Alliant Energy Corporation (LNT) Q2 2026 Earnings Call

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Thank you for holding and welcome to Alliant Energy's second quarter 2026 earnings conference call. At this time, all lines are in a listen-only mode. Today's conference call is being recorded. I would now like to turn the call over to your host, Susan Gill, Investor Relations Manager at Alliant Energy. Good morning and thank you for joining Alliant Energy's second quarter 2026 financial results conference call. Joining me today are Lisa Barton, President and Chief Executive Officer, and Robert Durian, Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer. Following their prepared remarks, we will have time to take questions from the investment community. Last night, Thank you so much for joining us today. Thank you for joining us. Reconciliations to GAAP results are provided in the earnings release available on our website. At this point, I'll turn the call over to Lisa. Thank you, Sue, and good morning, everyone. We delivered strong second quarter results and continue to execute well across our business. Despite milder weather during the first six months of the year, we are currently trending in the upper half of our 2026 earnings guidance range while advancing the investments and customer solutions that support our long-term growth strategy. Our strategy is anchored in the Alliant Energy Advantage, the ability to align customer growth, constructive regulation, flexible resource planning and disciplined execution in a way that benefits customers, communities and share owners. As previously announced, our efforts to date have resulted in an expectation of driving a 60% increase in our demand by 2031 through five executed electric service agreements with large load customers. Three of these large loads are already under active construction with commission-approved con...