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4/28/2026
Hi, and welcome to the Solaris Quarter 1, 2026 Earnings Teleconference and Webcast. All participants will be in listen-only mode. Should you need assistance, please signal a conference specialist by pressing the star key followed by zero. After today's presentation, there will be an opportunity to ask questions. To ask a question, you may press star, then one on your telephone keypad. To withdraw your question, please press star, then two. Please note this event is being recorded. I would now like to turn the conference to Yvonne Fletcher, Senior Vice President of Finance and Investor Relations. Please go ahead.
Thank you, Operator. Good morning and welcome to the Solaris First Quarter 2026 Earnings Conference Call. Joining us today are our Chairman and Co-CEO, Bill Zartler, our Co-CEO and Director, Amanda Brock, our President, Kyle Ramachandran, and our CFO, Steve Thompson. Before we begin, I'd like to remind you that some of the statements we will make today are forward-looking and reflect a number of known and unknown risks. Please refer to our press release issued yesterday, along with other recent public filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission that outline those risks. I would like to point out that our earnings release in today's conference call will contain discussion of non-GAAP financial measures. The presentation of this additional information should not be considered in isolation or as a substitute for results prepared in accordance with GAAP. Reconciliations to comparable GAAP measures are available in our earnings release, which is posted in the new section on our website. Additionally, we encourage you to refer to our earnings supplement slide deck, which was published last night on the investor relations section of our website under events and presentations. I'll now turn the call over to our chairman and co-CEO, Bill Zartler.
Thank you, Yvonne, and thank you, everyone, for joining us this morning. Solaris is off to an exceptional start in 2026. We are consistently executing across our current operations, successfully advancing our long-term growth strategy and growing our long-term business base. In power, we added two significant long-term contracts with two investment-grade global technology companies for over a gigawatt of contracted power generation capacity and, importantly, associated balance of plant equipment. We also closed two strategic transactions, which expanded our generation capacity over 40% to 3.1 gigawatts. We are now operating, constructing, and in the design and planning stage for multiple large behind-the-meter power projects for three distinct large technology companies for several different data centers. Building on our proven capabilities, this progress continues to confirm Solaris' strategy and leading project expertise. We also see a clear path to significantly grow our business further. While we focus on near-term execution, we are concurrently expanding our contracted power services scope to support the future growth of our high-quality customer base. We also continue to have active discussions for new projects with both current and new customers. We expect these diversifying and expanding relationships to result in meaningful incremental returns for Solaris. As we've now shown repeatedly, we will secure expansion generation capacity once we have visibility and confidence in contracting incremental capacity on a long-term basis. While we've seen that negotiating these initial complex commercial contracts can take an extended period of time to close, we are encouraged by the numerous additional growth opportunities we see with our current customers, as well as a general alignment toward a more standard contractual arrangement. We anticipated going forward that these additional opportunities will be more streamlined to contract. The broader power market continues to reinforce and support our strategy. The tailwinds we've been describing over the past several quarters remain the same, and several have strengthened. Grid interconnection delays have continued to expand, which, given the market's focus on speed to compute, has accelerated adoption of long-term behind-the-meter power solutions. Electricity affordability for residential grid customers remains at the forefront of every politician and community leader's minds. which reinforces the need for bring-your-own-power solutions like ours, and in some cases, is even essential to many communities. There is no question that behind-the-meter power solutions will play a significant role in the long-term powering of data centers and other large industrial power loads. Solaris' proven ability to deploy rapidly and compliantly, fully behind the meter, in island mode if needed, with the optionality of providing a cost-effective reliability-enhancing complement to the grid, continues to be a real differentiator. Our progress is a result of a power strategy that's not only working, but accelerating our growth, executed by a seasoned team that knows how to deliver. We've been clear about our power strategy, build a diversified, integrated power services and equipment company that can deliver what the market and our customers need, delivering turnkey solutions from the molecule to the electron, while also ensuring that our earnings stream is growing at attractive returns with improving long-term visibility. With approximately 3.1 gigawatts of secured power generation capacity, a growing exceptional customer base, and our demonstrated capability to deliver comprehensive behind-the-meter solutions to the industry where access to power is recognized as a key differentiator, we are well-positioned to see continued growth from here. With that, I'll turn it over to Kyle to walk through our commercial progress and strategic acquisition initiatives.
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