Duke Energy Corporation (Holding Company) (DUK) Q2 2025 Earnings Call

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Hello, everyone, and thank you for joining the Duke Energy Second Quarter 2025 Earnings Call. My name is Sammy, and I'll be coordinating your call today. During the presentation, you can register a question by pressing star followed by one on your telephone keypad. If you change your mind, please press star followed by two on your telephone keypad to remove yourself from the question queue. I'll now hand over to our host, Abby Motzinger, Vice President of Investor Relations to begin. Please go ahead, Abby. Thank you, Sammy, and good morning, everyone. Welcome to Duke Energy's second quarter 2025 earnings review and business update. Leading our call today is Harry Sedaris, President and CEO, along with Brian Savoy, Executive Vice President and CFO. Today's discussion will include the use of non-GAAP financial measures and forward-looking information. Actual results may differ from forward-looking statements due to factors disclosed in today's materials and in Duke Energy's SEC filings. The appendix of today's presentation includes supplemental information, along with the reconciliation of non-GAAP financial measures. With that, let me turn the call over to Harry. Thank you, Abby, and good morning, everyone. It's great to be with you today for our second quarter earnings call. We have a lot of exciting news to share this morning, starting with Brookfield Infrastructure's $6 billion minority investment in our Florida business. This transaction enables a material strengthening of our credit profile as we enter this period of significant growth, as well as the ability to grow our Florida utility at its full potential. We are now targeting FFO to debt of 15%, a 100 basis point increase versus our previous target. We are also increasing our Florida capital plan by $4 billio...