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Question: Andrew Marc Weisel - Scotiabank Global Banking and Markets, Research Division - Analyst
: First, a question on the O&M. So the $100 million or so that you identified in 2020 was extremely impressive. Now that the year is
closed, how are you thinking about that in terms of sustainability of that $100 million?
And then as a follow-up in the waterfall on Page 15, can you just dig a little further into the negative $0.27 of higher cost as far as
how much of that is built into the new rates? And how much is what I would call your typical annual CE Way cost savings?
Question: Andrew Marc Weisel - Scotiabank Global Banking and Markets, Research Division - Analyst
: Okay. Sounds good. Then one on the heating season and bills. Obviously, gas prices are up. You've got this bad economy. Can you
give us an update on what you're seeing from customers in terms of their ability to pay their bills. And I'm sure it's always a concern,
but how does it compare now versus in the past seasons? And maybe if you could dig a little deeper into some of the programs that
you've got to help your -- to help support the customers in need?
Question: Andrew Marc Weisel - Scotiabank Global Banking and Markets, Research Division - Analyst
: All right. That sounds great. If I could squeeze one last one, just to confirm. You rolled forward the 5-year CapEx, but the 10-year plan
of $25 billion with $3 billion to $4 billion of upside. That's just a reiteration, right? That's not meant to be a roll forward. Am I right
that, that won't be updated until after the IRP is done in 1.5 years or so?
Question: Paul Patterson - Glenrock Associates LLC - Analyst
: So very -- some really quick bookends here. On interbank -- and I apologize if I missed this, the $0.02 increase in the fourth quarter,
was there anything in particular there that happened?
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Question: Paul Patterson - Glenrock Associates LLC - Analyst
: Okay, great. And then on slide -- so Slide 8. So this estimated cost savings, I just wanted to touch base on what they sort of represent?
So I can see with Karn and Campbell, it's adjusted O&M savings. But I don't -- I'm not really clear on Palisades. And I'm just wondering
also, since securitization, it looked like a $126 million, I think that was estimated by the commission. And I wanted to sort of get a
sense as to why those aren't being included, if you know what I mean?
Question: Paul Patterson - Glenrock Associates LLC - Analyst
: Well, there was a securitization order for about $680 million, $690 million or something that you guys got in December. And I think
$126 million was basically -- was what they basically thought was the savings that they called out as being the savings in it. I guess
what I'm wondering is, it seems like there might be other savings that you guys would be encountering here from securitization.
Also, it seems maybe some stuff in the coal as well that you guys aren't adding in there. And I'm just wondering why you're not
calling those out?
Question: Paul Patterson - Glenrock Associates LLC - Analyst
: And are these annual numbers or?
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Question: Paul Patterson - Glenrock Associates LLC - Analyst
: And so just -- I'm sorry to be slow on this, but it looks like there's maybe considerably more savings that you guys might be getting
from this. I mean, this seems conservative, these cost savings that you're bringing up. I mean, some of it, obviously, we'll go back to
customers. But am I correct in that?
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