NorthWestern Energy Group, Inc. (NWE) Q4 2023 Earnings Call Transcript

NorthWestern Energy Group, Inc. (NASDAQ:NWE) Q4 2023 Results Conference Call February 15, 2024 3:00 PM ET

Company Participants

Travis Meyer - Director of Corporate Development and Investor Relations Officer
Brian Bird - President and Chief Executive Officer
Crystal Lail - Chief Financial Officer

Conference Call Participants

Paul Fremont - Ladenburg
Sophie Karp - KeyBanc

[Call Starts Abruptly] and Crystal Lail, Chief Financial Officer.

All participant lines are currently muted. After the presentation, we have allowed time for a Q&A session. I will provide instructions for asking questions at that time [Operator Instructions]. NorthWestern's results have been released and the release is available on our Web site at northwesternenergy.com. We also released our 10-K premarket this morning. Please note that this presentation, the company's press release, comments by presenters and responses to your questions may contain forward-looking statements. As such, I'll direct you to the disclosures contained within our SEC filings and safe harbor provisions included in the second slide in this presentation. Please also note, this presentation includes non-GAAP financial measures. Please see the non-GAAP disclosures, definitions and reconciliations also included in the presentation today. The webcast is being recorded. The archived replay of today's webcast will be available for one year beginning at 6:00 p.m. Eastern Time and can be found in the Financial Results section of our Web site. With that, I'll hand the presentation over to CEO, Brian Bird.

Brian Bird

Thanks, Travis. The first slide here, we talk about recent highlights. We just had two days of Board meetings. And one of the recent highlights was our ability to serve our customers in a cold snap in the middle of January. And really, that cold snap will be demonstrated two things. One, it demonstrates our need for capacity. So the importance of the Yellowstone County plant and the incremental coal strip that we'll be adding in