The Southern Company

Good afternoon. My name is Kevin, and I'll be your conference operator today. At this time, I'd like to welcome everyone to the Southern Company second quarter 2025 earnings call. All lines have been placed on mute to prevent any background noise. After the speaker's remarks, there'll be a question and answer session. You may be placed into question queue at any time by pressing star 1 on your telephone keypad. I would now like to turn the call over to Mr. Greg McLeod, Director of Investment Relations. Please go ahead, sir.

Good afternoon. And welcome to Southern Company's second quarter 2025 earnings call. Joining me today are Chris Womack, Chairman, President, and Chief Executive Officer of Southern Company, and David Perroque, Chief Financial Officer. In addition, Dan Tucker, who recently announced his retirement as CFO of Southern Company after nearly three decades with the company, is also joining us for the call today. Let me remind you that we will make forward-looking statements today in addition to providing historical information. Various important factors could cause actual results to differ materially from those indicated in the forward-looking statements, including those discussed in the Form 10-K, Form 10-Q, and subsequent securities filings. In addition, we will present non-GAAP financial information on this call. Reconciliations to the applicable GAAP measure are included in the financial information we released this morning, as well as the slides for this conference call, which both are available on our Investor Relations website at At this time, I'll turn the call over to Chris.

Thank you, Greg, and good afternoon, and thank you for joining us on today's call. As you can see from the materials that we released this morning, we reported strong adjusted earnings results for the second quarter, meaningfully above the estimate provided last quarter, and we remain on track to meet our financial objectives for 2025. These results reflect the combined efforts of many employees across the Southern Company system who consistently work to deliver clean, safe, reliable, and affordable energy to our customers. Our operations team, generation fleet, and power delivery system have demonstrated exceptional performance throughout the first half of the year. Just this week, during an extreme heat wave, our system with the support of our dedicated team met the year to date peak load of nearly 39 gigawatts with no major issues. Our success call is now being recorded to our vertically integrated state regulated business model with long range integrated resource planning processes, which continue to deliver substantial value to our customers and the communities we are privileged to serve. Providing outstanding reliability and affordable service to our customers is fundamental and just one example of why Southern Company truly is a great company and continues to find ways to improve and get better. Dan, I'll now turn the call over to you for an update on our financial performance.