Exhibit 99.7
Last Updated 4/19/02
Pinnacle West Capital Corporation
Earnings Variance Explanations
For Periods Ended March 31, 2002 and 2001
This discussion explains the changes in our earnings for the three and twelve months ended March 31, 2002 and 2001. We suggest this section be read along with the Pinnacle West Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2001. Consolidated income statements for the three and twelve months ended March 31, 2002 and 2001 follow this discussion. Additional operating and financial statistics and a glossary of terms are available on the Company’s website (www.pinnaclewest.com).
Earnings Contributions by Subsidiary
The following table summarizes net income for the three and twelve months ended March 31, 2002 and the comparable prior-year periods for Pinnacle West and each of its subsidiaries (dollars in millions):
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| Arizona Public Service (APS) | $ | 32 | $ | 65 | $ | 248 | $ | 338 | ||||
| Pinnacle West Energy | 1 | -- | 19 | (2 | ) | |||||||
| APS Energy Services (APSES) | 2 | (8 | ) | -- | (20 | ) | ||||||
| SunCor | 2 | -- | 5 | 7 | ||||||||
| El Dorado | -- | 1 | -- | (17 | ) | |||||||
| Parent Company (a) | 17 | 4 | 46 | 5 | ||||||||
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| income taxes | -- | (3 | ) | (12 | ) | (3 | ) | |||||
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| Net income | $ | 54 | $ | 59 | $ | 306 | $ | 308 | ||||
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These amounts primarily include marketing and trading activities. APS also includes some marketing and trading activities in 2001. |
Business Segments
We have two principal business segments determined by products, services and regulatory environment, which consist of our regulated retail electricity business and related activities (retail business segment) and competitive business activities (marketing and trading segment). Our retail business segment currently includes activities related to electricity transmission and distribution, as well as electricity generation. Our marketing and trading segment currently includes activities related to wholesale marketing and trading and APSES’ competitive energy services.
The following table summarizes net income by business segment for the three and twelve months ended March 31, 2002 and the comparable prior-year periods (dollars in millions):
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| Retail | $ | 31 | $ | 3 | $ | 179 | $ | 199 | ||||
| Marketing and trading | 21 | 58 | 134 | 122 | ||||||||
| Other | 2 | 1 | 5 | (10 | ) | |||||||
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| income taxes | -- | (3 | ) | (12 | ) | (3 | ) | |||||
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| Net income | $ | 54 | $ | 59 | $ | 306 | $ | 308 | ||||
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Earnings Variance Explanations
Operating Results - Three-month period ended March 31, 2002 compared with three-month period ended March 31, 2001
Our consolidated net income for the three months ended March 31, 2002 was $54 million compared with $59 million for the same period in the prior year. In 2001, we recognized a $3 million after-tax loss in net income as the cumulative effect of a change in accounting for derivatives, as required by Statement of Financial Accounting Standards (SFAS) No.133.
Income before accounting change for the three months ended March 31, 2002 was $54 million compared with $62 million for the same period in the prior year. The period-to-period decrease is the result of lower marketing and trading earnings contributions and a retail electricity price decrease. These negative factors were partially offset by lower costs for replacement power due to lower market prices and less outages, power plant maintenance, and generation reliability. The major factors that increased (decreased) income before accounting change were as follows (dollars in millions):
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| Increases (decreases) in electric revenues, net of purchased power and fuel | |||
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| Marketing and trading activities: | |||
| Decrease from generation sales other than native load due to lower | |||
| market prices and resulting lower sales volumes | $ | (46 | ) |
| Increase in other realized marketing and trading in the current period | |||
| primarily due to higher unit margins on increased volumes | 38 | (a) | |
| Change in prior-period mark-to-market gains for contracts delivered | |||
| during the current period (b) | (35 | )(a) | |
| Lower mark-to-market gains for future-period deliveries (b) | (24 | ) | |
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| Net decrease in marketing and trading gross margin | (67 | ) | |
| Lower replacement power costs for plant outages due to lower | |||
| market prices and fewer unplanned outages | 50 | ||
| Increased fuel costs related to higher hedged natural gas and | |||
| purchased power prices | (11 | ) | |
| Change in mark-to-market for hedged natural gas and purchased power | |||
| costs for future-period deliveries related to accounting for | |||
| derivatives | 3 | ||
| Effects of milder weather on retail sales | (6 | ) | |
| Higher retail sales volumes due to customer growth and higher | |||
| average usage excluding weather effects | 4 | ||
| Retail price reductions effective July 1, 2001 | (5 | ) | |
| Miscellaneous factors – net | 1 | ||
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| Total decrease in electric revenues, net of purchased power and fuel expense | (31 | ) | |
| Lower operations and maintenance expenses primarily related to reliability, | |||
| outage and maintenance costs, and the absence of a provision for credit | |||
| expense, partially offset by higher employee benefit costs | 8 | ||
| Lower depreciation and amortization primarily due to lower regulatory asset | |||
| amortization | 5 | ||
| Miscellaneous items, net | 4 | ||
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| Decrease in income before income taxes | (14 | ) | |
| Lower income taxes primarily due to lower income | 6 | ||
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| Decrease in income before accounting change | $ | (8 | ) |
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Net marketing and trading gains (excluding the effects of generation sales other than native load) realized during the current period increased $3 million. |
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Essentially all of our marketing and trading activities are structured activities. This means our portfolio of forward sales positions is hedged with a portfolio of forward purchases that protects the economic value of the sales transactions. |
Electric operating revenues decreased approximately $327 million primarily because of:
Purchased power and fuel expenses decreased approximately $296 million primarily because of:
The decrease in operations and maintenance expenses of $8 million primarily related to costs incurred in 2001 for the generation reliability program (the addition of generation capacity to enhance reliability for the summer of 2001) and plant outages and maintenance ($7 million); and the absence of a provision for credit exposure related to the California energy situation recorded in 2001 ($5 million). These factors were partially offset by increased employee benefit and other costs in the current period ($4 million).
The decrease in depreciation and amortization expenses of $5 million primarily related to lower regulatory asset amortization, in accordance with APS’ 1999 regulatory settlement agreement.
Operating Results - Twelve-month period ended March 31, 2002 compared with twelve-month period ended March 31, 2001Our consolidated net income for the twelve months ended March 31, 2002 was $306 million compared with $308 million for the same period in the prior year. We recognized a $12 million after-tax loss in the twelve months ended March 31, 2002 and a $3 million after-tax loss in the twelve months ended March 31, 2001 as cumulative effects of a change in accounting for derivatives, as required by SFAS No.133.
Income before accounting change for the twelve months ended March 31, 2002 was $318 million compared with $311 million for the same period a year earlier. The period-to-period comparison benefited from favorable marketing and trading results, including significant benefits in the third quarter of 2001 from structured trading activities; lower replacement power costs; and retail customer growth. These factors were partially offset by continuing retail electricity price decreases; higher hedged purchased power and fuel costs, costs of generation reliability measures; and charges related to Enron and its affiliates. The major factors that increased (decreased) income before accounting change were as follows (dollars in millions):
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| fuel expense due to: | |||
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| Decrease from generation sales other than native load due to | |||
| lower market prices and resulting lower sales volumes | $ | (66 | ) |
| Increase in other realized marketing and trading in the current | |||
| period primarily due to higher unit margins on increased sales | |||
| volumes | 80 | (a) | |
| Change in prior-period mark-to-market gains for contracts | |||
| delivered in the current period (b) | (24 | )(a) | |
| Change in prior-period mark-to-market value related to trading with | |||
| Enron and its affiliates (c) | (8 | ) | |
| Increase in mark-to-market gains for future-period deliveries (b) | 42 | ||
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| Net increase in marketing and trading | 24 | ||
| Lower replacement power costs for plant outages related to lower | |||
| market prices and fewer unplanned outages | 24 | ||
| Retail price reductions effective July 1, 2001 and 2000 | (27 | ) | |
| Charges related to purchased power contracts with Enron and its | |||
| affiliates(c) | (13 | ) | |
| Change in mark-to-market for hedged natural gas and purchased power | |||
| costs for future-period deliveries related to accounting for | |||
| derivatives | (9 | ) | |
| Higher retail sales primarily related to customer growth and | |||
| weather impacts, partially offset by lower usage and higher | |||
| hedged cost of purchased power and fuel | 20 | ||
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| Total increase in electric revenues, net of purchased power and fuel | 19 | ||
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| Higher operations and maintenance expense primarily related to 2001 | |||
| generation reliability program | (57 | ) | |
| Lower depreciation and amortization primarily due to lower regulatory | |||
| asset amortization | 11 | ||
| Lower net interest expense primarily due to higher capitalized interest | 15 | ||
| Lower other net expense primarily related to El Dorado | 33 | ||
| Miscellaneous items, net | (4 | ) | |
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| Net increase in income before income taxes | 17 | ||
| Higher income taxes primarily due to higher income | (10 | ) | |
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| Net increase in income before accounting change | $ | 7 | |
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| (a) | Net marketing and trading gains (excluding the effects of generation sales other than native load) realized during the current period increased $56 million. |
| (b) | Essentially all of our marketing and trading activities are structured activities. This means our portfolio of forward sales positions is hedged with a portfolio of forward purchases that protects the economic value of the sales transactions. |
| (c) | We recorded charges totaling $21 million for exposure to Enron and its affiliates in the fourth quarter of 2001. |
Electric operating revenues increased approximately $64 million primarily because of:
Purchased power and fuel expenses increased approximately $45 million primarily because of:
The increase in operations and maintenance expenses of $57 million primarily related to the 2001 generation reliability program (the addition of generating capability to enhance reliability for the summer of 2001) and scheduled plant outages and maintenance ($39 million); and increased employee benefit and other costs ($28 million). These factors were partially offset by a provision for our credit exposure related to the California energy situation recorded in the prior period ($10 million).
The decrease in depreciation and amortization expenses of $11 million primarily related to lower regulatory asset amortization, in accordance with APS’ 1999 regulatory settlement agreement.
Net other expense decreased $33 million primarily because of a change in the market value of El Dorado’s investment in a technology-related venture capital partnership in the prior period and an insurance recovery of environmental remediation costs, partially offset by other non-operating costs. The major investment in the venture capital partnership was sold in the first quarter of 2001.
Net interest expense decreased by $15 million primarily because of the increase in capitalized interest ($23 million) related to our generation expansion program and the effects of lower interest rates. The reductions in net interest expense more than offset the increases in interest expense for higher debt balances that were related primarily to our generation expansion program.
Exhibit 99.7
PINNACLE WEST CAPITAL CORPORATION
CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS OF INCOME
(Dollars in Thousands, Except Per Share Amounts)
(Unaudited)
THREE MONTHS ENDED TWELVE MONTHS ENDED
MARCH MARCH
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2002 2001 2002 2001
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OPERATING REVENUES
Electric $ 579,772 $ 906,494 $ 4,055,743 $ 3,992,076
Real estate 41,185 32,335 177,758 148,811
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Total 620,957 938,829 4,233,501 4,140,887
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OPERATING EXPENSES
Purchased power and fuel 221,036 516,424 2,368,830 2,323,784
Operations and maintenance 117,430 125,250 522,275 465,006
Real estate operations 37,358 31,008 159,812 132,610
Depreciation and amortization 99,913 104,781 423,035 433,553
Taxes other than income taxes 26,758 25,303 102,523 99,691
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Total 502,495 802,766 3,576,475 3,454,644
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OPERATING INCOME 118,462 136,063 657,026 686,243
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OTHER INCOME (EXPENSE) 1,088 (738) (3,939) (36,635)
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INTEREST EXPENSE
Interest charges 44,688 42,749 177,761 169,697
Capitalized interest (14,123) (10,427) (51,558) (28,216)
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Total 30,565 32,322 126,203 141,481
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INCOME BEFORE INCOME TAXES 88,985 103,003 526,884 508,127
INCOME TAXES 35,228 40,798 207,965 197,660
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INCOME BEFORE ACCOUNTING CHANGE 53,757 62,205 318,919 310,467
CUMULATIVE EFFECT OF A CHANGE IN ACCOUNTING FOR DERIVATIVES -
NET OF INCOME TAX -- (2,755) (12,446) (2,755)
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NET INCOME $ 53,757 $ 59,450 $ 306,473 $ 307,712
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WEIGHTED AVERAGE COMMON SHARES OUTSTANDING - BASIC 84,735 84,727 84,719 84,732
WEIGHTED AVERAGE COMMON SHARES OUTSTANDING - DILUTED 84,884 84,966 84,910 84,974
EARNINGS PER WEIGHTED AVERAGE COMMON SHARE OUTSTANDING
Income Before Accounting Change - Basic $ 0.63 $ 0.73 $ 3.76 $ 3.66
Net Income - Basic $ 0.63 $ 0.70 $ 3.62 $ 3.63
Income Before Accounting Change - Diluted $ 0.63 $ 0.73 $ 3.76 $ 3.65
Net Income - Diluted $ 0.63 $ 0.70 $ 3.61 $ 3.62
Certain prior year amounts have been restated to conform to the 2002
presentation.