vuhi10q.htm
UNITED STATES
SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
Washington, D.C. 20549
FORM 10-Q
(Mark One)
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QUARTERLY REPORT PURSUANT TO SECTION 13 OR 15(d) OF THE SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934 |
For the quarterly period ended June 30, 2009
OR
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TRANSITION REPORT PURSUANT TO SECTION 13 OR 15(d) OF THE SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934 |
For the transition period from __________________ to __________________
Commission file number: 1-16739
VECTREN UTILITY HOLDINGS, INC. |
(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)
INDIANA |
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35-2104850 |
(State or other jurisdiction of incorporation or organization)
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(IRS Employer Identification No.) |
One Vectren Square, Evansville, IN 47708 |
(Address of principal executive offices)
(Zip Code)
(Registrant's telephone number, including area code)
Indicate by check mark whether the registrant (1) has filed all reports required to be filed by Section 13 or 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 during the preceding 12 months (or for such shorter period that the registrant was required to file such reports), and (2) has been subject to such filing requirements for the past 90 days. o
Yes o No
Indicate by check mark whether the registrant has submitted electronically and posted on its corporate Web site, if any, every Interactive Data File required to be submitted and posted pursuant to Rule 405 of Regulation S-T during the preceding 12 months (or for such shorter period that the registrant was required to submit and post
such files).
oYes oNo
Indicate by check mark whether the registrant is a large accelerated filer, an accelerated filer, a non-accelerated filer, or a smaller reporting company. See the definitions of “large accelerated filer,” “accelerated filer” and “smaller reporting company” in Rule 12b-2 of the Exchange Act. (Check
one):
Large accelerated filer o Accelerated
filer o
Non-accelerated filer o (Do not check if a smaller reporting company) Smaller reporting company o
Indicate by check mark whether the registrant is a shell company (as defined in Rule 12b-2 of the Exchange Act).
oYes o No
Indicate the number of shares outstanding of each of the issuer's classes of common stock, as of the latest practicable date.
Common Stock- Without Par Value |
_____10_____ |
July 31, 2009 |
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Number of Shares |
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Access to Information
Vectren Corporation makes available all SEC filings and recent annual reports, including those of its wholly owned subsidiaries, free of charge through its website at www.vectren.com as soon as reasonably practicable after electronically filing or furnishing the reports to the
SEC, or by request, directed to Investor Relations at the mailing address, phone number, or email address that follows:
Mailing Address:
One Vectren Square
Evansville, Indiana 47708 |
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Phone Number:
(812) 491-4000 |
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Investor Relations Contact:
Steven M. Schein
Vice President, Investor Relations
sschein@vectren.com |
Definitions
AFUDC: allowance for funds used during construction
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MMBTU: millions of British thermal units |
APB: Accounting Principles Board
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MW: megawatts |
EITF: Emerging Issues Task Force
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MWh / GWh: megawatt hours / thousands of megawatt hours (gigawatt hours) |
FASB: Financial Accounting Standards Board
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OCC: Ohio Office of the Consumer Counselor |
FERC: Federal Energy Regulatory Commission
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OUCC: Indiana Office of the Utility Consumer Counselor |
IDEM: Indiana Department of Environmental Management
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PUCO: Public Utilities Commission of Ohio |
IURC: Indiana Utility Regulatory Commission
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SFAS: Statement of Financial Accounting Standards |
MCF / BCF: thousands / billions of cubic feet
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USEPA: United States Environmental Protection Agency |
MDth / MMDth: thousands / millions of dekatherms
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Throughput: combined gas sales and gas transportation volumes |
MISO: Midwest Independent System Operator |
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PART I. FINANCIAL INFORMATION |
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Financial Statements (Unaudited) |
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Vectren Utility Holdings, Inc. and Subsidiary Companies |
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PART II. OTHER INFORMATION |
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PART I. FINANCIAL INFORMATION
ITEM 1. FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
VECTREN UTILITY HOLDINGS, INC. AND SUBSIDIARY COMPANIES
CONSOLIDATED CONDENSED BALANCE SHEETS
(Unaudited – In millions)
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June 30, |
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December 31, |
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2009 |
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2008 |
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ASSETS |
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Current Assets |
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Cash & cash equivalents |
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$ |
52.0 |
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52.5 |
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Accounts receivable - less reserves of $6.8 & |
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$4.5, respectively |
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81.4 |
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164.0 |
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Receivables due from other Vectren companies |
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0.4 |
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4.7 |
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Accrued unbilled revenues |
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37.2 |
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167.2 |
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Inventories |
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76.7 |
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84.6 |
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Recoverable fuel & natural gas costs |
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3.1 |
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Prepayments & other current assets |
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42.4 |
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103.1 |
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Total current assets |
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290.1 |
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579.2 |
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Utility Plant |
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Original cost |
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4,467.5 |
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4,335.3 |
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Less: accumulated depreciation & amortization |
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1,660.7 |
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1,615.0 |
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Net utility plant |
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2,806.8 |
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2,720.3 |
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Investments in unconsolidated affiliates |
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0.2 |
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0.2 |
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Other investments |
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26.6 |
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24.1 |
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Nonutility property - net |
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178.6 |
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182.4 |
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Goodwill - net |
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205.0 |
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205.0 |
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Regulatory assets |
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109.6 |
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115.7 |
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Other assets |
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4.1 |
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11.2 |
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TOTAL ASSETS |
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$ |
3,621.0 |
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$ |
3,838.1 |
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The accompanying notes are an integral part of these consolidated condensed financial statements.
VECTREN UTILITY HOLDINGS, INC. AND SUBSIDIARY COMPANIES
CONSOLIDATED CONDENSED BALANCE SHEETS
(Unaudited – In millions)
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June 30, |
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December 31, |
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2008 |
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LIABILITIES & SHAREHOLDER'S EQUITY |
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Current Liabilities |
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Accounts payable |
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$ |
73.7 |
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$ |
212.5 |
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Accounts payable to affiliated companies |
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23.1 |
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72.8 |
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Payables to other Vectren companies |
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31.9 |
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69.0 |
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Refundable fuel & natural gas costs |
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27.5 |
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4.1 |
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Accrued liabilities |
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139.6 |
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147.7 |
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Short-term borrowings |
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2.3 |
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191.9 |
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Long-term debt subject to tender |
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10.0 |
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80.0 |
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Total current liabilities |
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308.1 |
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778.0 |
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Long-Term Debt - Net of Current Maturities & |
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Debt Subject to Tender |
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1,275.0 |
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1,065.1 |
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Deferred Income Taxes & Other Liabilities |
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Deferred income taxes |
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353.4 |
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332.1 |
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Regulatory liabilities |
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319.7 |
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315.1 |
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Deferred credits & other liabilities |
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96.2 |
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104.9 |
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Total deferred credits & other liabilities |
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769.3 |
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752.1 |
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Commitments & Contingencies (Notes 9 - 11) |
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Common Shareholder's Equity |
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Common stock (no par value) |
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767.2 |
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763.0 |
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Retained earnings |
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501.3 |
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479.8 |
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Accumulated other comprehensive income |
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0.1 |
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0.1 |
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Total common shareholder's equity |
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1,268.6 |
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1,242.9 |
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TOTAL LIABILITIES & SHAREHOLDER'S EQUITY |
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$ |
3,621.0 |
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$ |
3,838.1 |
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The accompanying notes are an integral part of these consolidated condensed financial statements.
VECTREN UTILITY HOLDINGS, INC. AND SUBSIDIARY COMPANIES
CONSOLIDATED CONDENSED STATEMENTS OF INCOME
(Unaudited – In millions, except per share data)
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Three Months |
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Six Months |
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Ended June 30, |
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Ended June 30, |
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2008 |
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2008 |
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OPERATING REVENUES |
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Gas utility |
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$ |
139.1 |
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$ |
224.9 |
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$ |
666.5 |
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$ |
858.5 |
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Electric utility |
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132.7 |
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127.2 |
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257.7 |
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254.4 |
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Other |
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0.4 |
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0.6 |
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0.8 |
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1.2 |
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Total operating revenues |
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272.2 |
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352.7 |
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925.0 |
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1,114.1 |
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OPERATING EXPENSES |
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Cost of gas sold |
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58.0 |
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143.8 |
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412.6 |
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605.8 |
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Cost of fuel & purchased power |
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50.3 |
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48.5 |
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97.3 |
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94.5 |
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Other operating |
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78.7 |
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74.5 |
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158.0 |
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148.5 |
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Depreciation & amortization |
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45.0 |
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40.9 |
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88.9 |
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81.6 |
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Taxes other than income taxes |
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12.6 |
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13.9 |
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35.4 |
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40.1 |
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Total operating expenses |
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244.6 |
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321.6 |
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792.2 |
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970.5 |
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OPERATING INCOME |
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27.6 |
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31.1 |
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132.8 |
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143.6 |
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OTHER INCOME - NET |
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2.5 |
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2.2 |
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4.0 |
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4.2 |
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INTEREST EXPENSE |
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20.0 |
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19.1 |
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38.7 |
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39.9 |
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INCOME BEFORE INCOME TAXES |
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10.1 |
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14.2 |
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98.1 |
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107.9 |
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INCOME TAXES |
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3.5 |
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5.4 |
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35.3 |
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41.1 |
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NET INCOME |
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6.6 |
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8.8 |
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62.8 |
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66.8 |
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The accompanying notes are an integral part of these consolidated condensed financial statements.
VECTREN UTILITY HOLDINGS, INC. AND SUBSIDIARY COMPANIES
CONSOLIDATED CONDENSED STATEMENTS OF CASH FLOWS
(Unaudited – In millions)
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Six Months Ended June 30, |
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2009 |
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2008 |
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CASH FLOWS FROM OPERATING ACTIVITIES |
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Net income |
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$ 62.8 |
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$ 66.8 |
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Adjustments to reconcile net income to cash from operating activities: |
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Depreciation & amortization |
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88.9 |
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81.6 |
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Deferred income taxes & investment tax credits |
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20.1 |
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17.9 |
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Expense portion of pension & postretirement periodic benefit cost |
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1.0 |
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1.3 |
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Provision for uncollectible accounts |
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8.9 |
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8.0 |
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Other non-cash charges - net |
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5.2 |
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5.5 |
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Changes in working capital accounts: |
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Accounts receivable, including to Vectren companies |
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& accrued unbilled revenue |
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208.0 |
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146.0 |
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Inventories |
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7.9 |
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20.7 |
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Recoverable/refundable fuel & natural gas costs |
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26.5 |
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Prepayments & other current assets |
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58.8 |
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15.4 |
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Accounts payable, including to Vectren companies |
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& affiliated companies |
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(216.6 |
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(40.5 |
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Accrued liabilities |
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(6.8 |
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28.8 |
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Changes in noncurrent assets |
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7.0 |
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4.9 |
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Changes in noncurrent liabilities |
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(21.3 |
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(6.6 |
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Net cash flows from operating activities |
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250.4 |
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317.5 |
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CASH FLOWS FROM FINANCING ACTIVITIES |
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Proceeds from: |
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Proceeds from long term debt |
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140.1 |
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171.1 |
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Additional capital contribution from parent |
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4.2 |
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124.9 |
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Requirements for: |
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Dividends to parent |
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(41.2 |
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(41.6 |
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Retirement of long-term debt, including premiums paid |
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(1.6 |
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(103.3 |
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Net change in short-term borrowings |
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(189.6 |
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(339.7 |
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Net cash flows from financing activities |
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(88.1 |
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(188.6 |
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CASH FLOWS FROM INVESTING ACTIVITIES |
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Proceeds from other investing activities |
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0.1 |
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0.4 |
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Requirements for: |
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Capital expenditures, excluding AFUDC equity |
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(162.1 |
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(132.0 |
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Other investing activities |
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(0.8 |
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(0.8 |
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Net cash flows from investing activities |
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(162.8 |
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(132.4 |
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Net change in cash & cash equivalents |
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(0.5 |
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(3.5 |
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Cash & cash equivalents at beginning of period |
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52.5 |
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11.7 |
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Cash & cash equivalents at end of period |
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52.0 |
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8.2 |
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The accompanying notes are an integral part of these consolidated condensed financial statements.
VECTREN UTILITY HOLDINGS, INC. AND SUBSIDIARY COMPANIES
NOTES TO CONSOLIDATED CONDENSED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
(UNAUDITED)
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Organization and Nature of Operations |
Vectren Utility Holdings, Inc. (the Company or Utility Holdings), an Indiana corporation, was formed on March 31, 2000 to serve as the intermediate holding company for Vectren Corporation’s (Vectren) for three operating public utilities: Indiana Gas Company, Inc. (Indiana Gas or Vectren North), Southern Indiana Gas and Electric
Company (SIGECO or Vectren South), and the Ohio operations (VEDO or Vectren Ohio). Utility Holdings also has other assets that provide information technology and other services to the three utilities. Vectren, an Indiana corporation, is an energy holding company headquartered in Evansville, Indiana and was organized on June 10, 1999. Both Vectren and Utility Holdings are holding companies as defined by the Energy Policy Act of 2005 (Energy Act).
Indiana Gas provides energy delivery services to over 560,000 natural gas customers located in central and southern Indiana. SIGECO provides energy delivery services to over 140,000 electric customers and approximately 110,000 gas customers located near Evansville in southwestern Indiana. SIGECO also owns and operates
electric generation to serve its electric customers and optimizes those assets in the wholesale power market. Indiana Gas and SIGECO generally do business as Vectren Energy Delivery of Indiana. The Ohio operations provide energy delivery services to approximately 315,000 natural gas customers located near Dayton in west central Ohio. The Ohio operations are owned as a tenancy in common by Vectren Energy Delivery of Ohio, Inc. (VEDO), a wholly owned subsidiary of Utility Holdings
(53 percent ownership), and Indiana Gas (47 percent ownership). The Ohio operations generally do business as Vectren Energy Delivery of Ohio.
The interim consolidated condensed financial statements included in this report have been prepared by the Company, without audit, as provided in the rules and regulations of the Securities and Exchange Commission and include a review of subsequent events through August 10, 2009, the date the financial statements were issued. Certain
information and note disclosures normally included in financial statements prepared in accordance with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States have been omitted as provided in such rules and regulations. The information in this report reflects all adjustments which are, in the opinion of management, necessary to fairly state the interim periods presented, inclusive of adjustments that are normal and recurring in nature. These consolidated condensed financial statements
and related notes should be read in conjunction with the Company’s audited annual consolidated financial statements for the year ended December 31, 2008, filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on March 2, 2009, on Form 10-K. Because of the seasonal nature of the Company’s utility operations, the results shown on a quarterly basis are not necessarily indicative of annual results.
The preparation of financial statements in conformity with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States requires management to make estimates and assumptions that affect the reported amounts of assets and liabilities and disclosure of contingent assets and liabilities at the date of the statements and the reported amounts
of revenues and expenses during the reporting periods. Actual results could differ from those estimates.
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Subsidiary Guarantor and Consolidating Information |
The Company’s three operating utility companies, SIGECO, Indiana Gas, and VEDO are guarantors of Utility Holdings’ $515 million in short-term credit facilities, of which none were outstanding at June 30, 2009, and Utility Holdings’ $922 million unsecured senior notes outstanding at June 30, 2009. The guarantees
are full and unconditional and joint and several, and Utility Holdings has no subsidiaries other than the subsidiary guarantors. However, Utility Holdings does have operations other than those of the subsidiary guarantors. Pursuant to Item 3-10 of Regulation S-X, disclosure of the results of operations and balance sheets of the subsidiary guarantors separate from the parent company’s operations is required. Following are consolidating financial statements including information
on the combined operations of the subsidiary guarantors separate from the other operations of the parent company. Pursuant to a tax sharing agreement with Vectren, tax effects, which are calculated on a separate return basis, are recorded at the parent (Utility Holdings) level.
Condensed Consolidating Balance Sheet as of June 30, 2009 (in millions):
Condensed Consolidating Balance Sheet as of June 30, 2009 (in millions):
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Guarantors |
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Eliminations |
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Cash & cash equivalents |
|
$ |
7.6 |
|
|
$ |
44.4 |
|
|
$ |
- |
|
|
$ |
52.0 |
|
Accounts receivable - less reserves |
|
|
81.2 |
|
|
|
0.2 |
|
|
|
- |
|
|
|
81.4 |
|
Intercompany receivables |
|
|
68.3 |
|
|
|
80.1 |
|
|
|
(148.4 |
) |
|
|
- |
|
Receivables due from other Vectren companies |
|
|
0.2 |
|
|
|
0.2 |
|
|
|
- |
|
|
|
0.4 |
|
Accrued unbilled revenues |
|
|
37.2 |
|
|
|
- |
|
|
|
- |
|
|
|
37.2 |
|
Inventories |
|
|
71.3 |
|
|
|
5.4 |
|
|
|
- |
|
|
|
76.7 |
|
Prepayments & other current assets |
|
|
36.2 |
|
|
|
13.0 |
|
|
|
(6.8 |
) |
|
|
42.4 |
|
Total current assets |
|
|
302.0 |
|
|
|
143.3 |
|
|
|
(155.2 |
) |
|
|
290.1 |
|
Utility Plant |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Original cost |
|
|
4,467.5 |
|
|
|
- |
|
|
|
- |
|
|
|
4,467.5 |
|
Less: accumulated depreciation & amortization |
|
|
1,660.7 |
|
|
|
- |
|
|
|
- |
|
|
|
1,660.7 |
|
Net utility plant |
|
|
2,806.8 |
|
|
|
- |
|
|
|
- |
|
|
|
2,806.8 |
|
Investments in consolidated subsidiaries |
|
|
- |
|
|
|
1,188.4 |
|
|
|
(1,188.4 |
) |
|
|
- |
|
Notes receivable from consolidated subsidiaries |
|
|
- |
|
|
|
771.8 |
|
|
|
(771.8 |
) |
|
|
- |
|
Investments in unconsolidated affiliates |
|
|
0.2 |
|
|
|
- |
|
|
|
- |
|
|
|
0.2 |
|
Other investments |
|
|
21.1 |
|
|
|
5.5 |
|
|
|
- |
|
|
|
26.6 |
|
Nonutility property - net |
|
|
4.0 |
|
|
|
174.6 |
|
|
|
- |
|
|
|
178.6 |
|
Goodwill - net |
|
|
205.0 |
|
|
|
- |
|
|
|
- |
|
|
|
205.0 |
|
Regulatory assets |
|
|
84.5 |
|
|
|
25.1 |
|
|
|
- |
|
|
|
109.6 |
|
Other assets |
|
|
6.5 |
|
|
|
0.1 |
|
|
|
(2.5 |
) |
|
|
4.1 |
|
TOTAL ASSETS |
|
$ |
3,430.1 |
|
|
$ |
2,308.8 |
|
|
$ |
(2,117.9 |
) |
|
$ |
3,621.0 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
LIABILITIES & SHAREHOLDER'S EQUITY |
|
Subsidiary |
|
|
Parent |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Guarantors |
|
|
Company |
|
|
Eliminations |
|
|
Consolidated |
|
Current Liabilities |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Accounts payable |
|
$ |
69.4 |
|
|
$ |
4.3 |
|
|
$ |
- |
|
|
$ |
73.7 |
|
Accounts payable to affiliated companies |
|
|
23.1 |
|
|
|
- |
|
|
|
- |
|
|
|
23.1 |
|
Intercompany payables |
|
|
13.2 |
|
|
|
- |
|
|
|
(13.2 |
) |
|
|
- |
|
Payables to other Vectren companies |
|
|
31.9 |
|
|
|
- |
|
|
|
- |
|
|
|
31.9 |
|
Refundable fuel & natural gas costs |
|
|
27.5 |
|
|
|
- |
|
|
|
- |
|
|
|
27.5 |
|
Accrued liabilities |
|
|
131.4 |
|
|
|
15.0 |
|
|
|
(6.8 |
) |
|
|
139.6 |
|
Short-term borrowings |
|
|
2.3 |
|
|
|
- |
|
|
|
- |
|
|
|
2.3 |
|
Intercompany short-term borrowings |
|
|
66.9 |
|
|
|
68.3 |
|
|
|
(135.2 |
) |
|
|
- |
|
Long-term debt subject to tender |
|
|
10.0 |
|
|
|
- |
|
|
|
- |
|
|
|
10.0 |
|
Total current liabilities |
|
|
375.7 |
|
|
|
87.6 |
|
|
|
(155.2 |
) |
|
|
308.1 |
|
Long-Term Debt |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Long-term debt - net of current maturities & |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
debt subject to tender |
|
|
354.5 |
|
|
|
920.5 |
|
|
|
- |
|
|
|
1,275.0 |
|
Long-term debt due to VUHI |
|
|
771.8 |
|
|
|
- |
|
|
|
(771.8 |
) |
|
|
- |
|
Total long-term debt - net |
|
|
1,126.3 |
|
|
|
920.5 |
|
|
|
(771.8 |
) |
|
|
1,275.0 |
|
Deferred Income Taxes & Other Liabilities |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Deferred income taxes |
|
|
328.4 |
|
|
|
25.0 |
|
|
|
- |
|
|
|
353.4 |
|
Regulatory liabilities |
|
|
315.3 |
|
|
|
4.4 |
|
|
|
- |
|
|
|
319.7 |
|
Deferred credits & other liabilities |
|
|
96.0 |
|
|
|
2.7 |
|
|
|
(2.5 |
) |
|
|
96.2 |
|
Total deferred credits & other liabilities |
|
|
739.7 |
|
|
|
32.1 |
|
|
|
(2.5 |
) |
|
|
769.3 |
|
Common Shareholder's Equity |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Common stock (no par value) |
|
|
780.4 |
|
|
|
767.2 |
|
|
|
(780.4 |
) |
|
|
767.2 |
|
Retained earnings |
|
|
407.9 |
|
|
|
501.3 |
|
|
|
(407.9 |
) |
|
|
501.3 |
|
Accumulated other comprehensive income |
|
|
0.1 |
|
|
|
0.1 |
|
|
|
(0.1 |
) |
|
|
0.1 |
|
Total common shareholder's equity |
|
|
1,188.4 |
|
|
|
1,268.6 |
|
|
|
(1,188.4 |
) |
|
|
1,268.6 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
TOTAL LIABILITIES & SHAREHOLDER'S EQUITY |
|
$ |
3,430.1 |
|
|
$ |
2,308.8 |
|
|
$ |
(2,117.9 |
) |
|
$ |
3,621.0 |
|
Condensed Consolidating Balance Sheet as of December 31, 2008 (in millions):
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
ASSETS |
|
Subsidiary |
|
|
Parent |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Guarantors |
|
|
Company |
|
|
Eliminations |
|
|
Consolidated |
|
Current Assets |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Cash & cash equivalents |
|
$ |
9.7 |
|
|
$ |
42.8 |
|
|
$ |
- |
|
|
$ |
52.5 |
|
Accounts receivable - less reserves |
|
|
163.5 |
|
|
|
0.5 |
|
|
|
- |
|
|
|
164.0 |
|
Intercompany receivables |
|
|
104.2 |
|
|
|
275.9 |
|
|
|
(380.1 |
) |
|
|
- |
|
Receivables due from other Vectren companies |
|
|
4.5 |
|
|
|
0.2 |
|
|
|
- |
|
|
|
4.7 |
|
Accrued unbilled revenues |
|
|
167.2 |
|
|
|
- |
|
|
|
- |
|
|
|
167.2 |
|
Inventories |
|
|
78.7 |
|
|
|
5.9 |
|
|
|
- |
|
|
|
84.6 |
|
Recoverable fuel & natural gas costs |
|
|
3.1 |
|
|
|
- |
|
|
|
- |
|
|
|
3.1 |
|
Prepayments & other current assets |
|
|
82.9 |
|
|
|
38.5 |
|
|
|
(18.3 |
) |
|
|
103.1 |
|
Total current assets |
|
|
613.8 |
|
|
|
363.8 |
|
|
|
(398.4 |
) |
|
|
579.2 |
|
Utility Plant |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Original cost |
|
|
4,335.3 |
|
|
|
- |
|
|
|
- |
|
|
|
4,335.3 |
|
Less: accumulated depreciation & amortization |
|
|
1,615.0 |
|
|
|
- |
|
|
|
- |
|
|
|
1,615.0 |
|
Net utility plant |
|
|
2,720.3 |
|
|
|
- |
|
|
|
- |
|
|
|
2,720.3 |
|
Investments in consolidated subsidiaries |
|
|
- |
|
|
|
1,167.4 |
|
|
|
(1,167.4 |
) |
|
|
- |
|
Notes receivable from consolidated subsidiaries |
|
|
- |
|
|
|
698.9 |
|
|
|
(698.9 |
) |
|
|
- |
|
Investments in unconsolidated affiliates |
|
|
0.2 |
|
|
|
- |
|
|
|
- |
|
|
|
0.2 |
|
Other investments |
|
|
18.5 |
|
|
|
5.6 |
|
|
|
- |
|
|
|
24.1 |
|
Nonutility property - net |
|
|
4.3 |
|
|
|
178.1 |
|
|
|
- |
|
|
|
182.4 |
|
Goodwill - net |
|
|
205.0 |
|
|
|
- |
|
|
|
- |
|
|
|
205.0 |
|
Regulatory assets |
|
|
90.5 |
|
|
|
25.2 |
|
|
|
- |
|
|
|
115.7 |
|
Other assets |
|
|
14.2 |
|
|
|
0.2 |
|
|
|
(3.2 |
) |
|
|
11.2 |
|
TOTAL ASSETS |
|
$ |
3,666.8 |
|
|
$ |
2,439.2 |
|
|
$ |
(2,267.9 |
) |
|
$ |
3,838.1 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
LIABILITIES & SHAREHOLDER'S EQUITY |
|
Subsidiary |
|
|
Parent |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Guarantors |
|
|
Company |
|
|
Eliminations |
|
|
Consolidated |
|
Current Liabilities |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Accounts payable |
|
$ |
205.5 |
|
|
$ |
7.0 |
|
|
$ |
- |
|
|
$ |
212.5 |
|
Accounts payable to affiliated companies |
|
|
72.8 |
|
|
|
- |
|
|
|
- |
|
|
|
72.8 |
|
Intercompany payables |
|
|
9.5 |
|
|
|
0.4 |
|
|
|
(9.9 |
) |
|
|
- |
|
Payables to other Vectren companies |
|
|
53.6 |
|
|
|
15.4 |
|
|
|
- |
|
|
|
69.0 |
|
Refundable fuel & natural gas costs |
|
|
4.1 |
|
|
|
- |
|
|
|
- |
|
|
|
4.1 |
|
Accrued liabilities |
|
|
146.4 |
|
|
|
19.6 |
|
|
|
(18.3 |
) |
|
|
147.7 |
|
Short-term borrowings |
|
|
0.4 |
|
|
|
191.5 |
|
|
|
- |
|
|
|
191.9 |
|
Intercompany short-term borrowings |
|
|
266.3 |
|
|
|
103.9 |
|
|
|
(370.2 |
) |
|
|
- |
|
Long-term debt subject to tender |
|
|
80.0 |
|
|
|
- |
|
|
|
- |
|
|
|
80.0 |
|
Total current liabilities |
|
|
838.6 |
|
|
|
337.8 |
|
|
|
(398.4 |
) |
|
|
778.0 |
|
Long-Term Debt |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Long-term debt - net of current maturities & |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
debt subject to tender |
|
|
243.1 |
|
|
|
822.0 |
|
|
|
- |
|
|
|
1,065.1 |
|
Long-term debt due to VUHI |
|
|
698.9 |
|
|
|
- |
|
|
|
(698.9 |
) |
|
|
- |
|
Total long-term debt - net |
|
|
942.0 |
|
|
|
822.0 |
|
|
|
(698.9 |
) |
|
|
1,065.1 |
|
Deferred Income Taxes & Other Liabilities |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Deferred income taxes |
|
|
308.9 |
|
|
|
23.2 |
|
|
|
- |
|
|
|
332.1 |
|
Regulatory liabilities |
|
|
310.4 |
|
|
|
4.7 |
|
|
|
- |
|
|
|
315.1 |
|
Deferred credits & other liabilities |
|
|
99.5 |
|
|
|
8.6 |
|
|
|
(3.2 |
) |
|
|
104.9 |
|
Total deferred credits & other liabilities |
|
|
718.8 |
|
|
|
36.5 |
|
|
|
(3.2 |
) |
|
|
752.1 |
|
Common Shareholder's Equity |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Common stock (no par value) |
|
|
776.3 |
|
|
|
763.0 |
|
|
|
(776.3 |
) |
|
|
763.0 |
|
Retained earnings |
|
|
391.0 |
|
|
|
479.8 |
|
|
|
(391.0 |
) |
|
|
479.8 |
|
Accumulated other comprehensive income |
|
|
0.1 |
|
|
|
0.1 |
|
|
|
(0.1 |
) |
|
|
0.1 |
|
Total common shareholder's equity |
|
|
1,167.4 |
|
|
|
1,242.9 |
|
|
|
(1,167.4 |
) |
|
|
1,242.9 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
TOTAL LIABILITIES & SHAREHOLDER'S EQUITY |
|
$ |
3,666.8 |
|
|
$ |
2,439.2 |
|
|
$ |
(2,267.9 |
) |
|
$ |
3,838.1 |
|
Condensed Consolidating Statement of Income for the three months ended June 30, 2009 (in millions):
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Subsidiary |
|
|
Parent |
|
|
Eliminations & |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Guarantors |
|
|
Company |
|
|
Reclassifications |
|
|
Consolidated |
|
OPERATING REVENUES |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Gas utility |
|
$ |
139.1 |
|
|
$ |
- |
|
|
$ |
- |
|
|
|
139.1 |
|
Electric utility |
|
|
132.7 |
|
|
|
- |
|
|
|
- |
|
|
|
132.7 |
|
Other |
|
|
- |
|
|
$ |
10.7 |
|
|
|
(10.3 |
) |
|
|
0.4 |
|
Total operating revenues |
|
|
271.8 |
|
|
|
10.7 |
|
|
|
(10.3 |
) |
|
|
272.2 |
|
OPERATING EXPENSES |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Cost of gas |
|
|
58.0 |
|
|
|
- |
|
|
|
- |
|
|
|
58.0 |
|
Cost of fuel & purchased power |
|
|
50.3 |
|
|
|
- |
|
|
|
- |
|
|
|
50.3 |
|
Other operating |
|
|
88.8 |
|
|
|
- |
|
|
|
(10.1 |
) |
|
|
78.7 |
|
Depreciation & amortization |
|
|
38.5 |
|
|
|
6.5 |
|
|
|
- |
|
|
|
45.0 |
|
Taxes other than income taxes |
|
|
12.3 |
|
|
|
0.3 |
|
|
|
- |
|
|
|
12.6 |
|
Total operating expenses |
|
|
247.9 |
|
|
|
6.8 |
|
|
|
(10.1 |
) |
|
|
244.6 |
|
OPERATING INCOME |
|
|
23.9 |
|
|
|
3.9 |
|
|
|
(0.2 |
) |
|
|
27.6 |
|
OTHER INCOME (EXPENSE) - NET |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Equity in earnings of consolidated companies |
|
|
- |
|
|
|
5.0 |
|
|
|
(5.0 |
) |
|
|
- |
|
Other income (expense) – net |
|
|
2.2 |
|
|
|
12.7 |
|
|
|
(12.4 |
) |
|
|
2.5 |
|
Total other income (expense) - net |
|
|
2.2 |
|
|
|
17.7 |
|
|
|
(17.4 |
) |
|
|
2.5 |
|
Interest expense |
|
|
18.4 |
|
|
|
14.2 |
|
|
|
(12.6 |
) |
|
|
20.0 |
|
INCOME BEFORE INCOME TAXES |
|
|
7.7 |
|
|
|
7.4 |
|
|
|
(5.0 |
) |
|
|
10.1 |
|
Income taxes |
|
|
2.7 |
|
|
|
0.8 |
|
|
|
- |
|
|
|
3.5 |
|
NET INCOME |
|
$ |
5.0 |
|
|
$ |
6.6 |
|
|
$ |
(5.0 |
) |
|
$ |
6.6 |
|
Condensed Consolidating Statement of Income for the three months ended June 30, 2008 (in millions):
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Subsidiary |
|
|
Parent |
|
|
Eliminations & |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Guarantors |
|
|
Company |
|
|
Reclassifications |
|
|
Consolidated |
|
OPERATING REVENUES |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Gas utility |
|
$ |
224.9 |
|
|
$ |
- |
|
|
$ |
- |
|
|
|
224.9 |
|
Electric utility |
|
|
127.2 |
|
|
|
- |
|
|
|
- |
|
|
|
127.2 |
|
Other |
|
|
- |
|
|
$ |
11.7 |
|
|
|
(11.1 |
) |
|
|
0.6 |
|
Total operating revenues |
|
|
352.1 |
|
|
|
11.7 |
|
|
|
(11.1 |
) |
|
|
352.7 |
|
OPERATING EXPENSES |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Cost of gas |
|
|
143.8 |
|
|
|
- |
|
|
|
- |
|
|
|
143.8 |
|
Cost of fuel & purchased power |
|
|
48.5 |
|
|
|
- |
|
|
|
- |
|
|
|
48.5 |
|
Other operating |
|
|
86.4 |
|
|
|
(1.0 |
) |
|
|
(10.9 |
) |
|
|
74.5 |
|
Depreciation & amortization |
|
|
35.4 |
|
|
|
5.4 |
|
|
|
0.1 |
|
|
|
40.9 |
|
Taxes other than income taxes |
|
|
13.6 |
|
|
|
0.3 |
|
|
|
- |
|
|
|
13.9 |
|
Total operating expenses |
|
|
327.7 |
|
|
|
4.7 |
|
|
|
(10.8 |
) |
|
|
321.6 |
|
OPERATING INCOME |
|
|
24.4 |
|
|
|
7.0 |
|
|
|
(0.3 |
) |
|
|
31.1 |
|
OTHER INCOME (EXPENSE) - NET |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Equity in earnings of consolidated companies |
|
|
- |
|
|
|
5.0 |
|
|
|
(5.0 |
) |
|
|
- |
|
Other income (expense) – net |
|
|
1.7 |
|
|
|
12.5 |
|
|
|
(12.0 |
) |
|
|
2.2 |
|
Total other income (expense) - net |
|
|
1.7 |
|
|
|
17.5 |
|
|
|
(17.0 |
) |
|
|
2.2 |
|
Interest expense |
|
|
17.7 |
|
|
|
13.7 |
|
|
|
(12.3 |
) |
|
|
19.1 |
|
INCOME BEFORE INCOME TAXES |
|
|
8.4 |
|
|
|
10.8 |
|
|
|
(5.0 |
) |
|
|
14.2 |
|
Income taxes |
|
|
3.4 |
|
|
|
2.0 |
|
|
|
- |
|
|
|
5.4 |
|
NET INCOME |
|
$ |
5.0 |
|
|
$ |
8.8 |
|
|
$ |
(5.0 |
) |
|
$ |
8.8 |
|
Condensed Consolidating Statement of Income for the six months ended June 30, 2009 (in millions):
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Subsidiary |
|
|
Parent |
|
|
Eliminations & |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Guarantors |
|
|
Company |
|
|
Reclassifications |
|
|
Consolidated |
|
OPERATING REVENUES |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Gas utility |
|
$ |
666.5 |
|
|
$ |
- |
|
|
$ |
- |
|
|
$ |
666.5 |
|
Electric utility |
|
|
257.7 |
|
|
|
- |
|
|
|
- |
|
|
|
257.7 |
|
Other |
|
|
- |
|
|
|
21.4 |
|
|
|
(20.6 |
) |
|
|
0.8 |
|
Total operating revenues |
|
|
924.2 |
|
|
|
21.4 |
|
|
|
(20.6 |
) |
|
|
925.0 |
|
OPERATING EXPENSES |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Cost of gas sold |
|
|
412.6 |
|
|
|
- |
|
|
|
- |
|
|
|
412.6 |
|
Cost of fuel & purchased power |
|
|
97.3 |
|
|
|
- |
|
|
|
- |
|
|
|
97.3 |
|
Other operating |
|
|
178.1 |
|
|
|
- |
|
|
|
(20.1 |
) |
|
|
158.0 |
|
Depreciation & amortization |
|
|
75.9 |
|
|
|
13.0 |
|
|
|
- |
|
|
|
88.9 |
|
Taxes other than income taxes |
|
|
34.8 |
|
|
|
0.6 |
|
|
|
- |
|
|
|
35.4 |
|
Total operating expenses |
|
|
798.7 |
|
|
|
13.6 |
|
|
|
(20.1 |
) |
|
|
792.2 |
|
OPERATING INCOME |
|
|
125.5 |
|
|
|
7.8 |
|
|
|
(0.5 |
) |
|
|
132.8 |
|
OTHER INCOME (EXPENSE) |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Equity in earnings of consolidated companies |
|
|
- |
|
|
|
58.0 |
|
|
|
(58.0 |
) |
|
|
- |
|
Other income (expense) – net |
|
|
3.5 |
|
|
|
25.2 |
|
|
|
(24.7 |
) |
|
|
4.0 |
|
Total other income (expense) |
|
|
3.5 |
|
|
|
83.2 |
|
|
|
(82.7 |
) |
|
|
4.0 |
|
Interest expense |
|
|
36.3 |
|
|
|
27.6 |
|
|
|
(25.2 |
) |
|
|
38.7 |
|
INCOME BEFORE INCOME TAXES |
|
|
92.7 |
|
|
|
63.4 |
|
|
|
(58.0 |
) |
|
|
98.1 |
|
Income taxes |
|
|
34.7 |
|
|
|
0.6 |
|
|
|
- |
|
|
|
35.3 |
|
NET INCOME |
|
$ |
58.0 |
|
|
$ |
62.8 |
|
|
$ |
(58.0 |
) |
|
$ |
62.8 |
|
Condensed Consolidating Statement of Income for the six months ended June 30, 2008 (in millions):
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Subsidiary |
|
|
Parent |
|
|
Eliminations & |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Guarantors |
|
|
Company |
|
|
Reclassifications |
|
|
Consolidated |
|
OPERATING REVENUES |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Gas utility |
|
$ |
858.5 |
|
|
$ |
- |
|
|
$ |
- |
|
|
$ |
858.5 |
|
Electric utility |
|
|
254.4 |
|
|
|
- |
|
|
|
- |
|
|
|
254.4 |
|
Other |
|
|
- |
|
|
|
23.4 |
|
|
|
(22.2 |
) |
|
|
1.2 |
|
Total operating revenues |
|
|
1,112.9 |
|
|
|
23.4 |
|
|
|
(22.2 |
) |
|
|
1,114.1 |
|
OPERATING EXPENSES |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Cost of gas |
|
|
605.8 |
|
|
|
- |
|
|
|
- |
|
|
|
605.8 |
|
Cost of fuel & purchased power |
|
|
94.5 |
|
|
|
- |
|
|
|
- |
|
|
|
94.5 |
|
Other operating |
|
|
171.1 |
|
|
|
(1.0 |
) |
|
|
(21.6 |
) |
|
|
148.5 |
|
Depreciation & amortization |
|
|
70.6 |
|
|
|
10.8 |
|
|
|
0.2 |
|
|
|
81.6 |
|
Taxes other than income taxes |
|
|
39.4 |
|
|
|
0.6 |
|
|
|
0.1 |
|
|
|
40.1 |
|
Total operating expenses |
|
|
981.4 |
|
|
|
10.4 |
|
|
|
(21.3 |
) |
|
|
970.5 |
|
OPERATING INCOME |
|
|
131.5 |
|
|
|
13.0 |
|
|
|
(0.9 |
) |
|
|
143.6 |
|
OTHER INCOME (EXPENSE) - NET |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Equity in earnings of consolidated companies |
|
|
- |
|
|
|
59.8 |
|
|
|
(59.8 |
) |
|
|
- |
|
Other income (expense) – net |
|
|
2.8 |
|
|
|
24.6 |
|
|
|
(23.2 |
) |
|
|
4.2 |
|
Total other income (expense) - net |
|
|
2.8 |
|
|
|
84.4 |
|
|
|
(83.0 |
) |
|
|
4.2 |
|
Interest expense |
|
|
35.8 |
|
|
|
28.2 |
|
|
|
(24.1 |
) |
|
|
39.9 |
|
INCOME BEFORE INCOME TAXES |
|
|
98.5 |
|
|
|
69.2 |
|
|
|
(59.8 |
) |
|
|
107.9 |
|
Income taxes |
|
|
38.7 |
|
|
|
2.4 |
|
|
|
- |
|
|
|
41.1 |
|
NET INCOME |
|
$ |
59.8 |
|
|
$ |
66.8 |
|
|
$ |
(59.8 |
) |
|
$ |
66.8 |
|
Condensed Consolidating Statement of Cash Flows for the six months ended June 30, 2009 (in millions):
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Subsidiary |
|
|
|
Parent |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Guarantors |
|
|
|
Company |
|
|
Eliminations |
|
|
Consolidated |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
NET CASH FLOWS FROM OPERATING ACTIVITIES |
|
$ |
235.7 |
|
|
|
$ |
14.7 |
|
|
$ |
- |
|
|
$ |
250.4 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
CASH FLOWS FROM FINANCING ACTIVITIES |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Proceeds from |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Additional capital contribution from parent |
|
|
4.2 |
|
|
|
|
4.2 |
|
|
|
(4.2 |
) |
|
|
4.2 |
|
Long-term debt - net of issuance costs & hedging proceeds |
|
|
115.1 |
|
|
|
|
99.5 |
|
|
|
(74.5 |
) |
|
|
140.1 |
|
Requirements for: |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Dividends to parent |
|
|
(41.2 |
) |
|
|
|
(41.2 |
) |
|
|
41.2 |
|
|
|
(41.2 |
) |
Retirement of long-term debt, including premiums paid |
|
|
(1.6 |
) |
|
|
|
(1.6 |
) |
|
|
1.6 |
|
|
|
(1.6 |
) |
Net change in intercompany short-term borrowings |
|
|
(199.4 |
) |
|
|
|
(35.6 |
) |
|
|
235.0 |
|
|
|
- |
|
Net change in short-term borrowings |
|
|
1.9 |
|
|
|
|
(191.5 |
) |
|
|
- |
|
|
|
(189.6 |
) |
Net cash flows from financing activities |
|
|
(121.0 |
) |
|
|
|
(166.2 |
) |
|
|
199.1 |
|
|
|
(88.1 |
) |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
CASH FLOWS FROM INVESTING ACTIVITIES |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Proceeds from |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Consolidated subsidiary distributions |
|
|
- |
|
|
|
|
41.2 |
|
|
|
(41.2 |
) |
|
|
- |
|
Other investing activities |
|
|
- |
|
|
|
|
0.1 |
|
|
|
- |
|
|
|
0.1 |
|
Requirements for: |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Capital expenditures, excluding AFUDC equity |
|
|
(151.6 |
) |
|
|
|
(10.5 |
) |
|
|
- |
|
|
|
(162.1 |
) |
Consolidated subsidiary investments |
|
|
- |
|
|
|
|
(4.2 |
) |
|
|
4.2 |
|
|
|
- |
|
Other investing activities |
|
|
(0.8 |
) |
|
|
|
- |
|
|
|
- |
|
|
|
(0.8 |
) |
Net change in long-term intercompany notes receivable |
|
|
- |
|
|
|
|
(72.9 |
) |
|
|
72.9 |
|
|
|
- |
|
Net change in short-term intercompany notes receivable |
|
|
35.6 |
|
|
|
|
199.4 |
|
|
|
(235.0 |
) |
|
|
- |
|
Net cash flows from investing activities |
|
|
(116.8 |
) |
|
|
|
153.1 |
|
|
|
(199.1 |
) |
|
|
(162.8 |
) |
Net change in cash & cash equivalents |
|
|
(2.1 |
) |
|
|
|
1.6 |
|
|
|
- |
|
|
|
(0.5 |
) |
Cash & cash equivalents at beginning of period |
|
|
9.7 |
|
|
|
|
42.8 |
|
|
|
- |
|
|
|
52.5 |
|
Cash & cash equivalents at end of period |
|
$ |
7.6 |
|
|
|
$ |
44.4 |
|
|
$ |
- |
|
|
$ |
52.0 |
|
Condensed Consolidating Statement of Cash Flows for the six months ended June 30, 2008 (in millions):
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Subsidiary |
|
|
|
Parent |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Guarantors |
|
|
|
Company |
|
|
Eliminations |
|
|
Consolidated |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
NET CASH FLOWS FROM OPERATING ACTIVITIES |
|
$ |
251.5 |
|
|
|
$ |
66.0 |
|
|
$ |
- |
|
|
$ |
317.5 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
CASH FLOWS FROM FINANCING ACTIVITIES |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Proceeds from: |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Additional capital contribution from parent |
|
|
- |
|
|
|
|
124.9 |
|
|
|
- |
|
|
|
124.9 |
|
Long-term debt - net of issuance costs & hedging proceeds |
|
|
171.1 |
|
|
|
|
111.1 |
|
|
|
(111.1 |
) |
|
|
171.1 |
|
Requirements for: |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Dividends to parent |
|
|
(41.6 |
) |
|
|
|
(41.6 |
) |
|
|
41.6 |
|
|
|
(41.6 |
) |
Retirement of long-term debt, including premiums paid |
|
|
(103.3 |
) |
|
|
|
(0.3 |
) |
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0.3 |
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(103.3 |
) |
Net change in short-term borrowings, including to other |
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Vectren companies |
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(159.7 |
) |
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(314.5 |
) |
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134.5 |
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(339.7 |
) |
Net cash flows from financing activities |
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(133.5 |
) |
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(120.4 |
) |
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65.3 |
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(188.6 |
) |
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CASH FLOWS FROM INVESTING ACTIVITIES |
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Proceeds from |
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Consolidated subsidiary distributions |
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- |
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41.6 |
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(41.6 |
) |
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- |
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Other investing activities |
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0.3 |
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0.1 |
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- |
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0.4 |
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Requirements for: |
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Capital expenditures, excluding AFUDC equity |
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(118.6 |
) |
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(13.4 |
) |
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- |
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(132.0 |
) |
Other investing activities |
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(0.8 |
) |
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- |
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- |
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(0.8 |
) |
Net change in notes receivable to other Vectren companies |
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- |
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23.7 |
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(23.7 |
) |
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- |
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Net cash flows from investing activities |
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(119.1 |
) |
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52.0 |
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(65.3 |
) |
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(132.4 |
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Net change in cash & cash equivalents |
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(1.1 |
) |
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(2.4 |
) |
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- |
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(3.5 |
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Cash & cash equivalents at beginning of period |
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6.5 |
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5.2 |
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- |
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11.7 |
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Cash & cash equivalents at end of period |
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$ |
5.4 |
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$ |
2.8 |
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$ |
- |
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$ |
8.2 |
|
Comprehensive income consists of the following:
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Three Months |
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Six Months |
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Ended June 30, |
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Ended June 30, |
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(In millions) |
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2009 |
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2008 |
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2009 |
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2008 |
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Net income |
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$ |
6.6 |
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$ |
8.8 |
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$ |
62.8 |
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$ |
66.8 |
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Cash flow hedges |
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- |
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Reclassifications to net income |
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- |
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(0.1 |
) |
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(0.1 |
) |
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(0.3 |
) |
Income tax benefit (expense) |
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- |
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- |
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0.1 |
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0.1 |
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Total comprehensive income |
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$ |
6.6 |
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$ |
8.7 |
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$ |
62.8 |
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$ |
66.6 |
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5. |
Excise and Utility Receipts Taxes |
Excise taxes and a portion of utility receipts taxes are included in rates charged to customers. Accordingly, the Company records these taxes received as a component of operating revenues, which totaled $5.7 million and $7.2 in the three months ended June 30, 2009 and 2008, respectively. For the six months ended June
30, 2009 and 2008, these taxes totaled $21.6 million and $26.7 million, respectively. Expenses associated with excise and utility receipts taxes are recorded as a component of Taxes other than income taxes.
6. |
Accruals for Utility & Nonutility Plant |
As of June 30, 2009 and December 31, 2008, the Company has accruals related to utility and nonutility plant purchases totaling approximately $22.7 million and $30.3 million, respectively.
7. |
Transactions with Other Vectren Companies |
Vectren Fuels
Vectren Fuels, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Vectren, owns and operates coal mines from which SIGECO purchases coal used for electric generation. The price of coal that is charged by Vectren Fuels to SIGECO is priced consistent with contracts reviewed by the OUCC and on file with IURC. Amounts paid for such purchases
for the three months ended June 30, 2009 and 2008, totaled $30.4 million and $31.7 million, respectively. For the six months ended June 30, 2009 and 2008, amounts paid for such purchases totaled $63.2 million and $59.7 million, respectively. Amounts owed to Vectren Fuels at June 30, 2009 and December 31, 2008 are included in Payables to other Vectren companies.
Miller Pipeline Corporation
Miller Pipeline Corporation (Miller), a wholly owned subsidiary of Vectren, performs natural gas and water distribution, transmission, and construction repair and the repair and rehabilitation of gas, water, and wastewater facilities. Miller’s customers include Utility Holdings’ utilities. For the three months
ended June 30, 2009 and 2008, fees paid by Utility Holdings and its subsidiaries totaled $13.8 million and $7.3 million, respectively. Amounts paid for the six months ended June 30, 2009 and 2008, totaled $23.7 million and $16.8 million, respectively. Amounts owed to Miller at June 30, 2009 and December 31, 2008 are included in Payables to other Vectren companies.
Vectren Source
Vectren Source, a wholly owned subsidiary of Vectren, provides natural gas and other related products and services in the Midwest and Northeast United States to over 182,000 residential and commercial customers. This customer base reflects approximately 60,000 of VEDO’s customers that have voluntarily opted to choose their
natural gas supplier and the supply of natural gas to nearly 40,000 equivalent customers in VEDO’s service territory as part of VEDO’s process of exiting the merchant function, which began October 1, 2008. As part of VEDO’s exiting process on October 1, 2008, it transferred its natural gas inventory at book value to its new suppliers, and now purchases natural gas from those suppliers, which include Vectren Source, essentially on demand.
The cost of natural gas inventory purchased by Vectren Source on October 1, 2008 totaled approximately $31.6 million. During the three months ended June 30, 2009, the Company purchased natural gas from Vectren Source totaling approximately $4.0 million. For the six months ended June 30, 2009 amounts paid for such purchases
totaled $22.8 million. Amounts charged by Vectren Source for gas supply services are comprised of the monthly NYMEX settlement price plus a fixed adder, as authorized by the PUCO. Amounts owed to Vectren Source at June 30, 2009 and December 31, 2008 are included in Payables to other Vectren companies.
Energy Systems Group
Energy Systems Group (ESG), a wholly owned subsidiary of Vectren, with the IURC’s approval sold a 3.2 MW land fill gas facility located in SIGECO’s service territory to SIGECO for $11 million during the second quarter of 2009.
Support Services and Purchases
Vectren provides corporate and general and administrative services to the Company and allocates costs to the Company, including costs for share-based compensation and for pension and other postretirement benefits that are not directly charged to subsidiaries. These costs have been allocated using various allocators, including number
of employees, number of customers and/or the level of payroll, revenue contribution and capital expenditures. Allocations are at cost. Utility Holdings received corporate allocations totaling $23.8 million for both the three months ended June 30, 2009 and 2008, respectively. For the six months ended June 30, 2009 and 2008, Utility Holdings received corporate allocations totaling $43.4 and $47.2 million, respectively.
8. |
Transactions with ProLiance Holdings, LLC |
ProLiance Holdings, LLC (ProLiance), a nonutility energy marketing affiliate of Vectren and Citizens Energy Group (Citizens), provides services to a broad range of municipalities, utilities, industrial operations, schools, and healthcare institutions located throughout the Midwest
and Southeast United States. ProLiance’s customers include Vectren’s Indiana utilities and nonutility gas supply operations as well as Citizens’ utilities. ProLiance’s primary businesses include gas marketing, gas portfolio optimization, and other portfolio and energy management services. Vectren received regulatory approval on April 25, 2006, from the IURC for ProLiance to provide natural gas supply services to the Company’s Indiana utilities through March
2011.
Transactions with ProLiance
Purchases from ProLiance for resale and for injections into storage for the three months ended June 30, 2009 and 2008 totaled $74.9 million and $189.0 million, respectively, and for the six months ended June 30, 2009 and 2008 totaled $240.2 million and $395.6 million. Amounts owed to ProLiance at June 30, 2009 and December 31, 2008,
for those purchases were $23.1 million and $72.8 million, respectively, and are included in Accounts payable to affiliated companies in the Consolidated Balance Sheets. Amounts charged by ProLiance for gas supply services are established by supply agreements with each utility.
9. |
2009 Long-Term Debt Transactions |
Put Provisions
Holders of certain debt instruments had the one-time option to put $80 million of debt to the Company during 2009, but that option was not exercised, and the debt has been reclassified as Long-term debt in these consolidated financial statements as of June 30, 2009. In addition,
holders of other debt instruments have the one-time option to put $10 million of debt in 2010, and that debt has been classified as Long-term debt subject to tender in current liabilities.
Utility Holdings 2009 Debt Issuance
On April 7, 2009, Utility Holdings entered into a private placement Note Purchase Agreement pursuant to which institutional investors purchased from Utility Holdings $100 million in 6.28 percent senior unsecured notes due April 7, 2020 (2020 Notes). The 2020 Notes are guaranteed by Utility Holdings’ three utilities: SIGECO,
Indiana Gas, and VEDO. These guarantees are full and unconditional and joint and several. The proceeds from the sale of the 2020 Notes and net of issuance costs totaled approximately $99.5 million.
The 2020 Notes have no sinking fund requirements, and interest payments are due semi-annually. The 2020 Notes contain customary representations, warranties and covenants, including a leverage covenant consistent with leverage covenants contained in Utility Holdings $515 million short-term credit facility.
SIGECO 2009 Debt Issuance
On March 26, 2009, SIGECO remarketed the remaining $41.3 million of long-term debt held in treasury at December 31, 2008, receiving proceeds, net of issuance costs of approximately $40.6 million. The remarketed notes have a variable rate interest rate which is reset weekly and are supported by a standby letter of credit backed by
Utility Holdings’ $515 million short-term credit facility. The notes are collateralized by SIGECO’s utility plant, and $9.8 million are due in 2015 and $31.5 million are due in 2025. The initial interest rate paid to investors was 0.55 percent. The equivalent rate of the debt at inception, inclusive of interest, weekly remarketing fees, and letter of credit fees approximated 1 percent.
10. |
Commitments & Contingencies |
The Company is party to various legal proceedings and audits and reviews by taxing authorities and other government agencies arising in the normal course of business. In the opinion of management, there are no legal proceedings or other regulatory reviews or audits pending against the Company that are likely to have a material adverse
effect on its financial position, results of operations or cash flows.
11. |
Environmental Matters |
Clean Air Act
The Clean Air Interstate Rule (CAIR) is an allowance cap and trade program requiring further reductions from coal-burning power plants in NOx emissions beginning January 1, 2009 and SO2 emissions beginning January 1, 2010, with a second phase of reductions in 2015.
On July 11, 2008, the US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia vacated the federal CAIR regulations. Various parties filed motions for reconsideration, and on December 23, 2008, the Court reinstated the CAIR regulations and remanded the regulations back to the USEPA for promulgation of revisions in accordance with the Court’s July 11, 2008 Order. Thus, the original version of CAIR promulgated in March of 2005 remains effective while USEPA revises it per the Court’s guidance. It
is possible that a revised CAIR will require further reductions in NOx and SO2 from SIGECO’s generating units. SIGECO is in compliance with the current CAIR Phase I annual NOx reduction requirements in effect on January 1, 2009 and is positioned to comply with SO2 reductions effective January 1, 2010. Utilization of the Company’s
inventory of NOx and SO2 allowances may also be impacted if CAIR is further revised; however, most of these allowances were granted to the Company at zero cost, so a reduction in carrying value is not expected.
Similarly, in March of 2005, USEPA promulgated the Clean Air Mercury Rule (CAMR). CAMR is an allowance cap and trade program requiring further reductions in mercury emissions from coal-burning power plants. The CAMR regulations were vacated by the US Court of Appeals for the DC Circuit in July 2008. It is possible
that the vacatur of the CAMR regulations will lead to increased support for the passage of a multi-pollutant bill in Congress. It is also possible that the USEPA will promulgate a revised mercury regulation in 2009.
To comply with Indiana’s implementation plan of the Clean Air Act of 1990, the CAIR regulations, and to comply with potential future regulations of mercury and further NOx and SO2 reductions, SIGECO has IURC authority to invest in clean coal technology.
Using this authorization, SIGECO has invested approximately $307 million in pollution control equipment, including Selective Catalytic Reduction (SCR) systems and fabric filters. SCR technology is the most effective method of reducing NOx emissions where high removal efficiencies are required and fabric filters control particulate matter emissions. These investments were included in rate base for purposes of determining new base rates that went into effect on August 15, 2007. Prior
to being included in base rates, return on investments made and recovery of related operating expenses were recovered through a rider mechanism.
Further, the IURC granted SIGECO authority to invest in an SO2 scrubber at its generating facility that is jointly owned with ALCOA (the Company’s portion is 150 MW). The order allows
SIGECO to recover an approximate 8 percent return on capital investments through a rider mechanism which is periodically updated for actual costs incurred less post in-service depreciation expense. Through June 30, 2009, the Company has invested approximately $100 million in this project. The scrubber was placed into service on January 1, 2009. Recovery through a rider mechanism of associated operating expenses including depreciation expense associated with the scrubber also began
on January 1, 2009. With the SO2 scrubber fully operational, SIGECO is positioned for compliance with the additional SO2 reductions required by Phase I CAIR commencing on January 1, 2010.
SIGECO’s coal fired generating fleet is 100 percent scrubbed for SO2 and 90 percent controlled for NOx. SIGECO's investments in scrubber, SCR and fabric filter technology allows for compliance with existing regulations and should position it to comply
with future reasonable pollution control legislation, if and when, reductions in mercury and further reductions in NOx and SO2 are promulgated by USEPA.
Climate Change
The U.S. House of Representatives has passed a comprehensive energy bill that includes a carbon cap and trade program where there is a progressive cap on greenhouse gas emissions and an auctioning and subsequent trading of allowances among those that emit greenhouse gases, a federal renewable portfolio standard, and utility energy efficiency
targets. As of the date of this filing, the Senate has not passed a bill, and the bill is not law.
In the absence of federal legislation, several regional initiatives throughout the United States are in the process of establishing regional cap and trade programs. While no climate change legislation is pending in Indiana, the state is an observer of the Midwestern Regional Greenhouse Gas Reduction Accord, and in the recently completed
2009 session, the state’s legislature debated, but did not pass, a renewable energy portfolio standard.
In advance of a federal or state renewable portfolio standard and with the IURC’s approval, SIGECO recently purchased a 3.2 MW landfill gas generation facility from a related entity that is directly interconnected to the Company’s distribution system and recently executed a long term purchase power commitment for 50 MW of wind
energy. These transactions supplement a 30 MW wind energy purchase power agreement executed in 2008.
In April of 2007, the US Supreme Court determined that greenhouse gases meet the definition of "air pollutant" under the Clean Air Act and ordered the USEPA to determine whether greenhouse gas emissions from new motor vehicles cause or contribute to air pollution that may reasonably be anticipated to endanger public health or welfare. In April
of 2009, the USEPA published its proposed endangerment finding for public comment. The proposed endangerment finding concludes that carbon emissions from mobile sources pose an endangerment to public health and the environment. Upon finalization, the endangerment finding is the first step toward USEPA regulating carbon emissions through the existing Clean Air Act in the absence of specific carbon legislation from Congress. Therefore, any new regulations would likely also impact
major stationary sources of greenhouse gases. The USEPA has also proposed a significant new mandatory greenhouse gas emissions registry.
Impact of Legislative Actions and Other Initiatives is Unknown
If legislation requiring reductions in CO2 and other greenhouse gases or legislation mandating a renewable energy portfolio standard is adopted, such regulation could substantially affect both the costs and operating characteristics of the Company’s fossil fuel
generating plants, nonutility coal mining operations, and possibly natural gas distribution businesses. Further, any legislation would likely impact the Company’s generation resource planning decisions. At this time and in the absence of final legislation, compliance costs and other effects associated with reductions in greenhouse gas emissions or obtaining renewable energy sources remain uncertain. The Company has gathered preliminary estimates of the costs to comply with a cap and trade
approach to controlling greenhouse gas emissions. A preliminary investigation demonstrated costs to comply would be significant, first to operating expenses for the purchase of allowances, and later to capital expenditures as technology becomes available to control greenhouse gas emissions. However, these compliance cost estimates are very sensitive to highly uncertain assumptions, including allowance prices and energy efficiency targets. Costs to purchase allowances that cap
greenhouse gas emissions should be considered a cost of providing electricity, and as such, the Company believes recovery should be timely reflected in rates charged to customers. Approximately 22 percent of electric volumes sold in 2008 were delivered to municipal and other wholesale customers. As such, the Company has some flexibility to modify the level of these transactions to reduce overall emissions and reduce costs associated with complying with new environmental regulations.
Environmental Remediation Efforts
In the past, Indiana Gas, SIGECO, and others operated facilities for the manufacture of gas. Given the availability of natural gas transported by pipelines, these facilities have not been operated for many years. Under currently applicable environmental laws and regulations, those that owned or operated these facilities
may now be required to take remedial action if certain contaminants are found above the regulatory thresholds at these sites.
Indiana Gas identified the existence, location, and certain general characteristics of 26 gas manufacturing and storage sites for which it may have some remedial responsibility. Indiana Gas completed a remedial investigation/feasibility study (RI/FS) at one of the sites under an agreed order between Indiana Gas and the IDEM, and
a Record of Decision was issued by the IDEM in January 2000. Indiana Gas submitted the remainder of the sites to the IDEM's Voluntary Remediation Program (VRP) and is currently conducting some level of remedial activities, including groundwater monitoring at certain sites, where deemed appropriate, and will continue remedial activities at the sites as appropriate and necessary.
Indiana Gas accrued the estimated costs for further investigation, remediation, groundwater monitoring, and related costs for the sites. While the total costs that may be incurred in connection with addressing these sites cannot be determined at this time, Indiana Gas has recorded cumulative costs that it reasonably expects to incur
totaling approximately $22.2 million. The estimated accrued costs are limited to Indiana Gas’ share of the remediation efforts. Indiana Gas has arrangements in place for 19 of the 26 sites with other potentially responsible parties (PRP), which limit Indiana Gas’ costs at these 19 sites to between 20 percent and 50 percent.
With respect to insurance coverage, Indiana Gas has settled with all known insurance carriers under insurance policies in effect when these plants were in operation in an aggregate amount approximating $20.8 million.
In October 2002, SIGECO received a formal information request letter from the IDEM regarding five manufactured gas plants that it owned and/or operated and were not enrolled in the IDEM’s VRP. In October 2003, SIGECO filed applications to enter four of the manufactured gas plant sites in IDEM's VRP. The remaining
site is currently being addressed in the VRP by another Indiana utility. SIGECO added those four sites into the renewal of the global Voluntary Remediation Agreement that Indiana Gas has in place with IDEM for its manufactured gas plant sites. That renewal was approved by the IDEM in February 2004. SIGECO is also named in a lawsuit filed in federal district court in May 2007, involving another site subject to potential environmental remediation efforts.
SIGECO has filed a declaratory judgment action against its insurance carriers seeking a judgment finding its carriers liable under the policies for coverage of further investigation and any necessary remediation costs that SIGECO may accrue under the VRP program and/or related to the site subject to the May 2007 lawsuit. While the
total costs that may be incurred in connection with addressing these sites cannot be determined at this time, SIGECO has recorded cumulative costs that it reasonably expects to incur totaling approximately $9.2 million. With respect to insurance coverage, SIGECO has settled with insurance carriers under insurance policies in effect when these sites were in operation in an aggregate amount of $8.1 million.
Environmental remediation costs related to Indiana Gas’ and SIGECO’s manufactured gas plants and other sites have had a minor impact on results of operations or financial condition since cumulative costs recorded to date approximate PRP and insurance settlement recoveries. Such cumulative costs are estimated by management
using assumptions based on actual costs incurred, the timing of expected future payments, and inflation factors, among others. While the Company’s utilities have recorded all costs which they presently expect to incur in connection with activities at these sites, it is possible that future events may require some level of additional remedial activities which are not presently foreseen and those costs may not be subject to PRP or insurance recovery. As of June 30, 2009 and December
31, 2008, approximately $5.1 million and $6.5 million, respectively, of accrued, but not yet spent, remediation costs are included in Other Liabilities related to both the Indiana Gas and SIGECO sites.
12. |
Rate & Regulatory Matters |
Vectren Energy Delivery of Ohio, Inc. (VEDO) Gas Base Rate Order Received
On January 7, 2009, the PUCO issued an order approving the stipulation reached in the VEDO rate case. The order provides for a rate increase of nearly $14.8 million, an overall rate of return of 8.89 percent on rate base of about $235 million; an opportunity to recover costs of a program to accelerate replacement of cast iron and
bare steel pipes, as well as certain service risers; and base rate recovery of an additional $2.9 million in conservation program spending.
The order also adjusted the rate design used to collect the agreed-upon revenue from VEDO's customers. The order allows for the phased movement toward a straight fixed variable rate design which places substantially all of the fixed cost recovery in the customer service charge. A straight fixed variable design mitigates
most weather risk as well as the effects of declining usage, similar to the Company’s lost margin recovery mechanism, which expired when this new rate design went into effect on February 22, 2009. In 2008, annual results include approximately $4.3 million of revenue from a lost margin recovery mechanism that does not continue once this base rate increase is in effect. After year one, nearly 90 percent of the combined residential and commercial base rate margins will be recovered through
the customer service charge. The OCC has filed a request for rehearing on the rate design finding by the PUCO. The rehearing request mirrors similar requests filed by the OCC in each case where the PUCO has approved similar rate designs, and all such requests have been denied.
With this rate order, the Company has in place for its Ohio gas territory rates that allow for the phased implementation of a straight fixed variable rate design that mitigates both weather risk and lost margin; tracking of bad debt and percent of income payment plan (PIPP) expenses; base rate recovery of pipeline integrity management expense;
timely recovery of costs associated with the accelerated replacement of bare steel and cast iron pipes, as well as certain service risers; and expanded conservation programs now totaling up to $5 million in annual expenditures.
MISO
Since 2002 and with the IURC’s approval, the Company has been a member of the Midwest Independent System Operator, Inc. (MISO), a FERC approved regional transmission organization. The MISO serves the electrical transmission needs of much of the Midwest and maintains operational control over the Company’s electric transmission
facilities as well as that of other Midwest utilities. Since April 1, 2005, the Company has been an active participant in the MISO energy markets, bidding its owned generation into the Day Ahead and Real Time markets and procuring power for its retail customers at Locational Marginal Pricing (LMP) as determined by the MISO market.
The Company is typically in a net sales position with MISO as generation capacity is in excess of that needed to serve native load and is from time to time in a net purchase position. When the Company is a net seller such net revenues are included in Electric Utility revenues and
when the Company is a net purchaser such net purchases are included in Cost of fuel and purchased power. Net positions are determined on an hourly basis. Since the Company became an active MISO member, its generation optimization strategies primarily involve the sale of excess generation into the MISO day ahead and real-time markets. Net revenues from wholesale activities included in Electric
Utility revenues totaled $3.4 million and $14.9 million in the three months ended June 30, 2009 and 2008 respectively. For the six months ended June 30, 2009 and 2008, net revenues from wholesale activities included in Electric Utility revenues totaled $16.3 million and $36.3, respectively.
The Company also receives transmission revenue that results from other members’ use of the Company’s transmission system. These revenues are also included in Electric Utility revenues. Generally, these transmission revenues along with costs charged by
the MISO are considered components of base rates and any variance from that included in base rates is recovered/refunded through tracking mechanisms.
As a result of MISO’s operational control over much of the Midwestern electric transmission grid, including SIGECO’s transmission facilities, SIGECO’s continued ability to import power, when necessary, and export power to the wholesale market has been, and may continue to be, impacted. Given the nature of MISO’s
policies regarding use of transmission facilities, as well as ongoing FERC initiatives, and a Day 3 ancillary services market (ASM), where MISO began providing a bid-based regulation and contingency operating reserve markets on January 6, 2009, it is difficult to predict near term operational impacts. The IURC has approved the Company’s participation in the ASM and has granted authority to defer costs associated with ASM. To date impacts from the ASM have been minor.
The need to expend capital for improvements to the regional transmission system, both to SIGECO’s facilities as well as to those facilities of adjacent utilities, over the next several years is expected to be significant. Beginning in June 2008, the Company began timely recovering its investment in certain new electric transmission
projects that benefit the MISO infrastructure at a FERC approved rate of return. Such revenues recorded in Electric Utility revenues associated with projects meeting the criteria of MISO’s transmission expansion plans totaled $2.2 million and $0.7 million for the three months ended June 30, 2009 and 2008 respectively. For the six months ended June 30, 2009 and 2008, revenues recorded in Electric
Utility revenues associated with projects meeting the criteria of MISO’s transmission expansion plans totaled $4.3 million and $0.7, respectively.
Vectren South Electric Lost Margin Recovery Filing
In 2008, the Company made an initial filing with the IURC requesting a multi-year program to promote energy conservation and expanded demand side management programs within its Vectren South electric utility. As proposed, costs associated with these programs would be recovered through a tracking mechanism. The implementation
of these programs is designed to work in tandem with a lost margin recovery mechanism. This mechanism, as proposed, allows recovery of a portion of rates from residential and commercial customers based on the level of customer revenues established in Vectren South’s last electric general rate case. This program is similar to programs authorized by the IURC in the Company’s Indiana natural gas service territories. In April of 2009, all filings were completed, and the
Company would expect an IURC decision to occur during 2009.
Adoption of SFAS 161
In March 2008, the FASB issued SFAS No. 161, “Disclosures about Derivative Instruments and Hedging Activities – an Amendment of FASB Statement No. 133” (SFAS 161). SFAS 161 describes enhanced disclosures under SFAS 133 and requires that objectives for using derivative instruments be disclosed in terms of underlying
risk and accounting designation in order to better convey the purpose of derivative use in terms of the risks that the entity is intending to manage. The Company adopted the qualitative and quantitative disclosures required in both interim and annual financial statements described in SFAS 161 on January 1, 2009.
Accounting Policy for Derivatives
The Company occasionally executes derivative contracts in the normal course of operations while buying and selling commodities to be used in operations, optimizing its generation assets, and managing risk. The Company accounts for its derivative contracts in accordance with SFAS 133, “Accounting for Derivatives” and
its related amendments and interpretations. In most cases, SFAS 133 requires a derivative to be recorded on the balance sheet as an asset or liability measured at its market value and that a change in the derivative's market value be recognized currently in earnings unless specific hedge criteria are met.
When an energy contract that is a derivative is designated and documented as a normal purchase or normal sale (NPNS), it is exempted from mark-to-market accounting. Most energy contracts executed by the Company are subject to the NPNS exclusion. Such energy contracts include real time and day ahead purchase and sale contracts
with the MISO, natural gas purchases from ProLiance and others, and wind farm and other electric generating capacity contracts.
When the Company engages in energy contracts and financial contracts that are derivatives and are not subject to the NPNS or other exclusions identified in SFAS 133, such contracts are recorded at market value as current or noncurrent assets or liabilities depending on their value and on when the contracts are expected to be settled. Contracts
and any associated collateral with counter-parties subject to master netting arrangements are presented net in the Consolidated Balance Sheets. The offset resulting from carrying the derivative at fair value on the balance sheet is charged to earnings unless it qualifies as a hedge or is subject to SFAS 71. When hedge accounting is appropriate, the Company assesses and documents hedging relationships between the derivative contract and underlying risks as well as its risk management objectives
and anticipated effectiveness. When the hedging relationship is highly effective, derivatives are designated as hedges. The market value of the effective portion of the hedge is marked to market in accumulated other comprehensive income for cash flow hedges. Ineffective portions of hedging arrangements are marked to market through earnings. For fair value hedges, both the derivative and the underlying hedged item are marked to market through earnings. The
offset to contracts affected by SFAS 71 are marked to market as a regulatory asset or liability. Market value for derivative contracts is determined using quoted market prices from independent sources. The Company rarely enters into contracts where internal models are used to calculate fair values that have a significant impact the financial statements.
Derivative Use in Risk Mitigation Strategies
Following is a more detailed discussion of activities where the Company may use derivatives to mitigate risk.
Emission Allowance Risk Management
The Company’s wholesale power marketing operations are exposed to price risk associated with emission allowances. To mitigate this risk, the Company executed call options to hedge wholesale SO2 emission allowance utilization in future periods. The
Company designated and documented these derivatives as cash flow hedges. At June 30, 2009, a deferred gain of approximately $0.1 million remains in accumulated comprehensive income related to these call options which will be recognized in earnings as emission allowances are utilized. As of and for the periods reported in these financial statements, ending values and activity relating to emission allowance derivatives affecting the statements of income and cash flows were not significant.
Natural Gas Procurement Risk Management
The Company’s regulated operations have limited exposure to commodity price risk for purchases and sales of natural gas and electricity for retail customers due to current Indiana and Ohio regulations which, subject to compliance with those regulations, allow for recovery of such purchases through natural gas and fuel cost adjustment
and other mechanisms. Although regulated operations are exposed to limited commodity price risk, volatile natural gas prices can still have negative economic impacts, including higher interest costs. The Company may mitigate these economic risks by using derivative contracts. These contracts are subject to regulation which allows for reasonable and prudent hedging costs to be recovered through rates. When regulation is involved, SFAS 71 controls when the offset to mark-to-market
accounting is recognized in earnings.
As of and for the periods reported in these financial statements, ending values and activity relating to natural gas procurement derivatives affecting the statements of income and cash flows were not significant.
Interest Rate Risk Management
The Company is exposed to interest rate risk associated with its borrowing arrangements. Its risk management program seeks to reduce the potentially adverse effects that market volatility may have on interest expense. The Company has used interest rate swaps and treasury locks to hedge forecasted debt issuances and other
interest rate swaps to manage interest rate exposure.
As of June 30, 2009 and December 31, 2008, no interest rate swaps were outstanding. Related to derivative instruments associated with completed debts issuances subject to regulatory oversight, an approximate $7.9 million net regulatory asset remains at June 30, 2009. In the six months ended June 30, 2009 and 2008, $0.1 million and
$0.2 million respectively were amortized, decreasing to interest expense. The Company estimates a $0.3 million reduction to interest expense will occur in 2009 related to the amortization of this net position.
Credit Features
Master agreements in place with certain counterparties contain provisions involving the Company’s credit ratings. If ratings were to fall below investment grade, counterparties to these arrangements could request immediate payment or demand immediate and ongoing full overnight collateralization on net liability positions.
Currently, there are no significant derivative-like instruments outstanding impacted by credit contingent features.
14. |
Fair Value Measurements |
Financial assets and liabilities and certain nonfinancial assets and liabilities that are revalued at fair value on a recurring basis are valued and disclosed in accordance with SFAS No. 157, “Fair Value Measurements” (SFAS 157). SFAS 157 defines a hierarchy for disclosing fair value measurements based primarily on the
level of public data used in determining fair value. Level 1 inputs include quoted market prices in active markets for identical assets or liabilities; Level 2 inputs include inputs other than Level 1 inputs that are directly or indirectly observable; and Level 3 inputs include unobservable inputs using estimates and assumptions developed using internal models, which reflect what a market participant would use to determine fair value. For the balance sheet dates presented in these financial statements,
other than the $43 million and $40 million invested in money market funds and included in Cash and cash equivalents as of June 30, 2009 and December 31, 2008, respectively, the Company had no material assets or liabilities recorded at fair value outstanding, and none outstanding valued using Level 3 inputs. The money market investments were valued using Level 1 inputs.
On January 1, 2009, the Company adopted the provisions of SFAS 157 as they relate to nonfinancial assets and nonfinancial liabilities that are measured at fair value on a nonrecurring basis, such as the initial measurement of an asset retirement obligation or the use of fair value goodwill, intangible
assets and long-lived assets impairment tests. This adoption had no significant impact on the Company’s operating results or financial condition.
FASB Staff Positions on Fair Value Accounting and Disclosure
On June 30, 2009, the Company adopted FSP No. FAS 107-1 and APB 28-1, “Interim Disclosures about Fair Value of Financial Instruments” (FSP 107-1). FSP 107-1 requires disclosure in interim financial statements as well as annual financial statements of fair value of all financial instruments for which it is practicable
to estimate that value, whether recognized or not recognized in the statement of financial position, as required by FASB Statement No. 107. The carrying values and estimated fair values of the Company's other financial instruments follow:
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|
June 30, 2009 |
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|
December 31, 2008 |
|
(In millions) |
|
Carrying Amount |
|
Est. Fair Value |
|
Carrying Amount |
|
Est. Fair Value |
|
Long-term debt |
|
$ |
1,275.0 |
|
|
$ |
1,278.3 |
|
|
$ |
1,189.6 |
|
|
$ |
1,068.3 |
|
Short-term borrowings & notes payable |
|
|
2.3 |
|
|
|
2.3 |
|
|
|
191.9 |
|
|
|
191.9 |
|
Cash & cash equivalents |
|
|
52.0 |
|
|
|
52.0 |
|
|
|
52.5 |
|
|
|
52.5 |
|
Certain methods and assumptions must be used to estimate the fair value of financial instruments. The fair value of the Company's long-term debt was estimated based on the quoted market prices for the same or similar issues or on the current rates offered to the Company for instruments with similar characteristics. Because
of the maturity dates and variable interest rates of short-term borrowings and cash & cash equivalents, those carrying amounts approximate fair value. Because of the inherent difficulty of estimating interest rate and other market risks, the methods used to estimate fair value may not always be indicative of actual realizable value, and different methodologies could produce different fair value estimates at the reporting date.
Under current regulatory treatment, call premiums on reacquisition of long-term debt are generally recovered in customer rates over the life of the refunding issue or over a 15-year period. Accordingly, any reacquisition would not be expected to have a material effect on the Company's results of operations.
15. |
Impact of Other Newly Adopted and Newly Issued Accounting Principles |
SFAS 141R
On January 1, 2009, the Company adopted SFAS No. 141, “Business Combinations” (SFAS 141R). SFAS 141R establishes principles and requirements for how the acquirer of an entity (1) recognizes and measures the identifiable assets acquired, the liabilities assumed, and any noncontrolling interest in the acquiree (2) recognizes
and measures acquired goodwill or a bargain purchase gain and (3) determines what information to disclose in its financial statements in order to enable users to assess the nature and financial effects of the business combination. SFAS 141R applies to all transactions or other events in which one entity acquires control of one or more businesses and applies to all business entities. Because the provisions of this standard are applied prospectively, the impact to the Company cannot be determined
until the transactions occur.
SFAS 160
In December 2007, the FASB issued SFAS No. 160, “Noncontrolling Interests in Consolidated Financial Statements-an Amendment of ARB No. 51” (SFAS 160). SFAS 160 establishes accounting and reporting standards that require ownership percentages in material subsidiaries held by parties other than the parent be clearly identified,
labeled, and presented separately from the parent’s equity in the equity section of the consolidated balance sheet; the amount of consolidated net income attributable to the parent and the noncontrolling interest to be clearly identified and presented on the face of the consolidated income statement; that changes in the parent’s ownership interest while it retains control over its subsidiary be accounted for consistently; that when a subsidiary is deconsolidated, any retained noncontrolling equity
investment be initially measured at fair value; and that sufficient disclosure is made to clearly identify and distinguish between the interests of the parent and the noncontrolling owners. The adoption of SFAS 160 on January 1, 2009 had an immaterial impact to the Company’s presentation of its financial position and operating results.
SFAS 165
The Company adopted Financial Accounting Standards No. 165, “Subsequent Events” (SFAS 165) on June 30, 2009. In the instance of a public registrant such as the Company, SFAS 165 establishes the accounting for and disclosure of events that occur after the balance sheet date but before financial statements are “issued”,
as that term is defined in SFAS 165. The standard requires the disclosure of the date through which an entity has evaluated subsequent events. Such disclosure is included in Note 2 to these consolidated financial statements. The adoption of SFAS 165 did not have a material impact.
EITF 08-05
On January 1, 2009, the Company adopted EITF Issue No. 08-5, “Issuer's Accounting for Liabilities Measured at Fair Value with a Third-Party Credit Enhancement” (EITF 08-5). EITF 08-5 states that companies should not include the effect of third-party credit enhancements in the fair value measurement of the related liabilities. EITF
08-5 also requires companies with outstanding liabilities measured or disclosed at fair value to disclose the existence of credit enhancements, to disclose valuation techniques used to measure liabilities and to include a discussion of changes, if any, from the valuation techniques used to measure liabilities in prior periods.
As of June 30, 2009, the Company has approximately $251.1 million of debt instruments that are supported by a third party credit enhancement feature such as insurance from a monoline insurer or a letter of credit posted by third party that supports the Company’s credit facilities. It is not anticipated the Company’s
valuation techniques will change materially as a result of the adoption of EITF 08-5.
FASB Staff Position (FSP) 142-3
In April 2008, the FASB issued FSP No. 142-3, Determination of the Useful Life of Intangible Assets. FSP No. 142-3 amends the factors that should be considered in developing renewal or extension assumptions used to determine the useful life of a recognized intangible asset
under SFAS No. 142, Goodwill and Other Intangible Assets. The Company adopted FSP No. 142-3 as of January 1, 2009 and such adoption did not have a material impact on the consolidated financial statements.
FSP No. FAS 132(R)-1
In December 2008, the FASB issued FSP No. FAS 132(R)-1, “Employers’ Disclosures about Postretirement Benefit Plan Assets” (FSP 132(R)-1). FSP 132(R)-1 amends the plan asset disclosures required under FAS Statement No. 132(R) to provide guidance on an employer’s
disclosures about plan assets of a defined benefit pension or other postretirement plan. Guidance provided by this FSP relates to disclosures about investment policies and strategies, categories of plan assets, fair value measurements of plan assets, and significant concentrations of risk. FSP FAS 132(R)-1 is effective for fiscal years ending after December 15, 2009. The Company will include FSP FAS 132(R)-1’s disclosure requirements in its 2009 annual financial statements.
The Company’s operations consist of regulated operations and other operations that provide information technology and other support services to those regulated operations. The Company segregates its regulated operations into a Gas Utility Services operating segment and an Electric Utility Services operating segment. The
Gas Utility Services segment provides natural gas distribution and transportation services to nearly two-thirds of Indiana and to west central Ohio. The Electric Utility Services segment provides electric distribution services primarily to southwestern Indiana, and includes the Company’s power generating and wholesale power operations. The Company manages its regulated operations as separated between Energy Delivery, which includes the gas and electric transmission and distribution
functions, and Power Supply, which includes the power generating and wholesale power operations. In total, regulated operations supply natural gas and /or electricity to over one million customers. Net income is the measure of profitability used by management for all operations.
Information related to the Company’s business segments is summarized below:
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Three Months |
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Six Months |
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|
|
Ended June 30, |
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|
Ended June 30, |
|
(In millions) |
|
2009 |
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|
2008 |
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|
2009 |
|
|
2008 |
|
Revenues |
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|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Gas Utility Services |
|
$ |
139.1 |
|
|
$ |
224.9 |
|
|
$ |
666.5 |
|
|
$ |
858.5 |
|
Electric Utility Services |
|
|
132.7 |
|
|
|
127.2 |
|
|
|
257.7 |
|
|
|
254.4 |
|
Other Operations |
|
|
10.7 |
|
|
|
11.7 |
|
|
|
21.4 |
|
|
|
23.4 |
|
Eliminations |
|
|
(10.3 |
) |
|
|
(11.1 |
) |
|
|
(20.6 |
) |
|
|
(22.2 |
) |
Consolidated Revenues |
|
$ |
272.2 |
|
|
$ |
352.7 |
|
|
$ |
925.0 |
|
|
$ |
1,114.1 |
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|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
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|
|
|
|
|
Profitability Measure - Net Income (Loss) |
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|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Gas Utility Services |
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$ |
(3.3 |
) |
|
$ |
(1.9 |
) |
|
$ |
37.9 |
|
|
$ |
40.4 |
|
Electric Utility Services |
|
|
8.3 |
|
|
|
6.8 |
|
|
|
20.2 |
|
|
|
19.4 |
|
Other Operations |
|
|
1.6 |
|
|
|
3.9 |
|
|
|
4.7 |
|
|
|
7.0 |
|
Total Net Income |
|
$ |
6.6 |
|
|
$ |
8.8 |
|
|
$ |
62.8 |
|
|
$ |
66.8 |
|
ITEM 2. MANAGEMENT’S DISCUSSION AND ANALYSIS OF RESULTS OF OPERATIONS AND FINANCIAL CONDITION
Description of the Business
Vectren Utility Holdings, Inc. (the Company or Utility Holdings), an Indiana corporation, was formed on March 31, 2000 to serve as the intermediate holding company for Vectren Corporation’s (Vectren) for three operating public utilities: Indiana Gas Company, Inc. (Indiana Gas or Vectren North), Southern Indiana Gas and Electric
Company (SIGECO or Vectren South), and the Ohio operations (VEDO or Vectren Ohio). Utility Holdings also has other assets that provide information technology and other services to the three utilities. Vectren, an Indiana corporation, is an energy holding company headquartered in Evansville, Indiana and was organized on June 10, 1999. Both Vectren and Utility Holdings are holding companies as defined by the Energy Policy Act of 2005 (Energy Act).
Indiana Gas provides energy delivery services to over 560,000 natural gas customers located in central and southern Indiana. SIGECO provides energy delivery services to over 140,000 electric customers and approximately 110,000 gas customers located near Evansville in southwestern Indiana. SIGECO also owns and operates electric generation to serve its electric customers and optimizes those assets
in the wholesale power market. Indiana Gas and SIGECO generally do business as Vectren Energy Delivery of Indiana. The Ohio operations provide energy delivery services to approximately 315,000 natural gas customers located near Dayton in west central Ohio. The Ohio operations are owned as a tenancy in common by Vectren Energy Delivery of Ohio, Inc. (VEDO), a wholly owned subsidiary of Utility Holdings (53 percent ownership), and Indiana Gas (47 percent ownership). The
Ohio operations generally do business as Vectren Energy Delivery of Ohio. |
Executive Summary of Consolidated Results of Operations
The following discussion and analysis should be read in conjunction with the unaudited condensed consolidated financial statements and notes thereto as well as the Company’s 2008 annual report filed on Form 10-K.
In 2009, earnings for the three months ended June 30, 2009 were $6.6 million compared to $8.8 million in 2008, a decrease of $2.2 million. Year to date, earnings were $62.8 million, compared to $66.8 million in 2008, a decrease of $4.0 million. The decreases result primarily from lower large customer usage and lower wholesale
power sales, both of which have been impacted by the recession, as well as increased deprecation expense. Increased revenues associated with regulatory initiatives and warmer weather in June 2009 partially offset these declines.
Utility Holdings generates revenue primarily from the delivery of natural gas and electric service to its customers. Utility Holdings’ primary source of cash flow results from the collection of customer bills and the payment for goods and services procured for the delivery of gas and electric services.
Vectren has in place a disclosure committee that consists of senior management as well as financial management. The committee is actively involved in the preparation and review of Utility Holdings’ SEC filings.
Significant Fluctuations
Margin
Throughout this discussion, the terms Gas Utility margin and Electric Utility margin are used. Gas Utility margin is calculated as Gas utility revenues less the Cost of gas. Electric Utility margin is calculated
as Electric utility revenues less Cost of fuel & purchased power. The Company believes Gas Utility and Electric Utility margins are better indicators of relative contribution than revenues since gas prices and fuel and purchased power costs can be volatile and are generally collected on a dollar-for-dollar basis from customers.
Rate Design Strategies
Sales of natural gas and electricity to residential and commercial customers are seasonal and are impacted by weather. Trends in average use among natural gas residential and commercial customers have tended to decline in recent years as more efficient appliances and furnaces are installed and the price of natural gas have been volatile.
Normal temperature adjustment (NTA) and lost margin recovery mechanisms largely mitigate the effect on Gas Utility margin that would otherwise be caused by variations in volumes sold to these customers due to weather and changing consumption patterns. Indiana Gas’ territory has both an NTA since 2005 and lost margin recovery since 2006. SIGECO’s natural gas territory has an NTA since 2005 and lost margin recovery since 2007. The Ohio service territory had lost margin recovery since
2006. The Ohio lost margin recovery mechanism ended when new base rates went into effect in February 2009. This mechanism was replaced by a rate design, commonly referred to as a straight fixed variable rate design, which is more dependent on service charge revenues and less dependent on volumetric revenues than previous rate designs. This new rate design, which will be fully phased in February 2010, will eventually mitigate most weather risk in Ohio. SIGECO’s electric service
territory has neither NTA nor lost margin recovery mechanisms.
Tracked Operating Expenses
Margin is also impacted by the collection of state mandated taxes, which fluctuate with gas and fuel costs, as well as other tracked expenses. Expenses subject to tracking mechanisms include Ohio bad debts and percent of income payment plan expenses, costs associated with exiting the merchant function and to perform riser replacement
in Ohio, Indiana gas pipeline integrity management costs, costs to fund Indiana energy efficiency programs, MISO transmission revenues and costs, as well as the gas cost component of bad debt expense based on historical experience and unaccounted for gas. Unaccounted for gas is also tracked in the Ohio service territory. Certain operating costs, including depreciation, associated with operating environmental compliance equipment and regional transmission investments are also tracked.
Recessionary Impacts
Gas and electric margin generated from sales to large customers (generally industrial and other contract customers) is primarily impacted by overall economic conditions and changes in demand for those customers’ products. The recent recession has had and may continue to have some negative impact on both gas and electric large
customers. This impact has included, and may continue to include, tempered growth, significant conservation measures, and perhaps even plant closures or bankruptcies. While no one industrial customer comprises 10 percent of consolidated margin, the top five industrial electric customers comprise approximately 11 percent of electric utility margin in the six months ended June 30, 2009, and therefore any significant decline in their collective margin could adversely impact operating results. Deteriorating
economic conditions may also lead to continued lower residential and commercial customer counts. Further, resulting from the lower power prices, decreased demand for electricity, and higher coal prices associated with contracts negotiated last year, the Company’s coal fired generation has been dispatched less often by the MISO. This has resulted in lower wholesale sales, more power being purchased from the MISO for native load requirements, and the likelihood of growing coal inventories.
Following is a discussion and analysis of margin generated from regulated utility operations.
Gas Utility Margin (Gas utility revenues less Cost of gas)
Gas Utility margin and throughput by customer type follows:
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|
Three Months |
|
|
Six Months |
|
|
|
Ended June 30, |
|
|
Ended June 30, |
|
(In millions) |
|
2009 |
|
|
2008 |
|
|
2009 |
|
|
2008 |
|
Gas utility revenues |
|
$ |
139.1 |
|
|
$ |
224.9 |
|
|
$ |
666.5 |
|
|
$ |
858.5 |
|
Cost of gas sold |
|
|
58.0 |
|
|
|
143.8 |
|
|
|
412.6 |
|
|
|
605.8 |
|
Total gas utility margin |
|
$ |
81.1 |
|
|
$ |
81.1 |
|
|
$ |
253.9 |
|
|
$ |
252.7 |
|
Margin attributed to: |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Residential & commercial customers |
|
$ |
68.5 |
|
|
$ |
65.4 |
|
|
$ |
221.1 |
|
|
$ |
216.3 |
|
Industrial customers |
|
|
9.3 |
|
|
|
11.1 |
|
|
|
24.4 |
|
|
|
27.8 |
|
Other |
|
|
3.3 |
|
|
|
4.6 |
|
|
|
8.4 |
|
|
|
8.6 |
|
Sold & transported volumes in MMDth attributed to: |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Residential & commercial customers |
|
|
12.6 |
|
|
|
12.5 |
|
|
|
65.2 |
|
|
|
70.3 |
|
Industrial customers |
|
|
15.7 |
|
|
|
20.4 |
|
|
|
39.8 |
|
|
|
49.1 |
|
Total sold & transported volumes |
|
|
28.3 |
|
|
|
32.9 |
|
|
|
105.0 |
|
|
|
119.4 |
|
For the three and six months ended June 30, 2009 , gas utility margins were $81.1 million and $253.9 million, respectively, and are generally flat compared to the prior year periods. Among all customer classes, margin increases
associated with regulatory initiatives including the full impact of the Vectren North base rate increase effective in February 14, 2008 and the Vectren Ohio base rate increase effective February 22, 2009, were $2.8 million quarter over quarter and $6.3 million year to date. Increases were offset by impacts of the recession. During the quarter, management estimates a $1.4 million decrease in industrial customer margin associated with lower volumes sold, and slightly lower residential and
commercial customer counts decreased margin approximately $0.5 million. Year to date, management estimates $3.3 million in industrial customer margin declines and $1.0 million related to lower residential and commercial customer counts. The impact of operating costs, including revenue and usage taxes, recovered in margin was unfavorable $0.4 million quarter over quarter and unfavorable $0.8 million year over year, reflecting lower revenue taxes offset by higher pass through operating expenses. The
average cost per dekatherm of gas purchased for the six months ended June 30, 2009, was $6.53 compared to $10.07 in 2008.
Electric Utility Margin (Electric Utility revenues less Cost of fuel and purchased power)
Electric Utility margin and volumes sold by customer type follows:
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|
|
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|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Three Months |
|
|
Six Months |
|
|
|
Ended June 30, |
|
|
Ended June 30, |
|
(In millions) |
|
2009 |
|
|
2008 |
|
|
2009 |
|
|
2008 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Electric utility revenues |
|
$ |
132.7 |
|
|
$ |
127.2 |
|
|
$ |
257.7 |
|
|
$ |
254.4 |
|
Cost of fuel & purchased power |
|
|
50.3 |
|
|
|
48.5 |
|
|
|
97.3 |
|
|
|
94.5 |
|
Total electric utility margin |
|
$ |
82.4 |
|
|
$ |
78.7 |
|
|
$ |
160.4 |
|
|
$ |
159.9 |
|
Margin attributed to: |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Residential & commercial customers |
|
$ |
55.6 |
|
|
$ |
48.6 |
|
|
$ |
107.6 |
|
|
$ |
99.9 |
|
Industrial customers |
|
|
21.6 |
|
|
|
19.1 |
|
|
|
40.3 |
|
|
|
39.3 |
|
Other customers |
|
|
1.2 |
|
|
|
5.9 |
|
|
|
2.8 |
|
|
|
7.5 |
|
Subtotal: retail |
|
$ |
78.4 |
|
|
$ |
73.6 |
|
|
$ |
150.7 |
|
|
$ |
146.7 |
|
Wholesale power & transmission system margin |
|
$ |
4.0 |
|
|
$ |
5.1 |
|
|
$ |
9.7 |
|
|
$ |
13.2 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Electric volumes sold in GWh attributed to: |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Residential & commercial customers |
|
|
680.5 |
|
|
|
646.6 |
|
|
|
1,352.1 |
|
|
|
1,361.8 |
|
Industrial customers |
|
|
557.4 |
|
|
|
639.8 |
|
|
|
1,066.4 |
|
|
|
1,240.5 |
|
Other customers |
|
|
4.5 |
|
|
|
17.4 |
|
|
|
9.6 |
|
|
|
54.0 |
|
Total retail volumes sold |
|
|
1,242.4 |
|
|
|
1,303.8 |
|
|
|
2,428.1 |
|
|
|
2,656.3 |
|
Retail Margin
Electric retail utility margins were $78.4 million and $150.7 million for the three and six months ended June 30, 2009, increases over the prior periods of $4.8 million and $4.0 million, respectively. Increased margin among the customer classes associated with returns on pollution control investments
totaled $1.4 million quarter over quarter and $1.9 million year to date, and margin associated with tracked costs such as recovery of MISO and pollution control operating expenses increased $3.1 million quarter over quarter and $5.6 million year to date. Management estimates the impact of weather 23 percent warmer than the prior year to have increased residential and commercial margin $2.4 million in the second quarter and $1.8 million year to date. Year to date, management also estimates
other usage declines associated with the weak economy to have decreased margin approximately $1.4 million for residential and commercial customers and $3.7 million for industrial customers, with $0.4 million of small customer decline and $1.7 million of the industrial customer decline occurring in the second quarter.
Wholesale Power and Transmission System Operation Margin
Generation capacity is from time to time in excess of native load requirements. The Company markets and sells this unutilized generation to optimize the return on its owned assets. Substantially all of the margin generated from off-system sales occurs into the MISO Day Ahead and Real Time markets. The level
of off-system sales is primarily affected by market conditions, the level of excess generating capacity, and electric transmission availability. MISO-related transmission system operation activity includes margin associated with others using the company’s transmission system and returns on electric transmission projects constructed by the Company in its service territory that benefit reliability throughout the region. Returns associated with these projects meeting the criteria of MISO’s
transmission expansion plans began in June 2008 and returns are increasing due to the level of capital invested in qualifying projects.
Further detail of Wholesale and Transmission activity follows:
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For the three and six months ended June 30, 2009, total wholesale margins were $4.0 million and $9.7 million, representing decreases of $1.1 million and $3.5 million, respectively, compared to 2008.
During the second quarter of 2009, margin from off-system sales retained by the Company decreased $2.7 million compared to 2008, bringing the year to date decrease in 2009 compared to 2008 to $7.2 million. During 2009, the Company experienced lower wholesale power marketing margins due to lower demand and wholesale prices due to
the recession, coupled with increased coal costs. Year to date, off-system sales totaled 406.4 GWh in 2009, compared to 740.3 GWh in 2008. The base rate case effective August 17, 2007, requires that wholesale margin from off-system sales earned above or below $10.5 million be shared equally with customers as measured on a fiscal year ending in August, and results reflect the impact of that sharing.
Related to transmission system sales, the contribution to margin has increased as expected based upon increased capital invested in projects meeting the criteria of MISO’s transmission expansion plans. Margin associated with these projects totaled $2.2 million and $4.3
million for the three and six months ended June 30, 2009, respectively, compared to $0.7 million in both the three and six months ended June 30, 2008.
Operating Expenses
Other Operating Expenses
For the three and six months ended June 30, 2009, other operating expenses were $78.7 million and $158.0 million, which reflect increases of $4.2 million and $9.5 million, compared to 2008. Approximately $2.7 million and $7.2 million of the increases result from increased costs directly recovered through utility margin. Examples
of such tracked costs include Ohio bad debts, Indiana gas pipeline integrity management costs, costs to fund Indiana energy efficiency programs, and MISO transmission revenues and costs, among others. The remaining increase is primarily related to higher levels of bad debt expense associated with the Indiana service territory. Quarter over quarter and year over year, all other operating expenses were generally flat.
Depreciation & Amortization
For the three and six months ended June 30, 2009, depreciation expense was $45.0 million and $88.9 million, which represents increases of $4.1 million and $7.3 million compared to 2008. Plant additions include the approximate $100 million SO2 scrubber
placed into service January 1, 2009, for which depreciation totaling $1.5 million in the quarter and $2.6 million year to date is directly recovered in electric utility margin.
Taxes Other Than Income Taxes
For the three and six months ended June 30, 2009, taxes other than income taxes were $12.6 million and $35.4 million, which reflect decreases of $1.3 million for the quarter and $4.7 million year over year. The decrease is attributable to lower utility receipts, excise, and usage taxes caused principally by lower gas prices and
is tracked in revenues.
Interest Expense
For the three and six months ended June 30, 2009, interest expense was $20.0 million and $38.7 million, which represents an increase of $0.9 million in the quarter and a decrease of $1.2 million compared to 2008. The increase in the quarter reflects a long term financing transaction completed in the second quarter of 2009 in which
VUHI issued $100 million in unsecured eleven year notes with an interest rate of 6.28 percent to institutional investors. Both periods reflect lower short-term interest rates and lower average short-term debt balances impacted favorably by lower gas costs.
Income Taxes
For the three and six months ended June 30, 2009, federal and state income taxes were $3.5 million and $35.3 million, which represents decreases of $1.9 million and $5.8 million compared to 2008. The lower taxes are primarily due to lower pretax income.
Environmental Matters
Clean Air Act
The Clean Air Interstate Rule (CAIR) is an allowance cap and trade program requiring further reductions from coal-burning power plants in NOx emissions beginning January 1, 2009 and SO2 emissions beginning January 1, 2010, with a second phase of reductions in 2015.
On July 11, 2008, the US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia vacated the federal CAIR regulations. Various parties filed motions for reconsideration, and on December 23, 2008, the Court reinstated the CAIR regulations and remanded the regulations back to the USEPA for promulgation of revisions in accordance with the Court’s July 11, 2008 Order. Thus, the original version of CAIR promulgated in March of 2005 remains effective while USEPA revises it per the Court’s guidance. It
is possible that a revised CAIR will require further reductions in NOx and SO2 from SIGECO’s generating units. SIGECO is in compliance with the current CAIR Phase I annual NOx reduction requirements in effect on January 1, 2009 and is positioned to comply with SO2 reductions effective January 1, 2010. Utilization of the Company’s
inventory of NOx and SO2 allowances may also be impacted if CAIR is further revised; however, most of these allowances were granted to the Company at zero cost, so a reduction in carrying value is not expected.
Similarly, in March of 2005, USEPA promulgated the Clean Air Mercury Rule (CAMR). CAMR is an allowance cap and trade program requiring further reductions in mercury emissions from coal-burning power plants. The CAMR regulations were vacated by the US Court of Appeals for the DC Circuit in July 2008. It is possible
that the vacatur of the CAMR regulations will lead to increased support for the passage of a multi-pollutant bill in Congress. It is also possible that the USEPA will promulgate a revised mercury regulation in 2009.
To comply with Indiana’s implementation plan of the Clean Air Act of 1990, the CAIR regulations, and to comply with potential future regulations of mercury and further NOx and SO2 reductions, SIGECO has IURC authority to invest in clean coal technology.
Using this authorization, SIGECO has invested approximately $307 million in pollution control equipment, including Selective Catalytic Reduction (SCR) systems and fabric filters. SCR technology is the most effective method of reducing NOx emissions where high removal efficiencies are required and fabric filters control particulate matter emissions. These investments were included in rate base for purposes of determining new base rates that went into effect on August 15, 2007. Prior
to being included in base rates, return on investments made and recovery of related operating expenses were recovered through a rider mechanism.
Further, the IURC granted SIGECO authority to invest in an SO2 scrubber at its generating facility that is jointly owned with ALCOA (the Company’s portion is 150 MW). The order allows
SIGECO to recover an approximate 8 percent return on capital investments through a rider mechanism which is periodically updated for actual costs incurred less post in-service depreciation expense. Through June 30, 2009, the Company has invested approximately $100 million in this project. The scrubber was placed into service on January 1, 2009. Recovery through a rider mechanism of associated operating expenses including depreciation expense associated with the scrubber also began
on January 1, 2009. With the SO2 scrubber fully operational, SIGECO is positioned for compliance with the additional SO2 reductions required by Phase I CAIR commencing on January 1, 2010.
SIGECO’s coal fired generating fleet is 100 percent scrubbed for SO2 and 90 percent controlled for NOx. SIGECO's investments in scrubber, SCR and fabric filter technology allows for compliance with existing regulations and should position it to comply
with future reasonable pollution control legislation, if and when, reductions in mercury and further reductions in NOx and SO2 are promulgated by USEPA.
Climate Change
Vectren is committed to responsible environmental stewardship and conservation efforts as demonstrated by its proactive approach to balancing environmental and customer needs. While scientific uncertainties exist and the debate surrounding global climate change is ongoing, the growing understanding of the science of climate change would suggest
a strong potential for adverse economic and social consequences should world-wide carbon dioxide (CO2) and other greenhouse gas emissions continue at present levels.
The need to reduce CO2 and other greenhouse gas emissions, yet provide affordable energy requires thoughtful balance. For these reasons, Vectren supports a national climate change policy with the following elements:
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An inclusive scope that involves all sectors of the economy and sources of greenhouse gases, and recognizes early actions and investments made to mitigate greenhouse gas emissions; |
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Provisions for enhanced use of renewable energy sources as a supplement to base load coal generation including effective energy conservation, demand side management and generation efficiency measures; |
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A flexible market-based cap and trade approach with zero cost allowance allocations to coal-fired electric generators. The approach should have a properly designed economic safety valve in order to reduce or eliminate extreme price spikes and potential price volatility. A long lead time must be included to align nearer-term technology capabilities
and expanded generation efficiency and other enhanced renewable strategies, ensuring that generation sources will rely less on natural gas to meet short term carbon reduction requirements. This new regime should allow for adequate resource and generation planning and remove existing impediments to efficiency enhancements posed by the current New Source Review provisions of the Clean Air Act; |
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Inclusion of incentives for investment in advanced clean coal technology and support for research and development; and |
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Current Initiatives to Increase Conservation and Reduce Emissions
The Company is committed to its policy on climate change and conservation. Evidence of this commitment includes:
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Focusing the Company’s mission statement and purpose on corporate sustainability and the need to help customers conserve and manage energy costs; |
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Recently executing long-term contracts to purchase 80MW of wind energy generated by wind farms in Benton County, Indiana; |
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Evaluating other renewable energy projects to complement base load coal fired generation in advance of mandated renewable energy portfolio standards; |
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Implementing conservation initiatives in the Company’s Indiana and Ohio gas utility service territories; |
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Participation in an electric conservation and demand side management collaborative with the OUCC and other customer advocate groups; |
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Evaluating potential carbon requirements with regard to new generation, other fuel supply sources, and future environmental compliance plans; |
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Reducing the Company’s carbon footprint by measures such as purchasing hybrid vehicles, and optimizing generation efficiencies; |
Legislative Actions and Other Climate Change Initiatives
The U.S. House of Representatives has passed a comprehensive energy bill that includes a carbon cap and trade program where there is a progressive cap on greenhouse gas emissions and an auctioning and subsequent trading of allowances among those that emit greenhouse gases, a federal renewable portfolio standard, and utility energy efficiency
targets. Under the proposed energy bill, the electric power industry will receive 40 percent of the annual allowance allocation at zero cost. As of the date of this filing, the Senate has not passed a bill, and the bill is not law.
In the absence of federal legislation, several regional initiatives throughout the United States are in the process of establishing regional cap and trade programs. While no climate change legislation is pending in Indiana, the state is an observer of the Midwestern Regional Greenhouse Gas Reduction Accord, and in the recently completed
2009 session, the state’s legislature debated, but did not pass, a renewable energy portfolio standard.
In advance of a federal or state renewable portfolio standard, SIGECO recently purchased a 3.2 MW landfill gas generation facility from a related entity that is directly interconnected to the Company’s distribution system and recently executed a long term purchase power commitment for 50 MW of wind energy. These transactions
supplement a 30 MW wind energy purchase power agreement executed in 2008.
In April of 2007, the US Supreme Court determined that greenhouse gases meet the definition of "air pollutant" under the Clean Air Act and ordered the USEPA to determine whether greenhouse gas emissions from new motor vehicles cause or contribute to air pollution that may reasonably be anticipated to endanger public health or welfare. In April
of 2009, the USEPA published its proposed endangerment finding for public comment. The proposed endangerment finding concludes that carbon emissions from mobile sources pose an endangerment to public health and the environment. Upon finalization, the endangerment finding is the first step toward USEPA regulating carbon emissions through the existing Clean Air Act in the absence of specific carbon legislation from Congress. Therefore, any new regulations would likely also impact
major stationary sources of greenhouse gases. The USEPA has also proposed a significant new mandatory greenhouse gas emissions registry.
Impact of Legislative Actions and Other Initiatives is Unknown
If legislation requiring reductions in CO2 and other greenhouse gases or legislation mandating a renewable energy portfolio standard is adopted, such regulation could substantially affect both the costs and operating characteristics of the Company’s fossil fuel
generating plants, nonutility coal mining operations, and possibly natural gas distribution businesses. Further, any legislation would likely impact the Company’s generation resource planning decisions. At this time and in the absence of final legislation, compliance costs and other effects associated with reductions in greenhouse gas emissions or obtaining renewable energy sources remain uncertain. The Company has gathered preliminary estimates of the costs to comply with a cap and trade
approach to controlling greenhouse gas emissions. A preliminary investigation demonstrated costs to comply would be significant, first to operating expenses for the purchase of allowances, and later to capital expenditures as technology becomes available to control greenhouse gas emissions. However, these compliance cost estimates are very sensitive to highly uncertain assumptions, including allowance prices and energy efficiency targets. Costs to purchase allowances that cap
greenhouse gas emissions should be considered a cost of providing electricity, and as such, the Company believes recovery should be timely reflected in rates charged to customers. Approximately 22 percent of electric volumes sold in 2008 were delivered to municipal and other wholesale customers. As such, the Company has some flexibility to modify the level of these transactions to reduce overall emissions and reduce costs associated with complying with new environmental regulations.
Environmental Remediation Efforts
In the past, Indiana Gas, SIGECO, and others operated facilities for the manufacture of gas. Given the availability of natural gas transported by pipelines, these facilities have not been operated for many years. Under currently applicable environmental laws and regulations, those that owned or operated these facilities
may now be required to take remedial action if certain contaminants are found above the regulatory thresholds at these sites.
Indiana Gas identified the existence, location, and certain general characteristics of 26 gas manufacturing and storage sites for which it may have some remedial responsibility. Indiana Gas completed a remedial investigation/feasibility study (RI/FS) at one of the sites under an agreed order between Indiana Gas and the IDEM, and
a Record of Decision was issued by the IDEM in January 2000. Indiana Gas submitted the remainder of the sites to the IDEM's Voluntary Remediation Program (VRP) and is currently conducting some level of remedial activities, including groundwater monitoring at certain sites, where deemed appropriate, and will continue remedial activities at the sites as appropriate and necessary.
Indiana Gas accrued the estimated costs for further investigation, remediation, groundwater monitoring, and related costs for the sites. While the total costs that may be incurred in connection with addressing these sites cannot be determined at this time, Indiana Gas has recorded cumulative costs that it reasonably expects to incur
totaling approximately $22.2 million. The estimated accrued costs are limited to Indiana Gas’ share of the remediation efforts. Indiana Gas has arrangements in place for 19 of the 26 sites with other potentially responsible parties (PRP), which limit Indiana Gas’ costs at these 19 sites to between 20 percent and 50 percent.
With respect to insurance coverage, Indiana Gas has settled with all known insurance carriers under insurance policies in effect when these plants were in operation in an aggregate amount approximating $20.8 million.
In October 2002, SIGECO received a formal information request letter from the IDEM regarding five manufactured gas plants that it owned and/or operated and were not enrolled in the IDEM’s VRP. In October 2003, SIGECO filed applications to enter four of the manufactured gas plant sites in IDEM's VRP. The remaining
site is currently being addressed in the VRP by another Indiana utility. SIGECO added those four sites into the renewal of the global Voluntary Remediation Agreement that Indiana Gas has in place with IDEM for its manufactured gas plant sites. That renewal was approved by the IDEM in February 2004. SIGECO is also named in a lawsuit filed in federal district court in May 2007, involving another site subject to potential environmental remediation efforts.
SIGECO has filed a declaratory judgment action against its insurance carriers seeking a judgment finding its carriers liable under the policies for coverage of further investigation and any necessary remediation costs that SIGECO may accrue under the VRP program and/or related to the site subject to the May 2007 lawsuit. While the
total costs that may be incurred in connection with addressing these sites cannot be determined at this time, SIGECO has recorded cumulative costs that it reasonably expects to incur totaling approximately $9.2 million. With respect to insurance coverage, SIGECO has settled with insurance carriers under insurance policies in effect when these sites were in operation in an aggregate amount of $8.1 million.
Environmental remediation costs related to Indiana Gas’ and SIGECO’s manufactured gas plants and other sites have had a minor impact on results of operations or financial condition since cumulative costs recorded to date approximate PRP and insurance settlement recoveries. Such cumulative costs are estimated by management
using assumptions based on actual costs incurred, the timing of expected future payments, and inflation factors, among others. While the Company’s utilities have recorded all costs which they presently expect to incur in connection with activities at these sites, it is possible that future events may require some level of additional remedial activities which are not presently foreseen and those costs may not be subject to PRP or insurance recovery. As of June 30, 2009 and December
31, 2008, approximately $5.1 million and $6.5 million, respectively, of accrued, but not yet spent, remediation costs are included in Other Liabilities related to both the Indiana Gas and SIGECO sites.
Rate & Regulatory Matters
Vectren Energy Delivery of Ohio, Inc. (VEDO) Gas Base Rate Order Received
On January 7, 2009, the PUCO issued an order approving the stipulation reached in the VEDO rate case. The order provides for a rate increase of nearly $14.8 million, an overall rate of return of 8.89 percent on rate base of about $235 million; an opportunity to recover costs of a program to accelerate replacement of cast iron and
bare steel pipes, as well as certain service risers; and base rate recovery of an additional $2.9 million in conservation program spending.
The order also adjusted the rate design used to collect the agreed-upon revenue from VEDO's customers. The order allows for the phased movement toward a straight fixed variable rate design which places substantially all of the fixed cost recovery in the customer service charge. A straight fixed variable design mitigates
most weather risk as well as the effects of declining usage, similar to the Company’s lost margin recovery mechanism, which expired when this new rate design went into effect on February 22, 2009. In 2008, annual results include approximately $4.3 million of revenue from a lost margin recovery mechanism that does not continue once this base rate increase is in effect. After year one, nearly 90 percent of the combined residential and commercial base rate margins will be recovered through
the customer service charge. The OCC has filed a request for rehearing on the rate design finding by the PUCO. The rehearing request mirrors similar requests filed by the OCC in each case where the PUCO has approved similar rate designs, and all such requests have been denied.
With this rate order the Company has in place for its Ohio gas territory rates that allow for the phased implementation of a straight fixed variable rate design that mitigates both weather risk and lost margin; tracking of bad debt and percent of income payment plan (PIPP) expenses; base rate recovery of pipeline integrity management expense;
timely recovery of costs associated with the accelerated replacement of bare steel and cast iron pipes, as well as certain service risers; and expanded conservation programs now totaling up to $5 million in annual expenditures.
MISO
Since 2002 and with the IURC’s approval, the Company has been a member of the Midwest Independent System Operator, Inc. (MISO), a FERC approved regional transmission organization. The MISO serves the electrical transmission needs of much of the Midwest and maintains operational control over the Company’s electric transmission
facilities as well as that of other Midwest utilities. Since April 1, 2005, the Company has been an active participant in the MISO energy markets, bidding its owned generation into the Day Ahead and Real Time markets and procuring power for its retail customers at Locational Marginal Pricing (LMP) as determined by the MISO market.
The Company is typically in a net sales position with MISO as generation capacity is in excess of that needed to serve native load and is from time to time in a net purchase position. When the Company is a net seller such net revenues are included in Electric Utility revenues and
when the Company is a net purchaser such net purchases are included in Cost of fuel and purchased power. Net positions are determined on an hourly basis. Since the Company became an active MISO member, its generation optimization strategies primarily involve the sale of excess generation into the MISO day ahead and real-time markets. Net revenues from wholesale activities included in Electric
Utility revenues totaled $3.4 million and $14.9 million in the three months ended June 30, 2009 and 2008 respectively. For the six months ended June 30, 2009 and 2008, net revenues from wholesale activities included in Electric Utility revenues totaled $16.3 million and $36.3, respectively.
The Company also receives transmission revenue that results from other members’ use of the Company’s transmission system. These revenues are also included in Electric Utility revenues. Generally, these transmission revenues along with costs charged by
the MISO are considered components of base rates and any variance from that included in base rates is recovered/ refunded through tracking mechanisms.
As a result of MISO’s operational control over much of the Midwestern electric transmission grid, including SIGECO’s transmission facilities, SIGECO’s continued ability to import power, when necessary, and export power to the wholesale market has been, and may continue to be, impacted. Given the nature of MISO’s
policies regarding use of transmission facilities, as well as ongoing FERC initiatives, and a Day 3 ancillary services market (ASM), where MISO began providing a bid-based regulation and contingency operating reserve markets on January 6, 2009, it is difficult to predict near term operational impacts. The IURC has approved the Company’s participation in the ASM and has granted authority to defer costs associated with ASM. To date impacts from the ASM have been minor.
The need to expend capital for improvements to the regional transmission system, both to SIGECO’s facilities as well as to those facilities of adjacent utilities, over the next several years is expected to be significant. Beginning in June 2008, the Company began timely recovering its investment in certain new electric transmission
projects that benefit the MISO infrastructure at a FERC approved rate of return. Such revenues recorded in Electric Utility revenues associated with projects meeting the criteria of MISO’s transmission expansion plans totaled $2.2 million and $0.7 million for the three months ended June 30, 2009 and 2008 respectively. For the six months ended June 30, 2009 and 2008, revenues recorded in Electric Utility revenues associated with
projects meeting the criteria of MISO’s transmission expansion plans totaled $4.3 million and $0.7, respectively.
One such project currently under construction is an interstate 345 kilovolt transmission line that will connect Vectren’s A B Brown Station to a station in Indiana owned by Duke Energy to the north and to a station in Kentucky owned by Big Rivers Electric Corporation to the south. Throughout the project, SIGECO is to
recover an approximate 10 percent return, inclusive of the FERC approved equity rate of return of 12.38 percent, on capital investments through a rider mechanism which is updated annually for estimated costs to be incurred. Of the total investment, which is expected to approximate $70 million, as of June 30, 2009, the Company has invested approximately $5.8 million. The Company expects this project to be operational in 2011. At that time, any operating expenses
including depreciation expense are also expected to be recovered through a FERC approved rider mechanism. Further, the approval allows for recovery of expenditures made even in the event currently unforeseen difficulties delay or permanently halt the project.
Vectren South Electric Lost Margin Recovery Filing
In 2008, the Company made an initial filing with the IURC requesting a multi-year program to promote energy conservation and expanded demand side management programs within its Vectren South electric utility. As proposed, costs associated with these programs would be recovered through a tracking mechanism. The implementation
of these programs is designed to work in tandem with a lost margin recovery mechanism. This mechanism, as proposed, allows recovery of a portion of rates from residential and commercial customers based on the level of customer revenues established in Vectren South’s last electric general rate case. This program is similar to programs authorized by the IURC in the Company’s Indiana natural gas service territories. In April of 2009, all filings were completed, and the
Company would expect an IURC decision to occur during 2009.
Impact of Recently Issued Accounting Guidance
SFAS 157
On January 1, 2009, the Company adopted the provisions of SFAS No. 157, “Fair Value Measurements” (SFAS 157) as they relate to nonfinancial assets and nonfinancial liabilities that are measured at fair value on a nonrecurring basis, such as the initial measurement of an asset retirement obligation or the use of fair value goodwill,
intangible assets and long-lived assets impairment tests. This adoption had no significant impact on the Company’s operating results or financial condition.
SFAS 160
On January 1, 2009, the Company adopted SFAS No. 160, “Noncontrolling Interests in Consolidated Financial Statements-an Amendment of ARB No. 51” (SFAS 160). SFAS 160 establishes accounting and reporting standards that require ownership percentages in material subsidiaries held by parties other than the parent be clearly
identified, labeled, and presented separately from the parent’s equity in the equity section of the consolidated balance sheet; the amount of consolidated net income attributable to the parent and the noncontrolling interest to be clearly identified and presented on the face of the consolidated income statement; that changes in the parent’s ownership interest while it retains control over its subsidiary be accounted for consistently; that when a subsidiary is deconsolidated, any retained noncontrolling
equity investment be initially measured at fair value; and that sufficient disclosure is made to clearly identify and distinguish between the interests of the parent and the noncontrolling owners. Because of the diminimus level of entities that are controlled by the Company but are less than wholly-owned, the adoption of SFAS 160 had a minimal impact to the Company’s presentation of its financial position and operating results.
SFAS 161
On January 1, 2009, the Company adopted the qualitative and quantitative disclosures required in both interim and annual financial statements described in SFAS No. 161, “Disclosures about Derivative Instruments and Hedging Activities – an Amendment of FASB Statement No. 133” (SFAS 161). SFAS 161 describes enhanced
disclosures under SFAS 133 and requires that objectives for using derivative instruments be disclosed in terms of underlying risk and accounting designation in order to better convey the purpose of derivative use in terms of the risks that the entity is intending to manage. These disclosures are included in Note 13 to the consolidated condensed financial statements.
SFAS 165
The Company adopted Financial Accounting Standards No. 165, “Subsequent Events” (SFAS 165) on June 30, 2009. In the instance of a public registrant such as the Company, SFAS 165 establishes the accounting for and disclosure of events that occur after the balance sheet date but before financial statements are “issued”,
as that term is defined in SFAS 165. The standard requires the disclosure of the date through which an entity has evaluated subsequent events. Such disclosure is included in Note 2 to these consolidated financial statements. The adoption of SFAS 165 did not have a material impact.
SFAS 141R
On January 1, 2009, the Company adopted SFAS No. 141, “Business Combinations” (SFAS 141R). SFAS 141R establishes principles and requirements for how the acquirer of an entity (1) recognizes and measures the identifiable assets acquired, the liabilities assumed, and any noncontrolling interest in the acquiree (2) recognizes
and measures acquired goodwill or a bargain purchase gain and (3) determines what information to disclose in its financial statements in order to enable users to assess the nature and financial effects of the business combination. SFAS 141R applies to all transactions or other events in which one entity acquires control of one or more businesses and applies to all business entities. Because the provisions of this standard are applied prospectively, the impact to the Company cannot be determined
until the transactions occur.
FSP EITF 03-6-1
On January 1, 2009, the Company adopted FSP EITF 03-6-1, “Determining Whether Instruments Granted in Share-Based Payment Transactions Are Participating Securities” (FSP EITF 03-6-1). FSP EITF 03-6-1 clarified that unvested share-based payment awards that contain rights to nonforfeitable dividends participate in undistributed
earnings with common shareholders. Awards of this nature that impact the calculation of EPS are participating securities. The presence of a participating security requires EPS to be calculated using the two-class method.
Of the approximate 81 million shares outstanding as of June 30, 2009, unvested share-based payment awards that contain rights to nonforfeitable dividends comprise less than one percent. The Company recently prospectively changed share-based payment awards such that dividends on awards granted in 2009 and beyond are subject to forfeiture.
As a result of the insignificant level of participating securities subject to the two-class method of computing earnings per share, the adoption of FSP EITF 03-6-1 had immaterial impacts to both current and prior period earnings per share calculations.
EITF 08-05
On January 1, 2009, the Company adopted EITF Issue No. 08-5, “Issuer's Accounting for Liabilities Measured at Fair Value with a Third-Party Credit Enhancement” (EITF 08-5). EITF 08-5 states that companies should not include the effect of third-party credit enhancements in the fair value measurement of the related liabilities. EITF
08-5 also requires companies with outstanding liabilities measured or disclosed at fair value to disclose the existence of credit enhancements, to disclose valuation techniques used to measure liabilities and to include a discussion of changes, if any, from the valuation techniques used to measure liabilities in prior periods.
As of June 30, 2009, the Company has approximately $251.1 million of debt instruments that are supported by a third party credit enhancement feature such as insurance from a monoline insurer or a letter of credit posted by third party that supports the Company’s credit facilities. It is not anticipated the Company’s
valuation techniques will change materially at a result of the adoption of EITF 08-5.
FASB Staff Position (FSP) 142-3
In April 2008, the FASB issued FSP No. 142-3, Determination of the Useful Life of Intangible Assets. FSP No. 142-3 amends the factors that should be considered in developing renewal or extension assumptions used to determine the useful life of a recognized intangible asset
under SFAS No. 142, Goodwill and Other Intangible Assets. The Company adopted FSP No. 142-3 as of January 1, 2009 and such adoption did not have a material impact on the consolidated financial statements.
FASB Staff Positions on Fair Value Accounting and Disclosure
On June 30, 2009, the Company adopted FSP No. FAS 107-1 and APB 28-1, “Interim Disclosures about Fair Value of Financial Instruments” (FSP 107-1). FSP 107-1 requires disclosure in interim financial statements as well as annual financial statements of fair value of all financial instruments for which it is practicable
to estimate that value, whether recognized or not recognized in the statement of financial position, as required by FASB Statement No. 107. The carrying values and estimated fair values of the Company's other financial instruments are included in Note 13 to the consolidated financial statements.
On June 30, 2009, the Company also adopted FSP FAS 157-4, “Determining Fair Value When the Volume and Level of Activity for the Asset or Liability Have Significantly Decreased and Identifying Transactions That Are Not Orderly” and FSP FAS 115-2 and FAS 124-2, “Recognition and Presentation of Other-Than-Temporary Impairments.”
FSP FAS 157-4 provides additional guidance for estimating fair value in accordance with SFAS 157 when the volume and level of activity for the asset or liability have significantly decreased and also includes guidance on identifying circumstances that indicate a transaction is not orderly. FSP FAS 115-2 and FAS 124-2, impacts the impairment testing of debt securities held for investment purposes and the presentation and disclosure requirements for debt and equity securities described in FASB Statement
115. The adoption of these two standards did not have any material impact to the Company’s financial statements.
FSP No. FAS 132(R)-1
In December 2008, the FASB issued FSP No. FAS 132(R)-1, “Employers’ Disclosures about Postretirement Benefit Plan Assets” (FSP 132(R)-1). FSP 132(R)-1 amends the plan asset disclosures required under FAS Statement No. 132(R) to provide guidance on an employer’s
disclosures about plan assets of a defined benefit pension or other postretirement plan. Guidance provided by this FSP relates to disclosures about investment policies and strategies, categories of plan assets, fair value measurements of plan assets, and significant concentrations of risk. FSP FAS 132(R)-1 is effective for fiscal years ending after December 15, 2009. The Company will include FSP FAS 132(R)-1’s disclosure requirements in its 2009 annual financial statements.
Financial Condition
Utility Holdings funds the short-term and long-term financing needs of Vectren’s utility operations. Vectren does not guarantee Utility Holdings’ debt. Utility Holdings’ outstanding long-term and short-term borrowing arrangements are jointly and severally guaranteed by Indiana Gas, SIGECO, and VEDO. Utility
Holdings’ long-term obligations outstanding at June 30, 2009 approximated $922 million. As of June 30, 2009, Utility Holdings had approximately $43 million of cash invested in money market funds and no material short-term borrowings outstanding to third parties. Additionally, prior to Utility Holdings’ formation, Indiana Gas and SIGECO funded their operations separately, and therefore, have long-term debt outstanding funded solely by their operations. Utility Holdings’
utility operations have historically been the primary source for Vectren’s common stock dividends.
The credit ratings of the senior unsecured debt of Utility Holdings and Indiana Gas, at June 30, 2009, are A-/Baa1 as rated by Standard and Poor's Ratings Services (Standard and Poor’s) and Moody’s Investors Service (Moody’s), respectively. The credit ratings on SIGECO's secured debt are A/A3. Utility
Holdings’ commercial paper has a credit rating of A-2/P-2. The current outlook of both Moody’s and Standard and Poor’s is stable. These ratings and outlooks have not changed since December 31, 2008. Subsequent to June 30, 2009, Moody’s raised its credit rating on SIGECO’s secured debt from A3 to A2. A security rating is not a recommendation to buy, sell, or hold securities. The rating is subject to revision or withdrawal at any
time, and each rating should be evaluated independently of any other rating. Standard and Poor’s and Moody’s lowest level investment grade rating is BBB- and Baa3, respectively.
The Company’s consolidated equity capitalization objective is 45-55 percent of long-term capitalization. This objective may have varied, and will vary, depending on particular business opportunities, capital spending requirements, execution of long-term financing plans and seasonal factors that affect the Company’s operations. The
Company’s equity component was 50 percent and 52 percent of long-term capitalization at June 30, 2009 and December 31, 2008, respectively. Long-term capitalization includes long-term debt, including current maturities and debt subject to tender, as well as common shareholder’s equity.
As of June 30, 2009, the Company was in compliance with all financial covenants.
Available Liquidity in Current Credit Conditions
The Company’s A-/Baa1 investment grade credit ratings have allowed it to access the capital markets as needed during this period of credit market volatility. Over the last twelve months, the Company has restored its short-term borrowing capacity with the completion of several long-term financing transactions including the
issuance of long-term debt in both 2008 and 2009 and the receipt of equity contributions from Vectren in 2008 totaling $124.9 million and 2009 totaling $4.2 million. The liquidity provided by these transactions, when coupled with existing cash and expected internally generated funds, is expected to be sufficient over the near term to fund anticipated capital expenditures, investments, and debt security redemptions.
Regarding debt redemptions, they are insignificant for the remainder of 2009 and 2010. In addition, holders of certain debt instruments had the one-time option to put $80 million of debt to the Company during 2009, but that option was not exercised, and the debt has been reclassified as Long-term
debt in these consolidated financial statements as of June 30, 2009. In addition, investors have the one-time option to put $10 million in 2010.
Long-term debt transactions completed in 2009 include a $100 million issuance by Utility Holdings. SIGECO also recently remarketed $41.3 million of long-term debt. These transactions are more fully described in Note 9 to the financial statements.
Consolidated Short-Term Borrowing Arrangements
At June 30, 2009, the Company had $520 million of short-term borrowing capacity. As reduced by outstanding letters of credit, approximately $478 million was available. Of the $520 million capacity, $515 million is available through November, 2010.
Historically, the Company has funded its short-term borrowing needs through the commercial paper market. In 2008, the Company’s access to longer term commercial paper was significantly reduced as a result of the continued turmoil and volatility in the financial markets. As a result, the Company met working capital requirements
through a combination of A2/P2 commercial paper issuances and draws on Utility Holdings’ $515 million commercial paper back-up credit facilities. Throughout 2009, the Company has been able to place commercial paper without any significant issues.
Proceeds from Stock Plans
Vectren may periodically issue new common shares to satisfy dividend reinvestment plan, stock option plan, and other employee benefit plan requirements and contribute those proceeds to Utility Holdings. In 2009, new issuances required to meet these various plan requirements are estimated to be approximately $6 million, and such
amount contributed to Utility Holdings during the six months ended June 30, 2009 totaled $4.2 million.
Potential Uses of Liquidity
Planned Capital Expenditures & Investments
Utility capital expenditures are estimated at $134 million for the remainder of 2009.
Pension and Postretirement Funding Obligations
Due to the recent significant asset value declines experienced by Vectren’s pension plan trusts, asset values for qualified plans as of December 31, 2008 were approximately 61 percent of the projected benefit obligation. In order to increase the funded status, management currently estimates the qualified pension plans require Company
contributions of approximately $28 million in 2009. Under current market conditions, Vectren expects funding a lesser level in 2010. A portion of this funding may be provided by Utility Holdings. Through June 30, 2009, approximately $14.3 million in contributions were made, of which $9.6 million was funded by Utility Holdings.
Comparison of Historical Sources & Uses of Liquidity
Operating Cash Flow
The Company's primary source of liquidity to fund working capital requirements has been cash generated from operations, which totaled $250.4 million in 2009, compared to $317.5 million in 2008, a decrease of $67.1 million. The decrease was primarily due to changes in working capital caused by the timing of intercompany tax transactions
and the timing of natural gas inventory sales and purchases due to exiting the merchant function in the Ohio service territory in October of 2008.
Financing Cash Flow
Although working capital requirements are generally funded by cash flow from operations, the Company uses short-term borrowings to supplement working capital needs when accounts receivable balances are at their highest and gas storage is refilled. Additionally, short-term borrowings are required for capital projects and investments
until they are financed on a long-term basis.
During 2009, net cash flow associated with financing activities is reflective of management’s ongoing effort to rely less on short-term borrowing arrangements. During the six months ended June 30, 2009, the Company’s operating cash flow has been more than sufficient to fund dividends and capital expenditures. This
excess, when coupled with long-term debt transactions completed during 2009, has resulted in the repayment of approximately $190 million in short term borrowings.
Investing Cash Flow
Cash flow required for investing activities was $162.8 million in 2009 and $132.4 million in 2008. Approximately $20 million of the increase results from increased capital expenditures attributable to the January 2009 ice storm.
Forward-Looking Information
A “safe harbor” for forward-looking statements is provided by the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995 (Reform Act of 1995). The Reform Act of 1995 was adopted to encourage such forward-looking statements without the threat of litigation, provided those statements are identified as forward-looking
and are accompanied by meaningful cautionary statements identifying important factors that could cause the actual results to differ materially from those projected in the statement. Certain matters described in Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Results of Operations and Financial Condition are forward-looking statements. Such statements are based on management’s beliefs, as well as assumptions made by and information currently available to management. When used
in this filing, the words “believe”, “anticipate”, “endeavor”, “estimate”, “expect”, “objective”, “projection”, “forecast”, “goal”, “likely”, and similar expressions are intended to identify forward-looking statements. In addition to any assumptions and other factors referred to specifically in connection with such forward-looking statements, factors that could cause the Company’s
actual results to differ materially from those contemplated in any forward-looking statements include, among others, the following:
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Factors affecting utility operations such as unusual weather conditions; catastrophic weather-related damage; unusual maintenance or repairs; unanticipated changes to fossil fuel costs; unanticipated changes to gas transportation and storage costs, or availability due to higher demand, shortages, transportation problems or other developments;
environmental or pipeline incidents; transmission or distribution incidents; unanticipated changes to electric energy supply costs, or availability due to demand, shortages, transmission problems or other developments; or electric transmission or gas pipeline system constraints. |
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Increased competition in the energy industry, including the effects of industry restructuring and unbundling. |
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Regulatory factors such as unanticipated changes in rate-setting policies or procedures, recovery of investments and costs made under traditional regulation, and the frequency and timing of rate increases. |
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Financial, regulatory or accounting principles or policies imposed by the Financial Accounting Standards Board; the Securities and Exchange Commission; the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission; state public utility commissions; state entities which regulate electric and natural gas transmission and distribution, natural gas gathering
and processing, electric power supply; and similar entities with regulatory oversight. |
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Economic conditions including the effects of an economic downturn, inflation rates, commodity prices, and monetary fluctuations. |
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Economic conditions surrounding the current recession, which may be more prolonged and more severe than cyclical downturns, including significantly lower levels of economic activity; uncertainty regarding energy prices and the capital and commodity markets; decreases in demand for natural gas, and electricity; impacts on both gas and
electric large customers; lower residential and commercial customer counts; and higher operating expenses; |
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Increased natural gas and coal commodity prices and the potential impact on customer consumption, uncollectible accounts expense, unaccounted for gas and interest expense. |
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Changing market conditions and a variety of other factors associated with physical energy and financial trading activities including, but not limited to, price, basis, credit, liquidity, volatility, capacity, interest rate, and warranty risks. |
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Direct or indirect effects on the Company’s business, financial condition, liquidity and results of operations resulting from changes in credit ratings, changes in interest rates, and/or changes in market perceptions of the utility industry and other energy-related industries. |
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Employee or contractor workforce factors including changes in key executives, collective bargaining agreements with union employees, aging workforce issues, work stoppages, or pandemic illness. |
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Legal and regulatory delays and other obstacles associated with mergers, acquisitions and investments in joint ventures. |
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Costs, fines, penalties and other effects of legal and administrative proceedings, settlements, investigations, claims, including, but not limited to, such matters involving compliance with state and federal laws and interpretations of these laws. |
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Changes in or additions to federal, state or local legislative requirements, such as changes in or additions to tax laws or rates, environmental laws, including laws governing greenhouse gases, mandates of sources of renewable energy, and other regulations. |
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The performance of projects undertaken by Vectren’s nonutility businesses and the success of efforts to invest in and develop new opportunities, including but not limited to, the Company’s coal mining, gas marketing, and energy infrastructure strategies. |
The Company undertakes no obligation to publicly update or revise any forward-looking statements, whether as a result of changes in actual results, changes in assumptions, or other factors affecting such statements.
ITEM 3. QUANTITATIVE AND QUALITATIVE DISCLOSURES ABOUT MARKET RISK
The Company is exposed to various business risks associated with commodity prices, interest rates, and counter-party credit. These financial exposures are monitored and managed by the Company as an integral part of its overall risk management program. The Company’s risk management program includes, among other things,
the use of derivatives. The Company may also execute derivative contracts in the normal course of operations while buying and selling commodities to be used in operations and optimizing its generation assets.
The Company has in place a risk management committee that consists of senior management as well as financial and operational management. The committee is actively involved in identifying risks as well as reviewing and authorizing risk mitigation strategies. |
These risks are not significantly different from the information set forth in Item 7A Quantitative and Qualitative Disclosures About Market Risk included in the Vectren Utility Holdings, Inc. 2008 Form 10-K and is therefore not presented herein.
Changes in Internal Controls over Financial Reporting
During the quarter ended June 30, 2009, there have been no changes to the Company’s internal controls over financial reporting that have materially affected, or are reasonably likely to materially affect, the Company’s internal control over financial reporting.
Conclusion Regarding the Effectiveness of Disclosure Controls and Procedures
As of June 30, 2009, the Company conducted an evaluation under the supervision and with the participation of the Chief Executive Officer and Chief Financial Officer of the effectiveness and the design and operation of the Company's disclosure controls and procedures. Based on that evaluation, the Chief Executive Officer and the
Chief Financial Officer have concluded that the Company's disclosure controls and procedures are effective as of June 30, 2009, to ensure that information required to be disclosed in reports filed or submitted under the Exchange Act is:
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accumulated and communicated to management, including the Chief Executive Officer and Chief Financial Officer, as appropriate to allow timely decisions regarding required disclosure. |
PART II. OTHER INFORMATION
The Company is party to various legal proceedings and audits and reviews by taxing authorities and other government agencies arising in the normal course of business. In the opinion of management, there are no legal proceedings or other regulatory reviews or audits pending against the Company that are likely to have a material adverse
effect on its financial position, results of operations, or cash flows. See the notes to the consolidated financial statements regarding commitments and contingencies, environmental matters, rate and regulatory matters. The consolidated condensed financial statements are included in Part 1 Item 1.
Investors should consider carefully factors that may impact the Company’s operating results and financial condition, causing them to be materially adversely affected. The Company’s risk factors have not materially changed from the information set forth in Item 1A Risk Factors included in the Vectren Utility Holdings
2008 Form 10-K and are therefore not presented herein.
Exhibits and Certifications
Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned thereunto duly authorized.
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/s/Jerome A. Benkert, Jr. |
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Jerome A. Benkert, Jr. |
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Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer |
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/s/M. Susan Hardwick |
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M. Susan Hardwick |
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Vice President, Controller and Assistant Treasurer |
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