Financing

The Company’s financing strategy includes both short-term and long-term borrowings. The Company utilizes short-term revolving credit facilities, as well as cash flows from operations, to provide funds for both construction and operating expenditures. Depending on market and other conditions, the Company will periodically sell long-term debt or enter into term loan arrangements and use the proceeds to reduce borrowings under the revolving credit facilities. Each of the revolving credit facilities and the Company’s term loans contains one financial covenant, which requires the maintenance of debt-to-capital ratios of less than or equal to 65% (for PNMR and PNM, these ratios reflect the present value of payments under the PVNGS leases as debt) and generally include customary covenants, events of default, cross default provisions, and change of control provisions. PNM must obtain NMPRC approval for any financing transaction having a maturity of more than 18 months. In addition, PNM files its annual short-term financing plan with the NMPRC. Additional information concerning financing activities is contained in Note 6 of the Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements in the 2015 Annual Reports on Form 10-K.

Financing Activities

On March 9, 2015, PNMR entered into a $150.0 million Term Loan Agreement (“PNMR 2015 Term Loan Agreement”) between PNMR, the lenders identified therein, and Wells Fargo Bank, National Association, as Lender and Administrative Agent. The PNMR 2015 Term Loan Agreement bears interest at a variable rate, which was 1.35% at March 31, 2016, and must be repaid on or before March 9, 2018. In September 2015, PNMR entered into a hedging agreement whereby it effectively established a fixed interest rate of 1.927%, subject to change if there is a change in PNMR’s credit rating, for borrowings under the PNMR 2015 Term Loan Agreement for the period from January 11, 2016 through March 9, 2018. This hedge is accounted for as a cash-flow hedge and had a fair value loss of $1.1 million at March 31, 2016 and a fair value gain of $0.1 million at December 31, 2015, using Level 2 inputs under GAAP determined using forward LIBOR curves under the mid-market convention to discount cash flows over the remaining term of the swap agreements.

As discussed in Note 11, NM Capital, a wholly owned subsidiary of PNMR, entered into a $125.0 million term loan agreement (the “BTMU Term Loan Agreement”), among NM Capital, The Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi UFJ, Ltd. (“BTMU”), as lender, and BTMU, as Administrative Agent, as of February 1, 2016. The BTMU Term Loan Agreement has a maturity date of February 1, 2021 and bears interest at a rate based on LIBOR plus a customary spread, which aggregated 3.37% at March 31, 2016. PNMR, as parent company of NM Capital, has guaranteed NM Capital’s obligations. NM Capital utilized the proceeds of the BTMU Term Loan Agreement to provide funding of $125.0 million (the “Westmoreland Loan”) to a ring-fenced, bankruptcy-remote, special-purpose entity that is a subsidiary of Westmoreland Coal Company to finance the purchase price of the stock of SJCC. The BTMU Term Loan Agreement provides that the amount outstanding thereunder must be reduced by at least $5.0 million quarterly beginning on November 1, 2016. NM Capital is also required to utilize the net proceeds of all amounts received under the Westmoreland Loan, after income taxes, to make principal and interest payments on the BTMU Term Loan Agreement.

On December 17, 2015, TNMP entered into an agreement (the “TNMP 2015 Bond Purchase Agreement”), which provided that TNMP would issue $60.0 million aggregate principal amount of 3.53% first mortgage bonds, due 2026 (the “Series 2016A Bonds”) on or about February 10, 2016, subject to satisfaction of certain conditions. TNMP issued the Series 2016A Bonds on February 10, 2016 and used the proceeds to reduce short-term debt and intercompany debt.

At March 31, 2016, PNM had borrowings of $125.0 million under the PNM Multi-draw Term Loan, which matures on June 21, 2016, that bear interest at a variable rate, which was 1.02% at March 31, 2016.

Short-term Debt

The PNMR Revolving Credit Facility has a financing capacity of $300.0 million and the PNM Revolving Credit Facility has a financing capacity of $400.0 million, both of which mature on October 31, 2020. The TNMP Revolving Credit Facility is a $75.0 million revolving credit facility secured by $75.0 million aggregate principal amount of TNMP first mortgage bonds. The TNMP Revolving Credit Facility matures on September 18, 2018. PNM also has the $50.0 million PNM New Mexico Credit Facility that expires on January 8, 2018. At March 31, 2016, TNMP had $7.9 million in borrowings from PNMR under an intercompany loan agreement. At March 31, 2016, the weighted average interest rate was 1.69% for the PNMR Revolving Credit Facility, 1.57% for the PNM Revolving Credit Facility, 1.58% for the PNM New Mexico Credit Facility, 1.44% for the TNMP Revolving Credit Facility, and 1.28% for borrowings outstanding under the twelve-month $150.0 million PNMR Term Loan Agreement, which matures in December 2016. Short-term debt outstanding consisted of:



	March 31,		December 31,
Short-term Debt	2016		2015
	(In thousands)
PNM:
PNM Revolving Credit Facility	$	68,800	$	—
PNM New Mexico Credit Facility	50,000		—
TNMP Revolving Credit Facility	15,000		59,000
PNMR:
PNMR Revolving Credit Facility	74,200		41,600
PNMR Term Loan Agreement	150,000		150,000
	$	358,000	$	250,600

In addition to the above borrowings, PNMR, PNM, and TNMP had letters of credit outstanding of $46.2 million, $3.2 million, and $0.1 million at March 31, 2016 that reduce the available capacity under their respective revolving credit facilities.

At April 22, 2016, PNMR, PNM, and TNMP had $186.2 million, $298.5 million, and $50.9 million of availability under their respective revolving credit facilities, including reductions of availability due to outstanding letters of credit, and PNM had $10.0 million of availability under the PNM New Mexico Credit Facility. Total availability at April 22, 2016, on a consolidated basis, was $545.6 million for PNMR. As of April 22, 2016, TNMP had $9.2 million in borrowings from PNMR under an intercompany loan agreement. At April 22, 2016, PNMR, PNM and TNMP had consolidated invested cash of $1.9 million, none, and none.