:30:01Carly, as to the second part, the focus on West Virginia is certainly not new for us. We've been operating the Mount Storm power station there for decades. That's been a really important workhorse of our fleet and continues to be. Bob BlueChair, President, and CEO at Dominion Energy00:30:16We saw the opportunity to support our regulated footprint and the generation needed to serve growing demand that we've been describing for some time. We have the available property there. We can get gas there. It's a great opportunity for us to help our build program that we need to serve our regulated customers, which is our focus. Carly DavenportAnalyst at Goldman Sachs00:30:44Great. Thank you for the color. Operator00:30:49Thank you for your question. This concludes our Q&A session. I'll turn it back to Bob Blue for closing remarks. Bob BlueChair, President, and CEO at Dominion Energy00:30:56Thanks, everyone, for taking the time to join the call today. Enjoy the rest of the day. Operator00:31:01The conference has now concluded. Thank you for attending today's presentation. You may now disconnect.Read moreParticipantsExecutivesDavid McFarlandSenior VP of Investor Relations and TreasurerSteven RidgeEVP and CFOBob BlueChair, President, and CEOEd BaineEVP of Utility OperationsAnalystsNick CampanellaAnalyst at BarclaysPaul ZimbardoAnalyst at JefferiesCarly DavenportAnalyst at Goldman SachsPowered by