The company's 10-year capital expenditure plan has increased to nearly $47.5 billion through 2030, indicating a strong commitment to infrastructure investment and future growth initiatives. These investments are focused on system reliability, resiliency, and grid modernization.

CenterPoint Energy, through CERC Corp., entered into an agreement to sell its Louisiana and Mississippi natural gas LDC businesses. This strategic move indicates a focus on core regulated segments and a reallocation of capital.

The company anticipates spending over $3 billion in lower-emissions energy investments and enablement as part of its 10-year capital plan. This reflects a strategic shift towards cleaner energy sources and aligns with sustainability goals.

The company is focused on targeting controllable operations and maintenance savings for the benefit of customers. This indicates a commitment to operational efficiency and cost control.

Indiana Electric is implementing a generation transition plan, indicating proactive management in adapting to changing energy market dynamics and environmental regulations. This involves transitioning its generation fleet to a wider mix of resources, including renewables.

Houston Electric's GHRI and SRP are being implemented, which indicates a proactive approach to enhancing system resiliency and reliability. These plans aim to improve grid infrastructure and reduce the impact of severe weather events.

The company is subject to rate regulation, which may delay or deny the ability to earn an expected return and fully and timely recover their costs.

The company is subject to operational and financial risks and liabilities arising from environmental laws and regulations, including regulation of CCR, climate change legislation and certain local initiatives that seek to limit fossil fuel usage.

Disruptions to the global supply chain may lead to higher prices for goods and services and impact our operations, which could have an adverse impact on our ability to execute our capital plan and on our financial condition, results of operations and cash flows.

There are no other electric transmission and distribution utilities in Houston Electric's service area. However, distributed generation could result in a reduction of demand for Houston Electric's distribution services.

Natural Gas competes primarily with alternate energy sources such as electricity and other fuel sources. In some areas, intrastate pipelines, other gas distributors and natural gas marketers also compete directly with Natural Gas for natural gas sales to end users.

There are no other electric transmission and distribution utilities in Indiana Electric's service area. Indiana Electric is a vertically integrated utility that owns the generation, transmission, and distribution components of a utility.

Houston Electric and Indiana Electric continue to invest in system improvements to enhance reliability and resiliency, indicating a focus on operational efficiency and service quality.

Indiana Electric is 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 as determined by the MISO market.

CenterPoint Energy's and CERC's Natural Gas actively engage in commodity price stabilization pursuant to annual gas supply plans presented to and/or filed with each of its state regulatory authorities.

CenterPoint is deploying advanced metering systems. This allows for improved data collection and management, which enhances operational efficiency and customer service.

The company is using and exploring the further use of AI, including generative AI, and its ability to enhance the services we offer to the communities we serve.

Minnesota has enacted the Natural Gas Innovation Act that seeks to provide customers with access to renewable energy resources and innovative technologies, with the goal of reducing GHG emissions.

The company has a significant 10-year capital expenditure plan, indicating a strong commitment to infrastructure development and growth. The plan is focused on system reliability, resiliency, and grid modernization.

The company utilizes a mix of debt and equity issuances to finance its operations and capital expenditures. This indicates a balanced approach to capital structure management.

The company has been reducing debt and is planning to reduce debt, indicating a focus on financial stability and balance sheet strength.

CenterPoint Energy announced its net zero emissions goals for both Scope 1 emissions and certain Scope 2 emissions by 2035 as well as a goal to reduce certain Scope 3 emissions by 20% to 30% by 2035 from a 2021 baseline.

The company is working towards reducing GHG emissions.

Investors, lenders, regulators and other stakeholders are focusing on issues related to environmental justice, which may result in increased scrutiny of our applicable regulatory processes and additional costs of compliance or may adversely affect our reputation.

The occurrence of extreme weather events, including winter storms and record hot temperatures, or other causes could lead to additional reforms to the Texas electric market, some measure of which, if implemented, could have an adverse impact on Houston Electric.

There are no other electric transmission and distribution utilities in Houston Electric's service area. For another provider of transmission and distribution services to provide such services in Houston Electric's territory, it would be required to obtain a CCN from the PUCT.

The global supply chain has experienced disruptions due to a multitude of factors, such as geopolitical and economic uncertainty, regulatory and policy instability, import tariffs and trade agreements, labor shortages, resource availability, long lead time, manufacturer production limitations, delivery delays, inflation, severe weather events and disruptions to internal or international shipping.