Based on financial performance through November, management expects its competitive retail subsidiary, First Choice Power, to finish the year in the higher end of its EBITDA range of $55 million to $60 million, with the potential to exceed the range. Through its utility and energy subsidiaries, PNM Resources has more than 2,700 megawatts of generation resources and serves electricity to more than 884,000 homes and businesses in New Mexico and Texas. Statements made in this news release that relate to future events or PNM Resources’, PNM’s, or TNMP’s (collectively, the “Companies”) expectations, projections, estimates, intentions, goals, targets and strategies, are made pursuant to the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. The Companies’ business, financial condition, cash flow and operating results are influenced by many factors, which are often beyond their control that can cause actual results to differ from those expressed or implied by the forward-looking statements. These factors include conditions affecting the Companies’ ability to access the financial markets or Optim Energy’s access to additional debt financing following the utilization of its existing credit facility, including actions by ratings agencies affecting the Companies’ credit ratings; the recession, its consequent extreme disruption in the credit markets, and its impacts on the electricity usage of the Companies’ customers; state and federal regulatory and legislative decisions and actions, including appeals of prior regulatory proceedings; the ability of PNM to meet the renewable energy requirements established by the New Mexico Public Regulation Commission, including the resource diversity requirement, within the specified cost parameters, and the Company’s ability to obtain federal and/or state funding and incentives for the development of alternative or renewable energy; the performance of generating units, including the Palo Verde Nuclear Generating Station, the San Juan Generating Station, the Four Corners Plant, and Optim Energy generating units, and transmission systems; the risk that Optim Energy desires to expand its generation capacity but is unable to identify and implement profitable acquisitions, or that PNM Resources and ECJV will not agree to make additional capital contributions to Optim Energy; the potential unavailability of cash from PNM Resources’ subsidiaries or Optim Energy due to regulatory, statutory or contractual restrictions; the impacts of the decline in the values of marketable equity securities on the trust funds maintained to provide nuclear decommissioning funding and pension and other postretirement benefits, including the levels of funding and expense; the ability of First Choice Power to attract and retain customers and collect amounts billed; changes in Electric Reliability Council of Texas protocols; changes in the cost of power acquired by First Choice Power; collections experience; insurance coverage available for claims made in litigation; fluctuations in interest rates; weather; water supply; changes in fuel costs; availability of fuel supplies; uncertainty regarding the requirements and related costs of decommissioning power plants owned or partially owned by PNM and Optim Energy and coal mines supplying certain PNM power plants as well as the ability to recover decommissioning costs through charges to customers; the risk that replacement power costs incurred by PNM related to not meeting the specified capacity factor for its generating units under its Emergency Fuel and Purchase Power Cost Adjustment Clause will not be approved by the New Mexico Public Regulation Commission; the risk that PNM may not be able to renew rights-of-way on Native American lands or that the costs of rights-of-way are not allowed to be recovered through rates charged to customers; the effectiveness of risk management and commodity risk transactions; seasonality and other changes in supply and demand in the market for electric power; variability of wholesale power prices and natural gas prices; volatility and liquidity in the wholesale power markets and the natural gas markets; uncertainty regarding the ongoing validity of government programs for emission allowances; the risk that the resolution of the bankruptcy of the Lyondell Chemical Company results in significant adverse impacts on the operations of the Altura Cogen facility and Optim Energy; changes in the competitive environment in the electric industry; the risk that the Companies and Optim Energy may have to commit to substantial capital investments and additional operating costs to comply with new environmental control requirements, including possible future requirements to address concerns about global climate change; the risks associated with completion of generation, transmission, distribution, and other projects, including construction delays and unanticipated cost overruns; the outcome of legal proceedings; changes in applicable accounting principles; and the performance of state, regional, and national economies. 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