Columbia Gas of Kentucky, Inc.

Forward-Looking Statement Disclaimer

This website contains "forward-looking statements," within the meaning of Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the "Securities Act"), and Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the "Exchange Act"). These forward-looking statements include, but are not limited to, statements concerning our financial guidance, plans, strategies, objectives, expected performance, planned expenditures, recovery of expenditures through rates, stated on either a consolidated or segment basis, and any and all underlying assumptions and other statements that are not statements of historical fact. Expressions of future goals and expectations and similar expressions reflecting something other than historical fact, including "may," "will," "should," "could," "would," "aims," "seeks," "expects," "plans," "anticipates," "intends," "believes," "estimates," "predicts," "potential," "targets," "forecast," and "continue," are intended to identify forward-looking statements. All forward-looking statements are based on assumptions that management believes to be reasonable; however, there can be no assurance that actual results will not differ materially. Investors and prospective investors should understand that many factors impact whether any forward-looking statement contained herein will or can be realized. Any one of those factors could cause actual results to differ materially from those projected.

Factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from those projected in any forward-looking statement discussed in this presentation include, among other things: our ability to execute our business plan or growth strategy, including utility infrastructure investments, or business opportunities; our ability to manage data center growth in our service territories; potential incidents and other operating risks associated with our business; our ability to work successfully with our JV partners; our ability to construct, develop and place into service the generation or transmission assets we develop to support the customer under the data center contract (the “Contract Assets”) and any future data center contracts on time or at all and consistent with initial cost estimates, as well as the performance of such assets once constructed and placed into service; our ability to obtain the significant additional financing required to construct the Contract Assets and any other generation or transmission assets we develop to support future data center contracts on favorable terms, if at all; our ability to recover our investments and realize our expected return under the data center contract and any future data center contracts that we enter into; our ability to maintain our investment grade credit ratings as we finance and pursue our data center strategy, including our performance under the data center contract and any future data center contracts that we enter into; our customers’ performance under the data center contract and any future data center contracts; any decision by our customer or future customers to terminate the data center contract or future data center contracts or reduce the committed capacity thereunder; potential changes in the MISO accreditation treatment of capacity resources; our ability to adapt to, and manage costs related to, advances in technology, including alternative energy sources and changes in related laws and regulations; our increased dependency on technology; impacts related to our aging infrastructure; our ability to obtain sufficient insurance coverage and whether such coverage will protect us against significant losses; the success of our electric generation strategy; construction risks and supply risks; fluctuations in demand from residential and commercial customers; fluctuations in the price of energy commodities and related transportation costs or an inability to obtain an adequate, reliable and cost-effective fuel supply to meet customer demand; our ability to attract, retain or re-skill a qualified workforce and maintain good labor relations; our ability to manage new initiatives and organizational changes; the performance and quality of third-party suppliers and service providers; our ability to manage the financial and operational risks related to achieving our carbon emission reduction goals, including our Net Zero Goal, including any future associated impact from business opportunities such as data center development as those opportunities evolve; potential cybersecurity attacks or security breaches; increased requirements and costs related to cybersecurity; the actions of activist stockholders; any damage to our reputation; the impacts of natural disasters, potential terrorist attacks or other catastrophic events; the physical impacts of climate change and the transition to a lower carbon future; our debt obligations; any changes to our credit ratings or the credit ratings of certain of our subsidiaries; adverse economic and capital market conditions, including increases in inflation or interest rates, recession, or changes in investor sentiment; economic regulation and the impact of regulatory rate reviews; our ability to obtain expected financial or regulatory outcomes; economic conditions in certain industries; the ability of customers and suppliers to fulfill their payment and contractual obligations; the ability of our subsidiaries to generate cash; pension funding obligations; potential impairments of goodwill; the outcome of legal and regulatory proceedings, investigations, incidents, claims and litigation; compliance with changes in, or new interpretations of applicable laws, regulations and tariffs; the cost of compliance with environmental laws and regulations and the costs of associated liabilities; changes in tax laws or the interpretation thereof; and other matters set forth in Item 1, "Business," Item 1A, "Risk Factors" and Part II, Item 7, "Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations," of our Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2025 and matters set forth in our subsequent Quarterly Reports on Form 10-Q, some of which risks are beyond our control. In addition, the relative contributions to profitability by each business segment, and the assumptions underlying the forward-looking statements relating thereto, may change over time.

All forward-looking statements are expressly qualified in their entirety by the foregoing cautionary statements. We undertake no obligation to, and expressly disclaim any such obligation to, update or revise any forward-looking statement to reflect changed assumptions, the occurrence of anticipated or unanticipated events or changes to expected results over time or otherwise, except as required by law.

Non-GAAP Disclosure Statement   

Commencing in 2026, the company will begin to present base plan adjusted EPS, GenCo/data center adjusted EPS,  and consolidated adjusted EPS.  This website includes financial results and guidance for NiSource with respect to adjusted net income available to common shareholders, base plan adjusted EPS, GenCo/data center adjusted EPS, consolidated adjusted EPS, segment adjusted operating revenue/expense/income, funds from operations/debt, and adjusted earnings CAGR, which are non-GAAP financial measures as defined by the Securities and Exchange Commission. As presented herein, guidance with respect to base plan adjusted EPS, including annual base plan adjusted EPS growth, excludes, in addition to the items historically excluded from adjusted EPS, the impact of data center operations and development activities relating to the provision of electric service to current and future data center or other large load customers. Guidance with respect to GenCo/data center adjusted EPS (which may also be referred to as GenCo adjusted EPS) excludes, in addition to the items historically excluded from adjusted EPS, the impact of all of our operations other than data center operations and development activities relating to serving data center or other large load customers. For the avoidance of doubt, base plan adjusted EPS combined with data center adjusted EPS will equal NiSource’s consolidated adjusted EPS.  The company is providing guidance regarding base plan adjusted EPS because it expects that the earnings from its data center operations and development activities described above will experience a different growth profile compared to the base plan adjusted EPS growth. Providing guidance with respect to base plan adjusted EPS growth, GenCo/data center adjusted EPS growth and consolidated adjusted EPS growth will provide investors with the same information that management considers to evaluate the company’s ongoing business performance and provide greater transparency into the performance of different aspects of our business that are impacted by distinct trends and factors. 

Reconciliations of historical non-GAAP financial measures to the most comparable GAAP financial measures can found in our quarterly and yearly materials within the “Financial Filings and Reports” page of the Investor section of our website. With respect to guidance, NiSource reminds investors that it does not provide a GAAP equivalent of its guidance on base plan adjusted EPS, GenCo/data center adjusted EPS or consolidated adjusted EPS or its funds from operations/debt due to the impact of unpredictable factors such as fluctuations in weather, the impact of asset sales and impairments, and other unusual or infrequent items included in the comparable GAAP measures, which may be material. The company is not able to estimate the impact of such factors on GAAP measures and, as such, the company is not able to provide a reconciliation of its non-GAAP base plan adjusted EPS, GenCo/data center adjusted EPS or consolidated adjusted EPS or its funds from operations/debt guidance to the comparable GAAP equivalents without unreasonable efforts.

References to “GenCo” operations, including in the context of guidance with respect to capital investments, rate base growth, adjusted EPS and adjusted EPS growth, are to NiSource’s investments and operations relating to provision of electric service to current and future data center or other large load customers, and not necessarily to the legal entity NIPSCO Generation LLC (“GenCo”) (except in the context of statements relating to the formation or launch of GenCo, the approval of GenCo’s declination filing with the IURC or GenCo’s operating model under such declination filing).