Black Hills Corporation

good day and thank you for standing by welcome to the second quarter 2023 black hills corporation earnings conference call at this time all participants are in a listen-only mode after the speaker's presentation there will be a question and answer session to ask a question during this session please press star 1-1 on your telephone and wait for your name to be announced to withdraw your question please press star 1-1 again please be advised that today's conference is being recorded i would not like to hand the conference over to your speaker today Jerome Nichols, Director of Investor Relations.

Thank you, and good morning, everyone.

Welcome to Black Hills Corporation's second quarter 2023 earnings conference call. You can find our earnings release and materials for this call on our website at www.blackhillscorp.com under the Investor Relations heading. Leading our quarterly earnings discussion this morning are Lynn Evans, President and Chief Executive Officer, and Kimberly Nooney, Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer. Also attending this morning are Marnie Jones, Senior Vice President of Utilities, and Todd Jacobs, Senior Vice President of Growth and Strategy. During our earnings discussion today, some of the comments we make may contain forward-looking statements as defined by the Securities and Exchange Commission and there are a number of uncertainties inherent in such comments. Although we believe that our expectations are based on reasonable assumptions, actual results may differ materially. We direct you to our earnings release, slide two of the investor presentation on our website, and our most recent Form 10-K and Form 10-Q, filed with the SEC for a list of some of the factors that could cause future results to differ materially from our expectations. I will now turn the call over to Lynn Evans.