This Current Report on Form 8-K provides selected preliminary unaudited consolidated financial results of Energy Future Holdings Corp. (“EFH”) for the nine months ended September 30, 2007, which were released on October 23, 2007. Please note that, unless as explicitly stated herein, the results presented below are the consolidated results for EFH, which include the results for Oncor Electric Delivery Company LLC (“Oncor Electric Delivery”) and its subsidiaries.
The following information is preliminary and, as a result, during the course of EFH’s preparation of its final consolidated financial statements and the related notes and the completion of EFH’s quarterly closing procedures and analyses, EFH may identify items that would require it to make adjustments to the preliminary GAAP financial results presented in this Current Report on Form 8-K. The preliminary financial results presented in this Current Report on Form 8-K have been prepared on a basis consistent with EFH’s consolidated financial statements included in its Current Report on Form 8-K filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”) on October 17, 2007. These preliminary financial results are not necessarily indicative of the results to be expected for the full year or any future period. These preliminary financial results should be read in conjunction with ‘‘Energy Future Holdings Corp. Unaudited Pro Forma Condensed Consolidated Financial Information,’’ ‘‘Selected Historical Consolidated Financial Data,’’ and ‘‘Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations,’’ all of which are included in EFH’s Current Report on Form 8-K filed with the SEC on October 17, 2007.
Property, plant and equipment, net as of September 30, 2007 is expected to increase by approximately $1.5 billion, or approximately 8%, to approximately $20.2 billion compared to $18.8 billion at December 31, 2006. This increase reflects development and construction costs associated with new lignite coal-fueled generation facilities, net of the impairment of balances related to eight units suspended in February 2007, and ongoing investment spending in existing generation operations and the transmission/distribution system, partially offset by depreciation expense for the period.
Operating revenues are expected to decrease by between approximately $1.3 to $1.5 billion, or 15% to 18%, to between approximately $7.0 and $7.2 billion compared to $8.5 billion in the same period in 2006. This decline primarily reflects, in approximately equal measures, lower retail electricity revenues and net losses in 2007 from risk management and trading activities (compared to net gains in 2006 from these activities). The lower retail revenues reflect volume declines due to customer churn, particularly in the first half of the year, and lower average consumption per customer due in part to cooler, below normal weather this past summer. The revenue decline also reflects lower average pricing, including the effects of residential price discounts implemented in 2007. The results from risk management and trading activities are driven by unrealized mark-to-market net losses associated with positions entered into as part of the long-term hedging program due to higher forward natural gas prices.
Net income is expected to decrease by between approximately $1.4 to 1.5 billion, or 67% to 72%, to between approximately $600 to $700 million compared to $2.1 billion in the same period in 2006. This decrease is driven by the factors affecting operating revenues discussed immediately above as well as charges arising from the suspension of development of eight coal-fueled generation units in February 2007. Other contributing factors to the net income performance include the effects of a planned nuclear generation unit outage in early 2007 and higher lignite mining costs resulting from weather-related inefficiencies, increased selling, general and administrative costs in the retail and generation facility development and construction operations and the costs associated with Oncor Electric Delivery’s 2006 cities rate settlement.
Adjusted EBITDA including Oncor Electric Delivery’s EBITDA is expected to decrease by between approximately $600 million to $800 million, or 14% to 18%, to between approximately $3.6 to $3.8 billion compared to $4.4 billion in the same period in 2006. Adjusted EBITDA excluding Oncor Electric Delivery is expected to decrease by between $600 million to $800 million, or 17% to 22%, to between approximately $2.8 billion and $3.0 billion compared to $3.6 billion in the same period in 2006. This decrease is driven by the lower average retail pricing and the decline in retail sales volumes referred to in the discussion of operating revenues above and also reflects the other contributing factors cited in the discussion of net income above.