-----BEGIN PRIVACY-ENHANCED MESSAGE----- Proc-Type: 2001,MIC-CLEAR Originator-Name: webmaster@www.sec.gov Originator-Key-Asymmetric: MFgwCgYEVQgBAQICAf8DSgAwRwJAW2sNKK9AVtBzYZmr6aGjlWyK3XmZv3dTINen TWSM7vrzLADbmYQaionwg5sDW3P6oaM5D3tdezXMm7z1T+B+twIDAQAB MIC-Info: RSA-MD5,RSA, WhLr3GCpbFAxdF//nNmAR/QcI4Y+cbzYlnl6TB5eYZqh5TJbpipcEH1EvjlRT2wI 4ZPKMHfZn8XYkJzDZ1YVkA== 0001104659-04-006343.txt : 20040303 0001104659-04-006343.hdr.sgml : 20040303 20040303142116 ACCESSION NUMBER: 0001104659-04-006343 CONFORMED SUBMISSION TYPE: 10-K PUBLIC DOCUMENT COUNT: 31 CONFORMED PERIOD OF REPORT: 20031231 FILED AS OF DATE: 20040303 FILER: COMPANY DATA: COMPANY CONFORMED NAME: UNION LIGHT HEAT & POWER CO CENTRAL INDEX KEY: 0000100858 STANDARD INDUSTRIAL CLASSIFICATION: ELECTRIC & OTHER SERVICES COMBINED [4931] IRS NUMBER: 310473080 STATE OF INCORPORATION: KY FISCAL YEAR END: 1231 FILING VALUES: FORM TYPE: 10-K SEC ACT: 1934 Act SEC FILE NUMBER: 002-07793 FILM NUMBER: 04645617 BUSINESS ADDRESS: STREET 1: 139 E FOURTH ST STREET 2: C/O TREASURER DEPT, PO BOX 960 CITY: CINCINNATI STATE: OH ZIP: 45201 BUSINESS PHONE: 5133812000 FILER: COMPANY DATA: COMPANY CONFORMED NAME: CINERGY CORP CENTRAL INDEX KEY: 0000899652 STANDARD INDUSTRIAL CLASSIFICATION: ELECTRIC & OTHER SERVICES COMBINED [4931] IRS NUMBER: 311385023 STATE OF INCORPORATION: DE FISCAL YEAR END: 1231 FILING VALUES: FORM TYPE: 10-K SEC ACT: 1934 Act SEC FILE NUMBER: 001-11377 FILM NUMBER: 04645616 BUSINESS ADDRESS: STREET 1: 139 E FOURTH ST CITY: CINCINNATI STATE: OH ZIP: 45202 BUSINESS PHONE: 5132872644 MAIL ADDRESS: STREET 1: 139 E FOURTH STREET STREET 2: P.O BOX 960 CITY: CINCINATI STATE: OH ZIP: 45202 FILER: COMPANY DATA: COMPANY CONFORMED NAME: CINCINNATI GAS & ELECTRIC CO CENTRAL INDEX KEY: 0000020290 STANDARD INDUSTRIAL CLASSIFICATION: ELECTRIC & OTHER SERVICES COMBINED [4931] IRS NUMBER: 310240030 STATE OF INCORPORATION: OH FISCAL YEAR END: 1231 FILING VALUES: FORM TYPE: 10-K SEC ACT: 1934 Act SEC FILE NUMBER: 001-01232 FILM NUMBER: 04645619 BUSINESS ADDRESS: STREET 1: 139 E FOURTH ST ROOM 362-ANNEX STREET 2: PO BOX 960 CITY: CINCINNATI STATE: OH ZIP: 45202 BUSINESS PHONE: 5132872291 MAIL ADDRESS: STREET 1: 139 E. FOURTH ST. STREET 2: PO BOX 960 CITY: CINCINNATTI STATE: OH ZIP: 45202 FILER: COMPANY DATA: COMPANY CONFORMED NAME: PSI ENERGY INC CENTRAL INDEX KEY: 0000081020 STANDARD INDUSTRIAL CLASSIFICATION: ELECTRIC SERVICES [4911] IRS NUMBER: 350594457 STATE OF INCORPORATION: IN FISCAL YEAR END: 1231 FILING VALUES: FORM TYPE: 10-K SEC ACT: 1934 Act SEC FILE NUMBER: 001-03543 FILM NUMBER: 04645618 BUSINESS ADDRESS: STREET 1: 1000 EAST MAIN STREET STREET 2: PO BOX 960 CITY: PLAINFIELD STATE: IN ZIP: 46168 BUSINESS PHONE: 3178399611 MAIL ADDRESS: STREET 1: 1000 EAST MAIN STREET STREET 2: PO BOX 960 CITY: PLAINFIELD STATE: IN ZIP: 46168 FORMER COMPANY: FORMER CONFORMED NAME: PUBLIC SERVICE CO OF INDIANA INC DATE OF NAME CHANGE: 19900509 10-K 1 a04-1370_110k.htm 10-K

 

UNITED STATES
SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

Washington, D.C. 20549

 

FORM 10-K

 

(Mark One)

ý    ANNUAL REPORT PURSUANT TO SECTION 13 OR 15(d) OF THE SECURITIES
EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934

 

For the fiscal year ended December 31, 2003

 

or

 

o    TRANSITION REPORT PURSUANT TO SECTION 13 OR 15(d) OF THE SECURITIES
EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934

 

For the transition period from                     to                     

 

Commission
File Number

 

Registrant, State of Incorporation,
Address and Telephone Number

 

I.R.S. Employer
Identification No.

 

 

 

 

 

1-11377

 

CINERGY CORP.
(A Delaware Corporation)
139 East Fourth Street
Cincinnati, Ohio 45202
(513) 421-9500

 

31-1385023

 

 

 

 

 

1-1232

 

THE CINCINNATI GAS & ELECTRIC COMPANY
(An Ohio Corporation)
139 East Fourth Street
Cincinnati, Ohio 45202
(513) 421-9500

 

31-0240030

 

 

 

 

 

1-3543

 

PSI ENERGY, INC.
(An Indiana Corporation)
1000 East Main Street
Plainfield, Indiana 46168
(513) 421-9500

 

35-0594457

 

 

 

 

 

2-7793

 

THE UNION LIGHT, HEAT AND POWER COMPANY
(A Kentucky Corporation)
139 East Fourth Street
Cincinnati, Ohio 45202
(513) 421-9500

 

31-0473080

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Each of the following classes or series of securities registered pursuant to Section 12(b) of the Act is registered on the New York Stock Exchange:

 

Registrant

 

Title of each class

 

 

 

 

 

 

Cinergy Corp.

 

Common Stock

 

 

 

 

Income PRIDES

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The Cincinnati Gas & Electric Company

 

Cumulative Preferred Stock

4

%

 

 

 

 

 

PSI Energy, Inc.

 

Cumulative Preferred Stock

4.32

%

 

 

Cumulative Preferred Stock

4.16

%

 

 

Cumulative Preferred Stock

6-7/8

%

 

 

 

 

 

The Union Light, Heat and Power Company

 

None

 

 

 

 



 

Securities registered pursuant to Section 12(g) of the Act:  None


Indicate by check mark whether each registrant (1) has filed all reports required to be filed by Section 13 or 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 during the preceding 12 months (or for such shorter period that such registrant was required to file such reports), and (2) has been subject to such filing requirements for the past 90 days.

Yes ý   No o


Indicate by check mark if disclosure of delinquent filers pursuant to Item 405 of Regulation S-K is not contained herein, and will not be contained, to the best of registrants’ knowledge, in definitive proxy or information statements incorporated by reference in Part III of this Form 10-K or any amendment to this Form 10-K.  ý


Requirements pursuant to Item 405 of Regulation S-K are not applicable for The Union Light, Heat and Power Company.

 

The Union Light, Heat and Power Company meets the conditions set forth in General Instruction I (1)(a) and (b) of Form 10-K and is therefore filing this Form 10-K with the reduced disclosure format specified in General Instruction I (2) of Form 10-K.


Indicate by check mark whether each registrant is an accelerated filer (as defined in Rule 12b-2 of the Act).

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Cinergy Corp.

 

Yes

 

ý

 

No

 

o

The Cincinnati Gas & Electric Company

 

Yes

 

o

 

No

 

ý

PSI Energy, Inc.

 

Yes

 

o

 

No

 

ý

The Union Light, Heat and Power Company

 

Yes

 

o

 

No

 

ý


As of June 30, 2003, the aggregate market value of the common equity of Cinergy Corp. held by non-affiliates (shareholders who are not directors or executive officers) was $6.5 billion.  All of the common stock of The Cincinnati Gas & Electric Company and PSI Energy, Inc. is owned by Cinergy Corp., and all of the common stock of The Union Light, Heat and Power Company is owned by The Cincinnati Gas & Electric Company.  As of January 31, 2004, each registrant had the following shares of common stock outstanding:

 

Registrant

 

Description

 

Shares

 

 

 

 

 

Cinergy Corp.

 

Par value $.01 per share

 

178,653,273

 

 

 

 

 

The Cincinnati Gas & Electric Company

 

Par value $8.50 per share

 

89,663,086

 

 

 

 

 

PSI Energy, Inc.

 

Without par value, stated value $.01 per share

 

53,913,701

 

 

 

 

 

The Union Light, Heat and Power Company

 

Par value $15.00 per share

 

585,333

 

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DOCUMENTS INCORPORATED BY REFERENCE

 

Portions of the Proxy Statement of Cinergy Corp. and the Information Statement of PSI Energy, Inc. to be filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission in 2004 are incorporated by reference into Part III of this report.

 

This combined Form 10-K is separately filed by Cinergy Corp., The Cincinnati Gas & Electric Company, PSI Energy, Inc., and The Union Light, Heat and Power Company.  Information contained herein relating to any individual registrant is filed by such registrant on its own behalf.  Each registrant makes no representation as to information relating to registrants other than itself.

 

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

 

Item Number

 

 

 

 

 

 

Cautionary Statements Regarding Forward-Looking Information

 

 

 

 

 

PART I

 

1

Business

 

 

 

Website Access to Reports

 

 

 

Organization

 

 

 

Employees

 

 

 

Current Trends

 

 

 

Business Units

 

 

 

Environmental Matters

 

 

 

Future Expectations/Trends

 

2

Properties

 

 

 

Commercial

 

 

 

Regulated Businesses

 

3

Legal Proceedings

 

 

 

Clean Air Act Lawsuit

 

 

 

Manufactured Gas Plant Sites (MGP)

 

 

 

Energy Market Investigations

 

 

 

Patents

 

4

Submission of Matters to a Vote of Security Holders

 

 

 

 

 

PART II

 

5

Market for Registrant’s Common Equity and Related Stockholder Matters

 

6

Selected Financial Data

 

7

Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations

 

 

 

Introduction

 

 

 

Liquidity and Capital Resources

 

 

 

2003 Results of Operations - Historical

 

 

 

2002 Results of Operations - Historical

 

 

 

Results of Operations - Future

 

7A

Quantitative and Qualitative Disclosures About Market Risk

 

 

Index to Financial Statements and Financial Statement Schedules

 

8

Financial Statements and Supplementary Data

 

9

Changes in and Disagreements with Accountants on Accounting and Financial Disclosure

 

9A

Controls and Procedures

 

 

 

 

 

PART III

 

10

Directors and Executive Officers of the Registrants

 

 

 

Board of Directors

 

 

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Executive Officers

 

11

Executive Compensation

 

12

Security Ownership of Certain Beneficial Owners and Management and Related Stockholder Matters

 

 

 

 

13

Certain Relationships and Related Transactions

 

14

Principal Accountant Fees and Services

 

 

 

 

 

PART IV

 

15

Exhibits, Financial Statement Schedules, and Reports on Form 8-K

 

 

 

Financial Statements and Schedules

 

 

 

Reports on Form 8-K

 

 

 

Exhibits

 

 

Signatures

 

 

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CAUTIONARY STATEMENTS

 

In this report Cinergy (which includes Cinergy Corp. and all of our regulated and non-regulated subsidiaries) is, at times, referred to in the first person as “we”, “our”, or “us”.

 

CAUTIONARY STATEMENTS REGARDING FORWARD-LOOKING INFORMATION

 

This document includes forward-looking statements within the meaning of Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933 and Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934.  Forward-looking statements are based on management’s beliefs and assumptions.  These forward-looking statements are identified by terms and phrases such as “anticipate”, “believe”, “intend”, “estimate”, “expect”, “continue”, “should”, “could”, “may”, “plan”, “project”, “predict”, “will”, and similar expressions.

 

Forward-looking statements involve risks and uncertainties that may cause actual results to be materially different from the results predicted.  Factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from those indicated in any forward-looking statement include, but are not limited to:

 

                  Factors affecting operations, such as:

 

(1)          unanticipated weather conditions;

(2)          unscheduled generation outages;

(3)          unusual maintenance or repairs;

(4)          unanticipated changes in costs;

(5)          environmental incidents, including costs of compliance with existing and future environmental requirements; and

(6)          electric transmission or gas pipeline system constraints.

 

                  Legislative and regulatory initiatives.

 

                  Additional competition in electric or gas markets and continued industry consolidation.

 

                  Financial or regulatory accounting principles.

 

                  Political, legal, and economic conditions and developments in the countries in which we have a presence.

 

                  Changing market conditions and other factors related to physical energy and financial trading activities.

 

                  The performance of projects undertaken by our non-regulated businesses and the success of efforts to invest in and develop new opportunities.

 

                  Availability of, or cost of, capital.

 

                  Employee workforce factors.

 

                  Delays and other obstacles associated with mergers, acquisitions, and investments in joint ventures.

 

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                  Costs and effects of legal and administrative proceedings, settlements, investigations, and claims.  Examples can be found in Note 11 of the “Notes to Financial Statements” in “Item 8. Financial Statements and Supplementary Data”.

 

We undertake no obligation to update the information contained herein.

 

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BUSINESS

 

PART I

 

ITEM 1.  BUSINESS

 

WEBSITE ACCESS TO REPORTS

 

We make our annual report on Form 10-K, quarterly reports on Form 10-Q, current reports on Form 8-K, and amendments to those reports, filed or furnished pursuant to section 13(a) or 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 available free of charge on or through our internet website, www.cinergy.com, as soon as reasonably practicable after we electronically file such material with, or furnish it to, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC).

 

ORGANIZATION

 

Cinergy Corp., a Delaware corporation organized in 1993, owns all outstanding common stock of The Cincinnati Gas & Electric Company (CG&E) and PSI Energy, Inc. (PSI), both of which are public utilities.  As a result of this ownership, we are considered a utility holding company.  Because we are a holding company with material utility subsidiaries operating in multiple states, we are registered with and are subject to regulation by the SEC under the Public Utility Holding Company Act of 1935, as amended.  Our other principal subsidiaries are:

 

                  Cinergy Services, Inc. (Services);

                  Cinergy Investments, Inc. (Investments); and

                  Cinergy Wholesale Energy, Inc. (Wholesale Energy).

 

CG&E, an Ohio corporation organized in 1837, is a combination electric and gas public utility company that provides service in the southwestern portion of Ohio and, through its subsidiaries, in nearby areas of Kentucky and Indiana.  CG&E is responsible for the majority of our power marketing and trading activity.  CG&E’s principal subsidiary, The Union Light, Heat and Power Company (ULH&P), is a Kentucky corporation organized in 1901, that provides electric and gas service in northern Kentucky.  CG&E’s other subsidiaries are insignificant to its results of operations.

 

In 2001, CG&E began a transition to electric deregulation and customer choice.  Currently, the competitive retail electric market in Ohio is in the development stage.  CG&E is recovering its Public Utilities Commission of Ohio (PUCO) approved costs and retail electric rates are frozen during this market development period.  In January 2003, CG&E filed an application with the PUCO for approval of a methodology to establish how market-based rates for non-residential customers will be determined when the market development period ends.  In December 2003, the PUCO requested that CG&E propose a rate stabilization plan.  In January 2004, CG&E complied with the PUCO request and filed an electric reliability and rate stabilization plan.  See the “Retail Market Developments” section in “Item 7.  Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations” for a discussion of key elements of Ohio deregulation.

 

PSI, an Indiana corporation organized in 1942, is a vertically integrated and regulated electric

 

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utility that provides service in north central, central, and southern Indiana.

 

The following table presents further information related to the operations of our domestic utility companies (our operating companies):

 

 

 

Principal
Line(s) of Business

 

Major Cities Served

 

Approximate
Population
Served

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

CG&E and subsidiaries

 

                  Generation, transmission, distribution, and sale of electricity

 

Cincinnati, OH
Middletown, OH
Covington, KY
Florence, KY
Newport, KY
Lawrenceburg, IN

 

2,071,000

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

                  Sale and/or transportation of natural gas

 

 

 

 

 

 

                  Electric commodity marketing and trading operations

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

PSI

 

                  Generation, transmission, distribution, and sale of electricity

 

Bloomington, IN
Carmel, IN
Columbus, IN
Kokomo, IN
Lafayette, IN
New Albany, IN
Terre Haute, IN

 

2,269,000

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

ULH&P(1)

 

                  Transmission, distribution, and sale of electricity

 

Covington, KY
Florence, KY
Newport, KY

 

345,000

 

 

                  Sale and transportation of natural gas

 

 

 

 

 


(1)          See Note 19 of the “Notes to Financial Statements” in “Item 8. Financial Statements and Supplementary Data” for further discussion of the possible transfer of generation assets.

 

Services is a service company that provides our subsidiaries with a variety of centralized administrative, management, and support services.  Investments holds most of our domestic non-regulated, energy-related businesses and investments, including natural gas marketing and trading operations.

 

Wholesale Energy, through a wholly-owned subsidiary, Cinergy Power Generation Services, LLC (Generation Services), provides electric production-related construction, operation, and maintenance services to certain affiliates and non-affiliated third parties.

 

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EMPLOYEES

 

We have collective bargaining agreements with the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers (IBEW), the United Steelworkers of America (USWA), the Utility Workers Union of America (UWUA), and various international union organizations.

 

The following table indicates the number of employees by classification at December 31, 2003:

 

 

 

Regulated

 

Non-Regulated

 

Classification

 

CG&E(4)

 

PSI

 

ULH&P

 

Total
Regulated

 

Domestic(5)(6)

 

International

 

Total Non-
Regulated

 

Cinergy
Total

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

IBEW(1)

 

508

 

1,236

 

57

 

1,801

 

827

 

 

827

 

2,628

 

USWA(2)

 

274

 

 

82

 

356

 

19

 

 

19

 

375

 

UWUA(3)

 

375

 

 

59

 

434

 

347

 

 

347

 

781

 

Various Union Organizations

 

 

 

 

 

133

 

224

 

357

 

357

 

Non-Bargaining

 

193

 

347

 

20

 

560

 

2,829

 

163

 

2,992

 

3,552

 

 

 

1,350

 

1,583

 

218

 

3,151

 

4,155

 

387

 

4,542

 

7,693

 

 


(1)          IBEW #1347 contract will expire on April 1, 2006, IBEW #1393 contract will expire on May 1, 2005, and IBEW #352 contract will expire on February 5, 2005.

(2)          USWA #12049 and #5541-06 contracts will expire on May 15, 2007.

(3)          Contract will expire on March 31, 2005.

(4)          CG&E and subsidiaries excluding ULH&P.

(5)          Includes 2,406 Services’ employees, who provide services to both regulated and non-regulated operations.

(6)          Includes 1,267 Generation Services’ employees who provide services to certain affiliates and non-affiliated third parties.  Effective January 1, 2004, Generation Services’ employees will be transferred to other affiliated corporations as follows:  524 to CG&E; 21 to PSI; 708 to Services; and 14 to other non-regulated corporations.

 

CURRENT TRENDS

 

Two issues have been discussed prominently in regards to our industry during the past year.  Transmission system reliability has been a significant focus, including participation in Regional Transmission Organizations (RTOs).  In addition, significant discussion has occurred regarding the ability to address environmental issues for coal-fired generating units via a multi-pollutant approach.

 

Transmission system reliability has attracted a great deal of attention since the August 2003 blackout.  Federal legislation has been proposed requiring mandatory reliability standards developed by an independent reliability organization with enforcement authority given to Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC).  However, it is unclear at this point whether federal reliability legislation will be enacted in the near future.  Also, the North American Reliability Council (NERC) and the FERC are moving ahead with their own initiatives to introduce more stringent reliability standards with a focus on mandatory compliance.  In the past, compliance with NERC reliability standards and guidelines has largely been voluntary.  It is clear that transmission owners and operators will be subjected to increasing pressure to improve reliability and will incur additional costs as a result.

 

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RTOs oversee the operation of multiple transmission systems and allow for improved coordination of transmission flow and planning.  They provide a single rate for transmission of power between any two points within the RTO footprint.  There are RTOs at various levels of development around the country, with the Midwest Independent System Operator (Midwest ISO), of which we are a member, being the largest.  The FERC is a strong proponent of transmission owners joining RTOs, but at this point is not requiring entities to do so, nor is it requiring entities in the same geographic area to necessarily join the same RTO.  This is particularly a concern in the Midwest, where some companies have yet to join RTOs, and where proposed RTO boundaries between the Midwest ISO and its Eastern neighbor, PJM Interconnection (PJM) are intermixed.  The FERC has ordered that the Midwest ISO and PJM work to eliminate potential operational issues created by the intermixed boundary, but at this point, concerns remain as to how these entities will work to achieve the FERC’s objective.  In addition, the Midwest ISO has indicated its intent to create a financial market, similar to the market currently in place in PJM, before the end of 2004.  The development of this market could significantly impact the way power is bought and sold within and outside the Midwest ISO.  Among other things, it is intended to increase market transparency and assign a market price to use of congested transmission facilities.  The Midwest ISO had originally proposed a plan for such a market via a filing with the FERC in July 2003, but it was subsequently withdrawn in October 2003 due to concerns expressed by the entities that would be affected by that proposal.  The Midwest ISO is expected to revise its model and proceed with a new filing in the near future, but at this point it is not clear how this model would differ from what was originally proposed, nor how it might affect participants in the Midwest ISO market.

 

The power sector, particularly coal-fired generation, has long been subject to a complex set of air emission requirements, with often overlapping and unclear rules.  Many in the industry have expressed a view that a comprehensive, multi-pollutant approach to addressing emissions is the most reasonable and cost effective way to achieve increased emission reduction goals across a broader group of pollutants.  During 2003, President Bush’s “Clear Skies Initiative” (Clear Skies) was a multi-pollutant, legislative proposal designed to achieve this goal.  At the same time, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) was, under court order, drafting proposed regulations controlling mercury emissions via maximum achievable control technology (Mercury MACT) that were published in December 2003 and will become effective December 15, 2004.  Passage of Clear Skies in 2003 would have rendered EPA rulemaking on mercury unnecessary, since mercury controls were a part of the proposed legislation.  Although several hearings were held, Congress did not vote on the legislation in 2003 and its future prospects are uncertain.  As part of the Mercury MACT draft regulations published in December, alternate approaches were proposed for dealing with mercury.  One alternative would include a cap and trade approach to mercury (similar to proposals in Clear Skies).  The other would be a source specific reduction in emissions, without a cap and trade approach.  The cap and trade approach would provide a longer compliance horizon and provide more flexible compliance options for coal-fired generators.

 

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The different alternatives proposed under the draft mercury regulations would result in substantially different requirements for compliance, both in terms of cost and timelines.

 

BUSINESS UNITS

 

We conduct operations through our subsidiaries and manage our businesses through the following three reportable segments:

 

                  Commercial Business Unit (Commercial), formerly named the Energy Merchant Business Unit;

                  Regulated Businesses Business Unit (Regulated Businesses); and

                  Power Technology and Infrastructure Services Business Unit (Power Technology).

 

The following section describes the activities of our business units as of December 31, 2003.

See Note 15 of the “Notes to Financial Statements” in “Item 8. Financial Statements and Supplementary Data” for financial information by business segment.

 

Commercial

 

Commercial manages, operates and/or maintains our generation and the marketing and trading of energy commodities, primarily natural gas and electricity.  The marketing and trading of energy commodities includes energy risk management activities, trading activities, and customized energy solutions.  See the “Market Risk Sensitive Instruments and Positions” section of “Item 7.  Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations” for information on risks associated with these activities.  In addition, Commercial is also an on-site energy solutions and utility services provider.

 

Commercial competes for wholesale contracts for the purchase and sale of electricity and natural gas.  Commercial’s main competitors include public utilities, power and natural gas marketers and traders, and independent power producers.

 

Generation and Fuel Supply
 

As of December 31, 2003, the total winter electric capability (including our portion of the total capacity for the jointly-owned plants) of our domestic generating plants was 13,331 megawatts (MW).  Approximately 73 percent of this generation portfolio is coal-fired.  See “Item 2.  Properties” for a further discussion of the generating facilities.  Included in these generating plants are plants that are operated by Commercial on behalf of Regulated Businesses.  The results of operations of these generating plants operated by Commercial are managed by and therefore reported under Regulated Businesses.

 

Each year, through CG&E and PSI, we purchase over 25 million tons of coal to generate electricity, primarily from mines located in Indiana, West Virginia, Ohio, Kentucky, Pennsylvania, and Illinois.  Our general practice is to procure a substantial portion of coal through fixed-price contracts of varying tenors.  We hold fixed price contracts that will source a substantial portion of our expected 2004 coal requirements.  We evaluate the appropriate amount of contract coal and length of contracts based on market conditions, including pricing trends, volatility and supplier reliability.

 

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We receive our coal supply primarily from mines located in Indiana, West Virginia, Ohio, Kentucky, Pennsylvania, and Illinois.

 

Cinergy has a fleet of natural gas-fired peaking plants that have a capacity of 3,029 MW.  The fuel for these units is obtained through the natural gas spot market as it is difficult to forecast the natural gas requirements for these plants.  For further information on the risk of purchasing natural gas see the “Market Risk Sensitive Instruments and Positions” section of “Item 7.  Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations”.  For further information on these agreements with Cinergy Marketing and Trading, LP (Marketing & Trading), see Note 1(s) of the “Notes to Financial Statements” in “Item 8. Financial Statements and Supplementary Data”.

 

Commercial monitors alternative sources of coal and gas to assure a continuing availability of economical fuel supplies.  As such, it will maintain its practice of purchasing a portion of coal and gas requirements on the open market and will continue to investigate least-cost coal options to comply with new and existing environmental requirements.  Cinergy, CG&E, and PSI believe that they can continue to obtain enough coal and gas to meet future needs.  However, future environmental requirements may significantly impact the availability and price of these fuels.

 

In addition, with the continuing emphasis on environmental regulation Cinergy, CG&E, and PSI maintain a portfolio of sulfur dioxide (SO2) and nitrogen oxide (NOX) emission allowances.  These allowances permit us to continue to obtain and burn high sulfur coal in compliance with environmental regulations.  Cinergy, CG&E, and PSI believe that they can obtain the necessary SO2 and NOX emission allowances to continue this practice.

 

Trading Operations and Risk Management
 

The energy marketing and trading activities of Commercial principally consists of Marketing & Trading’s natural gas marketing and trading operations, CG&E’s power marketing and trading operations, and Cinergy Global Trading Limited’s (Global Trading) natural gas and power trading operations in the United Kingdom.  In April 2002, CG&E and PSI executed a new joint operating agreement whereby new power marketing and trading contracts since April 2002 are originated on behalf of CG&E only.  Historically, such contracts were executed on behalf of PSI and CG&E jointly.

 

Our domestic operations market and trade over-the-counter (an informal market where the buying/selling of commodities occurs) contracts for the purchase and sale of electricity (primarily in the Midwest region of the United States), natural gas, and other energy-related products.  Our natural gas domestic operations provide services that manage storage, transportation, gathering and processing activities.  In addition, our domestic operations also market and trade natural gas and other energy-related products on the New York Mercantile Exchange.  Global Trading’s operations trade over-the-counter contracts for the purchase and sale of natural gas and electricity (both primarily in the United Kingdom).  Global Trading also trades natural gas on the International Petroleum Exchange.  See the “Market Risk Sensitive Instruments and Positions”

 

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section of “Item 7.  Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations” for information on risks associated with these activities.

 

Purchased Power
 

At times, we purchase power to meet the energy needs of our wholesale customers and to meet the requirements of our retail native load customers (end-use customers within our operating companies’ franchise territory).  Factors that could cause Cinergy to purchase power for retail native load customers include generating plant outages, extreme weather conditions, summer reliability, and growth.  We believe we can obtain enough purchased power to meet future needs.  However, during periods of excessive demand, the price and availability of these purchases may be significantly impacted.

 

Cogeneration
 

Commercial, through its Cinergy Solutions Holding Company, Inc. subsidiary, is an on-site energy solutions and utility services provider.  We provide operation and maintenance of utility systems, as well as cogeneration.  Cogeneration is the simultaneous production of two or more forms of useable energy from a single fuel source.

 

International
 

As of December 31, 2003, we had ownership interests in energy-related assets located in five different countries.  These assets serve retail and wholesale customers by providing utility services including generation of electricity and heat as well as the distribution of gas and electric commodities.

 

Revenue Data and Customer Base
 

Commercial’s operating revenue is derived primarily by providing and trading electricity in the Midwest region of the United States (U.S.).  In addition, Commercial provides and trades natural gas primarily to wholesale customers across the U.S.  The majority of Commercial’s customers are public utilities, power and natural gas marketers and traders, and independent power producers.

 

Regulated Businesses

 

Regulated Businesses consists of PSI’s regulated generation and transmission and distribution operations, and CG&E and its subsidiaries’ regulated electric and gas transmission and distribution systems.  Regulated Businesses plans, constructs, operates, and maintains Cinergy’s transmission and distribution systems and delivers gas and electric energy to consumers.  Regulated Businesses also earns revenues from wholesale customers primarily by transmitting electric power through Cinergy’s transmission system.  Regulated Businesses operated approximately 47,000 circuit miles (the total length in miles of separate circuits) of electric lines to provide regulated transmission and distribution service to approximately 1.5 million customers as of December 31, 2003.

 

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Regulated Businesses operated approximately 13,400 miles of gas mains (gas distribution lines that serve as a common source of supply for more than one service line) and service lines to provide domestic regulated transmission and distribution services to approximately 500,000 customers as of December 31, 2003.  See “Item 2.  Properties” for a further discussion of the transmission and distribution systems owned by our operating companies.

 

Electric Operations
 

Regulated Businesses (through our operating companies) and other non-affiliated utilities in a nine-state region are parties to the East Central Area Reliability Council Agreement (ECAR Agreement).  The ECAR Agreement coordinates the planning and operation of generation and transmission facilities, which provides for reliability of regional bulk power supply.

 

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Transmission System Interconnections
 

The following map illustrates the interconnections between our electric systems and other electric systems.

 

 

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Midwest ISO

 

The Midwest ISO was established as a non-profit organization to maintain functional control over the combined transmission systems of its members.  For further information on the Midwest ISO, see the “FERC and Midwest ISO” section of “Item 7.  Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations”.

 

Electricity Supply
 

A joint operating agreement, effective in April 2002, allows Cinergy to jointly dispatch the regulated generating assets of PSI in conjunction with the deregulated generating assets of CG&E.  Under this agreement, transfers of power between PSI and CG&E are generally priced at market rates.

 

With the implementation of electric deregulation in Ohio, effective January 1, 2001, Regulated Businesses continues, through a market development period, to acquire its electricity requirements from Commercial for those retail customers who do not switch suppliers.

 

ULH&P purchases energy from CG&E pursuant to a contract effective January 1, 2002, which was approved by the FERC and the Kentucky Public Service Commission (KPSC).  This five-year agreement is a negotiated fixed-rate contract with CG&E and replaces the previous cost of service based contract, which expired on December 31, 2001.

 

In December 2003, the KPSC conditionally approved a long-term electric supply plan for ULH&P that will replace the current contract with CG&E listed above.  Under this new plan, CG&E will transfer ownership of approximately 1,100 MW of electric generating capacity to ULH&P.  The capacity is currently part of CG&E’s generating assets used to service ULH&P under a multi-year wholesale power supply contract as described above.  ULH&P will also seek regulatory approval for aspects of this transaction from the FERC and SEC.  At this time, ULH&P is unable to predict the outcome of this matter.

 

For further details on electricity supply of CG&E, PSI, and ULH&P, refer to the “Retail Market Developments” section of “Item 7.  Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations”.

 

Gas Supply
 

Regulated Businesses is responsible for the purchase and the subsequent delivery of natural gas to native load customers.  Regulated Businesses’ natural gas procurement strategy is to buy firm natural gas supplies (natural gas intended to be available at all times) and firm interstate pipeline transportation capacity during the winter season (November through March) and during the non-heating season (April through October) through a combination of firm supply and transportation capacity along with spot supply and interruptible transportation capacity.  This strategy allows Regulated Businesses to assure reliable natural gas supply for its high priority (non-curtailable) firm customers during peak winter conditions and provides Regulated Businesses the flexibility to reduce its contract commitments if firm customers choose alternate gas suppliers under the

 

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Regulated Businesses’ customer choice/gas transportation programs.  In 2003, firm supply purchase commitment agreements provided approximately 85 percent of the natural gas supply, with the remaining gas purchased on the spot market.  These firm supply agreements feature two levels of gas supply, specifically (1) base load, which is a continuous supply to meet normal demand requirements, and (2) swing load, which is gas available on a daily basis to accommodate changes in demand due primarily to changing weather conditions.

 

Regulated Businesses manages natural gas procurement-hedging programs for CG&E and ULH&P.  These programs pre-arrange between 20-75 percent of winter heating season base load gas requirements and up to 50 percent of summer season base load requirements.  CG&E and ULH&P use primarily fixed price forward contracts and contracts with a ceiling and floor on the price.  These contracts employ the normal purchases and sales scope exception, and do not involve hedges under Statement of Financial Accounting Standards No. 133, Accounting for Derivative Instruments and Hedging Activity.  As of December 31, 2003, CG&E and ULH&P, combined, had hedged approximately 66 percent of their winter 2003/2004 base load requirements.  See the “Gas Industry” section of “Item 7.  Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations” for further information.

 

Interstate pipelines either (1) transport gas purchased directly to the distribution systems or (2) inject gas purchased into pipeline storage facilities for future withdrawal and delivery.  The majority of the gas supply comes from the Gulf of Mexico coastal areas of Texas and Louisiana.

 

Regulated Businesses expects the natural gas market will remain competitive in future years.  While natural gas prices spiked at the beginning of 2003, prices moderated throughout the spring and summer but are still expected to remain higher than previous years into 2004.  Price movement will be driven by the effects of weather conditions, availability of supply, and changes in demand and storage inventories.  Currently, neither CG&E nor ULH&P profit from changes in the cost of natural gas since natural gas purchase costs are passed directly to the customer dollar-for-dollar under the gas cost recovery mechanism that is mandated under state law.

 

In November 2003, CG&E and ULH&P entered into a one-year asset management agreement with Marketing & Trading, a non-regulated affiliate of CG&E and ULH&P, to manage their interstate pipeline transportation and storage capacity and gas supply contracts.  Under the terms of this agreement, Marketing & Trading is obligated to deliver natural gas to meet CG&E’s and ULH&P’s firm requirements.  ULH&P received an order from the KPSC in October 2003, approving the affiliate asset management agreement with Marketing & Trading.  No other regulatory approvals were required.

 

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Retail Revenue Data and Customer Base
 

The percent of retail operating revenues derived from full service electricity and gas sales and transportation from switched customers for each of the three years ended December 31 were as follows:

 

 

 

Retail Operating Revenues

 

Registrant

 

2003

 

2002

 

2001

 

 

 

Electric %

 

Gas %

 

Electric %

 

Gas %

 

Electric %

 

Gas %

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Cinergy

 

81

 

19

 

87

 

13

 

82

 

18

 

CG&E and subsidiaries

 

68

 

32

 

77

 

23

 

71

 

29

 

PSI

 

100

 

 

100

 

 

100

 

 

ULH&P

 

67

 

33

 

73

 

27

 

68

 

32

 

 

Electric and gas sales are seasonal.  Electricity usage in our service territory peaks during the summer and gas usage peaks during the winter.  Air conditioning increases electricity demand and heating increases electricity and gas demand.

 

The service territory of CG&E and its utility subsidiaries, including ULH&P, is heavily populated and is characterized by a stable residential customer base and a diverse mix of industrial customers.  The territory served by PSI is composed of residential, agricultural, and widely diversified industrial customers.  No single retail customer provides more than 10 percent of total operating revenues (electric or gas) for any of our operating companies.

 

Under the Ohio customer choice program, CG&E’s retail customers may choose their electric supplier.  As of December 31, 2003 and 2002, the percentage of customers switching to other electric suppliers and the related volume by customer class was as follows:

 

 

 

MW

 

Annual
Megawatt Hours

 

Switching
Percentage(1)

 

Revenue Class

 

2003

 

2002

 

2003

 

2002

 

2003

 

2002

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Residential

 

92

 

68

 

283,477

 

98,528

 

5.17

%

3.84

%

Commercial

 

374

 

347

 

1,654,061

 

1,235,077

 

21.55

%

21.54

%

Industrial

 

295

 

293

 

1,591,345

 

1,053,677

 

23.60

%

24.60

%

Other Public Authorities

 

91

 

84

 

265,039

 

204,855

 

19.95

%

21.51

%

Total

 

852

 

792

 

3,793,922

 

2,592,137

 

 

 

 

 

 


(1)          The residential switching percentage is based on annual energy consumption and the non-residential switching percentages are based on average monthly peak demand.

 

Customer switching reduces retail revenues by the generation component of rates and shopping incentives.  CG&E still collects transmission and distribution revenues from the delivery of electricity to switched customers.  During the market development period, the reduction in revenues due to customer switching is mitigated by wholesale power sales from the freed-up

 

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generation capacity and recoveries of lost revenues and shopping incentives through the Regulatory Transition Charge (RTC).  The RTC is a mechanism through which CG&E recovers its previous generation related regulatory assets and other transition costs.  For further discussion on Ohio deregulation see “Ohio” in “Item 7.  Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations”.

 

Power Technology

 

Power Technology primarily manages Cinergy Ventures, LLC (Ventures), Cinergy’s venture capital subsidiary.  Ventures identifies, invests in, and integrates new energy technologies into Cinergy’s existing businesses, focused primarily on operational efficiencies and clean energy technologies.  In addition, Power Technology manages our investments in other energy infrastructure and telecommunication service providers.

 

ENVIRONMENTAL MATTERS
 

Cinergy is currently affected by several different issues which involve compliance with federal and state regulations regarding the protection of the environment.  See Note 11 of the “Notes to Financial Statements” in “Item 8. Financial Statements and Supplementary Data” for a discussion of these environmental issues and the estimated capital expenditures.

 

FUTURE EXPECTATIONS/TRENDS

 

See the information appearing under the same caption in “Item 7.  Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations” for the following discussions:

 

                  Retail Market Developments;

                  FERC and Midwest ISO;

                  Significant Rate Developments;

                  Gas Industry; and

                  Other Matters.

 

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PROPERTIES

 

ITEM 2.  PROPERTIES

 

COMMERCIAL

 

Domestic Power Generation

 

Our domestic power generating stations’ total winter electric capabilities, reflected in MW, as of December 31, 2003, are shown in the table that follows.  Our electric generating plants, which are operated by Commercial, are located in Ohio, Kentucky, and Indiana and are wholly-owned or jointly-owned facilities.

 

Subsidiary(1)

 

Stations

 

Coal
MW

 

Natural
Gas
MW

 

Oil
MW

 

Hydro
MW

 

Total
MW

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

CG&E

 

9

 

4,186

 

736

 

324

 

 

5,246

 

PSI(2)

 

11

 

5,488

 

1,263

 

259

 

45

 

7,055

 

Investments(3)

 

2

 

 

1,030

 

 

 

1,030

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Total

 

22

 

9,674

 

3,029

 

583

 

45

 

13,331

 

 


 

(1)

This table includes only our portion of the total capacity for the jointly-owned plants.  Refer to Note 12  of the “Notes to Financial Statements” in “Item 8. Financial Statements and Supplementary Data” for a discussion of the jointly-owned plants.

 

(2)

Represents stations that are operated by Commercial on behalf of Regulated Businesses.

 

(3)

Represents natural gas peaking plants located in Tennessee and Mississippi, owned by Investments that sell electricity on the wholesale market.

 

During 2003, electric generating plants, including those that we own but do not operate, performed reliably, as evidenced by our annual capacity factor of 71 percent and a utilization factor of 84 percent (excluding natural gas and fuel oil peaking stations) and an equivalent availability factor of 86 percent.  A capacity factor is a percentage that indicates how much of a power plant’s capacity is used over time.  A utilization factor is a percentage that indicates how much of a power plant’s capacity is used while being available.  An equivalent availability factor is a percentage that indicates how much of a unit is available to generate compared to its potential maximum generation.

 

International

 

As of December 31, 2003, we had ownership interests in five countries including generation assets located in three countries and approximately 1,200 miles of gas and electric transmission and distribution systems through jointly-owned investments in two countries.  We serve approximately 8,500 transmission and distribution customers.

 

Cogeneration

 

As of December 31, 2003, Cinergy had ownership interests in and/or operated 19 domestic cogeneration facilities capable of producing 657 MW of electricity, 3,521 MW equivalents of steam and 325 MW equivalents of chilled water.  Cogeneration is the simultaneous production of two or more forms of useable energy from a single fuel source.  During 2004, Cinergy

 

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anticipates completion of an expansion at one of our existing cogeneration facilities, which is expected to provide an additional 705 MW of electric capacity.

 

Other

 

In the third quarter of 2002, Cinergy Capital & Trading, Inc. completed an acquisition of a coal-based synthetic fuel production facility, which converts coal into synthetic fuel for sale to a third party.  The synthetic fuel replaces coal in the generation of electricity.  See the “Results of Operations - Future” section of “Item 7.  Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations” for additional information regarding this business initiative.

 

REGULATED BUSINESSES

 

Electric

 

Relevant information for our operating companies’ electric transmission and distribution systems located in Ohio, Kentucky, and Indiana is as follows:

 

Registrant

 

Electric
Transmission
Systems

 

Electric
Distribution
Systems

 

Substation
Combined
Capacity

 

 

 

(circuit miles)

 

(circuit miles)

 

(kilovolt-amperes)(1)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

CG&E

 

1,662

 

15,983

 

21,132,488

 

ULH&P

 

106

 

2,773

 

1,384,198

 

Other subsidiaries

 

40

 

 

 

CG&E and subsidiaries

 

1,808

 

18,756

 

22,516,686

 

PSI

 

5,352

 

21,058

 

30,471,584

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Total

 

7,160

 

39,814

 

52,988,270

 

 


(1)          Kilovolt-amperes (1,000 volt-amperes) are a broad measure of our substation transformer capacity.

 

At the end of 2003, our operating companies’ electric systems were interconnected with 15 other utilities.

 

Our electric transmission and distribution systems are designed and constructed to further the goal of providing reliable service to our customers.  Every effort is made to ensure that sufficient facilities are in service to meet this goal without installing facilities beyond what is required to operate reliably and within the design or designed parameters.  Through our ongoing review of these systems, enhancements are developed and constructed to meet our planning, loading, and reliability guidelines.  This process allows us to prudently invest in capacity additions only when and where they are required.

 

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In August 2003, we experienced peak loads of 11,077 MW, 5,104 MW, and 5,990 MW for Cinergy, CG&E, and PSI, respectively.  At times, we purchase power to meet the energy needs of our wholesale customers and to meet the requirements of our retail native load customers.  Factors that could cause Cinergy to purchase power for retail native load customers include outages, extreme weather conditions, growth, economics, and other factors associated with supplying full requirements electricity.  We believe we can obtain enough purchased power to meet future needs.

 

In February 2002, the Midwest ISO assumed functional control of Regulated Businesses’ transmission systems.  Although the Midwest ISO continues to develop, modify, and change its various operating practices, it does handle substantially all transmission tariff administration.

 

In February 2003, the FERC issued an order approving PSI’s acquisition of the Butler County, Ohio and the Henry County, Indiana peaking plants under the terms and conditions contained in a settlement agreement with PSI, the Indiana Utility Regulatory Commission Testimonial Staff and the Indiana Office of the Utility Consumer Counselor.  This action was the final regulatory approval needed for the transfer, which occurred in February 2003.  Subsequently, in April 2003, the FERC issued a tolling order allowing additional time to consider a request for rehearing filed in response to the February 2003 FERC order.  At this time, we cannot predict the outcome of this matter.  See “Transfer of Generating Assets to PSI” in “Item 7.  Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations” for additional information.

 

In July 2003, ULH&P filed an application with the KPSC requesting a certificate of public convenience and necessity to acquire CG&E’s 68.9 percent ownership interests in the East Bend Generating Station, located in Boone County, Kentucky, the Woodsdale Generating Station, located in Butler County, Ohio, and one generating unit at the four-unit Miami Fort Generating Station (Miami Fort Station) located in Hamilton County, Ohio.  In December 2003, the KPSC conditionally approved the order.  The transfer will be made at net book value.  ULH&P will also seek regulatory approval for aspects of this transaction from the FERC and the SEC.  At this time, ULH&P is unable to predict the outcome of this matter.  See the “Electricity Supply” section of “Item 1. Business” for further information.

 

Gas

 

As of December 31, 2003, the natural gas transmission and distribution systems of Cinergy and CG&E and its subsidiaries had approximately 13,400 miles of mains and service lines located in southwestern Ohio, southeastern Indiana, and northern Kentucky.  Cinergy and CG&E and its subsidiaries also jointly own three underground caverns with a total storage capacity of approximately 23 million gallons of liquid propane (of which 18.7 million gallons belongs to CG&E, including 7.5 million gallons belonging to ULH&P).  As of December 31, 2003, Cinergy had 16.1 million gallons of liquid propane in storage (of which 15.0 million gallons belongs to CG&E, including 5.7 million gallons belonging to ULH&P).  This liquid propane is used in the three propane/air peak shaving plants located in Ohio and Kentucky.  Propane/air peak shaving plants store propane and, when needed, vaporize the propane and mix with natural gas to supplement the natural gas supply during peak demand periods and emergencies.

 

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In November 2003, CG&E and ULH&P entered into a one-year asset management agreement with Marketing & Trading, a non-regulated affiliate of CG&E and ULH&P, to manage their interstate pipeline transportation and storage capacity and natural gas supply contracts.  Under the terms of this agreement, Marketing & Trading is obligated to deliver natural gas to meet CG&E’s and ULH&P’s firm requirements.  ULH&P received an order from the KPSC in October 2003, approving the affiliate asset management agreement with Marketing & Trading.  No other regulatory approvals were required.

 

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LEGAL PROCEEDINGS

 

ITEM 3.  LEGAL PROCEEDINGS

 

CLEAN AIR ACT (CAA) LAWSUIT

 

In November 1999, and through subsequent amendments, the United States brought a lawsuit in the United States Federal District Court (District Court) for the Southern District of Indiana against Cinergy, CG&E, and PSI alleging various violations of the CAA.  Specifically, the lawsuit alleges that the Company violated the CAA by not obtaining Prevention of Significant Deterioration (PSD), Non-Attainment New Source Review (NSR) and Ohio and Indiana State Implementation Plan (SIP) permits for various projects at our owned or co-owned generating stations.  Additionally, the suit claims that the Company has violated an Administrative Consent Order entered into in 1998 between the EPA and Cinergy relating to alleged violations of Ohio’s SIP provisions governing particulate matter at Unit 1 at CG&E’s W.C. Beckjord Generating Station (Beckjord Station).  The suit seeks (1) injunctive relief to require installation of pollution control technology on various generating units at CG&E’s Beckjord Station and Miami Fort Station, and PSI’s Cayuga Generating Station, Gallagher Generating Station, Wabash River Generating Station, and Gibson Generating Station, and (2) civil penalties in amounts of up to $27,500 per day for each violation.  In addition, three northeast states and two environmental groups have intervened in the case.  The case is currently in discovery, and the court has set the case for trial by jury commencing in August 2005.

 

In March 2000, the United States also filed an amended complaint in a separate lawsuit alleging violations of the CAA relating to PSD, NSR, and Ohio SIP requirements regarding various generating stations, including a generating station operated by the Columbus Southern Power Company (CSP) and jointly-owned by CSP, the Dayton Power and Light Company (DP&L), and CG&E.  The EPA is seeking injunctive relief and civil penalties of up to $27,500 per day for each violation.  This suit is being defended by CSP.  In April 2001, the District Court in that case ruled that the Government and the intervening plaintiff environmental groups could seek injunctive relief for alleged violations that occurred more than five years before the filing of the complaint only.  Thus, if the plaintiffs prevail in their claims, any calculation for penalties will not start on the date of the alleged violations, unless those alleged violations occurred after November 3, 1994, but CSP would be forced to install the controls required under the CAA.  Neither party appealed that decision.

 

In addition, Cinergy and CG&E have been informed by DP&L that in June 2000, the EPA issued a Notice of Violation (NOV) to DP&L for alleged violations of PSD, NSR, and SIP requirements at a generating station operated by DP&L and jointly-owned by CG&E.  The NOV indicated the EPA may (1) issue an order requiring compliance with the requirements of the SIP, or (2) bring a civil action seeking injunctive relief and civil penalties of up to $27,500 per day for each violation.

 

In December 2000, Cinergy, CG&E, and PSI reached an agreement in principle with the plaintiffs regarding the above matters.  The complete resolution of these issues was contingent upon establishing a final agreement with the EPA and other parties.  Although we have continued to negotiate with the plaintiffs to achieve a final agreement, the plaintiffs have insisted on commitments from us which go beyond those contained in the agreement in principle.  At this

 

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time we believe it is unlikely that a final settlement agreement will be reached on these terms.  If a final settlement agreement is not reached, we intend to defend against the allegations, discussed above, vigorously in court.  In such an event it is not possible to predict whether resolution of these matters would have a material effect on our financial position or results of operations.

 

MANUFACTURED GAS PLANT SITES (MGP)

 

Prior to the 1950s, gas was produced at MGP sites through a process that involved the heating of coal and/or oil.  The gas produced from this process was sold for residential, commercial, and industrial uses.

 

Coal tar residues, related hydrocarbons, and various metals have been found at former MGP sites in Indiana, including at least 22 sites that PSI or its predecessors previously owned and sold in a series of transactions with Northern Indiana Public Service Company (NIPSCO) and Indiana Gas Company, Inc. (IGC).

 

In a combination of lawsuits (filed in November 1999 in Hendricks County in the state of Indiana) and NOVs (brought by the U.S. EPA from November 1999 to January 2000), the 22 sites are in the process of being studied and will be remediated, if necessary.  In 1998 NIPSCO, IGC, and PSI entered into Site Participation and Cost Sharing Agreements to allocate liability and responsibilities between them.  The Indiana Department of Environmental Management (IDEM) oversees investigation and cleanup of all of these sites.  Thus far, PSI has primary responsibility for investigating, monitoring and, if necessary, remediating nine of these sites.  In December 2003, PSI entered into a voluntary remediation plan with the state of Indiana, providing a formal framework for the investigation and cleanup of the sites for which PSI has primary responsibility.

 

PSI notified its insurance carriers of the claims related to MGP sites raised by IDEM and costs included in the Site Participation and Cost Sharing Agreements.  In April 1998, PSI filed suit in Hendricks County in the state of Indiana against its general liability insurance carriers.  PSI sought a declaratory judgment to obligate its insurance carriers to (1) defend MGP claims against PSI and compensate PSI for its costs of investigating, preventing, mitigating, and remediating damage to property and paying claims related to MGP sites or (2) pay PSI’s cost of defense.  The trial court issued a variety of rulings with respect to the claims and defenses in the litigation.  PSI appealed certain adverse rulings to the Indiana Court of Appeals and the appellate court has remanded the case to the trial court.  A new trial date has yet to be scheduled.  At the present time, PSI cannot predict the outcome of this litigation, including the outcome of the appeals.

 

PSI has accrued costs related to investigation, remediation, and groundwater monitoring for those sites where such costs are probable and can be reasonably estimated.  We will continue to investigate and remediate the sites as outlined in the voluntary remediation plan.  As additional facts become known and investigation is completed, we will assess if the likelihood of incurring additional costs becomes probable.  Until all investigation and remediation is complete, we are unable to determine the overall impact on our financial position or results of operations.

 

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CG&E has performed site assessments on its sites where we believe MGP activities have occurred at some point in the past and found no imminent risk to the environment.

 

ENERGY MARKET INVESTIGATIONS

 

In August 2003, Cornerstone Propane Partners L.P. filed suit against Cinergy and 38 other companies in the Southern District of New York.  The suit is a purported class action on behalf of all persons who purchased and/or sold New York Mercantile Exchange natural gas futures and options contracts between January 1, 2000 and December 31, 2002.  The complaint alleges that improper price reporting caused damages to the class.  The plaintiffs are seeking unspecified damages.  Two similar lawsuits have subsequently been filed, one naming Cinergy and one not.  These three lawsuits have been consolidated for pretrial purposes as In Re:  Natural Gas Commodity Litigation.  Plaintiffs filed a consolidated class action complaint in January 2004.  We believe this action is without merit and intend to defend this lawsuit vigorously; however, we cannot predict the outcome of this matter at this time.

 

PATENTS

 

Ronald A. Katz Technology Licensing, L.P. (RAKTL) has offered us a license to a portfolio of patents claiming that the patents may be infringed by certain products and services utilized by us.  The patents purportedly relate to various aspects of telephone call processing in Cinergy call centers.  As of this date, no legal proceedings have been instituted against us, but if the RAKTL patents are valid, enforceable and apply to our business, we could be required to seek a license from RAKTL or to discontinue certain activities.  We are currently considering this matter, but lack sufficient information to assess the potential outcome at this time.

 

We currently, and from time to time, are involved in lawsuits, claims, and complaints incidental to the conduct of our business.  In the opinion of management, no such proceeding is likely to have a material adverse effect on us.

 

See Note 11 of the “Notes to Financial Statements” in “Item 8. Financial Statements and Supplementary Data” for further information regarding our commitments and contingencies.

 

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SUBMISSION OF MATTERS TO A VOTE OF SECURITY HOLDERS

 

ITEM 4.  SUBMISSION OF MATTERS TO A VOTE OF SECURITY HOLDERS

 

No matters were submitted to a vote of security holders of Cinergy, CG&E, or PSI during the fourth quarter of 2003.

 

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MARKET FOR REGISTRANT’S COMMON EQUITY AND RELATED STOCKHOLDER MATTERS

 

PART II

 

ITEM 5.  MARKET FOR REGISTRANT’S COMMON EQUITY AND RELATED STOCKHOLDER MATTERS

 

Cinergy Corp.’s common stock is listed on the New York Stock Exchange.  The high and low stock prices for each quarter for the past two years are indicated below:

 

 

 

High

 

Low

 

2003

 

 

 

 

 

First Quarter

 

$

35.87

 

$

29.77

 

Second Quarter

 

38.75

 

33.25

 

Third Quarter

 

36.99

 

33.14

 

Fourth Quarter

 

38.86

 

35.19

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

2002

 

 

 

 

 

First Quarter

 

$

35.75

 

$

31.00

 

Second Quarter

 

37.19

 

34.25

 

Third Quarter

 

36.21

 

25.40

 

Fourth Quarter

 

34.19

 

28.25

 

 

Cinergy Corp. holds all outstanding CG&E and PSI common stock, and CG&E holds all ULH&P common stock.  Therefore, no public trading market exists for the common stock of CG&E, PSI, and ULH&P.

 

As of January 31, 2004, Cinergy Corp. had 52,506 shareholders of record.

 

Cinergy Corp. declared dividends on its common stock of $.46 and $.45 per share for each quarter of 2003 and 2002, respectively.  The quarterly dividends paid to Cinergy Corp. by CG&E and PSI, and to CG&E by ULH&P for the past two years were as follows:

 

Registrant

 

Quarter

 

2003

 

2002

 

 

 

 

 

(in thousands)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

CG&E

 

First

 

$

47,082

 

$

44,787

 

 

 

Second

 

63,100

 

46,866

 

 

 

Third

 

56,473

 

47,059

 

 

 

Fourth

 

61,208

 

47,197

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

PSI

 

First

 

$

30,503

 

$

26,944

 

 

 

Second

 

17,837

 

28,194

 

 

 

Third

 

24,984

 

28,310

 

 

 

Fourth

 

20,626

 

28,394

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

ULH&P

 

First

 

$

 

$

 

 

 

Second

 

6,305

 

2,675

 

 

 

Third

 

 

 

 

 

Fourth

 

 

6,995

 

 

On January 15, 2004, the Board of Directors of Cinergy Corp. declared dividends on its common stock of $.47 per share, payable February 15, 2004, to shareholders of record at the close of business on January 30, 2004.

 

See Note 2(b) of the “Notes to Financial Statements” in “Item 8. Financial Statements and

 

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SELECTED FINANCIAL DATA

 

Supplementary Data” for a brief description of the registrants’ common stock dividend restrictions.

 

ITEM 6.  SELECTED FINANCIAL DATA

 

 

 

2003

 

2002

 

2001

 

2000

 

1999

 

 

 

(in millions, except per share amounts)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Cinergy(1)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Results of Operations:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Operating revenues(2)

 

$

4,416

 

$

4,059

 

$

3,950

 

$

3,752

 

$

3,427

 

Income before discontinued operations and cumulative effect of changes in accounting principles

 

435

 

397

 

457

 

400

 

402

 

Discontinued operations, net of tax(3)

 

9

 

(25

)

(15

)

(1

)

2

 

Cumulative effect of changes in accounting principles, net of tax(4)

 

26

 

(11

)

 

 

 

Net income

 

470

 

361

 

442

 

399

 

404

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Per Share Data:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Earnings per common share (EPS)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Income before discontinued operations and cumulative effect of changes in accounting principles

 

2.46

 

2.37

 

2.87

 

2.52

 

2.53

 

Discontinued operations, net of tax(3)

 

0.05

 

(0.15

)

(0.09

)

(0.01

)

0.01

 

Cumulative effect of changes in accounting principles, net of tax(4)

 

0.15

 

(0.06

)

 

 

 

Net income

 

2.66

 

2.16

 

2.78

 

2.51

 

2.54

 

EPS - assuming dilution

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Income before discontinued operations and cumulative effect of changes in accounting principles

 

2.43

 

2.34

 

2.84

 

2.51

 

2.52

 

Discontinued operations, net of tax(3)

 

0.05

 

(0.15

)

(0.09

)

(0.01

)

0.01

 

Cumulative effect of changes in accounting principles, net of tax(4)

 

0.15

 

(0.06

)

 

 

 

Net income

 

2.63

 

2.13

 

2.75

 

2.50

 

2.53

 

Dividends declared per share

 

1.84

 

1.80

 

1.80

 

1.80

 

1.80

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Balance Sheet Data (at end of period):

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Total assets from continuing operations

 

14,114

 

13,685

 

12,558

 

12,604

 

9,963

 

Total assets from discontinued operations

 

5

 

147

 

234

 

197

 

88

 

 

 

14,119

 

13,832

 

12,792

 

12,801

 

10,051

 

Long-term debt (including amounts due in one year)

 

4,971

 

4,188

 

3,656

 

2,868

 

2,998

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

CG&E

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Results of Operations:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Operating revenues(2)

 

$

2,382

 

$

2,137

 

$

2,247

 

$

2,101

 

$

1,914

 

Income before cumulative effect of changes in accounting principles

 

300

 

264

 

327

 

267

 

234

 

Cumulative effect of changes in accounting principles, net of tax(5)

 

31

 

 

 

 

 

Net income

 

331

 

264

 

327

 

267

 

234

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Balance Sheet Data (at end of period):

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Total assets

 

5,809

 

5,751

 

5,559

 

6,182

 

5,099

 

Long-term debt (including amounts due in one year)

 

1,569

 

1,690

 

1,205

 

1,206

 

1,206

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

PSI

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Results of Operations:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Operating revenues(2)

 

$

1,603

 

$

1,611

 

$

1,574

 

$

1,512

 

$

1,449

 

Income before cumulative effect of a change in accounting principle

 

134

 

214

 

162

 

135

 

117

 

Cumulative effect of a change in accounting principle, net of tax(6)

 

(1

)

 

 

 

 

Net income

 

133

 

214

 

162

 

135

 

117

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Balance Sheet Data (at end of period):

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Total assets

 

5,140

 

4,539

 

4,864

 

4,906

 

4,087

 

Long-term debt (including amounts due in one year)

 

1,720

 

1,372

 

1,348

 

1,113

 

1,243

 

 


(1)          The results of Cinergy also include amounts related to non-registrants.

 

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(2)          Emerging Issues Task Force Issue 02-3, Accounting for Contracts Involved in Energy Trading and Risk Management Activities required that all gains and losses on energy trading derivatives be presented on a net basis beginning January 1, 2003.  All periods presented have been reclassified for this change in accounting principle.  This resulted in substantial reductions in reported Operating Revenues, Fuel and purchased and exchanged power expense, and Gas purchased expense.  However, Operating Income and Net Income were not affected by this change.  For further information see Note 1(q)(i) of the “Notes to Financial Statements” in “Item 8. Financial Statements and Supplementary Data”.

(3)          See Note 14 of the “Notes to Financial Statements” in “Item 8. Financial Statements and Supplementary Data” for further explanation.

(4)          In 2003, Cinergy recognized a gain/(loss) on cumulative effect of changes in accounting principles of $39 million (net of tax) and $(13) million (net of tax) as a result of the reversal of accrued cost of removal for non-regulated generating assets and the change in accounting of certain energy related contracts from fair value to accrual.  In 2002, Cinergy recognized a cumulative effect of a change in accounting principle of $(11) million (net of tax) as a result of an impairment charge for goodwill related to certain of our international assets.

(5)          In 2003, CG&E recognized a gain/(loss) on cumulative effect of changes in accounting principles of $39 million (net of tax) and $(8) million (net of tax) as a result of the reversal of accrued cost of removal for non-regulated generating assets and the change in accounting of certain energy related contracts from fair value to accrual.

(6)          In 2003, PSI recognized a loss on cumulative effect of a change in accounting principle of $(1) million (net of tax) as a result of a change in accounting of certain energy related contracts from fair value to accrual.

 

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MD&A - - LIQUIDITY AND CAPITAL RESOURCES

 

ITEM 7.  MANAGEMENT’S DISCUSSION AND ANALYSIS OF FINANCIAL CONDITION AND RESULTS OF OPERATIONS

 

In this report Cinergy (which includes Cinergy Corp. and all of our regulated and non-regulated subsidiaries) is, at times, referred to in the first person as “we”, “our”, or “us”.

 

The following discussion should be read in conjunction with the accompanying financial statements and related notes included elsewhere in this report.  The results discussed below are not necessarily indicative of the results to be expected in any future periods.

 

INTRODUCTION

 

In Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations (MD&A), we explain our general operating environment, as well as our liquidity, capital resources, and results of operations.  Specifically, we discuss the following:

 

                  factors affecting current and future operations;

                  potential sources of cash for future capital expenditures;

                  why revenues and expenses changed from period to period; and

                  how the above items affect our overall financial condition.

 

LIQUIDITY AND CAPITAL RESOURCES

 

Comparative Cash Flow Analysis From Continuing Operations

 

Operating Activities from Continuing Operations
 

For each of the years ended December 31, 2003, 2002, and 2001, our cash flows from operating activities from continuing operations were as follows:

 

Net Cash Provided by (Used in) Operating Activities from Continuing Operations

 

 

 

2003

 

2002

 

2001

 

 

 

(in thousands)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Cinergy(1)

 

$

945,673

 

$

955,802

 

$

723,690

 

The Cincinnati Gas & Electric Company (CG&E) and subsidiaries

 

557,761

 

653,029

 

343,118

 

PSI Energy, Inc. (PSI)

 

246,735

 

499,047

 

401,911

 

The Union Light, Heat and Power Company (ULH&P)

 

33,061

 

60,707

 

47,766

 

 


(1)          The results of Cinergy also include amounts related to non-registrants.

 

The tariff-based gross margins of our operating companies continue to be the principal source of cash from operating activities.  The diversified retail customer mix of residential, commercial, and industrial classes and a commodity mix of gas and electric services provide a reasonably predictable gross cash flow.

 

For the year ended December 31, 2003, CG&E’s, PSI’s, and ULH&P’s net cash provided by

 

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operating activities from continuing operations decreased, as compared to 2002.  CG&E’s decrease is primarily due to unfavorable working capital fluctuations.  PSI’s decrease is largely due to a decrease in net income after adjusting for non-cash items such as depreciation and a decrease in receivables sold under the receivables sale facility.  A significant portion of ULH&P’s decrease is due to unfavorable working capital fluctuations and an increase in deferred costs under the gas cost recovery mechanism.  Cinergy’s change in net cash provided by operating activities for the year ended December 31, 2003 was comparable to 2002.

 

For the year ended December 31, 2002, Cinergy’s, CG&E’s, PSI’s, and ULH&P’s net cash provided by operating activities from continuing operations increased, as compared to 2001, primarily due to increases in net income after adjusting for non-cash items such as depreciation; favorable working capital fluctuations; and deferred income taxes.  The increase in deferred income taxes, in part, reflects a change in accounting methodology for tax purposes related to capitalized costs, which increased current tax deductions.  Cinergy’s current tax obligations were also reduced by increases in tax credits associated with the production and sale of synthetic fuel.

 

Financing Activities from Continuing Operations
 

For each of the years ended December 31, 2003, 2002, and 2001, our cash flows from financing activities from continuing operations were as follows:

 

Net Cash Provided by (Used in) Financing Activities from Continuing Operations

 

 

 

2003

 

2002

 

2001

 

 

 

(in thousands)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Cinergy(1)

 

$

(245,128

)

$

42,689

 

$

827,758

 

CG&E and subsidiaries

 

(263,296

)

(293,445

)

16,841

 

PSI

 

90,070

 

(43,817

)

34,723

 

ULH&P

 

4,852

 

(22,026

)

(14,678

)

 


(1)          The results of Cinergy also include amounts related to non-registrants.

 

For the year ended December 31, 2003, Cinergy’s net cash used in financing activities from continuing operations increased, as compared to 2002, primarily due to increases in redemptions of long-term debt and the establishment of funds on deposit from the issuance of debt securities.

 

CG&E’s net cash used in financing activities from continuing operations decreased during 2003, as compared to 2002, primarily due to a net increase in short-term debt financing.

 

PSI’s and ULH&P’s net cash provided by financing activities from continuing operations increased during 2003, as compared to 2002.  PSI’s increase was primarily due to capital contributions from Cinergy Corp.  ULH&P’s increase was primarily attributable to increases in short-term debt.

 

For the year ended December 31, 2002, Cinergy’s net cash provided by financing activities from continuing operations decreased, as compared to 2001.  This decrease was primarily due to the

 

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net proceeds received in 2001 from the issuance of Preferred Trust Securities and from new debt issuances, which were used to fund the purchase of new peaking generation facilities and environmental compliance expenditures.  The repayment of both long-term and short-term debt reduced cash proceeds recognized in 2002 from the issuances of common stock and new long-term debt.

 

CG&E’s, PSI’s, and ULH&P’s net cash used in financing activities from continuing operations increased during 2002, as compared to 2001.  CG&E’s increase reflects a net reduction in debt financing, partially offset by a decrease in dividends paid on common stock.  PSI’s increase primarily reflects the payment of approximately $112 million in common stock dividends in 2002, as compared to 2001, when no common dividends were paid.  ULH&P’s increase primarily reflects the repayment of short-term debt in 2002.

 

Investing Activities from Continuing Operations

 

For each of the years ended December 31, 2003, 2002, and 2001, our cash flows used in investing activities from continuing operations were as follows:

 

Net Cash Provided by (Used in) Investing Activities from Continuing Operations

 

 

 

2003

 

2002

 

2001

 

 

 

(in thousands)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Cinergy(1)

 

$

(731,537

)

$

(885,636

)

$

(1,534,526

)

CG&E and subsidiaries

 

(323,959

)

(323,322

)

(371,522

)

PSI

 

(332,247

)

(454,810

)

(436,358

)

ULH&P

 

(39,940

)

(38,854

)

(35,449

)

 


(1)                                  The results of Cinergy also include amounts related to non-registrants.

 

For the year ended December 31, 2003, Cinergy’s net cash used in investing activities from continuing operations decreased as compared to 2002, primarily due to decreases in capital expenditures related to environmental compliance programs, and other energy-related investments.  Cinergy also purchased a synthetic fuel production facility during 2002.

 

PSI’s decrease was primarily due to decreases in capital expenditures for ongoing environmental compliance programs and other construction projects.

 

CG&E’s and ULH&P’s net cash used in 2003 investing activities from continuing operations was comparable to 2002, reflecting CG&E’s ongoing capital expenditures for environmental compliance programs, the gas main replacement program, and normal construction activity, and ULH&P’s ongoing capital expenditures for the gas main replacement program and normal construction activity.

 

For the year ended December 31, 2002, Cinergy’s net cash used in investing activities from continuing operations decreased, as compared to 2001.  This decrease was primarily the result of Cinergy’s 2001 acquisition of peaking generation facilities, increased capital expenditures related to environmental compliance programs, and other non-core investments.

 

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CG&E’s, PSI’s, and ULH&P’s net cash used in 2002 investing activities from continuing operations were comparable to 2001, reflecting ongoing construction expenditures.

 

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Capital Requirements

 

Actual construction and other committed expenditures (including capitalized financing costs) for 2003 and forecasted construction and other committed expenditures for the year 2004 and for the five-year period 2004-2008 (in nominal dollars) are presented in the table below:

 

Capital and Investment Expenditures

 

 

 

Actual
2003

 

Forecasted

 

2004

 

2004-2008

 

 

 

 

(in millions)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Cinergy(1)

 

$

800

 

$

756

 

$

4,133

 

CG&E and subsidiaries

 

327

 

302

 

1,591

 

PSI(2)

 

337

 

336

 

1,978

 

ULH&P

 

40

 

39

 

212

 

 


(1)                                  The results of Cinergy also include amounts related to non-registrants.

(2)                                  Excludes intercompany purchase of peaking plants from non-regulated affiliates.

 

This forecast includes an estimate of expenditures to comply with draft regulations requiring reductions in mercury, NOx, and SO2 emissions.  In 2003, we spent $160 million for NOx and other environmental compliance projects.  Forecasted expenditures for environmental compliance projects (in nominal dollars) are approximately $168 million for 2004 and $1.2 billion for the 2004-2008 period.  Approximately 75 percent of these estimated environmental costs would be incurred at regulated coal-fired plants.  See “Air Toxics and Ambient Air Standards” for further discussion.

 

Environmental Commitment and Contingency Issues

 

Manufactured Gas Plant (MGP) Sites

 

In November 1998, PSI entered into a Site Participation and Cost Sharing Agreement with Northern Indiana Public Service Company and Indiana Gas Company, Inc. related to contamination at MGP sites, which PSI or its predecessors previously owned.  Until investigation and remediation activities have been completed on the sites, we are unable to reasonably estimate the total cost and impact on our financial position or results of operations.  In relation to the MGP claims, PSI also filed suit against its general liability insurance carriers.  Subsequently, PSI sought a declaratory judgment to obligate its insurance carriers to (1) defend MGP claims against PSI, or (2) pay PSI’s costs of defense and compensate PSI for its costs of investigating, preventing, mitigating, and remediating damage to property and paying claims related to MGP sites.  At the present time, PSI cannot predict the outcome of this litigation.  See Note 11(a)(iii) of the “Notes to Financial Statements” in “Item 8. Financial Statements and Supplementary Data” for further information on MGP Sites.

 

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Regional Haze

 

The United States (U.S.) Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) published the final regional haze rule in July 1999.  This rule established planning and emission reduction timelines for states to use to improve visibility in national parks throughout the U.S.  The ultimate effect of the new regional haze rule could be requirements for (1) newer and cleaner technologies and additional controls on particulates emissions, and (2) reductions in sulfur dioxide (SO2) and NOX emissions from utility sources.  If more utility emissions reductions are required, the compliance cost could be significant.  In August 1999, several industry groups (some of which we are a member) filed a challenge to the regional haze rules with the U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia (Court of Appeals).  In May 2002, the Court of Appeals set aside a portion of the EPA’s rule, holding that the rule improperly forced states to require emissions controls without adequate consideration of an individual source’s impact on visibility impairment.  We currently cannot predict the timing or outcome of the EPA’s response to the Court of Appeals’ ruling.

 

In July 2001, the EPA proposed guidance to implement portions of the regional haze rule.  This guidance recommends that states require widespread installation of scrubbers to reduce SO2 emissions.  We currently cannot determine whether or how the EPA will modify the scope of this guidance, or whether the states in which we operate will adopt the EPA’s proposed guidance.

 

Air Toxics and Ambient Air Standards

 

In December 2003, the EPA issued draft regulations regarding required reductions in mercury emissions from coal-fired power plants.  The draft regulations include two possible alternatives to address emissions reductions.  One alternative would include a cap and trade approach to mercury.  The other would be a source specific reduction in emissions, without a cap and trade approach.  The cap and trade approach would provide a longer compliance horizon and provide more flexible compliance options for coal-fired generators.  The EPA is expected to issue final rules by December 2004.

 

In December 2003, the EPA also proposed Interstate Air Quality Rules that would require states to revise their State Implementation Plans to address alleged contributions to downwind non-attainment with the revised National Ambient Air Quality Standards (NAAQS) for ozone and fine particulate matter.  The proposed rule would establish a two-phase, regional cap and trade program for SO2 and NOx.  The proposed rule would affect approximately 30 states, including Ohio, Indiana, and Kentucky.  The proposed rule would require SO2 emissions to be cut approximately 70 percent by 2015 and NOx emissions to be cut approximately 65 percent by 2015.  The EPA is expected to issue final rules by December 2004.

 

We currently estimate costs associated with the cap and trade approach to mercury, SO2 and NOx emissions reductions to be approximately $1.2 billion over the next five years.  These costs have been included in our forecasted capital expenditures discussed previously in “Capital Requirements”.  Approximately 75 percent of these estimated environmental costs would be incurred at regulated coal-fired plants, for which recovery would be pursued in accordance with regulatory statutes governing environmental cost recovery.  Costs associated with the source specific approach to mercury emissions reductions may be higher, depending on the type of program the EPA finalizes and the stringency and timing of the ultimate requirements.  Due to these uncertainties, we are unable to predict the magnitude of those costs at this time.

 

In 1997, the EPA revised the NAAQS for ozone and fine particulate matter.  The EPA is under a court-ordered deadline to make final state ozone non-attainment area designations by April 15, 2004, and fine particulate area designations by December 15, 2004.  Several counties in which we operate have been tentatively designated (by their respective states) as being in non-attainment with the new ozone standard, and several are likely to be designated as non-attainment with the fine particulate standard.  Cinergy cannot predict the timing or effect of the ozone non-attainment designations at this time.

 

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Global Climate Change

 

In September 2003, Cinergy announced an internal voluntary greenhouse gas (GHG) management goal to reduce its GHG emissions by 2010.  Cinergy expects to spend $21 million between 2004 and 2010 on projects to reduce or offset its GHG emissions.  Cinergy’s goal is to support the President’s voluntary initiative, to address shareholder interest in the issue, and to build internal expertise in GHG management and GHG markets.

 

Our plan for managing the potential risk and uncertainty of regulations relating to climate change includes the following:

 

                  implementing an internal voluntary goal to reduce Cinergy’s GHG emissions five percent below Cinergy’s 2000 baseline emission levels by 2010 and maintaining those levels through 2012;

                  measuring and inventorying company related sources of GHG emissions;

                  identifying and pursuing cost-effective GHG emission reduction and offsetting activities;

                  funding research of more efficient and alternative electric generating technologies;

                  funding research to better understand the causes and consequences of climate change; and

                  encouraging a global discussion of the issues and how best to manage them.

 

Asbestos Claims Litigation

 

CG&E and PSI have been named as defendants or co-defendants in lawsuits related to asbestos at their electric generating stations.  Currently, there are approximately 80 pending lawsuits.  In these lawsuits, plaintiffs claim to have been exposed to asbestos-containing products in the course of their work at the CG&E and PSI generating stations.  The plaintiffs further claim that as the property owner of the generating stations, CG&E and PSI, should be held liable for their injuries and illnesses based on an alleged duty to warn and protect them from any asbestos exposure.  A majority of the lawsuits to date have been brought against PSI.  The impact on CG&E’s and PSI’s financial position or results of operations of these cases to date has not been material.  See Note 11(a)(iv) of the “Notes to Financial Statements” in “Item 8. Financial Statements and Supplementary Data” for a discussion of asbestos claims and related cases.

 

Pension and Other Postretirement Benefits

 

Cinergy maintains qualified defined benefit pension plans covering substantially all U.S.

 

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employees meeting certain minimum age and service requirements.  Plan assets consist of investments in equity and debt securities.  Funding for the qualified defined benefit pension plans is based on actuarially determined contributions, the maximum of which is generally the amount deductible for income tax purposes and the minimum being that required by the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974, as amended (ERISA).  Although mitigated by strong performance in 2003, ongoing retiree payments and the decline in market value of the investment portfolio in 2002 have reduced assets held in trust to satisfy plan obligations.  Additionally, decreases in long-term interest rates have had the effect of increasing the liability used for funding purposes.  As a result of these events, our near term funding targets have increased substantially.  Cinergy has adopted a five-year plan to reduce, or eliminate, the unfunded pension obligation initially measured as of January 1, 2003.  This unfunded obligation will be recalculated as of January 1 of each year in the five-year plan.  Such unfunded obligation was calculated as the difference between the liability determined actuarially on an ERISA basis and the market value of plan assets as of January 1, 2003.  The liability used in this calculation is different than the pension liability calculated for accounting purposes reported on Cinergy’s Balance Sheets.  Cinergy’s minimum required contributions in calendar year 2003 were $11 million, as compared to $4 million in calendar year 2002.  Cinergy’s minimum required contributions in calendar year 2004 are expected to be approximately $16 million.  Actual contributions during calendar year 2003 totaled $74 million reflecting additional discretionary contributions of $63 million under the aforementioned five-year plan.  Should Cinergy continue funding under this five-year plan, discretionary contributions in addition to the minimum funding requirements are expected to be $90 million in 2004.  Cinergy may consider making discretionary contributions in 2005 and future periods, however at this time, we are unable to determine the amount of those contributions.  Estimated contributions fluctuate based on changes in market performance of plan assets and actuarial assumptions.  Absent the occurrence of interim events that could materially impact these targets, we will update our expected target contributions annually as the actuarial funding valuations are completed and make decisions about future contributions at that time.

 

Cinergy sponsors non-qualified pension plans that cover officers, certain key employees, and non-employee directors.  Cinergy’s payments for these non-qualified pension plans are expected to be approximately $8 million in 2004.

 

We provide certain health care and life insurance benefits to retired U.S. employees and their eligible dependents.  Cinergy’s payments for these postretirement benefits in 2004 are expected to be approximately $27 million.  See Note 9 of the “Notes to Financial Statements” in “Item 8. Financial Statements and Supplementary Data” for additional information about our pension and other postretirement benefit plans.

 

Long-term Debt Due Within One Year

 

Long-term debt due within one year for Cinergy increased $663 million from December 31, 2002 to December 31, 2003.  The primary cause of the increase was the reclassification of Cinergy Corp.’s $200 million 6.125% Debentures due April 15, 2004 and $500 million 6.25% Debentures due September 1, 2004 from Long-term debt to Long-term debt due within one year.

 

As discussed in Note 4 of the “Notes to Financial Statements” in “Item 8. Financial Statements and Supplementary Data”, in September 2003, PSI issued $400 million principal amount of its 5.00% Debentures largely using the proceeds from this issuance for the early redemption of two

 

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subordinated promissory notes to Cinergy Corp. totaling $376 million.  Cinergy Corp. plans to use the proceeds to partially fund the maturity of the 6.125% and 6.25% debentures discussed above.  In the interim, Cinergy Corp. has used the proceeds to repay short-term indebtedness.

 

Cinergy plans to meet its remaining future debt obligations from the issuance of debt and/or equity securities and internally-generated funds.

 

Other Investing Activities

 

Our ability to invest in growth initiatives is limited by certain legal and regulatory requirements, including the Public Utility Holding Company Act of 1935, as amended (PUHCA).  The PUHCA limits the types of non-utility businesses in which Cinergy and other registered holding companies under PUHCA can invest as well as the amount of capital that can be invested in permissible non-utility businesses.  Also, the timing and amount of investments in the non-utility businesses is dependent on the development and favorable evaluations of opportunities.  Under the PUHCA restrictions, we are allowed to invest or commit to invest in certain non-utility businesses, including:

 

                  Exempt Wholesale Generators (EWG) and Foreign Utility Companies (FUCO)

 

An EWG is an entity, certified by the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC), devoted exclusively to owning and/or operating, and selling power from one or more electric generating facilities.  An EWG whose generating facilities are located in the U.S. is limited to making only wholesale sales of electricity.

 

A FUCO is a company all of whose utility assets and operations are located outside the U.S. and which are used for the generation, transmission, or distribution of electric energy for sale at retail or wholesale, or the distribution of gas at retail.  A FUCO may not derive any income, directly or indirectly, from the generation, transmission or distribution of electric energy for sale or the distribution of gas at retail within the U.S.  An entity claiming status as a FUCO must provide notification thereof to the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) under PUHCA.

 

Cinergy has been granted SEC authority under PUHCA to invest (including by way of guarantees) an aggregate amount in EWGs and FUCOs equal to the sum of (1) our average consolidated retained earnings from time to time plus (2) $2 billion.  As of December 31, 2003, we had invested or committed to invest $0.8 billion in EWGs and FUCOs, leaving available investment capacity under the order of $2.7 billion.

 

                  Qualifying  Facilities and Energy-Related Non-utility Entities

 

SEC regulations under the PUHCA permit Cinergy and other registered holding companies to invest and/or guarantee an amount equal to 15 percent of consolidated capitalization (consolidated capitalization is the sum of Notes payable and other

 

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short-term obligations, Long-term debt (including amounts due within one year), Preferred Trust Securities, Cumulative Preferred Stock of Subsidiaries, and total Common Stock Equity) in domestic qualifying cogeneration and small power production plants (qualifying facilities) and certain other domestic energy-related non-utility entities.  At December 31, 2003, we had invested and/or guaranteed approximately $0.9 billion of the $1.4 billion available.

 

                  Energy-Related Assets

 

Cinergy has been granted SEC authority under PUHCA to invest up to $1 billion in non-utility Energy-Related Assets within the U.S., Canada, and Mexico.  Energy-Related Assets include natural gas exploration, development, production, gathering, processing, storage and transportation facilities and equipment, liquid oil reserves and storage facilities, and associated assets, facilities and equipment, but exclude any assets, facilities or equipment that would cause the owner or operator thereof to be deemed a public utility company.  As of December 31, 2003, we did not have any investments in these Energy-Related Assets.

 

                  Infrastructure Services Companies

 

Cinergy has been granted SEC authority under PUHCA to invest up to $500 million in companies that derive or will derive substantially all of their operating revenues from the sale of Infrastructure Services including:

 

                  Design, construction, retrofit and maintenance of utility transmission and distribution systems;

                  Installation and maintenance of natural gas pipelines, water and sewer pipelines, and underground and overhead telecommunications networks; and

                  Installation and servicing of meter reading devices and related communications networks, including fiber optic cable.

 

At December 31, 2003, we had invested approximately $26 million in these Infrastructure Services companies.

 

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Contractual Cash Obligations

 

The following table presents Cinergy’s, CG&E’s, PSI’s, and ULH&P’s significant contractual cash obligations:

 

 

 

Payments Due

Contractual Cash Obligations

 

2004

 

2005

 

2006

 

2007

 

2008

 

There-
after

 

Total

 

 

 

(in millions)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Cinergy(1)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Capital leases

 

$

5

 

$

6

 

$

6

 

$

6

 

$

8

 

$

24

 

$

55

 

Operating leases

 

41

 

33

 

26

 

21

 

13

 

37

 

171

 

Long-term debt (including amounts due within one year)

 

835

 

222

(2)(3)

354

 

727

 

550

 

2,333

 

5,021

 

Fuel purchase contracts(4)(7)

 

671

 

569

 

471

 

465

 

336

 

1,374

 

3,886

 

Other commodity purchase contracts(5)

 

21

 

2

 

 

 

 

 

23

 

Qualified Pension Plans(6)

 

16

 

 

 

 

 

 

16

 

Total Cinergy

 

$

1,589

 

$

832

 

$

857

 

$

1,219

 

$

907

 

$

3,768

 

$

9,172

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

CG&E and subsidiaries

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Capital leases

 

$

3

 

$

3

 

$

3

 

$

4

 

$

5

 

$

15

 

$

33

 

Operating leases

 

9

 

8

 

7

 

5

 

4

 

9

 

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Long-term debt (including amounts due within one year)

 

110

 

150

(3)

 

100

 

120

 

1,126

 

1,606

 

Fuel purchase contracts(4)(7)

 

297

 

217

 

113

 

98

 

 

 

725

 

Other commodity purchase contracts(5)

 

5

 

 

 

 

 

 

5

 

Total CG&E and subsidiaries

 

$

424

 

$

378

 

$

123

 

$

207

 

$

129

 

$

1,150

 

$

2,411

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

PSI

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Capital leases

 

$

2

 

$

2

 

$

2

 

$

3

 

$

4

 

$

9

 

$

22

 

Operating leases

 

10

 

9

 

9

 

8

 

7

 

17

 

60

 

Long-term debt (including amounts due within one year)

 

 

52

(2)

326

 

266

 

44

 

1,043

 

1,731

 

Fuel purchase contracts(4)(7)

 

356

 

352

 

358

 

367

 

336

 

1,374

 

3,143

 

Total PSI

 

$

368

 

$

415

 

$

695

 

$

644

 

$

391

 

$

2,443

 

$

4,956

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

ULH&P

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Capital leases

 

$

1

 

$

1

 

$

1

 

$

1

 

$

1

 

$

3

 

$

8

 

Long-term debt (including amounts due within one year)

 

 

 

 

 

20

 

35

 

55

 

Total ULH&P

 

$

1

 

$

1

 

$

1

 

$

1

 

$

21

 

$

38

 

$

63

 

 


(1)

 

Includes amounts for non-registrants.

 

 

 

(2)

 

Includes PSI’s 6.50% Debentures due August 1, 2026, reflected as maturing in 2005, as the interest rate is due to reset on August 1, 2005.

 

 

 

(3)

 

Includes CG&E’s 6.90% Debentures due June 1, 2025, reflected as maturing in 2005, as the debentures are putable to CG&E at the option of the holders on June 1, 2005.

 

 

 

(4)

 

Some fuel purchase contracts contain price re-opener provisions that may be exercised upon mutual agreement of the parties or upon unilateral action by a party.

 

 

 

(5)

 

Includes long term contracts accounted for on an accrual basis.  See the Changes in Fair Value table in “Market Risk Sensitive Instruments and Positions” for disclosure of energy trading contracts that are accounted for at fair value.

 

 

 

(6)

 

Represents only Cinergy’s minimum required contributions.  Although not required, Cinergy intends to contribute an additional $90 million in 2004 to strengthen the funding status of the plan.  Minimum required contributions for future periods are not yet known.  See “Pension and Other Postretirement Benefits” for further details regarding potential future cash payments under Cinergy’s pension and other postretirement benefit plans.

 

 

 

(7)

 

Subsequent to the year ended December 31, 2003, Cinergy, CG&E, and PSI executed fuel purchase contracts with aggregate contractual cash obligations of the following:

 

 

 

2004

 

2005

 

2006

 

2007

 

CG&E

 

11

 

41

 

27

 

28

 

PSI

 

22

 

20

 

19

 

20

 

Cinergy

 

33

 

61

 

46

 

48

 

 

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Guarantees

 

We are subject to an SEC order under the PUHCA, which limits the amounts Cinergy Corp. can have outstanding under guarantees at any one time to $2 billion.  As of December 31, 2003, we had $693 million outstanding under the guarantees issued, of which approximately 90 percent represents guarantees of obligations reflected on Cinergy’s Balance Sheets.  The amount outstanding represents Cinergy Corp.’s guarantees of liabilities and commitments of its consolidated subsidiaries, unconsolidated subsidiaries, and joint ventures.  See Note 11(c)(vii) of the “Notes to Financial Statements” in “Item 8. Financial Statements and Supplementary Data” for a discussion of guarantees in accordance with Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) Interpretation No. 45, Guarantor’s Accounting and Disclosure Requirements for Guarantees, Including Indirect Guarantees of Indebtedness of Others (Interpretation 45).  Interpretation 45 requires disclosure of maximum potential liabilities for guarantees issued on behalf of unconsolidated subsidiaries and joint ventures and under indemnification clauses in various contracts.  The Interpretation 45 disclosure differs from the PUHCA restrictions in that it requires a calculation of maximum potential liability, rather than actual amounts outstanding; it excludes guarantees issued on behalf of consolidated subsidiaries; and it includes potential liabilities under indemnification clauses.

 

Collateral Requirements

 

Cinergy has certain contracts in place, primarily with trading counterparties, that require the issuance of collateral in the event our debt ratings are downgraded below investment grade.  Based upon our December 31, 2003 trading portfolio, if such an event were to occur, Cinergy would be required to issue up to approximately $73 million in collateral related to its gas and power trading operations, of which $32 million is related to CG&E.

 

Capital Resources

 

Cinergy, CG&E, PSI, and ULH&P meet current and future capital requirements through:

 

                  internally generated funds;

                  cash and cash equivalents on hand;

                  issuance of debt and equity securities;

                  bank financing under new and existing facilities; and

                  monetization of assets.

 

Cinergy, CG&E, PSI, and ULH&P believe that they have adequate financial resources to meet their future needs.

 

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Notes Payable and Other Short-term Obligations

 

We are required to secure authority to issue short-term debt from the SEC under the PUHCA and from the Public Utilities Commission of Ohio (PUCO).  The SEC under the PUHCA regulates the issuance of short-term debt by Cinergy Corp., PSI, and ULH&P.  The PUCO has regulatory jurisdiction over the issuance of short-term debt by CG&E.

 

 

 

Short-term Regulatory Authority
December 31, 2003

 

 

 

(in millions)

 

 

 

Authority

 

Outstanding

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Cinergy Corp.

 

$

5,000

(1)

$

146

 

CG&E and subsidiaries

 

671

 

49

 

PSI

 

600

 

188

 

ULH&P

 

65

 

45

 

 


(1)          Cinergy Corp., under the PUHCA, was granted approval to increase total capitalization (excluding retained earnings and accumulated other comprehensive income (loss)), which may be any combination of debt and equity securities, by $5 billion.  Outside this requirement, Cinergy Corp. is not subject to specific regulatory debt authorizations.

 

For the purposes of quantifying regulatory authority, short-term debt includes revolving credit borrowings, uncommitted credit line borrowings, intercompany money pool obligations, and commercial paper.

 

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Cinergy Corp.’s short-term borrowing consists primarily of unsecured revolving lines of credit and the sale of commercial paper.  Cinergy Corp.’s $1 billion revolving credit facilities and $800 million commercial paper program also support the short-term borrowing needs of CG&E, PSI, and ULH&P.  In addition, Cinergy Corp., CG&E, and PSI maintain uncommitted lines of credit.  These facilities are not firm sources of capital but rather informal agreements to lend money, subject to availability, with pricing determined at the time of advance.  The following is a summary of outstanding short-term borrowings for Cinergy, CG&E, PSI, and ULH&P, including variable rate pollution control notes:

 

 

 

Short-term Borrowings
December 31, 2003

 

 

 

Established
Lines

 

Outstanding

 

Unused

 

Standby
Liquidity(3)

 

Available
Revolving
Lines of
Credit

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

(in millions)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Cinergy

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Cinergy Corp.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Revolving lines

 

$

1,000

 

$

 

$

1,000

 

$

159

 

$

841

 

Uncommitted lines(1)

 

40

 

 

40

 

 

 

 

 

Commercial paper(2)

 

 

 

146

 

654

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Operating companies

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Uncommitted lines(1)

 

75

 

 

75

 

 

 

 

 

Pollution control notes

 

 

 

193

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Non-regulated subsidiaries

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Revolving lines

 

19

 

10

 

9

 

 

 

9

 

Short-term debt

 

 

 

2

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Cinergy Total

 

 

 

$

351

 

 

 

 

 

$

850

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

CG&E and subsidiaries

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Uncommitted lines(1)

 

$

15

 

$

 

$

15

 

 

 

 

 

Pollution control notes

 

 

 

112

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Money pool

 

 

 

49

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

CG&E Total

 

 

 

$

161

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

PSI

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Uncommitted lines(1)

 

$

60

 

$

 

$

60

 

 

 

 

 

Pollution control notes

 

 

 

81

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Money pool

 

 

 

188

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

PSI Total

 

 

 

$

269

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

ULH&P

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Money pool

 

 

 

$

45

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

ULH&P Total

 

 

 

$

45

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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(1)          Outstanding amounts may be greater than established lines as uncommitted lenders are, at times, willing to loan funds in excess of the established lines.

(2)          The commercial paper program is limited to $800 million and is supported by Cinergy Corp.’s revolving lines of credit.

(3)          Standby liquidity is reserved against the revolving lines of credit to support the commercial paper program and outstanding letters of credit (currently $146 million and $13 million, respectively).

 

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At December 31, 2003, Cinergy Corp. had $841 million remaining unused and available capacity relating to its $1 billion revolving credit facilities.  These revolving credit facilities include the following:

 

Credit Facility

 

Expiration

 

Established
Lines

 

Outstanding
and
Committed

 

Unused and
Available

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

(in millions)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

364-day senior revolving(1)

 

April 2004

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Direct borrowing

 

 

 

$

 

 

$

 

$

 

 

Commercial paper support

 

 

 

 

 

146

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Total 364-day facility

 

 

 

600

 

146

 

454

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Three-year senior revolving(1)

 

May 2004

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Direct borrowing

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Commercial paper support

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Letter of credit support

 

 

 

 

 

13

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Total Three-year facility

 

 

 

400

 

13

 

387

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Total Credit Facilities

 

 

 

$

1,000

 

$

159

 

$

841

 

 


(1)          Cinergy Corp. has historically followed the practice of renewing its credit facilities upon expiration.

 

In April 2003, Cinergy Corp. successfully placed a $600 million, 364-day senior unsecured revolving credit facility.  This facility replaced the $600 million, 364-day facility that expired April 30, 2003.

 

In our credit facilities, Cinergy Corp. has covenanted to maintain:

 

                  a consolidated net worth of $2 billion; and

                  a ratio of consolidated indebtedness to consolidated total capitalization not in excess of 65 percent.

 

A breach of these covenants could result in the termination of the credit facilities and the acceleration of the related indebtedness.  In addition to breaches of covenants, certain other events that could result in the termination of available credit and acceleration of the related indebtedness include:

 

                  bankruptcy;

                  defaults in the payment of other indebtedness; and

                  judgments against the company that are not paid or insured.

 

The latter two events, however, are subject to dollar-based materiality thresholds.

 

As discussed in Note 1(q)(iv) of the “Notes to Financial Statements” in “Item 8. Financial

 

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Statements and Supplementary Data”, long-term debt increased in 2003 resulting from the adoption of FASB Interpretation No. 46, Consolidation of Variable Interest Entities (Interpretation 46).  The debt which was recorded as a result of this new accounting pronouncement did not cause Cinergy Corp. to be in breach of any covenants.

 

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Variable Rate Pollution Control Notes

 

CG&E and PSI have issued certain variable rate pollution control notes (tax-exempt notes obtained to finance equipment or land development for pollution control purposes).  Because the holders of these notes have the right to have their notes redeemed on a daily, weekly, or monthly basis, they are reflected in Notes payable and other short-term obligations on the Balance Sheets of Cinergy, CG&E, and PSI.  At December 31, 2003, CG&E and PSI had $112.1 million and $80.5 million, respectively, outstanding in variable rate pollution control notes, classified as short-term debt.  ULH&P had no outstanding short-term pollution control notes.  Any short-term pollution control note borrowings outstanding do not reduce the unused and available short-term debt regulatory authority of CG&E, PSI, and ULH&P.  See Note 6 of the “Notes to Financial Statements” in “Item 8. Financial Statements and Supplementary Data” for additional information regarding pollution control notes.

 

Money Pool

 

Cinergy Corp., Cinergy Services, Inc., and our operating companies participate in a money pool arrangement to better manage cash and working capital requirements.  Under this arrangement, those companies with surplus short-term funds provide short-term loans to affiliates (other than Cinergy Corp.) participating under this arrangement.  This surplus cash may be from internal or external sources.  The amounts outstanding under this money pool arrangement are shown as a component of Notes receivable from affiliated companies and/or Notes payable to affiliated companies on the Balance Sheets of CG&E, PSI, and ULH&P.  Any money pool borrowings outstanding reduce the unused and available short-term debt regulatory authority of CG&E, PSI, and ULH&P.

 

Operating Leases

 

We have entered into operating lease agreements for various facilities and properties such as computer, communication and transportation equipment, and office space.  See Note 7(a) of the “Notes to Financial Statements” in “Item 8. Financial Statements and Supplementary Data” for additional information regarding operating leases.

 

Capital Leases

 

Our operating companies are able to enter into capital leases subject to the authorization limitations of the applicable state utility commissions.  New financing authority is subject to the approval of the respective commissions.  In May 2002, ULH&P received approval from the Kentucky Public Service Commission (KPSC) to enter into an additional $25 million of capital lease obligations for the period ending December 31, 2004.  In June 2002, PSI received approval from the Indiana Utility Regulatory Commission (IURC) to enter into an additional $100 million of capital lease obligations for the period ending December 31, 2003.  In January 2004, PSI filed a petition for an additional $100 million of capital lease obligations.  In December 2002, CG&E received approval from the PUCO to enter into an additional $74 million of capital lease obligations for the period ending December 31, 2003.  In January 2004, CG&E filed a petition for an extension of capital lease obligations.  See Note 7(b) of the “Notes to Financial Statements” in “Item 8. Financial Statements and Supplementary Data” for additional

 

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information regarding capital leases.

 

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Long-term Debt

 

We are required to secure authority to issue long-term debt from the SEC under the PUHCA and the state utility commissions of Ohio, Kentucky, and Indiana.  The SEC under the PUHCA regulates the issuance of long-term debt by Cinergy Corp.  The respective state utility commissions regulate the issuance of long-term debt by our operating companies.

 

A summary of our long-term debt authorizations at December 31, 2003, was as follows:

 

 

 

Authorized

 

Used

 

Available

 

 

 

 

 

(in millions)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Cinergy Corp.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

PUHCA total capitalization(1)

 

$

5,000

 

$

1,561

 

$

3,439

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

CG&E and subsidiaries(2)(3)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

State Public Utility Commissions

 

575

 

 

575

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

PSI

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

State Public Utility Commission(4)

 

500

 

483

(5)

17

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

ULH&P

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

State Public Utility Commission

 

75

 

 

75

 

 


(1)          Cinergy Corp., under PUHCA, was granted approval to increase total capitalization (excluding retained earnings and accumulated other comprehensive income (loss)), which may be any combination of debt and equity securities, by $5 billion.  Outside this requirement, Cinergy Corp. is not subject to specific regulatory debt authorizations.

(2)          CG&E received authority from the PUCO in December 2003 to issue additional long-term debt up to $500 million.

(3)          Includes amounts for ULH&P.

(4)          In January 2004, PSI filed an application with the IURC requesting additional long-term debt issuance authority of up to $500 million.  An IURC decision is expected in the first quarter of 2004.

(5)          Used amount represents issuances, net of redemptions, during the authorization period.

 

Cinergy Corp. has an effective shelf registration statement with the SEC relating to the issuance of up to $750 million in any combination of common stock, preferred stock, stock purchase contracts or unsecured debt securities, of which approximately $574 million remains available for issuance.  CG&E has an effective shelf registration statement with the SEC relating to the issuance of up to $500 million in any combination of unsecured debt securities, first mortgage bonds, or preferred stock, of which $100 million remains available for issuance.  PSI has an effective shelf registration statement with the SEC relating to the issuance of up to $700 million in any combination of unsecured debt securities, first mortgage bonds, or preferred stock, of which $300 million remains available for issuance.  In February 2004, CG&E and PSI filed with the SEC to increase the available capacity under their shelf registration statements to $800 million for each company.  ULH&P has effective shelf registration statements with the SEC relating to the issuance of up to $50 million in unsecured debt securities and up to $40 million in first mortgage bonds, of which $30 million in unsecured debt securities and $20 million in first mortgage bonds remain available for issuance.

 

Off-Balance Sheet Arrangements

 

Cinergy uses off-balance sheet arrangements from time to time to facilitate financing of various projects.  Off-balance sheet arrangements are often created for a single specified purpose, for

 

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example, to facilitate securitization, leasing, hedging, research and development, and reinsurance, or other transactions or arrangements.  The following describes our major off-balance sheet arrangements excluding the investments Cinergy holds in various unconsolidated subsidiaries which are accounted for under the equity method (see Note 1(b) of the “Notes to Financial Statements” in “Item 8. Financial Statements and Supplementary Data”).

 

(i)                                  Guarantees

 

Cinergy has entered into various contracts that are classified as guarantees under Interpretation 45.  For further information, see Note 11(c)(vii) of the “Notes to Financial Statements” in “Item 8. Financial Statements and Supplementary Data”.

 

(ii)                              Retained Interest in Assets Transferred to an Unconsolidated Entity

 

In February 2002, CG&E, PSI, and ULH&P replaced their existing agreement to sell certain of their accounts receivable and related collections.  Cinergy Corp. formed Cinergy Receivables Company, LLC (Cinergy Receivables) to purchase, on a revolving basis, nearly all of the retail accounts receivable and related collections of CG&E, PSI, and ULH&PCinergy Corp. does not consolidate Cinergy Receivables since it meets the requirements to be accounted for as a qualifying special purpose entity.  CG&E, PSI, and ULH&P each retain an interest in the receivables transferred to Cinergy Receivables.  The sales of receivables are accounted for under Statement of Financial Accounting Standards No. 140, Accounting for Transfers and Servicing of Financial Assets and Extinguishments of Liabilities (Statement 140).  For a more detailed discussion of our sales of accounts receivable, see Note 3(c) of the “Notes to Financial Statements” in “Item 8. Financial Statements and Supplementary Data”.

 

(iii)                          Derivative Instruments that are Classified as Equity

 

In 2001, Cinergy Corp. issued approximately $316 million notional amounts of combined securities, a component of which was stock purchase contracts.  These contracts obligate the holder to purchase common shares of Cinergy Corp. stock in February 2005.  Since the stock purchases contracts are detachable and classified in equity the change in their fair value is not recorded in equity or earnings.  For further information see Note 3(b) of the “Notes to the Financial Statements” in “Item 8. Financial Statements and Supplementary Data”.

 

(iv)                            Variable Interest Entities (VIE)

 

Cinergy holds interests in VIEs, consolidated and unconsolidated, as defined by Interpretation 46.  For further information, see Note 1(q)(iv) and Note 3(a) of the “Notes to Financial Statements” in “Item 8. Financial Statements and Supplementary Data”.

 

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Securities Ratings

 

As of January 31, 2004, the major credit rating agencies rated our securities as follows:

 

 

Fitch(1)

 

Moody’s(2)

 

S&P(3)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Cinergy Corp.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Corporate Credit

BBB+

 

Baa2

 

BBB+

 

Senior Unsecured Debt

BBB+

 

Baa2

 

BBB

 

Commercial Paper

F-2

 

P-2

 

A-2

 

Preferred Trust Securities

BBB+

 

Baa2

 

BBB

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

CG&E

 

 

 

 

 

 

Senior Secured Debt

A-

 

A3

 

A-

 

Senior Unsecured Debt

BBB+

 

Baa1

 

BBB

 

Junior Unsecured Debt

BBB

 

Baa2

 

BBB-

 

Preferred Stock

BBB

 

Baa3

 

BBB-

 

Commercial Paper

F-2

 

P-2

 

Not Rated

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

PSI

 

 

 

 

 

 

Senior Secured Debt

A-

 

A3

 

A-

 

Senior Unsecured Debt

BBB+

 

Baa1

 

BBB

 

Junior Unsecured Debt

BBB

 

Baa2

 

BBB-

 

Preferred Stock

BBB

 

Baa3

 

BBB-

 

Commercial Paper

F-2

 

P-2

 

Not Rated

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

ULH&P

 

 

 

 

 

 

Senior Unsecured Debt

Not Rated

 

Baa1

 

BBB

 

 


(1)          Fitch Ratings (Fitch)

(2)          Moody’s Investors Service (Moody’s)

(3)          Standard & Poor’s Ratings Services (S&P)

 

The highest investment grade credit rating for Fitch is AAA, Moody’s is Aaal, and S&P is AAA.

The lowest investment grade credit rating for Fitch is BBB-, Moody’s is Baa3, and S&P is BBB-.

 

A security rating is not a recommendation to buy, sell, or hold securities.  These securities ratings may be revised or withdrawn at any time, and each rating should be evaluated independently of any other rating.

 

Equity
 

Under the SEC’s June 2000 Order, Cinergy Corp. is permitted to increase its total capitalization by $5 billion (as previously discussed).  The proceeds from any new issuances will be used for general corporate purposes.

 

Cinergy Corp. issued approximately 4.6 million shares in 2003, and approximately 3.2 million shares in 2002 to satisfy its obligations under its various employee stock plans and the Cinergy Corp. Direct Stock Purchase and Dividend Reinvestment Plan.

 

In February 2002, Cinergy Corp. issued 6.5 million shares of common stock with net proceeds of approximately $200 million.

 

In January 2003, Cinergy Corp. filed a registration statement with the SEC with respect to the

 

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issuance of common stock, preferred stock, and other securities in an aggregate offering amount of $750 million.  In February 2003, Cinergy sold 5.7 million shares of common stock of Cinergy Corp. with net proceeds of approximately $175 million under this registration statement.

 

Cinergy Corp. contributed $200 million in capital to PSI in two separate $100 million capital contributions in the second and third quarters of 2003, respectively.  These capital contributions were made to support PSI’s current credit ratings.

 

Dividend Restrictions

 

Cinergy Corp.’s ability to pay dividends to holders of its common stock is principally dependent on the ability of CG&E and PSI to pay Cinergy Corp. common stock dividends.  Cinergy Corp., CG&E, and PSI cannot pay dividends on their common stock if their respective preferred stock dividends or preferred trust dividends are in arrears.  The amount of common stock dividends that each company can pay is also limited by certain capitalization and earnings requirements under CG&E’s and PSI’s credit instruments.  Currently, these requirements do not impact the ability of either company to pay dividends on its common stock.

 

Other

 

Where subject to rate regulations, our operating companies have the ability to timely recover certain cash outlays through regulatory mechanisms such as fuel adjustment clause, purchased power tracker (Tracker), gas cost recovery, and construction work in progress (CWIP) ratemaking.  For further discussion see “Electric Industry” and “Gas Industry”.

 

As opportunities arise, we will continue to monetize certain non-core investments, which would include our international assets and other technology investments.

 

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MD&A - 2003 RESULTS OF OPERATIONS - HISTORICAL

 

The Results of Operations discussions for Cinergy, CG&E, and PSI are combined within this section.

 

2003 RESULTS OF OPERATIONS - HISTORICAL

 

Summary of Results

 

Electric and gas gross margins and net income for Cinergy, CG&E, and PSI for the years ended December 31, 2003 and 2002 were as follows:

 

 

 

Cinergy(1)

 

CG&E and subsidiaries

 

PSI

 

 

 

2003

 

2002

 

2003

 

2002

 

2003

 

2002

 

 

 

(in thousands)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Electric gross margin

 

$

2,224,936

 

$

2,348,369

 

$

1,214,960

 

$

1,228,005

 

$

994,785

 

$

1,083,218

 

Gas gross margin

 

331,673

 

280,488

 

245,410

 

204,534

 

 

 

Net income

 

469,772

 

360,576

 

331,050

 

263,696

 

133,381

 

214,249

 

 


(1)          The results of Cinergy also include amounts related to non-registrants.

 

Cinergy’s, CG&E’s, and PSI’s electric gross margins decreased for the year ended December 31, 2003 as compared to the same period last year.  Milder weather in 2003 compared to 2002 contributed the most to decreased retail electric margins.  In addition, electric gross margins associated with Cinergy’s natural gas peaking assets decreased in 2003 as compared to 2002.  Partially offsetting these decreases were higher margins from physical and financial trading for Cinergy and CG&E and an increase in rate tariff adjustments associated with certain construction programs at PSI.

 

Cinergy’s and CG&E’s gas gross margins increased for the year ended December 31, 2003 as compared to the same period last year.  CG&E’s increase resulted primarily from an increase in base rates, as approved by the PUCO in May 2002 and tariff adjustments associated with the gas main replacement program and Ohio excise taxes.  The colder weather in the first quarter of 2003 compared to 2002 also contributed to CG&E’s increased gas margins.  In addition, in the second quarter of 2002 Cinergy Marketing & Trading, LP (Marketing & Trading) began engaging in storage and transportation activities.  Higher gas trading margins as discussed in “Gas Operating Revenues” also contributed to the increase.

 

Cinergy’s and CG&E’s net income increased for the year as a result of increases in gas gross margins as discussed above and lower Operation and Maintenance Expense primarily a result of the recognition of higher costs in 2002 associated with employee severance programs.  In addition, lower property taxes, primarily resulting from the change in property value assessment in the state of Indiana in 2003, contributed to Cinergy’s increase. Also contributing to Cinergy’s increase was the 2002 write-off of certain investments.  Cinergy’s and CG&E’s increased net income reflects a net gain resulting from the implementation of certain accounting changes which have been reflected as a cumulative effect of changes in accounting principles.  Cinergy’s increased net income also reflects gains realized in 2003 and losses incurred in 2002 from the disposal of discontinued operations and lower income taxes resulting primarily from tax credits associated with the production of synthetic fuel, which began in July 2002.  Offsetting these

 

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increases were decreases in the electric gross margins of Cinergy and CG&E.

 

PSI’s net income decreased as a result of decreases in electric gross margins discussed above.  Offsetting the decrease in electric gross margins was the recognition of higher costs in 2002 associated with employee severance programs.  Partially offsetting PSI’s decrease in net income was lower property taxes as discussed above.

 

The explanations below follow the line items on the Statement of Income for Cinergy, CG&E, and PSI.  However, only the line items that varied significantly from prior periods are discussed.

 

Electric Operating Revenues

 

 

 

Cinergy(1)

 

CG&E and subsidiaries

 

PSI

 

 

 

2003

 

2002

 

% Change

 

2003

 

2002

 

% Change

 

2003

 

2002

 

% Change

 

 

 

(in millions)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Retail

 

$

2,702

 

$

2,785

 

(3

)

$

1,337

 

$

1,425

 

(6

)

$

1,365

 

$

1,360

 

 

Wholesale

 

560

 

395

 

42

 

310

 

150

 

N/M

 

209

 

211

 

(1

)

Other

 

121

 

158

 

(23

)

107

 

125

 

(14

)

29

 

40

 

(28

)

Total

 

$

3,383

 

$

3,338

 

1

 

$

1,754

 

$

1,700

 

3

 

$

1,603

 

$

1,611

 

 

 


(1)          The results of Cinergy also include amounts related to non-registrants.

N/M  Not meaningful to an understanding of the change.

 

Retail electric operating revenues decreased for Cinergy and CG&E mainly due to milder weather during the summer of 2003.  Cooling degree days were down by 40 percent for CG&E compared to last year.  In addition, Cinergy’s and CG&E’s retail revenues decreased due to migration of customers to a transportation-only tariff, in connection with the Ohio electric customer choice program.

 

PSI’s retail revenues were relatively flat for the year ended December 31, 2003, as compared to 2002.  The price per megawatt hour (MWh) increased mainly due to increases in rate tariff adjustments associated with the fuel cost recovery program and certain construction programs.  The cost of fuel for PSI’s retail customers is passed on dollar-for-dollar under the state mandated fuel cost recovery mechanism.  Offsetting this increase was a decrease in MWh delivered due to a mild summer in 2003.  Cooling degree days were down 38 percent for PSI compared to last year.

 

Electric wholesale revenues increased for Cinergy and CG&E primarily due to more Cinergy generation capacity that was available for wholesale transactions and lower retail demand.  CG&E’s increase reflects the implementation of the joint operating agreement that allows all new wholesale transactions entered into since April 2002 to be originated on behalf of CG&E.  In addition, Cinergy’s and CG&E’s increase reflects higher margins on physical and financial trading primarily in and around the Midwest.  PSI’s wholesale revenues remained relatively flat mainly due to an increase in the amount of power sold to CG&E and a decline in wholesale third-party transactions due to the implementation of the joint operating agreement as discussed above.  For a further explanation of the power transfers between PSI and CG&E, see Note 1(s)(ii) of the “Notes to Financial Statements” in “Item 8. Financial Statements and

 

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Supplementary Data”.

 

Other Electric operating revenues for Cinergy, CG&E, and PSI decreased for the year ended December 31, 2003, as compared to 2002.  Cinergy’s and CG&E’s decrease is due primarily to a reduction in third party coal sales.  Cinergy’s, CG&E’s, and PSI’s decrease also reflects lower transmission revenues primarily as a result of changes in the Midwest Independent Transmission System Operator, Inc. (Midwest ISO) operations.

 

Gas Operating Revenues

 

 

 

Cinergy(1)

 

CG&E and subsidiaries

 

 

 

2003

 

2002

 

% Change

 

2003

 

2002

 

% Change

 

 

 

(in millions)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Retail

 

$

623

 

$

433

 

44

 

$

623

 

$

433

 

44

 

Wholesale

 

71

 

68

 

4

 

 

 

 

Storage and Transportation

 

140

 

86

 

63

 

 

 

 

Other

 

2

 

3

 

(33

)

5

 

4

 

25

 

Total

 

$

836

 

$

590

 

42

 

$

628

 

$

437

 

44

 

 


(1)          The results of Cinergy also include amounts related to non-registrants.

 

Cinergy’s and CG&E’s retail gas operating revenues increased primarily due to a higher price received per thousand cubic feet (mcf) delivered.  The increase in price was primarily the result of the colder weather in the first quarter of 2003, as compared to the same period in 2002, which drove up the demand and the price of natural gas.  CG&E’s wholesale gas commodity cost is passed directly to the retail customer dollar-for-dollar under the gas cost recovery mechanism mandated by state law.  Additionally, the higher price per mcf reflects an increase in CG&E’s base rates, as approved by the PUCO in May 2002, and tariff adjustments associated with the gas main replacement program, gas cost recovery mechanism, and Ohio excise taxes.  Additionally, the amount of mcf delivered to customers increased as a result of colder weather in the first quarter of 2003, as compared to 2002.

 

Cinergy’s wholesale gas operating revenues (which represent net gains and losses on energy trading derivatives) increased for the year ended December 31, 2003, as compared to 2002, primarily due to an increase in the volatility of natural gas prices in the first quarter of 2003, as compared to the same period in 2002.

 

Cinergy’s gas storage and transportation operating revenues increased for the year ended December 31, 2003, as compared to 2002, primarily due to an increase in natural gas sold out of storage in 2003.  Marketing & Trading began engaging in significant storage activities at the end of the second quarter of 2002.

 

Other Revenues

 

Other revenues for Cinergy increased for the year ended December 31, 2003, as compared to 2002.  This increase was primarily due to the sale of synthetic fuel, which began in July 2002.

 

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Operating Expenses

 

 

 

Cinergy(1)

 

CG&E and subsidiaries

 

PSI

 

 

 

2003

 

2002

 

% Change

 

2003

 

2002

 

% Change

 

2003

 

2002

 

% Change

 

 

 

(in millions)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Fuel

 

$

1,005

 

$

886

 

13

 

$

411

 

$

410

 

 

$

547

 

$

443

 

23

 

Purchased and exchanged power

 

153

 

104

 

47

 

128

 

62

 

N/M

 

61

 

84

 

(27

)

Gas purchased

 

383

 

233

 

64

 

382

 

233

 

64

 

 

 

 

Gas storage and transportation

 

121

 

77

 

57

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Operation and maintenance

 

1,276

 

1,292

 

(1

)

511

 

533

 

(4

)

453

 

489

 

(7

)

Depreciation

 

419

 

405

 

3

 

187

 

196

 

(5

)

184

 

156

 

18

 

Taxes other than income taxes

 

250

 

263

 

(5

)

200

 

198

 

1

 

46

 

57

 

(19

)

Total

 

$

3,607

 

$

3,260

 

11

 

$

1,819

 

$

1,632

 

11

 

$

1,291

 

$

1,229

 

5

 

 


(1)           The results of Cinergy also include amounts related to non-registrants.

N/M        Not meaningful to an understanding of the change.

 

Fuel

 

Fuel primarily represents the cost of coal, natural gas, and oil that is used to generate electricity.  The following table details the changes to fuel expense from the year ended December 31, 2002, to the year ended December 31, 2003:

 

 

 

Cinergy(1)

 

CG&E

 

PSI

 

 

 

(in millions)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Fuel Expense – December 31, 2002

 

$

886

 

$

410

 

$

443

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Increase (Decrease) due to changes in:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Price of fuel

 

23

 

7

 

16

 

Deferred fuel cost

 

70

 

 

70

 

Fuel consumption

 

18

 

 

18

 

Other(2)

 

8

 

(6

)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Fuel Expense – December 31, 2003

 

$

1,005

 

$

411

 

$

547

 

 


(1)          The results of Cinergy also include amounts related to non-registrants.

(2)          Includes costs of third party coal sales.

 

Deferred fuel cost represents changes in fuel expense associated with PSI’s fuel adjustment charge, which recovers retail fuel costs from customers on a dollar-for-dollar basis.  The fuel adjustment charge is calculated based on the estimated cost of fuel in the next three-month period.  PSI records any under-recovery or over-recovery resulting from these differences as a deferred asset or liability until it is billed or refunded to its customers, at which point it is adjusted through fuel expense.

 

Purchased and Exchanged Power

 

Purchased and exchanged power expense increased for Cinergy and CG&E, and decreased for

 

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PSI for the year ended December 31, 2003, as compared to 2002.  The increases for Cinergy and CG&E were primarily the result of increases in price paid per MWh and a lower amount of deferred purchased power cost.  PSI’s decrease is a result of more generation being available to serve PSI native load customers due to the repowering of PSI’s Noblesville station and the addition of two peaking plants as discussed in Note 19 of the “Notes to Financial Statements” in “Item 8. Financial Statements and Supplementary Data”.

 

Gas Purchased

 

Gas purchased expense increased for Cinergy and CG&E for the year ended December 31, 2003, as compared to 2002, primarily due to an increased average cost per mcf of gas purchased.  In addition, CG&E’s gas customer usage increased approximately ten percent due to colder weather for the year ended December 31, 2003, as compared to the same period last year.  CG&E’s wholesale commodity cost is passed directly to the retail customer dollar-for-dollar under the gas cost recovery mechanism mandated by state law.

 

Gas Storage and Transportation

 

Gas storage and transportation expense increased for Cinergy for the year ended December 31, 2003, as compared to 2002, primarily due to an increase in natural gas sold out of storage in 2003.  Marketing & Trading began engaging in significant storage activities at the end of the second quarter of 2002.  Gas storage expense is recognized on our Statements of Income as natural gas is sold from inventory.

 

Operation and Maintenance

 

Operation and maintenance expense decreased for Cinergy, CG&E, and PSI for the year ended December 31, 2003, as compared to 2002, primarily as a result of decreased transmission costs largely the result of changes in the Midwest ISO operations, the recognition of higher costs associated with employee severance programs in 2002, and a decrease in employee incentive costs.  Cinergy’s decrease was partially offset by costs associated with the production of synthetic fuel, which began in July 2002, and the charges associated with our resolution of claims with respect to the bankruptcy of Enron Corp.  Cinergy’s, CG&E’s, and PSI’s decrease was partially offset by an increase in maintenance expense for our generating units and overhead lines.

 

Depreciation

 

Depreciation expense increased for Cinergy and PSI, and decreased for CG&E for the year ended December 31, 2003, as compared to 2002.  Cinergy’s and PSI’s increase was primarily due to the addition of depreciable plant.  Also contributing to Cinergy’s increase was the addition of the depreciable equipment associated with the production of synthetic fuel.  CG&E’s decrease was primarily attributable to an increase in the estimated useful lives of certain assets resulting from a new depreciation study completed during the third quarter of 2003.  Also contributing to CG&E’s decrease was the discontinuance of accruing costs of removal for generating assets (which was previously included as part of Depreciation expense) as a result of the adoption of Statement of Financial Accounting Standards No. 143, Accounting for Asset

 

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Retirement Obligations (Statement 143).  See Note 1(q)(iii) of the “Notes to Financial Statements” in “Item 8. Financial Statements and Supplementary Data” for further details.  Prior periods were not restated for the adoption of Statement 143.

 

Taxes Other Than Income Taxes

 

Taxes other than income taxes expense decreased for Cinergy and PSI for the year ended December 31, 2003, as compared to 2002, primarily resulting from lower property taxes partially offset by increased excise taxes.  This decrease is primarily a result of a change in property value assessments in the state of Indiana in 2003.

 

Miscellaneous Income - Net

 

Miscellaneous Income - Net increased for Cinergy and CG&E, and decreased for PSI for the year ended December 31, 2003, as compared to 2002.  Cinergy’s increase primarily reflects the 2002 write-offs of certain equipment and technology investments and costs accrued related to the termination of a contract for the construction of combustion turbines.  Also contributing to the increase was the interest income on the notes receivable of two newly consolidated subsidiaries in 2003.  See Note 1(q)(iv) of the “Notes to Financial Statements” in “Item 8. Financial Statements and Supplementary Data” for further details.  Partially offsetting these increases were net gains realized in 2002 from the sale of equity investments in certain renewable energy projects.  Cinergy’s and CG&E’s increase also reflects a gain on the sale of non-utility property.  In addition, CG&E’s increase and PSI’s decrease was a result of a final reconciliation between the two entities of a previous demutualization of a medical insurance carrier used by both companies which was recorded in 2003.

 

Interest Expense

 

Interest Expense increased for Cinergy, CG&E, and PSI for the year ended December 31, 2003, as compared to 2002, primarily as a result of an increase in average long-term debt outstanding during the year ended December 31, 2003.  Cinergy’s and CG&E’s increases also reflect charges during 2003 associated with the re-financing of certain debt. Cinergy’s, CG&E’s, and PSI’s increases were partially offset by a decrease in short-term interest rates.  Cinergy’s increase also reflects the additional debt recorded with the consolidation of two new entities and the recognition of a note payable to a trust in accordance with the adoption of Interpretation 46.  See Note 1(q)(iv) of the “Notes to Financial Statements” in “Item 8. Financial Statements and Supplementary Data”.

 

Preferred Dividend Requirement of Subsidiary Trust

 

Preferred Dividend Requirement of Subsidiary Trust decreased for Cinergy for the year ended December 31, 2003, as compared to 2002, as a result of the implementation of Interpretation 46.  Effective July 1, 2003, the preferred trust securities and the related dividends are no longer reported in Cinergy’s financial statements.  However, interest expense is still being incurred on a note payable to this trust as discussed above.  See Note 1(q)(iv) of the “Notes to Financial Statements” in “Item 8. Financial Statements and Supplementary Data” for further details.

 

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Income Taxes

 

The effective income tax rate decreased for Cinergy and increased for PSI for the year ended December 31, 2003, as compared to 2002.  CG&E’s effective income tax rate remained flat for the period.  Cinergy’s decrease was primarily a result of the tax credits associated with the production and sale of synthetic fuel by a non-regulated subsidiary, which began in July 2002.  Cinergy’s effective tax rate for 2003 was approximately 25 percent.  PSI’s increase was primarily a result of the increase in the Indiana state income tax rate.

 

Discontinued Operations

 

In 2002, Cinergy sold and/or classified as held for sale, several non-core investments, including renewable and international investments.  During 2003, Cinergy completed the disposal of its gas distribution operation in South Africa, sold its remaining wind assets in the U.S., and substantially sold or liquidated the assets of its energy marketing business in the Czech Republic.  Pursuant to Statement of Financial Accounting Standards No. 144, Accounting for the Impairment of Long-lived Assets (Statement 144), these investments have been classified as discontinued operations in our financial statements.  See Note 14 of the “Notes to Financial Statements” in “Item 8. Financial Statements and Supplementary Data” for additional information.

 

The increase in discontinued operations in 2003 as compared to 2002 is due to the recognition of losses on disposal of foreign investments in 2002 and the recognition of gains on disposal in 2003.

 

Cumulative Effect of Changes in Accounting Principles

 

In 2003, Cinergy, CG&E, and PSI recognized Cumulative effect of changes in accounting principles, net of tax gain/(loss) of approximately $26 million, $31 million, and $(0.5) million, respectively.  The cumulative effect of changes in accounting principles was a result of the adoption of Statement 143, and the rescission of Emerging Issues Task Force (EITF) Issue 98-10, Accounting for Contracts Involved in Energy Trading and Risk Management Activities (EITF 98-10).

 

In 2002, Cinergy recognized a Cumulative effect of a change in accounting principle, net of tax loss of approximately $11 million as a result of implementation of Statement of Financial Accounting Standards No. 142, Goodwill and Other Intangible Assets (Statement 142).  See Note 1(q)(vi) of the “Notes to Financial Statements” in “Item 8. Financial Statements and Supplementary Data” for further information.

 

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ULH&P

 

The Results of Operations discussion for ULH&P is presented only for the year ended December 31, 2003, in accordance with General Instruction I(2)(a).

 

Electric and gas gross margins and net income for ULH&P for the year ended December 31, 2003 and 2002, were as follows:

 

 

 

ULH&P

 

 

2003

 

2002

 

 

 

(in thousands)

 

 

 

 

 

 

Electric gross margin

 

$

67,509

 

$

67,122

 

Gas gross margin

 

40,298

 

34,820

 

Net income

 

19,029

 

12,150

 

 

Summary of Results

 

Electric gross margins for ULH&P remained flat for the twelve months ended December 31, 2003 compared to 2002.  Gas gross margins increased for the same period.  The majority of the increase is due to tariff adjustments associated with the gas main replacement program.  The colder weather in the first quarter of 2003 also contributed to this increase.

 

The increase in net income for the year was primarily due to increased gas gross margins (discussed above).  Also contributing to the increase in net income was the recognition of expenses in 2002 for previously deferred costs that were denied recovery in the final order on ULH&P’s gas rate case, decreases in transmission costs in 2003 (as a result of changes in Midwest ISO operations) and decreases in employee incentives in 2003.  Partially offsetting this increase in net income was increased amortization of demand-side management program costs and increased maintenance costs of ULH&P’s overhead lines.

 

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MD&A - 2002 RESULTS OF OPERATIONS - HISTORICAL

 

2002 RESULTS OF OPERATIONS - HISTORICAL

 

Summary of Results

 

Electric and gas gross margins and net income for Cinergy, CG&E, and PSI for the years ended December 31, 2002 and 2001 were as follows:

 

 

 

Cinergy(1)

 

CG&E and subsidiaries

 

PSI

 

 

 

2002

 

2001

 

2002

 

2001

 

2002

 

2001

 

 

 

(in thousands)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Electric gross margin

 

$

2,348,369

 

$

2,201,081

 

$

1,228,005

 

$

1,215,385

 

$

1,083,218

 

$

942,530

 

Gas gross margin

 

280,488

 

258,368

 

204,534

 

199,665

 

 

 

Net income

 

360,576

 

442,279

 

263,696

 

326,654

 

214,249

 

162,333

 

 


(1)          The results of Cinergy also include amounts related to non-registrants.

 

Increased gross margins were offset by the recognition of costs associated with employee severance programs, charges related to the write-off of certain investments, and higher operating costs.  Increased gross margins were also offset by a cumulative effect of a change in accounting principle related to the implementation of Statement 142.

 

The explanations below follow the line items on the Statements of Income for Cinergy, CG&E, and PSI.  However, only the line items that varied significantly from prior periods are discussed.

 

Electric Operating Revenues

 

 

 

Cinergy(1)

 

CG&E and subsidiaries

 

PSI

 

 

 

2002

 

2001

 

% Change

 

2002

 

2001

 

% Change

 

2002

 

2001

 

% Change

 

 

 

(in millions)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Retail

 

$

2,785

 

$

2,694

 

3

 

$

1,425

 

$

1,447

 

(2

)

$

1,360

 

$

1,247

 

9

 

Wholesale

 

395

 

442

 

(11

)

150

 

140

 

7

 

211

 

301

 

(30

)

Other

 

158

 

80

 

98

 

125

 

64

 

95

 

40

 

26

 

54

 

Total

 

$

3,338

 

$

3,216

 

4

 

$

1,700

 

$

1,651

 

3

 

$

1,611

 

$

1,574

 

2

 

 


(1)          The results of Cinergy also include amounts related to non-registrants.

 

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Retail electric operating revenues increased for Cinergy and PSI reflecting an increased price received per MWh sales due to the changes in rate tariff adjustments associated with demand-side management, Tracker, CWIP, and fuel cost recovery programs.  The cost of fuel for PSI’s retail customers is passed on dollar-for-dollar under the state mandated fuel cost recovery mechanism.  PSI also had increased MWh sales attributable to weather and increased customer usage.  CG&E’s retail electric operating revenues decreased slightly for the year ended December 31, 2002, as compared to 2001.  Increased residential sales, primarily attributable to weather, were offset by decreases in price received per MWh and revenue from commercial and industrial customers.  This decrease reflects the migration of such customers to a transportation-only tariff, in connection with the Ohio electric customer choice program.

 

Cinergy’s wholesale electric operating revenues decrease primarily reflects a reduction in the average price per MWh realized on wholesale transactions related to CG&E’s and PSI’s energy marketing and trading activities.  Additionally, CG&E’s increase and PSI’s decrease in wholesale electric operating revenues reflect the implementation of the new joint operating agreement effective April 2002.  In connection with implementation of the new operating agreement, new wholesale sales transactions entered into since April 2002 were originated on behalf of CG&E.

 

Other electric operating revenues for Cinergy, CG&E, and PSI increased for the year ended December 31, 2002, as compared to 2001.  Cinergy’s and CG&E’s increase is due primarily to third party coal sales.  Cinergy’s, CG&E’s, and PSI’s increase also reflects transmission revenues associated with the Midwest ISO which began operations in early 2002.

 

Gas Operating Revenues

 

 

 

Cinergy(1)

 

CG&E and subsidiaries

 

 

 

2002

 

2001

 

% Change

 

2002

 

2001

 

% Change

 

 

 

(in millions)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Retail

 

$

433

 

$

587

 

(26

)

$

433

 

$

587

 

(26

)

Wholesale

 

68

 

61

 

11

 

 

 

 

Storage and transportation

 

86

 

 

N/M

 

 

 

 

Other

 

3

 

8

 

(63

)

4

 

9

 

(56

)

Total

 

$

590

 

$

656

 

(10

)

$

437

 

$

596

 

(27

)

 


(1)                                  The results of Cinergy also include amounts related to non-registrants.

N/M                       Not meaningful to an understanding of this change.

 

CG&E’s retail gas operating revenues decreased primarily due to a lower price received per mcf delivered.  The lower price reflects a substantial decrease in the wholesale gas commodity cost, which is passed directly to the retail customer dollar-for-dollar under the gas cost recovery mechanism that is mandated by state law.  Partially offsetting this decrease in retail gas revenues was an increase in CG&E’s base rates approved by the PUCO in May 2002 (See “CG&E Gas Rate Case” in “Results of Operations - Future”).

 

Cinergy’s wholesale gas operating revenues (which represent net gains and losses on energy

 

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trading derivatives) increased for the year ended December 31, 2002 as compared to 2001, primarily due to an increase in basis trading and the volatility of natural gas prices.

 

Gas storage and transportation operating revenues increased for the year ended December 31, 2002, as compared to 2001.  Marketing & Trading began engaging in significant storage activities in the second quarter of 2002, resulting in increased revenues, which must be presented on a gross revenue basis.

 

Other Revenues

 

Other revenues for Cinergy increased for the year ended December 31, 2002, as compared to 2001.  This increase is primarily due to the sale of synthetic fuel, which began in July 2002.

 

Operating Expenses

 

 

 

Cinergy(1)

 

CG&E and subsidiaries

 

PSI

 

 

 

2002

 

2001

 

% Change

 

2002

 

2001

 

% Change

 

2002

 

2001

 

% Change

 

 

 

(in millions)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Fuel

 

$

886

 

$

813

 

9

 

$

410

 

$

332

 

23

 

$

443

 

$

459

 

(3

)

Purchased and exchanged power

 

104

 

201

 

(48

)

62

 

104

 

(40

)

84

 

173

 

(51

)

Gas purchased

 

233

 

397

 

(41

)

233

 

397

 

(41

)

 

 

 

Gas storage and transportation

 

77

 

 

N/M

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Operation and maintenance

 

1,292

 

1,008

 

28

 

533

 

442

 

21

 

489

 

413

 

18

 

Depreciation

 

405

 

367

 

10

 

196

 

187

 

5

 

156

 

149

 

5

 

Taxes other than income taxes

 

263

 

228

 

15

 

198

 

174

 

14

 

57

 

50

 

14

 

Total

 

$

3,260

 

$

3,014

 

8

 

$

1,632

 

$

1,636

 

 

$

1,229

 

$

1,244

 

(1

)

 


(1)                                  The results of Cinergy also include amounts related to non-registrants.

N/M                       Not meaningful to an understanding of this change.

 

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Fuel

 

Fuel primarily represents the cost of coal, natural gas, and oil that is used to generate electricity. The following table details the changes to fuel expense from the year ended December 31, 2001, to the year ended December 31, 2002:

 

 

 

Cinergy(1)

 

CG&E

 

PSI

 

 

 

(in millions)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Fuel Expense – December 31, 2001

 

$

813

 

$

332

 

$

459

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Increase (Decrease) due to changes in:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Price of fuel

 

(8

)

(22

)

14

 

Deferred fuel cost

 

(23

)

 

(23

)

Fuel consumption

 

23

 

30

 

(7

)

Other(2)

 

81

 

70

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Fuel Expense – December 31, 2002

 

$

886

 

$

410

 

$

443

 

 


(1)          The results of Cinergy also include amounts related to non-registrants.

(2)          Includes costs of third party coal sales.

 

Deferred fuel cost represents changes in fuel expense associated with PSI’s fuel adjustment charge, which recovers retail fuel costs from customers on a dollar-for-dollar basis.  The fuel adjustment charge is calculated based on the estimated cost of fuel in the next three-month period.  PSI records any under-recovery or over-recovery resulting from these differences as a deferred asset or liability until it is billed or refunded to its customers, at which point it is adjusted through fuel expense.

 

Purchased and Exchanged Power

 

Purchased and exchanged power expense decreased for Cinergy, CG&E, and PSI for the year ended December 31, 2002, as compared to 2001.  Cinergy’s and CG&E’s decrease primarily reflects a reduction in the average price paid per MWh as wholesale electric on-peak commodity prices were approximately 23 percent lower, on average, as compared to 2001.  CG&E’s and PSI’s Purchased and exchanged power expense also reflects the implementation of the new joint operating agreement which began in April 2002, which reduced the amount of intercompany purchases between CG&E and PSI.

 

Gas Purchased

 

Gas purchased expense decreased for Cinergy and CG&E for the year ended December 31, 2002, as compared to 2001, primarily due to a decrease in the average cost purchased per mcf for retail customer usage.  Wholesale natural gas commodity spot prices were 16 percent lower on average for the year ended December 31, 2002, as compared to 2001.  CG&E’s wholesale gas commodity cost is passed directly to the retail customer dollar-for-dollar under the gas cost recovery mechanism that is mandated by state law.

 

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Gas Storage and Transportation

 

Gas storage and transportation expense increased for Cinergy for the year ended December 31, 2002, as compared to 2001.  As previously discussed in “Gas Operating Revenues”, Marketing & Trading began engaging in significant storage activities at the end of the second quarter of 2002.  Gas storage expense is recognized on our Statements of Income as natural gas is sold from inventory.

 

Operation and Maintenance

 

Operation and maintenance expense increased for Cinergy, CG&E, and PSI for the year ended December 31, 2002, as compared to 2001.  Cinergy’s, CG&E’s, and PSI’s increase reflects the recognition of costs associated with employee severance programs, which began in the second quarter of 2002.  Also contributing to this increase were higher transmission costs, increased costs of employee compensation and benefit programs, and expenditures related to process improvement and performance measurement initiatives.  Cinergy’s and PSI’s increase also reflects increased amortization of demand-side management expenditures.  Additionally, Cinergy’s increase includes costs associated with the production of synthetic fuel, which began in July 2002 and increased operating costs for certain of our non-regulated investments.

 

Depreciation

 

Depreciation expense increased for Cinergy, CG&E, and PSI for the year ended December 31, 2002, as compared to 2001.  This increase was primarily attributable to the addition of depreciable plant, including Cinergy’s acquisitions of non-regulated peaking generation in 2001 and a synthetic fuel project in 2002.

 

Taxes Other Than Income Taxes

 

Taxes other than income taxes expense increased for Cinergy, CG&E, and PSI for the year ended December 31, 2002, as compared to 2001.  This increase is primarily attributable to increased property taxes.  Cinergy’s and CG&E’s increase also reflects other tax changes associated with deregulation in Ohio.

 

Equity in Earnings (Losses) of Unconsolidated Subsidiaries

 

Equity in earnings (losses) of unconsolidated subsidiaries increased for the year ended December 31, 2002, as compared to 2001, primarily due to changes in the market valuation of certain investments and the dissolution and write-off of subsidiaries in 2001.

 

Miscellaneous Income - Net

 

Miscellaneous Income - Net decreased for Cinergy for the year ended December 31, 2002, as compared to 2001, primarily reflecting the write-off of technology investments and costs accrued related to the termination of a contract for the construction of combustion turbines.  Partially offsetting this decrease were net gains realized from the sale of equity investments in certain renewable energy projects.

 

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Interest Expense

 

Interest Expense decreased for Cinergy, CG&E, and PSI for the year ended December 31, 2002, as compared to 2001, primarily as a result of lower interest rates.

 

Preferred Dividend Requirement of Subsidiary Trust

 

Preferred dividend requirement of subsidiary trust relates to quarterly payments to be made to holders of Cinergy’s preferred trust securities, which were issued in December 2001.

 

Income Taxes

 

The effective income tax rate for Cinergy and PSI decreased for the year ended December 31, 2002, as compared to 2001.  Cinergy’s decrease was primarily a result of the tax credits associated with the production and sale of synthetic fuel, which began in July 2002.  PSI’s variability in effective income tax rates was primarily attributable to changes in state and local income taxes.  CG&E’s effective income tax rate remained relatively flat for the period.

 

Discontinued Operations

 

In 2002, Cinergy sold and/or classified as held for sale, several non-core investments.  Pursuant to Statement 144, these investments have been classified as discontinued operations in our financial statements.  See Note 14 of the “Notes to Financial Statements” in “Item 8. Financial Statements and Supplementary Data” for further information.  The decrease in discontinued operations in 2002 as compared to 2001 is a result of losses recognized on the disposition of foreign investments in 2002.

 

Cumulative Effect of a Change in Accounting Principle

 

Cinergy recognized a Cumulative effect of a change in accounting principle of approximately $11 million (net of tax) as a result of an impairment charge for goodwill related to the implementation of Statement 142.  See Note 1(q)(vi) of the “Notes to Financial Statements” in “Item 8. Financial Statements and Supplementary Data” for further information.

 

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MD&A - RESULTS OF OPERATIONS - FUTURE

 

FUTURE EXPECTATIONS/TRENDS

 

In the “Future Expectations/Trends” section, we discuss electric and gas industry developments, market risk sensitive instruments and positions, and accounting matters.  Each of these discussions will address the current status and potential future impact on our results of operations and financial condition.

 

ELECTRIC INDUSTRY

 

Retail Market Developments

 

Currently, regulatory and legislative initiatives shaping the transition to a competitive retail market are the responsibilities of the individual states.  Many states, including Ohio, have enacted electric utility deregulation legislation.  In general, these initiatives have sought to separate the electric utility service into its basic components (generation, transmission, and distribution) and offer each component separately for sale.  This separation is referred to as unbundling of the integrated services.  Under the customer choice initiative in Ohio, we continue to transmit and distribute electricity; however, the customer can purchase electricity from any available supplier, and we are compensated through a transportation charge.  The following sections further discuss the current status of federal and state energy policies and deregulation legislation in the states of Ohio, Indiana, and Kentucky, each of which includes a portion of our service territory.

 
Federal Update

 

Energy Bill

 

The U.S. House of Representatives (House) passed the Energy Policy Act in April 2003.  The legislation, as passed in the House, included the repeal of the PUHCA, as well as tax incentives for gas and electric distribution lines, and combined heat and power and renewable energy projects.  The U.S. Senate (Senate) Energy and Natural Resources Committee passed its version of comprehensive energy legislation in April 2003.  A conference agreement which merged both the House and Senate versions passed in the House in October 2003, but failed to pass in the Senate.  The legislation can be considered during this session of Congress, however many disputed issues remain and it is unclear whether or not legislation will pass this year.

 

Clear Skies Legislation

 

President Bush has proposed environmental legislation that would combine a series of Clean Air Act requirements, including the recently proposed regulations for mercury and particulate matter for coal-fired power plants with a legislative solution that includes trading and specific emissions reductions and timelines to meet those reductions.  The President’s “Clear Skies Initiative” would seek an overall 70 percent reduction in emissions from power plants over a phased-in reduction schedule beginning in 2010 and continuing through 2018.  The Senate Environment and Public Works Committee has held several hearings on the “Clear Skies Initiative” proposal.  It is unclear whether or not this legislation will be considered in 2004.

 

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Ohio

 

CG&E is in a market development period, transitioning to deregulation of electric generation and a competitive retail electric service market in the state of Ohio.  The transition period is governed by the Amended Substitute Senate Bill No. 3 (Electric Restructuring Bill) and a stipulated transition plan adopted and approved by the PUCO.  The Electric Restructuring Bill provides for a market development period that began January 1, 2001, and ends no later than December 31, 2005.

 

The major features of CG&E’s transition plan include:

 

                  Residential customer rates are frozen through December 31, 2005;

                  Residential customers received a five-percent reduction in the generation portion of their electric rates, effective January 1, 2001;

                  CG&E will provide $4 million from 2001 to 2005 in support of energy efficiency and weatherization services for low income customers;

                  CG&E will provide shopping credits to switching customers;

                  The creation of a Regulatory Transition Charge (RTC) designed to recover CG&E’s regulatory assets and other transition costs over a ten-year period;

                  Authority for CG&E to transfer its generation assets to one or more, non-regulated affiliates to provide flexibility to manage its generation asset portfolio in a manner that enhances opportunities in a competitive marketplace;

                  Authority for CG&E to apply the proceeds of transition cost recovery to costs incurred during the transition period, including implementation costs and purchased power costs that may be incurred by CG&E to maintain an operating reserve margin sufficient to provide reliable service to its customers;

                  Authority for CG&E to adjust the amortization of its regulatory assets and other transition costs to reflect the effects of any shopping incentives provided to customers; and

                  CG&E will provide standard offer default supplier service (i.e., CG&E will be the supplier of last resort, so that no customer will be without an electric supplier).

 

Under CG&E’s transition plan, retail customers continue to receive transmission and distribution services from CG&E, but may purchase electricity from another supplier.  Retail customers that purchase electricity from another supplier receive shopping credits from CG&E.  The shopping credits generally reflect the costs of electric generation included in CG&E’s frozen rates.  However, shopping credits for the first 20 percent of electricity usage in each customer class to switch suppliers are higher than shopping credits for subsequent switchers in order to stimulate the development of the competitive retail electric service market.

 

CG&E recovers its generation-related regulatory assets and certain other deferred transition costs through an RTC paid by all retail customers.  As the RTC is collected from customers, CG&E amortizes the deferred balance of regulatory assets and other transition costs.  A portion of the RTC collected from customers is recognized currently as a return on the deferred balance of regulatory assets and other transition costs and as reimbursement for the difference in the shopping credits provided to retail customers and the wholesale revenues from generation made available by switched customers.  The ability of CG&E to recover its regulatory assets and other transition costs is dependent on several factors, including, but not limited to, the level of

 

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CG&E’s electric sales, prices in the wholesale power markets, and the amount of customers switching to other electric suppliers.

 

In January 2003, CG&E filed an application with the PUCO for approval of a methodology to establish how market-based rates for non-residential customers will be determined when the market development period ends.  In the filing, CG&E seeks to establish a market-based standard service offer rate for non-residential customers that do not switch suppliers and a process for establishing the competitively-bid generation service option required by the Electric Restructuring Bill.  As of December 31, 2002, more than 20 percent of the load of CG&E’s commercial and industrial customer classes had switched to other electric suppliers, and the other public authorities group was at 19.95 percent at December 31, 2003.  Under its transition plan, CG&E may end the market development period for those classes of customers once 20 percent switching has been achieved; however, PUCO approval of the standard service offer rate and competitive bidding process is required before the market development period can be ended.

 

In December 2003, the PUCO issued an order that the CG&E application filed in January 2003 would proceed to a hearing and be consolidated with CG&E’s application to defer certain administrative transmission charges and the application to defer costs of capital investments made to their transmission and distribution system during the market development period.  As part of this order, the PUCO requested that CG&E file a rate stabilization plan to mitigate the effects of market based pricing on retail customers while the competitive retail electric market continues to mature.  In response to this request, on January 26, 2004, CG&E filed an offer of settlement, including an electric reliability and rate stabilization plan.  In this proposal, CG&E has also asked to end the market development period for all customers effective December 31, 2004.

 

The major features of CG&E’s electric reliability and rate stabilization plan include:

 

                  The market development period would end for all customers on December 31, 2004;

                  CG&E would begin to collect a non-bypassable Provider of Last Resort (POLR) charge from all customers effective January 1, 2005.  This charge could be increased by up to 10 percent of CG&E’s generation charge each year from 2005 through 2008;

                  CG&E would offer its current generation rates as its market based rates until December 31, 2008;

                  CG&E would request a transmission and distribution rate increase effective January 1, 2005;

                  CG&E would begin charging RTC as an explicit wires charge;

                  PUCO approval of previously requested transmission and distribution deferrals and cost recovery riders (see “CG&E Transmission and Distribution Rate Filings”);

                  The five percent generation rate reduction for residential customers would continue through 2008;

                  Extend recovery of residential RTC from 2008 through 2010.

 

The POLR charge would allow for recovery of increased costs of fuel and purchased power, transmission congestion, environmental compliance, homeland security, taxes and maintaining

 

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an adequate reserve margin.

 

An evidentiary hearing addressing the issues described above is scheduled for the second quarter of 2004.  At the current time CG&E is unable to predict the outcome of this proceeding or the effects it could have on its results of operations or financial condition.

 

Indiana

 

In 2002, Indiana lawmakers anticipated the creation of an Indiana Energy Policy Commission to assist in the creation of a comprehensive energy plan.  However, no such commission was formed and, as a result, there are no current plans for electric deregulation in Indiana.

 

Kentucky

 

Throughout 1999, a special Kentucky Electricity Restructuring Task Force (Task Force), convened by the Kentucky legislature, studied the issues of electric deregulation.  In January 2000, the Task Force issued a final report to former Kentucky Governor Paul Patton recommending that lawmakers wait until the 2002 General Assembly before considering any deregulation that would open the state’s electric industry to competition.  The state legislature did not take any action in either 2002 or 2003 to move Kentucky towards electric deregulation.

 

Other States

 

At the end of 2000, approximately one half of the states and the District of Columbia had adopted deregulation plans.  However, recent events are significantly influencing political and legislative activity.  At the end of 2001, eight of the states decided to delay or suspend their deregulation activities.  No additional states adopted deregulation plans during 2002 or 2003, and two states repealed their deregulation statutes during 2003.

 

Retail Supply-Side Actions

 

In December 2002, the IURC approved a settlement agreement among PSI, the Indiana Office of the Utility Consumer Counselor, and the IURC Testimonial Staff authorizing PSI’s purchases of the Henry County, Indiana and Butler County, Ohio, gas-fired peaking plants from two non-regulated affiliates.  In February 2003, the FERC issued an order under Section 203 of the Federal Power Act authorizing PSI’s acquisitions of the plants, which occurred on February 5, 2003.  Subsequently, in April 2003, the FERC issued a tolling order allowing additional time to consider a request for rehearing filed in response to the February 2003 FERC order.  At this time, the rehearing request is still pending before the FERC, and PSI cannot predict the outcome of this matter.

 

In July 2003, ULH&P filed an application with the KPSC requesting a certificate of public convenience and necessity to acquire CG&E’s 68.9 percent ownership interest in the East Bend Generating Station, located in Boone County, Kentucky, the Woodsdale Generating Station, located in Butler County, Ohio, and one generating unit at the four-unit Miami Fort Station located in Hamilton County, Ohio.  In December 2003, the KPSC conditionally approved this

 

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application.  The transfer, which will be made at net book value, will not affect current electric rates for ULH&P’s customers, as power will be provided under the same terms as under the current wholesale power contract with CG&E through at least December 31, 2006.  ULH&P will also seek regulatory approval for aspects of this transaction from the FERC and SEC.  At this time, ULH&P is unable to predict the outcome of this matter.

 

Other

 

Under generally accepted accounting principles (GAAP), CG&E, PSI, and ULH&P apply the provisions of Statement of Financial Accounting Standards No. 71, Accounting for the Effects of Certain Types of Regulation (Statement 71) to the applicable rate-regulated portions of their businesses.  The provisions of Statement 71 allow CG&E, PSI, and ULH&P to capitalize (record as a deferred asset) costs that would normally be charged to expense.  These costs are classified as regulatory assets in the accompanying financial statements, and the majority have been approved by regulators for future recovery from customers through our rates.  As of December 31, 2003, our operating companies have approximately $1 billion of net regulatory assets, of which approximately 90 percent has been approved for recovery.

 

Except with respect to the generation assets of CG&E, as of December 31, 2003, our operating companies continue to meet each of the criteria required for the application of Statement 71.  However, to the extent other states implement deregulation legislation, the application of Statement 71 will need to be reviewed.  Based on our operating companies’ current regulatory orders and the regulatory environment in which they currently operate, management believes the future recovery of regulatory assets recognized in the accompanying Balance Sheets as of December 31, 2003, is probable.  See Note 1(c) of the “Notes to Financial Statements” in “Item 8. Financial Statements and Supplementary Data” for a further discussion of our regulatory assets.

 

FERC and Midwest ISO

 

Historical

 

As part of the effort to create a competitive wholesale power marketplace, the FERC approved the formation of the Midwest ISO during 1998.  In that same year, Cinergy agreed to join the Midwest ISO in preparation for meeting anticipated changes in the FERC regulations and future deregulation requirements.  The Midwest ISO was established as a non-profit organization to maintain functional control over the combined transmission systems of its members.

 

The FERC has also approved the formation of the PJM Interconnection, LLC (PJM) and has ordered the Midwest ISO, PJM, and various other parties to establish certain protocols in an attempt to create a structured, connected market among all utility companies.

 

Unbundled Adder Service Fees
 

The FERC issued an order in December 2001, in response to protests of the Midwest ISO’s proposed methodology related to the calculation of its administrative adder fees for the services it provides.  Cinergy and a number of other parties filed protests to the proposed methodology, suggesting, among other things, that the methodology was inconsistent with the transmission

 

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owners’ prior agreement with the Midwest ISO and selectively allowed only independent transmission companies to choose which unbundled administrative adder services they wished to purchase from the Midwest ISO.  A partial settlement was reached in the FERC proceeding, resolving the issues addressed by Cinergy’s protest in a manner satisfactory to Cinergy.  The settlement agreement was approved by the FERC in a February 2003 order with implementation initiated on March 1, 2003.  The settlement resulted in approximately $25 million of administrative adder credits to be shared among the Midwest ISO transmission owners and customers responsible for administrative charges.  Cinergy’s share was approximately $3 million.

 

Standard Electricity Market Design (SMD)
 

The FERC issued a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NOPR) in 2002 on “Remedying Undue Discrimination through Open Access Transmission Service and SMD”.  This NOPR would have required all public utilities with open access transmission tariffs to file modifications to their tariffs to implement FERC’s proposed standardized transmission services and standardized wholesale electric market design.  The FERC has not taken action on this NOPR.  In addition, because we are a member of the Midwest ISO and the Midwest ISO is actively moving forward in an attempt to create a structured market, it is unlikely that the FERC’s SMD NOPR will have a material, if any, effect on our financial position or results of operations.

 

Day-Ahead and Real-Time Energy Markets
 

In response to prior FERC orders, in July 2003, the Midwest ISO filed with the FERC proposed changes to its existing transmission tariff to add terms and conditions to implement Day-Ahead and Real-Time Energy Markets and Financial Transmission Rights (Energy Markets Tariff).  In October 2003, the FERC approved a Midwest ISO filing to withdraw this Energy Markets Tariff.  Cinergy anticipates that the Midwest ISO will file a new Energy Markets Tariff at sometime in the future; however, at this time, Cinergy cannot predict the effect any such filing will have on its results of operations.

 

Significant Rate Developments

 

PSI Retail Electric Rate Case
 

In December 2002, PSI filed a petition with the IURC seeking approval of a base retail electric rate increase.  PSI has filed initial and rebuttal testimony in this case and the final set of hearings took place in November 2003.  PSI filed its proposed order in December 2003.  Based on updated testimony filed in October 2003 and the proposed order, PSI proposes an increase in annual revenues of approximately $180 million, or an average increase of approximately 14 percent over PSI’s retail electric rates in effect at the end of 2002.  An IURC decision is anticipated by the end of the first quarter of 2004.

 

PSI Fuel Adjustment Charge 
 

In June 2001, PSI filed a petition with the IURC requesting authority to recover $16 million in under billed deferred fuel costs incurred from March 2001 through May 2001.  The IURC

 

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approved recovery of these costs subject to refund pending the findings of an investigative sub-docket.  The sub-docket was opened to investigate the reasonableness of, and underlying reasons for, the under billed deferred fuel costs.  A hearing was held in July 2002, and in March 2003 the IURC issued an order giving final approval to PSI’s recovery of the $16 million.

 

PSI CWIP Ratemaking Treatment for NOX Equipment
 

In April 2003, PSI filed an application with the IURC requesting that its CWIP rate adjustment mechanism be updated for expenditures through December 2002 related to NOX equipment currently being installed at certain PSI generation facilities.  CWIP ratemaking treatment allows for the recovery of carrying costs on certain pollution control equipment while and after the equipment is under construction.  A final order was issued in September 2003.  The order granted substantially all of PSI’s requested relief, leaving only the issue of whether certain specific equipment qualified for CWIP ratemaking treatment to be decided in the first half of 2004.  This CWIP rate mechanism adjustment resulted in less than a one percent increase in customer rates.

 

In October 2003, PSI filed an application with the IURC requesting that its CWIP rate adjustment mechanism be updated for additional expenditures through September 30, 2003, related to NOX equipment currently being installed at certain PSI generation facilities.  If the application is approved, it will result in the recovery of an additional $7 million.  An order on this third CWIP update case is expected in the first half of 2004.

 

PSI’s initial CWIP rate mechanism adjustment (authorized in July 2002) resulted in an approximately one percent increase in customer rates.  Under the IURC’s CWIP rules, PSI may update its CWIP tracker at six-month intervals.  The first such update to PSI’s CWIP rate mechanism occurred in the first quarter of 2003.  The IURC’s July 2002 order also authorized PSI to defer, for subsequent recovery, post-in-service depreciation and to continue the accrual for allowance for funds used during construction (AFUDC).  Pursuant to Statement of Financial Accounting Standards No. 92, Regulated Enterprises-Accounting for Phase-in Plans, the equity component of AFUDC will not be deferred for financial reporting after the related assets are placed in service.

 

PSI Environmental Compliance Cost Recovery

 

In 2002, the Indiana General Assembly passed legislation that, among other things, encourages the deployment of advanced technologies that reduce regulated air emissions, while allowing the continued use of high sulfur Midwest coal in existing electric generating plants.  The legislation authorizes the IURC to provide financial incentives to utilities that deploy such advanced technologies.  PSI soughtIURC approval, under this new law, of a cost tracking mechanism for PSI’s NOX equipment-related depreciation and operation and maintenance costs, authority to use accelerated (18-year) depreciation for its NOX compliance equipment, and approval of a NOX emission allowance purchase and sales tracker.  In October 2003, PSI reached a settlement with the other parties to this case that provides for the relief described above for most of PSI’s environmental compliance equipment.  In December 2003, the IURC approved the settlement agreement.  Previously, the majority of these costs (the post-in-service depreciation costs) were being deferred pursuant to the July 2002 CWIP order described above, and as a result, the settlement agreement did not have a material impact on PSI’s results of operations or financial

 

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condition.

 

PSI Purchased Power Tracker

 

The Tracker was designed to provide for the recovery of costs related to certain specified purchases of power necessary to meet native load customers’ summer peak demand requirements to the extent such costs are not recovered through the existing fuel adjustment clause.

 

PSI is authorized to seek recovery of 90 percent of its purchased power expenses through the Tracker (net of the displaced energy portion recovered through the fuel recovery process and net of the mitigation credit portion), with the remaining 10 percent deferred for subsequent recovery in PSI’s general retail electric rate case.  In March 2002, PSI filed a petition with the IURC seeking approval to extend the Tracker process beyond the summer of 2002.  A hearing was held in January 2003, and in June 2003 the IURC approved the extension for up to an additional two years with the ultimate determination concerning PSI’s continued use of the Tracker process to be made in PSI’s pending retail electric rate case.

 

In June 2002, PSI also filed a petition with the IURC seeking approval of the recovery through the Tracker of its actual summer 2002 purchased power costs.  In May 2003, the IURC approved PSI’s recovery of $18 million related to its summer 2002 purchased power costs, and also authorized $2 million of deferred costs sought for recovery in PSI’s general retail electric rate case.

 

CG&E Transmission and Distribution Rate Filings

 

In October 2003, CG&E filed an application with the PUCO seeking deferral of approximately $173 million, of which approximately $42 million has been incurred as of December 31, 2003, in depreciation, property taxes and carrying costs related to net additions to transmission and distribution utility plant in service from January 2001 through December 2005.  Rates are frozen in Ohio under the state’s electric restructuring law from 2001 through the end of the market development period.  CG&E has not deferred any of these costs as of December 31, 2003.

 

CG&E is proposing a mechanism to recover costs related to net additions to transmission and distribution utility plant in service after the end of the market development period.  The mechanism would work in a similar manner to the monthly customer charge the PUCO approved for CG&E’s accelerated natural gas main replacement program, discussed belowin “CG&E Gas Rate Case”, which is adjusted annually based on expenditures in the previous year.

 

In the alternative electric reliability and rate stabilization proposal that CG&E filed in January 2004 with the PUCO, which is described in more detail in “Ohio” above, CG&E made an alternative proposal to seek deferrals of transmission and distribution utility plant in service from January 2003 through December 2004, for the PUCO to declare an end to the market development period effective December 31, 2004, and for CG&E to file a transmission and distribution base rate case in 2004 to be effective January 1, 2005.  The alternative proposal also includes tracking mechanisms as described in the preceding paragraph, which would recover ongoing transmission and distribution costs.

 

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GAS INDUSTRY

 

Significant Rate Developments

 

CG&E Gas Rate Case

 

In the third quarter of 2001, CG&E filed a retail gas rate case with the PUCO seeking to increase base rates for natural gas distribution service and requesting recovery through a tracking mechanism of the costs of an accelerated gas main replacement program with an estimated capital cost of $716 million over 10 years.  An order was issued in May 2002, in which the PUCO authorized a base rate increase of approximately $15 million, or 3.3 percent overall, effective May 30, 2002.  In addition, the PUCO authorized CG&E to implement the tracking mechanism to recover the costs of the accelerated gas main replacement program, subject to certain rate caps that increase in amount annually through May 2007, through the effective date of new rates in CG&E’s next retail gas rate case.  In April 2003, CG&E received approval to increase its rates under the tracking mechanism by $6.5 million.  This increase was effective in May 2003.  CG&E filed another application in January 2004 to increase its rates by approximately $7 million under the tracking mechanism.  CG&E expects that the PUCO will rule on this application in the second quarter of 2004.

 

ULH&P Gas Rate Case

 

In the second quarter of 2001, ULH&P filed a retail gas rate case with the KPSC seeking to increase base rates for natural gas distribution services and requesting recovery through a tracking mechanism of the costs of an accelerated gas main replacement program with an estimated capital cost of $112 million over 10 years.  Through December 31, 2003, ULH&P has recovered approximately $1.4 million under this tracking mechanism.  The Kentucky Attorney General has appealed to the Franklin Circuit Court the KPSC’s approval of the tracking mechanism and the KPSC’s orders approving the new tracking mechanism rates.  At the present time, ULH&P cannot predict the timing or outcome of this litigation.

 

Gas Distribution Plant

 

In June 2003, the PUCO approved an amended settlement agreement between CG&E and the PUCO Staff in a gas distribution safety case arising out of a gas leak at a service head-adapter (SHA) style riser on CG&E’s distribution system.  The amended settlement agreement required CG&E to expend a minimum of $700,000 to replace SHA risers by December 31, 2003, and to file a comprehensive plan addressing all SHA risers on its distribution system.  Cinergy has an estimated 190,000 SHA risers on its distribution system, of which 155,000 are in CG&E’s service area and 31,000 are in ULH&P’s service area.  Further investigation as to whether any additional SHA risers will need maintenance or replacement is ongoing.  If CG&E and ULH&P determine that replacement of all SHA risers is appropriate, we currently estimate that the replacement cost could be up to approximately $70 million.  CG&E and ULH&P would pursue recovery of this cost through rates.  At this time, Cinergy, CG&E, and ULH&P cannot predict the outcome of this matter.

 

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Gas Prices

 

Natural gas prices escalated dramatically during the fourth quarter of 2002 and peaked midway through the first quarter of 2003.  These higher natural gas prices moderated throughout the spring and summer of 2003 but for 2004 are expected to remain higher than previous years.  Price movement will be driven by the effects of weather conditions, availability of supply, and changes in demand and storage inventories.  Currently, neither CG&E nor ULH&P profit from changes in the cost of natural gas since natural gas purchase costs are passed directly to the customer dollar-for-dollar under the gas cost recovery mechanism that is mandated under state law.  These higher natural gas prices could lead to decreases in the purchase price obtained on receivables sold to Cinergy Receivables due to an increased concern regarding realization of those receivables, however we believe the overall impact will be immaterial.

 

In July 2003, CG&E filed an application with the PUCO for approval to begin adjusting its gas cost adjustment rates on a monthly basis commencing in September 2003.  In August 2003, the PUCO approved the change from quarterly to monthly. In September 2003, ULH&P filed a similar application with the KPSC for monthly gas cost adjustment rates.  The KPSC approved this change and ULH&P began billing on a monthly basis in December 2003.

 

In May 2003, ULH&P filed an application with the KPSC requesting approval of a gas procurement-hedging program designed to mitigate the effects of gas price volatility on customers.  In June 2003, the KPSC approved the hedging program through March 31, 2005.  The program will allow the pre-arranging of between 20-75 percent of winter heating season base load gas requirements and up to 50 percent of summer season base load gas requirements.  CG&E similarly hedges its gas procurement costs, however CG&E’s gas procurement-hedging program has not been pre-approved by the PUCO but rather it is subject to PUCO review as part of the normal gas cost recovery process.

 

CG&E and ULH&P use primarily fixed price forward contracts and contracts with a ceiling and floor on the price.  These contracts employ the normal purchases and sales scope exception, and do not involve hedges under Statement of Financial Accounting Standards No. 133, Accounting for Derivative Instruments and Hedging Activities (Statement 133).

 

MARKET RISK SENSITIVE INSTRUMENTS AND POSITIONS

 

Energy Commodities Sensitivity

 

The transactions associated with Commercial Business Units’ (Commercial) (formerly named the Energy Merchant Business Unit) energy marketing and trading activities give rise to various risks, including price risk.  Price risk represents the potential risk of loss from adverse changes in market price of electricity or other energy commodities.  As Commercial continues to develop its energy marketing and trading business (and due to its substantial investment in generation assets), its exposure to movements in the price of electricity and other energy commodities may become greater.  As a result, we may be subject to increased future earnings volatility.

 

Commercial’s energy marketing and trading activities principally consist of Marketing & Trading’s natural gas marketing and trading operations, Cinergy Global Trading Limited’s (Global Trading) European natural gas and power trading operations, and CG&E’s and PSI’s power marketing and trading operations.

 

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Our domestic operations market and trade over-the-counter (an informal market where the buying/selling of commodities occurs) contracts for the purchase and sale of electricity (primarily in the Midwest region of the U.S.), natural gas, and other energy-related products.  In addition, our domestic operations also market and trade natural gas and other energy-related products on the New York Mercantile Exchange.  Global Trading’s operations trade over-the-counter contracts for the purchase and sale of natural gas and electricity (both primarily in the United Kingdom).  Global Trading also trades natural gas on the International Petroleum Exchange.

 

Many of the contracts in both the accrual and trading portfolios commit us to purchase or sell electricity, natural gas, and other energy-related products at fixed prices in the future.  The majority of the contracts in the natural gas and other energy-related product portfolios are financially settled contracts (i.e., there is no physical delivery related with these items).  In addition, Commercial also markets and trades over-the-counter option contracts.  The use of these types of commodity instruments is designed to allow Commercial to:

 

                  manage and economically hedge contractual commitments;

                  reduce exposure relative to the volatility of cash market prices;

                  take advantage of selected arbitrage opportunities; and

                  originate customized transactions with municipalities and end-use customers.

 

Commercial structures and modifies its net position to capture the following:

 

                  expected changes in future demand;

                  seasonal market pricing characteristics;

                  overall market sentiment; and

                  price relationships between different time periods and trading regions.

 

At times, a net open position is created or is allowed to continue when Commercial believes future changes in prices and market conditions may possibly result in profitable positions.  Position imbalances can also occur due to the basic lack of liquidity in the wholesale power market.  The existence of net open positions can potentially result in an adverse impact on our financial condition or results of operations.  This potential adverse impact could be realized if the market price of electric power does not react in the manner or direction expected.  Cinergy’s Risk Management Control Policy contains limits associated with the overall size of net open positions for each trading operation and for Cinergy in total.

 

Value at Risk (VaR)

 

Commercial measures the market risk inherent in the trading portfolio employing VaR analysis and other methodologies, which utilize forward price curves in electric power and natural gas markets to quantify estimates of the magnitude and probability of future value changes related to open contract positions.  VaR is a statistical measure used to quantify the potential change in fair value of the trading portfolio over a particular period of time, with a specified likelihood of occurrence, due to market movement.  Commercial, through some of our non-regulated subsidiaries, markets physical natural gas and electricity and trades derivative commodity instruments which are usually settled in cash including: forwards, futures, swaps, and options.

 

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Any transaction, whether settled physically or financially, that is accounted for at fair value is included in the VaR calculation.

 

Our VaR is reported based on a 95 percent confidence interval, utilizing a one-day holding period.  This means that on a given day (one-day holding period) there is a 95 percent chance (confidence level) that our trading portfolio will not change more than the stated amount.  Our VaR model uses the variance-covariance statistical modeling technique and historical volatilities and correlations over the past 21-trading day period.  The average VaR was calculated using an average of trading days over the entire year and the high and low VaR were based on an entire year of trading day calculations.  The market prices used to calculate VaR are obtained from exchanges and over-the-counter markets when available, established pricing models and other factors including market volatility, the time value of money, and location differentials.  The VaR for Cinergy’s trading portfolio is presented in the table below:

 

VaR Associated with Energy Trading Contracts

 

 

 

2003

 

2002

 

 

 

Trading
VaR

 

Percentage
of
Operating
Income

 

Trading VaR

 

Percentage of
Operating
Income

 

 

 

(dollars in millions)

 

95% confidence level, one-day holding period, one-tailed

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

December 31

 

$

0.6

 

0.1

%

$

1.6

 

0.2

%

Average for the twelve months ended December 31

 

1.3

 

0.2

 

2.1

 

0.3

 

High for the twelve months ended December 31

 

3.8

 

0.7

 

3.7

 

0.5

 

Low for the twelve months ended December 31

 

0.4

 

0.1

 

0.5

 

0.1

 

 

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Changes in Fair Value

 

The changes in fair value of the energy risk management assets and liabilities for Cinergy, CG&E, and PSI for the years ended December 31, 2003 and 2002 are presented in the table below:

 

 

 

Change in Fair Value

 

 

 

2003

 

2002

 

 

 

Cinergy(1)

 

CG&E

 

PSI

 

Cinergy(1)

 

CG&E

 

PSI

 

 

 

(in millions)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Fair value of contracts outstanding at the beginning of period

 

$

75

 

$

42

 

$

 

$

18

 

$

28

 

$

(7

)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Inception value of new contracts when entered(2)

 

 

 

 

6

 

5

 

1

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Changes in fair value attributable to changes in valuation techniques and assumptions(3)

 

1

 

1

 

 

14

 

6

 

9

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Other changes in fair value(4)

 

127

 

53

 

2

 

89

 

26

 

5

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Option premiums paid/(received)

 

(3

)

2

 

 

20

 

1

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Accounting Changes(5)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Cumulative effect of changes in accounting principles

 

(20

)

(13

)

(1

)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Consolidation of previously unconsolidated entities

 

7

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Contract reclassification(6)

 

 

 

 

14

 

18

 

5

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Contract acquisitions(7)

 

 

 

 

(16

)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Contracts settled

 

(146

)

(65

)

(4

)

(70

)

(42

)

(13

)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Fair value of contracts outstanding at end of period

 

$

41

 

$

20

 

$

(3

)

$

75

 

$

42

 

$

 

 


(1)               The results of Cinergy also include amounts related to non-registrants.

(2)               Represents fair value, recognized in income, attributable to long-term, structured contracts, primarily in power, which is recorded on the date a deal is signed.  These contracts are primarily with end-use customers or municipalities that seek to limit their risk to power price volatility.  While caps and floors often exist in such contracts, the amount of power supplied can vary from hour to hour to mirror the customers’ load volatility.  See Note 1(q)(i) of the “Notes to Financial Statements” in “Item 8. Financial Statements and Supplementary Data” for additional information regarding inception gains.

(3)               Represents changes in fair value recognized in income, caused by changes in assumptions used in calculating fair value or changes in modeling techniques.

(4)               Represents changes in fair value recognized in income, primarily attributable to fluctuations in price.  This amount includes both realized and unrealized gains on energy trading contracts.

(5)               See Note 1(q)(iv) and Note 1(q)(vi) of the “Notes to Financial Statements” in “Item 8. Financial Statements and Supplementary Data” for further information.

(6)               Represents reclassifications of the settlement value of contracts that have been terminated as a result of counterparty non-performance to Non-Current Liabilities-Other.  These contracts no longer have price risk and are therefore not considered energy trading contracts.

(7)               Cinergy Capital & Trading, Inc. (Capital & Trading) acquired a portfolio of gas contracts and inventory in July 2002.  This amount represents the fair value of net Energy risk management liabilities assumed.  There was no inception gain or loss recognized at the date of acquisition.

 

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The following are the balances at December 31, 2003 and 2002 of our energy risk management assets and liabilities:

 

 

 

2003

 

2002

 

 

 

Cinergy(1)

 

CG&E

 

PSI

 

Cinergy(1)

 

CG&E

 

PSI

 

 

 

(in millions)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Energy risk management assets - current

 

$

305

 

$

73

 

$

8

 

$

464

 

$

58

 

$

9

 

Energy risk management assets - non-current

 

97

 

37

 

7

 

163

 

65

 

16

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Energy risk management liabilities - current

 

(296

)

(78

)

(15

)

(408

)

(49

)

(8

)

Energy risk management liabilities - non-current

 

(65

)

(12

)

(3

)

(144

)

(32

)

(17

)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

$

41

 

$

20

 

$

(3

)

$

75

 

$

42

 

$

 

 


(1)               The results of Cinergy also include amounts related to non-registrants.

 

The following table presents the expected maturity of the energy risk management assets and liabilities as of December 31, 2003 for Cinergy, CG&E, and PSI:

 

 

 

Fair Value of Contracts at December 31, 2003

 

 

 

Maturing

 

Total
Fair Value

 

Source of Fair Value(1)

 

2004

 

2005-2006

 

2007-2008

 

Thereafter

 

 

 

 

(in millions)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Cinergy(2)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Prices actively quoted

 

$

(2

)

$

18

 

$

 

$

 

$

16

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Prices based on models and other valuation methods(3)

 

11

 

15

 

4

 

(5

)

25

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Total

 

$

9

 

$

33

 

$

4

 

$

(5

)

$

41

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

CG&E

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Prices actively quoted

 

$

(12

)

$

9

 

$

 

$

 

$

(3

)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Prices based on models and other valuation methods(3)

 

7

 

14

 

2

 

 

23

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Total

 

$

(5

)

$

23

 

$

2

 

$

 

$

20

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

PSI

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Prices actively quoted

 

$

(8

)

$

1

 

$

 

$

 

$

(7

)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Prices based on models and other valuation methods(3)

 

1

 

2

 

1

 

 

4

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Total

 

$

(7

)

$

3

 

$

1

 

$

 

$

(3

)

 


(1)               While liquidity varies by trading regions, active quotes are generally available for two years for standard electricity transactions and three years for standard gas transactions.  Non-standard transactions are classified based on the extent, if any, of modeling used in determining fair value.  Long-term transactions can have portions in both categories depending on the tenor.

(2)               The results of Cinergy also include amounts related to non-registrants.

 

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(3)               A substantial portion of these amounts include option values.

 

Concentrations of Credit Risk

 

Credit risk is the exposure to economic loss that would occur as a result of nonperformance by counterparties, pursuant to the terms of their contractual obligations.  Specific components of credit risk include counterparty default risk, collateral risk, concentration risk, and settlement risk.

 

Trade Receivables and Physical Power Portfolio

 

Our concentration of credit risk with respect to trade accounts receivable from electric and gas retail customers is limited.  The large number of customers and diversified customer base of residential, commercial, and industrial customers significantly reduces our credit risk.  Contracts within the physical portfolio of power marketing and trading operations are primarily with traditional electric cooperatives and municipalities and other investor-owned utilities.  At December 31, 2003, we believe the likelihood of significant losses associated with credit risk in our trade accounts receivable or physical power portfolio is remote.

 

Energy Trading Credit Risk

 

Cinergy’s extension of credit for energy marketing and trading is governed by a Corporate Credit Policy.  Written guidelines document the management approval levels for credit limits, evaluation of creditworthiness, and credit risk mitigation procedures.  Cinergy analyzes net credit exposure and establishes credit reserves based on the counterparties’ credit rating, payment history, and tenor of the outstanding obligation.  Exposures to credit risks are monitored daily by the Corporate Credit Risk function, which is independent of all trading operations.  Energy commodity prices can be extremely volatile and the market can, at times, lack liquidity.  Because of these issues, credit risk is generally greater than with other commodity trading.

 

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The following tables provide information regarding Cinergy’s, CG&E’s, and PSI’s exposure on energy trading contracts as well as the expected maturities of those exposures.  The tables include accounts receivable and energy risk management assets, which are net of accounts payable and energy risk management liabilities with the same counterparties when we have the right of offset.  The credit collateral shown in the following tables includes cash and letters of credit.

 

Cinergy(1)

 

Rating

 

Total
Exposure
Before
Credit
Collateral

 

Credit
Collateral

 

Net
Exposure

 

Percentage of
Total
Net Exposure

 

Net Exposure of
Counterparties
Greater than 10%

 

 

 

(in thousands)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Investment Grade(2)

 

$

472,173

 

$

30,545

 

$

441,628

 

78

%

$

 

Internally Rated-Investment Grade(3)

 

108,312

 

4,546

 

103,766

 

19

 

 

Non-Investment Grade

 

43,178

 

38,690

 

4,488

 

1

 

 

Internally Rated-Non-Investment Grade

 

48,944

 

35,671

 

13,273

 

2

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Total

 

$

672,607

 

$

109,452

 

$

563,155

 

100

%

$

 

 

 

 

Maturity of Credit Risk Exposure

 

Rating

 

Less than
2 Years

 

2-5 Years

 

Exposure
Greater than
5 Years

 

Total Exposure
Before Credit
Collateral

 

 

 

(in thousands)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Investment Grade(2)

 

$

425,675

 

$

38,144

 

$

8,354

 

$

472,173

 

Internally Rated-Investment Grade(3)

 

108,312

 

 

 

108,312

 

Non-Investment Grade

 

43,178

 

 

 

43,178

 

Internally Rated-Non-Investment Grade

 

48,796

 

148

 

 

48,944

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Total

 

$

625,961

 

$

38,292

 

$

8,354

 

$

672,607

 

 


(1)     Includes amounts related to non-registrants.

(2)     Includes counterparties rated Investment Grade or the counterparties’ obligations are guaranteed or secured by an Investment Grade entity.

(3)     Counterparties include a variety of entities, including investor-owned utilities, privately held companies, cities and municipalities.  Cinergy assigns internal credit ratings to all counterparties within our credit risk portfolio, applying fundamental analytical tools.  Included in this analysis is a review of (but not limited to) counterparty financial statements with consideration given to off-balance sheet obligations and assets, specific business environment, access to capital, and indicators from debt and equity capital markets.

 

CG&E

 

Rating

 

Total
Exposure
Before Credit
Collateral

 

Credit
Collateral

 

Net
Exposure

 

Percentage of
Total
Net Exposure

 

Net Exposure of
Counterparties
Greater than 10%

 

 

 

(in thousands)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Investment Grade(1)

 

$

119,206

 

$

20,000

 

$

99,206

 

92

%

$

 

Internally Rated-Investment Grade(2)

 

8,077

 

 

8,077

 

8

 

 

Non-Investment Grade

 

11,640

 

11,457

 

183

 

 

 

Internally Rated-Non-Investment Grade

 

4,886

 

4,747

 

139

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Total

 

$

143,809

 

$

36,204

 

$

107,605

 

100

%

$

 

 

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Maturity of Credit Risk Exposure

 

Rating

 

Less than
2 Years

 

2-5 Years

 

Exposure
Greater than
5 Years

 

Total Exposure
Before Credit
Collateral

 

 

 

(in thousands)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Investment Grade(1)

 

$

108,724

 

$

10,482

 

$

 

$

119,206

 

Internally Rated-Investment Grade(2)

 

8,077

 

 

 

8,077

 

Non-Investment Grade

 

11,640

 

 

 

11,640

 

Internally Rated-Non-Investment Grade

 

4,886

 

 

 

4,886

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Total

 

$

133,327

 

$

10,482

 

$

 

$

143,809

 

 


(1)               Includes counterparties rated Investment Grade or the counterparties’ obligations are guaranteed or secured by an Investment Grade entity.

(2)               Counterparties include various cities and municipalities.

 

PSI

 

Rating

 

Total
Exposure
Before
Credit
Collateral

 

Credit
Collateral

 

Net
Exposure

 

Percentage of
Total
Net Exposure

 

Net Exposure of
Counterparties
Greater than 10%

 

 

 

(in thousands)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Investment Grade(1)

 

$

10,696

 

$

 

$

10,696

 

95

%

$

 

Internally Rated-Investment Grade(2)

 

3

 

 

3

 

 

 

Non-Investment Grade

 

1,864

 

1,324

 

540

 

5

 

 

Internally Rated-Non-Investment Grade

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Total

 

$

12,563

 

$

1,324

 

$

11,239

 

100

%

$

 

 

 

 

Maturity of Credit Risk Exposure

 

Rating

 

Less than
2 Years

 

2-5 Years

 

Exposure
Greater than
5 Years

 

Total Exposure
Before Credit
Collateral

 

 

 

(in thousands)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Investment Grade(1)

 

$

7,983

 

$

2,713

 

$

 

$

10,696

 

Internally Rated-Investment Grade(2)

 

3

 

 

 

3

 

Non-Investment Grade

 

1,864

 

 

 

1,864

 

Internally Rated-Non-Investment Grade

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Total

 

$

9,850

 

$

2,713

 

$

 

$

12,563

 

 


(1)               Includes counterparties rated Investment Grade or the counterparties’ obligations are guaranteed or secured by an Investment Grade entity.

(2)               Counterparties include various cities and municipalities.

 

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Financial Derivatives

 

Potential exposure to credit risk also exists from our use of financial derivatives such as interest rate swaps and treasury locks.  Because these financial instruments are transacted with highly rated financial institutions, we do not anticipate nonperformance by any of the counterparties.

 

Risk Management

 

We manage, on a portfolio basis, the market risks in our energy marketing and trading transactions subject to parameters established by our Risk Policy Committee.  Our market and credit risks are monitored by the Global Risk Management function to ensure compliance with stated risk management policies and procedures.  The Global Risk Management function operates independently from the business units, which originate and actively manage the market risk exposures.  Policies and procedures are periodically reviewed to assess their responsiveness to changing market and business conditions.  Credit risk mitigation practices include requiring parent company guarantees, various forms of collateral, and the use of mutual netting/closeout agreements.

 

Exchange Rate Sensitivity

 

Cinergy has exposure to fluctuations in exchange rates between the U.S. dollar and the currencies of foreign countries where we have investments.  When it is appropriate we will hedge our exposure to cash flow transactions, such as a dividend payment by one of our foreign subsidiaries. 

 

Interest Rate Sensitivity

 

Our net exposure to changes in interest rates primarily consists of short-term debt instruments (including net money pool borrowings) and certain pollution control debt.  The following table reflects the different instruments used and the method of benchmarking interest rates, as of December 31, 2003:

 

Interest Benchmark

 

2003

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

(in millions)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Short-term Bank Loans/Commercial Paper/Money

 

•     Short-term Money Market

 

Cinergy

 

$

158

 

Pool

 

      Commercial Paper

 

CG&E and subsidiaries

 

49

 

 

 

Composite Rate(2)

 

PSI

 

188

 

 

 

                  LIBOR(1)

 

ULH&P

 

45

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Pollution Control Debt

 

                  Daily Market

 

Cinergy

 

193

 

 

 

                  Weekly Market

 

CG&E and subsidiaries

 

112

 

 

 

                  Auction Rate

 

PSI

 

81

 

 


(1)               London Inter-Bank Offered Rate (LIBOR)

(2)               30-day Federal Reserve “AA” Industrial Commercial Paper Composite Rate

 

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The weighted-average interest rates on the above instruments at December 31, were as follows:

 

 

 

2003

 

 

 

 

Short-term Bank Loans/Commercial Paper

 

1.6

%

Money Pool

 

1.1

%

Pollution Control Debt

 

1.4

%

 

At December 31, 2003, forward yield curves project an increase in applicable short-term interest rates over the next five years.

 

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The following table presents principal cash repayments, by maturity date and other selected information, for each registrant’s long-term fixed-rate debt, other debt, and capital lease obligations as of December 31, 2003:

 

 

 

Expected Maturity Date

 

Liabilities

 

2004

 

2005

 

2006

 

2007

 

2008

 

There-
after

 

Total

 

Fair
Value

 

 

 

(in millions)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Cinergy

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Long-term Debt(1)

 

$

810

 

$

202

(4)(5)

$

326

 

$

366

 

$

364

 

$

2,169

 

$

4,237

 

$

4,465

 

Weighted-average interest rate(2)

 

6.3

%

6.8

%

6.7

%

7.6

%

6.5

%

5.5

%

6.0

%

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Other(3)

 

$

25

 

$

20

 

$

28

 

$

361

 

$

186

 

$

164

 

$

784

 

$

882

 

Weighted-average interest rate(2)

 

6.9

%

7.9

%

7.0

%

6.9

%

6.4

%

7.1

%

6.8

%

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Capital Leases

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Fixed-rate leases

 

$

5

 

$

6

 

$

6

 

$

6

 

$

8

 

$

24

 

$

55

 

$

55

 

Interest rate(2)

 

5.5

%

5.5

%

5.4

%

5.4

%

5.3

%

4.9

%

5.2

%

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

CG&E and subsidiaries

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Long-term Debt(1)

 

$

110

 

$

150

(5)

$

 

$

100

 

$

120

 

$

1,126

 

$

1,606

 

$

1,620

 

Weighted-average interest rate(2)

 

6.5

%

6.9

%

 

 

6.9

%

6.4

%

5.3

%

5.7

%

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Capital Leases

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Fixed-rate leases

 

$

3

 

$

3

 

$

3

 

$

4

 

$

5

 

$

15

 

$

33

 

$

33

 

Interest rate(2)

 

5.4

%

5.4

%

5.4

%

5.3

%

5.3

%

4.9

%

5.2

%

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

PSI

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Long-term Debt(1)

 

$

 

$

52

(4)

$

326

 

$

266

 

$

44

 

$

1,043

 

$

1,731

 

$

1,871

 

Weighted-average interest rate(2)

 

 

 

6.5

%

6.7

%

7.8

%

6.4

%

5.6

%

6.2

%

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Capital Leases

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Fixed-rate leases

 

$

2

 

$

2

 

$

2

 

$

3

 

$

4

 

$

9

 

$

22

 

$

22

 

Interest rate(2)

 

5.6

%

5.5

%

5.5

%

5.5

%

5.4

%

4.9

%

5.3

%

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

ULH&P

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Long-term Debt(1)

 

$

 

$

 

$

 

$

 

$

20

 

$

35

 

$

55

 

$

61

 

Weighted-average interest rate(2)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

6.5

%

7.8

%

7.3

%

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Capital Leases

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Fixed-rate leases

 

$

1

 

$

1

 

$

1

 

$

1

 

$

1

 

$

3

 

$

8

 

$

8

 

Interest rate(2)

 

5.6

%

5.6

%

5.5

%

5.5

%

5.4

%

5.0

%

5.3

%

 

 

 


 

(1)

 

Long-term Debt includes amounts reflected as Long-term debt due within one year.

 

(2)

 

The weighted-average interest rate is calculated as follows:  (1) for Long-term Debt and Other, the weighted-average interest rate is based on the interest rates at December 31, 2003 of the debt that is maturing in the year reported and includes the effects of interest rate swaps that fix or float the interest payments differently from the stated rate; and (2) for Capital Leases, the weighted-average interest rate is based on the average interest rate of the lease payments made during the year reported.

 

(3)

 

Long-term Debt related to investments under Cinergy Global Resources, Inc., Cinergy Investments, Inc., and debt related to CC Funding Trust.  See Note 3(b) of the “Notes to Financial Statements” in “Item 8. Financial Statements and Supplementary Data” for a discussion of the debt associated with this trust.

 

(4)

 

Includes PSI’s 6.50% Debentures due August 1, 2026, reflected as maturing in 2005, as the interest rate is due to reset on August 1, 2005.

 

(5)

 

Includes CG&E’s 6.90% Debentures due June 1, 2025, reflected as maturing in 2005, as the debentures are putable to CG&E at the option of the holders on June 1, 2005.

 

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Our current policy in managing exposure to fluctuations in interest rates is to maintain approximately 30 percent of the total amount of outstanding debt in floating interest rate debt instruments.  In maintaining this level of exposure, we use interest rate swaps.  Under the swaps, we agree with other parties to exchange, at specified intervals, the difference between fixed-rate and floating-rate interest amounts calculated on an agreed upon notional amount.  CG&E has an outstanding interest rate swap agreement that decreased the percentage of floating-rate debt.

 

Under the provisions of the swap, which has a notional amount of $100 million, CG&E pays a fixed-rate and receives a floating-rate through October 2007.  This swap qualifies as a cash flow hedge under the provisions of Statement 133.  As the terms of the swap agreement mirror the terms of the debt agreement that it is hedging, we anticipate that this swap will continue to be effective as a hedge.  Changes in fair value of this swap are recorded in Accumulated other comprehensive income (loss), beginning with our adoption of Statement 133 on January 1, 2001.  Cinergy Corp. has three outstanding interest rate swaps with a combined notional amount of $250 million.  Under the provisions of the swaps, Cinergy Corp. will receive fixed-rate interest payments and pay floating-rate interest payments through September 2004.  These swaps qualify as fair value hedges under the provisions of Statement 133.  We anticipate that these swaps will continue to be effective as hedges.  See Note 1(k) of the “Notes to Financial Statements” in “Item 8. Financial Statements and Supplementary Data” for additional information on financial derivatives.  In the future, we will continually monitor market conditions to evaluate whether to modify our level of exposure to fluctuations in interest rates.

 

INFLATION

 

We believe that the recent inflation rates do not materially impact our financial condition.  However, under existing regulatory practice for all of PSI, ULH&P, and the non-generating portion of CG&E, only the historical cost of plant is recoverable from customers.  As a result, cash flows designed to provide recovery of historical plant costs may not be adequate to replace plant in future years.

 

ACCOUNTING MATTERS

 

Critical Accounting Policies

 

Preparation of financial statements and related disclosures in compliance with GAAP requires the use of assumptions and estimates.  In certain instances, the application of GAAP requires judgments regarding future events, including the likelihood of success of particular initiatives, legal and regulatory challenges, and anticipated recovery of costs.  Therefore, the possibility exists for materially different reported amounts under different conditions or assumptions.  The following discusses relevant accounting policies and should be read in conjunction with the “Notes to Financial Statements” in “Item 8. Financial Statements and Supplementary Data”.

 

Fair Value Accounting for Energy Marketing and Trading

 

We use fair value accounting for energy trading contracts, which is required, with certain exceptions, by Statement 133.  We designate these contracts as either trading or non-trading at the time they are originated in accordance with EITF Issue 02-3, Issues Involved in Accounting for Derivative Contracts Held for Trading Purposes and Contracts Involved in Energy Trading

 

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and Risk Management Activities (EITF 02-3).  Short-term contracts used in our trading activities are generally priced using exchange based or over-the-counter price quotes.  Long-term contracts typically must be valued using model pricing due to the lack of actively quoted prices.  The period for which actively quoted prices are available varies by commodity and pricing point, but is generally shorter for electricity than gas.  Use of model pricing requires estimation surrounding factors such as volatility and future price expectations beyond the actively quoted portion of the price curve.  In addition, some contracts do not have fixed notional amounts and therefore must be valued using estimates of volumes to be consumed by the counterparty.  See “Changes in Fair Value” for additional information.

 

We measure these risks by using complex valuation tools, both external and proprietary, which allow us to model prices for periods for which active quotes are unavailable.  These models are dynamic and are continuously updated with the most recent data to improve estimates of future expectations.  We measure risks for contracts that do not contain fixed notional amounts by obtaining historical data and projecting expected consumption.  These models incorporate expectations surrounding the impacts that weather may play in future consumption.  The results of these measures assist us in managing such risks within our portfolio.  We also have a Global Risk Management function within Cinergy that is independent of the marketing and trading function and is under the oversight of a Risk Policy Committee comprised primarily of senior company executives.  This group provides an independent evaluation of both forward price curves and the valuation of energy contracts.  See “Value at Risk” for additional information.

 

There is inherent risk in valuation modeling given the complexity and volatility of energy markets.  Fair value accounting has risk, including its application to short-term contracts, as gains and losses recorded through its use are not yet realized.  Therefore, it is possible that results in future periods may be materially different as contracts are ultimately settled.  However, we monitor potential losses using VaR analysis.  Our one-day VaR at December 31, 2003 was approximately $0.6 million.

 

For financial reporting purposes, assets and liabilities associated with energy trading transactions accounted for using fair value are reflected on the Balance Sheets as Energy risk management assets current and non-current and Energy risk management liabilities current and non-current, classified as current or non-current pursuant to each contract’s tenor.  Net gains and losses resulting from revaluation of contracts during the period are recognized currently in the Statements of Income.

 

Retail Customer Revenue Recognition

 

Our retail revenues include amounts that are not yet billed to customers.  Customers are billed throughout the month as both gas and electric meters are read.  We recognize revenues for retail energy sales that have not yet been billed, but where gas or electricity has been consumed.  This is termed “unbilled revenues” and is a widely recognized and accepted practice for utilities.  In making our estimates of unbilled revenues we use complex systems that consider various factors, including weather, in our calculation of retail customer consumption at the end of each month.  Given the use of these systems and the fact that customers are billed monthly, we believe it is unlikely that materially different results will occur in future periods when revenue is billed.  Related receivables are sold under the accounts receivable sales agreement and therefore are not

 

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reflected on our Balance Sheets.  See Note 1(d)(i) of the “Notes to Financial Statements” in “Item 8. Financial Statements and Supplementary Data” for additional information.

 

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The amount of unbilled revenues for Cinergy, CG&E, PSI, and ULH&P as of December 31, 2003, 2002, and 2001 were as follows:

 

 

 

2003

 

2002

 

2001

 

 

 

(in millions)

 

 

 

 

 

Cinergy

 

$

176

 

$

153

 

$

172

 

CG&E and subsidiaries

 

112

 

89

 

104

 

PSI

 

64

 

64

 

68

 

ULH&P

 

20

 

15

 

18

 

 

Regulatory Accounting

 

CG&E, PSI, and ULH&P are regulated utility companies.  Except with respect to the electric generation-related assets and liabilities of CG&E, the companies apply the provisions of Statement 71.  In accordance with Statement 71, regulatory actions may result in accounting treatment different from that of non-rate regulated companies.  The deferral of costs (as regulatory assets) or amounts provided in current rates to cover costs to be incurred in the future (as regulatory liabilities) may be appropriate when the future recovery or refunding of such costs is probable.  In assessing probability, we consider such factors as regulatory precedent and the current regulatory environment.  To the extent recovery of costs is no longer deemed probable, related regulatory assets would be required to be recognized in current period earnings.  Our deferrals under the fuel adjustment clause recovery mechanism at PSI involve the use of estimates.  Fuel costs, including purchased power when economically displacing fuel, must be allocated between PSI’s retail customers and wholesale customers, with the lowest costs allocated to retail customers.  This process is complex and involves the use of estimates that when finalized in future periods may result in adjustments to amounts deferred and collected from customers.

 

At December 31, 2003, regulatory assets totaled $595 million for CG&E (including $13 million for ULH&P) and $417 million for PSI.  Current rates include the recovery of $587 million for CG&E (including $12 million for ULH&P) and $317 million for PSI.  Of the $100 million not yet approved for recovery by PSI, $42 million relates to reorganization costs incurred in connection with the merger with CG&E.  Deferral of these costs for inclusion in PSI’s current rate case was previously authorized by the IURC.  PSI has requested recovery of these costs in its pending rate case and a decision by the IURC is expected to be made in the first quarter of 2004.  Should the IURC deny recovery of those costs, a charge to current period earnings would be required.  In addition to the regulatory assets, CG&E and PSI have regulatory liabilities totaling $155 million (including $27 million for ULH&P) and $336 million at December 31, 2003, respectively.  See Note 1(c) of the “Notes to Financial Statements” in “Item 8. Financial Statements and Supplementary Data” for additional detail regarding regulatory assets and regulatory liabilities.

 

Pension and Other Postretirement Benefits

 

Cinergy’s reported costs of providing pension and other postretirement benefits (as described in Note 9 of the “Notes to Financial Statements” in “Item 8. Financial Statements and Supplementary Data”) are dependent upon numerous factors resulting from actual plan experience and assumptions of future experience.

 

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Pension costs associated with Cinergy’s defined benefit pension plans, for example, are impacted by employee demographics (including age, compensation levels, and employment periods), the level of contributions we make to the plan, and earnings on plan assets.  Changes made to the provisions of the plan may impact current and future pension costs.  Pension costs may also be significantly affected by changes in key actuarial assumptions, including anticipated rates of return on plan assets and the discount rates used in determining the projected benefit obligation and pension costs. 

 

In accordance with Statement of Financial Accounting Standards No. 87, Employers’ Accounting for Pensions (Statement 87), changes in pension obligations associated with the above factors may not be immediately recognized as pension costs on the Statements of Income, but may be deferred and amortized in the future over the average remaining service period of active plan participants to the extent that Statement 87 recognition provisions are triggered.  For the years ended December 31, 2003, 2002, and 2001, we recorded pension costs for our defined benefit pension plans (including early retirement program costs recognized in accordance with Statement of Financial Accounting Standards No. 88, Employers’ Accounting for Settlements and Curtailments of Defined Benefit Pension Plans and for Termination Benefits (Statement 88)) of approximately $62 million, $68 million, and $32 million, respectively.

 

Cinergy’s pension plan assets are principally comprised of equity and debt investments.  Differences between actual portfolio returns and expected returns may result in increased or decreased pension costs in future periods.  Likewise, changes in assumptions regarding current discount rates and expected rates of return on plan assets could also increase or decrease recorded pension costs.

 

In selecting our discount rate assumption, we considered rates of return on high-quality corporate debt instruments that are expected to be available through the maturity dates of the pension benefits.  Our expected long-term rate of return on plan assets is based on a calculation provided by an independent investment-consulting firm.  Our expected long-term rate of return on pension plan assets is based on our targeted asset allocation assumption of 60 percent equity investments and 40 percent debt investments.  Our 60 percent equity investment target includes allocations to domestic, developed international, and emerging markets equities.  Our asset allocation is designed to achieve a moderate level of overall portfolio risk in keeping with Cinergy’s desired risk objective.  We regularly review our asset allocation and periodically rebalance our investments to our targeted allocation as appropriate. 

 

We base our determination of pension cost on a market-related valuation of assets that reduces year-to-year volatility.  This market-related valuation recognizes investment gains or losses over a five-year period from the year in which they occur.  Investment gains or losses for this purpose are the difference between the expected return calculated using the market-related value of assets and the actual fair value of assets.

 

Based on our assumed long-term rate of return of 8.5 percent, discount rate of 6.25 percent, and various other assumptions, we estimate that our pension costs associated with our defined benefit pension plans will increase from $53 million (excluding Statement 88 costs) in 2003 to approximately $66 million in 2004.  Modifying the expected long-term rate of return on our pension plan assets by .25 percent, and holding all other assumptions constant, would change

 

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2004 pension costs by approximately $2 million.  Lowering the discount rate assumption by .25 percent, and holding all other assumptions constant, would change 2004 pension costs by approximately $5 million.

 

Other postretirement benefit costs are impacted by employee demographics, per capita claims costs, and health care cost trend rates.  Other postretirement benefit costs may also be significantly affected by changes in key actuarial assumptions, including the discount rates used in determining the accumulated postretirement benefit obligation and the postretirement benefit costs.  In accordance with Statement of Financial Accounting Standards No. 106, Employers’ Accounting for Postretirement Benefits Other Than Pensions (Statement 106), changes in postretirement benefit obligations associated with these factors may not be immediately recognized as postretirement benefit costs but may be deferred and amortized in the future over the average remaining service period of active plan participants to the extent that Statement 106 recognition provisions are triggered.  For the years ended December 31, 2003, 2002, and 2001, we recorded other postretirement benefit costs of approximately $35 million, $29 million, and $27 million, respectively, in accordance with the provisions of Statement 106.  Based upon a discount rate of 6.25 percent and various other assumptions, we estimate that our other postretirement benefit costs will increase from $35 million in 2003 to approximately $38 million in 2004.

 

See Note 9 of the “Notes to Financial Statements” in “Item 8. Financial Statements and Supplementary Data” for information on the effects of FASB Staff Position 106-1, Accounting and Disclosure Requirements Related to the Medicare Prescription Drug, Improvement and Modernization Act of 2003.

 

Income Taxes

 

Management judgment is required in developing our provision for income taxes, including the determination of deferred tax assets, liabilities and any valuation allowances recorded against the deferred tax assets.  We evaluate quarterly the realizability of our deferred tax assets by assessing our valuation allowance and adjusting the amount of such allowance, if necessary.  The factors used to assess the likelihood of realization are our forecast of future taxable income and the availability of tax planning strategies that can be implemented to realize deferred tax assets.  Failure to achieve forecasted taxable income might affect the ultimate realization of deferred tax assets. 

 

Legal and Environmental Contingencies

 

When it is probable that an environmental or other legal liability has been incurred, a loss is recognized assuming the amount of the loss can be reasonably estimated.  Estimates of the probability and the amount of loss are often made based on currently available facts, present laws and regulations, and consultation with third-party experts.  Accounting for contingencies requires significant judgment by management regarding the estimated probabilities and ranges of exposure to potential liability.  Management’s assessment of Cinergy’s exposure to contingencies could change to the extent there are additional future developments, administrative actions, or as more information becomes available.  If actual legal obligations are materially different from our estimates, the recognition of the actual amounts may have a material impact on

 

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Cinergy’s results of operations and financial position.

 

Impairment of Long-lived Assets

 

Current accounting standards require long-lived assets be measured for impairment whenever indicators of impairment exist.  If deemed impaired under the standards, assets are written down to fair value with a charge to current period earnings.  As a producer of electricity, Cinergy, CG&E, and PSI are owners of generating plants, which are largely coal-fired.  At December 31, 2003, the carrying value of these generating plants is $5 billion for Cinergy, $2 billion for CG&E and $2 billion for PSI.  As a result of the various emissions and by-products of coal consumption, the companies are subject to extensive environmental regulations and are currently subject to a number of environmental contingencies.  See Note 1(i) of the “Notes to Financial Statements” in “Item 8. Financial Statements and Supplementary Data” for additional information.  While we cannot predict the potential affect the resolution of these matters will have on our financial position or results of operations, we believe that the carrying values of these assets are recoverable.  In making this assessment, we consider such factors as the expected ability to recover additional investment in environmental compliance expenditures, the relative pricing of wholesale electricity in the region, the anticipated demand, and the cost of fuel.  We will continue to evaluate these assets for impairment when events or circumstances indicate the carrying value may not be recoverable.

 

Accounting Changes

 

Energy Trading

 

In October 2002, the EITF reached consensus in EITF 02-3, to (a) rescind EITF 98-10, (b) generally preclude the recognition of gains at the inception of new derivatives, and (c) require all realized and unrealized gains and losses on energy trading derivatives to be presented net in the Statements of Income, whether or not settled physically. 

 

The consensus to rescind EITF 98-10 required all energy trading contracts that do not qualify as derivatives to be accounted for on an accrual basis, rather than at fair value.  The consensus was immediately effective for all new contracts executed after October 25, 2002, and required a cumulative effect adjustment to income, net of tax, on January 1, 2003, for all contracts executed on or prior to October 25, 2002.  The cumulative effect adjustment, on a net of tax basis, was a loss of approximately $13 million for Cinergy and $8 million for CG&E, which primarily includes the impact of certain coal contracts, gas inventory, and certain gas contracts, which are accounted for at fair value.  We expect this rescission to have the largest ongoing impact on our gas trading business, which uses financial contracts, physical contracts, and gas inventory to take advantage of various arbitrage opportunities.  Prior to the rescission of EITF 98-10, all of these activities were accounted for at fair value.  Under the revised guidance, only certain items are accounted for at fair value, which could increase inter-period volatility in reported results of operations.  As a result, we began applying fair value hedge accounting in June 2003 to certain quantities of gas inventory (more fully discussed in Note 1(k)(i) of the “Notes to Financial Statements” in “Item 8. Financial Statements and Supplementary Data”) and are further reviewing additional applications for hedge accounting.

 

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the Statements of Income was effective January 1, 2003, and required reclassification for all periods presented.  This resulted in substantial reductions in reported Operating Revenues, Fuel and purchased and exchanged power expense, and Gas purchased expense.  However, Operating Income and Net Income were not affected by this change.

 

Derivatives

 

In May 2003, the FASB issued Statement of Financial Accounting Standards No. 149, Amendment of Statement 133 on Derivative Instruments and Hedging Activities (Statement 149).  Statement 149 primarily amends Statement 133 to incorporate implementation conclusions previously cleared by the FASB staff, to clarify the definition of a derivative and to require derivative instruments that include up-front cash payments to be classified as a financing activity in the Statements of Cash Flows.  Implementation issues previously cleared by the FASB staff were effective at the time they were cleared and new guidance was effective in the third quarter of 2003.  In connection with our adoption, we reviewed certain power purchase or sale contracts to determine if they met the revised normal purchases and sales scope exception criteria in Statement 149.  If these criteria were not met, the contract was adjusted to fair value.  The impact of adopting Statement 149 was not material to our financial position or results of operations.

 

In June 2003, the FASB issued final guidance on the use of broad market indices (e.g., consumer price index) in power purchases and sales contracts.  This guidance clarifies that the normal purchases and sales scope exception is precluded if a contract contains a broad market index that is not clearly and closely related to the asset being sold or purchased (or a direct factor in the production of the asset sold or purchased).  The guidance provides criteria that must be met for the index to be considered clearly and closely related.  This guidance, which was effective in the fourth quarter of 2003, was not material to our financial position or results of operations.

 

Asset Retirement Obligations

 

In July 2001, the FASB issued Statement 143, which requires fair value recognition beginning January 1, 2003, of legal obligations associated with the retirement or removal of long-lived assets at the time the obligations are incurred.  Statement 143 prohibits the accrual of estimated retirement and removal costs unless resulting from legal obligations.  Our accounting policy for such legal obligations and for accrued cost of removal for our rate regulated long-lived assets is described in Note 1 (j) of the “Notes to Financial Statements” in “Item 8. Financial Statements and Supplementary Data”.

 

We adopted Statement 143 on January 1, 2003, and Cinergy and CG&E both recognized a gain of $39 million (net of tax) for the cumulative effect of this change in accounting principle.  Substantially all of this adjustment reflects the reversal of previously accrued cost of removal for CG&E’s generating assets, which do not apply the provisions of Statement 71.  Accrued cost of removal at adoption included $316 million, $25 million, and $146 million of accumulated cost of removal related to PSI’s, ULH&P’s, and CG&E’s utility plant in service assets, respectively, which represent regulatory liabilities after adoption and were not included as part of the cumulative effect adjustment.  The increases in assets and liabilities from adopting Statement 143 were not material to our financial position.

 

Pro-forma results as if Statement 143 was applied retroactively for the years ended December 31, 2002 and 2001, are not materially different from reported results.

 

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Consolidation of VIEs

 

In January 2003, the FASB issued Interpretation 46, which significantly changes the consolidation requirements for traditional special purpose entities (SPE) and certain other entities subject to its scope.  This interpretation defines a VIE as (a) an entity that does not have sufficient equity to support its activities without additional financial support or (b) an entity that has equity investors that do not have voting rights or do not absorb losses or receive returns.  These entities must be consolidated when certain criteria are met.  The interpretation was originally to be effective as of July 1, 2003 for Cinergy; however, the FASB subsequently permitted deferral of the effective date to December 31, 2003 for traditional SPEs and to March 31, 2004 for all other entities subject to the scope of Interpretation 46.  During this deferral period, the FASB clarified and amended several provisions, much of which is intended to assist in the application of Interpretation 46 to operating entities.  Clarifications were not needed for most traditional SPEs and we therefore elected to implement Interpretation 46 for such entities, as discussed below, in accordance with the original implementation date of July 1, 2003.  Prior period financial statements were not restated for these changes.

 

Interpretation 46 required us to consolidate two SPEs that have individual power sale agreements to Central Maine Power Company.  Further, we were no longer permitted to consolidate a trust that was established by Cinergy Corp. in 2001 to issue approximately $316 million of combined preferred trust securities and stock purchase contracts.  For further information on the accounting for these entities see Note 3 of the “Notes to Financial Statements” in “Item 8. Financial Statements and Supplementary Data”.

 

Cinergy has concluded that its accounts receivable sale facility, as discussed in Note 3(c) of the “Notes to Financial Statements” in “Item 8. Financial Statements and Supplementary Data”, will remain unconsolidated since it involves transfers of financial assets to a qualifying SPE, which is exempted from consolidation by Interpretation 46 and Statement 140.

 

Cinergy is continuing to evaluate the impact of Interpretation 46 on several operating joint ventures, primarily involved in cogeneration and energy efficiency operations, that we currently do not consolidate.  If all these entities were consolidated, their total assets of approximately $590 million (the majority of which is non-current) and total liabilities of approximately $210 million (which includes long-term debt of approximately $90 million) would be recognized on our Balance Sheets.  Cinergy’s current investment in these entities is approximately $200 million.  We also guarantee certain performance obligations of these entities with an estimated maximum potential exposure of approximately $40 million, as disclosed in Note 11(c)(vii) of the “Notes to Financial Statements” in “Item 8. Financial Statements and Supplementary Data”.  If any of these entities are required to be consolidated, they will be included in the March 31, 2004 consolidated financial statements.

 

Financial Instruments with Characteristics of Both Liabilities and Equity

 

In May 2003, the FASB issued Statement of Financial Accounting Standards No. 150, Accounting for Certain Financial Instruments with Characteristics of Both Liabilities and Equity (Statement 150).  Statement 150 establishes standards for how an issuer classifies and measures

 

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certain financial instruments with characteristics of both liabilities and equity.  This statement was effective for financial instruments entered into or modified after May 31, 2003, and was effective on July 1, 2003, for financial instruments held prior to issuance of this statement.  Statement 150 would have required Cinergy Corp.’s preferred trust securities to be reported as a liability; however, as described more fully in Note 3(b) of the “Notes to Financial Statements” in “Item 8. Financial Statements and Supplementary Data”, the trust holding these securities is no longer permitted to be consolidated and the preferred trust securities are no longer reported on Cinergy’s Balance Sheets.  However, Cinergy’s note payable to the trust is recorded on the Balance Sheets as Long-term debt.  As a result, the impact of adopting Statement 150 was not material to our financial position or results of operations.

 

As discussed in Note 3(b) of the “Notes to Financial Statements” in “Item 8. Financial Statements and Supplementary Data”, Cinergy Corp. issued forward stock sale contracts that require purchase by the holder of a certain number of Cinergy Corp. shares in February 2005 (stock contracts).  The number of shares to be issued is contingent on the market price of Cinergy Corp. stock, but subject to a predetermined ceiling and floor price.  In October 2003, the FASB staff released an interpretation of Statement 150 that requires an evaluation of these stock contracts to determine whether they constitute a liability, with any changes in accounting required in January 2004.  This interpretation did not have any impact on our current accounting.

 

Other Matters

 

Voluntary Early Retirement Programs (VERP)

 

As a result of the employees accepting a VERP in 2002, Cinergy, CG&E, and PSI recorded expenses of approximately $43 million, $19 million (including $3 million related to ULH&P), and $21 million, respectively.

 

During 2003, Cinergy offered a VERP and other severance benefits (Severance Programs) to certain non-union and union employees.  As a result of the employees electing the Severance Programs, Cinergy recorded expenses of approximately $14 million during 2003.

 

Synthetic Fuel Production

 

In July 2002, Capital & Trading acquired a coal-based synthetic fuel production facility.  As of December 31, 2003, Capital & Trading’s net book value in this facility was approximately $60 million.  The synthetic fuel produced at this facility qualifies for tax credits in accordance with Section 29 of the Internal Revenue Code.  Eligibility for these credits expires after 2007.  Cinergy received a private letter ruling from the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) in connection with the acquisition of the facility.  To date, Cinergy has produced and sold approximately 4.4 million tons of synthetic fuel at this facility, resulting in approximately $120 million in tax credits, including approximately $80 million in 2003.

 

In the second quarter of 2003, the IRS announced, as a result of an audit of another taxpayer, that it had reason to question and was reviewing the scientific validity of test procedures and results that were presented as evidence the fuel underwent a significant chemical change.  The IRS recently announced that it has finished its review and has determined that test procedures and

 

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results used by taxpayers may be scientifically valid if the procedures are applied in a consistent and unbiased manner.  The IRS also announced that it plans to impose new testing and record-keeping requirements on synthetic fuel producers and plans to issue guidance extending these requirements to taxpayers already holding private letter rulings on the issue of significant chemical change.  Cinergy believes that any new testing or record-keeping requirements imposed by the IRS will not have a material effect on our financial position or results of operations.

 

Patents

 

Ronald A. Katz Technology Licensing, L.P. (RAKTL) has offered us a license to a portfolio of patents claiming that the patents may be infringed by certain products and services utilized by us.  The patents purportedly relate to various aspects of telephone call processing in Cinergy call centers.  As of this date, no legal proceedings have been instituted against us, but if the RAKTL patents are valid, enforceable and apply to our business, we could be required to seek a license from RAKTL or to discontinue certain activities.  We are currently considering this matter, but lack sufficient information to assess the potential outcome at this time.

 

PUCO Review of Financial Condition of Ohio Regulated Utilities

 

In October 2002, as the result of financial problems experienced by certain public utility companies and the existing state of the economy, the PUCO issued an order initiating a review of, and requesting comments with respect to, the financial condition of the 19 large public utilities (gas, electric, and telecommunication) serving Ohio customers, including CG&E.  The PUCO intends to identify available measures to ensure that the regulated operations of the Ohio public utilities are not adversely impacted by the parent or affiliate companies’ non-regulated operations.  CG&E filed comments stating that the PUCO has sufficient authority to adequately regulate the financial condition of public utilities.  In January 2004, the PUCO staff filed their recommendations on the measures to be used to address the PUCO’s concerns, focusing on such areas as dividend distributions, cost of capital, and restrictions on non-regulated investments, loans, and guarantees.  CG&E cannot predict the outcome of this matter at this time.

 

Energy Market Investigations

 

In July 2003, Cinergy received a subpoena from the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC).  As has been previously reported by the press, the CFTC has served subpoenas on numerous other energy companies.  The CFTC request sought certain information regarding our trading activities, including price reporting to energy industry publications.  The CFTC sought particular information concerning these matters for the period May 2000 through January 2001 as to one of Cinergy’s employees.  Based on an initial review of these matters, we placed that employee on administrative leave and have subsequently terminated his employment.  Cinergy is continuing an investigation of these matters, including whether price reporting inconsistencies occurred in our operations, and has been cooperating fully with the CFTC.

 

In August 2003, Cinergy, along with 38 other companies, was named as a defendant in civil litigation filed as a purported class action on behalf of all persons who purchased and/or sold New York Mercantile Exchange natural gas futures and options contracts between January 1, 2000 and December 31, 2002.  The complaint alleges that improper price reporting caused

 

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damages to the class.  Two similar lawsuits have subsequently been filed, and these three lawsuits have been consolidated for pretrial purposes.  Plaintiffs filed a consolidated class action complaint in January 2004.  We believe this action is without merit and intend to defend this lawsuit vigorously; however, we cannot predict the outcome of this matter at this time.

 

In the second quarter of 2003, Cinergy received initial and follow-up third-party subpoenas from the SEC requesting information related to particular trading activity with one of its counterparties who was the target of an investigation by the SEC.  Cinergy has fully cooperated with the SEC in connection with this matter.  In January 2004, Cinergy received a grand jury subpoena from the Assistant United States Attorney in the Southern District of Texas for information relating to the same trading activities being investigated by the SEC.  Specifically, the Assistant United States Attorney has requested information relating to communications between a former employee and another energy company.  We understand that we are neither a target nor are we under investigation by the Department of Justice in relation to these communications.

 

At this time, it is not possible to predict the outcome of these investigations and litigation or their impact on Cinergy’s financial position or results of operations; although, in the opinion of management, they are not likely to have a material adverse effect on our financial position or results of operations.

 

ITEM 7A.  QUANTITATIVE AND QUALITATIVE DISCLOSURES ABOUT MARKET RISK

 

Reference is made to the “Market Risk Sensitive Instruments and Positions” section of “Item 7. Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations”.

 

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INDEX TO FINANCIAL STATEMENTS AND FINANCIAL STATEMENT SCHEDULES

 

FINANCIAL STATEMENTS

 

 

 

Independent Auditors’ Report

 

 

 

Cinergy Corp. and Subsidiaries

 

Consolidated Statements of Income for the three years ended December 31, 2003

 

Consolidated Balance Sheets at December 31, 2003 and 2002

 

Consolidated Statements of Changes in Common Stock Equity for the three years ended December 31, 2003

 

Consolidated Statements of Cash Flows for the three years ended December 31, 2003

 

Consolidated Statements of Capitalization at December 31, 2003 and 2002

 

 

 

The Cincinnati Gas & Electric Company and Subsidiaries

 

Consolidated Statements of Income for the three years ended December 31, 2003

 

Consolidated Balance Sheets at December 31, 2003 and 2002

 

Consolidated Statements of Changes in Common Stock Equity for the three years ended December 31, 2003

 

Consolidated Statements of Cash Flows for the three years ended December 31, 2003

 

Consolidated Statements of Capitalization at December 31, 2003 and 2002

 

 

 

PSI Energy, Inc. and Subsidiary

 

Consolidated Statements of Income for the three years ended December 31, 2003

 

Consolidated Balance Sheets at December 31, 2003 and 2002

 

Consolidated Statements of Changes in Common Stock Equity for the three years ended December 31, 2003

 

Consolidated Statements of Cash Flows for the three years ended December 31, 2003

 

Consolidated Statements of Capitalization at December 31, 2003 and 2002

 

 

 

The Union Light, Heat and Power Company

 

Statements of Income for the three years ended December 31, 2003

 

Balance Sheets at December 31, 2003 and 2002

 

Statements of Changes in Common Stock Equity for the three years ended December 31, 2003

 

Statements of Cash Flows for the three years ended December 31, 2003

 

Statements of Capitalization at December 31, 2003 and 2002

 

 

 

Notes to Financial Statements

 

 

 

FINANCIAL STATEMENT SCHEDULES

 

 

 

Schedule II - Valuation and Qualifying Accounts

 

Cinergy Corp. and Subsidiaries

 

The Cincinnati Gas & Electric Company and Subsidiaries

 

PSI Energy, Inc. and Subsidiary

 

The Union Light, Heat and Power Company

 

 

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The information required to be submitted in schedules other than those indicated above has been included in the Balance Sheets, the Statements of Income, related schedules, the notes thereto, or omitted as not required by the Rules of Regulation S-X.

 

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ITEM 8. FINANCIAL STATEMENTS AND SUPPLEMENTARY DATA

 

INDEPENDENT AUDITORS’ REPORT

 

To the Board of Directors of Cinergy Corp.:

 

We have audited the accompanying consolidated balance sheets and statements of capitalization of Cinergy Corp. and subsidiaries as of December 31, 2003 and 2002, and the related consolidated statements of income, changes in common stock equity, and cash flows for each of the three years in the period ended December 31, 2003.  Our audits also included the financial statement schedule included in Item 15 of this Annual Report.  These financial statements and the financial statement schedule are the responsibility of the Company’s management.  Our responsibility is to express an opinion on the financial statements and financial statement schedule based on our audits.

 

We conducted our audits in accordance with auditing standards generally accepted in the United States of America.  Those standards require that we plan and perform the audit to obtain reasonable assurance about whether the financial statements are free of material misstatement.  An audit includes examining, on a test basis, evidence supporting the amounts and disclosures in the financial statements.  An audit also includes assessing the accounting principles used and significant estimates made by management, as well as evaluating the overall financial statement presentation.  We believe that our audits provide a reasonable basis for our opinion.

 

In our opinion, such consolidated financial statements present fairly, in all material respects, the financial position of Cinergy Corp. and subsidiaries as of December 31, 2003 and 2002 and the results of their operations and their cash flows for each of the three years in the period ended December 31, 2003, in conformity with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America.  Also, in our opinion, the financial statement schedule, when considered in relation to the basic consolidated financial statements taken as a whole, presents fairly in all material respects the information set forth therein.

 

As discussed in Note 1 to the financial statements, in 2003 Cinergy Corp. adopted Statement of Financial Accounting Standards (SFAS) No. 143, “Accounting for Asset Retirement Obligations;” Financial Accounting Standards Board Interpretation No. 46, “Consolidation of Variable Interest Entities;” Emerging Issues Task Force Issue 02-3, “Issues Involved in Accounting for Derivative Contracts Held for Trading Purposes and Contracts Involved in Energy Trading and Risk Management Activities;” and the fair value recognition provisions of SFAS No. 123 “Accounting for Stock-Based Compensation.”  In 2002, Cinergy Corp. adopted SFAS No. 142, “Goodwill and Other Intangible Assets.”

 

Deloitte & Touche LLP

Cincinnati, Ohio

February 16, 2004

 

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INDEPENDENT AUDITORS’ REPORT

 

To the Board of Directors of The Cincinnati Gas & Electric Company:

 

We have audited the accompanying consolidated balance sheets and statements of capitalization of The Cincinnati Gas & Electric Company and subsidiaries as of December 31, 2003 and 2002, and the related consolidated statements of income, changes in common stock equity, and cash flows for each of the three years in the period ended December 31, 2003.  Our audits also included the financial statement schedule included in Item 15 of this Annual Report.  These financial statements and the financial statement schedule are the responsibility of the Company’s management.  Our responsibility is to express an opinion on the financial statements and financial statement schedule based on our audits.

 

We conducted our audits in accordance with auditing standards generally accepted in the United States of America.  Those standards require that we plan and perform the audit to obtain reasonable assurance about whether the financial statements are free of material misstatement.  An audit includes examining, on a test basis, evidence supporting the amounts and disclosures in the financial statements.  An audit also includes assessing the accounting principles used and significant estimates made by management, as well as evaluating the overall financial statement presentation.  We believe that our audits provide a reasonable basis for our opinion.

 

In our opinion, such consolidated financial statements present fairly, in all material respects, the financial position of The Cincinnati Gas & Electric Company and subsidiaries as of December 31, 2003 and 2002 and the results of their operations and their cash flows for each of the three years in the period ended December 31, 2003, in conformity with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America.  Also, in our opinion, the financial statement schedule, when considered in relation to the basic consolidated financial statements taken as a whole, presents fairly in all material respects the information set forth therein.

 

As discussed in Note 1 to the financial statements, in 2003 The Cincinnati Gas & Electric Company adopted Statement of Financial Accounting Standards No. 143, “Accounting for Asset Retirement Obligations” and Emerging Issues Task Force Issue 02-3, “Issues Involved in Accounting for Derivative Contracts Held for Trading Purposes and Contracts Involved in Energy Trading and Risk Management Activities.”

 

Deloitte & Touche LLP

Cincinnati, Ohio
February 16, 2004

 

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INDEPENDENT AUDITORS’ REPORT

 

To the Board of Directors of PSI Energy, Inc.:

 

We have audited the accompanying consolidated balance sheets and statements of capitalization of PSI Energy, Inc. and subsidiary as of December 31, 2003 and 2002, and the related consolidated statements of income, changes in common stock equity, and cash flows for each of the three years in the period ended December 31, 2003.  Our audits also included the financial statement schedule included in Item 15 of this Annual Report.  These financial statements and the financial statement schedule are the responsibility of the Company’s management.  Our responsibility is to express an opinion on the financial statements and financial statement schedule based on our audits.

 

We conducted our audits in accordance with auditing standards generally accepted in the United States of America.  Those standards require that we plan and perform the audit to obtain reasonable assurance about whether the financial statements are free of material misstatement.  An audit includes examining, on a test basis, evidence supporting the amounts and disclosures in the financial statements.  An audit also includes assessing the accounting principles used and significant estimates made by management, as well as evaluating the overall financial statement presentation.  We believe that our audits provide a reasonable basis for our opinion.

 

In our opinion, such consolidated financial statements present fairly, in all material respects, the financial position of PSI Energy, Inc. and subsidiary as of December 31, 2003 and 2002 and the results of their operations and their cash flows for each of the three years in the period ended December 31, 2003, in conformity with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America.  Also, in our opinion, the financial statement schedule, when considered in relation to the basic consolidated financial statements taken as a whole, presents fairly in all material respects the information set forth therein.

 

As discussed in Note 1 to the financial statements, in 2003 PSI Energy, Inc. adopted Statement of Financial Accounting Standards No. 143, “Accounting for Asset Retirement Obligations” and Emerging Issues Task Force Issue 02-3, “Issues Involved in Accounting for Derivative Contracts Held for Trading Purposes and Contracts Involved in Energy Trading and Risk Management Activities.”

 

Deloitte & Touche LLP

Cincinnati, Ohio
February 16, 2004

 

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INDEPENDENT AUDITORS’ REPORT

 

To the Board of Directors of The Union Light, Heat and Power Company:

 

We have audited the accompanying balance sheets and statements of capitalization of The Union Light, Heat and Power Company as of December 31, 2003 and 2002, and the related statements of income, changes in common stock equity, and cash flows for each of the three years in the period ended December 31, 2003.  Our audits also included the financial statement schedule included in Item 15 of this Annual Report.  These financial statements and the financial statement schedule are the responsibility of the Company’s management.  Our responsibility is to express an opinion on the financial statements and financial statement schedule based on our audits.

 

We conducted our audits in accordance with auditing standards generally accepted in the United States of America.  Those standards require that we plan and perform the audit to obtain reasonable assurance about whether the financial statements are free of material misstatement.  An audit includes examining, on a test basis, evidence supporting the amounts and disclosures in the financial statements.  An audit also includes assessing the accounting principles used and significant estimates made by management, as well as evaluating the overall financial statement presentation.  We believe that our audits provide a reasonable basis for our opinion.

 

In our opinion, such financial statements present fairly, in all material respects, the financial position of The Union Light, Heat and Power Company as of December 31, 2003 and 2002 and the results of its operations and its cash flows for each of the three years in the period ended December 31, 2003, in conformity with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America.  Also, in our opinion, the financial statement schedule, when considered in relation to the basic financial statements taken as a whole, presents fairly in all material respects the information set forth therein.

 

As discussed in Note 1 to the financial statements, in 2003 The Union Light, Heat and Power Company adopted Statement of Financial Accounting Standards No. 143, “Accounting for Asset Retirement Obligations.”

 

Deloitte & Touche LLP

Cincinnati, Ohio
February 16, 2004

 

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CINERGY CORP.

CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS OF INCOME

 

 

 

2003

 

2002

 

2001

 

 

 

(dollars in thousands, except per share amounts)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Operating Revenues (Note 1(q)(i))

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Electric

 

$

3,383,132

 

$

3,338,068

 

$

3,215,652

 

Gas

 

835,507

 

590,471

 

655,678

 

Other

 

197,238

 

130,813

 

78,246

 

Total Operating Revenues

 

4,415,877

 

4,059,352

 

3,949,576

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Operating Expenses

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Fuel and purchased and exchanged power (Note 1(q)(i))

 

1,158,196

 

989,699

 

1,014,571

 

Gas purchased (Note 1(q)(i))

 

503,834

 

309,983

 

397,310

 

Operation and maintenance

 

1,276,453

 

1,291,589

 

1,008,133

 

Depreciation

 

419,098

 

405,487

 

366,648

 

Taxes other than income taxes

 

249,746

 

263,002

 

227,652

 

Total Operating Expenses

 

3,607,327

 

3,259,760

 

3,014,314

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Operating Income

 

808,550

 

799,592

 

935,262

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Equity in Earnings of Unconsolidated Subsidiaries

 

15,201

 

15,261

 

1,494

 

Miscellaneous Income - Net

 

38,156

 

12,402

 

40,404

 

Interest Expense

 

268,602

 

243,099

 

258,723

 

Preferred Dividend Requirement of Subsidiary Trust (Note 3(b))

 

11,940

 

23,832

 

1,067

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Income Before Taxes

 

581,365

 

560,324

 

717,370

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Income Taxes (Note 10)

 

143,508

 

160,255

 

257,308

 

Preferred Dividend Requirements of Subsidiaries

 

3,433

 

3,433

 

3,433

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Income Before Discontinued Operations and Cumulative Effect of Changes in Accounting Principles

 

434,424

 

396,636

 

456,629

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Discontinued operations, net of tax (Note 14)

 

8,886

 

(25,161

)

(14,350

)

Cumulative effect of changes in accounting principles, net of tax (Note 1(q)(vi))

 

26,462

 

(10,899

)

 

Net Income

 

$

469,772

 

$

360,576

 

$

442,279

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Average Common Shares Outstanding

 

176,535

 

167,047

 

159,110

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Earnings Per Common Share (Note 16)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Income Before Discontinued Operations and Cumulative Effect of Changes in Accounting Principles

 

$

2.46

 

$

2.37

 

$

2.87

 

Discontinued operations, net of tax

 

0.05

 

(0.15

)

(0.09

)

Cumulative effect of changes in accounting principles, net of tax

 

0.15

 

(0.06

)

 

Net Income

 

$

2.66

 

$

2.16

 

$

2.78

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Earnings Per Common Share - Assuming Dilution (Note 16)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Income Before Discontinued Operations and Cumulative Effect of Changes in Accounting Principles

 

$

2.43

 

$

2.34

 

$

2.84

 

Discontinued operations, net of tax

 

0.05

 

(0.15

)

(0.09

)

Cumulative effect of changes in accounting principles, net of tax

 

0.15

 

(0.06

)

 

Net Income

 

$

2.63

 

$

2.13

 

$

2.75

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Dividends Declared Per Common Share

 

$

1.84

 

$

1.80

 

$

1.80

 

 

The accompanying notes as they relate to Cinergy Corp. are an integral part of these consolidated financial statements.

 

108



 

CINERGY CORP.

CONSOLIDATED BALANCE SHEETS

 

ASSETS

 

 

 

December 31

 

 

 

2003

 

2002

 

 

 

(dollars in thousands)

 

Current Assets

 

 

 

 

 

Cash and cash equivalents

 

$

169,120

 

$

200,112

 

Restricted deposits (Note 6)

 

92,813

 

3,092

 

Notes receivable, current (Note 5)

 

189,854

 

135,873

 

Accounts receivable less accumulated provision for doubtful accounts of $7,884 at December 31, 2003, and $16,368 at December 31, 2002 (Note 3(c))

 

1,074,518

 

1,280,810

 

Materials, supplies, and fuel (Note 1(g))

 

321,658

 

319,454

 

Energy risk management current assets (Note 1(k)(i))

 

305,058

 

464,028

 

Prepayments and other

 

89,576

 

107,086

 

Total Current Assets

 

2,242,597

 

2,510,455

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Property, Plant, and Equipment - at Cost

 

 

 

 

 

Utility plant in service (Note 19)

 

9,732,123

 

8,669,045

 

Construction work in progress

 

275,459

 

469,300

 

Total Utility Plant

 

10,007,582

 

9,138,345

 

Non-regulated property, plant, and equipment (Note 19)

 

4,527,943

 

4,667,940

 

Accumulated depreciation (Note 1(q)(iii))

 

4,908,019

 

4,639,713

 

Net Property, Plant, and Equipment

 

9,627,506

 

9,166,572

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Other Assets

 

 

 

 

 

Regulatory assets (Note 1(c))

 

1,012,151

 

1,022,696

 

Investments in unconsolidated subsidiaries

 

494,520

 

417,188

 

Energy risk management non-current assets (Note 1(k)(i))

 

97,334

 

162,773

 

Notes receivable, non-current (Note 5)

 

213,853

 

 

Other investments

 

184,044

 

163,851

 

Goodwill

 

43,717

 

43,717

 

Other intangible assets

 

1,632

 

2,059

 

Other

 

197,351

 

195,867

 

Total Other Assets

 

2,244,602

 

2,008,151

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Assets of Discontinued Operations (Note 14)

 

4,501

 

147,265

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Total Assets

 

$

14,119,206

 

$

13,832,443

 

 

The accompanying notes as they relate to Cinergy Corp. are an integral part of these consolidated financial statements.

 

109



 

CINERGY CORP.

CONSOLIDATED BALANCE SHEETS

 

LIABILITIES AND SHAREHOLDERS’ EQUITY

 

 

 

December 31

 

 

 

2003

 

2002

 

 

 

(dollars in thousands)

 

Current Liabilities

 

 

 

 

 

Accounts payable

 

$

1,240,423

 

$

1,318,379

 

Accrued taxes

 

217,993

 

258,613

 

Accrued interest

 

68,952

 

62,244

 

Notes payable and other short-term obligations (Note 6)

 

351,412

 

667,973

 

Long-term debt due within one year

 

839,103

 

176,000

 

Energy risk management current liabilities (Note 1(k)(i))

 

296,122

 

407,710

 

Other

 

107,438

 

105,026

 

Total Current Liabilities

 

3,121,443

 

2,995,945

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Non-Current Liabilities

 

 

 

 

 

Long-term debt (Note 4)

 

4,131,909

 

4,011,568

 

Deferred income taxes (Note 10)

 

1,557,981

 

1,458,171

 

Unamortized investment tax credits

 

108,884

 

118,095

 

Accrued pension and other postretirement benefit costs (Note 9)

 

662,834

 

626,167

 

Accrued cost of removal (Note 1(c))

 

490,856

 

525,415

 

Energy risk management non-current liabilities (Note 1(k)(i))

 

64,861

 

143,991

 

Other

 

205,344

 

179,767

 

Total Non-Current Liabilities

 

7,222,669

 

7,063,174

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Liabilities of Discontinued Operations (Note 14)

 

11,594

 

108,833

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Commitments and Contingencies (Note 11)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Total Liabilities

 

10,355,706

 

10,167,952

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Preferred Trust Securities (Note 3(b))

 

 

 

 

 

Company obligated, mandatorily redeemable, preferred trust securities of subsidiary, holding solely debt securities of the company

 

 

308,187

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Cumulative Preferred Stock of Subsidiaries

 

 

 

 

 

Not subject to mandatory redemption

 

62,818

 

62,828

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Common Stock Equity (Note 2)

 

 

 

 

 

Common Stock - $.01 par value; authorized shares - 600,000,000; issued shares – 178,438,369 at December 31, 2003, and 168,663,115 at December 31, 2002; outstanding shares – 178,336,854 at December 31, 2003, and 168,663,115 at December 31, 2002

 

1,784

 

1,687

 

Paid-in capital

 

2,195,985

 

1,918,136

 

Retained earnings

 

1,551,003

 

1,403,453

 

Treasury shares at cost – 101,515 shares at December 31, 2003

 

(3,255

)

 

Accumulated other comprehensive income (loss) (Note 18)

 

(44,835

)

(29,800

)

Total Common Stock Equity

 

3,700,682

 

3,293,476

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Total Liabilities and Shareholders’ Equity

 

$

14,119,206

 

$

13,832,443

 

 

The accompanying notes as they relate to Cinergy Corp. are an integral part of these consolidated financial statements.

 

110



 

CINERGY CORP.
CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS OF CHANGES IN COMMON STOCK EQUITY

 

 

 

Common
Stock

 

Paid-in
Capital

 

Retained
Earnings

 

Treasury
Stock

 

Accumulated
Other
Comprehensive
Income (Loss)

 

Total
Common
Stock
Equity

 

 

 

(dollars in thousands)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

2001

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Beginning balance (158,967,661 shares)

 

$

1,590

 

$

1,619,153

 

$

1,179,113

 

$

 

$

(10,895

)

$

2,788,961

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Comprehensive income:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Net income

 

 

 

 

 

442,279

 

 

 

 

 

442,279

 

Other comprehensive income (loss), net of tax effect of $1,454 (Note 18)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Foreign currency translation adjustment (Note 1(r))

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1,641

 

1,641

 

Minimum pension liability adjustment

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

(1,555

)

(1,555

)

Unrealized gain (loss) on investment trusts

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

(841

)

(841

)

Cumulative effect of change in accounting principle

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

(2,500

)

(2,500

)

Cash flow hedges (Note 1(k)(ii))

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

(2,779

)

(2,779

)

Total comprehensive income

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

436,245

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Issuance of common stock - net (435,178 shares)

 

4

 

9,896

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

9,900

 

Treasury shares purchased (344,034 shares)

 

 

 

(10,015

)

 

 

 

 

 

 

(10,015

)

Treasury shares reissued (344,034 shares)

 

 

 

9,157

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

9,157

 

Dividends on common stock ($1.80 per share)

 

 

 

 

 

(286,289

)

 

 

 

 

(286,289

)

Stock purchase contracts (Note 2(e))

 

 

 

(23,200

)

 

 

 

 

 

 

(23,200

)

Other

 

 

 

14,668

 

2,032

 

 

 

 

 

16,700

 

Ending balance (159,402,839 shares)

 

$

1,594

 

$

1,619,659

 

$

1,337,135

 

$

 

$

(16,929

)

$

2,941,459

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

2002

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Comprehensive income:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Net income

 

 

 

 

 

360,576

 

 

 

 

 

360,576

 

Other comprehensive income (loss), net of tax effect of $11,509 (Note 18)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Foreign currency translation adjustment, net of reclassification adjustments (Note 1(r))

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

25,917

 

25,917

 

Minimum pension liability adjustment

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

(13,763

)

(13,763

)

Unrealized gain (loss) on investment trusts

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

(5,277

)

(5,277

)

Cash flow hedges (Note 1(k)(ii))

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

(19,748

)

(19,748

)

Total comprehensive income

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

347,705

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Issuance of common stock - net (9,260,276 shares)

 

93

 

267,768

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

267,861

 

Dividends on common stock ($1.80 per share)

 

 

 

 

 

(298,292

)

 

 

 

 

(298,292

)

Other

 

 

 

30,709

 

4,034

 

 

 

 

 

34,743

 

Ending balance (168,663,115 shares)

 

$

1,687

 

$

1,918,136

 

$

1,403,453

 

$

 

$

(29,800

)

$

3,293,476

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

2003

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Comprehensive income:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Net income

 

 

 

 

 

469,772

 

 

 

 

 

469,772

 

Other comprehensive income (loss), net of tax effect of $11,700 (Note 18)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Foreign currency translation adjustment, net of reclassification adjustments (Note 1(r))

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

10,528

 

10,528

 

Minimum pension liability adjustment

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

(33,846

(33,846

Unrealized gain (loss) on investment trusts

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

6,757

 

6,757

 

Cash flow hedges (Note 1(k)(ii))

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1,526

 

1,526

 

Total comprehensive income

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

454,737

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Issuance of common stock - net (9,775,254 shares)

 

97

 

269,977

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

270,074

 

Treasury shares purchased (101,515 shares)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

(3,255

)

 

 

(3,255

)

Dividends on common stock ($1.84 per share)

 

 

 

 

 

(322,371

)

 

 

 

 

(322,371

)

Other

 

 

 

7,872

 

149

 

 

 

 

 

8,021

 

Ending balance (178,336,854 shares)

 

$

1,784

 

$

2,195,985

 

$

1,551,003

 

$

(3,255

)

$

(44,835

)

$

3,700,682

 

 

The accompanying notes as they relate to Cinergy Corp. are an integral part of these consolidated financial statements.

 

111



 

CINERGY CORP.
CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS OF CASH FLOWS

 

 

 

2003

 

2002

 

2001

 

 

 

(dollars in thousands)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Cash Flows from Continuing Operations

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Operating Activities

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Net income

 

$

469,772

 

$

360,576

 

$

442,279

 

Adjustments to reconcile net income to net cash provided by (used in) operating activities:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Depreciation

 

419,098

 

405,487

 

366,648

 

(Income) Loss of discontinued operations, net of tax

 

(8,886

)

25,161

 

14,350

 

(Income) Loss on sale of investment in unconsolidated subsidiaries

 

(93

)

(16,518

)

 

Cumulative effect of changes in accounting principles, net of tax

 

(26,462

)

10,899

 

 

Change in net position of energy risk management activities

 

(11,723

)

(43,202

)

(96,850

)

Deferred income taxes and investment tax credits - net

 

85,108

 

148,069

 

118,544

 

Equity in (earnings) losses of unconsolidated subsidiaries

 

(15,201

)

(15,261

)

(1,494

)

Allowance for equity funds used during construction

 

(7,532

)

(12,861

)

(8,628

)

Regulatory assets deferrals

 

(83,228

)

(110,867

)

(141,324

)

Regulatory assets amortization

 

90,476

 

116,512

 

119,344

 

Accrued pension and other postretirement benefit costs

 

36,667

 

127,366

 

34,246

 

Deferred cost under gas recovery mechanism

 

(19,335

)

(23,373

)

53,374

 

Cost of removal

 

(16,598

)

 

 

Changes in current assets and current liabilities:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Restricted deposits

 

(9,382

)

969

 

(3,561

)

Accounts and notes receivable

 

123,504

 

(235,437

)

495,295

 

Materials, supplies, and fuel

 

(2,059

)

(83,585

)

(81,269

)

Prepayments

 

8,859

 

(26,818

)

13,507

 

Accounts payable

 

(89,149

)

311,339

 

(465,034

)

Accrued taxes and interest

 

(35,510

)

65,019

 

(40,345

)

Other assets

 

(13,157

)

(49,259

)

(19,925

)

Other liabilities

 

50,504

 

1,586

 

(75,467

)

Net cash provided by (used in) operating activities

 

945,673

 

955,802

 

723,690

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Financing Activities

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Change in short-term debt

 

(312,747

)

(442,469

)

15,339

 

Issuance of long-term debt

 

688,166

 

628,170

 

872,930

 

Issuance of preferred trust securities

 

 

 

306,327

 

Redemption of long-term debt

 

(487,901

)

(112,578

)

(90,448

)

Funds on deposit from issuance of debt securities

 

(80,339

)

 

 

Retirement of preferred stock of subsidiaries

 

(10

)

(3

)

(1

)

Issuance of common stock

 

270,074

 

267,861

 

9,900

 

Dividends on common stock

 

(322,371

)

(298,292

)

(286,289

)

Net cash provided by (used in) financing activities

 

(245,128

)

42,689

 

827,758

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Investing Activities

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Construction expenditures (less allowance for equity funds used during construction)

 

(704,117

)

(853,332

)

(832,693

)

Proceeds from notes receivable

 

9,187

 

 

 

Acquisitions and other investments

 

(87,859

)

(118,375

)

(701,833

)

Proceeds from sale of subsidiaries and equity investments

 

51,252

 

86,071

 

 

Net cash provided by (used in) investing activities

 

(731,537

)

(885,636

)

(1,534,526

)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Net increase (decrease) in cash and cash equivalents from continuing operations

 

(30,992

)

112,855

 

16,922

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Cash and cash equivalents from continuing operations at beginning of period

 

200,112

 

87,257

 

70,335

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Cash and cash equivalents from continuing operations at end of period

 

$

169,120

 

$

200,112

 

$

87,257

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Cash Flows from Discontinued Operations

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Operating activities

 

$

(5,871

)

$

40,397

 

$

(5,841

)

Financing activities

 

(14,898

)

(39,464

)

39,505

 

Investing activities

 

(202

)

(3,772

)

(32,573

)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Net increase (decrease) in cash and cash equivalents from discontinued operations

 

(20,971

)

(2,839

)

1,091

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Cash and cash equivalents from discontinued operations at beginning of period

 

20,971

 

23,810

 

22,719

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Cash and cash equivalents from discontinued operations at end of period

 

$

 

$

20,971

 

$

23,810

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Supplemental Disclosure of Cash Flow Information

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Cash paid during the year for:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Interest (net of amount capitalized)

 

$

263,228

 

$

253,266

 

$

271,323

 

Income taxes

 

$

92,175

 

$

57,739

 

$

153,092

 

 

The accompanying notes as they relate to Cinergy Corp. are an integral part of these consolidated financial statements.

 

112



 

CINERGY CORP.
CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS OF CAPITALIZATION

 

 

 

December 31

 

 

 

2003

 

2002

 

 

 

(dollars in thousands)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Long-term Debt (excludes current portion)

 

 

 

 

 

Cinergy Corp.

 

 

 

 

 

Other Long-term Debt:

 

 

 

 

 

6.53% Debentures due December 16, 2008

 

$

200,000

 

$

200,000

 

6.125% Debentures due April 15, 2004

 

 

200,000

 

6.25% Debentures due September 1, 2004 (Executed interest rate swaps of $ 250 million set at London Inter-Bank Offered Rate (LIBOR) plus 2.44%)

 

 

512,554

 

6.90% Note Payable due February 16, 2007 (Note 4)

 

326,032

 

 

Total Other Long-term Debt

 

526,032

 

912,554

 

Unamortized Premium and Discount - Net

 

(6,080

)

(165

Total - Cinergy Corp.

 

519,952

 

912,389

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Cinergy Global Resources, Inc.

 

 

 

 

 

Other Long-term Debt:

 

 

 

 

 

6.20% Debentures due November 3, 2008

 

150,000

 

150,000

 

Variable interest rate of EURIBOR plus 1.2%, maturing November 2016

 

79,104

 

63,675

 

Total Other Long-term Debt

 

229,104

 

213,675

 

Unamortized Premium and Discount - Net

 

(160

)

(193

Total - Cinergy Global Resources, Inc.

 

228,944

 

213,482

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Cinergy Investments, Inc.

 

 

 

 

 

Other Long-term Debt:

 

 

 

 

 

9.23% Notes Payable, due November 5, 2016 (Note 4)

 

107,142

 

 

7.81% Notes Payable, due June 1, 2009 (Note 4)

 

93,041

 

 

Other

 

3,547

 

 

Total - Cinergy Investments, Inc.

 

203,730

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Operating Companies

 

 

 

 

 

The Cincinnati Gas & Electric Company (CG&E) and subsidiaries

 

 

 

 

 

First Mortgage Bonds

 

94,700

 

470,200

 

Other Long-term Debt

 

1,401,721

 

1,101,721

 

Unamortized Premium and Discount - Net

 

(37,614

)

(2,208

Total Long-term Debt

 

1,458,807

 

1,569,713

 

PSI Energy, Inc. (PSI)

 

 

 

 

 

First Mortgage Bonds

 

620,720

 

620,720

 

Secured Medium-term Notes

 

77,500

 

104,300

 

Other Long-term Debt

 

1,032,663

 

598,700

 

Unamortized Premium and Discount - Net

 

(10,407

)

(7,736

Total Long-term Debt

 

1,720,476

 

1,315,984

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Total Consolidated Long-term Debt

 

$

4,131,909

 

$

4,011,568

 

 

The accompanying notes as they relate to Cinergy Corp. are an integral part of these consolidated financial statements.

 

113



 

 

 

December 31

 

 

 

2003

 

2002

 

 

 

(dollars in thousands)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Preferred Trust Securities

 

 

 

 

 

Company obligated, mandatorily redeemable, preferred trust securities of subsidiary, holding solely debt securities of the company

 

$

 

$

308,187

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Cumulative Preferred Stock of Subsidiaries

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

CG&E and subsidiaries

 

$

20,485

 

$

20,485

 

PSI

 

42,333

 

42,343

 

Total Cumulative Preferred Stock of Subsidiaries

 

$

62,818

 

$

62,828

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Common Stock Equity

 

 

 

 

 

Common Stock - $0.01 par value; authorized shares - 600,000,000; issued shares - 178,438,369 at December 31, 2003, and 168,663,115 at December 31, 2002; outstanding shares - 178,336,854 at December 31, 2003 and 168,663,115 at December 31, 2002

 

$

1,784

 

$

1,687

 

Paid-in capital

 

2,195,985

 

1,918,136

 

Retained earnings

 

1,551,003

 

1,403,453

 

Treasury shares at cost - 101,515 shares at December 31, 2003

 

(3,255

)

 

Accumulated other comprehensive income (loss)

 

(44,835

)

(29,800

)

Total Common Stock Equity

 

3,700,682

 

3,293,476

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Total Consolidated Capitalization

 

$

7,895,409

 

$

7,676,059

 

 

The accompanying notes as they relate to Cinergy Corp. are an integral part of these consolidated financial statements.

 

114



 

THE CINCINNATI GAS &
ELECTRIC COMPANY
AND SUBSIDIARY COMPANIES

 

115



 

The cincinnati gas & electric company
consolidated statements of income

 

 

 

2003

 

2002

 

2001

 

 

 

(dollars in thousands)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Operating Revenues (Note 1(q)(i))

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Electric

 

$

1,754,229

 

$

1,700,318

 

$

1,651,041

 

Gas

 

627,720

 

437,092

 

596,429

 

Total Operating Revenues

 

2,381,949

 

2,137,410

 

2,247,470

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Operating Expenses

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Fuel and purchased and exchanged power (Note 1(q)(i))

 

539,269

 

472,313

 

435,656

 

Gas purchased

 

382,310

 

232,558

 

396,764

 

Operation and maintenance

 

511,011

 

533,255

 

442,173

 

Depreciation

 

186,819

 

196,539

 

186,986

 

Taxes other than income taxes

 

199,818

 

197,827

 

174,320

 

Total Operating Expenses

 

1,819,227

 

1,632,492

 

1,635,899

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Operating Income

 

562,722

 

504,918

 

611,571

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Miscellaneous Income - Net

 

30,660

 

9,742

 

4,657

 

Interest Expense

 

115,193

 

95,623

 

103,047

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Income Before Taxes

 

478,189

 

419,037

 

513,181

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Income Taxes (Note 10)

 

178,077

 

155,341

 

186,527

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Income Before Cumulative Effect of Changes in Accounting Principles

 

300,112

 

263,696

 

326,654

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Cumulative effect of changes in accounting principles, net of tax (Note 1(q)(vi))

 

30,938

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Net Income

 

$

331,050

 

$

263,696

 

$

326,654

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Preferred Dividend Requirement

 

846

 

846

 

846

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Net Income Applicable to Common Stock

 

$

330,204

 

$

262,850

 

$

325,808

 

 

The accompanying notes as they relate to The Cincinnati Gas & Electric Company are an integral part of these consolidated financial statements.

 

116



 

THE CINCINNATI GAS & ELECTRIC COMPANY
CONSOLIDATED BALANCE SHEETS

ASSETS

 

 

 

December 31

 

 

 

2003

 

2002

 

 

 

(dollars in thousands)

 

Current Assets

 

 

 

 

 

Cash and cash equivalents

 

$

15,842

 

$

45,336

 

Restricted deposits

 

137

 

3,071

 

Notes receivable from affiliated companies

 

110,149

 

148,823

 

Accounts receivable less accumulated provision for doubtful accounts of $1,602 at December 31, 2003, and $5,942 at December 31, 2002 (Note 3(c))

 

107,733

 

117,269

 

Accounts receivable from affiliated companies

 

58,406

 

97,584

 

Materials, supplies, and fuel

 

123,910

 

121,881

 

Energy risk management current assets (Note 1(k)(i))

 

72,830

 

57,912

 

Prepayments and other

 

27,087

 

8,560

 

Total Current Assets

 

516,094

 

600,436

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Property, Plant, and Equipment - at Cost

 

 

 

 

 

Utility plant in service (Note 19)

 

 

 

 

 

Electric

 

2,155,457

 

2,073,133

 

Gas

 

1,104,797

 

1,003,870

 

Common

 

288,394

 

270,976

 

Total Utility Plant In Service

 

3,548,648

 

3,347,979

 

Construction work in progress

 

71,947

 

84,249

 

Total Utility Plant

 

3,620,595

 

3,432,228

 

Non-regulated property, plant, and equipment (Note 19)

 

3,576,187

 

3,496,242

 

Accumulated depreciation (Note 1(q)(iii))

 

2,625,568

 

2,510,088

 

Net Property, Plant, and Equipment

 

4,571,214

 

4,418,382

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Other Assets

 

 

 

 

 

Regulatory assets (Note 1(c))

 

594,764

 

604,776

 

Energy risk management non-current assets (Note 1(k)(i))

 

36,583

 

64,762

 

Other investments

 

1,083

 

1,082

 

Other

 

89,741

 

61,764

 

Total Other Assets

 

722,171

 

732,384

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Total Assets

 

$

5,809,479

 

$

5,751,202

 

 

The accompanying notes as they relate to The Cincinnati Gas & Electric Company are an integral part of these consolidated financial statements.

 

117



 

THE CINCINNATI GAS & ELECTRIC COMPANY
CONSOLIDATED BALANCE SHEETS

 

LIABILITIES AND SHAREHOLDER’S EQUITY

 

 

 

December 31

 

 

 

2003

 

2002

 

 

 

(dollars in thousands)

 

Current Liabilities

 

 

 

 

 

Accounts payable

 

$

217,652

 

$

195,812

 

Accounts payable to affiliated companies

 

136,470

 

146,558

 

Accrued taxes

 

146,216

 

159,199

 

Accrued interest

 

21,572

 

22,872

 

Notes payable and other short-term obligations (Note 6)

 

112,100

 

112,100

 

Notes payable to affiliated companies (Note 6)

 

49,126

 

8,947

 

Long-term debt due within one year

 

110,000

 

120,000

 

Energy risk management current liabilities (Note 1(k)(i))

 

77,791

 

49,288

 

Other

 

32,319

 

37,160

 

Total Current Liabilities

 

903,246

 

851,936

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Non-Current Liabilities

 

 

 

 

 

Long-term debt (Note 4)

 

1,458,807

 

1,569,713

 

Deferred income taxes (Note 10)

 

985,481

 

882,628

 

Unamortized investment tax credits

 

79,186

 

85,198

 

Accrued pension and other postretirement benefit costs (Note 9)

 

219,393

 

201,284

 

Accrued cost of removal (Note 1 (c))

 

155,336

 

209,455

 

Energy risk management non-current liabilities (Note 1(k)(i))

 

11,665

 

31,326

 

Other

 

69,687

 

88,843

 

Total Non-Current Liabilities

 

2,979,555

 

3,068,447

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Commitments and Contingencies (Note 11)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Total Liabilities

 

3,882,801

 

3,920,383

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Cumulative Preferred Stock

 

 

 

 

 

Not subject to mandatory redemption

 

20,485

 

20,485

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Common Stock Equity (Note 2)

 

 

 

 

 

Common Stock - $8.50 par value; authorized shares - 120,000,000; outstanding shares - 89,663,086 at December 31, 2003 and December 31, 2002

 

762,136

 

762,136

 

Paid-in capital

 

586,528

 

586,292

 

Retained earnings

 

589,993

 

487,652

 

Accumulated other comprehensive income (loss) (Note 18)

 

(32,464

)

(25,746

)

Total Common Stock Equity

 

1,906,193

 

1,810,334

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Total Liabilities and Shareholder’s Equity

 

$

5,809,479

 

$

5,751,202

 

 

The accompanying notes as they relate to The Cincinnati Gas & Electric Company are an integral part of these consolidated financial statements.

118



 

THE CINCINNATI GAS & ELECTRIC COMPANY
CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS OF CHANGES IN COMMON STOCK EQUITY

 

 

 

Common
Stock

 

Paid-in
Capital

 

Retained
Earnings

 

Accumulated
Other
Comprehensive
Income (Loss)

 

Total
Common
Stock
Equity

 

 

 

(dollars in thousands)

 

2001

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Beginning balance

 

$

762,136

 

$

565,777

 

$

368,911

 

$

(994

)

$

1,695,830

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Comprehensive income:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Net income

 

 

 

 

 

326,654

 

 

 

326,654

 

Other comprehensive income (loss), net of tax effect of $2,970 (Note 18)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Minimum pension liability adjustment

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

134

 

134

 

Unrealized gain (loss) on investment trust

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

461

 

461

 

Cumulative effect of change in accounting principle

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

(2,500

)

(2,500

)

Cash flow hedges (Note 1(k)(ii))

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

(2,779

)

(2,779

)

Total comprehensive income

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

321,970

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Dividends on preferred stock

 

 

 

 

 

(846

)

 

 

(846

)

Dividends on common stock

 

 

 

 

 

(286,269

)

 

 

(286,269

)

Contribution from parent company for reallocation of taxes

 

 

 

6,149

 

 

 

 

 

6,149

 

Other

 

 

 

 

 

256

 

 

 

256

 

Ending balance

 

$

762,136

 

$

571,926

 

$

408,706

 

$

(5,678

)

$

1,737,090

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

2002

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Comprehensive income:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Net income

 

 

 

 

 

263,696

 

 

 

263,696

 

Other comprehensive income (loss), net of tax effect of $13,060 (Note 18)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Minimum pension liability adjustment

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

(872

)

(872

)

Unrealized gain (loss) on investment trusts

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

(462

)

(462

)

Cash flow hedges (Note 1(k)(ii))

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

(18,734

)

(18,734

)

Total comprehensive income

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

243,628

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Dividends on preferred stock

 

 

 

 

 

(846

)

 

 

(846

)

Dividends on common stock

 

 

 

 

 

(185,909

)

 

 

(185,909

)

Contribution from parent company for reallocation of taxes

 

 

 

14,366

 

 

 

 

 

14,366

 

Other

 

 

 

 

 

2,005

 

 

 

2,005

 

Ending balance

 

$

762,136

 

$

586,292

 

$

487,652

 

$

(25,746

)

$

1,810,334

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

2003

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Comprehensive income:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Net income

 

 

 

 

 

331,050

 

 

 

331,050

 

Other comprehensive income (loss), net of tax effect of $4,321 (Note 18)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Minimum pension liability adjustment

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

(8,017

)

(8,017

)

Unrealized gain (loss) on investment trusts

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1

 

1

 

Cash flow hedges (Note 1(k)(ii))

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1,298

 

1,298

 

Total comprehensive income

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

324,332

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Dividends on preferred stock

 

 

 

 

 

(846

)

 

 

(846

)

Dividends on common stock

 

 

 

 

 

(227,863

)

 

 

(227,863

)

Contribution from parent company for reallocation of taxes

 

 

 

236

 

 

 

 

 

236

 

Ending balance

 

$

762,136

 

$

586,528

 

$

589,993

 

$

(32,464

)

$

1,906,193

 

 

The accompanying notes as they relate to The Cincinnati Gas & Electric Company are an integral part of these consolidated financial statements.

 

119



 

THE CINCINNATI GAS & ELECTRIC COMPANY
CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS OF CASH FLOWS

 

 

 

2003

 

2002

 

2001

 

 

 

(dollars in thousands)

 

Operating Activities

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Net income

 

$

331,050

 

$

263,696

 

$

326,654

 

Adjustments to reconcile net income to net cash provided by (used in) operating activities:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Depreciation

 

186,819

 

196,539

 

186,986

 

Deferred income taxes and investment tax credits - net

 

82,228

 

104,103

 

43,834

 

Cumulative effect of changes in accounting principles, net of tax

 

(30,938

)

 

 

Change in net position of energy risk management activities

 

(20,593

)

(7,061

)

(67,979

)

Allowance for equity funds used during construction

 

(2,749

)

(356

)

(2,672

)

Regulatory assets deferrals

 

(21,175

)

(61,321

)

(116,365

)

Regulatory assets amortization

 

36,824

 

44,339

 

56,703

 

Accrued pension and other postretirement benefit costs

 

18,109

 

20,559

 

(632

)

Deferred costs under gas cost recovery mechanism

 

(19,335

)

(23,373

)

53,374

 

Changes in current assets and current liabilities:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Restricted deposits

 

2,934

 

469

 

(3,380

)

Accounts and notes receivable

 

23,453

 

84,193

 

174,385

 

Materials, supplies, and fuel

 

(2,029

)

16,238

 

(39,058

)

Prepayments

 

(6,393

)

1,750

 

19,192

 

Accounts payable

 

9,608

 

(38,441

)

(183,982

)

Accrued taxes and interest

 

(14,283

)

48,885

 

(37,209

)

Other assets

 

5,348

 

5,020

 

8,516

 

Other liabilities

 

(21,117

)

(2,210

)

(75,249

)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Net cash provided by (used in) operating activities

 

557,761

 

653,029

 

343,118

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Financing Activities

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Change in short-term debt, including net affiliate notes

 

104,114

 

(587,260

)

305,155

 

Issuance of long-term debt

 

256,198

 

580,570

 

 

Redemption of long-term debt

 

(394,899

)

(100,000

)

(1,200

)

Dividends on preferred stock

 

(846

)

(846

)

(845

)

Dividends on common stock

 

(227,863

)

(185,909

)

(286,269

)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Net cash provided by (used in) financing activities

 

(263,296

)

(293,445

)

16,841

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Investing Activities

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Construction expenditures (less allowance for equity funds used during construction)

 

(323,959

)

(323,320

)

(371,885

)

Other investments

 

 

(2

)

363

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Net cash provided by (used in) investing activities

 

(323,959

)

(323,322

)

(371,522

)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Net increase (decrease) in cash and cash equivalents

 

(29,494

)

36,262

 

(11,563

)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Cash and cash equivalents at beginning of period

 

45,336

 

9,074

 

20,637

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Cash and cash equivalents at end of period

 

$

15,842

 

$

45,336

 

$

9,074

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Supplemental Disclosure of Cash Flow Information

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Cash paid during the year for:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Interest (net of amount capitalized)

 

$

103,339

 

$

86,895

 

$

101,579

 

Income taxes

 

$

45,937

 

$

28,687

 

$

147,471

 

 

The accompanying notes as they relate to The Cincinnati Gas & Electric Company are an integral part of these consolidated financial statements.

 

120



 

THE CINCINNATI GAS & ELECTRIC COMPANY
CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS OF CAPITALIZATION

 

 

 

December 31

 

 

 

2003

 

2002

 

 

 

(dollars in thousands)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Long-term Debt (excludes current portion)

 

 

 

 

 

CG&E

 

 

 

 

 

First Mortgage Bonds:

 

 

 

 

 

6.45% Series due February 15, 2004

 

$

 

$

110,000

 

7.20% Series due October 1, 2023

 

 

265,500

 

5.45% Series due January 1, 2024 (Pollution Control)

 

46,700

 

46,700

 

5 1/2% Series due January 1, 2024 (Pollution Control)

 

48,000

 

48,000

 

Total First Mortgage Bonds

 

94,700

 

470,200

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Other Long-term Debt:

 

 

 

 

 

Liquid Asset Notes with Coupon Exchange due October 1, 2007

 

 

 

 

 

(Executed interest rate swap to fix the rate at 6.87% through maturity)

 

100,000

 

100,000

 

6.40% Debentures due April 1, 2008

 

100,000

 

100,000

 

6.90% Debentures due June 1, 2025 (Redeemable at the option of the holders on June 1, 2005)

 

150,000

 

150,000

 

8.28% Junior Subordinated Debentures due June 30, 2025

 

 

100,000

 

5.70% Debentures due September 15, 2012, effective interest rate of 6.42%

 

500,000

 

500,000

 

5.40% Debentures due June 15, 2033, effective interest rate of 6.90%

 

200,000

 

 

5 3/8% Debentures due June 15, 2033

 

200,000

 

 

Series 2002A, Ohio Air Quality Development Revenue Refunding Bonds, due September 1, 2037 (Pollution Control)

 

42,000

 

42,000

 

Series 2002B, Ohio Air Quality Development Revenue Refunding Bonds, due September 1, 2037 (Pollution Control)

 

42,000

 

42,000

 

Series 1992A, 6.50% Collateralized Pollution Control Revenue Refunding Bonds, due November 15, 2002

 

12,721

 

12,721

 

Total Other Long-term Debt

 

1,346,721

 

1,046,721

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Unamortized Premium and Discount - Net

 

(37,299

)

(1,861

)

Total Long-term Debt

 

1,404,122

 

1,515,060

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The Union Light, Heat and Power Company

 

 

 

 

 

Other Long-term Debt:

 

 

 

 

 

6.50% Debentures due April 30, 2008

 

20,000

 

20,000

 

7.65% Debentures due July 15, 2025

 

15,000

 

15,000

 

7.875% Debentures due September 15, 2009

 

20,000

 

20,000

 

Total Other Long-term Debt

 

55,000

 

55,000

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Unamortized Premium and Discount - Net

 

(315

)

(347

)

Total Long-term Debt

 

54,685

 

54,653

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Total Consolidated Long-term Debt

 

$

1,458,807

 

$

1,569,713

 

 

The accompanying notes as they relate to The Cincinnati Gas & Electric Company are an integral part of these consolidated financial statements.

 

121



 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

December 31

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

2003

 

2002

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

(dollars in thousands)

 

Cumulative Preferred Stock

 

 

 

 

 

Par/Stated
Value

 

Authorized
Shares

 

Shares
Outstanding at
December 31, 2003

 

Series

 

Mandatory
Redemption

 

 

 

 

 

$100

 

6,000,000

 

204,849

 

4 %- 4 ¾%

 

No

 

$

20,485

 

$

20,485

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Common Stock Equity

 

 

 

 

 

Common Stock - $8.50 par value; authorized shares - 120,000,000; outstanding shares - 89,663,086 at December 31, 2003, and December 31, 2002  

 

$

762,136

 

$

762,136

 

Paid-in capital

 

586,528

 

586,292

 

Retained earnings

 

589,993

 

487,652

 

Accumulated other comprehensive income (loss)

 

(32,464

)

(25,746

)

Total Common Stock Equity

 

1,906,193

 

1,810,334

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Total Consolidated Capitalization

 

$

3,385,485

 

$

3,400,532

 

 

The accompanying notes as they relate to The Cincinnati Gas & Electric Company are an integral part of these consolidated financial statements.

 

122



 

PSI ENERGY, INC.

AND SUBSIDIARY COMPANY

 

123



 

PSI ENERGY, INC.

CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS OF INCOME

 

 

 

2003

 

2002

 

2001

 

 

 

(dollars in thousands)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Operating Revenues (Note 1(q)(i))

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Electric

 

$

1,603,019

 

$

1,610,578

 

$

1,573,691

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Operating Expenses

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Fuel and purchased and exchanged power (Note 1(q)(i))

 

608,234

 

527,360

 

631,161

 

Operation and maintenance

 

452,673

 

488,903

 

413,275

 

Depreciation

 

184,164

 

156,102

 

149,467

 

Taxes other than income taxes

 

46,200

 

56,695

 

49,955

 

Total Operating Expenses

 

1,291,271

 

1,229,060

 

1,243,858

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Operating Income

 

311,748

 

381,518

 

329,833

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Miscellaneous Income - Net

 

6,288

 

20,582

 

19,541

 

Interest Expense

 

83,594

 

73,142

 

80,955

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Income Before Taxes

 

234,442

 

328,958

 

268,419

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Income Taxes (Note 10)

 

100,567

 

114,709

 

106,086

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Income Before Cumulative Effect of a Change in Accounting Principle

 

133,875

 

214,249

 

162,333

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Cumulative effect of a change in accounting principle, net of tax (Note 1(q)(vi))

 

(494

)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Net Income

 

$

133,381

 

$

214,249

 

$

162,333

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Preferred Dividend Requirement

 

2,587

 

2,587

 

2,587

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Net Income Applicable to Common Stock

 

$

130,794

 

$

211,662

 

$

159,746

 

 

The accompanying notes as they relate to PSI Energy, Inc. are an integral part of these consolidated financial statements.

 

124



 

psi energy, inc.

consolidated balance sheets

 

ASSETS

 

 

 

December 31

 

 

 

2003

 

2002

 

 

 

(dollars in thousands)

 

Current Assets

 

 

 

 

 

Cash and cash equivalents

 

$

6,565

 

$

2,007

 

Restricted deposits (Note 6)

 

92,675

 

20

 

Notes receivable from affiliated companies (Note 5)

 

65,715

 

53,755

 

Accounts receivable less accumulated provision for doubtful accounts of $1,110 at December 31, 2003, and $5,656 at December 31, 2002 (Note 3(c))

 

37,194

 

84,819

 

Accounts receivable from affiliated companies

 

459

 

437

 

Materials, supplies, and fuel

 

125,463

 

137,292

 

Energy risk management current assets (Note 1(k)(i))

 

7,959

 

8,701

 

Prepayments and other

 

29,232

 

44,725

 

Total Current Assets

 

365,262

 

331,756

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Property, Plant, and Equipment - at Cost

 

 

 

 

 

Utility plant in service

 

6,183,475

 

5,321,066

 

Construction work in progress

 

203,512

 

385,051

 

Total Utility Plant

 

6,386,987

 

5,706,117

 

Accumulated depreciation

 

2,133,235

 

2,018,847

 

Net Property, Plant, and Equipment (Note 19)

 

4,253,752

 

3,687,270

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Other Assets

 

 

 

 

 

Regulatory assets (Note 1(c))

 

417,387

 

417,920

 

Energy risk management non-current assets (Note 1(k)(i))

 

7,061

 

16,590

 

Other investments

 

66,803

 

54,683

 

Other

 

29,372

 

30,697

 

Total Other Assets

 

520,623

 

519,890

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Total Assets

 

$

5,139,637

 

$

4,538,916

 

 

The accompanying notes as they relate to PSI Energy, Inc. are an integral part of these consolidated financial statements.

 

125



 

psi energy, inc.

consolidated balance sheets

 

LIABILITIES AND SHAREHOLDER’S EQUITY

 

 

 

December 31

 

 

 

2003

 

2002

 

 

 

(dollars in thousands)

 

Current Liabilities

 

 

 

 

 

Accounts payable

 

$

58,286

 

$

113,563

 

Accounts payable to affiliated companies

 

69,746

 

107,364

 

Accrued taxes

 

69,419

 

105,960

 

Accrued interest

 

26,615

 

23,078

 

Notes payable and other short-term obligations (Note 6)

 

80,500

 

35,000

 

Notes payable to affiliated companies (Note 6)

 

188,446

 

138,055

 

Long-term debt due within one year

 

 

56,000

 

Energy risk management current liabilities (Note 1(k)(i))

 

14,744

 

8,000

 

Other

 

25,636

 

22,335

 

Total Current Liabilities

 

533,392

 

609,355

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Non-Current Liabilities

 

 

 

 

 

Long-term debt (Note 4)

 

1,720,476

 

1,315,984

 

Deferred income taxes (Note 10)

 

573,946

 

538,745

 

Unamortized investment tax credits

 

29,698

 

32,897

 

Accrued pension and other postretirement benefit costs (Note 9)

 

193,336

 

184,299

 

Accrued cost of removal (Note 1(c))

 

335,520

 

315,960

 

Energy risk management non-current liabilities (Note 1(k)(i))

 

2,796

 

17,157

 

Other

 

74,958

 

80,879

 

Total Non-Current Liabilities

 

2,930,730

 

2,485,921

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Commitments and Contingencies (Note 11)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Total Liabilities

 

3,464,122

 

3,095,276

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Cumulative Preferred Stock

 

 

 

 

 

Not subject to mandatory redemption

 

42,333

 

42,343

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Common Stock Equity (Note 2)

 

 

 

 

 

Common Stock - without par value; $0.01 stated value; authorized shares - 60,000,000; outstanding shares - 53,913,701 at December 31, 2003 and December 31, 2002

 

539

 

539

 

Paid-in capital

 

627,274

 

426,931

 

Retained earnings

 

1,018,790

 

981,946

 

Accumulated other comprehensive income (loss) (Note 18)

 

(13,421

)

(8,119

)

Total Common Stock Equity

 

1,633,182

 

1,401,297

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Total Liabilities and Shareholder’s Equity

 

$

5,139,637

 

$

4,538,916

 

 

The accompanying notes as they relate to PSI Energy, Inc. are an integral part of these consolidated financial statements.

 

126



 

psi energy, inc.

consolidated statements of changes in common stock equity

 

 

 

Common
Stock

 

Paid-in
Capital

 

Retained
Earnings

 

Accumulated
Other
Comprehensive
Income (Loss)

 

Total
Common
Stock
Equity

 

 

 

(dollars in thousands)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

2001

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Beginning balance

 

$

539

 

$

413,523

 

$

720,153

 

$

(520

)

$

1,133,695

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Comprehensive income:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Net income

 

 

 

 

 

162,333

 

 

 

162,333

 

Other comprehensive income (loss), net of tax effect of $538 (Note 18)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Minimum pension liability adjustment

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

(49

)

(49

)

Unrealized gain (loss) on investment trusts

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

(1,026

)

(1,026

)

Total comprehensive income

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

161,258

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Dividends on preferred stock

 

 

 

 

 

(2,587

)

 

 

(2,587

)

Contribution from parent company for reallocation of taxes

 

 

 

2,894

 

 

 

 

 

2,894

 

Other

 

 

 

(3

)

230

 

 

 

227

 

Ending balance

 

$

539

 

$

416,414

 

$

880,129

 

$

(1,595

)

$

1,295,487

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

2002

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Comprehensive income:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Net income

 

 

 

 

 

214,249

 

 

 

214,249

 

Other comprehensive income (loss), net of tax effect of $4,189 (Note 18)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Minimum pension liability adjustment

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

(2,138

)

(2,138

)

Unrealized gain (loss) on investment trusts

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

(4,386

)

(4,386

)

Total comprehensive income

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

207,725

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Dividends on preferred stock

 

 

 

 

 

(2,587

)

 

 

(2,587

)

Dividends on common stock

 

 

 

 

 

(111,842

)

 

 

(111,842

)

Contribution from parent company for reallocation of taxes

 

 

 

10,519

 

 

 

 

 

10,519

 

Other

 

 

 

(2

)

1,997

 

 

 

1,995

 

Ending balance

 

$

539

 

$

426,931

 

$

981,946

 

$

(8,119

)

$

1,401,297

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

2003

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Comprehensive income:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Net income

 

 

 

 

 

133,381

 

 

 

133,381

 

Other comprehensive income (loss), net of tax effect of $3,645 (Note 18)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Minimum pension liability adjustment

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

(11,534

)

(11,534

)

Unrealized gain (loss) on investment trusts

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

6,232

 

6,232

 

Total comprehensive income

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

128,079

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Dividends on preferred stock

 

 

 

 

 

(2,587

)

 

 

(2,587

)

Dividends on common stock

 

 

 

 

 

(93,950

)

 

 

(93,950

)

Contribution from parent company - equity infusion

 

 

 

200,000

 

 

 

 

 

200,000

 

Contribution from parent company for reallocation of taxes

 

 

 

343

 

 

 

 

 

343

 

Ending balance

 

$

539

 

$

627,274

 

$

1,018,790

 

$

(13,421

)

$

1,633,182

 

 

The accompanying notes as they relate to PSI Energy, Inc. are an integral part of these consolidated financial statements.

 

127



 

PSI ENERGY, INC.

CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS OF CASH FLOWS

 

 

 

2003

 

2002

 

2001

 

 

 

(dollars in thousands)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Operating Activities

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Net income

 

$

133,381

 

$

214,249

 

$

162,333

 

Adjustments to reconcile net income to net cash provided by (used in) operating activities:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Depreciation

 

184,164

 

156,102

 

149,467

 

Cumulative effect of a change in accounting principle, net of tax

 

494

 

 

 

Deferred income taxes and investment tax credits - net

 

38,424

 

33,908

 

41,543

 

Change in net position of energy risk management activities

 

(1,133

)

9,544

 

(33,158

)

Allowance for equity funds used during construction

 

(4,783

)

(12,505

)

(5,956

)

Regulatory assets deferrals

 

(62,053

)

(49,546

)

(24,959

)

Regulatory assets amortization

 

53,652

 

72,173

 

62,641

 

Accrued pension and other postretirement benefit costs

 

9,037

 

24,130

 

10,597

 

Cost of removal

 

(16,598

)

 

 

Changes in current assets and current liabilities:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Restricted deposits

 

(12,316

)

499

 

(178

)

Accounts and notes receivable

 

35,643

 

233,040

 

119,311

 

Materials, supplies, and fuel

 

11,829

 

(49,631

)

(33,823

)

Prepayments

 

686

 

(2,908

)

(120

)

Accounts payable

 

(104,515

)

(119,032

)

(84,577

)

Accrued taxes and interest

 

(33,004

)

2,961

 

21,374

 

Other assets

 

22,096

 

(22,161

)

17,074

 

Other liabilities

 

(8,269

)

8,224

 

342

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Net cash provided by (used in) operating activities

 

246,735

 

499,047

 

401,911

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Financing Activities

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Change in short-term debt, including net affiliate notes

 

95,891

 

46,993

 

(195,912

)

Issuance of long-term debt

 

431,968

 

47,600

 

322,471

 

Redemption of long-term debt

 

(460,903

)

(23,979

)

(89,248

)

Contribution from parent

 

200,000

 

 

 

Funds on deposit from issuance of debt securities

 

(80,339

)

 

 

Retirement of preferred stock

 

(10

)

(2

)

(1

)

Dividends on preferred stock

 

(2,587

)

(2,587

)

(2,587

)

Dividends on common stock

 

(93,950

)

(111,842

)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Net cash provided by (used in) financing activities

 

90,070

 

(43,817

)

34,723

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Investing Activities

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Construction expenditures (less allowance for equity funds used during construction)

 

(330,362

)

(451,326

)

(427,787

)

Other investments

 

(1,885

)

(3,484

)

(8,571

)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Net cash provided by (used in) investing activities

 

(332,247

)

(454,810

)

(436,358

)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Net increase (decrease) in cash and cash equivalents

 

4,558

 

420

 

276

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Cash and cash equivalents at beginning of period

 

2,007

 

1,587

 

1,311

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Cash and cash equivalents at end of period

 

$

6,565

 

$

2,007

 

$

1,587

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Supplemental Disclosure of Cash Flow Information

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Cash paid during the year for:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Interest (net of amount capitalized)

 

$

95,733

 

$

89,865

 

$

97,917

 

Income taxes

 

$

65,564

 

$

27,401

 

$

41,419

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Non-cash financing and investing activities:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Issuance of promissory notes to affiliated company for acquisition of assets

 

$

375,969

 

$

 

$

 

 

The accompanying notes as they relate to PSI Energy, Inc. are an integral part of these consolidated financial statements.

 

128



 

psi energy, inc.

consolidated statements of capitalization

 

 

 

December 31

 

 

 

2003

 

2002

 

 

 

(dollars in thousands)

 

Long-term Debt (excludes current portion)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

First Mortgage Bonds:

 

 

 

 

 

Series ZZ, 5 3/4 % due February 15, 2028 (Pollution Control)

 

$

50,000

 

$

50,000

 

Series AAA, 7 1/8 % due February 1, 2024

 

30,000

 

30,000

 

Series BBB, 8.0 % due July 15, 2009

 

124,665

 

124,665

 

Series CCC, 8.85 % due January 15, 2022

 

53,055

 

53,055

 

Series DDD, 8.31 % due September 1, 2032

 

38,000

 

38,000

 

Series EEE, 6.65 % due June 15, 2006

 

325,000

 

325,000

 

Total First Mortgage Bonds

 

620,720

 

620,720

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Secured Medium-term Notes:

 

 

 

 

 

Series A, 8.55 % to 8.57% as of December 31, 2003;  8.37 % to 8.81 % as of December 31, 2002. Due November 8, 2006 to June 1, 2022

 

7,500

 

34,300

 

Series B, 6.37 % to 8.24%, due August 15, 2008 to August 22, 2022

 

70,000

 

70,000

 

(Series A and B, 7.255% weighted average interest rate as of December 31, 2003.  7.623% weighted average interest rate as of December 31, 2002.  10.1 and 13.9 year weighted average remaining life at December 31, 2003 and 2002, respectively)

 

 

 

 

 

Total Secured Medium-term Notes

 

77,500

 

104,300

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Other Long-term Debt:

 

 

 

 

 

Indiana Development Finance Authority Environmental Refunding Revenue Bonds, due May 1, 2035

 

44,025

 

44,025

 

Indiana Development Finance Authority Environmental Refunding Revenue Bonds, due April 1, 2022

 

10,000

 

10,000

 

6.35% Debentures due November 15, 2006

 

50

 

50

 

6.50% Synthetic Putable Yield Securities due August 1, 2026 (Interest rate resets August 1, 2005)

 

50,000

 

50,000

 

7.25% Junior Maturing Principal Securities due March 15, 2028

 

2,658

 

2,658

 

6.00% Rural Utilities Service Obligation payable in annual installments

 

80,988

 

82,025

 

6.52% Senior Notes due March 15, 2009

 

97,342

 

97,342

 

7.85% Debentures due October 15, 2007

 

265,000

 

265,000

 

5.00% Debentures due September 15, 2013

 

400,000

 

 

Series 2002A, Indiana Development Finance Authority Environmental Refunding Revenue Bonds, due March 1, 2031

 

23,000

 

23,000

 

Series 2002B, Indiana Development Finance Authority Environmental Refunding Revenue Bonds, due March 1, 2019

 

24,600

 

24,600

 

Series 2003, Indiana Development Finance Authority Environmental Refunding Revenue Bonds, due April 1, 2022

 

35,000

 

 

Total Other Long-term Debt

 

1,032,663

 

598,700

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Unamortized Premium and Discount - Net

 

(10,407

)

(7,736

)

Total Long-term Debt

 

1,720,476

 

1,315,984

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Cumulative Preferred Stock

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Par/Stated
Value

 

Authorized
Shares

 

Shares
Outstanding at
December 31,
2003

 

Series

 

Mandatory
Redemption

 

 

 

 

 

$

100

 

5,000,000

 

347,445

 

3 1/2% - 6 7/8%

 

No

 

$

34,744

 

$

34,754

 

$

25

 

5,000,000

 

303,544

 

4.16% - 4.32%

 

No

 

7,589

 

7,589

 

Total Preferred Stock

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

42,333

 

42,343

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Common Stock Equity

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Common Stock - without par value; $0.01 stated value; authorized shares - 60,000,000; outstanding shares - 53,913,701 at December 31, 2003, and December 31, 2002

 

 

 

 

 

$

539

 

$

539

 

Paid-in capital

 

 

 

 

 

627,274

 

426,931

 

Retained earnings

 

 

 

 

 

1,018,790

 

981,946

 

Accumulated other comprehensive income (loss)

 

 

 

 

 

(13,421

)

(8,119

)

Total Common Stock Equity

 

1,633,182

 

1,401,297

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Total Consolidated Capitalization

 

$

3,395,991

 

$

2,759,624

 

 

The accompanying notes as they relate to PSI Energy, Inc. are an integral part of these consolidated financial statements.

 

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the union light, heat
and power company

 

130



 

the union light, heat and power company

statements of income

 

 

 

2003

 

2002

 

2001

 

 

 

(dollars in thousands)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Operating Revenues

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Electric

 

$

222,081

 

$

226,856

 

$

230,960

 

Gas

 

110,072

 

81,706

 

109,333

 

Total Operating Revenues

 

332,153

 

308,562

 

340,293

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Operating Expenses

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Electricity purchased from parent company for resale (Note 1(s)(ii))

 

154,572

 

159,734

 

151,562

 

Gas purchased

 

69,774

 

46,886

 

72,593

 

Operation and maintenance

 

53,704

 

50,223

 

39,501

 

Depreciation

 

18,315

 

17,350

 

17,039

 

Taxes other than income taxes

 

4,412

 

4,598

 

3,901

 

Total Operating Expenses

 

300,777

 

278,791

 

284,596

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Operating Income

 

31,376

 

29,771

 

55,697

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Miscellaneous Income - Net

 

3,561

 

666

 

239

 

Interest Expense

 

6,127

 

5,938

 

6,313

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Income Before Taxes

 

28,810

 

24,499

 

49,623

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Income Taxes (Note 10)

 

9,781

 

12,349

 

13,699

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Net Income

 

$

19,029

 

$

12,150

 

$

35,924

 

 

The accompanying notes as they relate to The Union Light, Heat and Power Company are an integral part of these financial statements.

 

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BALANCE SHEETS

 

ASSETS

 

 

 

December 31

 

 

 

2003

 

2002

 

 

 

(dollars in thousands)

 

Current Assets

 

 

 

 

 

Cash and cash equivalents

 

$

1,899

 

$

3,926

 

Notes receivable from affiliated companies

 

17,906

 

13,337

 

Accounts receivable less accumulated provision for doubtful accounts of $192 at December 31, 2003, and $84 at December 31, 2002 (Note 3(c))

 

2,458

 

703

 

Accounts receivable from affiliated companies

 

4,407

 

1,671

 

Materials, supplies, and fuel

 

7,936

 

8,182

 

Prepayments and other

 

279

 

316

 

Total Current Assets

 

34,885

 

28,135

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Property, Plant, and Equipment - at Cost

 

 

 

 

 

Utility plant in service

 

 

 

 

 

Electric

 

273,895

 

258,094

 

Gas

 

239,670

 

215,505

 

Common

 

53,297

 

50,271

 

Total Utility Plant In Service

 

566,862

 

523,870

 

Construction work in progress

 

6,165

 

14,745

 

Total Utility Plant

 

573,027

 

538,615

 

Accumulated depreciation

 

176,368

 

165,685

 

Net Property, Plant, and Equipment (Note 19)

 

396,659

 

372,930

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Other Assets

 

 

 

 

 

Regulatory assets (Note 1(c))

 

13,224

 

5,134

 

Other

 

3,903

 

1,238

 

Total Other Assets

 

17,127

 

6,372

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Total Assets

 

$

448,671

 

$

407,437

 

 

The accompanying notes as they relate to The Union Light, Heat and Power Company are an integral part of these financial statements.

 

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BALANCE SHEETS

 

LIABILITIES AND SHAREHOLDER’S EQUITY

 

 

 

December 31

 

 

 

2003

 

2002

 

 

 

(dollars in thousands)

 

Current Liabilities

 

 

 

 

 

Accounts payable

 

$

13,431

 

$

8,816

 

Accounts payable to affiliated companies

 

21,131

 

22,297

 

Accrued taxes

 

298

 

1,487

 

Accrued interest

 

1,230

 

1,226

 

Long-term debt due within one year

 

 

20,000

 

Notes payable to affiliated companies (Note 6)

 

45,233

 

14,076

 

Other

 

6,815

 

6,368

 

Total Current Liabilities

 

88,138

 

74,270

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Non-Current Liabilities

 

 

 

 

 

Long-term debt (Note 4)

 

54,685

 

54,653

 

Deferred income taxes (Note 10)

 

55,488

 

43,360

 

Unamortized investment tax credits

 

2,879

 

3,143

 

Accrued pension and other postretirement benefit costs (Note 9)

 

16,953

 

15,620

 

Accrued cost of removal (Note 1(c))

 

27,443

 

25,210

 

Other

 

13,729

 

14,017

 

Total Non-Current Liabilities

 

171,177

 

156,003

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Commitments and Contingencies (Note 11)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Total Liabilities

 

259,315

 

230,273

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Common Stock Equity (Note 2)

 

 

 

 

 

Common Stock - $15.00 par value; authorized shares - 1,000,000; outstanding shares - 585,333 at December 31, 2003 and December 31, 2002

 

8,780

 

8,780

 

Paid-in capital

 

23,541

 

23,644

 

Retained earnings

 

157,524

 

144,800

 

Accumulated other comprehensive income (loss)

 

(489

)

(60

)

Total Common Stock Equity

 

189,356

 

177,164

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Total Liabilities and Shareholder’s Equity

 

$

448,671

 

$

407,437

 

 

The accompanying notes as they relate to The Union Light, Heat and Power Company are an integral part of these financial statements.

 

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STATEMENTS OF CHANGES IN COMMON STOCK EQUITY

 

 

 

Common
Stock

 

Paid-in
Capital

 

Retained
Earnings

 

Accumulated
Other
Comprehensive
Income (Loss)

 

Total
Common
Stock
Equity

 

 

 

(dollars in thousands)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

2001

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Beginning balance

 

$

8,780

 

$

20,305

 

$

118,103

 

$

 

$

147,188

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Comprehensive income:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Net income

 

 

 

 

 

35,924

 

 

 

35,924

 

Other comprehensive income (loss), net of tax effect of $5

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Minimum pension liability adjustment

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

(8

)

(8

)

Total comprehensive income (loss)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

35,916

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Dividends on common stock

 

 

 

 

 

(11,707

)

 

 

(11,707

)

Contribution from parent company for reallocation of taxes

 

 

 

806

 

 

 

 

 

806

 

Ending balance

 

$

8,780

 

$

21,111

 

$

142,320

 

$

(8

)

$

172,203

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

2002

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Comprehensive income:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Net income

 

 

 

 

 

12,150

 

 

 

12,150

 

Other comprehensive income (loss), net of tax effect of $36

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Minimum pension liability adjustment

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

(52

)

(52

)

Total comprehensive income (loss)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

12,098

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Dividends on common stock

 

 

 

 

 

(9,670

)

 

 

(9,670

)

Contribution from parent company for reallocation of taxes

 

 

 

2,533

 

 

 

 

 

2,533

 

Ending balance

 

$

8,780

 

$

23,644

 

$

144,800

 

$

(60

)

$

177,164

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

2003

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Comprehensive income:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Net income

 

 

 

 

 

19,029

 

 

 

19,029

 

Other comprehensive income (loss), net of tax effect of $291

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Minimum pension liability adjustment

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

(429

)

(429

)

Total comprehensive income (loss)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

18,600

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Dividends on common stock

 

 

 

 

 

(6,305

)

 

 

(6,305

)

Contribution from parent company for reallocation of taxes

 

 

 

(103

)

 

 

 

 

(103

)

Ending balance

 

$

8,780

 

$

23,541

 

$

157,524

 

$

(489

)

$

189,356

 

 

The accompanying notes as they relate to The Union Light, Heat and Power Company are an integral part of these financial statements.

 

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STATEMENTS OF CASH FLOWS

 

 

 

2003

 

2002

 

2001

 

 

 

(dollars in thousands)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Operating Activities

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Net income

 

$

19,029

 

$

12,150

 

$

35,924

 

Adjustments to reconcile net income to net cash provided by (used in) operating activities:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Depreciation

 

18,315

 

17,350

 

17,039

 

Deferred income taxes and investment tax credits - net

 

7,808

 

3,116

 

(7,116

)

Allowance for equity funds used during construction

 

(183

)

(794

)

(143

)

Regulatory assets deferrals

 

(1,300

)

3,954

 

1,098

 

Regulatory assets amortization

 

1,843

 

(1,452

)

1,038

 

Accrued pension and other postretirement benefit costs

 

1,333

 

2,343

 

154

 

Deferred costs under gas cost recovery mechanism

 

(6,838

)

3,833

 

9,469

 

Changes in current assets and current liabilities:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Accounts and notes receivable

 

(9,060

)

8,997

 

12,112

 

Materials, supplies, and fuel

 

246

 

2,653

 

(4,535

)

Prepayments

 

37

 

(16

)

(26

)

Accounts payable

 

3,449

 

6,997

 

(20,325

)

Accrued taxes and interest

 

(1,185

)

(4,981

)

12,239

 

Other assets

 

(3,521

)

2,852

 

(1,838

)

Other liabilities

 

3,088

 

3,705

 

(7,324

)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Net cash provided by (used in) operating activities

 

33,061

 

60,707

 

47,766

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Financing Activities

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Change in short-term debt, including net affiliate notes

 

31,157

 

(12,356

)

(2,971

)

Redemption of long-term debt

 

(20,000

)

 

 

Dividends on common stock

 

(6,305

)

(9,670

)

(11,707

)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Net cash provided by (used in) financing activities

 

4,852

 

(22,026

)

(14,678

)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Investing Activities

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Construction expenditures (less allowance for equity funds used during construction)

 

(39,940

)

(38,854

)

(35,449

)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Net cash provided by (used in) investing activities

 

(39,940

)

(38,854

)

(35,449

)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Net increase (decrease) in cash and cash equivalents

 

(2,027

)

(173

)

(2,361

)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Cash and cash equivalents at beginning of period

 

3,926

 

4,099

 

6,460

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Cash and cash equivalents at end of period

 

$

1,899

 

$

3,926

 

$

4,099

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Supplemental Disclosure of Cash Flow Information

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Cash paid during the year for:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Interest (net of amount capitalized)

 

$

5,842

 

$

5,067

 

$

6,594

 

Income taxes

 

$

3,001

 

$

2,398

 

$

10,848

 

 

The accompanying notes as they relate to The Union Light, Heat and Power Company are an integral part of these financial statements.

 

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STATEMENTS OF CAPITALIZATION

 

 

 

December 31

 

 

 

2003

 

2002

 

 

 

(dollars in thousands)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Long-term Debt (excludes current portion)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Other Long-term Debt:

 

 

 

 

 

6.50% Debentures due April 30, 2008

 

$

20,000

 

$

20,000

 

7.65% Debentures due July 15, 2025

 

15,000

 

15,000

 

7.875% Debentures due September 15, 2009

 

20,000

 

20,000

 

Total Other Long-term Debt

 

55,000

 

55,000

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Unamortized Premium and Discount - Net

 

(315

)

(347

)

Total Long-term Debt

 

54,685

 

54,653

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Common Stock Equity

 

 

 

 

 

Common Stock - $15.00 par value; authorized shares - 1,000,000; outstanding shares - 585,333 at December 31, 2003, and December 31, 2002

 

$

8,780

 

$

8,780

 

Paid-in capital

 

23,541

 

23,644

 

Retained earnings

 

157,524

 

144,800

 

Accumulated other comprehensive income (loss)

 

(489

)

(60

)

Total Common Stock Equity

 

189,356

 

177,164

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Total Capitalization

 

$

244,041

 

$

231,817

 

 

The accompanying notes as they relate to The Union Light, Heat and Power Company are an integral part of these financial statements.

 

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Notes To Financial Statements

 

In this report Cinergy (which includes Cinergy Corp. and all of our regulated and non-regulated subsidiaries) is, at times, referred to in the first person as “we”, “our”, or “us”.

 

1.                                      Summary of Significant Accounting Policies

 

(a)                                  Nature of Operations

 

Cinergy Corp., a Delaware corporation organized in 1993, owns all outstanding common stock of The Cincinnati Gas & Electric Company (CG&E) and PSI Energy, Inc. (PSI), both of which are public utilities.  As a result of this ownership, we are considered a utility holding company.  Because we are a holding company with material utility subsidiaries operating in multiple states, we are registered with and are subject to regulation by the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) under the Public Utility Holding Company Act of 1935, as amended (PUHCA).  Our other principal subsidiaries are:

 

                  Cinergy Services, Inc. (Services);

                  Cinergy Investments, Inc. (Investments); and

                  Cinergy Wholesale Energy, Inc. (Wholesale Energy).

 

CG&E, an Ohio corporation organized in 1837, is a combination electric and gas public utility company that provides service in the southwestern portion of Ohio and, through its subsidiaries, in nearby areas of Kentucky and Indiana.  CG&E is responsible for the majority of our power marketing and trading activity.  CG&E’s principal subsidiary, The Union Light, Heat and Power Company (ULH&P), is a Kentucky corporation organized in 1901, that provides electric and gas service in northern Kentucky.  CG&E’s other subsidiaries are insignificant to its results of operations.

 

In 2001, CG&E began a transition to electric deregulation and customer choice.  Currently, the competitive retail electric market in Ohio is in the development stage.  CG&E is recovering its Public Utilities Commission of Ohio (PUCO) approved costs and retail electric rates are frozen during this market development period.  In January 2003, CG&E filed an application with the PUCO for approval of a methodology to establish how market-based rates for non-residential customers will be determined when the market development period ends.  In December 2003, the PUCO requested that CG&E propose a rate stabilization plan.  In January 2004, CG&E complied with the PUCO request and filed an electric reliability and rate stabilization plan.  See Note 17 for a discussion of key elements of Ohio deregulation.

 

PSI, an Indiana corporation organized in 1942, is a vertically integrated and regulated electric utility that provides service in north central, central, and southern Indiana.

 

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The following table presents further information related to the operations of our domestic utility companies (our operating companies):

 

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Principal Line(s) of Business

 

 

 

CG&E and
subsidiaries

 

                  Generation, transmission, distribution, and sale of electricity
                  Sale and/or transportation of natural gas
                  Electric commodity marketing and trading operations

 

 

 

PSI

 

                  Generation, transmission, distribution, and sale of electricity

 

 

 

ULH&P(1)

 

                  Transmission, distribution, and sale of electricity
                  Sale and transportation of natural gas

 

 

 


 

 

 

(1)       See Note 19 for further discussion of the possible transfer of generation assets.

 

Services is a service company that provides our subsidiaries with a variety of centralized administrative, management, and support services.  Investments holds most of our domestic non-regulated, energy-related businesses and investments, including gas marketing and trading operations.

 

Wholesale Energy, through a wholly-owned subsidiary, Cinergy Power Generation Services, LLC (Generation Services), provides electric production-related construction, operation, and maintenance services to certain affiliates and non-affiliated third parties.

 

We conduct operations through our subsidiaries and manage our businesses through the following three reportable segments:

 

                  Commercial Business Unit (Commercial), formerly named the Energy Merchant Business Unit;

                  Regulated Businesses Business Unit (Regulated Businesses); and

                  Power Technology and Infrastructure Services Business Unit (Power Technology).

 

For further discussion of our reportable segments see Note 15.

 

(b)                                  Presentation

 

Management makes estimates and assumptions when preparing financial statements under generally accepted accounting principles (GAAP).  Actual results could differ, as these estimates and assumptions involve judgment.  These estimates and assumptions affect various matters, including:

 

                  the reported amounts of assets and liabilities in our Balance Sheets at the dates of the financial statements;

                  the disclosure of contingent assets and liabilities at the dates of the financial statements; and

                  the reported amounts of revenues and expenses in our Statements of Income during the reporting periods.

 

Additionally, we have reclassified certain prior-year amounts in the financial statements of Cinergy, CG&E, PSI, and ULH&P to conform to current presentation.

 

We use three different methods to report investments in subsidiaries or other companies: the consolidation method; the equity method; and the cost method.

 

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(i)          Consolidation Method

 

For traditional operating entities, we use the consolidation method when we own a majority of the voting stock of or have the ability to control a subsidiary.  For variable interest entities (VIE) (discussed further in Note 3), we use the consolidation method when we anticipate absorbing a majority of the losses or returns of an entity, should they occur.  We eliminate all significant intercompany transactions when we consolidate these accounts.  Our consolidated financial statements include the accounts of Cinergy, CG&E, and PSI, and their wholly-owned subsidiaries.

 

(ii)      Equity Method

 

We use the equity method to report investments, joint ventures, partnerships, subsidiaries, and affiliated companies in which we do not have control, but have the ability to exercise influence over operating and financial policies (generally, 20 percent to 50 percent ownership).  Under the equity method we report:

 

                  our investment in the entity as Investments in unconsolidated subsidiaries in our Balance Sheets; and

                  our percentage share of the earnings from the entity as Equity in earnings (losses) of unconsolidated subsidiaries in our Statements of Income.

 

(iii)  Cost Method

 

We use the cost method to report investments, joint ventures, partnerships, subsidiaries, and affiliated companies in which we do not have control and are unable to exercise significant influence over operating and financial policies (generally, up to 20 percent ownership).  Under the cost method we report our investments in the entity as Other investments in our Balance Sheets.

 

(c)                                  Regulation

 

Our operating companies and certain of our non-utility subsidiaries must comply with the rules prescribed by the SEC under the PUHCA.  Our operating companies must also comply with the rules prescribed by the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) and the applicable state utility commissions of Ohio, Indiana, and Kentucky.

 

Our operating companies use the same accounting policies and practices for financial reporting purposes as non-regulated companies under GAAP.  However, sometimes actions by the FERC and the state utility commissions result in accounting treatment different from that used by non-regulated companies.  When this occurs, we apply the provisions of Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) Statement of Financial Accounting Standards No. 71, Accounting for the Effects of Certain Types of Regulation (Statement 71).  In accordance with Statement 71, we record regulatory assets and liabilities (expenses deferred for future recovery from customers or amounts provided in current rates to cover costs to be incurred in the future, respectively) on our Balance Sheets.

 

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Comprehensive electric deregulation legislation was passed in Ohio in July 1999.  As required by the legislation, CG&E filed its Proposed Transition Plan for approval by the PUCO in December 1999.  In August 2000, the PUCO approved a stipulation agreement relating to CG&E’s transition plan.  This plan created a Regulatory Transition Charge (RTC) designed to recover CG&E’s generation-related regulatory assets and transition costs over a ten-year period which began January 1, 2001.  Accordingly, Statement 71 was discontinued for the generation portion of CG&E’s business and Statement of Financial Accounting Standards No. 101, Regulated Enterprises - Accounting for the Discontinuation of Application of FASB Statement No. 71 was applied.  The effect of this change on the financial statements was immaterial.  Except with respect to the generation-related assets and liabilities of CG&E, as of December 31, 2003, PSI, CG&E, and ULH&P continue to meet the criteria of Statement 71.  However, to the extent other states implement deregulation legislation, the application of Statement 71 will need to be reviewed.  Based on our operating companies’ current regulatory orders and the regulatory environment in which they currently operate, the recovery of regulatory assets recognized in the accompanying Balance Sheets as of December 31, 2003, is probable.  For a further discussion of Ohio deregulation see Note 17.  For a further discussion on PSI’s pending retail rate case see Note 11(b)(i).

 

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Our regulatory assets, liabilities, and amounts authorized for recovery through regulatory orders at December 31, 2003, and 2002, are as follows:

 

 

 

2003

 

2002

 

 

 

CG&E(1)

 

PSI

 

Cinergy

 

CG&E(1)

 

PSI

 

Cinergy

 

 

 

(in millions)

 

Regulatory assets

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Amounts due from customers - income taxes(2)

 

$

53

 

$

22

 

$

75

 

$

53

 

$

25

 

$

78

 

Gasification services agreement buyout costs(3) (6)

 

 

235

 

235

 

 

240

 

240

 

Post-in-service carrying costs and deferred operating expenses(6)(7)

 

2

 

70

 

72

 

1

 

42

 

43

 

Coal contract buyout costs

 

 

 

 

 

10

 

10

 

Deferred merger costs

 

1

 

46

 

47

 

1

 

51

 

52

 

Unamortized costs of reacquiring debt

 

17

 

28

 

45

 

9

 

30

 

39

 

Coal gasification services expenses(6)

 

 

1

 

1

 

 

4

 

4

 

RTC recoverable assets(4) (6)

 

517

 

 

517

 

537

 

 

537

 

Other

 

5

 

15

 

20

 

4

 

16

 

20

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Total Regulatory assets

 

$

595

 

$

417

 

$

1,012

 

$

605

 

$

418

 

$

1,023

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Total Regulatory assets authorized for recovery(5)

 

$

587

 

$

317

 

$

905

 

$

598

 

$

360

 

$

958

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Regulatory liabilities

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Accrued cost of removal(8)

 

$

(155

)

$

(336

)

$

(491

)

$

 

$

 

$

 

 


(1)

 

Includes $13 million at December 31, 2003, and $5 million at December 31, 2002, related to ULH&P’s regulatory assets.  Of these amounts, $11.7 million at December 31, 2003, and $3.6 million at December 31, 2002, have been authorized for recovery.  Includes $(27) million of regulatory liabilities at December 31, 2003 related to ULH&P.

(2)

 

The various regulatory commissions overseeing the regulated business operations of our operating companies regulate income tax provisions reflected in customer rates.  In accordance with the provisions of Statement 71, we have recorded net regulatory assets for CG&E, PSI, and ULH&P.

(3)

 

PSI reached an agreement with Dynegy, Inc. to purchase the remainder of its 25-year contract for coal gasification services.  In accordance with an order from the Indiana Utility Regulatory Commission (IURC), PSI began recovering this asset over an 18-year period that commenced upon the termination of the gas services agreement in 2000.

(4)

 

In August 2000, CG&E’s deregulation transition plan was approved.  Effective January 1, 2001, a RTC went into effect and provides for recovery of all then existing generation-related regulatory assets and various transition costs over a ten-year period.  Because a separate charge provides for recovery, these assets were aggregated and are included as a single amount in this presentation.  The classification of all transmission and distribution related regulatory assets has remained the same.

(5)

 

At December 31, 2003, these amounts were being recovered through rates charged to customers over a period ranging from 1 to 49 years for CG&E, 1 to 30 years for PSI, and 1 to 17 years for ULH&P.

(6)

 

Regulatory assets earning a return at December 31, 2003.

(7)

 

For PSI amount includes $30 million that is not yet authorized for recovery and currently is not earning a return at December 31, 2003.  See Note 11(b)(i) for information on the PSI retail electric rate case.

(8)

 

Represents amounts received for anticipated future removal and retirement costs of regulated property, plant, and equipment.  These amounts were recharacterized as regulatory liabilities upon adoption of Statement of Financial Accounting Standards No. 143, Accounting for Asset Retirement Obligations (Statement 143),which prohibits the accrual of such amounts unless removal (or other retirement activity) is required pursuant to a legal obligation.  See (j) and  (q)(iii) below for further discussion of Statement 143.

 

(d)                                  Revenue Recognition

 

(i)                                  Utility Revenues

 

CG&E, PSI, and ULH&P record Operating Revenues for electric and gas service when delivered to customers.  Customers are billed throughout the month as both gas and electric meters are read.  We recognize revenues for retail energy sales that have not yet been billed, but where gas or electricity has been consumed.  This is termed “unbilled revenues” and is a widely

 

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recognized and accepted practice for utilities.  In making our estimates of unbilled revenues, we use complex systems that consider various factors, including weather, in our calculation of retail customer consumption at the end of each month.  Given the use of these systems and the fact that customers are billed monthly, we believe it is unlikely that materially different results will occur in future periods when revenue is subsequently billed.

 

The amount of unbilled revenues for Cinergy, CG&E, PSI, and ULH&P as of December 31, 2003, 2002, and 2001 were as follows:

 

 

 

2003

 

2002

 

2001

 

 

 

(in millions)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Cinergy

 

$

176

 

$

153

 

$

172

 

CG&E and subsidiaries

 

112

 

89

 

104

 

PSI

 

64

 

64

 

68

 

ULH&P

 

20

 

15

 

18

 

 

(ii)                              Energy Marketing and Trading Revenues

 

We market and trade electricity, natural gas, coal, and other energy-related products.  Many of the contracts associated with these products qualify as derivatives in accordance with Statement of Financial Accounting Standards No. 133, Accounting for Derivative Instruments and Hedging Activities (Statement 133), further discussed in (k)(i) below.  We designate derivative transactions as either trading or non-trading at the time they are originated in accordance with Emerging Issues Task Force (EITF) Issue 02-3, Issues Involved in Accounting for Derivative Contracts Held for Trading Purposes and Contracts Involved in Energy Trading and Risk Management Activities (EITF 02-3).  Generally, trading contracts are reported on a net basis and non-trading contracts are reported on a gross basis.

 

1.               Gross Reporting

 

Gross reporting requires presentation of sales contracts in Operating Revenues and purchase contracts in Fuel and purchased and exchanged power expense or Gas purchased expense.  Non-trading derivatives typically involve physical delivery of the underlying commodity and are therefore generally presented on a gross basis.

 

Derivatives are classified as non-trading only when (a) the contracts involve the purchase of gas or electricity to serve our native load requirements (end-use customers within our public utility companies’ franchise service territory), or (b) the contracts involve the sale of gas or electricity and we have the intent and projected ability to fulfill substantially all obligations from company-owned assets, which generally is limited to the sale of generation to third parties when it is not required to meet native load requirements.

 

Energy activities that do not principally involve derivatives (e.g., natural gas sales from storage) are presented on a gross basis.

 

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2.               Net Reporting

 

Net reporting requires presentation of realized and unrealized gains and losses on trading derivatives on a net basis in Operating Revenues.  Prior to 2003, the realized results for trading contracts that were physical in nature were presented on a gross basis.  In 2003, we began reflecting the results of trading derivatives on a net basis pursuant to the requirements of EITF 02-3, regardless of whether the transactions were settled physically.  The presentation for 2002 and 2001 has been reclassified to conform to the new presentation.  See (q)(i) below for further discussion.

 

Energy derivatives involving frequent buying and selling with the objective of generating profits from differences in price are classified as trading and reported net.

 

(e)                                  Energy Purchases and Fuel Costs

 

The expenses associated with electric and gas services include:

 

                  fuel used to generate electricity;

                  electricity purchased from others;

                  natural gas purchased from others; and

                  transportation costs associated with the purchase of fuel and natural gas.

 

These expenses are shown in the Statements of Income of Cinergy, CG&E, and PSI as Fuel and purchased and exchanged power expense and Gas purchased expense.  These expenses are shown in ULH&P’s Statements of Income as Electricity purchased from parent for resale expense and Gas purchased expense.

 

Indiana law limits the amount of fuel costs that PSI can recover to an amount that will not result in earning a return in excess of that allowed by the IURC.  Due to deregulation in the state of Ohio, we no longer have direct recovery of fuel costs.

 

PSI utilizes a purchased power tracking mechanism (Tracker) approved by the IURC for the recovery of costs related to certain specified purchases of power necessary to meet native load peak demand requirements to the extent such costs are not recovered through the existing fuel adjustment clause.  See Note 11(b)(v) for additional information.

 

(f)                                    Cash and Cash Equivalents

 

We define Cash and cash equivalents on our Balance Sheets and Statements of Cash Flows as investments with maturities of three months or less when acquired.

 

(g)                                 Inventory

 

Prior to January 1, 2003, natural gas inventory for our gas trading operations was accounted for at fair value.  All other inventory was accounted for at the lower of cost or market, cost being determined through the weighted average method.  Effective January 1, 2003, accounting for our gas trading operations’ gas inventory was adjusted to the lower of cost or market method with a cumulative effect adjustment, as required by EITF 02-3.  See (q)(vi) below for a summary of the cumulative effect adjustments.

 

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(h)                                 Property, Plant, and Equipment

 

Property, Plant, and Equipment includes the utility and non-regulated business property and equipment that is in use, being held for future use, or under construction.  We report our Property, Plant, and Equipment at its original cost, which includes:

 

                  materials;

                  contractor fees;

                  salaries;

                  payroll taxes;

                  fringe benefits;

                  financing costs of funds used during construction (described below in (ii) and (iii)); and

                  other miscellaneous amounts.

 

We capitalize costs for regulated property, plant, and equipment that are associated with the replacement or the addition of equipment that is considered a property unit.  Property units are intended to describe an item or group of items.  The cost of normal repairs and maintenance is expensed as incurred.  On an annual basis, we perform major pre-planned maintenance activities on our generating units.  These pre-planned activities are accounted for when incurred.  When regulated property, plant, and equipment is retired, Cinergy charges the original cost, less salvage, to Accumulated depreciation and the cost of removal to Accrued cost of removal, which is consistent with the composite method of depreciation.  A gain or loss is recorded on the sale of regulated property, plant, and equipment if an entire operating unit, as defined by the FERC, is sold.  A gain or loss is recorded on non-regulated property, plant, and equipment whenever there is a related sale or retirement.

 

(i)                                  Depreciation

 

We determine the provisions for depreciation expense using the straight-line method.  The depreciation rates are based on periodic studies of the estimated useful lives and the net cost to remove the properties.  Inclusion of cost of removal in depreciation rates was discontinued for all non-regulated property beginning in 2003 as a result of adopting Statement 143.  See (q)(iii) below for additional discussion of this change.  Our operating companies use composite depreciation rates.  These rates are approved by the respective state utility commissions with respect to regulated property.  The average depreciation rates for Property, Plant, and Equipment, excluding software, are presented in the table below.

 

 

 

2003

 

2002

 

2001

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Cinergy(1)

 

2.8

%

3.0

%

3.0

%

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

CG&E and subsidiaries

 

2.6

 

2.9

 

2.9

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

PSI

 

3.1

 

3.0

 

3.0

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

ULH&P

 

3.2

 

3.2

 

3.3

 

 


(1)          The results of Cinergy also include amounts related to non-registrants.

 

During the third quarter of 2003, CG&E implemented a new depreciation study of its non-regulated

 

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generating assets resulting in an increase in the estimated useful lives of certain assets.  The impact of this change in accounting estimate on Cinergy’s and CG&E’s 2003 net income and Earnings Per Common Share (EPS) - assuming dilution was an increase of $9 million (net of tax) or $0.05 per share, respectively.  The prospective impact of this change in accounting estimate on annual net income is expected to be $18 million (net of tax).

 

(ii)                              Allowance for Funds Used During Construction (AFUDC)

 

Our operating companies finance construction projects with borrowed funds and equity funds.  Regulatory authorities allow us to record the costs of these funds as part of the cost of construction projects.  AFUDC is calculated using a methodology authorized by the regulatory authorities.  These costs are credited on the Statements of Income to Miscellaneous Income - Net and Interest Expense for the equity and borrowed funds, respectively.

 

The equity component of AFUDC for the years ended December 31, 2003, 2002, and 2001, was as follows:

 

 

 

2003

 

2002

 

2001

 

 

 

(in millions)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Cinergy

 

$

7.5

 

$

12.9

 

$

8.6

 

CG&E and subsidiaries

 

2.7

 

0.4

 

2.7

 

PSI

 

4.8

 

12.5

 

5.9

 

ULH&P

 

0.2

 

0.8

 

0.1

 

 

The borrowed funds component of AFUDC, which is recorded on a pre-tax basis, for the years ended December 31, 2003, 2002, and 2001, was as follows:

 

 

 

2003

 

2002

 

2001

 

 

 

(in millions)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Cinergy

 

$

5.7

 

$

10.1

 

$

8.4

 

CG&E and subsidiaries

 

1.0

 

1.0

 

1.0

 

PSI

 

4.7

 

9.1

 

7.4

 

ULH&P

 

0.1

 

0.2

 

0.2

 

 

With the deregulation of CG&E’s generation assets, the AFUDC method is no longer used to capitalize the cost of funds used during generation-related construction at CG&E.  See (iii) below for a discussion of capitalized interest.

 

(iii)                          Capitalized Interest

 

Cinergy capitalizes interest costs for non-regulated construction projects in accordance with Statement of Financial Accounting Standards No. 34, Capitalization of Interest Cost (Statement 34).  The primary differences from AFUDC are that the Statement 34 methodology does not include a component for equity funds and does not emphasize short-term borrowings over long-term borrowings.  Capitalized interest costs, which are recorded on a pre-tax basis, for the years ended December 31, 2003, 2002, and 2001, were as follows:

 

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2003

 

2002

 

2001

 

 

 

(in millions)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Cinergy

 

$

7.7

 

$

7.2

 

$

7.1 (1

)

CG&E and subsidiaries

 

7.7

 

7.2

 

5.5

 

 


(1)          The results of Cinergy also include amounts related to non-registrants.

 

(i)                                    Impairment of Long-Lived Assets

 

We evaluate long-lived assets for impairment when events or changes in circumstances indicate that the carrying value of such assets may not be recoverable.  So long as an asset or group of assets is not held for sale, the determination of whether an impairment has occurred is based on an estimate of undiscounted future cash flows attributable to the assets, as compared with the carrying value of the assets.  If an impairment has occurred, the amount of the impairment recognized is determined by estimating the fair value of the assets and recording a provision for an impairment loss if the carrying value is greater than the fair value.  Once assets are classified as held for sale, the comparison of undiscounted cash flows to carrying value is disregarded and an impairment loss is recognized for any amount by which the carrying value exceeds the fair value of the assets less cost to sell.

 

(j)                                    Asset Retirement Obligations and Accrued Cost of Removal

 

We recognize the fair value of legal obligations associated with the retirement or removal of long-lived assets at the time the obligations are incurred and can be reasonably estimated.  The initial recognition of this liability is accompanied by a corresponding increase in property, plant, and equipment.  Subsequent to the initial recognition, the liability is adjusted for any revisions to the expected value of the retirement obligation (with corresponding adjustments to property, plant, and equipment), and for accretion of the liability due to the passage of time (recognized as Operation and maintenance expense).  Additional depreciation expense is recorded prospectively for any property, plant, and equipment increases.

 

We do not recognize liabilities for asset retirement obligations for which the fair value cannot be reasonably estimated.  CG&E and PSI have asset retirement obligations associated with river structures at certain generating stations.  However, the retirement date for these river structures cannot be reasonably estimated; therefore, the fair value of the associated liability currently cannot be estimated and no amounts are recognized in the financial statements herein.

 

CG&E's transmission and distribution business, PSI, and ULH&P ratably accrue the estimated retirement and removal cost of rate regulated property, plant, and equipment when removal of the asset is considered likely, in accordance with established regulatory practices.  The accrued, but not incurred, balance for these costs is classified as Accrued cost of removal and represents a regulatory liability, under Statement 71, as disclosed in (c) above.  Effective with our adoption of Statement 143, on January 1, 2003, we do not accrue the estimated cost of removal when no legal obligation associated with retirement or removal exists for any of our non-regulated assets (including CG&E's generation assets).  See (q)(iii) for additional information regarding the adoption of Statement 143 and the related impacts to Accrued cost of removal.

 

(k)                                Derivatives

 

We account for derivatives under Statement 133, which requires all derivatives, subject to certain

 

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exemptions, to be accounted for at fair value.  Changes in a derivative’s fair value must be recognized currently in earnings unless specific hedge accounting criteria are met.  Gains and losses on derivatives that qualify as hedges can (a) offset related fair value changes on the hedged item in the Statements of Income for fair value hedges; or (b) be recorded in other comprehensive income for cash flow hedges.  To qualify for hedge accounting, derivatives must be designated as a hedge (for example, an offset of interest rate risks) and must be effective at reducing the risk associated with the hedged item.  Accordingly, changes in the fair values or cash flows of instruments designated as hedges must be highly correlated with changes in the fair values or cash flows of the related hedged items.

 

(i)                                  Energy Marketing and Trading

 

We account for all energy trading derivatives at fair value.  These derivatives are shown in our Balance Sheets as Energy risk management assets and Energy risk management liabilities.  Changes in a derivative’s fair value represent unrealized gains and losses and are recognized as revenues in our Statements of Income unless specific hedge accounting criteria are met.

 

Non-trading derivatives involve the physical delivery of energy and are therefore typically accounted for as accrual contracts, unless the contract does not qualify for the normal purchases and sales scope exception in Statement 133.

 

Although we intend to settle accrual contracts with company-owned assets, occasionally we settle these contracts with purchases on the open trading markets.  The cost of these purchases could be in excess of the associated revenues.  We recognize the gains or losses on these transactions as delivery occurs.  Open market purchases may occur for the following reasons:

 

                  generating station outages;

                  least-cost alternative;

                  native load requirements; and

                  extreme weather.

 

We value derivatives using end-of-the-period fair values, utilizing the following factors (as applicable):

 

                  closing exchange prices (that is, closing prices for standardized electricity and natural gas products traded on an organized exchange, such as the New York Mercantile Exchange);

                  broker-dealer and over-the-counter price quotations; and

                  model pricing (which considers time value and historical volatility factors of electricity and natural gas).

 

In October 2002, the EITF reached a consensus in EITF 02-3 to rescind EITF Issue 98-10, Accounting for Contracts Involved in Energy Trading and Risk Management Activities (EITF 98-10).  EITF 98-10 permitted non-derivative contracts to be accounted for at fair value if certain criteria were met.  Effective with the adoption of EITF 02-3 on January 1, 2003, non-derivative contracts and natural gas inventory previously accounted for at fair value were required to be accounted for on an accrual basis, with gains and losses on the transactions being recognized at the time the contract was settled.  See (q)(vi) below for a summary of cumulative effect

 

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adjustments.

 

As a response to this discontinuance of fair value accounting, in June 2003, Cinergy began designating derivatives as fair value hedges for certain volumes of our natural gas inventory.  Under this accounting election, changes in the fair value of both the derivative as well as the hedged item (the specified inventory) are included in the Statements of Income.  We assess the effectiveness of the derivatives in offsetting the change in fair value of the inventory on a quarterly basis.  For the year ended, December 31, 2003, the hedges’ ineffectiveness was not material.

 

(ii)                              Financial

 

In addition to energy marketing and trading, we use derivative financial instruments to manage exposure to fluctuations in interest rates.  We use interest rate swaps (an agreement by two parties to exchange fixed-interest rate cash flows for floating-interest rate cash flows) and treasury locks (an agreement that fixes the yield or price on a specific treasury security for a specific period, which we sometimes use in connection with the issuance of fixed rate debt).  We account for such derivatives at fair value and assess the effectiveness of any such derivative used in hedging activities.

 

At December 31, 2003, the ineffectiveness of instruments that we have classified as cash flow hedges of variable-rate debt instruments was not material.  Reclassification of unrealized gains or losses on cash flow hedges of debt instruments from Accumulated other comprehensive income (loss) occurs as interest is accrued on the debt instrument.  The unrealized losses that will be reclassified as a charge to Interest Expense during the twelve-month period ending December 31, 2004, are not expected to be material.

 

(l)                                    Intangible Assets

 

We adopted Statement of Financial Accounting Standards No. 142, Goodwill and Other Intangible Assets (Statement 142) in the first quarter of 2002.  With the adoption of Statement 142, goodwill and other intangibles with indefinite lives are no longer amortized.  Prior to adoption, we amortized goodwill on a straight-line basis over its estimated useful life, not to exceed 40 years.  The discontinuance of this amortization was not material to our financial position or results of operations.  Statement 142 requires that goodwill is assessed annually, or when circumstances indicate that the fair value of a reporting unit has declined significantly, by applying a fair-value-based test.  This test is applied at the “reporting unit” level, which is not broader than the current business segments discussed in Note 15.  Acquired intangible assets are separately recognized if the benefit of the intangible asset is obtained through contractual or other legal rights, or if the intangible asset can be sold, transferred, licensed, rented, or exchanged, regardless of intent to do so.

 

We finalized our transition impairment test in the fourth quarter of 2002 and recognized a non-cash impairment charge of approximately $11 million (net of tax) for goodwill related to certain of our international assets.  This amount is reflected in Cinergy’s Statements of Income as a cumulative effect adjustment, net of tax.  See (q)(vi) below for a summary of the cumulative effect adjustments.

 

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(m)                              Income Taxes

 

Cinergy and its subsidiaries file a consolidated federal income tax return and combined/consolidated state and local tax returns in certain jurisdictions.  Cinergy and its subsidiaries have an income tax allocation agreement, which conforms to the requirements of the PUHCA.  The corporate taxable income method is used to allocate tax benefits to the subsidiaries whose investments or results of operations provide those tax benefits.  Any tax liability not directly attributable to a specific subsidiary is allocated proportionately among the subsidiaries as required by the agreement.

 

Statement of Financial Accounting Standards No. 109, Accounting for Income Taxes, requires an asset and liability approach for financial accounting and reporting of income taxes.  The tax effects of differences between the financial reporting and tax basis of accounting are reported as Deferred income tax assets or liabilities in our Balance Sheets and are based on currently enacted income tax rates.

 

Investment tax credits, which have been used to reduce our federal income taxes payable, have been deferred for financial reporting purposes.  These deferred investment tax credits are being amortized over the useful lives of the property to which they are related.  For a further discussion of income taxes, see Note 10.

 

(n)                                 Environmental and Legal Contingencies

 

In the normal course of business, Cinergy, CG&E, PSI, and ULH&P are subject to various regulatory actions, proceedings, lawsuits and other matters, including actions under laws and regulations related to the environment.  We reserve for these potential contingencies when they are deemed probable and reasonably estimable liabilities.  We believe that the amounts provided for in our financial statements are adequate.  However, these amounts are estimates based upon assumptions involving judgment and therefore actual results could differ.  For further discussion of contingencies, see Note 11.

 

(o)                                  Pension and Other Postretirement Benefits

 

Cinergy provides benefits to retirees in the form of pension and other postretirement benefits.  Our reported costs of providing these pension and other postretirement benefits are developed by actuarial valuations and are dependent upon numerous factors resulting from actual plan experience and assumptions of future experience.  Changes made to the provisions of the plans may impact current and future pension costs.  Pension costs associated with Cinergy’s defined benefit plans are impacted by employee demographics, the level of contributions we make to the plan, and earnings on plan assets.  These pension costs may also be significantly affected by changes in key actuarial assumptions, including anticipated rates of return on plan assets and the discount rates used in determining the projected benefit obligation.  Other postretirement benefit costs are impacted by employee demographics, per capita claims costs, and health care cost trend rates and may also be affected by changes in key actuarial assumptions, including the discount rate used in determining the accumulated postretirement benefit obligation.  Cinergy reviews and updates its actuarial assumptions on an annual basis, unless plan amendments or other significant events require earlier remeasurement at an interim period.  For additional information on pension

 

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and other postretirement benefits, see Note 9.

 

(p)                                  Stock-Based Compensation

 

In 2003, we prospectively adopted accounting for our stock-based compensation plans using the fair value recognition provisions of Statement of Financial Accounting Standards No. 123, Accounting for Stock-Based Compensation (Statement 123), as amended by Statement of Financial Accounting Standards No. 148, Accounting for Stock-Based Compensation-Transition and Disclosure (Statement 148), for all employee awards granted or with terms modified on or after January 1, 2003.  Prior to 2003, we had accounted for our stock-based compensation plans using the intrinsic value method under Accounting Principles Board Opinion No. 25, Accounting for Stock Issued to Employees (APB 25).  See Note 2(c) for further information on our stock-based compensation plans.  The following table illustrates the effect on our Net Income and EPS if the fair value based method had been applied to all outstanding and unvested awards in each period.

 

 

 

Year Ended December 31

 

 

 

(in millions, except per share amounts)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

2003

 

2002

 

2001

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Net income, as reported

 

$

470

 

$

361

 

$

442

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Add:

Stock-based employee compensation expense included in reported net income, net of related tax effects.

 

17

 

24

 

13

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Deduct:

Stock-based employee compensation expense determined under fair value based method for all awards, net of related tax effects.

 

18

 

23

 

13

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Pro-forma net income

 

$

469

 

$

362

 

$

442

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

EPS - as reported

 

$

2.66

 

$

2.16

 

$

2.78

 

EPS - pro-forma

 

$

2.66

 

$

2.17

 

$

2.78

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

EPS assuming dilution - as reported

 

$

2.63

 

$

2.13

 

$

2.75

 

EPS assuming dilution - pro-forma

 

$

2.63

 

$

2.14

 

$

2.75

 

 

The pro-forma amounts reflect certain assumptions used in estimating fair values.  As a result of this and other factors which may affect the timing and amounts of stock-based compensation, the pro-forma effect on Net Income and EPS may not be representative of future periods.  See Note 2(c) for further description of the fair value assumptions.

 

(q)                                  Accounting Changes

 

(i)                                  Energy Trading

 

In October 2002, the EITF reached consensus in EITF 02-3, to (a) rescind EITF 98-10,

 

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(b) generally preclude the recognition of gains at the inception of new derivatives, and (c) require all realized and unrealized gains and losses on energy trading derivatives to be presented net in the Statements of Income, whether or not settled physically.

 

The consensus to rescind EITF 98-10 required all energy trading contracts that do not qualify as derivatives to be accounted for on an accrual basis, rather than at fair value.  The consensus was immediately effective for all new contracts executed after October 25, 2002, and required a cumulative effect adjustment to income, net of tax, on January 1, 2003, for all contracts executed on or prior to October 25, 2002.  The cumulative effect adjustment, on a net of tax basis, was a loss of approximately $13 million for Cinergy and $8 million for CG&E, which primarily includes the impact of certain coal contracts, gas inventory, and certain gas contracts, which are accounted for at fair value.  We expect this rescission to have the largest ongoing impact on our gas trading business, which uses financial contracts, physical contracts, and gas inventory to take advantage of various arbitrage opportunities.  Prior to the rescission of EITF 98-10, all of these activities were accounted for at fair value.  Under the revised guidance, only certain items are accounted for at fair value, which could increase inter-period volatility in reported results of operations.  As a result, we began applying fair value hedge accounting in June 2003 to certain quantities of gas inventory (more fully discussed in (k)(i) above) and are further reviewing additional applications for hedge accounting.

 

The consensus to require all gains and losses on energy trading derivatives to be presented net in the Statements of Income was effective January 1, 2003, and required reclassification for all periods presented.  This resulted in substantial reductions in reported Operating Revenues, Fuel and purchased and exchanged power expense, and Gas purchased expense.  However, Operating Income and Net Income were not affected by this change.

 

(ii)                              Derivatives

 

In May 2003, the FASB issued Statement of Financial Accounting Standards No. 149, Amendment of Statement 133 on Derivative Instruments and Hedging Activities (Statement 149).  Statement 149 primarily amends Statement 133 to incorporate implementation conclusions previously cleared by the FASB staff, to clarify the definition of a derivative and to require derivative instruments that include up-front cash payments to be classified as a financing activity in the Statements of Cash Flows.  Implementation issues previously cleared by the FASB staff were effective at the time they were cleared and new guidance was effective in the third quarter of 2003.  In connection with our adoption, we reviewed certain power purchase or sale contracts to determine if they met the revised normal purchases and sales scope exception criteria in Statement 149.  If these criteria were not met, the contract was adjusted to fair value.  The impact of adopting Statement 149 was not material to our financial position or results of operations.

 

In June 2003, the FASB issued final guidance on the use of broad market indices (e.g., consumer price index) in power purchases and sales contracts.  This guidance clarifies that the normal purchases and sales scope exception is precluded if a contract contains a broad market index that is not clearly and closely related to the asset being sold or purchased (or a direct factor in the production of the asset sold or purchased).  The guidance provides criteria that must be met for the index to be considered clearly and closely related.  This guidance, which was effective in the fourth quarter of 2003, was not material to our financial position or results of operations.

 

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(iii)                          Asset Retirement Obligations

 

In July 2001, the FASB issued Statement 143, which requires fair value recognition beginning January 1, 2003, of legal obligations associated with the retirement or removal of long-lived assets at the time the obligations are incurred.   Statement 143 prohibits the accrual of estimated retirement and removal costs unless resulting from legal obligations.  Our accounting policy for such legal obligations and for accrued cost of removal for our rate regulated long-lived assets is described in (j) above.

 

We adopted Statement 143 on January 1, 2003, and Cinergy and CG&E both recognized a gain of $39 million (net of tax) for the cumulative effect of this change in accounting principle.  Substantially all of this adjustment reflects the reversal of previously accrued cost of removal for CG&E’s generating assets, which do not apply the provisions of Statement 71.  Accrued cost of removal at adoption included $316 million, $25 million, and $146 million of accumulated cost of removal related to PSI’s, ULH&P’s, and CG&E’s utility plant in service assets, respectively, which represent regulatory liabilities after adoption and were not included as part of the cumulative effect adjustment.  The increases in assets and liabilities from adopting Statement 143 were not material to our financial position.

 

Pro-forma results as if Statement 143 was applied retroactively for the years ended December 31, 2002 and 2001, are not materially different from reported results.

 

(iv)                            Consolidation of VIEs

 

In January 2003, the FASB issued Interpretation No. 46, Consolidation of Variable Interest Entities (Interpretation 46), which significantly changes the consolidation requirements for traditional special purpose entities (SPE) and certain other entities subject to its scope.  This interpretation defines a VIE as (a) an entity that does not have sufficient equity to support its activities without additional financial support or (b) an entity that has equity investors that do not have voting rights or do not absorb losses or receive returns.  These entities must be consolidated when certain criteria are met.  The interpretation was originally to be effective as of July 1, 2003 for Cinergy; however, the FASB subsequently permitted deferral of the effective date to December 31, 2003 for traditional SPEs and to March 31, 2004 for all other entities subject to the scope of Interpretation 46.  During this deferral period, the FASB clarified and amended several provisions, much of which is intended to assist in the application of Interpretation 46 to operating entities.  Clarifications were not needed for most traditional SPEs and we therefore elected to implement Interpretation 46 for such entities, as discussed below, in accordance with the original implementation date of July 1, 2003.  Prior period financial statements were not restated for these changes.

 

Interpretation 46 required us to consolidate two SPEs that have individual power sale agreements to Central Maine Power Company (CMP).  Further, we were no longer permitted to consolidate a trust that was established by Cinergy Corp. in 2001 to issue approximately $316 million of combined preferred trust securities and stock purchase contracts.  For further information on the accounting for these entities see Note 3.

 

Cinergy has concluded that its accounts receivable sale facility, as discussed in Note 3(c), will remain unconsolidated since it involves transfers of financial assets to a qualifying SPE, which is

 

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exempted from consolidation by Interpretation 46 and Statement of Financial Accounting Standards No. 140, Accounting for Transfers and Servicing of Financial Assets and Extinguishments of Liabilities (Statement 140).

 

Cinergy is continuing to evaluate the impact of Interpretation 46 on several operating joint ventures, primarily involved in cogeneration and energy efficiency operations, that we currently do not consolidate.  If all these entities were consolidated, their total assets of approximately $590 million (the majority of which is non-current) and total liabilities of approximately $210 million (which includes long-term debt of approximately $90 million) would be recognized on our Balance Sheets.  Cinergy’s current investment in these entities is approximately $200 million.  We also guarantee certain performance obligations of these entities with an estimated maximum potential exposure of approximately $40 million, as disclosed in Note 11(c)(vii).  If any of these entities are required to be consolidated, they will be included in the March 31, 2004 consolidated financial statements.

 

(v)                                Financial Instruments with Characteristics of Both Liabilities and Equity

 

In May 2003, the FASB issued Statement of Financial Accounting Standards No. 150, Accounting for Certain Financial Instruments with Characteristics of Both Liabilities and Equity (Statement 150).  Statement 150 establishes standards for how an issuer classifies and measures certain financial instruments with characteristics of both liabilities and equity.  This statement was effective for financial instruments entered into or modified after May 31, 2003, and was effective on July 1, 2003, for financial instruments held prior to issuance of this statement.  Statement 150 would have required Cinergy Corp.’s preferred trust securities to be reported as a liability; however, as described more fully in Note 3(b), the trust holding these securities is no longer permitted to be consolidated and the preferred trust securities are no longer reported on Cinergy’s Balance Sheets.  However, Cinergy’s note payable to the trust is recorded on the Balance Sheets as Long-term debt.  As a result, the impact of adopting Statement 150 was not material to our financial position or results of operations.

 

As discussed in Note 3(b), Cinergy Corp. issued forward stock sale contracts that require purchase by the holder of a certain number of Cinergy Corp. shares in February 2005 (stock contracts).  The number of shares to be issued is contingent on the market price of Cinergy Corp. stock, but subject to a predetermined ceiling and floor price.  In October 2003, the FASB staff released an interpretation of Statement 150 that requires an evaluation of these stock contracts to determine whether they constitute a liability, with any changes in accounting required in January 2004.  This interpretation did not have any impact on our current accounting.

 

(vi)                            Cumulative Effect of Changes in Accounting Principles, Net of Tax

 

The following table summarizes the various cumulative effect adjustments and their related tax effects discussed above for the rescission of EITF 98-10 and the adoption of Statement 142 and Statement 143:

 

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Year to Date December 31

 

 

 

2003

 

2002

 

 

 

Before-
tax
Amount

 

Tax
(Expense)
Benefit

 

Net-of-
tax
Amount

 

Before-tax
Amount

 

Tax
(Expense)
Benefit

 

Net-of-tax
Amount

 

 

 

(in thousands)

 

Cinergy(1)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Goodwill impairment (Statement 142 adoption)

 

$

 

$

 

$

 

$

(10,899

)

$

 

$

(10,899

)

Rescission of EITF 98-10 (EITF 02-3 adoption)

 

(20,163

)

7,651

 

(12,512

)

 

 

 

Asset retirement obligation (Statement 143 adoption)

 

64,070

 

(25,096

)

38,974

 

 

 

 

 

 

$

43,907

 

$

(17,445

)

$

26,462

 

$

(10,899

)

$

 

$

(10,899

)

CG&E

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Rescission of EITF 98-10 (EITF 02-3 adoption)

 

$

(13,540

)

$

5,301

 

$

(8,239

)

$

 

$

 

$

 

Asset retirement obligation (Statement 143 adoption)

 

64,383

 

(25,206

)

39,177

 

 

 

 

 

 

$

50,843

 

$

(19,905

)

$

30,938

 

$

 

$

 

$

 

PSI

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Rescission of EITF 98-10 (EITF 02-3 adoption)

 

$

(810

)

$

316

 

$

(494

)

$

 

$

 

$

 

 

 

$

(810

)

$

316

 

$

(494

)

$

 

$

 

$

 

 


(1)               The results of Cinergy also include amounts related to non-registrants.

 

(r)                                  Translation of Foreign Currency

 

We translate the assets and liabilities of foreign subsidiaries, whose functional currency (generally, the local currency of the country in which the subsidiary is located) is not the United States (U.S.) dollar, using the appropriate exchange rate as of the end of the year.  We translate income and expense items using the average exchange rate prevailing during the month the respective transaction occurs.  We record translation gains and losses in Accumulated other comprehensive income (loss), which is a component of common stock equity.  When a foreign subsidiary is sold, the cumulative translation gain or loss as of the date of sale is removed from Accumulated other comprehensive income (loss) and is recognized as a component of the gain or loss on the sale of the subsidiary in our Statements of Income.

 

(s)                                  Related Party Transactions

 

CG&E, PSI, and ULH&P engage in related party transactions.  These transactions, which are eliminated upon consolidation, are generally performed at cost and in accordance with the SEC regulations under the PUHCA and the applicable state and federal commission regulations.  The Balance Sheets of our operating companies reflect amounts payable to and/or receivable from related parties as Accounts payable to affiliated companies and Accounts receivable from affiliated companies.  The significant related party transactions are disclosed below.

 

(i)                                  Services

 

Services provides our regulated and non-regulated subsidiaries with a variety of centralized administrative, management, and support services in accordance with agreements approved by the SEC under the PUHCA.  The cost of these services are charged to our companies on a direct basis, or for general costs which cannot be directly attributed, based on predetermined allocation factors, including the following ratios:

 

•     sales;

•     electric peak load;

•     number of employees;

 

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•     number of customers;

                  construction expenditures; and

                  other statistical information.

 

These costs were as follows for the years ended December 31, 2003, 2002, and 2001:

 

 

 

2003

 

2002

 

2001

 

 

 

(in millions)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

CG&E and subsidiaries

 

$

219

 

$

206

 

$

240

 

PSI

 

193

 

190

 

196

 

ULH&P

 

22

 

23

 

24

 

 

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Generation Services supplies electric production-related construction, operation and maintenance services to certain of our subsidiaries pursuant to agreements approved by the SEC under the PUHCA.  The cost of these services were as follows for the years ended December 31, 2003, 2002, and 2001:

 

 

 

2003

 

2002(1)

 

2001

 

 

 

(in millions)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

CG&E and subsidiaries

 

$

96

 

$

104

 

$

67

 

PSI

 

55

 

58

 

21

 

 


(1) Increase reflects movement of Services’ employees to Generation Services.

 

(ii)                              Purchased Energy

 

ULH&P purchases energy from CG&E pursuant to a contract effective January 1, 2002, which was approved by the FERC and the Kentucky Public Service Commission (KPSC).  This five-year agreement is a negotiated fixed-rate contract with CG&E and replaces the previous cost-of-service based contract, which expired on December 31, 2001.  ULH&P purchased energy from CG&E for resale in the amounts of $155 million, $160 million, and $152 million for the years ended December 31, 2003, 2002, and 2001, respectively.  These amounts are reflected in the Statements of Income for ULH&P as Electricity purchased from parent company for resale.  For information on the potential transfer of generating assets to ULH&P and the effect it will have on purchased energy see Note 19.

 

PSI and CG&E purchase energy from each other under a federal and state approved joint operating agreement.  These sales and purchases are reflected in the Statements of Income of PSI and CG&E as Electric operating revenues and Fuel and purchased and exchanged power expense and were as follows for the years ended December 31, 2003, 2002, and 2001:

 

 

 

2003

 

2002

 

2001

 

 

 

(in millions)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

CG&E

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Electric operating revenues

 

$

63

 

$

59

 

$

90

 

Purchased power(1)

 

74

 

43

 

92

 

PSI

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Electric operating revenues

 

74

 

43

 

92

 

Purchased power(1)

 

63

 

59

 

90

 

 


(1)          Includes intercompany purchases that are presented net in accordance with EITF 02-3.

 

 

To supplement native load requirements, CG&E and PSI have from time to time purchased peaking power from Cinergy Capital & Trading, Inc. (Capital & Trading), an indirect wholly-owned subsidiary of Cinergy Corp. under the terms of a wholesale market-based tariff.  For the year ended December 31, 2003, payments under this contract totaled approximately $5 million for CG&E.  For the year ended December 31, 2002, payments under these contracts for both CG&E and PSI totaled approximately $27 million and $28 million, respectively.  For PSI, certain of these amounts have been deferred for future recovery as approved by the IURC.

 

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CG&E and PSI have an agreement with Cinergy Marketing & Trading, LP (Marketing & Trading) to purchase gas for certain gas-fired peaking plants.  Purchases under this agreement were approximately $6 million, $9 million, and $12 million for CG&E and $20 million, $5 million, and $4 million for PSI for the years ended December 31, 2003, 2002, and 2001, respectively.  The amounts are reflected in the Statements of Income of CG&E and PSI as Fuel and purchased and exchanged power expense.

 

(iii)                          Other

 

In November 2002, CG&E and ULH&P entered into agreements with Marketing & Trading to manage their interstate pipeline transportation, storage capacity, and gas supply contracts.  Under the terms of these agreements, Marketing & Trading is obligated to deliver natural gas to meet CG&E’s and ULH&P’s firm requirements.  These agreements expired in October 2003.  In November 2003, CG&E and its subsidiaries, including ULH&P, entered into new one-year contracts with Marketing & Trading.  Payments under these agreements for the years ended December 31, 2003 and 2002 were approximately $413 million and $40 million for CG&E and subsidiaries, and $78 million and $7 million for ULH&P.  These amounts are recorded in the Statements of Income for CG&E and ULH&P as Gas purchased expense.

 

In February 2003, PSI acquired gas-fired peaking plants in Henry County, Indiana and Butler County, Ohio from two non-regulated affiliates.  For a further discussion on the transfer of these generating assets see Note 19.

 

Cinergy Corp., Services, and our operating companies participate in a money pool arrangement to better manage cash and working capital requirements.  These amounts are reflected in Notes payable to affiliated companies and Notes receivable from affiliated companies on the Balance Sheets of our operating companies.  For a further discussion on the money pool agreement see Note 6.

 

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2.              Common Stock

 

(a)                                  Changes In Common Stock Outstanding

 

The following table reflects information related to shares of common stock issued for stock-based plans.

 

 

 

Shares
Authorized for
Issuance under
Plan

 

Number of
Shares
Available
for Future
Issuance
(3)

 

Shares Used to Grant or
Settle Awards

 

2003

 

2002

 

2001

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Cinergy Corp. 1996 Long-Term Incentive Compensation Plan (LTIP)

 

14,500,000

 

4,346,877

 

1,742,046

 

674,005

 

72,225

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Cinergy Corp. Stock Option Plan (SOP)

 

5,000,000

 

1,318,500

 

421,611

 

870,867

 

263,070

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Cinergy Corp. Employee Stock Purchase and Savings Plan

 

2,000,000

 

1,482,664

 

168,756

 

4,912

 

227,847

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Cinergy Corp. UK Sharesave Scheme

 

75,000

 

62,637

 

3,364

 

8,878

 

121

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Cinergy Corp. Retirement Plan for Directors

 

175,000

(1)

 

5,602

 

1,768

 

29,135

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Cinergy Corp. Directors’ Equity Compensation Plan

 

75,000

 

46,771

 

3,824

 

196

 

1,858

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Cinergy Corp. Directors’ Deferred Compensation Plan

 

200,000

 

108,547

 

25,826

 

 

14,211

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Cinergy Corp. 401(k) Plans

 

6,469,373

(1)

3,890,358

 

1,544,900

 

964,615

 

69,500

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Cinergy Corp. Direct Stock Purchase and Dividend Reinvestment Plan(2)

 

3,000,000

(1)

689,820

 

679,301

 

657,943

 

649,834

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Cinergy Corp. 401(k) Excess Plan

 

100,000

(1)

 

 

 

 

 


(1)

Plan does not contain an authorization limit.  The number of shares presented reflects amounts registered with the SEC as of December 31, 2003.

(2)

Shares issued prior to April 2001 were for the previous Cinergy Corp. Dividend Reinvestment and Stock Purchase Plan, which is no longer active.

(3)

Shares available exclude the number of shares to be issued upon exercise of outstanding options, warrants, and rights.

 

We retired 519,976 shares of common stock in 2003, 422,908 shares in 2002, and 72,739 shares in 2001, mainly representing shares tendered as payment for the exercise of previously granted stock options.

 

In April 2001, Cinergy adopted the Cinergy Corp. Direct Stock Purchase and Dividend Reinvestment Plan, a plan designed to provide investors with a convenient method to purchase shares of Cinergy Corp. common stock and to reinvest cash dividends in the purchase of additional shares.  This plan replaced the Cinergy Corp. Dividend Reinvestment and Stock Purchase Plan.

 

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In November 2001, Cinergy chose to reinstitute the practice of issuing new Cinergy Corp. common shares to satisfy obligations under certain of its employee stock plans and the Cinergy Corp. Direct Stock Purchase and Dividend Reinvestment Plan.  This replaced our previous practice of purchasing shares in the open market to fulfill certain plan obligations.

 

In February 2002, Cinergy sold 6.5 million shares of Cinergy Corp. common stock with net proceeds of approximately $200 million.

 

In January 2003, Cinergy Corp. filed a registration statement with the SEC with respect to the issuance of common stock, preferred stock, and other securities in an aggregate offering amount of $750 million.  In February 2003, Cinergy sold 5.7 million shares of Cinergy Corp. common stock with net proceeds of approximately $175 million under this registration statement.  The net proceeds from the transaction were used to reduce short-term debt of Cinergy Corp. and for other general corporate purposes.

 

Cinergy Corp. owns all of the common stock of CG&E and PSI.  All of ULH&P’s common stock is held by CG&E.

 

(b)                                  Dividend Restrictions

 

Cinergy Corp.’s ability to pay dividends to holders of its common stock is principally dependent on the ability of CG&E and PSI to pay Cinergy Corp. common stock dividends.  Cinergy Corp., CG&E, and PSI cannot pay dividends on their common stock if their respective preferred stock dividends or preferred trust dividends are in arrears.  The amount of common stock dividends that each company can pay is also limited by certain capitalization and earnings requirements under CG&E’s and PSI’s credit instruments.  Currently, these requirements do not impact the ability of either company to pay dividends on its common stock.

 

(c)                                  Stock-based Compensation Plans

 

We currently have the following stock-based compensation plans:

 

                  LTIP;

                  SOP;

                  Employee Stock Purchase and Savings Plan;

•     UK Sharesave Scheme;

                  Retirement Plan for Directors;

                  Directors’ Equity Compensation Plan;

                  Directors’ Deferred Compensation Plan; and

                  401(k) Excess Plan.

 

The LTIP, the SOP, the Employee Stock Purchase and Savings Plan, and the 401(k) Excess Plan are discussed below.  The activity in 2003, 2002, and 2001 for the remaining stock-based compensation plans was not significant.

 

In 2003, we prospectively adopted accounting for our stock-based compensation plans using the fair value recognition provisions of Statement 123, as amended by Statement 148, for all employee awards granted or with terms modified on or after January 1, 2003.  Prior to 2003, we had

 

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accounted for our stock-based compensation plans using the intrinsic value method under APB 25.  See “Stock-Based Compensation” in Note 1(p) for additional information on costs we recognized in 2003, 2002, and 2001, related to stock-based compensation plans, and for our pro-forma disclosure assuming compensation costs for these plans had been determined at fair value, consistent with Statement 123, as amended by Statement 148.

 

(i)                                  LTIP

 

The LTIP was originally adopted in 1996 and was subsequently amended effective January 2002.  Under this plan, certain key employees may be granted incentive and non-qualified stock options, stock appreciation rights (SARs), restricted stock, dividend equivalents, the opportunity to earn performance-based shares and certain other stock-based awards.  Stock options are granted to participants with an option price equal to or greater than the fair market value on the grant date, and generally with a vesting period of either three or five years.  The vesting period begins on the grant date and all options expire within 10 years from that date.  The number of shares of common stock issuable under the LTIP is limited to a total of 14.5 million shares.

 

Historically, the performance-based shares have been paid 100 percent in the form of common stock.  In order to maintain market competitiveness with respect to the form of LTIP awards and to ensure continued compliance with internal guidelines on common share dilution, the Compensation Committee of the Cinergy Corp. Board of Directors approved the future payment of performance-based share awards 50 percent in common stock and 50 percent in cash.  As a result, we have reclassified the expected cash payout portion of the performance shares from Paid-in capital to Current Liabilities - Other and Non-Current Liabilities - Other.

 

Entitlement to performance-based shares is based on Cinergy’s total shareholder return (TSR) over designated Cycles as measured against a pre-defined peer group.  Target grants of performance-based shares were made for the following Cycles:

 

Cycle

 

Grant
Date

 

Performance
Period

 

Target
Grant of Shares

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

(in thousands)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

VI

 

1/2002

 

2002-2004

 

357

 

VII

 

1/2003

 

2003-2005

 

411

 

VIII

 

1/2004

 

2004-2006

 

404

 

 

Participants may earn additional performance shares if Cinergy’s TSR exceeds that of the peer group.  For the three-year performance period ended December 31, 2003 (Cycle V), approximately 567,000 shares (including dividend equivalent shares) were earned, based on our relative TSR.

 

(ii)                              SOP

 

The SOP is designed to align executive compensation with shareholder interests.  Under the SOP, incentive and non-qualified stock options, SARs, and SARs in tandem with stock options may be granted to key employees, officers, and outside directors.  The activity under this plan has predominantly consisted of the issuance of stock options.  Options are granted with an option

 

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price equal to the fair market value of the shares on the grant date.  Options generally vest over five years at a rate of 20 percent per year, beginning on the grant date, and expire 10 years from the grant date.  The total number of shares of common stock issuable under the SOP may not exceed 5,000,000 shares.  No incentive stock options may be granted under the plan after October 24, 2004.

 

(iii)                          Employee Stock Purchase and Savings Plan

 

The Employee Stock Purchase and Savings Plan allows essentially all full-time, regular employees to purchase shares of common stock pursuant to a stock option feature.  Under the Employee Stock Purchase and Savings Plan, after-tax funds are withheld from a participant’s compensation during a 26-month offering period and are deposited in an interest-bearing account.  At the end of the offering period, participants may apply amounts deposited in the account, plus interest, toward the purchase of shares of common stock.  The purchase price is equal to 95 percent of the fair market value of a share of common stock on the first date of the offering period.  Any funds not applied toward the purchase of shares are returned to the participant.  A participant may elect to terminate participation in the plan at any time.  Participation also will terminate if the participant’s employment ceases.  Upon termination of participation, all funds, including interest, are returned to the participant without penalty.  The sixth offering period began May 1, 2001, and ended June 30, 2003, with 168,101 shares purchased and the remaining cash distributed to the respective participants.  The purchase price for all shares under this offering was $32.78.  The total number of shares of common stock issuable under the Employee Stock Purchase and Savings Plan may not exceed 2,000,000.

 

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Activity for 2003, 2002, and 2001 for the LTIP, SOP, and Employee Stock Purchase and Savings Plan is summarized as follows:

 

 

 

LTIP and SOP

 

Employee Stock Purchase and
Savings Plan

 

 

 

Shares Subject
to Option

 

Weighted Average
Exercise Price

 

Shares
Subject
to Option

 

Weighted Average
Exercise Price

 

Balance at December 31, 2000

 

6,990,871

 

$

26.77

 

280,326

 

$

27.73

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Options granted

 

811,700

 

33.90

 

299,793

 

32.78

 

Options exercised

 

(275,393

)

24.39

 

(227,968

)

27.73

 

Options forfeited

 

(79,400

)

27.29

 

(73,826

)

29.20

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Balance at December 31, 2001

 

7,447,778

 

27.63

 

278,325

 

32.78

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Options granted

 

1,241,200

(2)

32.27

 

 

 

Options exercised

 

(1,308,738

)

23.96

 

(4,912

)

32.78

 

Options forfeited

 

(18,540

)

31.57

 

(55,243

)

32.78

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Balance at December 31, 2002

 

7,361,700

 

29.06

 

218,170

 

32.78

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Options granted

 

897,100

(2)

34.30

 

 

 

Options exercised

 

(1,630,046

)

24.89

 

(168,101

)

32.78

 

Options forfeited

 

(59,300

)

30.51

 

(50,069

)

32.78

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Balance at December 31, 2003

 

6,569,454

 

$

30.79

 

 

$

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Options Exercisable(1):

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

At December 31, 2001

 

3,763,558

 

$

27.32

 

 

 

 

 

At December 31, 2002

 

3,744,420

 

$

28.98

 

 

 

 

 

At December 31, 2003

 

3,700,346

 

$

29.52

 

 

 

 

 

 


(1)          The options under the Employee Stock Purchase and Savings Plan are generally only exercisable at the end of the offering period.

(2)          Options were not granted under the SOP during 2003 or 2002.

 

The weighted average fair value of options granted under the combined LTIP and the SOP plans was $4.96 in 2003, $4.95 in 2002, and $5.42 in 2001.  The weighted average fair value of options granted under the Employee Stock Purchase and Savings Plan was $5.85 in 2001 (no options were granted in 2003 or 2002).  The fair values of options granted were estimated as of the grant date using the Black-Scholes option-pricing model and the following assumptions:

 

 

 

LTIP and SOP(1)

 

Employee Stock
Purchase and Savings
Plan
(2)

 

 

 

2003

 

2002

 

2001

 

2001

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Risk-free interest rate

 

3.02

%

3.92

%

4.78

%

4.22

%

Expected dividend yield

 

5.34

%

5.66

%

5.42

%

5.26

%

Expected lives

 

5.35

yrs.

5.42

yrs.

5.37

yrs.

2.17

yrs.

Expected volatility

 

26.15

%

26.45

%

25.01

%

30.67

%

 


(1)          Options were not granted under the SOP in 2003 or 2002.

 

 

(2)          Options were not granted under the Employee Stock Purchase and Savings Plan in 2003 or 2002.

 

 

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Price ranges, along with certain other information, for options outstanding under the combined LTIP and SOP plans at December 31, 2003, were as follows:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Outstanding

 

Exercisable

 

Exercise
Price Range

 

Number
of Shares

 

Weighted
Average
Exercise
Price

 

Weighted
Average
Remaining
Contractual
Life

 

Number
of Shares

 

Weighted
Average
Exercise
Price

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

$

22.88

 

-

 

$

24.38

 

2,134,724

 

$

24.00

 

5.27 yrs.

 

1,830,644

 

$

24.03

 

$

24.63

 

-

 

$

33.87

 

1,851,164

 

$

32.05

 

7.20 yrs.

 

611,236

 

$

31.93

 

$

33.88

 

-

 

$

38.59

 

2,583,566

 

$

35.51

 

6.48 yrs.

 

1,258,466

 

$

36.32

 

 

(iv)                            401(k) Excess Plan

 

The 401(k) Excess Plan is a non-qualified deferred compensation plan for a select group of Cinergy management and other highly compensated employees.  It is a means by which these employees can defer additional compensation provided they have already contributed the maximum amount (pursuant to the anti-discrimination rules for highly compensated employees) under the qualified 401(k) Plan.  All funds deferred are held in a rabbi trust administered by an independent trustee.

 

(d)                                  401(k) Plans

 

We sponsor 401(k) employee retirement plans that cover substantially all U.S. employees.  Employees can contribute up to 50 percent of pre-tax base salary (subject to Internal Revenue Service (IRS) limits) and up to 15 percent of after-tax base salary.  We make matching contributions to these plans in the form of Cinergy Corp. common stock, contributing 100 percent of the first three percent of an employee’s pre-tax contributions plus 50 percent of the next two percent of an employee’s pre-tax contributions.  Employees are immediately vested in both their contributions and our matching contributions.

 

Cinergy’s, CG&E’s, and PSI’s matching contributions for the years ended December 31, 2003, 2002, and 2001 were as follows:

 

 

 

2003

 

2002

 

2001

 

 

 

(in millions)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Cinergy(1)

 

$

18

 

$

19

 

$

17

 

CG&E and subsidiaries

 

3

 

3

 

3

 

PSI

 

4

 

3

 

3

 

 


(1)                                  The results of Cinergy also include amounts related to non-registrants.

 

 

Effective January 1, 2003, each Cinergy employee whose pension benefit is determined using a cash balance formula is also eligible to receive an annual deferred profit sharing contribution, calculated as a percentage of that employee’s total pay.  The deferred profit sharing contribution

 

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made by Cinergy is based on our performance level for the year, and is made to the 401(k) plans in the form of Cinergy Corp. common stock.  Each year’s contribution must remain invested in Cinergy Corp. common stock for a minimum of three years, or until an employee reaches age 50.  Employees age 50 or older may transfer their benefit from Cinergy Corp. common stock into another investment option offered under our 401(k) plans.  Employees vest in their benefit upon reaching three years of service, or immediately upon reaching age 65 while employed.  Cinergy has recorded approximately $1.5 million of profit sharing contribution costs for the year ended December 31, 2003.

 

(e)                                  Stock Purchase Contracts

 

In December 2001, Cinergy Corp. issued approximately $316 million notional amount of combined securities, a component of which was stock purchase contracts.  These contracts obligate the holder to purchase common shares of Cinergy Corp. stock in, and/or before, February 2005.  The number of shares to be issued is contingent upon the market price of Cinergy Corp. stock, but subject to predetermined ceiling and floor prices.  See Note 3(b) for further discussion of these combined securities.

 

3.                                      Variable Interest Entities

 

(a)                                  Power Sale SPEs

 

As discussed in Note 1(q)(iv), in accordance with Interpretation 46, we were required to consolidate two SPEs that have individual power sale agreements to CMP for approximately 45 megawatts (MW) of capacity, ending in 2009, and 35 MW of capacity, ending in 2016.  In addition, these SPEs have individual power purchase agreements with Capital & Trading to supply the power.  Capital & Trading also provides various services, including certain credit support facilities.  Upon the initial consolidation of these two SPEs on July 1, 2003, approximately $239 million of notes receivable, $225 million of non-recourse debt, and miscellaneous other assets and liabilities were included on Cinergy’s Balance Sheets.  The debt was incurred by the SPEs to finance the buyout of the existing power contracts that CMP held with the former suppliers.  The cash flows from the notes receivable are designed to repay the debt.  Notes 4 and 5 provide additional information regarding the debt and the notes receivable, respectively.

 

(b)                                  Preferred Trust Securities

 

In December 2001, Cinergy Corp. issued approximately $316 million notional amount of combined securities consisting of (a) 6.9 percent preferred trust securities, due February 2007, and (b) stock purchase contracts obligating the holders to purchase between 9.2 and 10.8 million shares of Cinergy Corp. common stock in February 2005.  A $50 preferred trust security and stock purchase contract were sold together as a single security unit (Unit).  The preferred trust securities were issued through a trust whose common stock is 100 percent owned by Cinergy Corp. The stock purchase contracts were issued directly by Cinergy Corp.  The trust loaned the proceeds from the issuance of the securities to Cinergy Corp. in exchange for a note payable to the trust that was eliminated in consolidation.  The proceeds of $306 million, which is net of approximately $10 million of issuance costs, were used to pay down Cinergy Corp.’s short-term

 

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indebtedness.  In February 2005, the preferred trust securities will be remarketed and the dividend rate reset, no lower than 6.9 percent, to yield $316 million in the remarketing.  The holders will use the proceeds from this remarketing to fund their obligation to purchase shares of Cinergy Corp. common stock under the stock purchase contract.  The holders will pay the market price for the stock at that time, subject to a ceiling of $34.40 per share and a floor of $29.15 per share.  The number of shares to be issued will vary according to the stock price, subject to the total proceeds equaling $316 million.

 

Each Unit will receive quarterly cash payments of 9.5 percent per annum of the notional amount, which includes the preferred trust security dividend of 6.9 percent and payment of 2.6 percent, which represents principal and interest on the stock purchase contracts.  Upon delivery of the shares, these stock purchase contract payments will cease.  The trust’s ability to pay dividends on the preferred trust securities is solely dependent on its receipt of interest payments from Cinergy Corp. on the note payable.  However, Cinergy Corp. has fully and unconditionally guaranteed the preferred trust securities.

 

As of July 1, 2003, we no longer consolidate the trust that was established to issue the preferred trust securities.  The preferred trust securities (previously recorded as Company obligated, mandatorily redeemable, preferred trust securities of subsidiary, holding solely debt securities of the company) are no longer included in Cinergy Corp.’s Balance Sheets.  In addition, the note payable owed to the trust, which has a current carrying value of $319 million, is included in Long-term debt.

 

(c)                                  Sales of Accounts Receivable

 

In February 2002, CG&E, PSI, and ULH&P entered into an agreement to sell certain of their accounts receivable and related collections.  Cinergy Corp. formed Cinergy Receivables Company, LLC (Cinergy Receivables) to purchase, on a revolving basis, nearly all of the retail accounts receivable and related collections of CG&E, PSI, and ULH&P.  Cinergy Corp. does not consolidate Cinergy Receivables since it meets the requirements to be accounted for as a qualifying SPE.  The transfers of receivables are accounted for as sales, pursuant to Statement 140.

 

The proceeds obtained from the sales of receivables are largely cash but do include a subordinated note from Cinergy Receivables for a portion of the purchase price (typically approximates 25 percent of the total proceeds).  The note is subordinate to senior loans that Cinergy Receivables obtains from commercial paper conduits controlled by unrelated financial institutions.  Cinergy Receivables provides credit enhancement related to senior loans in the form of over-collateralization of the purchased receivables.  However, the over-collateralization is calculated monthly and does not extend to the entire pool of receivables held by Cinergy Receivables at any point in time.  As such, these senior loans do not have recourse to all assets of Cinergy Receivables.  These loans provide the cash portion of the proceeds paid to CG&E, PSI, and ULH&P.

 

This subordinated note is a retained interest (right to receive a specified portion of cash flows from the sold assets) under Statement 140 and is classified within Notes receivable from

 

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affiliated companies in the accompanying Balance Sheets of CG&E, PSI, and ULH&P and is classified within Notes receivable on Cinergy Corp.’s Balance Sheets.  In addition, Cinergy Corp.’s investment in Cinergy Receivables constitutes a purchased beneficial interest (purchased right to receive specified cash flows, in our case residual cash flows), which is subordinate to the retained interests held by CG&E, PSI, and ULH&P.  The carrying values of the retained interests are determined by allocating the carrying value of the receivables between the assets sold and the interests retained based on relative fair value.  The key assumptions in estimating fair value are credit losses and selection of discount rates.  Because (a) the receivables generally turn in less than two months, (b) credit losses are reasonably predictable due to each company’s broad customer base and lack of significant concentration, and (c) the purchased beneficial interest is subordinate to all retained interests and thus would absorb losses first, the allocated bases of the subordinated notes are not materially different than their face value.  Interest accrues to CG&E, PSI, and ULH&P on the retained interests using the accretable yield method, which generally approximates the stated rate on the notes since the allocated basis and the face value are nearly equivalent.  Cinergy Corp. records income from Cinergy Receivables in a similar manner.  We record an impairment charge against the carrying value of both the retained interests and purchased beneficial interest whenever we determine that an other-than-temporary impairment has occurred (which is unlikely unless credit losses on the receivables far exceed the anticipated level).

 

The key assumptions used in measuring the retained interests for sales since the inception of the new agreement are as follows (all amounts are averages of the assumptions used in sales during the period):

 

 

 

Cinergy

 

CG&E and
subsidiaries

 

PSI

 

ULH&P

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

2003

 

2002

 

2003

 

2002

 

2003

 

2002

 

2003

 

2002

 

Anticipated credit loss rate

 

0.6

%

0.6

%

0.8

%

0.6

%

0.5

%

0.5

%

1.0

%

1.0

%

Discount rate on expected cash flows

 

4.4

%

5.0

%

4.4

%

5.0

%

4.4

%

5.0

%

4.4

%

5.0

%

Receivables turnover rate(1)

 

12.8

%

12.9

%

13.6

%

13.7

%

11.8

%

11.8

%

13.2

%

13.5

%

 


(1)                                  Receivables at each month-end divided by annualized sales for the month.

 

 

The hypothetical effect on the fair value of the retained interests assuming both a 10 percent and 20 percent unfavorable variation in credit losses or discount rates is not material due to the short turnover of receivables and historically low credit loss history.

 

CG&E retains servicing responsibilities for its role as a collection agent on the amounts due on the sold receivables.  However, Cinergy Receivables assumes the risk of collection on the purchased receivables without recourse to CG&E, PSI, and ULH&P in the event of a loss.  While no direct recourse to CG&E, PSI, and ULH&P exists, these entities risk loss in the event collections are not sufficient to allow for full recovery of their retained interests.  No servicing asset or liability is recorded since the servicing fee paid to CG&E approximates a market rate.

 

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The following table shows the gross and net receivables sold, retained interests, purchased beneficial interest, sales, and cash flows during the periods ending December 31, 2003 and 2002.

 

 

 

2003

 

 

 

Cinergy

 

CG&E and
subsidiaries

 

PSI

 

ULH&P

 

 

 

(in millions)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Receivables sold as of period end

 

$

487

 

$

310

 

$

177

 

$

50

 

Less:  Retained interests

 

172

 

107

 

65

 

18

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Net receivables sold as of period end

 

$

315

 

$

203

 

$

112

 

$

32

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Purchased beneficial interests

 

$

14

 

$

 

$

 

$

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Sales during period

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Receivables sold

 

$

3,681

 

$

2,140

 

$

1,541

 

$

346

 

Loss recognized on sale

 

36

 

23

 

13

 

4

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Cash flows during period

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Cash proceeds from sold receivables

 

$

3,601

 

$

2,092

 

$

1,509

 

$

337

 

Collection fees received

 

2

 

1

 

1

 

 

Return received on retained interests

 

16

 

9

 

7

 

2

 

 

 

 

2002

 

 

 

Cinergy

 

CG&E and
subsidiaries

 

PSI

 

ULH&P

 

 

 

(in millions)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Receivables sold as of period end

 

$

483

 

$

299

 

$

184

 

$

45

 

Less:  Retained interests

 

135

 

81

 

54

 

13

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Net receivables sold as of period end

 

$

348

 

$

218

 

$

130

 

$

32

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Purchased beneficial interests

 

$

10

 

$

 

$

 

$

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Sales during period

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Receivables sold

 

$

3,233

 

$

1,840

 

$

1,392

 

$

287

 

Loss recognized on sale

 

32

 

19

 

13

 

3

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Cash flows during period

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Cash proceeds from sold receivables

 

$

3,184

 

$

1,813

 

$

1,371

 

$

283

 

Collection fees received

 

2

 

1

 

1

 

 

Return received on retained interests

 

16

 

9

 

7

 

1

 

 

A decline in the long-term senior unsecured credit ratings of CG&E, PSI, or ULH&P below investment grade would result in a termination of the sale program and discontinuance of future sales of receivables, and could prevent Cinergy Receivables from borrowing additional funds from commercial paper conduits.

 

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4.              Long-Term Debt

 

Refer to the Statements of Capitalization for detailed information for Cinergy’s, CG&E’s, PSI’s, and ULH&P’s long-term debt.

 

In January 2002, PSI repaid at maturity $23 million principal amount of its Medium-term Notes, Series A.  The securities were not replaced by new issues of long-term debt.

 

In September 2002, CG&E repaid at maturity $100 million principal amount of its First Mortgage Bonds, 7 ¼% Series.

 

Also in September 2002, CG&E borrowed the proceeds from the issuance by the Ohio Air Quality Development Authority of $84 million principal amount of its State of Ohio Air Quality Development Revenue Refunding Bonds 2002 Series A, due September 1, 2037.  The issuance consists of two $42 million tranches, with the interest rate on one tranche being reset every 35 days by auction and the interest rate on the other tranche being reset every 7 days by auction.  The initial interest rates for the 35-day and 7-day tranches were 1.40 percent and 1.35 percent, respectively.  Proceeds from the borrowing were used in October 2002 to redeem, at par, two $42 million Series 1985 A&B Air Quality Development Authority State of Ohio Customized Purchase Revenue Bonds, due December 1, 2015.  The redeemed bonds had been classified in Notes payable and other short-term obligations.

 

Additionally in September 2002, PSI borrowed the proceeds from the issuance by the Indiana Development Finance Authority of $23 million principal amount of its Environmental Refunding Revenue Bonds Series 2002A, due March 1, 2031.  The initial interest rate for the bonds was 1.40 percent and resets every 35 days by auction.  Proceeds from the borrowing were used in October 2002 to redeem, at par, the $23 million principal amount of Indiana Development Finance Authority Environmental Refunding Revenue Bonds Series 1998, due August 1, 2028.  The redeemed bonds had been classified in Notes payable and other short-term obligations.

 

Later in September 2002, PSI borrowed the proceeds from the issuance by the Indiana Development Finance Authority of $24.6 million principal amount of its Environmental Refunding Revenue Bonds Series 2002B, due March 1, 2019.  The initial interest rate for the bonds was 1.35 percent and resets every 7 days by auction.  Proceeds from the issuance were used in October 2002 to redeem, at par, the $24.6 million principal amount of City of Princeton, Indiana Pollution Control Revenue Refunding Bonds 1996 Series, due March 1, 2019.  The redeemed bonds had been classified in Notes payable and other short-term obligations.

 

The holders of the Ohio Air Quality Development Authority and Indiana Development Finance Authority bonds mentioned above have the benefit of a financial guaranty insurance policy that insures the payment of principal of, and interest on, the bonds when due.  CG&E and PSI have each entered into an insurance agreement with the bond insurer and have pledged first mortgage bonds to secure their respective reimbursement obligations under such agreements.

 

Finally in September 2002, CG&E issued $500 million principal amount of its 5.70% Debentures due September 15, 2012.  Proceeds from the offering were used to repay short-term indebtedness incurred in connection with general corporate purposes including capital

 

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expenditures related to environmental compliance construction, and the repayment at maturity of $100 million principal amount of CG&E’s First Mortgage Bonds, 7 (1)/4% Series.  In July 2002, CG&E executed a treasury lock with a notional amount of $250 million, which was designated as a cash flow hedge of 50 percent of the forecasted interest payments on this debt offering.  With the issuance of the debt, the treasury lock was settled.  See Note 8(a) for additional information on this treasury lock.

 

In October 2002, PSI filed a petition with the IURC for the purpose of securing authorization and approval to issue two subordinated promissory notes to Cinergy Corp. for the acquisition of the Butler County, Ohio and Henry County, Indiana peaking plants.  In January 2003, the IURC granted this request, and in February 2003, PSI issued the notes.  One subordinated note was for the principal amount of $200 million with an annual interest rate of 6.30 percent scheduled to mature on April 15, 2004.  The second subordinated note was for $176 million with an annual interest rate of 6.40 percent scheduled to mature on September 1, 2004.

 

In March 2003, PSI borrowed the proceeds from the issuance by the Indiana Development Finance Authority of $35 million of its Environmental Refunding Revenue Bonds Series 2003, due April 1, 2022.  Interest was initially set at 1.05 percent and resets every 35 days by auction.  The bonds are not putable by the holders; therefore, PSI’s debt obligation is classified as Long-term debt.  Later in March 2003, the proceeds from this borrowing plus the interest income earned were used to cause the refunding of the $35 million principal amount outstanding of the City of Princeton, Indiana Pollution Control Revenue Refunding Bonds, 1997 Series.  Similar to the Indiana Development Finance Authority bonds discussed above, PSI has entered into an insurance agreement with the bond insurer and has pledged first mortgage bonds to secure its reimbursement obligations under the agreement.

 

In April 2003, PSI redeemed $26.8 million of the following Series A, Medium-term Notes:

 

Principal Amount

 

Interest Rate

 

Maturity Date

 

(in millions)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

$

2.0

 

8.37

%

11/08/2006

 

5.0

 

8.81

 

05/16/2022

 

3.0

 

8.80

 

05/18/2022

 

16.8

 

8.67

 

06/01/2022

 

 

In June 2003, CG&E issued $200 million principal amount of its 5 3/8% 2003 Series B Debentures due June 15, 2033 (effective interest rate of 5.66 percent).  Proceeds from this issuance were used for general corporate purposes, including the funding of capital expenditures related to construction projects and environmental compliance initiatives, and the repayment of outstanding indebtedness.

 

Also, in June 2003, CG&E modified existing debt resulting in a $200 million principal amount 5.40% 2003 Series A Debenture with a 30 year maturity.  The effective interest rate is 6.90 percent.

 

In June 2003, CG&E also redeemed its $100 million 8.28% Junior Subordinated Debentures due

 

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July 1, 2025.

 

Cinergy adopted Interpretation 46 on July 1, 2003, as discussed in Note 1(q)(iv).  The adoption of this new accounting principle had the following effects on long-term debt:

 

                                          Cinergy no longer consolidates the trust that held Company obligated, mandatorily redeemable, preferred trust securities of subsidiary, holding solely debt securities of the company.  This resulted in the removal of these securities from our 2003 Balance Sheet and the addition to long-term debt of a $319 million (net of discount) note payable that Cinergy Corp. owes to the trust.

 

                                          Cinergy consolidated two SPEs effective July 1, 2003.  As a result, Cinergy has approximately $217 million of additional non-recourse debt as of December 31, 2003, comprised of two separate notes.

 

The first note, with a December 31, 2003 balance of $110 million bears an interest rate of 7.81 percent and matures in June 2009.  The second note, with a December 31, 2003 balance of $107 million, bears an interest rate of 9.23 percent and matures in November 2016.

 

In September 2003, PSI redeemed $56 million of its 5.93% Series B, Medium-term Notes at maturity.

 

In September 2003, PSI issued $400 million principal amount of its 5.00% Debentures due September 15, 2013 (effective interest rate of 5.20 percent).  Proceeds from this issuance were used for the early redemption at par of two subordinated promissory notes to Cinergy Corp., as discussed above, totaling $376 million.  The remaining proceeds were used to reduce short-term indebtedness associated with general corporate purposes including funding capital expenditures related to construction projects and environmental compliance initiatives.

 

In October 2003, CG&E redeemed its $265.5 million First Mortgage Bonds, 7.20% due  October 1, 2023.

 

In December 2003, ULH&P redeemed $20 million of its 6.11% Senior Debentures at maturity.

 

In February 2004, CG&E redeemed $110 million of its 6.45% First Mortgage Bonds at maturity.

 

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The following table reflects the long-term debt maturities excluding any redemptions due to the exercise of call provisions or capital lease obligations.  Callable means the issuer has the right to buy back a given security from the holder at a specified price before maturity.  Putable means the holder has the right to sell a given security back to the issuer at a specified price before maturity.

 

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Long-term Debt Maturities

 

 

 

Cinergy(1)

 

CG&E and
subsidiaries

 

PSI

 

 

 

(in millions)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

2004

 

$

835

 

$

110

 

$

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

2005(2)

 

222

 

150

 

52

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

2006

 

354

 

 

326

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

2007

 

727

 

100

 

266

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

2008

 

550

 

120(3

)

44

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Thereafter

 

2,333

 

1,126(4

)

1,043

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Total

 

$

5,021

 

$

1,606

 

$

1,731

 

 


 

(1)          The results of Cinergy also include amounts related to non-registrants.

(2)          CG&E and subsidiaries includes long-term debt with put provisions of $150 million in 2005.  PSI includes long-term debt with put provisions of $50 million in 2005.

(3)          Includes ULH&P’s $20 million of long-term debt.

(4)          Includes ULH&P’s $35 million of long-term debt.

 

Maintenance and replacement fund provisions contained in PSI’s first mortgage bond indenture require:  (1) cash payments, (2) bond retirements, or (3) pledges of unfunded property additions each year based on an amount related to PSI’s net revenues.

 

In August 2000, the generation assets of CG&E were released from the first mortgage indenture lien.  CG&E’s remaining assets, consisting primarily of transmission and distribution assets, of approximately $2.6 billion are subject to the lien of its first mortgage bond indenture.  The utility property of PSI is also subject to the lien of its first mortgage bond indenture.

 

5.              Notes Receivable

 

As discussed in Note 1(q)(iv), Cinergy consolidated two previously unconsolidated SPEs effective July 1, 2003.  As a result, Cinergy has approximately $231 million of additional notes receivable as of December 31, 2003, comprised of two separate notes.

 

The first note, with a December 31, 2003 balance of $118 million, bears an effective interest rate of 7.81 percent and matures in August 2009.  The second note, with a December 31, 2003 balance of $113 million, bears an effective interest rate of 9.23 percent and matures in December 2016.

 

The following table reflects the maturities of these notes.

 

Notes Receivable Maturities

 

 

 

Cinergy

 

 

 

(in millions)

 

 

 

 

 

2004

 

$

17

 

2005

 

20

 

2006

 

23

 

2007

 

25

 

2008

 

29

 

Thereafter

 

117

 

 

 

 

 

Total

 

$

231

 

 

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6.              Notes Payable and Other Short-term Obligations

 

Short-term obligations may include:

 

                  short-term notes;

                  commercial paper;

                  variable rate pollution control notes; and

                  money pool.

 

Short-term Notes
 

Short-term borrowings mature within one year from the date of issuance.  We primarily use unsecured revolving lines of credit and the sale of commercial paper for short-term borrowings.  A portion of Cinergy Corp.’s revolving lines is used to provide credit support for commercial paper and letters of credit.  When revolving lines are reserved for commercial paper or backing letters of credit, they are not available for additional borrowings.  The fees paid to secure short-term borrowings were immaterial during each of the years ended December 31, 2003, 2002, and 2001.

 

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At December 31, 2003, Cinergy Corp. had $841 million remaining unused and available capacity relating to its $1 billion revolving credit facilities.  These revolving credit facilities include the following:

 

Credit Facility

 

Expiration

 

Established
Lines

 

Outstanding
and
Committed

 

Unused and
Available

 

 

 

(in millions)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

364-day senior revolving(1)

 

April 2004

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Direct borrowing

 

 

 

$

 

 

$

 

$

 

 

Commercial paper support

 

 

 

 

 

146

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Total 364-day facility

 

 

 

600

 

146

 

454

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Three-year senior revolving(1)

 

May 2004

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Direct borrowing

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Commercial paper support

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Letter of credit support

 

 

 

 

 

13

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Total Three-year facility

 

 

 

400

 

13

 

387

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Total Credit Facilities

 

 

 

$

1,000

 

$

159

 

$

841

 

 


(1)       Cinergy Corp. has historically followed the practice of renewing its credit facilities upon expiration.

 

In April 2003, Cinergy Corp. successfully placed a $600 million, 364-day senior unsecured revolving credit facility.  This facility replaced the $600 million, 364-day facility that expired April 30, 2003.

 

In addition to revolving credit facilities, Cinergy Corp., CG&E, and PSI also maintain uncommitted lines of credit.  These facilities are not guaranteed sources of capital and represent an informal agreement to lend money, subject to availability, with pricing to be determined at the time of advance.  Cinergy Corp., CG&E, and PSI have established uncommitted lines of $40 million, $15 million, and $60 million, respectively, all of which remained unused as of December 31, 2003.

 

Commercial Paper
 

Cinergy Corp.’s $800 million commercial paper program is supported by Cinergy Corp.’s $1 billion revolving credit facilities.  The commercial paper program at the Cinergy Corp. level supports, in part, the short-term borrowing needs of CG&E and PSI and eliminates their need for separate commercial paper programs.  As of December 31, 2003, Cinergy Corp. had $146 million in commercial paper outstanding.

 

Variable Rate Pollution Control Notes
 

CG&E and PSI have issued certain variable rate pollution control notes (tax-exempt notes obtained to finance equipment or land development for pollution control purposes).  Because the

 

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holders of these notes have the right to have their notes redeemed on a daily, weekly, or monthly basis, they are reflected in Notes payable and other short-term obligations on the Balance Sheets of Cinergy, CG&E, and PSI.  At December 31, 2003, CG&E and PSI had $112.1 million and $80.5 million, respectively, outstanding in variable rate pollution control notes, classified as short-term debt.  ULH&P had no outstanding short-term pollution control notes.  Any short-term pollution control note borrowings outstanding do not reduce the unused and available short-term debt regulatory authority of CG&E, PSI, and ULH&P.

 

In August 2003, CG&E caused the remarketing by the Ohio Air Quality Development Authority of $84 million of its State of Ohio Air Quality Development Revenue Refunding Bonds, due September 1, 2030.  The issuance consists of a $42 million 1995 Series A and a $42 million 1995 Series B.  The remarketing effected the conversion from a daily interest rate reset mode supported by a letter of credit to an unsecured weekly interest rate mode.  The interest rate for both series was initially set at 1.30 percent and will reset every seven days going forward.  Because the holders of these notes have the right to have their notes redeemed on a weekly basis, they are reflected in Notes payable and other short-term obligations on the Balance Sheets of Cinergy and CG&E.

 

Also in August 2003, CG&E caused the remarketing by the Ohio Air Quality Development Authority of $12.1 million of its State of Ohio Air Quality Development Revenue Bonds 2001 Series A due August 1, 2033.  The remarketing effected the conversion from an unsecured one-year interest rate reset mode to a daily interest rate reset mode supported by a letter of credit.  The interest rate was initially set at 0.95 percent and will be reset daily going forward.  Because the holders of these notes have the right to have their notes redeemed on a daily basis, they are reflected in Notes payable and other short-term obligations on the Balance Sheets of Cinergy and CG&E.

 

In December 2003, PSI borrowed the proceeds from the issuance by the Indiana Development Finance Authority of $80.5 million of its Indiana Development Finance Authority Environmental Revenue Bonds due December 1, 2038.  The issuance consists of two $40.25 million tranches designated Series 2003A and Series 2003B.  The initial interest rate for both tranches was 1.27 percent and is reset weekly.  Proceeds from the borrowing will be used for the acquisition and construction of various solid waste disposal facilities located at various generating stations in Indiana.  The $80.5 million is being held in escrow by an independent trustee and will be drawn down as the facilities are built.  Because the holders of these notes have the right to have their notes redeemed on a weekly basis, they are reflected in Notes payable and other short-term obligations on the Balance Sheets of Cinergy and PSI.

 

Money Pool

 

Cinergy Corp., Services, and our operating companies participate in a money pool arrangement to better manage cash and working capital requirements.  Under this arrangement, those companies with surplus short-term funds provide short-term loans to affiliates (other than Cinergy Corp.) participating under this arrangement.  This surplus cash may be from internal or external sources.  The amounts outstanding under this money pool arrangement are shown as a component of Notes receivable from affiliated companies and/or Notes payable to affiliated

 

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companies on the Balance Sheets of CG&E, PSI, and ULH&P.  Any money pool borrowings outstanding reduce the unused and available short-term debt regulatory authority of CG&E, PSI, and ULH&P.

 

The following table summarizes our Notes payable and other short-term obligations and Notes payable to affiliated companies.

 

 

 

December 31, 2003

 

December 31, 2002

 

 

 

Established
Lines

 

Outstanding

 

Weighted
Average
Rate

 

Established
Lines

 

Outstanding

 

Weighted
Average  Rate

 

 

 

(in millions)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Cinergy

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Cinergy Corp.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Revolving lines

 

$

1,000

 

$

 

%

$

1,000

 

$

25

 

2.02

%

Uncommitted lines(1)

 

40

 

 

 

65

 

 

 

Commercial paper(2)

 

 

 

146

 

1.18

 

 

 

473

 

1.81

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Operating companies

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Uncommitted lines(1)

 

75

 

 

 

75

 

 

 

Pollution control notes

 

 

 

193

 

1.37

 

 

 

147

 

1.82

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Non-regulated subsidiaries

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Revolving lines

 

19

 

10

 

5.90

 

7

 

1

 

3.28

 

Short-term debt

 

 

 

2

 

4.80

 

22

 

22

 

2.93

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Cinergy Total

 

 

 

$

351

 

1.45

%

 

 

$

668

 

1.86

%

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

CG&E and subsidiaries

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Uncommitted lines(1)

 

$

15

 

$

 

%

$

15

 

$

 

%

Pollution control notes

 

 

 

112

 

1.28

 

 

 

112

 

1.87

 

Money Pool

 

 

 

49

 

1.11

 

 

 

9

 

1.29

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

CG&E Total

 

 

 

$

161

 

 

 

 

 

$

121

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

PSI

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Uncommitted lines(1)

 

$

60

 

$

 

%

$

60

 

$

 

%

Pollution control notes

 

 

 

81

 

1.48

 

 

 

35

 

1.65

 

Money Pool

 

 

 

188

 

1.11

 

 

 

138

 

1.29

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

PSI Total

 

 

 

$

269

 

 

 

 

 

$

173

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

ULH&P

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Money Pool

 

 

 

$

45

 

1.11

%

 

 

$

14

 

1.29

%

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

ULH&P Total

 

 

 

$

45

 

 

 

 

 

$

14

 

 

 

 


(1)          Outstanding amounts may be greater than established lines as uncommitted lenders are, at times, willing to loan funds in excess of the established lines.

(2)          The commercial paper program is limited to $800 million and is supported by Cinergy Corp.’s revolving lines of credit.

 

In our credit facilities, Cinergy Corp. has covenanted to maintain:

 

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                  a consolidated net worth of $2 billion; and

                  a ratio of consolidated indebtedness to consolidated total capitalization not in excess of 65 percent.

 

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A breach of these covenants could result in the termination of the credit facilities and the acceleration of the related indebtedness.  In addition to breaches of covenants, certain other events that could result in the termination of available credit and acceleration of the related indebtedness include:

 

                  bankruptcy;

                  defaults in the payment of other indebtedness; and

                  judgments against the company that are not paid or insured.

 

The latter two events, however, are subject to dollar-based materiality thresholds.

 

As discussed in Note 1(q)(iv), long-term debt increased in 2003 resulting from the adoption of Interpretation 46.  The debt which was recorded as a result of this new accounting pronouncement did not cause Cinergy Corp. to be in breach of any covenants.

 

7.              Leases

 

(a)                                  Operating Leases

 

We have entered into operating lease agreements for various facilities and properties such as computer, communication and transportation equipment, and office space.  Total rental payments on operating leases for each of the past three years are detailed in the table below.  This table also shows future minimum lease payments required for operating leases with remaining non-cancelable lease terms in excess of one year as of December 31, 2003:

 

 

 

Lease Expense

 

Estimated Minimum Lease Payments

 

 

 

2001

 

2002

 

2003

 

2004

 

2005

 

2006

 

2007

 

2008

 

Thereafter

 

Total

 

 

 

(in millions)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Cinergy(1)

 

$

61

 

$

64

 

$

72

 

$

41

 

$

33

 

$

26

 

$

21

 

$

13

 

$

37

 

$

171

 

CG&E and subsidiaries

 

33

 

30

 

34

 

9

 

8

 

7

 

5

 

4

 

9

 

42

 

PSI

 

21

 

23

 

31

 

10

 

9

 

9

 

8

 

7

 

17

 

60

 

ULH&P

 

5

 

4

 

4

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 


(1)                                  The results of Cinergy also include amounts related to non-registrants.

 

(b)                                  Capital Leases

 

In each of the years 1999 through 2003, CG&E, PSI, and ULH&P entered into capital lease agreements to fund the purchase of gas and electric meters.  The lease terms are for 120 months commencing with the date of purchase and contain various buyout options ranging from 48 to 105 months.  It is our objective to own the meters indefinitely and the operating companies plan to exercise the buyout option at month 105.  As of December 31, 2003, Cinergy’s effective interest rate on capital lease obligations outstanding was 5.2 percent.  The meters are depreciated at the same rate as if owned by the operating companies.  CG&E, PSI, and ULH&P each recorded a capital lease obligation, included in Non-Current Liabilities-Other.

 

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The total minimum lease payments and the present values for these capital lease items are shown below:

 

 

 

Total Minimum Lease Payments

 

 

 

Cinergy

 

CG&E and
subsidiaries

 

PSI

 

ULH&P

 

 

 

(in millions)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Total minimum lease payments(1)

 

$

68

 

$

41

 

$

27

 

$

10

 

Less: amount representing interest

 

(13

)

(8

)

(5

)

(2

)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Present value of minimum lease payments

 

$

55

 

$

33

 

$

22

 

$

8

 

 


(1)          Annual minimum lease payments are immaterial.

 

8.                    Financial Instruments

 

(a)                                  Financial Derivatives

 

We have entered into financial derivative contracts for the purpose of managing financial instrument risk.

 

Our current policy of managing exposure to fluctuations in interest rates is to maintain approximately 30 percent of the total amount of outstanding debt in floating interest rate debt instruments.  In maintaining this level of exposure, we use interest rate swaps.  Under the swaps, we agree with other parties to exchange, at specified intervals, the difference between fixed-rate and floating-rate interest amounts calculated on an agreed notional amount.  CG&E has an outstanding interest rate swap agreement that decreased the percentage of floating-rate debt.  Under the provisions of the swap, which has a notional amount of $100 million, CG&E pays a fixed-rate and receives a floating-rate through October 2007.  This swap qualifies as a cash flow hedge under the provisions of Statement 133.  As the terms of the swap agreement mirror the terms of the debt agreement that it is hedging, we anticipate that this swap will continue to be effective as a hedge.  Changes in fair value of this swap are recorded in Accumulated other comprehensive income (loss)Cinergy Corp. has three outstanding interest rate swaps with a combined notional amount of $250 million.  Under the provisions of the swaps, Cinergy Corp. receives fixed-rate interest payments and pays floating-rate interest payments through September 2004.  These swaps qualify as fair value hedges under the provisions of Statement 133.  We anticipate that these swaps will continue to be effective as hedges.

 

Treasury locks are agreements that fix the yield or price on a specified treasury security for a specified period, which we sometimes use in connection with the issuance of fixed-rate debt.  On September 23, 2002, CG&E issued $500 million principal amount senior unsecured debentures due September 15, 2012, with an interest rate of 5.70 percent.  In July 2002, CG&E executed a treasury lock with a notional amount of $250 million, which was designated as a cash flow hedge of 50 percent of the forecasted interest payments on this debt offering.  The treasury lock effectively fixed the benchmark interest rate (i.e., the treasury component of the interest rate, but not the credit spread) for 50 percent of the offering from July 2002 through the issuance date in order to reduce the exposure associated with treasury rate volatility.  With the issuance of the

 

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debt, the treasury lock was settled.  Given the use of hedge accounting, this settlement was reflected in other comprehensive income (loss) on an after-tax basis in the amount of $13 million, rather than a charge to net income.  This amount will be reclassified to Interest Expense over the 10-year life of the related debt as interest is accrued.

 

See Note 1(k) for additional information on financial derivatives.  In the future, we will continually monitor market conditions to evaluate whether to modify our use of financial instruments to manage risk.

 

(b)                                  Fair Value of Other Financial Instruments

The estimated fair values of other financial instruments were as follows (this information does not claim to be a valuation of the companies as a whole):

 

 

 

December 31, 2003

 

December 31, 2002

 

Financial Instruments

 

Carrying
Amount

 

Fair
Value

 

Carrying
Amount

 

Fair
Value

 

 

 

(in millions)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Cinergy(1)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

First mortgage bonds and other long-term debt(2)

 

$

4,971

 

$

5,297

 

$

4,188

 

$

4,399

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

CG&E and subsidiaries

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

First mortgage bonds and other long-term debt(2)

 

$

1,569

 

$

1,582

 

$

1,690

 

$

1,743

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

PSI

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

First mortgage bonds and other long-term debt(2)

 

$

1,720

 

$

1,861

 

$

1,372

 

$

1,473

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

ULH&P

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Other long-term debt(2)

 

$

55

 

$

61

 

$

75

 

$

78

 

 


(1)                                  The results of Cinergy also include amounts related to non-registrants.

(2)                                  Includes amounts reflected as Long-term debt due within one year.

 

The following methods and assumptions were used to estimate the fair values of each major class of instruments:

 

(i)          Cash and cash equivalents, Restricted deposits, and Notes payable and other short-term obligations

 

Due to the short period to maturity, the carrying amounts reflected on the Balance Sheets approximate fair values.

 

(ii)      Long-term debt

 

The fair values of long-term debt issues were estimated based on the latest quoted market prices or, if not listed on the New York Stock Exchange, on the present value of future cash flows.  The discount rates used approximate the incremental borrowing costs for similar instruments.

 

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(c)                                  Concentrations of Credit Risk

Credit risk is the exposure to economic loss that would occur as a result of nonperformance by counterparties, pursuant to the terms of their contractual obligations.  Specific components of credit risk include counterparty default risk, collateral risk, concentration risk, and settlement risk.

 

(i)          Trade Receivables and Physical Power Portfolio

 

Our concentration of credit risk with respect to trade accounts receivable from electric and gas retail customers is limited.  The large number of customers and diversified customer base of residential, commercial, and industrial customers significantly reduces our credit risk.  Contracts within the physical portfolio of power marketing and trading operations are primarily with traditional electric cooperatives and municipalities and other investor-owned utilities.  At December 31, 2003, we believe the likelihood of significant losses associated with credit risk in our trade accounts receivable or physical power portfolio is remote.

 

(ii)      Energy Trading Credit Risk

 

Cinergy’s extension of credit for energy marketing and trading is governed by a Corporate Credit Policy.  Written guidelines document the management approval levels for credit limits, evaluation of creditworthiness, and credit risk mitigation procedures.  Exposures to credit risks are monitored daily by the Corporate Credit Risk function, which is independent of all trading operations.  As of December 31, 2003, approximately 97 percent of the credit exposure, net of credit collateral, related to energy trading and marketing activity was with counterparties rated Investment Grade or the counterparties’ obligations were guaranteed or secured by an Investment Grade entity.  No single non-investment grade counterparty accounts for more than one percent of our total credit exposure.  Energy commodity prices can be extremely volatile and the market can, at times, lack liquidity.  Because of these issues, credit risk is generally greater than with other commodity trading.

 

In December 2001, Enron Corp. (Enron) filed for protection under Chapter 11 of the U.S. Bankruptcy Code in the Southern District of New York.  We decreased our trading activities with Enron in the months prior to its bankruptcy filing and filed a motion with the bankruptcy court overseeing the Enron bankruptcy seeking appropriate netting of the various payables and receivables between and among Enron and Cinergy entities.  We entered into a settlement agreement with Enron, which became final in January 2004.  See Note 11(c)(iii) for further information.

 

We continually review and monitor our credit exposure to all counterparties and secondary counterparties.  If appropriate, we may adjust our credit reserves to attempt to compensate for increased credit risk within the industry.  Counterparty credit limits may be adjusted on a daily basis in response to changes in a counterparty’s financial status or public debt ratings.

 

(iii)  Financial Derivatives

 

Potential exposure to credit risk also exists from our use of financial derivatives such as interest

 

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rate swaps and treasury locks.  Because these financial instruments are transacted with highly rated financial institutions, we do not anticipate nonperformance by any of the counterparties.

 

9.              Pension and Other Postretirement Benefits

We provide benefits to retirees in the form of pension and other postretirement benefits.

 

Our qualified defined benefit pension plans cover substantially all U.S. employees meeting certain minimum age and service requirements.  During 2002, eligible Cinergy employees were offered the opportunity to make a one-time election, effective January 1, 2003, to either continue to have their pension benefit determined by the traditional defined benefit pension formula or to have their benefit determined using a cash balance formula.

 

The traditional defined benefit program utilizes a final average pay formula to determine pension benefits.  These benefits are based on:

 

                  years of participation;

                  age at retirement; and

                  the applicable average Social Security wage base or benefit amount.

 

Benefits are accrued under the cash balance formula based upon a percentage of pay plus interest.  In addition, participants with the cash balance formula may request a lump-sum cash payment upon termination of their employment, which may result in increased cash requirements from pension plan assets.  Benefits earned under the traditional defined benefit pension formula ceased accruing at December 31, 2002 only for those employees who elected the cash balance formula.  There was no change to retirement benefits earned through December 31, 2002 in converting to the cash balance formula.  The pension benefits of all non-union and certain union employees hired after December 31, 2002 are calculated using the cash balance formula.

 

The introduction of the defined benefit plan with cash balance features did not have a material effect on our financial position or results of operations for 2003.

 

Funding for the qualified defined benefit pension plans is based on actuarially determined contributions, the maximum of which is generally the amount deductible for income tax purposes and the minimum being that required by the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974, as amended.  The pension plans’ assets consist of investments in equity and debt securities.

 

Cinergy’s investment strategy with respect to pension assets is designed to achieve a moderate level of overall portfolio risk in keeping with our desired risk objective, which is established through careful consideration of plan liabilities, plan funded status, and corporate financial condition.  The portfolio’s target asset allocation is 60 percent equity and 40 percent debt with specified allowable ranges around these targets.  Within the equity segment, we are broadly diversified across domestic, developed international, and emerging market equities, with the largest concentration being domestic.  Further diversification is achieved through allocations to growth/value and small-, mid-, and large-cap equities.  Within the debt segment, we principally maintain separate “core plus” and “core” portfolios.  The “core plus” portfolio makes tactical use of the “plus” sectors (e.g., high yield, developed international, emerging markets, etc.) while the

 

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“core” portfolio is a domestic, investment grade portfolio.  The use of derivatives is currently limited to collateralized mortgage obligations and asset-backed securities.  Investment risk is measured and monitored on an ongoing basis through quarterly investment portfolio reviews, annual liability measurements, and periodic asset/liability studies.

 

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Cinergy’s qualified pension plan asset allocation at September 30, 2003 and 2002 by asset category was as follows:

 

 

 

Percentage of Fair Value of
Plan Assets at September 30

 

Asset Category

 

2003

 

2002

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Equity securities(1)

 

62

%

50

%

Debt securities(2)

 

38

%

50

%

 


(1)          The portfolio’s target asset allocation is 60 percent equity with an allowable range of 50 percent to 70 percent.

(2)          The portfolio’s target asset allocation is 40 percent debt with an allowable range of 30 percent to 50 percent.

 

In addition, we sponsor non-qualified pension plans (plans that do not meet the criteria for tax benefits) that cover officers, certain other key employees, and non-employee directors.  We began funding certain of these non-qualified plans through a rabbi trust in 1999.  This trust, which consists of equity (63 percent) and debt (37 percent) securities at December 31, 2003, is not restricted to the payment of plan benefits and therefore, not considered plan assets under Statement of Financial Accounting Standards No. 87, Employers’ Accounting for Pensions.  At December 31, 2003 and 2002, trust assets were approximately $9 million and $8 million, respectively, and are reflected in Cinergy’s Balance Sheets as Other investments.

 

In 2003 and 2002, Cinergy offered voluntary early retirement programs to certain individuals.  In accordance with Statement of Financial Accounting Standards No. 88, Employers’ Accounting for Settlements and Curtailments of Defined Benefit Pension Plans and for Termination Benefits (Statement 88), Cinergy recognized an expense of $8.5 million and $39.1 million in 2003 and 2002, respectively.

 

We provide certain health care and life insurance benefits to retired U.S. employees and their eligible dependents.  These benefits are subject to minimum age and service requirements.  The health care benefits include medical coverage, dental coverage, and prescription drugs and are subject to certain limitations, such as deductibles and co-payments.  Neither CG&E nor ULH&P pre-fund their obligations for these postretirement benefits.  In 1999, PSI began pre-funding its obligations through a grantor trust as authorized by the IURC.  This trust, which consists of equity (63 percent) and debt (37 percent) securities at December 31, 2003, is not restricted to the payment of plan benefits and therefore, not considered plan assets under Statement of Financial Accounting Standards No. 106, Employers’ Accounting for Postretirement Benefits Other Than Pensions (Statement 106).  At December 31, 2003 and 2002, trust assets were approximately $64 million and $52 million, respectively, and are reflected in Cinergy’s Balance Sheets as Other investments.

 

Based on preliminary estimates, we expect 2004 contributions of $107 million for qualified pension benefits.  In addition, we expect to make contributions of $8 million and $27 million in 2004 for non-qualified pension benefits and other postretirement benefits, respectively.

 

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Our benefit plans’ costs for the past three years included the following components:

 

 

 

Qualified
Pension Benefits

 

Non-Qualified
Pension Benefits

 

Other
Postretirement Benefits

 

 

 

2003

 

2002

 

2001

 

2003

 

2002

 

2001

 

2003

 

2002

 

2001

 

 

 

(in millions)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Service cost

 

$

31.3

 

$

27.3

 

$

27.9

 

$

3.3

 

$

2.7

 

$

2.1

 

$

4.1

 

$

3.5

 

$

3.8

 

Interest cost

 

85.9

 

79.2

 

77.5

 

6.4

 

5.1

 

4.8

 

22.4

 

19.6

 

17.9

 

Expected return on plans’ assets

 

(80.8

)

(86.3

)

(81.9

)

 

 

 

 

(0.3

)

 

Amortization of transition (asset) obligation

 

(1.0

)

(1.3

)

(1.3

)

 

0.1

 

0.1

 

3.3

 

5.0

 

5.0

 

Amortization of prior service cost

 

4.8

 

6.2

 

4.6

 

1.3

 

0.9

 

1.1

 

 

 

 

Recognized actuarial (gain) loss

 

 

(5.4

)

(3.2

)

2.1

 

0.8

 

0.6

 

5.2

 

1.1

 

0.1

 

Voluntary early retirement costs (Statement 88)

 

8.5

 

38.6

 

 

 

0.5

 

 

 

 

 

Net periodic benefit cost

 

$

48.7

 

$

58.3

 

$

23.6

 

$

13.1

 

$

10.1

 

$

8.7

 

$

35.0

 

$

28.9

 

$

26.8

 

 

The net periodic benefit cost by registrant was as follows:

 

 

 

Qualified
Pension Benefits

 

Non-Qualified
Pension Benefits

 

Other
Postretirement Benefits

 

 

 

2003

 

2002

 

2001

 

2003

 

2002

 

2001

 

2003

 

2002

 

2001

 

 

 

(in millions)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Cinergy(1)

 

$

48.7

 

$

58.3

 

$

23.6

 

$

13.1

 

$

10.1

 

$

8.7

 

$

35.0

 

$

28.9

 

$

26.8

 

CG&E and subsidiaries

 

9.7

 

7.2

 

1.9

 

1.0

 

1.1

 

1.7

 

9.0

 

7.2

 

6.9

 

PSI

 

11.7

 

12.2

 

7.5

 

0.7

 

0.6

 

0.7

 

17.6

 

15.3

 

13.5

 

ULH&P

 

1.0

 

1.7

 

0.3

 

 

 

 

0.9

 

0.4

 

0.4

 

 


(1)          The results of Cinergy also include amounts related to non-registrants.

 

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The following table provides a reconciliation of the changes in the plans’ benefit obligations and fair value of assets for 2003 and 2002, and a statement of the funded status for both years.  Cinergy uses a September 30 measurement date for its defined benefit pension plans and other postretirement benefit plans.

 

 

 

Qualified
Pension Benefits

 

Non-Qualified
Pension Benefits

 

Other
Postretirement
Benefits

 

 

 

2003

 

2002

 

2003

 

2002

 

2003

 

2002

 

 

 

(in millions)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Change in benefit obligation

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Benefit obligation at beginning of period

 

$

1,314.9

 

$

1,083.5

 

$

97.8

 

$

70.9

 

$

343.2

 

$

270.4

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Service cost

 

31.3

 

27.3

 

3.3

 

2.7

 

4.1

 

3.5

 

Interest cost

 

85.9

 

79.2

 

6.4

 

5.1

 

22.4

 

19.6

 

Amendments(1)

 

0.3

 

43.3

 

0.1

 

4.5

 

(3.3

)

(12.3

)

Actuarial loss

 

97.9

 

156.5

 

7.4

 

20.6

 

54.3

 

80.2

 

Benefits paid

 

(72.5

)

(74.9

)

(7.4

)

(6.0

)

(22.0

)

(18.2

)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Benefit obligation at end of period

 

1,457.8

 

1,314.9

 

107.6

 

97.8

 

398.7

 

343.2

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Change in plan assets

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Fair value of plan assets at beginning of period

 

756.5

 

875.4

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Actual return on plan assets

 

119.3

 

(48.0

)

 

 

 

 

Employer contribution

 

74.0

 

4.0

 

7.4

 

6.0

 

22.0

 

18.2

 

Benefits paid

 

(72.5

)

(74.9

)

(7.4

)

(6.0

)

(22.0

)

(18.2

)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Fair value of plan assets at end of period

 

877.3

 

756.5

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Funded status

 

(580.5

)

(558.4

)

(107.6

)

(97.8

)

(398.7

)

(343.2

)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Unrecognized prior service cost

 

35.4

 

48.4

 

12.3

 

13.5

 

 

 

Unrecognized net actuarial loss

 

255.5

 

196.2

 

43.1

 

37.6

 

175.7

 

125.5

 

Unrecognized net transition (asset) obligation

 

(0.8

)

(1.9

)

 

0.1

 

26.9

 

33.5

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Benefit cost at December 31

 

$

(290.4

)

$

(315.7

)

$

(52.2

)

$

(46.6

)

$

(196.1

)

$

(184.2

)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Amounts recognized in balance sheets

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Accrued benefit liability

 

$

(366.2

)

$

(353.0

)

$

(100.5

)

$

(89.0

)

$

(196.1

)

$

(184.2

)

Intangible asset

 

22.1

 

32.6

 

12.3

 

13.6

 

 

 

Accumulated other comprehensive income (pre-tax)

 

53.7

 

4.7

 

36.0

 

28.8

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Net recognized at end of period

 

$

(290.4

)

$

(315.7

)

$

(52.2

)

$

(46.6

)

$

(196.1

)

$

(184.2

)

 

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(1)          For 2003, the amount of $0.3 million includes $8.5 million of voluntary early retirement expenses in accordance with Statement 88, as previously discussed.  For 2002, the amounts of $43.3 million and $4.5 million include $38.6 million and $0.5 million, respectively, of voluntary early retirement expenses in accordance with Statement 88, as previously discussed.

 

The accumulated benefit obligation for the qualified defined benefit pension plans was $1,237.3 million and $1,101.7 million for 2003 and 2002, respectively.  The accumulated benefit obligation for the non-qualified defined benefit pension plans was $102.1 million and $90.4 million for 2003 and 2002, respectively.

 

The weighted-average assumptions used to determine benefit obligations were as follows:

 

 

 

Qualified
Pension Benefits

 

Non-Qualified
Pension Benefits

 

Other
Postretirement Benefits

 

 

 

2003

 

2002

 

2003

 

2002

 

2003

 

2002

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Discount rate

 

6.25

%

6.75

%

6.25

%

6.75

%

6.25

%

6.75

%

Rate of future compensation increase

 

4.00

 

4.00

 

4.00

 

4.00

 

N/A

 

N/A

 

 

The weighted-average assumptions used to determine net periodic benefit cost for the years ended December 31 were as follows:

 

 

 

Qualified
Pension Benefits

 

Non-Qualified
Pension Benefits

 

Other
Postretirement Benefits

 

 

 

2003

 

2002

 

2001

 

2003

 

2002

 

2001

 

2003

 

2002

 

2001

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Discount rate

 

6.75

%

7.50

%

7.50

%

6.75

%

7.50

%

7.50

%

6.75

%

7.50

%

7.50

%

Expected return on plans’ assets

 

9.00

 

9.25

 

9.00

 

N/A

 

N/A

 

N/A

 

N/A

 

3.00

 

N/A

 

Rate of future compensation increase

 

4.00

 

4.00

 

4.50

 

4.00

 

4.00

 

4.50

 

N/A

 

N/A

 

N/A

 

 

Cinergy’s expected long-term rate of return on plan assets is based on a calculation provided by an independent investment-consulting firm.  The calculation of the expected return is a two-step process.  Capital market assumptions (e.g., forecasts) are first developed for various asset classes based on underlying fundamental and economic drivers of performance.  Such drivers for equity and debt instruments include profit margins, dividend yields, and interest paid for use of capital.  Risk premiums for each asset class are then developed based on factors such as expected illiquidity, credit spreads, inflation uncertainty and country/currency risk.  Current valuation factors such as present interest and inflation rate levels underpin this process.

 

The assumptions are then modeled via a probability based multi-factor capital market methodology.  Through this modeling process, a range of possible 10-year annualized returns are generated for each strategic asset class.  Those returns falling at the 50th percentile are utilized in the calculation of Cinergy’s expected long-term rate of return.  We periodically request a new calculation for use in validating our current expected long-term rate of return.

 

The assumed health care cost trend rates were as follows:

 

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2003

 

2002

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Health care cost trend rate assumed for next year

 

9.00

%

7.00

%

Rate to which the cost trend rate is assumed to decline (the ultimate trend rate)

 

5.00

%

5.00

%

Year that the rate reaches the ultimate trend rate

 

2008

 

2008

 

 

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Assumed health care cost trend rates have a significant effect on the amounts reported for the health care plans.  A one-percentage-point change in assumed health care cost trend rates would have the following effects:

 

 

 

One-Percentage-
Point Increase

 

One-Percentage-
Point Decrease

 

 

 

(in millions)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Effect on total of service and interest cost components

 

$

4.1

 

$

(3.5

)

Effect on accumulated postretirement benefit obligation

 

52.1

 

(45.7

)

 

On December 8, 2003, President Bush signed into law the Medicare Prescription Drug, Improvement and Modernization Act of 2003 (the Act).  The Act introduced a prescription drug benefit to retirees as well as a federal subsidy to sponsors of retiree health care benefit plans that provide a prescription drug benefit that is actuarially equivalent to the benefit provided by Medicare.  In January 2004, the FASB staff issued FASB Staff Position 106-1, Accounting and Disclosure Requirements Related to the Medicare Prescription Drug, Improvement and Modernization Act of 2003 (FSP 106-1).  FSP 106-1 allows sponsors of postretirement health care plans that provide a prescription drug benefit to make a one-time election to defer accounting for certain provisions of the Act until further authoritative guidance is issued by FASB.  Alternatively, sponsors not electing the deferral option must account for the effects of the Act.  Cinergy is required to make its election on whether it will defer accounting for the effects of the Act by the first quarter of 2004.  Cinergy expects that it will not elect the deferral option but will account for the subsidy as a reduction of our accumulated postretirement benefit obligation with actuarial gain/loss treatment.

 

In accordance with the provisions of Statement 106, the Act had no effect on Cinergy’s reported 2003 accumulated postretirement benefit obligation, measured at September 30, 2003, or our 2003 net periodic postretirement benefit costs.  Cinergy expects that the FASB will issue final authoritative guidance on accounting for the subsidy during 2004.  Depending upon the timing of such guidance and our conclusion of whether or not to defer reflecting the effects of the Act, our net periodic postretirement benefit costs reported during the interim periods of 2004 could change.

 

In January 2004, Cinergy announced to employees the creation of a new retiree Health Reimbursement Account (HRA) option, which will impact the postretirement healthcare benefits provided by Cinergy.  HRAs are bookkeeping accounts that can be used to pay for qualified medical expenses after retirement.  The majority of employees will have the opportunity to make a one-time election to remain in Cinergy’s current retiree healthcare program or to move to the new HRA option.  The HRA option has no effect on current retirees receiving postretirement benefits from Cinergy.  As is the case under the current retiree health program, employees who participate in the HRA option will become eligible to receive their HRA benefit only upon retirement on or after the age of 50 with at least five years of service.  We expect that the impact of the new HRA option will not be material to our other postretirement benefit costs.

 

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10.       Income Taxes

 

The following table shows the significant components of Cinergy’s, CG&E’s, and PSI’s net deferred income tax liabilities as of December 31:

 

 

 

Cinergy(1)

 

CG&E and subsidiaries

 

PSI

 

 

 

2003

 

2002

 

2003

 

2002

 

2003

 

2002

 

 

 

(in millions)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Deferred Income Tax Liability

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Property, plant, and equipment

 

$

1,524.8

 

$

1,373.6

 

$

879.0

 

$

803.1

 

$

569.1

 

$

520.3

 

Unamortized costs of reacquiring debt

 

15.9

 

13.9

 

5.8

 

2.8

 

10.1

 

11.0

 

Deferred operating expenses and carrying costs

 

1.6

 

4.4

 

1.6

 

 

 

4.4

 

Purchased power tracker

 

3.9

 

11.6

 

 

 

3.9

 

11.6

 

RTC

 

204.2

 

213.2

 

204.2

 

213.2

 

 

 

Net energy risk management assets

 

10.0

 

8.8

 

9.7

 

1.0

 

 

 

Amounts due from customers-income taxes

 

47.6

 

37.4

 

26.0

 

20.1

 

21.6

 

17.3

 

Gasification services agreement buyout costs

 

85.8

 

89.8

 

 

 

85.8

 

89.8

 

Other

 

24.6

 

14.4

 

15.3

 

10.9

 

 

1.2

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Total Deferred Income Tax Liability

 

1,918.4

 

1,767.1

 

1,141.6

 

1,051.1

 

690.5

 

655.6

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Deferred Income Tax Asset

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Unamortized investment tax credits

 

39.3

 

42.5

 

30.1

 

32.9

 

9.2

 

9.6

 

Accrued pension and other postretirement benefit costs

 

195.6

 

196.3

 

97.9

 

107.5

 

58.2

 

60.1

 

Net energy risk management liabilities

 

8.8

 

 

 

 

8.8

 

9.0

 

Rural Utilities Service obligation

 

27.9

 

28.2

 

 

 

27.9

 

28.2

 

Tax credit carryovers

 

47.0

 

 

 

 

 

 

Other

 

41.8

 

41.9

 

28.1

 

28.1

 

12.5

 

10.0

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Total Deferred Income Tax Asset

 

360.4

 

308.9

 

156.1

 

168.5

 

116.6

 

116.9

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Net Deferred Income Tax Liability

 

$

1,558.0

 

$

1,458.2

 

$

985.5

 

$

882.6

 

$

573.9

 

$

538.7

 

 


(1)                                  The results of Cinergy also include amounts related to non-registrants.

 

Cinergy and its subsidiaries file a consolidated federal income tax return and combined/consolidated state and local tax returns in certain jurisdictions.  Cinergy and its subsidiaries have an income tax allocation agreement, which conforms to the requirements of the PUHCA.  The corporate taxable income method is used to allocate tax benefits to the subsidiaries whose investments or results of operations provide those tax benefits.  Any tax liability not directly attributable to a specific subsidiary is allocated proportionately among the subsidiaries as required by the agreement.

 

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The following table summarizes federal and state income taxes charged (credited) to income for Cinergy, CG&E, and PSI:

 

 

 

Cinergy(1)

 

CG&E and subsidiaries

 

PSI

 

 

 

2003

 

2002

 

2001

 

2003

 

2002

 

2001

 

2003

 

2002

 

2001

 

 

 

(in millions)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Current Income Taxes

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Federal

 

$

33.5

 

$

16.3

 

$

129.4

 

$

83.9

 

$

50.6

 

$

135.1

 

$

44.6

 

$

71.1

 

$

59.9

 

State

 

24.9

 

(4.1

)

9.3

 

11.9

 

0.6

 

7.6

 

17.5

 

9.7

 

4.6

 

Total Current Income Taxes

 

58.4

 

12.2

 

138.7

 

95.8

 

51.2

 

142.7

 

62.1

 

80.8

 

64.5

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Deferred Income Taxes

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Federal

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Depreciation and other property, plant, and equipment-related items(2)

 

129.4

 

172.2

 

42.7

 

73.8

 

73.6

 

23.3

 

40.8

 

79.6

 

10.7

 

Pension and other postretirement benefit costs

 

22.9

 

(17.4

)

(11.8

)

9.7

 

(4.7

)

(4.2

)

7.4

 

(7.4

)

(7.6

)

Deferred excise taxes

 

 

 

14.5

 

 

 

14.5

 

 

 

 

Unrealized energy risk management transactions

 

6.1

 

9.0

 

44.0

 

5.4

 

2.2

 

23.9

 

0.5

 

(2.8

)

11.6

 

Fuel costs

 

7.2

 

(22.7

)

5.7

 

4.6

 

8.8

 

(8.0

)

2.6

 

(31.5

)

13.7

 

Purchased power tracker

 

(4.6

)

1.5

 

8.5

 

 

 

 

(6.4

)

1.5

 

8.5

 

Gasification services agreement buyout costs

 

(3.2

)

(2.6

)

(2.2

)

 

 

 

(3.2

)

(2.6

)

(2.2

)

Tax credit carryovers

 

(47.0

)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Other-net

 

(39.5

)

(14.1

)

10.9

 

(19.7

)

8.3

 

(4.8

)

(8.3

)

(7.5

)

5.3

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Total Deferred Federal Income Taxes

 

71.3

 

125.9

 

112.3

 

73.8

 

88.2

 

44.7

 

33.4

 

29.3

 

40.0

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

State

 

21.7

 

30.4

 

15.4

 

13.2

 

20.8

 

5.0

 

8.3

 

7.8

 

4.8

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Total Deferred Income Taxes

 

93.0

 

156.3

 

127.7

 

87.0

 

109.0

 

49.7

 

41.7

 

37.1

 

44.8

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Investment Tax Credits-Net

 

(7.9

)

(8.2

)

(9.1

)

(4.7

)

(4.9

)

(5.9

)

(3.2

)

(3.2

)

(3.2

)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Total Income Taxes

 

$

143.5

 

$

160.3

 

$

257.3

 

$

178.1

 

$

155.3

 

$

186.5

 

$

100.6

 

$

114.7

 

$

106.1

 

 


(1)          The results of Cinergy also include amounts related to non-registrants.

(2)          The increase from 2001 to 2002 in deferred income taxes for depreciation and other property, plant, and equipment-related items includes a change in accounting method for tax purposes related to capitalized costs.

 

Internal Revenue Code Section 29 provides a tax credit (nonconventional fuel source credit) for qualified fuels produced and sold by a taxpayer to an unrelated person during the taxable year.  The nonconventional fuel source credit reduced current federal income tax expense $83.7 million, $41.6 million, and $1.1 million for 2003, 2002, and 2001, respectively.

 

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The following table presents a reconciliation of federal income taxes (which are calculated by multiplying the statutory federal income tax rate by book income before federal income tax) to the federal income tax expense reported in the Statements of Income for Cinergy, CG&E, and PSI.

 

 

 

Cinergy(1)

 

CG&E and subsidiaries

 

PSI

 

 

 

2003

 

2002

 

2001

 

2003

 

2002

 

2001

 

2003

 

2002

 

2001

 

 

 

(in millions)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Statutory federal income tax provision

 

$

186.0

 

$

185.7

 

$

235.3

 

$

158.6

 

$

139.2

 

$

175.2

 

$

73.0

 

$

109.0

 

$

90.7

 

Increases (reductions) in taxes resulting from:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Amortization of investment tax credits

 

(7.9

)

(8.2

)

(9.1

)

(4.7

)

(4.9

)

(5.9

)

(3.2

)

(3.2

)

(3.2

)

Depreciation and other property, plant, and equipment-related differences

 

4.3

 

0.2

 

3.2

 

0.5

 

1.0

 

2.6

 

3.7

 

(0.8

)

0.6

 

Preferred dividend requirements of subsidiaries

 

1.2

 

1.2

 

1.2

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Income tax credits

 

(83.7

)

(41.6

)

(2.1

)

 

 

 

 

 

 

Foreign tax adjustments

 

5.1

 

3.2

 

(2.1

)

 

 

 

 

 

 

Employee Stock Option Plan dividend

 

(6.5

)

(3.0

)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Other-net

 

(1.6

)

(3.5

)

6.2

 

(1.4

)

(1.4

)

2.0

 

1.3

 

(7.8

)

8.6

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Federal Income Tax Expense

 

$

96.9

 

$

134.0

 

$

232.6

 

$

153.0

 

$

133.9

 

$

173.9

 

$

74.8

 

$

97.2

 

$

96.7

 

 


(1)          The results of Cinergy also include amounts related to non-registrants.

 

The following table shows the significant components of ULH&P’s net deferred income tax liability as of December 31, 2003 and 2002:

 

 

 

ULH&P

 

 

 

2003

 

2002

 

 

 

(in thousands)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Deferred Income Tax Liability

 

 

 

 

 

Property, plant, and equipment

 

$

49,662

 

$

44,309

 

Unamortized costs of reacquiring debt

 

599

 

652

 

Amounts due from customers-income taxes

 

3,926

 

2,194

 

Deferred fuel costs

 

1,631

 

 

Other

 

9,764

 

6,340

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Total Deferred Income Tax Liability

 

65,582

 

53,495

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Deferred Income Tax Asset

 

 

 

 

 

Unamortized investment tax credits

 

1,160

 

1,309

 

Deferred fuel costs

 

 

1,987

 

Accrued pension and other postretirement benefit costs

 

4,444

 

4,410

 

Other

 

4,490

 

2,429

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Total Deferred Income Tax Asset

 

10,094

 

10,135

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Net Deferred Income Tax Liability

 

$

55,488

 

$

43,360

 

 

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The following table summarizes federal and state income taxes charged (credited) to income for ULH&P:

 

 

 

ULH&P

 

 

 

2003

 

2002

 

2001

 

 

 

(in thousands)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Current Income Taxes

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Federal

 

$

783

 

$

3,250

 

$

23,109

 

State

 

1,190

 

5,984

 

(2,293

)

Total Current Income Taxes

 

1,973

 

9,234

 

20,816

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Deferred Income Taxes

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Federal

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Depreciation and other property, plant, and equipment-related items

 

8,032

 

2,797

 

1,042

 

Pension and other benefit costs

 

258

 

(309

)

(140

)

Fuel costs

 

 

(696

)

(7,338

)

Unamortized costs of reacquiring debt

 

 

(70

)

(30

)

Service company allocations

 

 

 

192

 

Other-net

 

(1,857

)

1,138

 

212

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Total Deferred Federal Income Taxes

 

6,433

 

2,860

 

(6,062

)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Deferred State Income Taxes

 

1,640

 

522

 

(781

)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Total Deferred Income Taxes

 

8,073

 

3,382

 

(6,843

)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Investment Tax Credits-Net

 

(265

)

(267

)

(274

)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Total Income Taxes

 

$

9,781

 

$

12,349

 

$

13,699

 

 

The following table presents a reconciliation of federal income taxes (which are calculated by multiplying the statutory federal income tax rate by book income before federal income tax) to the federal income tax expense reported in the Statements of Income for ULH&P.

 

 

 

ULH&P

 

 

 

2003

 

2002

 

2001

 

 

 

(in thousands)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Statutory federal income tax provision

 

$

9,093

 

$

6,298

 

$

18,444

 

Increases (reductions) in taxes resulting from:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Amortization of investment tax credits

 

(265

)

(267

)

(274

)

Depreciation and other property, plant, and equipment-related differences

 

(1,379

)

(387

)

23

 

Other-net

 

(498

)

199

 

(1,420

)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Federal Income Tax Expense

 

$

6,951

 

$

5,843

 

$

16,773

 

 

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11.       Commitments and Contingencies

 

(a)                                  Environmental

 

(i)          Ozone Transport Rulemakings

 

In June 1997, the Ozone Transport Assessment Group, which consisted of 37 states, made a wide range of recommendations to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to address the impact of ozone transport on serious non-attainment areas (geographic areas defined by the EPA as non-compliant with ozone standards) in the Northeast, Midwest, and South.  Ozone transport refers to wind-blown movement of ozone and ozone-causing materials across city and state boundaries.

 

1.                    Nitrogen Oxide (NOX) State Implementation Plan (SIP) Call

 

In October 1998, the EPA finalized its ozone transport rule, also known as the NOX SIP Call.  It applied to 22 states in the eastern half of the U.S., including the three states in which our electric utilities operate, and proposed a model NOX emission allowance trading program.  This rule recommended that states reduce NOX emissions primarily from industrial and utility sources to a certain level by May 2003.

 

In August 2000, the U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia (Court of Appeals) extended the deadline for NOX reductions to May 31, 2004.  The states of West Virginia and Illinois, along with various industry groups (some of which we are a member), have challenged portions of the final rule in an action filed in the Court of Appeals.  A decision is expected some time in the first quarter of 2004.  It is unclear whether the Court of Appeals’ decision in this matter will result in an increase or decrease in the size of the NOX reduction requirement, or a deferral of the May 31, 2004 compliance deadline.

 

The states of Indiana and Kentucky developed final NOX SIP rules in response to the NOX SIP Call, through cap and trade programs, in June and July of 2001, respectively.  The EPA has approved Indiana’s and Kentucky’s SIP rules, which have both become effective, and has conditionally approved Ohio’s SIP rules.  Ohio Environmental Protection Agency is still promulgating the changes to its rules to satisfy the EPA’s conditions for approval.  Cinergy’s current plans for compliance with the EPA’s NOX SIP Call would also satisfy compliance with Indiana’s, Kentucky’s, and Ohio’s SIP rules.

 

In September 2000, Cinergy announced a plan for its subsidiaries, CG&E and PSI, to invest in pollution control equipment and other methods to reduce NOX emissions.  This plan includes the following:

 

                  install selective catalytic reduction units at several different generating stations;

                  install other pollution control technologies, including new computerized combustion controls, at all generating stations;

                  make combustion improvements; and

                  utilize the NOX allowance market to buy or sell NOX allowances as appropriate.

 

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The current estimate for additional expenditures for this plan is approximately $104 million and is in addition to the $685 million already incurred to comply with this program.

 

2.                   Section 126 Petitions

 

In February 1998, several northeast states filed petitions seeking the EPA’s assistance in reducing ozone in the Eastern U.S. under Section 126 of the Clean Air Act (CAA).  The EPA believes that Section 126 petitions allow a state to claim that sources in another state are contributing to its air quality problem and request that the EPA require the upwind sources to reduce their emissions.

 

In December 1999, the EPA granted four Section 126 petitions relating to NOX emissions.  This ruling affected all of our Ohio and Kentucky facilities, as well as some of our Indiana facilities, and required us to reduce our NOX emissions to a certain level by May 2003.  The EPA subsequently extended the Section 126 rule compliance deadline to May 31, 2004, thus harmonizing the deadline with that for the NOX SIP Call.

 

In April 2003, the EPA issued a proposed rule withdrawing the Section 126 rule in states with approved SIPs under the NOX SIP Call, which include the states of Indiana and Kentucky.  The proposed rule states that the EPA will withdraw the Section 126 rule in Ohio once Ohio has a fully approved SIP.  As a result of these actions, we anticipate that the Section 126 rule will be withdrawn and, as a result, not affect any of our facilities.

 

(ii)           Clean Air Act Lawsuit

 

In November 1999, and through subsequent amendments, the United States brought a lawsuit in the United States Federal District Court (District Court) for the Southern District of Indiana against Cinergy, CG&E, and PSI alleging various violations of the CAA.  Specifically, the lawsuit alleges that we violated the CAA by not obtaining Prevention of Significant Deterioration (PSD), Non-Attainment New Source Review (NSR) and Ohio and Indiana SIP permits for various projects at our owned and co-owned generating stations.  Additionally, the suit claims that we violated an Administrative Consent Order entered into in 1998 between EPA and Cinergy relating to alleged violations of Ohio’s SIP provisions governing particulate matter at Unit 1 at CG&E’s W.C. Beckjord Generating Station (Beckjord Station).  The suit seeks (1) injunctive relief to require installation of pollution control technology on various generating units at CG&E’s Beckjord Station and Miami Fort Generating Station (Miami Fort Station), and PSI’s Cayuga Generating Station, Gallagher Generating Station, Wabash River Generating Station, and Gibson Generating Station (Gibson Station), and (2) civil penalties in amounts of up to $27,500 per day for each violation.  In addition, three northeast states and two environmental groups have intervened in the case.  The case is currently in discovery, and the District Court has set the case for trial by jury commencing in August 2005.

 

In March 2000, the United States also filed an amended complaint in a separate lawsuit alleging violations of the CAA relating to PSD, NSR, and Ohio SIP requirements regarding various generating stations, including a generating station operated by the Columbus Southern Power Company (CSP) and jointly-owned by CSP, the Dayton Power and Light Company (DP&L), and CG&E.  The EPA is seeking injunctive relief and civil penalties of up to $27,500 per day for each violation.  This suit is being defended by CSP.  In April 2001, the District Court in that case

 

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ruled that the Government and the intervening plaintiff environmental groups could seek injunctive relief for alleged violations that occurred more than five years before the filing of the complaint only.  Thus, if the plaintiffs prevail in their claims, any calculation for penalties will not start on the date of the alleged violations, unless those alleged violations occurred after November 3, 1994, but CSP would be forced to install the controls required under the CAA.  Neither party appealed that decision.

 

In addition, Cinergy and CG&E have been informed by DP&L that in June 2000, the EPA issued a Notice of Violation (NOV) to DP&L for alleged violations of PSD, NSR, and SIP requirements at a generating station operated by DP&L and jointly-owned by CG&E.  The NOV indicated the EPA may (1) issue an order requiring compliance with the requirements of the SIP, or (2) bring a civil action seeking injunctive relief and civil penalties of up to $27,500 per day for each violation.

 

In December 2000, Cinergy, CG&E, and PSI reached an agreement in principle with the plaintiffs regarding the above matters.  The complete resolution of these issues was contingent upon establishing a final agreement with the EPA and other parties.  Although we have continued to negotiate with the plaintiffs to achieve a final agreement, the plaintiffs have insisted on commitments from us which go beyond those contained in the agreement in principle.  At this time we believe it is unlikely that a final settlement agreement will be reached on these terms.  If a final settlement agreement is not reached, we intend to defend against the allegations, discussed above, vigorously in court.  In such an event it is not possible to predict whether resolution of these matters would have a material effect on our financial position or results of operations.

 

(iii)       Manufactured Gas Plant (MGP) Sites

 

Prior to the 1950s, gas was produced at MGP sites through a process that involved the heating of coal and/or oil.  The gas produced from this process was sold for residential, commercial, and industrial uses.

 

Coal tar residues, related hydrocarbons, and various metals have been found at former MGP sites in Indiana, including at least 22 sites that PSI or its predecessors previously owned and sold in a series of transactions with Northern Indiana Public Service Company (NIPSCO) and Indiana Gas Company, Inc. (IGC).

 

In a combination of lawsuits and notices of violation, the 22 sites are in the process of being studied and will be remediated, if necessary.  In 1998 NIPSCO, IGC, and PSI entered into Site Participation and Cost Sharing Agreements to allocate liability and responsibilities between them.  The Indiana Department of Environmental Management (IDEM) oversees investigation and cleanup of all of these sites.  Thus far, PSI has primary responsibility for investigating, monitoring and, if necessary, remediating nine of these sites.  In December 2003, PSI entered into a voluntary remediation plan with the state of Indiana, providing a formal framework for the investigation and cleanup of the sites for which PSI has primary responsibility.

 

PSI notified its insurance carriers of the claims related to MGP sites raised by IDEM and costs included in the Site Participation and Cost Sharing Agreements.  In April 1998, PSI filed suit in

 

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Hendricks County in the state of Indiana against its general liability insurance carriers.  PSI sought a declaratory judgment to obligate its insurance carriers to (1) defend MGP claims against PSI and compensate PSI for its costs of investigating, preventing, mitigating, and remediating damage to property and paying claims related to MGP sites or (2) pay PSI’s cost of defense.  The trial court issued a variety of rulings with respect to the claims and defenses in the litigation.  PSI appealed certain adverse rulings to the Indiana Court of Appeals and the appellate court has remanded the case to the trial court.  A new trial date has yet to be scheduled.  At the present time, PSI cannot predict the outcome of this litigation, including the outcome of the appeals.

 

PSI has accrued costs related to investigation, remediation, and groundwater monitoring for those sites where such costs are probable and can be reasonably estimated.  We will continue to investigate and remediate the sites as outlined in the voluntary remediation plan.  As additional facts become known and investigation is completed, we will assess if the likelihood of incurring additional costs becomes probable.  Until all investigation and remediation is complete, we are unable to determine the overall impact on our financial position or results of operations.

 

CG&E has performed site assessments on its sites where we believe MGP activities have occurred at some point in the past and found no imminent risk to the environment.

 

(iv)         Asbestos Claims Litigation

 

CG&E and PSI have been named as defendants or co-defendants in lawsuits related to asbestos at their electric generating stations.  Currently, there are approximately 80 pending lawsuits.  In these lawsuits, plaintiffs claim to have been exposed to asbestos-containing products in the course of their work at the CG&E and PSI generating stations.  The plaintiffs further claim that as the property owner of the generating stations, CG&E and PSI should be held liable for their injuries and illnesses based on an alleged duty to warn and protect them from any asbestos exposure.  A majority of the lawsuits to date have been brought against PSI.  The impact on CG&E’s and PSI’s financial position or results of operations of these cases to date has not been material.

 

Of these lawsuits, one case filed against PSI has been tried to verdict.  The jury returned a verdict against PSI in the amount of approximately $500,000 on a negligence claim and for PSI on punitive damages.  PSI recently received an adverse ruling in an appeal of that verdict and is reviewing whether to appeal the verdict to the Indiana Supreme Court.  In addition, we have settled a number of other lawsuits for amounts, which neither individually nor in the aggregate are material to CG&E’s and PSI’s financial position or results of operations.

 

At this time, CG&E and PSI are not able to predict the ultimate outcome of these lawsuits or the impact on CG&E’s and PSI’s financial position or results of operations.

 

(b)                                  Regulatory

 

(i)               PSI Retail Electric Rate Case

 

In December 2002, PSI filed a petition with the IURC seeking approval of a base retail electric rate increase.  PSI has filed initial and rebuttal testimony in this case and the final set of hearings

 

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took place in November 2003.  PSI filed its proposed order in December 2003.  Based on updated testimony filed in October 2003 and the proposed order, PSI proposes an increase in annual revenues of approximately $180 million, or an average increase of approximately 14 percent over PSI’s retail electric rates in effect at the end of 2002.  An IURC decision is anticipated by the end of the first quarter of 2004.

 

(ii)           PSI Fuel Adjustment Charge

 

In June 2001, PSI filed a petition with the IURC requesting authority to recover $16 million in under billed deferred fuel costs incurred from March 2001 through May 2001.  The IURC approved recovery of these costs subject to refund pending the findings of an investigative sub-docket.  The sub-docket was opened to investigate the reasonableness of, and underlying reasons for, the under billed deferred fuel costs.  A hearing was held in July 2002, and in March 2003 the IURC issued an order giving final approval to PSI’s recovery of the $16 million.

 

(iii)       PSI Construction Work in Progress (CWIP) Ratemaking Treatment for NOX  Equipment

 

In April 2003, PSI filed an application with the IURC requesting that its CWIP rate adjustment mechanism be updated for expenditures through December 2002 related to NOX equipment currently being installed at certain PSI generation facilities.  CWIP ratemaking treatment allows for the recovery of carrying costs on certain pollution control equipment while and after the equipment is under construction.  A final order was issued in September 2003.  The order granted substantially all of PSI’s requested relief, leaving only the issue of whether certain specific equipment qualified for CWIP ratemaking treatment to be decided in the first half of 2004.  This CWIP rate mechanism adjustment resulted in less than a one percent increase in customer rates.

 

In October 2003, PSI filed an application with the IURC requesting that its CWIP rate adjustment mechanism be updated for additional expenditures through September 30, 2003, related to NOX equipment currently being installed at certain PSI generation facilities.  If the application is approved, it will result in the recovery of an additional $7 million.  An order on this third CWIP update case is expected in the first half of 2004.

 

PSI’s initial CWIP rate mechanism adjustment (authorized in July 2002) resulted in an approximately one percent increase in customer rates.  Under the IURC’s CWIP rules, PSI may update its CWIP tracker at six-month intervals.  The first such update to PSI’s CWIP rate mechanism occurred in the first quarter of 2003.  The IURC’s July 2002 order also authorized PSI to defer, for subsequent recovery, post-in-service depreciation and to continue the accrual for AFUDC.  Pursuant to Statement of Financial Accounting Standards No. 92, Regulated Enterprises-Accounting for Phase-in Plans, the equity component of AFUDC will not be deferred for financial reporting after the related assets are placed in service.

 

(iv)         PSI Environmental Compliance Cost Recovery

 

In 2002, the Indiana General Assembly passed legislation that, among other things, encourages the deployment of advanced technologies that reduce regulated air emissions, while allowing the continued use of high sulfur Midwest coal in existing electric generating plants.  The legislation

 

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authorizes the IURC to provide financial incentives to utilities that deploy such advanced technologies.  PSI soughtIURC approval, under this new law, of a cost tracking mechanism for PSI’s NOX equipment-related depreciation and operation and maintenance costs, authority to use accelerated (18-year) depreciation for its NOX compliance equipment, and approval of a NOX emission allowance purchase and sales tracker.  In October 2003, PSI reached a settlement with the other parties to this case that provides for the relief described above for most of PSI’s environmental compliance equipment.  In December 2003, the IURC approved the settlement agreement.  Previously, the majority of these costs (the post-in-service depreciation costs) were being deferred pursuant to the July 2002 CWIP order described above, and as a result, the settlement agreement did not have a material impact on PSI’s results of operations or financial condition.

 

(v)             PSI Purchased Power Tracker

 

The Tracker was designed to provide for the recovery of costs related to certain specified purchases of power necessary to meet native load customers’ summer peak demand requirements to the extent such costs are not recovered through the existing fuel adjustment clause.

 

PSI is authorized to seek recovery of 90 percent of its purchased power expenses through the Tracker (net of the displaced energy portion recovered through the fuel recovery process and net of the mitigation credit portion), with the remaining 10 percent deferred for subsequent recovery in PSI’s general retail electric rate case.  In March 2002, PSI filed a petition with the IURC seeking approval to extend the Tracker process beyond the summer of 2002.  A hearing was held in January 2003, and in June 2003 the IURC approved the extension for up to an additional two years with the ultimate determination concerning PSI’s continued use of the Tracker process to be made in PSI’s pending retail electric rate case.

 

In June 2002, PSI also filed a petition with the IURC seeking approval of the recovery through the Tracker of its actual summer 2002 purchased power costs.  In May 2003, the IURC approved PSI’s recovery of $18 million related to its summer 2002 purchased power costs, and also authorized $2 million of deferred costs sought for recovery in PSI’s general retail electric rate case.

 

(vi)         CG&E Transmission and Distribution Rate Filings

 

In October 2003, CG&E filed an application with the PUCO seeking deferral of approximately $173 million, of which approximately $42 million has been incurred as of December 31, 2003, in depreciation, property taxes and carrying costs related to net additions to transmission and distribution utility plant in service from January 2001 through December 2005.  Rates are frozen in Ohio under the state’s electric restructuring law from 2001 through the end of the market development period.  CG&E has not deferred any of these costs as of December 31, 2003.

 

CG&E is proposing a mechanism to recover costs related to net additions to transmission and distribution utility plant in service after the end of the market development period.  The mechanism would work in a similar manner to the monthly customer charge the PUCO approved for CG&E’s accelerated natural gas main replacement program, discussed below in (vii), which is adjusted annually based on expenditures in the previous year.

 

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In the alternative electric reliability and rate stabilization proposal that CG&E filed in January 2004 with the PUCO, which is described in more detail in Note 17 below, CG&E made an alternative proposal to seek deferrals of transmission and distribution utility plant in service from January 2003 through December 2004, for the PUCO to declare an end to the market development period effective December 31, 2004, and for CG&E to file a transmission and distribution base rate case in 2004 to be effective January 1, 2005.  The alternative proposal also includes tracking mechanisms as described in the preceding paragraph, which would recover ongoing transmission and distribution costs.

 

(vii)     CG&E Gas Rate Case

 

In the third quarter of 2001, CG&E filed a retail gas rate case with the PUCO seeking to increase base rates for natural gas distribution service and requesting recovery through a tracking mechanism of the costs of an accelerated gas main replacement program with an estimated capital cost of $716 million over 10 years.  An order was issued in May 2002, in which the PUCO authorized a base rate increase of approximately $15 million, or 3.3 percent overall, effective May 30, 2002.  In addition, the PUCO authorized CG&E to implement the tracking mechanism to recover the costs of the accelerated gas main replacement program, subject to certain rate caps that increase in amount annually through May 2007, through the effective date of new rates in CG&E’s next retail gas rate case.  In April 2003, CG&E received approval to increase its rates under the tracking mechanism by $6.5 million.  This increase was effective in May 2003.  CG&E filed another application in January 2004 to increase its rates by approximately $7 million under the tracking mechanism.  CG&E expects that the PUCO will rule on this application in the second quarter of 2004.

 

(viii) ULH&P Gas Rate Case

 

In the second quarter of 2001, ULH&P filed a retail gas rate case with the KPSC seeking to increase base rates for natural gas distribution services and requesting recovery through a tracking mechanism of the costs of an accelerated gas main replacement program with an estimated capital cost of $112 million over 10 years.  Through December 31, 2003, ULH&P has recovered approximately $1.4 million under this tracking mechanism.  The Kentucky Attorney General has appealed to the Franklin Circuit Court the KPSC’s approval of the tracking mechanism and the KPSC’s orders approving the new tracking mechanism rates.  At the present time, ULH&P cannot predict the timing or outcome of this litigation.

 

(ix)         Gas Distribution Plant

 

In June 2003, the PUCO approved an amended settlement agreement between CG&E and the PUCO Staff in a gas distribution safety case arising out of a gas leak at a service head-adapter (SHA) style riser on CG&E’s distribution system.  The amended settlement agreement required CG&E to expend a minimum of $700,000 to replace SHA risers by December 31, 2003, and to file a comprehensive plan addressing all SHA risers on its distribution system.  Cinergy has an estimated 190,000 SHA risers on its distribution system, of which 155,000 are in CG&E’s service area and 31,000 are in ULH&P’s service area.  Further investigation as to whether any additional SHA risers will need maintenance or replacement is ongoing.  If CG&E and ULH&P

 

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determine that replacement of all SHA risers is appropriate, we currently estimate that the replacement cost could be up to approximately $70 million.  CG&E and ULH&P would pursue recovery of this cost through rates.  At this time, Cinergy, CG&E, and ULH&P cannot predict the outcome of this matter.

 

(c)                                  Other

 

(i)               Gas Customer Choice

 

In January 2000, Investments sold Cinergy Resources, Inc. (Resources), a former subsidiary, to Licking Rural Electrification, Inc., doing business as The Energy Cooperative (Energy Cooperative).  In February 2001, Cinergy, CG&E, and Resources were named as defendants in three class action lawsuits brought by customers relating to Energy Cooperative’s removal from the Ohio Gas Customer Choice program and the failure to deliver gas to customers.  Subsequently, these class action suits were amended and consolidated into one suit.  CG&E has been dismissed as a defendant in the consolidated suit.  This customer litigation is pending in the Hamilton County Common Pleas Court.  The trial court certified a class against CG&E in November 2003.  A trial date has not been set.

 

In March 2001, Cinergy, CG&E, and Investments were named as defendants in a lawsuit filed by Energy Cooperative and Resources.  This lawsuit concerns any obligations or liabilities Investments may have to Energy Cooperative following its sale of Resources.  This lawsuit is pending in the Licking County Common Pleas Court.  Trial is anticipated to occur in November 2004.  In October 2001, Cinergy, CG&E, and Investments initiated litigation against the Energy Cooperative requesting indemnification by the Energy Cooperative for the claims asserted by former customers in the class action litigation.  We intend to vigorously defend these lawsuits and do not believe their outcome will have a material effect on our financial position or results of operations.

 

(ii)           Contract Disputes

 

Cinergy, through a subsidiary of Investments, has been involved in negotiations to resolve a customer billing dispute.  The primary issue of contention between the parties related to the determinants used in calculating the monthly charge billed for electricity.  Receivables from the customer have been recorded at their net realizable value and in January 2004, Cinergy settled the dispute.  The impact of the settlement was not material to our financial position or results of operations.

 

Marketing & Trading was in arbitration with Apache Corporation (Apache) concerning disputes under an agreement whereby we marketed natural gas that Apache produced or acquired in North America.  Effective July 1, 2003, Marketing & Trading terminated its marketing relationship with Apache.  The termination of the marketing relationship ended the arbitration and all outstanding monetary issues related to the arbitration were settled.  The impact of the settlement was not material to our financial position or results of operations.

 

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(iii)       Enron Bankruptcy

 

In December 2001, Enron filed for protection under Chapter 11 of the U.S. Bankruptcy Code in the Southern District of New York.  We decreased our trading activities with Enron in the months prior to its bankruptcy filing and filed a motion with the bankruptcy court overseeing the Enron bankruptcy seeking appropriate netting of the various payables and receivables between and among Enron and Cinergy entities.  Based on judicial decisions regarding the permissibility of certain broad netting arrangements and the results of our mediation, we entered into a settlement agreement with Enron, which became final on January 13, 2004.  As a result of this agreement, we paid Enron approximately $14 million of which $12 million was charged to expense during the third quarter of 2003.  We believe this resolves all of our claims with the Enron entities, except for one claim being handled outside the United States proceeding involving the recovery of an insignificant amount.

 

(iv)         Synthetic Fuel Production

 

In July 2002, Capital & Trading acquired a coal-based synthetic fuel production facility.  As of December 31, 2003, Capital & Trading’s net book value in this facility was approximately $60 million.  The synthetic fuel produced at this facility qualifies for tax credits in accordance with Section 29 of the Internal Revenue Code.  Eligibility for these credits expires after 2007.  Cinergy received a private letter ruling from the IRS in connection with the acquisition of the facility.  To date, Cinergy has produced and sold approximately 4.4 million tons of synthetic fuel at this facility, resulting in approximately $120 million in tax credits, including approximately $80 million in 2003.

 

In the second quarter of 2003, the IRS announced, as a result of an audit of another taxpayer, that it had reason to question and was reviewing the scientific validity of test procedures and results that were presented as evidence the fuel underwent a significant chemical change.  The IRS recently announced that it has finished its review and has determined that test procedures and results used by taxpayers may be scientifically valid if the procedures are applied in a consistent and unbiased manner.  The IRS also announced that it plans to impose new testing and record-keeping requirements on synthetic fuel producers and plans to issue guidance extending these requirements to taxpayers already holding private letter rulings on the issue of significant chemical change.  Cinergy believes that any new testing or record-keeping requirements imposed by the IRS will not have a material effect on our financial position or results of operations.

 

(v)             Energy Market Investigations

 

In July 2003, Cinergy received a subpoena from the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC).  As has been previously reported by the press, the CFTC has served subpoenas on numerous other energy companies.  The CFTC request sought certain information regarding our trading activities, including price reporting to energy industry publications.  The CFTC sought particular information concerning these matters for the period May 2000 through January 2001 as to one of Cinergy’s employees.  Based on an initial review of these matters, we placed that employee on administrative leave and have subsequently terminated his employment.  Cinergy is continuing an investigation of these matters, including whether price reporting inconsistencies occurred in our operations, and has been cooperating fully with the CFTC.

 

In August 2003, Cinergy, along with 38 other companies, was named as a defendant in civil

 

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litigation filed as a purported class action on behalf of all persons who purchased and/or sold New York Mercantile Exchange natural gas futures and options contracts between January 1, 2000 and December 31, 2002.  The complaint alleges that improper price reporting caused damages to the class.  Two similar lawsuits have subsequently been filed, and these three lawsuits have been consolidated for pretrial purposes.  Plaintiffs filed a consolidated class action complaint in January 2004.  We believe this action is without merit and intend to defend this lawsuit vigorously; however, we cannot predict the outcome of this matter at this time.

 

In the second quarter of 2003, Cinergy received initial and follow-up third-party subpoenas from the SEC requesting information related to particular trading activity with one of its counterparties who was the target of an investigation by the SEC.  Cinergy has fully cooperated with the SEC in connection with this matter.  In January 2004, Cinergy received a grand jury subpoena from the Assistant United States Attorney in the Southern District of Texas for information relating to the same trading activities being investigated by the SEC.  Specifically, the Assistant United States Attorney has requested information relating to communications between a former employee and another energy company.  We understand that we are neither a target nor are we under investigation by the Department of Justice in relation to these communications.

 

At this time, it is not possible to predict the outcome of these investigations and litigation or their impact on Cinergy’s financial position or results of operations; although, in the opinion of management, they are not likely to have a material adverse effect on our financial position or results of operations.

 

(vi)         Patents

 

Ronald A. Katz Technology Licensing, L.P. (RAKTL) has offered us a license to a portfolio of patents claiming that the patents may be infringed by certain products and services utilized by us.  The patents purportedly relate to various aspects of telephone call processing in Cinergy call centers.  As of this date, no legal proceedings have been instituted against us, but if the RAKTL patents are valid, enforceable and apply to our business, we could be required to seek a license from RAKTL or to discontinue certain activities.  We are currently considering this matter, but lack sufficient information to assess the potential outcome at this time.

 

(vii)     Guarantees

 

In the ordinary course of business, Cinergy enters into various agreements providing financial or performance assurances to third parties on behalf of certain unconsolidated subsidiaries and joint ventures.  These agreements are entered into primarily to support or enhance the creditworthiness otherwise attributed to these entities on a stand-alone basis, thereby facilitating the extension of sufficient credit to accomplish their intended commercial purposes.  The guarantees have various termination dates, from short-term (less than one year) to open-ended.

 

In many cases, the maximum potential amount of an outstanding guarantee is an express term, set forth in the guarantee agreement, representing the maximum potential obligation of Cinergy under that guarantee (excluding, at times, certain legal fees to which a guaranty beneficiary may be entitled).  In those cases where there is no maximum potential amount expressly set forth in the guarantee agreement, we calculate the maximum potential amount by considering the terms

 

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of the guaranteed transactions, to the extent such amount is estimable.

 

Cinergy has guaranteed the payment of $25 million as of December 31, 2003, for borrowings by individuals under the Director, Officer, and Key Employee Stock Purchase Program.  Cinergy may be obligated to pay the debt’s principal and any related interest in the event of an unexcused breach of a guaranteed payment obligation by certain directors, officers, and key employees.  Most of the guarantees do not have a set termination date; however, the borrowings associated with the majority of the guarantees are due in the first quarter of 2005.

 

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Cinergy Corp. has also provided performance guarantees on behalf of certain unconsolidated subsidiaries and joint ventures.  These guarantees support performance under various agreements and instruments (such as construction contracts, operations and maintenance agreements, and energy service agreements).  Cinergy Corp. may be liable in the event of an unexcused breach of a guaranteed performance obligation by an unconsolidated subsidiary.  Cinergy Corp. has estimated its maximum potential amount to be $104 million under these guarantees as of December 31, 2003.  Cinergy Corp. may also have recourse to third parties for claims required to be paid under certain of these guarantees.  The majority of these guarantees expire at the completion of the underlying performance agreement, the majority of which expire from 2016 to 2019.

 

Cinergy has entered into contracts that include indemnification provisions as a routine part of its business activities.  Examples of these contracts include purchase and sale agreements and operating agreements.  In general, these provisions indemnify the counterparty for matters such as breaches of representations and warranties and covenants contained in the contract.  In some cases, particularly with respect to purchase and sale agreements, the potential liability for certain indemnification obligations is capped, in whole or in part (generally at an aggregate amount not exceeding the sale price), and subject to a deductible amount before any payments would become due.  In other cases (such as indemnifications for willful misconduct of employees in a joint venture), the maximum potential amount is not estimable given that the magnitude of any claims under those indemnifications would be a function of the extent of damages actually incurred, which is not practicable to estimate unless and until the event occurs.  Cinergy has estimated the maximum potential amount, where estimable, to be $115 million under these indemnification provisions.  The termination period for the majority of matters provided by indemnification provisions in purchase and sale agreements generally ranges from 2004 to 2009.

 

We believe the likelihood that Cinergy would be required to perform or otherwise incur any significant losses associated with any or all of the guarantees described in the preceding paragraphs is remote.

 

(viii)    Construction and Other Commitments

 

Forecasted construction and other committed expenditures, including capitalized financing costs, for the year 2004 and for the five-year period 2004-2008 (in nominal dollars) are presented in the table below:

 

 

 

2004

 

2004-2008

 

 

 

(in millions)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Cinergy(1)

 

$

756

 

$

4,133

 

CG&E and subsidiaries

 

302

 

1,591

 

PSI(2)

 

336

 

1,978

 

ULH&P

 

39

 

212

 

 


(1)          The results of Cinergy also include amounts related to non-registrants.

(2)          Excludes intercompany purchase of peaking plants from a non-regulated affiliate.

 

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This forecast includes an estimate of expenditures in accordance with the companies’ plans regarding environmental compliance.

 

12.       Jointly-Owned Plant

 

CG&E, CSP, and DP&L jointly own electric generating units and related transmission facilities.  PSI is a joint-owner of Gibson Station Unit No. 5 with Wabash Valley Power Association, Inc. (WVPA), and Indiana Municipal Power Agency (IMPA).  Additionally, PSI is a joint-owner with WVPA and IMPA of certain transmission property and local facilities.  These facilities constitute part of the integrated transmission and distribution systems, which are operated and maintained by PSI.  The Statements of Income reflect CG&E’s and PSI’s portions of all operating costs associated with the jointly-owned facilities.

 

As of December 31, 2003, CG&E’s and PSI’s investments in jointly-owned plant or facilities were as follows:

 

 

 

Ownership
Share

 

Property,
Plant, and
Equipment

 

Accumulated
Depreciation

 

Construction
Work in
Progress

 

 

 

(in millions)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

CG&E

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Production:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Miami Fort Station (Units 7 and 8)

 

64.00

%

$334

 

$132

 

$2

 

Beckjord Station (Unit 6)

 

37.50

 

45

 

28

 

1

 

Stuart Station(1)

 

39.00

 

308

 

156

 

75

 

Conesville Station (Unit 4)(1)

 

40.00

 

76

 

46

 

1

 

Zimmer Station

 

46.50

 

1,240

 

420

 

16

 

East Bend Station

 

69.00

 

392

 

193

 

3

 

Killen Station(1)

 

33.00

 

193

 

108

 

13

 

Transmission

 

Various

 

85

 

40

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

PSI

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Production:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Gibson Station (Unit 5)

 

50.05

 

218

 

125

 

48

 

Transmission and local facilities

 

94.37

 

2,466

 

950

 

 

 


(1)                                  Station is not operated by CG&E.

 

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13.       Quarterly Financial Data (unaudited)

 

 

 

First
Quarter

 

Second
Quarter

 

Third
Quarter

 

Fourth
Quarter

 

Total

 

 

 

(in millions, except per share amounts)

 

Cinergy(1)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

2003

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Results of Operations:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Operating Revenues(2)

 

$

1,268

 

$

934

 

$

1,092

 

$

1,122

 

$

4,416

 

Operating Income

 

255

 

138

 

204

 

212

 

809

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Income before discontinued operations and cumulative effect of changes in accounting principles

 

140

 

76

 

112

 

107

 

435

 

Discontinued operations, net of tax(3)

 

 

9

 

 

 

9

 

Cumulative effect of changes in accounting principles, net of tax(4)

 

26

 

 

 

 

26

 

Net Income

 

$

166

 

$

85

 

$

112

 

$

107

 

$

470

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Per Share Data:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

EPS

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Income before discontinued operations and cumulative effect of changes in accounting principles

 

0.81

 

0.42

 

0.63

 

0.60

 

2.46

 

Discontinued operations, net of tax(3)

 

 

0.05

 

 

 

0.05

 

Cumulative effect of changes in accounting principles, net of tax(4)

 

0.15

 

 

 

 

0.15

 

Net Income

 

$

0.96

 

$

0.47

 

$

0.63

 

$

0.60

 

$

2.66

 

EPS - assuming dilution

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Income before discontinued operations and cumulative effect of changes in accounting principles

 

0.80

 

0.42

 

0.62

 

0.59

 

2.43

 

Discontinued operations, net of tax(3)

 

 

0.05

 

 

 

0.05

 

Cumulative effect of changes in accounting principles, net of tax(4)

 

0.15

 

 

 

 

0.15

 

Net Income

 

$

0.95

 

$

0.47

 

$

0.62

 

$

0.59

 

$

2.63

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

2002

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Results of Operations:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Operating Revenues(2)

 

$

967

 

$

907

 

$

1,120

 

$

1,065

 

$

4,059

 

Operating Income

 

211

 

136

 

239

 

214

 

800

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Income before discontinued operations and a cumulative effect of a change in accounting principle

 

95

 

45

 

132

 

125

 

397

 

Discontinued operations, net of tax(3)

 

1

 

 

(1

)

(25

)

(25

)

Cumulative effect of a change in accounting principle, net of tax(7)

 

(11

)

 

 

 

(11

)

Net Income

 

$

85

 

$

45

 

$

131

 

$

100

 

$

361

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Per Share Data:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

EPS

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Income before discontinued operations and a cumulative effect of a change in accounting principle

 

0.57

 

0.27

 

0.79

 

0.74

 

2.37

 

Discontinued operations, net of tax(3)

 

0.01

 

 

(0.01

)

(0.15

)

(0.15

)

Cumulative effect of a change in accounting principle, net of tax(7)

 

(0.06

)

 

 

 

(0.06

)

Net Income

 

$

0.52

 

$

0.27

 

$

0.78

 

$

0.59

 

$

2.16

 

EPS - assuming dilution

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Income before discontinued operations and cumulative effect of a change in accounting principle

 

0.57

 

0.26

 

0.78

 

0.73

 

2.34

 

Discontinued operations, net of tax(3)

 

0.01

 

 

(0.01

)

(0.15

)

(0.15

)

Cumulative effect of a change in accounting principle, net of tax(7)

 

(0.06

)

 

 

 

(0.06

)

Net Income

 

$

0.52

 

$

0.26

 

$

0.77

 

$

0.58

 

$

2.13

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

CG&E and subsidiaries

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

2003

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Results of Operations:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Operating Revenues(2)

 

$

704

 

$

483

 

$

541

 

$

654

 

$

2,382

 

Operating Income

 

157

 

102

 

144

 

160

 

563

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Income before cumulative effect of changes in accounting principles

 

86

 

51

 

79

 

84

 

300

 

Cumulative effect of changes in accounting principles, net of tax(5)

 

31

 

 

 

 

31

 

Net Income

 

117

 

51

 

79

 

84

 

331

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

2002

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Results of Operations:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Operating Revenues(2)

 

$

577

 

$

466

 

$

534

 

$

560

 

$

2,137

 

Operating Income

 

155

 

101

 

135

 

114

 

505

 

Net Income

 

78

 

53

 

72

 

61

 

264

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

PSI

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

2003

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Results of Operations:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Operating Revenues(2)

 

$

412

 

$

361

 

$

437

 

$

393

 

$

1,603

 

Operating Income

 

74

 

55

 

88

 

95

 

312

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Income before cumulative effect of a change in accounting principle

 

34

 

23

 

38

 

39

 

134

 

Cumulative effect of a change in accounting principle, net of tax(6)

 

(1

)

 

 

 

(1

)

Net Income

 

33

 

23

 

38

 

39

 

133

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

2002

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Results of Operations:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Operating Revenues(2)

 

$

366

 

$

378

 

$

471

 

$

396

 

$

1,611

 

Operating Income

 

74

 

52

 

120

 

136

 

382

 

Net Income

 

38

 

30

 

68

 

78

 

214

 

 


(1)          The results of Cinergy also include amounts related to non-registrants.

(2)          EITF 02-3 required that all gains and losses on energy trading derivatives be presented on a net basis beginning January 1, 2003.  This resulted in substantial reductions in reported Operating Revenues, Fuel and purchased and exchanged power expense, and Gas purchased expense.  However, Operating Income and Net Income were not affected by this change.  For further information on EITF 02-3 see Note 1(q)(i).

(3)          See Note 14 for further explanation.

(4)          Cinergy recognized a gain/(loss) on cumulative effect of changes in accounting principles of $39 million (net of tax) and ($13) million (net of tax) as a result of the reversal of accrued cost of removal for non-regulated generating assets and the change in accounting of certain energy related contracts from fair value to accrual.  See Note 1(q)(vi) for further information on the effects of changes in accounting principles.

(5)          CG&E recognized a gain/(loss) on cumulative effect of changes in accounting principles of $39 million (net of tax) and ($8) million (net of tax) as a result of the reversal of accrued cost of removal for non-regulated generating assets and the change in accounting of certain energy related contracts from fair value to accrual.  See Note 1(q)(vi) for further information of the effects of changes in accounting principles.

(6)          PSI recognized a loss on cumulative effect of a change in accounting principle of $(1) million (net of tax) as a result of a change in accounting of certain energy related contracts from fair value to accrual.  See Note 1(q)(vi) for further information of the effect of a change in accounting principle.

(7)          Upon implementation of Statement 142, Cinergy recognized a non-cash impairment charge of ($11) million, net of tax, for goodwill related to certain international assets.  See Note 1(q)(vi) for further information of the effect of a change in accounting principle.

 

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14.       Discontinued Operations

 

During 2002, Cinergy began taking steps to monetize certain non-core investments, including renewable and international investments within Commercial.  During the second half of the year, Cinergy either sold or initiated plans to dispose of generation and electric and gas distribution operations in the Czech Republic, Estonia, and South Africa.  Cinergy also sold investments, which were accounted for under the equity method, in renewable investments located in Spain and California.  In total, Cinergy disposed of approximately $125 million of investments at a net loss, after-tax, of $7 million in 2002.  Included in this net loss were cumulative foreign currency translation losses of approximately $4 million, after-tax.

 

During 2003, Cinergy completed the disposal of its gas distribution operation in South Africa, sold its remaining wind assets in the U.S., and substantially sold or liquidated the assets of its energy marketing business in the Czech Republic.

 

As a result of the 2003 transactions, assets of approximately $140 million have been sold or converted into cash and liabilities of approximately $100 million have been assumed by buyers or liquidated.  The net, after-tax, gain from these disposal and liquidation transactions was approximately $9 million (including a net after-tax cumulative currency translation gain of approximately $6 million).

 

GAAP requires different accounting treatment for investment disposals involving entities which are consolidated and entities which are accounted for under the equity method.  The consolidated entities have been presented as Discontinued operations, net of tax in Cinergy’s Statements of Income and as Assets/Liabilities of Discontinued Operations in Cinergy’s Balance Sheets.  The accompanying financial statements and prior year financial statements have been reclassified to account for these entities as such.  The disposal of the entities accounted for using the equity method are not allowed to be presented as discontinued operations.  A gain of approximately $17 million on the sale of these entities is included in Miscellaneous-Net in Cinergy’s 2002 Statements of Income.

 

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The table below reflects the assets and liabilities, the results of operations, and the income (loss) on disposal related to investments accounted for as discontinued operations for the years ended December 31, 2003 and 2002.

 

 

 

December 31

 

 

 

2003

 

2002

 

 

 

(in thousands)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Revenues(1)

 

$

22,257

 

$

95,493

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Income (Loss) Before Taxes

 

$

4,445

 

$

(27,152

)

 

 

 

 

 

 

Income Taxes Benefit (Expense)

 

$

4,441

 

$

1,991

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Income (Loss) from Discontinued Operations

 

 

 

 

 

Income (Loss) from operations, net of tax

 

$

3

 

$

(829

)

Gain (Loss) on disposal, net of tax(2)

 

8,883

 

(24,332

)

 

 

 

 

 

 

Total Income (Loss) from Discontinued Operations

 

$

8,886

 

$

(25,161

)

 

 

 

 

 

 

Assets

 

 

 

 

 

Current assets

 

$

4,501

 

$

48,719

 

Property, plant, and equipment-net

 

 

78,309

 

Other assets

 

 

20,237

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Total Assets

 

$

4,501

 

$

147,265

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Liabilities

 

 

 

 

 

Current liabilities

 

$

11,594

 

$

6,632

 

Long-term debt (including Long-term debt due within one year)

 

 

84,654

 

Other

 

 

17,547

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Total Liabilities

 

$

11,594

 

$

108,833

 

 


(1)          Presented for informational purposes only.  All results of operations are reported net in our Statements of Income.

(2)          For 2002, approximately $17 million of this amount represents a write-down to fair value, less cost to sell, on assets classified as held for sale at December 31, 2002.  The remaining loss on disposal for 2002 represents actual losses on completed sales.

 

The losses included in the 2002 discontinued operations primarily pertain to two investments.  In one case, the primary customer of a combined heat and power plant filed for bankruptcy resulting in a significant reduction in future expected revenues from the investment.  This investment was sold in December 2002.  In the second case, the retail market of a gas distribution business did not develop as expected, and we elected to exit the business rather than invest the additional capital which would be required to reach a sustainable level of market penetration.  The investment was written down to its realizable value in December 2002 and was subsequently sold in April 2003.

 

 

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15.       Financial Information by Business Segment

 

We conduct operations through our subsidiaries and manage our businesses through the following three reportable segments:

 

                  Commercial;

                  Regulated Businesses; and

                  Power Technology.

 

The following section describes the activities of our business units as of December 31, 2003.

 

Commercial manages wholesale generation and energy marketing and trading of energy commodities.  Additionally, Commercial operates and maintains our electric generating plants including some of our jointly-owned plants.  Commercial is also responsible for all of our international operations and performs energy risk management activities, trading activities, and customized energy solutions.

 

Regulated Businesses consists of PSI’s regulated, integrated utility operations, and Cinergy’s other regulated electric and gas transmission and distribution systems.  Regulated Businesses plans, constructs, operates, and maintains Cinergy’s transmission and distribution systems and delivers gas and electric energy to consumers.  Regulated Businesses also earns revenues from wholesale customers primarily by transmitting electric power through Cinergy’s transmission system.

 

Power Technology primarily manages Cinergy Ventures, LLC (Ventures), Cinergy’s venture capital subsidiary.  Ventures identifies, invests in, and integrates new energy technologies into Cinergy’s existing businesses, focused primarily on operational efficiencies and clean energy technologies.  In addition, Power Technology manages our investments in other energy infrastructure and telecommunication service providers.

 

Following are the financial results by business unit.  Certain amounts for the prior year have been restated to reflect implementation of EITF 02-3 and other prior year amounts have been reclassified to conform to the current presentation.

 

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Financial results by business unit for the years ended December 31, 2003, 2002, and 2001, are as indicated below:

 

Business Units

 

 

 

2003

 

 

 

Cinergy Business Units

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Commercial

 

Regulated
Businesses

 

Power
Technology

 

Total

 

All Other (1)

 

Reconciling
Eliminations
(2)

 

Consolidated

 

 

 

(in millions)

 

Operating revenues -

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

External customers

 

$

1,630

 

$

2,786

 

$

 

$

4,416

 

$

 

$

 

$

4,416

 

Intersegment revenues

 

157

 

 

 

157

 

 

(157

)

 

Cost of sales -

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Fuel and purchased and exchanged power

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

External customers

 

645

 

513

 

 

1,158

 

 

 

1,158

 

Intersegment costs

 

 

157

 

 

157

 

 

(157

)

 

Gas purchased

 

122

 

382

 

 

504

 

 

 

504

 

Depreciation(3)

 

135

 

284

 

 

419

 

 

 

419

 

Equity in earnings (losses) of unconsolidated subsidiaries

 

14

 

4

 

(3

)

15

 

 

 

15

 

Interest expense(4)

 

94

 

158

 

17

 

269

 

 

 

269

 

Income taxes

 

7

(5)

148

 

(11

)

144

 

 

 

144

 

Discontinued operations, net of tax(6)

 

9

 

 

 

9

 

 

 

9

 

Cumulative effect of changes in accounting principles, net of tax(7)

 

26

 

 

 

26

 

 

 

26

 

Segment profit (loss)(8)

 

275

 

211

 

(16

)

470

 

 

 

470

 

Segment assets from continuing operations

 

5,361

 

8,515

 

175

 

14,051

 

63

 

 

14,114

 

Segment assets from discontinued operations

 

5

 

 

 

5

 

 

 

5

 

Total segment assets

 

5,366

 

8,515

(9)

175

 

14,056

 

63

 

 

14,119

 

Investments in unconsolidated subsidiaries

 

400

 

14

 

81

 

495

 

 

 

495

 

Total expenditures for long-lived assets

 

158

 

554

 

 

712

 

 

 

712

 

 


(1)

The All Other category represents miscellaneous corporate items, which are not allocated to business units for purposes of segment performance measurement.

(2)

The Reconciling Eliminations category eliminates the intersegment revenues of Commercial and the intersegment costs of Regulated Businesses.

(3)

The components of Depreciation include depreciation of fixed assets and amortization of intangible assets.

(4)

Interest income is deemed immaterial.

(5)

The decrease in 2003, as compared to 2002, in part reflects the effect of tax credits associated with production of synthetic fuel beginning in July 2002.

(6)

For further information, see Note 14.

(7)

In 2003, Cinergy recognized a gain/(loss) on cumulative effect of changes in accounting principles of $39 million (net of tax) and $(13) million (net of tax) as a result of the reversal of accrued cost of removal for non-regulated generating assets and the change in accounting of certain energy related contracts from fair value to accrual.  See Note 1(q)(vi) for further information.

(8)

Management utilizes Segment profit (loss), after taxes, to evaluate segment performance.

(9)

The increase in 2003, as compared to 2002, is primarily due to the transfer of generating assets from two non-regulated affiliates.  See Note 19 for further information.

 

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2002

 

 

 

Cinergy Business Units

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Commercial

 

Regulated
Businesses

 

Power
Technology

 

Total

 

All Other(1)

 

Reconciling
Eliminations(2)

 

Consolidated

 

 

 

(in millions)

 

Operating revenues -

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

External customers

 

$

1,419

 

$

2,640

 

$

 

$

4,059

 

$

 

$

 

$

4,059

 

Intersegment revenues

 

160

 

 

 

160

 

 

(160

)

 

Cost of sales -

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Fuel and purchased and exchanged power

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

External customers

 

532

 

458

 

 

990

 

 

 

990

 

Intersegment costs

 

 

160

 

 

160

 

 

(160

)

 

Gas purchased

 

77

 

233

 

 

310

 

 

 

310

 

Depreciation(3)

 

150

 

249

 

6

 

405

 

 

 

405

 

Equity in earnings (losses) of unconsolidated subsidiaries

 

20

 

5

 

(10

)

15

 

 

 

15

 

Interest expense(4)

 

102

 

133

 

8

 

243

 

 

 

243

 

Income taxes

 

23

(5)

151

 

(14

)

160

 

 

 

160

 

Discontinued operations, net of tax(6)

 

(25

)

 

 

(25

)

 

 

(25

)

Cumulative effect of a change in accounting principle, net of tax(7)

 

(11

)

 

 

(11

)

 

 

(11

)

Segment profit (loss)(8)

 

115

 

270

 

(24

)

361

 

 

 

361

 

Segment assets from continuing operations

 

5,691

 

7,746

 

155

 

13,592

 

93

 

 

13,685

 

Segment assets from discontinued operations

 

147

 

 

 

147

 

 

 

147

 

Total segment assets

 

5,838

 

7,746

 

155

 

13,739

 

93

 

 

13,832

 

Investments in unconsolidated subsidiaries

 

337

 

10

 

70

 

417

 

 

 

417

 

Total expenditures for long-lived assets

 

188

 

681

 

1

 

870

 

 

 

870

 

 


(1)          The All Other category represents miscellaneous corporate items, which are not allocated to business units for purposes of segment performance measurement.

(2)          The Reconciling Eliminations category eliminates the intersegment revenues of Commercial and the intersegment costs of Regulated Businesses.

(3)          The components of Depreciation include depreciation of fixed assets and amortization of intangible assets.

(4)          Interest income is deemed immaterial.

(5)          The decrease in 2002, as compared to 2001, in part reflects the effect of tax credits associated with production of synthetic fuel beginning in July 2002.

(6)        For further information, see Note 14.

(7)        Upon implementation of Statement 142, Cinergy recognized a non-cash impairment charge of $11 million, net of tax, for goodwill related to certain international assets.  See Note 1(l) for further information.

(8)          Management utilizes Segment profit (loss), after taxes, to evaluate segment performance.

 

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2001

 

 

 

Cinergy Business Units

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Commercial

 

Regulated
Businesses

 

Power
Technology

 

Total

 

All Other(1)

 

Reconciling
Eliminations(2)

 

Consolidated

 

 

 

(in millions)

 

Operating revenues -

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

External customers

 

$

1,247

 

$

2,703

 

$

 

$

3,950

 

$

 

$

 

$

3,950

 

Intersegment revenues

 

144

 

 

 

144

 

 

(144

)

 

Cost of sales -

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Fuel and purchased and exchanged power

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

External customers

 

546

 

469

 

 

1,015

 

 

 

1,015

 

Intersegment costs

 

 

144

 

 

144

 

 

(144

)

 

Gas purchased

 

 

397

 

 

397

 

 

 

397

 

Depreciation(3)

 

130

 

236

 

1

 

367

 

 

 

367

 

Equity in earnings (losses) of unconsolidated subsidiaries

 

9

 

 

(8

)

1

 

 

 

1

 

Interest expense(4)

 

108

 

142

 

9

 

259

 

 

 

259

 

Income taxes

 

93

 

169

 

(5

)

257

 

 

 

257

 

Discontinued operations, net of tax(5)

 

(14

)

 

 

(14

)

 

 

(14

)

Segment profit (loss)(6)

 

188

 

266

 

(12

)

442

 

 

 

442

 

Segment assets from continuing operations

 

4,836

 

7,512

 

164

 

12,512

 

46

 

 

12,558

 

Segment assets from discontinued operations

 

234

 

 

 

234

 

 

 

234

 

Total segment assets

 

5,070

 

7,512

 

164

 

12,746

 

46

 

 

12,792

 

Investments in unconsolidated subsidiaries

 

256

 

 

76

 

332

 

 

 

332

 

Total expenditures for long-lived assets

 

764

 

633

 

 

1,397

 

 

 

1,397

 

 


(1)          The All Other category represents miscellaneous corporate items, which are not allocated to business units for purposes of segment performance measurement.

(2)          The Reconciling Eliminations category eliminates the intersegment revenues of Commercial and the intersegment costs of Regulated Businesses.

(3)          The components of Depreciation include depreciation of fixed assets and amortization of intangible assets.

(4)          Interest income is deemed immaterial.

(5)          For further information, see Note 14.

(6)          Management utilizes Segment profit (loss), after taxes, to evaluate segment performance.

 

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Products and Services

(in millions)

 

 

 

Revenues

 

 

 

Utility

 

Wholesale Commodity

 

 

 

 

 

Year

 

Electric

 

Gas

 

Total

 

Electric

 

Gas

 

Total

 

Other

 

Consolidated

 

2003

 

$

2,156

 

$

626

 

$

2,782

 

$

1,227

 

$

210

 

$

1,437

 

$

197

 

$

4,416

 

2002

 

2,197

 

436

 

2,633

 

1,141

 

154

 

1,295

 

131

 

4,059

 

2001

 

2,101

 

595

 

2,696

 

1,115

 

61

 

1,176

 

78

 

3,950

 

 

Geographic Areas

Revenues

(in millions)

 

Year

 

Domestic

 

International

 

Consolidated

 

2003

 

$

4,371

 

$

45

 

$

4,416

 

2002

 

4,011

 

48

 

4,059

 

2001

 

3,913

 

37

 

3,950

 

 

Long-Lived Assets

(in millions)

 

Year

 

Domestic

 

International

 

Consolidated

 

2003

 

$

11,524

 

$

273

 

$

11,797

 

2002

 

10,801

 

393

 

11,194

 

2001

 

10,174

 

428

 

10,602

 

 

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16.       Earnings Per Common Share

 

A reconciliation of EPS to EPS - assuming dilution is presented below:

 

 

 

Income

 

Shares

 

EPS

 

 

 

(in thousands, except per share amounts)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Year ended December 31, 2003

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

EPS:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Income before discontinued operations and cumulative effect of changes in accounting principles

 

$

434,424

 

   

 

$

2.46

 

Discontinued operations, net of tax

 

8,886

 

   

 

0.05

 

Cumulative effect of changes in accounting principles, net of tax

 

26,462

 

   

 

0.15

 

Net income

 

$

469,772

 

176,535

 

$

2.66

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Effect of dilutive securities:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Common stock options

 

   

 

746

 

 

 

Directors’ compensation plans

 

   

 

152

 

 

 

Contingently issuable common stock

 

   

 

851

 

 

 

Stock purchase contracts

 

   

 

189

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

EPS - assuming dilution:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Net income plus assumed conversions

 

$

469,772

 

178,473

 

$

2.63

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Year ended December 31, 2002

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

EPS:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Income before discontinued operations and cumulative effect of a change in accounting principle

 

$

396,636

 

   

 

$

2.37

 

Discontinued operations, net of tax

 

(25,161

)

   

 

(0.15

)

Cumulative effect of a change in accounting principle, net of tax

 

(10,899

)

   

 

(0.06

)

Net income

 

$

360,576

 

167,047

 

$

2.16

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Effect of dilutive securities:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Common stock options

 

   

 

899

 

 

 

Employee Stock Purchase and Savings Plan

 

   

 

3

 

 

 

Directors’ compensation plans

 

   

 

169

 

 

 

Contingently issuable common stock

 

   

 

934

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

EPS - assuming dilution:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Net income plus assumed conversions

 

$

360,576

 

169,052

 

$

2.13

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Year ended December 31, 2001

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

EPS:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Income before discontinued operations and cumulative effect of a change in accounting principle

 

$

456,629

 

   

 

$

2.87

 

Discontinued operations, net of tax

 

(14,350

)

   

 

(0.09

)

Net income

 

$

442,279

 

159,110

 

$

2.78

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Effect of dilutive securities:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Common stock options

 

   

 

975

 

 

 

Directors’ compensation plans

 

   

 

152

 

 

 

Contingently issuable common stock

 

   

 

810

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

EPS - assuming dilution:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Net income plus assumed conversions

 

$

442,279

 

161,047

 

$

2.75

 

 

Options to purchase shares of common stock are excluded from the calculation of EPS -

 

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assuming dilution when the exercise price of these options plus unrecognized compensation expense is greater than the average market price of a common share during the period multiplied by the number of options outstanding at the end of the period because they are anti-dilutive.  For the years 2003, 2002, and 2001, approximately 1.6 million, 3.0 million, and 2.1 million shares, respectively, were excluded from the EPS - assuming dilution calculation.

 

Also excluded from the EPS - assuming dilution calculation for the years ended December 31, 2003 and 2002, are up to 10.6 million and 10.8 million shares, respectively, issuable pursuant to the stock purchase contracts issued by Cinergy Corp. in December 2001 associated with the preferred trust securities transaction.  The number of shares issuable pursuant to the stock purchase contracts is contingent upon the market price of Cinergy Corp. stock in February 2005 and could range between 9.2 and 10.8 million shares.

 

17.       Deregulation

 

CG&E is in a market development period, transitioning to deregulation of electric generation and a competitive retail electric service market in the state of Ohio.  The transition period is governed by the Amended Substitute Senate Bill No. 3 (Electric Restructuring Bill) and a stipulated transition plan adopted and approved by the PUCO.  The Electric Restructuring Bill provides for a market development period that began January 1, 2001, and ends no later than December 31, 2005.

 

The major features of CG&E’s transition plan include:

 

                  Residential customer rates are frozen through December 31, 2005;

                  Residential customers received a five-percent reduction in the generation portion of their electric rates, effective January 1, 2001;

                  CG&E will provide $4 million from 2001 to 2005 in support of energy efficiency and weatherization services for low income customers;

                  CG&E will provide shopping credits to switching customers;

                  The creation of a RTC designed to recover CG&E’s regulatory assets and other transition costs over a ten-year period;

                  Authority for CG&E to transfer its generation assets to one or more, non-regulated affiliates to provide flexibility to manage its generation asset portfolio in a manner that enhances opportunities in a competitive marketplace;

                  Authority for CG&E to apply the proceeds of transition cost recovery to costs incurred during the transition period, including implementation costs and purchased power costs that may be incurred by CG&E to maintain an operating reserve margin sufficient to provide reliable service to its customers;

                  Authority for CG&E to adjust the amortization of its regulatory assets and other transition costs to reflect the effects of any shopping incentives provided to customers; and

                  CG&E will provide standard offer default supplier service (i.e., CG&E will be the supplier of last resort, so that no customer will be without an electric supplier).

 

Under CG&E’s transition plan, retail customers continue to receive transmission and

 

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distribution services from CG&E, but may purchase electricity from another supplier.  Retail customers that purchase electricity from another supplier receive shopping credits from CG&E.  The shopping credits generally reflect the costs of electric generation included in CG&E’s frozen rates.  However, shopping credits for the first 20 percent of electricity usage in each customer class to switch suppliers are higher than shopping credits for subsequent switchers in order to stimulate the development of the competitive retail electric service market.

 

CG&E recovers its generation-related regulatory assets and certain other deferred transition costs through an RTC paid by all retail customers.  As the RTC is collected from customers, CG&E amortizes the deferred balance of regulatory assets and other transition costs.  A portion of the RTC collected from customers is recognized currently as a return on the deferred balance of regulatory assets and other transition costs and as reimbursement for the difference in the shopping credits provided to retail customers and the wholesale revenues from generation made available by switched customers.  The ability of CG&E to recover its regulatory assets and other transition costs is dependent on several factors, including, but not limited to, the level of CG&E’s electric sales, prices in the wholesale power markets, and the amount of customers switching to other electric suppliers.

 

In January 2003, CG&E filed an application with the PUCO for approval of a methodology to establish how market-based rates for non-residential customers will be determined when the market development period ends.  In the filing, CG&E seeks to establish a market-based standard service offer rate for non-residential customers that do not switch suppliers and a process for establishing the competitively-bid generation service option required by the Electric Restructuring Bill.  As of December 31, 2002, more than 20 percent of the load of CG&E’s commercial and industrial customer classes had switched to other electric suppliers, and the other public authorities group was at 19.95 percent at December 31, 2003.  Under its transition plan, CG&E may end the market development period for those classes of customers once 20 percent switching has been achieved; however, PUCO approval of the standard service offer rate and competitive bidding process is required before the market development period can be ended.

 

In December 2003, the PUCO issued an order that the CG&E application filed in January 2003 would proceed to a hearing and be consolidated with CG&E’s application to defer certain administrative transmission charges and the application to defer costs of capital investments made to their transmission and distribution system during the market development period.  As part of this order, the PUCO requested that CG&E file a rate stabilization plan to mitigate the effects of market based pricing on retail customers while the competitive retail electric market continues to mature.  In response to this request, on January 26, 2004, CG&E filed an offer of settlement, including an electric reliability and rate stabilization plan.  In this proposal, CG&E has also asked to end the market development period for all customers effective December 31, 2004.

 

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The major features of CG&E’s electric reliability and rate stabilization plan include:

 

                  The market development period would end for all customers on December 31, 2004;

                  CG&E would begin to collect a non-bypassable Provider of Last Resort (POLR) charge from all customers effective January 1, 2005.  This charge could be increased by up to 10 percent of CG&E’s generation charge each year from 2005 through 2008;

                  CG&E would offer its current generation rates as its market based rates until December 31, 2008;

                  CG&E would request a transmission and distribution rate increase effective January 1, 2005;

                  CG&E would begin charging RTC as an explicit wires charge;

                  PUCO approval of previously requested transmission and distribution deferrals and cost recovery riders (see Note 11(b)(vi));

                  The five percent generation rate reduction for residential customers would continue through 2008;

                  Extend recovery of residential RTC from 2008 through 2010.·

 

The POLR charge would allow for recovery of increased costs of fuel and purchased power, transmission congestion, environmental compliance, homeland security, taxes and maintaining an adequate reserve margin.

 

An evidentiary hearing addressing the issues described above is scheduled for the second quarter of 2004.  At the current time CG&E is unable to predict the outcome of this proceeding or the effects it could have on its results of operations or financial condition.

 

18.       Comprehensive Income

 

Comprehensive income includes all changes in equity during a period except those resulting from investments by and distributions to shareholders.  The major components include net income, foreign currency translation adjustments, minimum pension liability adjustment, unrealized gains and losses on investment trusts and the effects of certain hedging activities.

 

We translate the assets and liabilities of foreign subsidiaries, whose functional currency (generally, the local currency of the country in which the subsidiary is located) is not the U.S. dollar, using the appropriate exchange rate as of the end of the year.  Foreign currency translation adjustments are unrealized gains and losses on the difference in foreign country currency compared to the value of the U.S. dollar.  The gains and losses are accumulated in comprehensive income.  When a foreign subsidiary is substantially liquidated, the cumulative translation gain or loss is removed from comprehensive income and is recognized as a component of the gain or loss on the sale of the subsidiary in our Statements of Income.

 

We record a minimum pension liability adjustment associated with our defined benefit pension

 

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plans when the unfunded accumulated benefit obligation is in excess of our accrued pension liabilities and the unrecognized prior service costs recorded as an intangible asset.  The corresponding offset is recorded on the Balance Sheets in Accrued pension and other postretirement benefit costs.  Details of the pension plans’ assets and obligations are explained further in Note 9.

 

We record unrealized gains and losses on equity investments in trusts we have established for our benefit plans, primarily by PSI.  See Note 9 for further details.

 

The changes in fair value of derivatives that qualify as hedges, under Statement 133, are recorded in comprehensive income.  The specific hedge accounting and the derivatives that qualify are explained in greater detail in Note 8(a).

 

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The elements of Comprehensive income and their related tax effects for the years ended December 31, 2003, 2002, and 2001 are as follows:

 

 

 

Comprehensive Income

 

 

 

2003

 

2002

 

2001

 

 

 

Before-tax
Amount

 

Tax
(Expense)
Benefit

 

Net-of-Tax
Amount

 

Before-tax
Amount

 

Tax
(Expense)
Benefit

 

Net-of-Tax
Amount

 

Before-tax
Amount

 

Tax
(Expense)
Benefit

 

Net-of-Tax
Amount

 

 

 

(dollars in thousands)

 

Cinergy(1)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Net income

 

$

626,284

 

$

(156,512)

 

$

469,772

 

$

518,840

 

$

(158,264)

 

$

360,576

 

$

697,785

 

$

(255,506)

 

$

442,279

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Other comprehensive income (loss):

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Foreign currency translation adjustment

 

25,311

 

(8,649

)

16,662

 

35,574

 

(14,034

)

21,540

 

4,996

 

(3,355

)

1,641

 

Reclassification adjustments

 

(9,437

)

3,303

 

(6,134

)

4,377

 

 

4,377

 

 

 

 

Total foreign currency translation adjustment

 

15,874

 

(5,346

)

10,528

 

39,951

 

(14,034

)

25,917

 

4,996

 

(3,355

)

1,641

 

Minimum pension liability adjustment

 

(56,238

)

22,392

 

(33,846

)

(23,031

)

9,268

 

(13,763

)

(2,636

)

1,081

 

(1,555

)

Unrealized gain (loss) on investment trusts

 

11,113

 

(4,356

)

6,757

 

(8,637

)

3,360

 

(5,277

)

(1,345

)

504

 

(841

)

Cumulative effect of change in accounting principle

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

(4,026

)

1,526

 

(2,500

)

Cash flow hedges

 

2,516

 

(990

)

1,526

 

(32,663

)

12,915

 

(19,748

)

(4,477

)

1,698

 

(2,779

)

Total other comprehensive income (loss)

 

(26,735

)

11,700

 

(15,035

)

(24,380

)

11,509

 

(12,871

)

(7,488

)

1,454

 

(6,034

)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Total comprehensive income

 

$

599,549

 

$

(144,812

)

$

454,737

 

$

494,460

 

$

(146,755

)

$

347,705

 

$

690,297

 

$

(254,052

)

$

436,245

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

CG&E and subsidiaries(2)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Net income

 

$

529,032

 

$

(197,982

)

$

331,050

 

$

419,037

 

$

(155,341

)

$

263,696

 

$

513,181

 

$

(186,527

)

$

326,654

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Other comprehensive income (loss):

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Minimum pension liability adjustment

 

(13,174

)

5,157

 

(8,017

)

(1,423

)

551

 

(872

)

106

 

28

 

134

 

Unrealized gain (loss) on investment trusts

 

2

 

(1

)

1

 

(745

)

283

 

(462

)

743

 

(282

)

461

 

Cumulative effect of change in accounting principle

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

(4,026

)

1,526

 

(2,500

)

Cash flow hedges

 

2,133

 

(835

)

1,298

 

(30,960

)

12,226

 

(18,734

)

(4,477

)

1,698

 

(2,779

)

Total other comprehensive income (loss)

 

(11,039

)

4,321

 

(6,718

)

(33,128

)

13,060

 

(20,068

)

(7,654

)

2,970

 

(4,684

)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Total comprehensive income

 

$

517,993

 

$

(193,661

)

$

324,332

 

$

385,909

 

$

(142,281

)

$

243,628

 

$

505,527

 

$

(183,557

)

$

321,970

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

PSI

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Net income

 

$

233,632

 

$

(100,251

)

$

133,381

 

$

328,958

 

$

(114,709

)

$

214,249

 

$

268,419

 

$

(106,086

)

$

162,333

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Other comprehensive income (loss):

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Minimum pension liability adjustment

 

(19,183

)

7,649

 

(11,534

)

(3,534

)

1,396

 

(2,138

)

(76

)

27

 

(49

)

Unrealized gain (loss) on investment trusts

 

10,236

 

(4,004

)

6,232

 

(7,179

)

2,793

 

(4,386

)

(1,537

)

511

 

(1,026

)

Total other comprehensive income (loss)

 

(8,947

)

3,645

 

(5,302

)

(10,713

)

4,189

 

(6,524

)

(1,613

)

538

 

(1,075

)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Total comprehensive income

 

$

224,685

 

$

(96,606

)

$

128,079

 

$

318,245

 

$

(110,520

)

$

207,725

 

$

266,806

 

$

(105,548

)

$

161,258

 

 


(1)               The results of Cinergy also include amounts related to non-registrants.

(2)               Individual amounts for ULH&P are immaterial.

 

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The after-tax components of Accumulated other comprehensive income (loss) as of December 31, 2003, 2002, and 2001 are as follows:

 

 

 

Accumulated Other Comprehensive Income (Loss) Classification

 

 

 

Foreign
Currency
Translation
Adjustment

 

Minimum
Pension
Liability
Adjustment

 

Unrealized
Gain (Loss)
on Investment
Trusts

 

Cash Flow
Hedges

 

Total Other
Comprehensive
Income
(Loss)

 

 

 

(dollars in thousands)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Cinergy(1)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Balance at December 31, 2000

 

$

(6,072

)

$

(4,780

)

$

(43

)

$

 

$

(10,895

)

Cumulative effect of change in accounting principle

 

 

 

 

(2,500

)

(2,500

)

Current-period change

 

1,641

 

(1,555

)

(841

)

(2,779

)

(3,534

)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Balance at December 31, 2001

 

$

(4,431

)

$

(6,335

)

$

(884

)

$

(5,279

)

$

(16,929

)

Current-period change

 

25,917

 

(13,763

)

(5,277

)

(19,748

)

(12,871

)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Balance at December 31, 2002

 

$

21,486

 

$

(20,098

)

$

(6,161

)

$

(25,027

)

$

(29,800

)

Current-period change

 

10,528

 

(33,846

)

6,757

 

1,526

 

(15,035

)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Balance at December 31, 2003

 

$

32,014

 

$

(53,944

)

$

596

 

$

(23,501

)

$

(44,835

)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

CG&E and subsidiaries(2)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Balance at December 31, 2000

 

$

 

$

(994

)

$

 

$

 

$

(994

)

Cumulative effect of change in accounting principle

 

 

 

 

(2,500

)

(2,500

)

Current-period change

 

 

134

 

461

 

(2,779

)

(2,184

)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Balance at December 31, 2001

 

$

 

$

(860

)

$

461

 

$

(5,279

)

$

(5,678

)

Current-period change

 

 

(872

)

(462

)

(18,734

)

(20,068

)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Balance at December 31, 2002

 

$

 

$

(1,732

)

$

(1

)

$

(24,013

)

$

(25,746

)

Current-period change

 

 

(8,017

)

1

 

1,298

 

(6,718

)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Balance at December 31, 2003

 

$

 

$

(9,749

)

$

 

$

(22,715

)

$

(32,464

)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

PSI

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Balance at December 31, 2000

 

$

 

$

(705

)

$

185

 

$

 

$

(520

)

Current-period change

 

 

(49

)

(1,026

)

 

(1,075

)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Balance at December 31, 2001

 

$

 

$

(754

)

$

(841

)

$

 

$

(1,595

)

Current-period change

 

 

(2,138

)

(4,386

)

 

(6,524

)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Balance at December 31, 2002

 

$

 

$

(2,892

)

$

(5,227

)

$

 

$

(8,119

)

Current-period change

 

 

(11,534

)

6,232

 

 

(5,302

)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Balance at December 31, 2003

 

$

 

$

(14,426

)

$

1,005

 

$

 

$

(13,421

)

 

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(1)    The results of Cinergy also include amounts related to non-registrants.

(2)    Individual amounts for ULH&P are immaterial.

 

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19.       Transfer of Generating Assets

 

In December 2002, the IURC approved a settlement agreement among PSI, the Indiana Office of the Utility Consumer Counselor, and the IURC Testimonial Staff authorizing PSI’s purchases of the Henry County, Indiana and Butler County, Ohio, gas-fired peaking plants from two non-regulated affiliates.  In February 2003, the FERC issued an order under Section 203 of the Federal Power Act authorizing PSI’s acquisitions of the plants, which occurred on February 5, 2003.  Subsequently, in April 2003, the FERC issued a tolling order allowing additional time to consider a request for rehearing filed in response to the February 2003 FERC order.  At this time, the rehearing request is still pending before the FERC, and PSI cannot predict the outcome of this matter.

 

In July 2003, ULH&P filed an application with the KPSC requesting a certificate of public convenience and necessity to acquire CG&E’s 68.9 percent ownership interest in the East Bend Generating Station, located in Boone County, Kentucky, the Woodsdale Generating Station, located in Butler County, Ohio, and one generating unit at the four-unit Miami Fort Station located in Hamilton County, Ohio.  In December 2003, the KPSC conditionally approved this application.  The transfer, which will be made at net book value, will not affect current electric rates for ULH&P’s customers, as power will be provided under the same terms as under the current wholesale power contract with CG&E through at least December 31, 2006.  ULH&P will also seek regulatory approval for aspects of this transaction from the FERC and SEC.  At this time, ULH&P is unable to predict the outcome of this matter.

 

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ITEM 9.  CHANGES IN AND DISAGREEMENTS WITH ACCOUNTANTS ON ACCOUNTING AND
FINANCIAL DISCLOSURE

 

Disclosure with respect to this Item, for each of the registrants, has been previously provided on the Form 8-K dated April 30, 2002 and as amended on May 15, 2002.

 

ITEM 9A. CONTROLS AND PROCEDURES

 

Disclosure controls and procedures are our controls and other procedures that are designed to provide reasonable assurance that information required to be disclosed by us in the reports that we file or submit under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 (Exchange Act) is recorded, processed, summarized, and reported, within the time periods specified in the Securities and Exchange Commission’s (SEC) rules and forms.  Disclosure controls and procedures include, without limitation, controls and procedures designed to provide reasonable assurance that information required to be disclosed by us in the reports that we file under the Exchange Act is accumulated and communicated to our management, including our chief executive officer and chief financial officer, as appropriate to allow timely decisions regarding required disclosure.

 

Under the supervision and with the participation of our management, including our chief executive officer and chief financial officer, we have evaluated the effectiveness of our disclosure controls and procedures as of December 31, 2003, and, based upon this evaluation, our chief executive officer and chief financial officer have concluded that these controls and procedures are effective in providing reasonable assurance that information requiring disclosure is recorded, processed, summarized, and reported within the timeframe specified by the SEC’s rules and forms.

 

Under the supervision and with the participation of our management, including our chief executive officer and chief financial officer, we have evaluated any change in our internal control over financial reporting (as such term is defined in Rules 13a-15(f) and 15d-15(f) under the Exchange Act) during the fiscal quarter ended December 31, 2003 and found no change that has materially affected, or is reasonably likely to materially affect, our internal control over financial reporting.

 

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PART III

ITEM 10.  DIRECTORS AND EXECUTIVE OFFICERS OF THE REGISTRANTS

 

BOARD OF DIRECTORS

 

Information regarding Cinergy Corp.’s directors is incorporated by reference from its definitive Proxy Statement for the 2004 Annual Meeting of Shareholders.

 

The directors of The Cincinnati Gas & Electric Company (CG&E) at February 6, 2004, are as follows:

 

                  R. Foster Duncan - Mr. Duncan, age 49, is Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of CG&E, a position he has held since February 2001.  He has served as director of CG&E since April 2001.  His current term as director expires May 3, 2004.

                  James E. Rogers - Mr. Rogers, age 56, is Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer of CG&E.  He has served as a director of CG&E since 1994.  His current term as director expires May 3, 2004.

                  James L. Turner - Mr. Turner, age 44, is Executive Vice President of CG&E, a position he has held since July 2000.  He served as a director of CG&E from February 15, 1999 to April 30, 2001, at which time Mr. William J. Grealis was elected as successor-director to Mr. Turner.  Mr. Turner was re-elected, effective October 1, 2001, as successor-director to Mr. Grealis.  Mr. Turner’s current term as director expires May 3, 2004.

Additional information on each of the directors of CG&E is presented in the following “Executive Officers” section.

 

Information regarding PSI Energy, Inc.’s (PSI) directors is incorporated by reference from PSI’s 2004 Information Statement.

 

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EXECUTIVE OFFICERS

 

The names and ages of the executive officers of Cinergy, CG&E, and PSI and the positions they hold, held, or have been elected to (as of February 6, 2004), and their business experience during the past five years is included in the chart below.

 

 

 

 

 

Positions and Length of Service

Name

 

Age

 

Cinergy Corp.

 

CG&E

 

PSI

Michael J. Cyrus

 

48

 

Executive Vice President
2/01 - present
Chief Executive Officer,
Commercial Business Unit
(formerly known as the Energy Merchant Business Unit)

2/01 - present
President, Energy Commodities Business Unit
3/99 - 2/01
Vice President
4/98 - 2/01
Chief Operating Officer, Energy Commodities Business Unit
11/98 - 3/99

 

Executive Vice President
2/01 - present
Vice President
4/99 - 2/01

 

Executive Vice President
2/01 - present
Vice President
4/99 - 2/01

R. Foster Duncan(1)

 

49

 

Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer
2/01 - present

 

Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer
2/01 - present

 

Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer
2/01 - present

Douglas F. Esamann

 

46

 

Vice President and Chief Financial Officer, Energy Merchant Business Unit
2/01 - 10/01
Vice President and Chief Financial Officer, Energy Commodities Business Unit
3/99 - 2/01
General Manager, Business Development, Energy Commodities Business Unit
3/98 - 3/99

 

 

 

President
10/01 - present

Gregory C. Ficke

 

51

 

Vice President and Chief Information Officer, Regulated Businesses Business Unit
2/01 - 10/01
Vice President and Chief Information Officer, Energy Delivery Business Unit
7/00 - 2/01
Vice President, Operations Services, Energy Delivery Business Unit
4/99 - 7/00
Vice President, Gas Operations, Energy Delivery Business Unit
12/98 - 4/99

 

President
10/01 - present

 

 

 

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Lynn J. Good(2)

 

44

 

Vice President and Controller
11/03 - present
Vice President, Financial Project Strategy
5/03 - 11/03

 

Vice President and Controller
11/03 - present
Vice President, Financial Project Strategy
5/03 - 11/03

 

Vice President and Controller
11/03 - present
Vice President, Financial Project Strategy
5/03 - 11/03

William J. Grealis

 

58

 

Executive Vice President
7/00 - present
Chief Executive Officer, Regulated Businesses Business Unit
2/01 - 10/01
Chief of Staff
7/00 - 2/01
Vice President, Corporate Services, and Chief Strategic Officer
8/98 - 7/00
President, Cinergy Investments, Inc.
1/95 - 3/99

 

Executive Vice President
7/00 - present
Chief of Staff
7/00 - 2/01
Vice President, Corporate Services, and Chief Strategic Officer
8/98 - 7/00

 

Executive Vice President
7/00 - present
Chief of Staff
7/00 - 2/01
Vice President, Corporate Services, and Chief Strategic Officer

8/98 - 7/00

Marc E. Manly(3)

 

51

 

Executive Vice President and Chief Legal Officer
11/02 - present
Assistant Secretary
1/03 - present

 

Executive Vice President and Chief Legal Officer
11/02 - present

 

Executive Vice President and Chief Legal Officer
11/02 - present
Assistant Secretary
1/03 - present

Theodore R. Murphy II(4)

 

46

 

Senior Vice President and Chief Risk Officer
8/02 - present

 

Senior Vice President and Chief Risk Officer
8/02 - present

 

Senior Vice President and Chief Risk Officer
8/02 - present

Frederick J. Newton III(5)

 

48

 

Executive Vice President and Chief Administrative Officer
5/02 - present

 

Executive Vice President and Chief Administrative Officer
5/02 - present

 

Executive Vice President and Chief Administrative Officer
5/02 - present

James E. Rogers

 

56

 

Chairman of the Board
12/00 - present
President and Chief Executive Officer
12/95 - present
Vice Chairman
12/95 - 12/00

 

Chairman of the Board
12/00 - present
Chief Executive Officer
12/95 - present
Vice Chairman
12/95 - 12/00

 

Chairman of the Board
12/00 - present
Chief Executive Officer
12/95 - present
Vice Chairman
12/95 - 12/00

James L. Turner(6)

 

44

 

Executive Vice President
10/01 - present
Chief Executive Officer, Regulated Businesses Business Unit
12/01 - present
President, Regulated Businesses Business Unit
2/01 - 12/01
President, Energy Delivery Business Unit
7/00 - 2/01
Vice President
4/99 - 12/01

 

Executive Vice President
7/00 - present
President
2/99 - 7/00

 

Executive Vice President
7/00 - present

 

None of the officers are related in any manner.  Our executive officers hold the offices set opposite their names until the next annual meeting of the Board of Directors and until their successors have been elected and qualified.

 


(1)    Prior to joining Cinergy, Mr. Duncan was Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of LG&E Energy Corp. (LG&E) (a non-affiliate of Cinergy) in Louisville, Kentucky since December 1998.

 

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(2)    Prior to joining Cinergy, Ms. Good was a partner with the international accounting firm Deloitte & Touche LLP in Cincinnati, Ohio since May 2002.  Prior to that, she was a partner with the international accounting firm Arthur Andersen LLP from 1992 to May 2002.  While at Arthur Andersen LLP, she had regional energy responsibilities for risk consulting and internal audit practices.

 

(3)    Prior to joining Cinergy, Mr. Manly was Managing Director, Law and Governmental Affairs, General Counsel and Corporate Secretary of NewPower Holdings, Inc. (a non-affiliate of Cinergy) from April 2000 to August 2002.  Prior to that, he was Vice President, Chief Counsel for AT&T Consumer Services Group (a non-affiliate of Cinergy) from January 1995 to April 2000.  On June 11, 2002, NewPower Holdings, Inc. and its affiliates, TNPC Holdings, Inc. and the NewPower Company, filed a petition for relief under Chapter 11 of The United States Bankruptcy Code.

 

(4)    Prior to joining Cinergy, Mr. Murphy was Vice President and Chief Risk Officer of Enron Europe, Ltd. (a non-affiliate of Cinergy) from January 2001 to July 2002.  Prior to that, he was Vice President of Market Risk of Enron Corp. (a non-affiliate of Cinergy) from March 1997 to December 2000.

 

(5)    Prior to joining Cinergy, Mr. Newton was Senior Vice President, Chief Administrative Officer of LG&E (a non-affiliate of Cinergy) from January 1999 to May 2002. 

 

(6)    Beginning in April 1998 until January 2000, Mr. Turner had full responsibility for Cinergy’s Government and Regulatory Affairs Department.  Mr. Turner served as Vice President of Customer Services from January 2000 until July 2000.

 

Cinergy Corp. has adopted both a code of business conduct and ethics applicable to all of its directors, officers, and employees as well as corporate governance guidelines.  Both of these documents are available on Cinergy’s website at www.cinergy.com.  In addition, any amendments to or waivers from the code of business conduct and ethics will be posted on the website.  Any such amendment or waiver would require the prior consent of the Board of Directors or an applicable committee thereof.

 

Information regarding Cinergy Corp.’s audit committee required by Items 401(h) and 401(i) of Regulation S-K is incorporated by reference from its definitive Proxy Statement for the 2004 Annual Meeting of Shareholders.

 

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ITEM 11.  EXECUTIVE COMPENSATION

 

Information in response to this item for Cinergy Corp. and CG&E is incorporated by reference from Cinergy Corp.’s definitive Proxy Statement for the 2004 Annual Meeting of Shareholders.

 

All CG&E directors currently are employees of Cinergy and receive no compensation for their services as directors.

 

Information in response to this item for PSI is incorporated by reference from PSI’s 2004 Information Statement.

 

ITEM 12.  SECURITY OWNERSHIP OF CERTAIN BENEFICIAL OWNERS AND MANAGEMENT

AND RELATED STOCKHOLDER MATTERS

 

Information in response to this item for Cinergy Corp. is incorporated by reference from its definitive Proxy Statement for the 2004 Annual Meeting of Shareholders.

 

Cinergy Corp. owns all outstanding shares of common stock of CG&E, CG&E’s only voting security.

 

CG&E’s directors and executive officers did not beneficially own any shares of any class of equity security of CG&E as of February 6, 2004.  The beneficial ownership of Cinergy Corp. common stock by each director and named executive officer of CG&E as of February 6, 2004, is set forth in the following table:

 

Name of Beneficial Owner

 

Amount and Nature of
Beneficial Ownership(1)

 

Percent of
Class

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Michael J. Cyrus

 

388,371 shares

 

 

*

R. Foster Duncan

 

176,531 shares

 

 

*

William J. Grealis

 

448,412 shares

 

 

*

Marc E. Manly

 

49,070 shares

 

 

*

James E. Rogers

 

1,913,507 shares

 

1.07

%

All directors and executive officers as a group (10 persons)

 

3,183,476 shares

 

1.78

%

 


*                    Less than 1 percent

(1)             Includes shares which there is a right to acquire within 60 days pursuant to the exercise of stock options in the following amounts:  Mr. Cyrus - 248,200; Mr. Duncan - 144,500; Mr. Grealis - 255,400; Mr. Manly - 40,000; Mr. Rogers - 1,225,300; and all directors and executive officers as a group - 2,024,926.

 

Information in response to this item for PSI is incorporated by reference from its 2004 Information Statement.

 

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The following table reflects Cinergy’s equity compensation plan information as of December 31, 2003:

 

Equity Compensation Plan Information

 

Plan Category

 

Number of securities to
be issued upon exercise
of outstanding options,
warrants and rights
(a)

 

Weighted-average
exercise price of
outstanding options,
warrants and rights
(b)

 

Number of securities
remaining available for
future issuance under
equity compensation
plans (excluding
securities reflected in
column (a))
(c)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Equity compensation plans approved by security holders

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Cinergy Corp. 1996 Long-Term Incentive Compensation Plan

 

7,070,221

 

$

29.37

 

4,346,877

 

Cinergy Corp. Stock Option Plan

 

1,021,923

 

$

29.95

 

1,318,500

 

Cinergy Corp. Employee Stock Purchase and Savings Plan

 

 

N/A

 

1,482,664

 

Cinergy Corp. Retirement Plan for Directors

 

85,288

 

N/A

 

 

Cinergy Corp. Directors’ Equity Compensation Plan

 

22,201

 

N/A

 

46,771

 

Cinergy Corp. Directors’ Deferred Compensation Plan

 

48,639

 

N/A

 

108,547

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Equity compensation plans not approved by security holders

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Cinergy Corp. UK Sharesave Scheme

 

6,876

 

$

25.14

 

62,637

 

Cinergy Corp. 401(k) Excess Plan

 

76,604

 

N/A

 

 

 

The following information describes the equity compensation plans that have not been approved by shareholders.

 

Cinergy Corp. UK Sharesave Scheme

 

The Cinergy Corp. UK Sharesave Scheme allows essentially all full-time, regular United Kingdom employees working a minimum of 25 hours per week to purchase shares of common stock pursuant to a stock option feature.  Under the Cinergy Corp. UK Sharesave Scheme, after-tax funds are withheld from a participant’s compensation during a 36-month or 60-month offering period, at the election of the participants, and are deposited in an account.  At the end of the offering period, participants may apply amounts deposited in the account toward the purchase of shares of common stock.  The purchase price cannot be less than 80 percent of the average market price at date of grant or shortly prior to the grant.  Any funds not applied toward the purchase of shares are returned to the participant.  A participant may elect to terminate participation in the plan at any time.  Participation also will terminate if the participant’s employment ceases.  Upon termination of participation, all funds are returned to the participant without penalty although, in certain specified circumstances, options may be exercised early on a pro-rata basis.

 

Cinergy Corp. 401(k) Excess Plan

 

The Cinergy Corp. 401(k) Excess Plan is a non-qualified deferred compensation plan for a select group of Cinergy management and other highly compensated employees.  It is a means by which these employees can defer additional compensation when they have already contributed

 

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the maximum amount (pursuant to the anti-discrimination rules for highly compensated employees) under the 401(k) Plan.  All funds deferred are held in a rabbi trust administered by an independent trustee.

 

ITEM 13.  CERTAIN RELATIONSHIPS AND RELATED TRANSACTIONS

 

Information in response to this item for Cinergy Corp. and CG&E is incorporated by reference from Cinergy Corp.’s definitive Proxy Statement for the 2004 Annual Meeting of Shareholders.

 

Information in response to this item for PSI is incorporated by reference from PSI’s 2004 Information Statement.

 

ITEM 14.  PRINCIPAL ACCOUNTANT FEES AND SERVICES

 

Information in response to this Item for Cinergy, CG&E and PSI is incorporated by reference from Cinergy Corp.’s definitive Proxy Statement for the 2004 Annual Meeting of Shareholders.

 

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PART IV

 

ITEM 15.  EXHIBITS, FINANCIAL STATEMENT SCHEDULES, AND REPORTS ON FORM 8-K

 

FINANCIAL STATEMENTS AND SCHEDULES

 

Refer to the page captioned “Index to Financial Statements and Financial Statement Schedules” for an index of the financial statements and financial statement schedules included in this report.

 

REPORTS ON FORM 8-K

 

The following reports on Form 8-K were furnished or filed during the quarter ended December 31, 2003.

 

Date of Report

 

Registrant

 

Item Furnished or Filed

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

October 27, 2003

 

Cinergy Corp.

 

Item 12.  Results of Operations and Financial Condition

 

 

EXHIBITS

 

The documents listed below are being filed or have previously been filed on behalf of Cinergy Corp., CG&E, PSI, and The Union Light, Heat and Power Company (ULH&P) and are incorporated herein by reference from the documents indicated and made a part hereof.  Exhibits not identified as previously filed are filed herewith:

 

Exhibit
Designation

 

Registrant(s)(1)

 

Nature of Exhibit

 

Previously Filed as
Exhibit to:

Articles of Incorporation /By-laws

 

 

 

 

 

 

3-a

 

Cinergy Corp.

 

Certificate of Incorporation of Cinergy Corp., a Delaware corporation, as amended May 10, 2001.

 

Cinergy Corp. March 31, 2001, Form 10-Q

3-b

 

Cinergy Corp.

 

By-Laws of Cinergy Corp., as amended on July 23, 2003.

 

Cinergy Corp. June 30, 2003, Form 10-Q

3-c

 

CG&E

 

Amended Articles of Incorporation of CG&E effective October 23, 1996.

 

CG&E September 30, 1996, Form 10-Q

3-d

 

CG&E

 

Regulations of CG&E, as amended on July 23, 2003.

 

CG&E June 30, 2003, Form 10-Q

3-e

 

PSI

 

Amended Articles of Consolidation of PSI, as amended April 20, 1995.

 

PSI June 30, 1995, Form 10-Q

3-f

 

PSI

 

Amendment to Article D of the Amended Articles of Consolidation of PSI, effective July 10, 1997.

 

Cinergy Corp. 1997 Form 10-K

3-g

 

PSI

 

By-Laws of PSI, as amended on July 23, 2003.

 

PSI June 30, 2003, Form 10-Q

3-h

 

ULH&P

 

Restated Articles of Incorporation made effective May 7, 1976.

 

ULH&P Form 8-K, May 1976

3-i

 

ULH&P

 

By-Laws of ULH&P, as amended on July 23, 2003.

 

ULH&P June 30, 2003, Form 10-Q

3-j

 

ULH&P

 

Amendment to Restated Articles of Incorporation of ULH&P (Article Third) and Amendment to the By-Laws of ULH&P (Article 1), both effective July 24, 1997.

 

Cinergy Corp. 1997 Form 10-K

Instruments defining the rights of holders, incl. Indentures

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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4-a

 

Cinergy Corp. PSI

 

Original Indenture (First Mortgage Bonds) dated September 1, 1939, between PSI and The First National Bank of Chicago, as Trustee, and LaSalle National Bank, as Successor Trustee.

 

Exhibit A-Part 3 in File No. 70-258 Supplemental Indenture dated March 30, 1984

4-b

 

Cinergy Corp. PSI

 

Twenty-fifth Supplemental Indenture between PSI and The First National Bank of Chicago dated September 1, 1978.

 

File No. 2-62543

4-c

 

Cinergy Corp. PSI

 

Thirty-fifth Supplemental Indenture between PSI and The First National Bank of Chicago dated March 30, 1984.

 

PSI 1984 Form 10-K

4-d

 

Cinergy Corp. PSI

 

Forty-second Supplemental Indenture between PSI and LaSalle National Bank dated August 1, 1988.

 

PSI 1988 Form 10-K

4-e

 

Cinergy Corp. PSI

 

Forty-fourth Supplemental Indenture between PSI and LaSalle National Bank dated March 15, 1990.

 

PSI 1990 Form 10-K

4-f

 

Cinergy Corp. PSI

 

Forty-fifth Supplemental Indenture between PSI and LaSalle National Bank dated March 15, 1990.

 

PSI 1990 Form 10-K

4-g

 

Cinergy Corp. PSI

 

Forty-sixth Supplemental Indenture between PSI and LaSalle National Bank dated June 1, 1990.

 

PSI 1991 Form 10-K

4-h

 

Cinergy Corp. PSI

 

Forty-seventh Supplemental Indenture between PSI and LaSalle National Bank dated July 15, 1991.

 

PSI 1991 Form 10-K

4-i

 

Cinergy Corp. PSI

 

Forty-eighth Supplemental Indenture between PSI and LaSalle National Bank dated July 15, 1992.

 

PSI 1992 Form 10-K

4-j

 

Cinergy Corp. PSI

 

Forty-ninth Supplemental Indenture between PSI and LaSalle National Bank dated February 15, 1993.

 

PSI 1992 Form 10-K

4-k

 

Cinergy Corp. PSI

 

Fiftieth Supplemental Indenture between PSI and LaSalle National Bank dated February 15, 1993.

 

PSI 1992 Form 10-K

4-l

 

Cinergy Corp. PSI

 

Fifty-first Supplemental Indenture between PSI and LaSalle National Bank dated February 1, 1994.

 

PSI 1993 Form 10-K

4-m

 

Cinergy Corp. PSI

 

Fifty-second Supplemental Indenture between PSI and LaSalle National Bank, as Trustee, dated as of April 30, 1999.

 

PSI March 31, 1999, Form 10-Q

4-n

 

Cinergy Corp. PSI

 

Fifty-third Supplemental Indenture between PSI and LaSalle National Bank dated June 15, 2001.

 

Cinergy Corp. June 30, 2001, Form 10-Q

4-o

 

Cinergy Corp. PSI

 

Fifty-fifth Supplemental Indenture between PSI and LaSalle National Bank dated February 15, 2003.

 

Cinergy Corp. September 30, 2003, Form 10-Q

4-p

 

Cinergy Corp. PSI

 

Indenture (Secured Medium-term Notes, Series A), dated July 15, 1991, between PSI and LaSalle National Bank, as Trustee.

 

PSI Form 10-K/A, Amendment No. 2, dated July 15, 1993

4-q

 

Cinergy Corp. PSI

 

Indenture (Secured Medium-term Notes, Series B), dated July 15, 1992, between PSI and LaSalle National Bank, as Trustee.

 

PSI Form 10-K/A, Amendment No. 2, dated July 15, 1993

4-r

 

Cinergy Corp. PSI

 

Loan Agreement between PSI and the City of Princeton, Indiana dated as of November 7, 1996.

 

PSI September 30, 1996, Form 10-Q

4-s

 

Cinergy Corp. PSI

 

Loan Agreement between PSI and the City of Princeton, Indiana dated as of February 1, 1997.

 

Cinergy Corp. 1996 Form 10-K

4-t

 

Cinergy Corp. PSI

 

Indenture dated November 15, 1996, between PSI and The Fifth Third Bank, as Trustee.

 

Cinergy Corp. 1996 Form 10-K

4-u

 

Cinergy Corp. PSI

 

First Supplemental Indenture dated November 15, 1996, between PSI and The Fifth Third Bank, as Trustee.

 

Cinergy Corp. 1996 Form 10-K

4-v

 

Cinergy Corp. PSI

 

Third Supplemental Indenture dated as of March 15, 1998, between PSI and The Fifth Third Bank, as Trustee.

 

Cinergy Corp. 1997 Form 10-K

4-w

 

Cinergy Corp. PSI

 

Fourth Supplemental Indenture dated as of August 5, 1998, between PSI and The Fifth Third Bank, as Trustee.

 

PSI June 30, 1998, Form 10-Q

4-x

 

Cinergy Corp. PSI

 

Fifth Supplemental Indenture dated as of December 15, 1998, between PSI and The Fifth Third Bank, as Trustee.

 

PSI 1998 Form 10-K

4-y

 

Cinergy Corp. PSI

 

Sixth Supplemental Indenture dated as of April 30, 1999, between PSI and Fifth Third Bank, as Trustee.

 

PSI March 31, 1999, Form 10-Q

4-z

 

Cinergy Corp. PSI

 

Seventh Supplemental Indenture dated as of October 20, 1999, between PSI and Fifth Third Bank, as Trustee.

 

PSI September 30, 1999, Form 10-Q

4-aa

 

Cinergy Corp. PSI

 

Eighth Supplemental Indenture dated as of September 23, 2003, between PSI and Fifth Third Bank, as Trustee.

 

PSI September 30, 2003, Form 10-Q

4-bb

 

Cinergy Corp. PSI

 

Unsecured Promissory Note dated October 14, 1998, between PSI and the Rural Utilities Service.

 

PSI 1998 Form 10-K

4-cc

 

Cinergy Corp. PSI

 

Loan Agreement between PSI and the Indiana Development Finance Authority dated as of July 15, 1998.

 

PSI June 30, 1998, Form 10-Q

4-dd

 

Cinergy Corp. PSI

 

Loan Agreement between PSI and the Indiana Development Finance Authority dated as of May 1, 2000.

 

PSI June 30, 2000, Form 10-Q

4-ee

 

Cinergy Corp. CG&E

 

Original Indenture (First Mortgage Bonds) between CG&E and The Bank of New York (as Trustee) dated as of August 1, 1936.

 

CG&E Registration Statement No. 2-2374

4-ff

 

Cinergy Corp. CG&E

 

Fourteenth Supplemental Indenture between CG&E and The Bank of New York dated as of November 2, 1972.

 

CG&E Registration Statement No. 2-60961

 

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4-gg

 

Cinergy Corp. CG&E

 

Thirty-third Supplemental Indenture between CG&E and The Bank of New York dated as of September 1, 1992.

 

CG&E Registration Statement No. 33-53578

4-hh

 

Cinergy Corp. CG&E

 

Thirty-fourth Supplemental Indenture between CG&E and The Bank of New York dated as of October 1, 1993.

 

CG&E September 30, 1993, Form 10-Q

4-ii

 

Cinergy Corp. CG&E

 

Thirty-fifth Supplemental Indenture between CG&E and The Bank of New York dated as of January 1, 1994.

 

CG&E Registration Statement No. 33-52335

4-jj

 

Cinergy Corp. CG&E

 

Thirty-sixth Supplemental Indenture between CG&E and The Bank of New York dated as of February 15, 1994.

 

CG&E Registration Statement No. 33-52335

4-kk

 

Cinergy Corp. CG&E

 

Thirty-seventh Supplemental Indenture between CG&E and The Bank of New York dated as of October 14, 1996.

 

Cinergy Corp. 1996 Form 10-K

4-ll

 

Cinergy Corp. CG&E

 

Thirty-eighth Supplemental Indenture between CG&E and The Bank of New York dated as of February 1, 2001.

 

Cinergy Corp. March 31, 2001, Form 10-Q

4-mm

 

Cinergy Corp. CG&E

 

Loan Agreement between CG&E and the County of Boone, Kentucky dated as of February 1, 1985.

 

CG&E 1984 Form 10-K

4-nn

 

Cinergy Corp. CG&E

 

Repayment Agreement between CG&E and The Dayton Power and Light Company dated as of December 23, 1992.

 

CG&E 1992 Form 10-K

4-oo

 

Cinergy Corp. CG&E

 

Loan Agreement between CG&E and the County of Boone, Kentucky dated as of January 1, 1994.

 

CG&E 1993 Form 10-K

4-pp

 

Cinergy Corp. CG&E

 

Loan Agreement between CG&E and the State of Ohio Air Quality Development Authority dated as of December 1, 1985.

 

CG&E 1985 Form 10-K

4-qq

 

Cinergy Corp. CG&E

 

Loan Agreement between CG&E and the State of Ohio Air Quality Development Authority dated as of September 13, 1995.

 

CG&E September 30, 1995, Form 10-Q

4-rr

 

Cinergy Corp. CG&E

 

Loan Agreement between CG&E and the State of Ohio Water Development Authority dated as of January 1, 1994.

 

CG&E 1993 Form 10-K

4-ss

 

Cinergy Corp. CG&E

 

Loan Agreement between CG&E and the State of Ohio Air Quality Development Authority dated as of January 1, 1994.

 

CG&E 1993 Form 10-K

4-tt

 

CG&E

 

Loan Agreement between CG&E and the State of Ohio Air Quality Development Authority dated August 1, 2001.

 

Cinergy Corp. September 30, 2001, Form 10-Q

4-uu

 

Cinergy Corp. CG&E

 

Original Indenture (Unsecured Debt Securities) between CG&E and The Fifth Third Bank dated as of May 15, 1995.

 

CG&E Form 8-A dated July 24, 1995

4-vv

 

Cinergy Corp. CG&E

 

First Supplemental Indenture between CG&E and The Fifth Third Bank dated as of June 1, 1995.

 

CG&E June 30, 1995, Form 10-Q

4-ww

 

Cinergy Corp. CG&E

 

Second Supplemental Indenture between CG&E and The Fifth Third Bank dated as of June 30, 1995.

 

CG&E Form 8-A dated July 24, 1995

4-xx

 

Cinergy Corp. CG&E

 

Third Supplemental Indenture between CG&E and The Fifth Third Bank dated as of October 9, 1997.

 

CG&E September 30, 1997, Form 10-Q

4-yy

 

Cinergy Corp. CG&E

 

Fourth Supplemental Indenture between CG&E and The Fifth Third Bank dated as of April 1, 1998.

 

CG&E March 31, 1998, Form 10-Q

4-zz

 

Cinergy Corp. CG&E

 

Fifth Supplemental Indenture between CG&E and The Fifth Third Bank dated as of June 9, 1998.

 

CG&E June 30, 1998, Form 10-Q

4-aaa

 

Cinergy Corp. CG&E

 

Seventh Supplemental Indenture between CG&E and The Fifth Third Bank dated as of June 15, 2003.

 

CG&E June 30, 2003, Form 10-Q

4-bbb

 

Cinergy Corp. CG&E
ULH&P

 

Original Indenture (First Mortgage Bonds) between ULH&P and The Bank of New York dated as of February 1, 1949.

 

ULH&P Registration Statement No. 2-7793

4-ccc

 

Cinergy Corp. CG&E
ULH&P

 

Fifth Supplemental Indenture between ULH&P and The Bank of New York dated as of January 1, 1967.

 

CG&E Registration Statement No. 2-60961

4-ddd

 

Cinergy Corp. CG&E
ULH&P

 

Thirteenth Supplemental Indenture between ULH&P and The Bank of New York dated as of August 1, 1992.

 

ULH&P 1992 Form 10-K

4-eee

 

Cinergy Corp. CG&E
ULH&P

 

Original Indenture (Unsecured Debt Securities) between ULH&P and The Fifth Third Bank dated as of July 1, 1995.

 

ULH&P June 30, 1995, Form 10-Q

4-fff

 

Cinergy Corp. CG&E
ULH&P

 

First Supplemental Indenture between ULH&P and The Fifth Third Bank dated as of July 15, 1995.

 

ULH&P June 30, 1995, Form 10-Q

4-ggg

 

Cinergy Corp. CG&E
ULH&P

 

Second Supplemental Indenture between ULH&P and The Fifth Third Bank dated as of April 30, 1998.

 

ULH&P March 31, 1998, Form 10-Q

4-hhh

 

Cinergy Corp. CG&E
ULH&P

 

Third Supplemental Indenture between ULH&P and The Fifth Third Bank dated as of December 8, 1998.

 

ULH&P 1998 Form 10-K

 

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4-iii

 

Cinergy Corp. CG&E
ULH&P

 

Fourth Supplemental Indenture between ULH&P and The Fifth Third Bank, as Trustee, dated as of September 17, 1999.

 

ULH&P September 30, 1999, Form 10-Q

4-jjj

 

Cinergy Corp.

 

Base Indenture dated as of October 15, 1998, between Global Resources and The Fifth Third Bank, as Trustee.

 

Cinergy Corp. September 30, 1998, Form 10-Q

4-kkk

 

Cinergy Corp.

 

First Supplemental Indenture dated as of October 15, 1998, between Global Resources and The Fifth Third Bank, as Trustee.

 

Cinergy Corp. September 30, 1998, Form 10-Q

4-lll

 

Cinergy Corp.

 

Indenture dated as of December 16, 1998, between Cinergy Corp. and The Fifth Third Bank.

 

Cinergy Corp. 1998 Form 10-K

4-mmm

 

Cinergy Corp.

 

Indenture between Cinergy Corp. and The Fifth Third Bank, as Trustee, dated as of April 15, 1999.

 

Cinergy Corp. March 31, 1999, Form 10-Q

4-nnn

 

Cinergy Corp.

 

Indenture between Cinergy Corp. and The Fifth Third Bank, as Trustee, dated September 12, 2001.

 

Cinergy Corp. September 30, 2001, Form 10-Q

4-ooo

 

Cinergy Corp.

 

First Supplemental Indenture between Cinergy Corp. and The Fifth Third Bank, as Trustee, dated September 12, 2001.

 

Cinergy Corp. September 30, 2001, Form 10-Q

4-ppp

 

Cinergy Corp.

 

Second Supplemental Indenture, dated December 18, 2001, between Cinergy Corp. and The Fifth Third Bank, as Trustee.

 

Cinergy Corp. Form 8-K, December 19, 2001

4-qqq

 

Cinergy Corp.

 

Rights Agreement between Cinergy Corp. and The Fifth Third Bank, as Rights Agent, dated October 16, 2000.

 

Cinergy Corp. Registration Statement on Form 8-A dated October 16, 2000

4-rrr

 

Cinergy Corp.

 

Purchase Contract Agreement, dated December 18, 2001, between Cinergy Corp. and The Bank of New York, as Purchase Contract Agent.

 

Cinergy Corp. Form 8-K, December 19, 2001

4-sss

 

Cinergy Corp.

 

Pledge Agreement, dated December 18, 2001, among Cinergy Corp., JP Morgan Chase Bank, as Collateral Agent, Custodial Agent and Securities Intermediary, and The Bank of New York, as Purchase Contract Agent.

 

Cinergy Corp. Form 8-K, December 19, 2001

4-ttt

 

Cinergy Corp. CG&E

 

Thirty-ninth Supplemental Indenture dated as of September 1, 2002, between CG&E and The Bank of New York, as Trustee.

 

Cinergy Corp. September 30, 2002, Form 10-Q

4-uuu

 

Cinergy Corp.
PSI

 

Fifty-fourth Supplemental Indenture dated as of September 1, 2002, between PSI and LaSalle Bank National Association, as Trustee.

 

Cinergy Corp. September 30, 2002, Form 10-Q

4-vvv

 

Cinergy Corp.
CG&E

 

Sixth Supplemental Indenture between CG&E and Fifth Third Bank dated as of September 15, 2002.

 

Cinergy Corp. September 30, 2002, Form 10-Q

4-www

 

Cinergy Corp.
PSI

 

Loan Agreement between PSI and the Indiana Development Finance Authority dated as of September 1, 2002.

 

Cinergy Corp. September 30, 2002, Form 10-Q

4-xxx

 

Cinergy Corp.
PSI

 

Loan Agreement between PSI and the Indiana Development Finance Authority dated as of September 1, 2002.

 

Cinergy Corp. September 30, 2002, Form 10-Q

4-yyy

 

Cinergy Corp. CG&E

 

Loan Agreement between CG&E and the Ohio Air Quality Development Authority dated as of September 1, 2002.

 

Cinergy Corp. September 30, 2002, Form 10-Q

4-zzz

 

Cinergy Corp.

 

First Amendment to Rights Agreement, dated August 28, 2002, effective September 16, 2002, between Cinergy Corp. and The Fifth Third Bank, as Rights Agent.

 

Cinergy Corp. Form 8-A/A, Amendment No. 1, filed September 16, 2002

4-aaaa

 

PSI

 

Loan Agreement between PSI and the Indiana Development Finance Authority dated as of February 15, 2003.

 

PSI March 31, 2003, Form 10-Q

4-bbbb

 

PSI

 

6.302% Subordinated Note between PSI and Cinergy Corp., dated February 5, 2003.

 

PSI March 31, 2003, Form 10-Q

4-cccc

 

PSI

 

6.403% Subordinated Note between PSI and Cinergy Corp., dated February 5, 2003.

 

PSI March 31, 2003, Form 10-Q

Material contracts

 

 

 

 

 

 

10-a

 

Cinergy Corp. CG&E
PSI

 

Amended and Restated Employment Agreement dated October 24, 1994, among CG&E, Cinergy Corp., PSI Resources, Inc., and PSI, and Jackson H. Randolph.

 

Cinergy Corp. 1994 Form 10-K

10-b

 

Cinergy Corp. CG&E
PSI

 

Employment Agreement dated February 4, 2004, among Cinergy Corp., CG&E, and PSI, and James E. Rogers.

 

 

10-c

 

Cinergy Corp. CG&E
PSI

 

Amended and Restated Employment Agreement dated October 11, 2002, among Cinergy Corp., Cinergy Services, Inc. (Services), CG&E, and PSI, and William J. Grealis.

 

Cinergy Corp. 2002 Form 10-K

10-d

 

Cinergy Corp. CG&E
PSI

 

Amended Employment Agreement effective December 17, 2003 to Employment Agreement dated October 11, 2002, among Cinergy Corp., Services, CG&E, and PSI, and William J. Grealis.

 

 

10-e

 

Cinergy Corp. CG&E
PSI

 

Amended and Restated Employment Agreement dated October 1, 2002, among Cinergy Corp., Services, CG&E, and PSI, and Donald B. Ingle, Jr.

 

Cinergy Corp. 2002 Form 10-K

 

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10-f

 

Cinergy Corp. CG&E
PSI

 

Amended and Restated Employment Agreement dated September 12, 2002, among Cinergy Corp., Services, CG&E, and PSI, and Michael J. Cyrus.

 

Cinergy Corp. 2002 Form 10-K

10-g

 

Cinergy Corp. CG&E
PSI

 

Amended Employment Agreement effective December 17, 2003 to Employment Agreement dated September 12, 2002, among Cinergy Corp., Services, CG&E, and PSI, and Michael J. Cyrus.

 

 

10-h

 

Cinergy Corp. CG&E
PSI

 

Amended and Restated Employment Agreement dated September 24, 2002, among Cinergy Corp., Services, CG&E, and PSI, and James L. Turner.

 

Cinergy Corp. 2002 Form 10-K

10-i

 

Cinergy Corp. CG&E
PSI

 

Amended Employment Agreement effective December 17, 2003 to Employment Agreement dated September 24, 2002, among Cinergy Corp., Services, CG&E, and PSI, and James L. Turner.

 

 

10-j

 

Cinergy Corp. CG&E
PSI

 

Amended and Restated Employment Agreement dated January 1, 2002, among Cinergy Corp., Services, CG&E, and PSI, and R. Foster Duncan.

 

Cinergy Corp. 2002 Form 10-K

10-k

 

Cinergy Corp. CG&E
PSI

 

Amended Employment Agreement effective December 17, 2003 to Employment Agreement dated January 1, 2002, among Cinergy Corp., Services, CG&E, and PSI, and R. Foster Duncan.

 

 

10-l

 

Cinergy Corp. CG&E
PSI

 

Employment Agreement dated November 15, 2002, among Cinergy Corp., CG&E, and PSI and Marc E. Manly.

 

 

10-m

 

Cinergy Corp. CG&E
PSI

 

Amended Employment Agreement effective December 17, 2003 to Employment Agreement dated November 15, 2002, among Cinergy Corp., CG&E, and PSI, and Marc E. Manly.

 

 

10-n

 

Cinergy Corp.

 

Amended and Restated Separation and Retirement Agreement and Waiver and Release of Liability dated February 15, 2002, between Cinergy Corp., and Larry E. Thomas.

 

Cinergy Corp. 2001 Form 10-K

10-o

 

Cinergy Corp.

 

Separation and Retirement Agreement and Waiver and Release of Liability dated October 8, 2002 between Cinergy Corp. and Donald B. Ingle, Jr.

 

Cinergy Corp. 2002 Form 10-K

10-p

 

Cinergy Corp. PSI

 

Deferred Compensation Agreement, effective as of January 1, 1992, between PSI and James E. Rogers.

 

PSI Form 10-K/A, Amendment No. 1, dated April 29, 1993

10-q

 

Cinergy Corp. PSI

 

Split Dollar Life Insurance Agreement, effective as of January 1, 1992, between PSI and James E. Rogers.

 

PSI Form 10-K/A, Amendment No. 1, dated April 29, 1993

10-r

 

Cinergy Corp. PSI

 

First Amendment to Split Dollar Life Insurance Agreement between PSI and James E. Rogers dated December 11, 1992.

 

PSI Form 10-K/A, Amendment No. 1, dated April 29, 1993

10-s

 

Cinergy Corp. CG&E

 

Deferred Compensation Agreement between CG&E and Jackson H. Randolph dated January 1, 1992.

 

CG&E 1992 Form 10-K

10-t

 

Cinergy Corp. CG&E

 

Split Dollar Insurance Agreement, effective as of May 1, 1993, between CG&E and Jackson H. Randolph.

 

Cinergy Corp. 1994 Form 10-K

10-u

 

Cinergy Corp. CG&E

 

Amended and Restated Supplemental Retirement Income Agreement between CG&E and Jackson H. Randolph dated January 1, 1995.

 

Cinergy Corp. 1995 Form 10-K

10-v

 

Cinergy Corp. CG&E

 

Amended and Restated Supplemental Executive Retirement Income Agreement between CG&E and certain executive officers.

 

Cinergy Corp. 1997 Form 10-K

10-w

 

Cinergy Corp.

 

Cinergy Corp. Supplemental Executive Retirement Plan amended and restated effective January 1, 1999, adopted October 15, 1998.

 

Cinergy Corp. 1999 Form 10-K

10-x

 

Cinergy Corp.

 

Amendment to Cinergy Corp. Supplemental Executive Retirement Plan, effective January 1, 2003, adopted October 10, 2003.

 

 

10-y

 

Cinergy Corp.

 

Amendment to Cinergy Corp. Supplemental Executive Retirement Plan, effective January 1, 2003, adopted December 15, 2003.

 

 

10-z

 

Cinergy Corp.

 

1997 Amendments to Various Compensation and Benefit Plans of Cinergy Corp., adopted January 30, 1997.

 

Cinergy Corp. 1997 Form 10-K

10-aa

 

Cinergy Corp.

 

Cinergy Corp. Stock Option Plan, adopted October 18, 1994, effective October 24, 1994.

 

Cinergy Corp. Form S-8, filed October 19, 1994

10-bb

 

Cinergy Corp.

 

Amendment to Cinergy Corp. Stock Option Plan, amended October 22, 1996, effective November 1, 1996.

 

Cinergy Corp. September 30, 1996, Form 10-Q

10-cc

 

Cinergy Corp.

 

Amended and Restated Cinergy Corp. Annual Incentive Plan, effective January 25, 2002.

 

Cinergy Corp. 2001 Form 10-K

10-dd

 

Cinergy Corp.

 

Cinergy Corp. Employee Stock Purchase and Savings Plan, adopted October 18, 1994, effective October 24, 1994.

 

Cinergy Corp. Form S-8, filed October 19, 1994

10-ee

 

Cinergy Corp.

 

Amendment to Cinergy Corp. Employee Stock Purchase and Savings Plan, adopted April 26, 1996, effective January 1, 1996.

 

Cinergy Corp. June 30, 1996, Form 10-Q

 

237



 

10-ff

 

Cinergy Corp.

 

Amendment to Cinergy Corp. Employee Stock Purchase and Savings Plan, adopted October 22, 1996, effective November 1, 1996.

 

Cinergy Corp. September 30, 1996, Form 10-Q

10-gg

 

Cinergy Corp.

 

Cinergy Corp. UK Sharesave Scheme, adopted and effective December 16, 1999.

 

Cinergy Corp. 1999 Form 10-K

10-hh

 

Cinergy Corp.

 

Cinergy Corp. Directors’ Deferred Compensation Plan, adopted October 18, 1994, effective October 24, 1994.

 

Cinergy Corp. Form S-8, filed October 19, 1994

10-ii

 

Cinergy Corp.

 

Amendment to Cinergy Corp. Directors’ Deferred Compensation Plan, adopted October 22, 1996.

 

Cinergy Corp. September 30, 1996, Form 10-Q

10-jj

 

Cinergy Corp.

 

Cinergy Corp. Retirement Plan for Directors, amended and restated effective January 1, 1999, adopted October 15, 1998.

 

Cinergy Corp. Schedule 14A Definitive Proxy Statement filed March 12, 1999

10-kk

 

Cinergy Corp.

 

Cinergy Corp. Directors’ Equity Compensation Plan adopted October 15, 1998, effective January 1, 1999.

 

Cinergy Corp. Schedule 14A Definitive Proxy Statement filed March 12, 1999

10-ll

 

Cinergy Corp.

 

Cinergy Corp. Executive Supplemental Life Insurance Program adopted October 18, 1994, effective October 24, 1994, consisting of Defined Benefit Deferred Compensation Agreement, Executive Supplemental Life Insurance Program Split Dollar Agreement I, and Executive Supplemental Life Insurance Program Split Dollar Agreement II.

 

Cinergy Corp. 1994 Form 10-K

10-mm

 

Cinergy Corp.

 

Cinergy Corp. Executive Life Insurance Plan, effective as of January 1, 2004, adopted December 18, 2003.

 

 

10-nn

 

Cinergy Corp.

 

Amended and Restated Cinergy Corp. 1996 Long-term Incentive Compensation Plan, effective January 25, 2002.

 

Cinergy Corp. 2001 Form 10-K

10-oo

 

Cinergy Corp.

 

Cinergy Corp. 401(k) Excess Plan, effective January 1, 1997, adopted December 17, 1996.

 

Cinergy Corp. 1996 Form 10-K

10-pp

 

Cinergy Corp.

 

Amendment to Cinergy Corp. 401(k) Excess Plan, adopted January 24, 2002, effective January 1, 2002.

 

Cinergy Corp. Form S-8, filed January 31, 2002

10-qq

 

Cinergy Corp.

 

Amendment to Cinergy Corp. 401(k) Excess Plan, adopted December 18, 2002, effective January 1, 2003.

 

Cinergy Corp. 2002 Form 10-K

10-rr

 

Cinergy Corp.

 

Cinergy Corp. Nonqualified Deferred Incentive Compensation Plan, effective January 1, 1997, adopted December 17, 1996.

 

Cinergy Corp. 1996 Form 10-K

10-ss

 

Cinergy Corp.

 

Amendment to Cinergy Corp. Nonqualified Deferred Incentive Compensation Plan, adopted December 18, 2002, effective January 1, 2002.

 

Cinergy Corp. 2002 Form 10-K

10-tt

 

Cinergy Corp.

 

Cinergy Corp. Director, Officer and Key Employee Stock Purchase Program, effective January 7, 2000, adopted December 10, 1999.

 

Cinergy Corp. 1999 Form 10-K

10-uu

 

Cinergy Corp.

 

Cinergy Corp. Non-Union Employees’ Pension Plan adopted December 18, 2002, amended and restated effective January 1, 2003.

 

Cinergy Corp. 2002 Form 10-K

10-vv

 

Cinergy Corp.

 

Amendment to Cinergy Corp. Non-Union Employees’ Pension Plan, effective May 1, 2003, adopted October 10, 2003.

 

 

10-ww

 

Cinergy Corp.

 

Amendment to Cinergy Corp. Non-Union Employees’ Pension Plan, effective December 1, 2003, adopted October 10, 2003.

 

 

10-xx

 

Cinergy Corp.

 

Cinergy Corp. Non-Union Employees’ Severance Opportunity Plan as amended and restated effective June 1, 2001, adopted May 30, 2001.

 

Cinergy Corp. June 30, 2001, Form 10-Q

10-yy

 

Cinergy Corp.

 

Amendment to the Amended and Restated Separation and Retirement Agreement and Waiver and Release of Liability, between Cinergy Corp. and Larry E. Thomas.

 

Cinergy Corp. March 31, 2002, Form 10-Q

10-zz

 

Cinergy Corp.

 

Second Amendment to the Amended and Restated Separation and Retirement Agreement and Waiver and Release of Liability, between Cinergy Corp. and Larry E. Thomas.

 

Cinergy Corp. June 30, 2002, Form 10-Q

10-aaa

 

Cinergy Corp.

 

Amended and Restated Cinergy Corp. Non-Union Employees’ 401(k) Plan, adopted December 18, 2002, effective January 1, 2003.

 

Cinergy Corp. 2002 Form 10-K

10-bbb

 

Cinergy Corp.

 

Amendment to Cinergy Corp. Non-Union Employees’ 401(k) Plan, effective December 1, 2003, adopted October 10, 2003.

 

 

10-ccc

 

Cinergy Corp.

 

Amendment to Cinergy Corp. Non-Union Employees’ 401(k) Plan, effective January 1, 2004, adopted December 16, 2003.

 

 

10-ddd

 

Cinergy Corp.

 

Cinergy Corp. Union Employees’ 401(k) Plan as amended and restated effective January 1, 1998, adopted December 18, 1997.

 

Cinergy Corp. 1999 Form 10-K

10-eee

 

Cinergy Corp.

 

Amendment to Cinergy Corp. Union Employees’ 401(k) Plan, adopted December 1, 1999, effective December 10, 1999.

 

Cinergy Corp. 1999 Form 10-K

10-fff

 

Cinergy Corp.

 

Amendment to Cinergy Corp. Union Employees’ 401(k) Plan, effective January 1, 2004, adopted December 16, 2003.

 

 

 

238



 

10-ggg

 

Cinergy Corp.

 

Cinergy Corp. Union Employees’ Savings Incentive Plan as amended and restated effective January 1, 1998, adopted December 18, 1997.

 

Cinergy Corp. 1999 Form 10-K

10-hhh

 

Cinergy Corp.

 

Amendment to Cinergy Corp. Union Employees’ Savings Incentive Plan, effective December 1, 1999, adopted December 10, 1999.

 

Cinergy Corp. 1999 Form 10-K

10-iii

 

Cinergy Corp.

 

Amendment to Cinergy Corp. Union Employees’ Savings Incentive Plan, effective January 1, 2004, adopted December 16, 2003.

 

 

10-jjj

 

Cinergy Corp.

 

Cinergy Corp. Excess Profit Sharing plan, effective as of January 1, 2003, adopted December 20, 2002.

 

 

10-kkk

 

Cinergy Corp.

 

Cinergy Corp. Excess Pension Plan, as amended and restated, effective as of January 1, 1998.

 

 

10-lll

 

Cinergy Corp.

 

Amendment to Cinergy Corp. Excess Pension Plan, effective as of August 29, 2002.

 

 

10-mmm

 

Cinergy Corp.

 

Amendment to Cinergy Corp. Excess Pension Plan, effective as of January 1, 2003, adopted October 10, 2003.

 

 

10-nnn

 

Cinergy Corp.

 

Amendment to Cinergy Corp. Excess Pension Plan, effective as of December 15, 2003.

 

 

10-ooo

 

Cinergy Corp.

 

Amendment to Cinergy Corp. Excess Pension Plan, effective as of January 1, 2004, adopted December 16, 2003.

 

 

10-ppp

 

PSI

 

Asset Purchase Agreement by and among Cinergy Capital & Trading, Inc., CinCap Madison, LLC and PSI dated as of February 5, 2003.

 

PSI March 31, 2003 Form 10-Q

10-qqq

 

PSI

 

Asset Purchase Agreement by and among Cinergy Capital & Trading, Inc., CinCap VII, LLC and PSI dated as of February 5, 2003.

 

PSI March 31, 2003 Form 10-Q

Subsidiaries of the registrant

 

 

 

 

 

 

21

 

Cinergy Corp. CG&E
PSI

 

Subsidiaries of Cinergy Corp., CG&E, and PSI

 

 

Consent of experts and counsel

 

 

 

 

 

 

23

 

Cinergy Corp. CG&E
PSI
ULH&P

 

Independent Auditors’ Consent

 

 

Power of attorney

 

 

 

 

 

 

24

 

Cinergy Corp. CG&E
PSI
ULH&P

 

Power of Attorney

 

 

Certifications

 

 

 

 

 

 

31-a

 

Cinergy Corp. CG&E
PSI
ULH&P

 

Certification by James E. Rogers pursuant to Rule 13a-14(a)/15d-14(a) of the Exchange Act, as adopted pursuant to Section 302 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002.

 

 

31-b

 

Cinergy Corp. CG&E
PSI
ULH&P

 

Certification by R. Foster Duncan pursuant to Rule 13a-14(a)/15d-14(a) of the Exchange Act, as adopted pursuant to Section 302 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002.

 

 

32-a

 

Cinergy Corp. CG&E
PSI
ULH&P

 

Certification by James E. Rogers pursuant to 18 U.S.C. Section 1350, as adopted pursuant to Section 906 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 18 U.S.C. Section 1350.

 

 

32-b

 

Cinergy Corp. CG&E
PSI
ULH&P

 

Certification by R. Foster Duncan pursuant to 18 U.S.C. Section 1350, as adopted pursuant to Section 906 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 18 U.S.C. Section 1350.

 

 

 


(1)     Regulation S-K 229.10(d) requires Registrants to identify the physical location, by SEC file number reference, of all documents that are incorporated by reference and have been on file with the SEC for more than five years.  The SEC file number references for Cinergy and its subsidiaries, which are registrants are provided below:

Cinergy Corp. in file number 1-11377
CG&E in file number 1-1232
PSI in file number 1-3543
ULH&P in file number 2-7793

 

Each registrant hereby undertakes to furnish to the SEC upon request a copy of any long-term debt instrument not listed above.

 

239



 

CINERGY CORP. AND SUBSIDIARIES

SCHEDULE II - VALUATION AND QUALIFYING ACCOUNTS
FOR THE THREE YEARS ENDED DECEMBER 31, 2003

(in thousands)

 

Col. A

 

Col. B

 

Col. C

 

Col. D

 

Col. E

 

 

 

 

 

Additions

 

Deductions

 

 

 

Description

 

Balance at
Beginning
of Period

 

Charged to
Expenses

 

Charged
to Other
Accounts

 

For Purposes
for Which
Reserves
Were Created

 

Other

 

Balance at
Close of
Period

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Accumulated Provisions

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Deducted from Applicable Assets

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Allowance for Doubtful Accounts

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

2003

 

$

16,368

 

$

3,256

 

$

302

 

$

12,042

 

$

 

$

7,884

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

2002

 

$

34,110

 

$

7,883

 

$

9,270

 

$

34,873

 

$

22

 

$

16,368

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

2001

 

$

29,951

 

$

39,693

 

$

5,254

 

$

40,788

 

$

 

$

34,110

 

 

240



 

THE CINCINNATI GAS & ELECTRIC COMPANY AND SUBSIDIARIES

SCHEDULE II - VALUATION AND QUALIFYING ACCOUNTS
FOR THE THREE YEARS ENDED DECEMBER 31, 2003

(in thousands)

 

Col. A

 

Col. B

 

Col. C

 

Col. D

 

Col. E

 

 

 

 

 

Additions

 

Deductions

 

 

 

Description

 

Balance at
Beginning
of Period

 

Charged to
Expenses

 

Charged
to Other
Accounts

 

For Purposes
for Which
Reserves
Were Created

 

Other

 

Balance at
Close of
Period

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Accumulated Provisions

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Deducted from Applicable Assets

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Allowance for Doubtful Accounts

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

2003

 

$

5,942

 

$

2,900

 

$

256

 

$

7,496

 

$

 

$

1,602

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

2002

 

$

25,874

 

$

2,029

 

$

6,096

 

$

28,057

 

$

 

$

5,942

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

2001

 

$

19,044

 

$

30,166

 

$

4,089

 

$

27,425

 

$

 

$

25,874

 

 

241



 

PSI ENERGY, INC. AND SUBSIDIARY

SCHEDULE II - VALUATION AND QUALIFYING ACCOUNTS
FOR THE THREE YEARS ENDED DECEMBER 31, 2003

(in thousands)

 

Col. A

 

Col. B

 

Col. C

 

Col. D

 

Col. E

 

 

 

 

 

Additions

 

Deductions

 

 

 

Description

 

Balance at
Beginning
of Period

 

Charged to
Expenses

 

Charged
to Other
Accounts

 

For Purposes
for Which
Reserves
Were Created

 

Other

 

Balance at
Close of
Period

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Accumulated Provisions

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Deducted from Applicable Assets

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Allowance for Doubtful Accounts

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

2003

 

$

5,656

 

$

 

$

 

$

4,546

 

$

 

$

1,110

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

2002

 

$

6,773

 

$

2,310

 

$

3,174

 

$

6,579

 

$

22

 

$

5,656

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

2001

 

$

9,317

 

$

8,339

 

$

1,165

 

$

12,048

 

$

 

$

6,773

 

 

242



 

THE UNION LIGHT, HEAT AND POWER COMPANY

SCHEDULE II - VALUATION AND QUALIFYING ACCOUNTS
FOR THE THREE YEARS ENDED DECEMBER 31, 2003

(in thousands)

 

Col. A

 

Col. B

 

Col. C

 

Col. D

 

Col. E

 

 

 

 

 

Additions

 

Deductions

 

 

 

Description

 

Balance at
Beginning
of Period

 

Charged to
Expenses

 

Charged
to Other
Accounts

 

For Purposes
for Which
Reserves
Were Created

 

Other

 

Balance at
Close of
Period

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Accumulated Provisions

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Deducted from Applicable Assets

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Allowance for Doubtful Accounts

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

2003

 

$

84

 

$

 

$

108

 

$

 

$

 

$

192

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

2002

 

$

1,196

 

$

392

 

$

2,383

 

$

3,887

 

$

 

$

84

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

2001

 

$

1,492

 

$

3,050

 

$

4

 

$

3,350

 

$

 

$

1,196

 

 

243



 

SIGNATURES

 

Pursuant to the requirements of Section 13 or 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, Cinergy Corp., The Cincinnati Gas & Electric Company, PSI Energy, Inc., and The Union Light, Heat and Power Company each has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized.

 

CINERGY CORP.

THE CINCINNATI GAS & ELECTRIC COMPANY

PSI ENERGY, INC.

THE UNION LIGHT, HEAT AND POWER COMPANY

Registrants

 

Date:  March 3, 2004

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

By

/s/ James E. Rogers

 

 

 

James E. Rogers

 

 

 

Chief Executive Officer

 

 

244



 

Pursuant to the requirements of the Exchange Act, this report has been signed by the following persons on behalf of the indicated registrants and in the capacities and on the dates indicated:

 

245



 

Signature

 

Title

 

Date

 

 

 

 

 

Cinergy Corp.

 

 

 

 

 

Michael G. Browning*

 

Director

 

March 3, 2004

 

Phillip R. Cox*

 

Director

 

March 3, 2004

 

George C. Juilfs*

 

Director

 

March 3, 2004

 

Thomas E. Petry*

 

Director

 

March 3, 2004

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

/s/ James E. Rogers

 

 

 

 

 

 

James E. Rogers

 

Director and Chief Executive Officer
(principal executive officer)

 

March 3, 2004

 

Mary L. Schapiro*

 

Director

 

March 3, 2004

 

John J. Schiff, Jr.*

 

Director

 

March 3, 2004

 

Philip R. Sharp*

 

Director

 

March 3, 2004

 

Dudley S. Taft*

 

Director

 

March 3, 2004

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

/s/ R. Foster Duncan

 

 

 

 

 

 

R. Foster Duncan

 

Chief Financial Officer (principal
financial officer)

 

March 3, 2004

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

/s/ Lynn J. Good

 

 

 

 

 

 

Lynn J. Good

 

Controller

 

March 3, 2004

 

 

 

 

 

 

CG&E

 

 

 

 

 

/s/ R. Foster Duncan

 

 

 

 

 

 

R. Foster Duncan

 

Director and Chief Financial Officer
(principal financial officer)

 

March 3, 2004

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

/s/ James E. Rogers

 

 

 

 

 

 

James E. Rogers

 

Director and Chief Executive Officer
(principal executive officer)

 

March 3, 2004

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

James L. Turner*

 

Director

 

March 3, 2004

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

/s/ Lynn J. Good

 

 

 

 

 

 

Lynn J. Good

 

Controller

 

March 3, 2004

 

 

 

 

 

 

PSI

 

 

 

 

 

Michael G. Browning*

 

Director

 

March 3, 2004

 

Douglas F. Esamann*

 

Director

 

March 3, 2004

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

/s/ James E. Rogers

 

 

 

 

 

 

James E. Rogers

 

Director and Chief Executive Officer
(principal executive officer)

 

March 3, 2004

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

/s/ R. Foster Duncan

 

 

 

 

 

 

R. Foster Duncan

 

Chief Financial Officer (principal
financial officer)

 

March 3, 2004

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

/s/ Lynn J. Good

 

 

 

 

 

 

Lynn J. Good

 

Controller

 

March 3, 2004

 

 

 

 

 

 

ULH&P

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

/s/ R. Foster Duncan

 

 

 

 

 

 

R. Foster Duncan

 

Director and Chief Financial Officer
(principal financial officer)

 

March 3, 2004

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

/s/ James E. Rogers

 

 

 

 

 

 

James E. Rogers

 

Director and Chief Executive Officer
(principal executive officer)

 

March 3, 2004

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

James L. Turner*

 

Director

 

March 3, 2004

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

/s/ Lynn J. Good

 

 

 

 

 

 

Lynn J. Good

 

Controller

 

March 3, 2004

 


* The undersigned, by signing his name hereto, does hereby execute this Form 10-K on behalf of the officers and directors of the registrant indicated above by asterisks, pursuant to powers of attorney duly executed by such officers and directors and incorporated by reference as an exhibit to this Form 10-K.

 

246



 

 

/s/ James E. Rogers

 

 

 

James E. Rogers

 

 

Attorney-In-Fact

 

 

March 3, 2004

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

/s/ R. Foster Duncan

 

 

 

R. Foster Duncan

 

 

Attorney-In-Fact

 

 

March 3, 2004

 

 

247


EX-10.B 3 a04-1370_1ex10db.htm EX-10.B

Exhibit 10.b

 

EMPLOYMENT AGREEMENT

 

This EMPLOYMENT AGREEMENT is made and entered into as of the 4th day of February, 2004 (the “Effective Date”), by and between Cinergy and James E. Rogers (the “Executive”).  This Agreement replaces and supersedes any and all prior employment agreements between Cinergy and the Executive.  The capitalized words and terms used throughout this Agreement are defined in Section 11.

 

Recitals

 

A.            The Executive is currently serving as Chairman of the Board, President and Chief Executive Officer of the Company, and Cinergy desires to secure the continued employment of the Executive in accordance with this Agreement.

 

B.            The Executive is willing to continue to remain in the employ of Cinergy on the terms and conditions set forth in this Agreement.

 

C.            The parties intend that this Agreement will replace and supersede any and all prior employment agreements between Cinergy (or any component company or business unit of Cinergy) and the Executive.

 

Agreement

 

In consideration of the mutual promises, covenants and agreements set forth below, the parties agree as follows:

 

1.                                      Employment and Term.

 

a.                                       Cinergy agrees to employ the Executive, and the Executive agrees to remain in the employ of Cinergy, in accordance with the terms and provisions of this Agreement, for the Employment Period set forth in Section 1b.  The parties agree that the Company will be responsible for carrying out all of the promises, covenants, and agreements of Cinergy set forth in this Agreement.

 

b.                                      The Employment Period of this Agreement will commence as of the Effective Date and continue until December 31, 2006; provided that, commencing on December 31, 2004, and on each subsequent December 31, the Employment Period will be extended for one (1) additional year unless either party gives the other party written notice not to extend this Agreement at least ninety (90) days before the extension would otherwise become effective.

 

2.                                      Duties and Powers of Executive.

 

a.                                       Position.  The Executive will serve Cinergy as the Chairman of the Board, President and Chief Executive Officer of the Company and he will have such responsibilities, duties, and authority as are customary for someone of that position and such additional duties, consistent with his position, as may be

 



 

assigned to him from time to time during the Employment Period by the Board of Directors (excluding the Executive).  Executive shall devote substantially all of Executive’s business time, efforts and attention to the performance of Executive’s duties under this Agreement; provided, however, that this requirement shall not preclude Executive from reasonable participation in civic, charitable or professional activities, the management of Executive’s passive investments or service on the board of directors of one or more unrelated companies, so long as such activities do not materially interfere with the performance of Executive’s duties under this Agreement.

 

b.                                      Place of Performance.  In connection with the Executive’s employment, the Executive will be based at the principal executive offices of Cinergy, 221 East Fourth Street, Cincinnati, Ohio.  Except for required business travel to an extent substantially consistent with the present business travel obligations of Cinergy executives who have positions of authority comparable to that of the Executive, the Executive will not be required to relocate to a new principal place of business that is more than fifty (50) miles from such location.

 

3.                                      Compensation.  The Executive will receive the following compensation for his services under this Agreement.

 

a.                                       Salary.  The Executive’s Annual Base Salary, payable in pro rata installments not less often than semi-monthly, will be at the annual rate of not less than $1,250,004.  The Board of Directors may, from time to time, increase the Annual Base Salary as the Board of Directors deems to be necessary or desirable, including without limitation adjustments to reflect increases in the cost of living.  Any increase in the Annual Base Salary will not serve to limit or reduce any other obligation of Cinergy under this Agreement.  The Annual Base Salary will not be reduced without the consent of the Executive, except for across-the-board salary reductions similarly affecting all Cinergy management personnel.  If Annual Base Salary is increased or reduced during the Employment Period (but only as permitted by the preceding sentence), then such adjusted salary will thereafter be the Annual Base Salary for all purposes under this Agreement.

 

b.                                      Retirement, Incentive, Welfare Benefit Plans and Other Benefits.

 

(i)                                     During the Employment Period, the Executive will be eligible, and Cinergy will take all necessary action to cause the Executive to become eligible, to participate in short-term and long-term incentive, stock option, restricted stock, performance unit, savings, retirement and welfare plans, practices, policies and programs commensurate with his position and at least comparable to those applicable generally to senior executives of Cinergy who are considered Tier II executives for compensation purposes, except with respect to any plan, practice, policy or program to which the Executive has waived his rights in writing.

 

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In addition, Cinergy will assume and continue the Insurance Agreement and the Deferred Compensation Agreement.  Notwithstanding anything in this Agreement to the contrary, in the event that Cinergy or any successor fails to assume, breaches, or, at any time during their respective terms, terminates, modifies, amends, or in any way affects, to the Executive’s detriment and without his consent, the Insurance Agreement or the Deferred Compensation Agreement, then the Executive will be entitled to:  (i) in the case of the Deferred Compensation Agreement, those amounts that are described in Section 16 of the Deferred Compensation Agreement, and (ii) in the case of the Insurance Agreement, those amounts that are described in Section 12 of the Insurance Agreement.

 

(ii)                                  Supplemental Retirement Benefit.

 

(1)                                  Amount, Form, Timing and Method of Payment.  If the Executive retires from Cinergy, the Executive will be entitled and fully vested in a supplemental retirement benefit in an amount which, when expressed as an annual amount payable during the life of the Executive, shall equal the excess of (1) 60% of the Executive’s Highest Average Earnings over (2) his total aggregate annual benefit, payable in the form of a single life annuity to the Executive, under all Executive Retirement Plans.  Except as described below, the form (e.g., the 100% joint and survivor annuity form of benefit), timing, and method of payment of the supplemental retirement benefit payable under this Paragraph will be the same as those elected by the Executive under the Pension Plan, and the amount of such benefit shall be calculated after taking into account the actuarial factors contained in the Pension Plan, provided, however, that such benefit shall not be actuarially reduced for early commencement.  Notwithstanding the foregoing, if the Executive retires from Cinergy after attaining age 56 but prior to attaining age 57, then this Section shall be applied by substituting 61-2/3% for 60%.  If the Executive retires from Cinergy after attaining age 57 but prior to attaining age 58, then this Section shall be applied by substituting 63-1/3% for 60%.  If the Executive retires from Cinergy after attaining age 58, then this Section shall be applied by substituting 65% for 60%.
 
(2)                                  Death Benefit.  If the Executive dies prior to his retirement from Cinergy, and if his Spouse, on the date of his death, is living on the date the first installment of the supplemental retirement benefit would be payable under this Paragraph, the Spouse will be entitled to receive the supplemental retirement benefit as a Spouse’s benefit.  The form, timing, and method of payment of any Spouse’s benefit under this Paragraph will be the same as those applicable to the Spouse under the Pension Plan, and the amount of such benefit shall be calculated after taking into account the actuarial factors

 

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contained in the Pension Plan, provided, however, that such benefit shall not be actuarially reduced for early commencement.
 
(3)                                  Special Payment Election Effective Upon a Change in Control.  Notwithstanding the foregoing, the Executive may make a special payment election with respect to his supplemental retirement benefit (if any) in accordance with the following provisions:
 
(A)                              The Executive may elect, on a form provided by Cinergy, to receive a single lump sum cash payment in an amount equal to the Actuarial Equivalent (as defined below) of his supplemental retirement benefit (or the Actuarial Equivalent of the remaining payments to be made in connection with his supplemental retirement benefit in the event that payment of his supplemental retirement benefit has already commenced) payable no later than 30 days after the later of the occurrence of a Change in Control or the date of his termination of employment.
 
(B)                                Such special payment election shall become operative only upon the occurrence of a Change in Control and only if the Executive’s termination of employment occurs either (1) prior to the occurrence of a Change in Control or (2) during the 24-month period commencing upon the occurrence of a Change in Control.  Once operative, such special payment election shall override any other payment election made by the Executive with respect to his supplemental retirement benefit.
 
(C)                                In order to be effective, a special payment election (or withdrawal of that election) must be made either prior to the occurrence of a Potential Change in Control or, with the consent of Cinergy, during the 30-day period commencing upon the occurrence of a Potential Change in Control.  In the event that a Potential Change in Control occurs and subsequently ceases to exist, other than as a result of a Change in Control, such Potential Change in Control shall be disregarded for purposes of this Section.
 
(D)                               In the event that the Executive makes a special payment election and pursuant to that election he becomes entitled to receive a single lump sum cash payment pursuant to this Section payable prior to the commencement of his supplemental retirement benefit in another form of payment, the Actuarial Equivalent of his supplemental retirement benefit shall be calculated based on the following assumptions:

 

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(I)                                    The form of payment for each of the Executive’s retirement benefits under the Executive Retirement Plans and the Executive’s supplemental retirement benefit shall be a single life annuity;

 

(II)                                The commencement date for each of the Executive’s retirement benefits under the Executive Retirement Plans and the Executive’s supplemental retirement benefit shall be the first day of the calendar month coincident with or next following his termination of employment;

 

(III)                            The term “Actuarial Equivalent” has the meaning given to that term in the Pension Plan with respect to lump sum payments; and

 

(IV)                            The amount of the Executive’s supplemental retirement benefit shall not be actuarially reduced for early commencement.

 

(E)                                 In the event that the Executive makes a special payment election and pursuant to that election he is entitled to receive a single lump sum cash payment payable after the commencement of his supplemental retirement benefit in another form of payment, his lump sum cash payment shall be equal to the Actuarial Equivalent (as that term is used in the Pension Plan with respect to lump sum payments) of the remaining payments to be made in connection with his supplemental retirement benefit.
 
(4)                              Special One-Time Payment Election Without a Change in Control.  Notwithstanding the foregoing, the Executive may make an election, on a form provided by Cinergy, to receive a single lump sum cash payment in an amount equal to one-half of the Actuarial Equivalent (as defined above in Section 3b(ii)(3)(D)) of his supplemental retirement benefit payable no later than 30 days after the date of his termination of employment.  In order to be effective, the special payment election under this Section 3b(ii)(4) must be made at least one year prior to the termination of Executive’s employment with Cinergy.  The lump sum amount payable pursuant to this Section 3b(ii)(4) shall be calculated in accordance with the provisions of Section 3b(ii)(3)(D).  In the event an amount is paid to or on behalf of the Executive pursuant to this Section 3b(ii)(4), such payment shall discharge any liability under this Agreement to or on behalf of the Executive with respect to one-half of the Actuarial Equivalent (as defined above in Section 3b(ii)(3)(D)) of his supplemental retirement benefit.

 

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(iii)                               Upon his retirement, the Executive will be eligible for comprehensive medical and dental benefits which are not materially different from the benefits provided to retirees under the Cinergy Corp. Welfare Benefits Program or any similar program or successor to that program.  For purposes of determining the amount of the monthly premiums due from the Executive, the Executive will receive from Cinergy the maximum subsidy available as of the date of his retirement to an active Cinergy employee with the same medical benefits classification/eligibility as the Executive’s medical benefits classification/eligibility on the date of his retirement.

 

(iv)                              The Executive will be a participant in the Annual Incentive Plan and will be paid pursuant to the terms and conditions of that plan, subject to the following: (1) The maximum annual bonus shall be not less than one hundred thirty percent (130%) of the Executive’s Annual Base Salary (the “Maximum Annual Bonus”); and (2) The target annual bonus shall be not less than seventy five percent (75%) of the Executive’s Annual Base Salary (the “Target Annual Bonus”).

 

(v)                                 The Executive will be a participant in the Long-Term Incentive Plan (the “LTIP”), and the Executive’s annualized target award opportunity under the LTIP will be equal to no less than one hundred sixty percent (160%) of his Annual Base Salary (the “Target LTIP Bonus”).

 

c.                                       Fringe Benefits and Perquisites.  During the Employment Period, the Executive will be entitled to the following additional fringe benefits in accordance with the terms and conditions of Cinergy’s policies and practices for such fringe benefits:

 

(i)                                     Cinergy will furnish to the Executive an automobile appropriate for the Executive’s level of position, or, at Cinergy’s discretion, a cash allowance of equivalent value.  Cinergy will also pay all of the related expenses for gasoline, insurance, maintenance, and repairs, or provide for such expenses within the cash allowance.

 

(ii)                                  Cinergy will pay the initiation fee and the annual dues, assessments, and other membership charges of the Executive for membership in up to two (2) country clubs and one (1) luncheon club of the Executive’s choice that are used for business purposes.

 

(iii)                               Cinergy will provide paid vacation for four (4) weeks per year (or such longer period for which Executive is otherwise eligible under Cinergy’s policy).

 

(iv)                              Cinergy will furnish to the Executive annual financial planning and tax preparation services, provided, however, that the cost to Cinergy of such services shall not exceed $15,000 during any thirty-six (36) consecutive month period.

 

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(v)                                 Cinergy will provide other fringe benefits in accordance with Cinergy plans, practices, programs, and policies in effect from time to time, commensurate with his position and at least comparable to those applicable generally to senior executives of Cinergy who are considered Tier I or Tier II executives for compensation purposes.

 

d.                                      Expenses.  Cinergy agrees to reimburse the Executive for all expenses, including those for travel and entertainment, properly incurred by him in the performance of his duties under this Agreement in accordance with the policies established from time to time by the Board of Directors.

 

e.                                       Relocation Benefits.  Following termination of the Executive’s employment for any reason (other than death), the Executive will be entitled to reimbursement from Cinergy for the reasonable costs of relocating from the Cincinnati, Ohio, area to a new primary residence within the continental United States in a manner that is consistent with the terms of the Relocation Program.  Notwithstanding the foregoing, if the Executive becomes employed by another employer and is eligible to receive relocation benefits under another employer-provided plan, any benefits provided to the Executive under this Section 3e will be secondary to those provided under the other employer-provided relocation plan.  The Executive must report to Cinergy any such relocation benefits that he actually receives under another employer-provided plan.

 

f.                                         Stock Options and Stock Appreciation Rights.  Notwithstanding Section 5d, upon the occurrence of a Change in Control, any stock options or stock appreciation rights then held by the Executive pursuant to the LTIP or Cinergy Corp. Stock Option Plan shall, to the extent not otherwise provided in the applicable Stock Related Documents, become immediately exercisable.  If the Executive terminates employment for any reason during the twenty-four (24) month period commencing upon the occurrence of a Change in Control, notwithstanding Section 5d, any stock options or stock appreciation rights then held by the Executive pursuant to the LTIP or Cinergy Corp. Stock Option Plan shall, to the extent not otherwise provided in the applicable Stock Related Documents, remain exercisable in accordance with their terms but in no event for a period less than the lesser of (i) three months following such termination of employment or (ii) the remaining term of such stock option or stock appreciation right (which remaining term shall be determined without regard to such termination of employment).

 

g.                                      Performance Award.  The Executive is hereby granted a contingent right (the “Performance Award”) to have a Nonelective Employer Contribution credited to his account under the 401(k) Excess Plan in an amount equal to the Fair Market Value as of the vesting date of 129,049 shares of Common Stock (the “Shares”) (which is the number of shares obtained by dividing $5 million by the Fair Market Value of a share of Common Stock as of January 1, 2004), subject to the following terms and conditions:

 

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(i)                                     The Performance Award shall vest on December 31, 2006, provided that the Executive has been continuously employed with Cinergy as of such date and the Committee determines as of such date that all of the applicable performance measures (as established by the Committee and communicated to the Executive no later than April 1, 2004) have been satisfied in full.  Notwithstanding the foregoing, the Performance Award shall immediately vest in full (without regard to whether the performance measures have been satisfied) if, on or prior to December 31, 2006, the Executive dies or becomes disabled (as that term is defined in the Cinergy Corp. Long-Term Disability Plan), Cinergy terminates the Executive’s employment other than for Cause, the Executive terminates employment for Good Reason, or a Change in Control occurs.  The Performance Award shall be credited to the Executive’s account under the 401(k) Excess Plan as soon as administratively practicable following the vesting date.

 

(ii)                                  Unless otherwise vested in accordance with Section 3g(i), the Executive shall forfeit the Performance Award if he ceases to remain continuously employed by Cinergy until the date on which the Performance Award vests.

 

(iii)                               The Executive shall have the right to receive, during the period commencing on January 1, 2004 and ending on the earlier of the date that the Performance Award vests in accordance with Section 3g(i) or the date that the Performance Award is forfeited in accordance with Section 3g(ii), cash payments equal to the amount of dividends that the Executive would have received if he had directly owned the Shares, which amounts shall be paid to the Executive as soon as administratively practicable following each relevant dividend payment date.  The amounts paid under this Section 3g(iii) shall be fully vested when paid and shall not be subject to forfeiture if the Performance Award does not vest thereafter.

 

(iv)                              The parties expressly agree and acknowledge that $600,000 of the Performance Award, whether or not vested in accordance with Section 3g(i), shall be deemed to be included in the Executive’s Annual Base Salary for each of the calendar years 2005 and 2006 for purposes of Section 3b(v) and shall be deemed included in the Executive’s “Highest Average Earnings” for each of the calendar years 2004, 2005 and 2006 for purposes of calculating the Executive’s supplemental retirement benefit under Section 3b(ii).  Moreover, for each of the calendar years 2004, 2005 and 2006, the Executive shall be entitled to receive a special cash bonus, payable no later than March 15 of the subsequent calendar year, equal to the excess of (A) the bonus that the Executive would have received for the applicable calendar year under the Annual Incentive Plan had the Executive’s Annual Base Salary been increased by $600,000, over (B) the actual bonus earned by the Executive for the applicable calendar year under the Annual Incentive Plan.  The amounts credited under this Section 3g(iv)

 

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shall not be affected by any forfeiture of the Performance Award occuring after the relevant crediting date.

 

(v)                                 The Committee shall make or provide for such adjustments in the number of Shares subject to the Performance Award as the Committee, in its sole discretion exercised in good faith, may determine is equitably required in order to prevent dilution or enlargement of the Executive’s rights that otherwise would result from (A) any stock dividend, stock split, combination of shares, recapitalization, or other change in the capital structure of the Company, (B) any merger, consolidation, spin-off, split-off, spin-out, split-up, reorganization, partial or complete liquidation, or other distribution of assets or issuance of rights or warrants to purchase securities, or (C) any other corporate transaction or event having an effect similar to any of the foregoing. Any amounts paid under the Performance Award shall be paid from Cinergy’s general assets, and the Executive shall have the status of a general unsecured creditor with respect to Cinergy’s obligations under this Section 3g.

 

4.                                      Termination of Employment.

 

a.                                       Death.  The Executive’s employment will terminate automatically upon the Executive’s death during the Employment Period.

 

b.                                      By Cinergy for Cause.  Cinergy may terminate the Executive’s employment during the Employment Period for Cause.  For purposes of this Employment Agreement, “Cause” means the following:

 

(i)                                     The willful and continued failure by the Executive to substantially perform the Executive’s duties with Cinergy (other than any such failure resulting from the Executive’s incapacity due to physical or mental illness) that, if curable, has not been cured within 30 days after the Board of Directors or the Chief Executive Officer has delivered to the Executive a written demand for substantial performance, which demand specifically identifies the manner in which the Executive has not substantially performed his duties.  This event will constitute Cause even if the Executive issues a Notice of Termination for Good Reason pursuant to Section 4d after the Board of Directors or Chief Executive Officer delivers a written demand for substantial performance.

 

(ii)                                  The breach by the Executive of the confidentiality provisions set forth in Section 9.

 

(iii)                               The conviction of the Executive for the commission of a felony, including the entry of a guilty or nolo contendere plea, or any willful or grossly negligent action or inaction by the Executive that has a materially adverse effect on Cinergy.  For purposes of this definition of Cause, no act, or failure to act, on the Executive’s part will be deemed “willful” unless it is

 

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done, or omitted to be done, by the Executive in bad faith and without reasonable belief that the Executive’s act, or failure to act, was in the best interest of Cinergy.

 

(iv)                              Notwithstanding the foregoing, Cinergy shall be deemed to have not terminated the employment of the Executive for Cause unless and until there shall have been delivered to the Executive a copy of a resolution duly adopted by the affirmative vote of not less than a majority of the members of the Board (excluding the Executive) then in office at a meeting of the members of the Board called and held for such purpose (after reasonable notice to the Executive and an opportunity for the Executive, together with his counsel, to be heard by the members of the Board), finding that, in the good faith opinion of the members of the Board (excluding the Executive), the Executive had committed an act set forth above in this Section 4b and specifying the particulars thereof in detail.

 

c.                                       By Cinergy Without Cause.  Cinergy may, upon at least 30 days advance written notice to the Executive, terminate the Executive’s employment during the Employment Period for a reason other than Cause, but the obligations placed upon Cinergy in Section 5 will apply.

 

d.                                      By the Executive for Good Reason.  The Executive may terminate his employment during the Employment Period for Good Reason.  For purposes of this Agreement, “Good Reason” means the following:

 

(i)                                     (1) A reduction in the Executive’s Annual Base Salary, except for across-the-board salary reductions similarly affecting all Cinergy management personnel, (2) a reduction in the amount of the Executive’s Maximum Annual Bonus under the Annual Incentive Plan, except for across-the-board Maximum Annual Bonus reductions similarly affecting all Cinergy management personnel, or (3) a reduction in any other benefit or payment described in Section 3 of this Agreement, except for changes to the employee benefits programs generally affecting Cinergy management personnel, provided that those changes, in the aggregate, will not result in a material adverse change with respect to the benefits to which the Executive was entitled as of the Effective Date.

 

(ii)                                  (1) The material reduction without his consent of the Executive’s title, authority, duties, or responsibilities from those in effect immediately prior to the reduction, (2) the failure by Cinergy without the consent of the Executive to nominate the Executive for re-election to the Board, or (3) a material adverse change in the Executive’s reporting responsibilities.

 

(iii)                               Any breach by Cinergy of any other material provision of this Agreement (including but not limited to the place of performance as specified in Section 2b).

 

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(iv)                              The Executive’s disability due to physical or mental illness or injury that precludes the Executive from performing any job for which he is qualified and able to perform based upon his education, training or experience.

 

(v)                                 A failure by the Company to require any successor entity to the Company specifically to assume in writing all of the Company’s obligations to the Executive under this Agreement.

 

e.                                       By the Executive Without Good Reason.  The Executive may terminate his employment without Good Reason upon prior written notice to the Company.

 

f.                                         Notice of Termination.  Any termination of the Executive’s employment by Cinergy or by the Executive during the Employment Period (other than a termination due to the Executive’s death) will be communicated by a written Notice of Termination to the other party to this Agreement in accordance with Section 12b.  For purposes of this Agreement, a “Notice of Termination” means a written notice that meets the following requirements:

 

(i)                                     The notice indicates the specific termination provision in this Agreement relied upon as the basis for termination.

 

(ii)                                  To the extent applicable, the notice sets forth in reasonable detail the facts and circumstances claimed to provide a basis for termination of the Executive’s employment under the provision specified pursuant to Paragraph (i).

 

(iii)                               If the Date of Termination is other than the date of receipt of the notice, the notice specifies the Date of Termination, which will be no more than 30 days after the date the notice was given.  The failure by the Executive or Cinergy to set forth in the Notice of Termination any fact or circumstances that contributes to a showing of Good Reason or Cause will not waive any right of the Executive or Cinergy under this Agreement or preclude the Executive or Cinergy from asserting that fact or circumstance in enforcing rights under this Agreement.

 

(iv)                              A Notice of Termination for Cause after a Change in Control has occurred must include a copy of a resolution duly adopted by the affirmative vote of not less three quarters (3/4) of the entire membership of the Board of Directors (excluding the Executive) at a meeting of the Board of Directors called and held for the purpose of considering the termination.  The resolution must include a finding that, in the good faith opinion of the Board of Directors (excluding the Executive), the Executive was guilty of conduct set forth in the definition of Cause, and it must specify the particulars of the conduct in detail.

 

g.                                      Sale of Stock.  The Executive acknowledges and agrees that he shall not sell or otherwise dispose of any shares of Company stock acquired pursuant to the exercise of a stock option, other than shares sold in order to pay an option

 

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exercise price or the related tax withholding obligation, until 90 days after the Date of Termination.  Notwithstanding the foregoing, Cinergy, in its sole discretion, may waive the restrictions contained in the previous sentence.

 

5.                                      Obligations of Cinergy Upon Termination.

 

a.                                       Certain Terminations.

 

(i)                                     If a Qualifying Termination occurs during the Employment Period, Cinergy will pay to the Executive a lump sum amount, in cash, equal to the sum of the following Accrued Obligations:

 

(1)                                  the pro-rated portion of the Executive’s Annual Base Salary payable through the Date of Termination, to the extent not previously paid.
 
(2)                                  any amount payable to the Executive under the Annual Incentive Plan in respect of the most recently completed fiscal year, to the extent not theretofore paid.
 
(3)                                  an amount equal to the AIP Benefit for the fiscal year that includes the Date of Termination multiplied by a fraction, the numerator of which is the number of days from the beginning of that fiscal year to and including the Date of Termination and the denominator of which is three hundred and sixty-five (365).  The AIP Benefit component of the calculation will be equal to the annual bonus that would have been earned by the Executive pursuant to any annual bonus or incentive plan maintained by Cinergy in respect of the fiscal year in which occurs the Date of Termination, determined by projecting Cinergy’s performance and other applicable goals and objectives for the entire fiscal year based on Cinergy’s performance during the period of such fiscal year occurring prior to the Date of Termination, and based on such other assumptions and rates as Cinergy deems reasonable.
 
(4)                                  the Accrued Obligations described in this Section 5a(i) will be paid within thirty (30) days after the Date of Termination.  These Accrued Obligations are payable to the Executive regardless of whether a Change in Control has occurred.
 

(ii)                                  In the event of a Qualifying Termination either prior to the occurrence of a Change in Control, or more than twenty-four (24) months following the occurrence of a Change in Control, Cinergy will pay the Accrued Obligations, and Cinergy will have the following additional obligations described in this Section 5a(ii); provided, however, that each of the benefits described below in this Section 5a(ii) shall only be provided to the Executive if, upon presentation to the Executive following a Qualifying

 

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Termination, the Executive timely executes and does not timely revoke the Waiver and Release.

 

(1)                                  Cinergy will pay to the Executive a lump sum amount, in cash, equal to three (3) times the sum of the Annual Base Salary and the Annual Bonus.  For this purpose, the Annual Base Salary will be at the rate in effect at the time Notice of Termination is given (without giving effect to any reduction in Annual Base Salary, if any, prior to the termination, other than across-the-board reductions), and the Annual Bonus will be the higher of (A) the annual bonus earned by the Executive pursuant to any annual bonus or incentive plan maintained by Cinergy in respect of the year ending immediately prior to the fiscal year in which occurs the Date of Termination, and (B) the annual bonus that would have been earned by the Executive pursuant to any annual bonus or incentive plan maintained by Cinergy in respect of the fiscal year in which occurs the Date of Termination, calculated by projecting Cinergy’s performance and other applicable goals and objectives for the entire fiscal year based on Cinergy’s performance during the period of such fiscal year occurring prior to the Date of Termination, and based on such other assumptions and rates as Cinergy deems reasonable; provided, however that for purposes of this Section 5a(ii)(1)(B), the Annual Bonus shall not be less than the Target Annual Bonus, nor greater than the Maximum Annual Bonus for the year in which the Date of Termination occurs.  This lump sum will be paid within thirty (30) days after the expiration of the revocation period contained in the Waiver and Release.
 
(2)                                  With respect to each performance share award held by the Executive pursuant to the Value Creation Plan of the LTIP on the Date of Termination (collectively, the “Performance Share Awards”), Cinergy will pay to the Executive an amount, in cash, equal to the excess (if any) of (i) the amount to which the Executive would have been entitled under each Performance Share Award if he had remained employed by Cinergy until the end of the Employment Period, over (ii) the amount to which he is actually entitled under such Performance Share Award.  With respect to each Performance Share Award, such amount shall be paid to the Executive at the same time as other amounts are paid with respect to that Performance Share Award.
 
(3)                                  Subject to Clauses (A), (B) and (C) below, Cinergy will provide, until the end of the Employment Period, medical and dental benefits to the Executive and/or the Executive’s eligible dependents at least equal to those that would have been provided if the Executive’s employment had not been terminated (excluding benefits to which the Executive has waived his rights in writing).

 

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The benefits described in the preceding sentence will be in accordance with the medical and welfare benefit plans, practices, programs, or policies of Cinergy (the “M&W Plans”) as then currently in effect and applicable generally to other Cinergy senior executives and their families.
 
(A)                              If, as of the Executive’s Date of Termination, the Executive meets the eligibility requirements for Cinergy’s retiree medical and welfare benefit plans, the provision of those retiree medical and welfare benefit plans to the Executive will satisfy Cinergy’s obligation under this Section 5a(ii)(3).
 
(B)                                If, as of the Executive’s Date of Termination, the provision to the Executive of the M&W Plan benefits described in this Section 5a(ii)(3) would either (1) violate the terms of the M&W Plans (or any related insurance policies) or (2) violate any of the Code’s nondiscrimination requirements applicable to the M&W Plans, then Cinergy, in its sole discretion, may elect to pay the Executive, in lieu of the M&W Plan benefits described under this Section 5a(ii)(3), a lump sum cash payment equal to the total monthly premiums (or in the case of a self funded plan, the cost of COBRA continuation coverage) that would have been paid by Cinergy for the Executive under the M&W Plans from the Date of Termination through the end of the Employment Period.  Nothing in this Clause will affect the Executive’s right to elect COBRA continuation coverage under a M&W Plan in accordance with applicable law, and Cinergy will make the payment described in this Clause whether or not the Executive elects COBRA continuation coverage, and whether or not the Executive receives health coverage from another employer.
 
(C)                                If the Executive becomes employed by another employer and is eligible to receive medical or other welfare benefits under another employer-provided plan, any benefits provided to the Executive under the M&W Plans will be secondary to those provided under the other employer-provided plan during the Executive’s applicable period of eligibility.
 
(4)                                  Cinergy will pay the Executive a lump sum amount, in cash, equal to $15,000 in order to cover tax counseling services through an agency selected by the Executive.  Such payment will be transferred to the Executive within thirty (30) days of the

 

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expiration of the revocation period contained in the Waiver and Release.
 
(5)                                  In lieu of any and all other rights with respect to the automobile assigned by Cinergy to the Executive (or the equivalent cash allowance), Cinergy will provide the Executive with a lump sum payment in the amount of $60,000.  Such payment will be transferred to the Executive within thirty (30) days of the expiration of the revocation period contained in the Waiver and Release.
 

(iii)                               In the event of a Qualifying Termination during the twenty-four (24) month period beginning upon the occurrence of a Change in Control, Cinergy will pay the Accrued Obligations listed in Sections 5a(i)(1) and (2), Cinergy will pay the Accrued Obligations listed in Section 5a(i)(3) (but only if such Qualifying Termination occurs after the calendar year in which occurs such Change in Control) and Cinergy will have the following additional obligations described in this Section 5a(iii); provided, however, that each of the benefits described below in this Section 5a(iii) shall only be provided to the Executive if, upon presentation to the Executive following a Qualifying Termination, the Executive timely executes and does not timely revoke the Waiver and Release.

 

(1)                                  Cinergy will pay to the Executive a lump sum severance payment, in cash, equal to three (3) times the higher of (x) the sum of the Executive’s current Annual Base Salary and Target Annual Bonus and (y) the sum of the Executive’s Annual Base Salary in effect immediately prior to the Change in Control and the Change in Control Bonus.  For purposes of this Agreement, the Change in Control Bonus shall mean the higher of (A) the annual bonus earned by the Executive pursuant to any annual bonus or incentive plan maintained by Cinergy in respect of the year ending immediately prior to the fiscal year in which occurs the Date of Termination or, if higher, immediately prior to the fiscal year in which occurs the Change in Control, and (B) the annual bonus that would have been earned by the Executive pursuant to any annual bonus or incentive plan maintained by Cinergy in respect of the year in which occurs the Date of Termination, calculated by projecting Cinergy’s performance and other applicable goals and objective for the entire fiscal year based on Cinergy’s performance during the period of such fiscal year occurring prior to the Date of Termination, and based on such other assumptions and rates as Cinergy deems reasonable, provided, however, that for purposes of this Section 5a(iii)(1)(B), such Change in Control Bonus shall not be less than the Target Annual Bonus, nor greater than the Maximum Annual Bonus.  This lump sum will be paid within thirty (30) days of the expiration of the revocation period contained

 

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in the Waiver and Release.  Nothing in this Section 5a(iii)(1) shall preclude the Executive from receiving the amount, if any, to which he is entitled in accordance with the terms of the Annual Incentive Plan for the fiscal year that includes the Date of Termination.
 
(2)                                  Cinergy will pay to the Executive the lump sum present value of any benefits under the Executive Supplemental Life Program under the terms of the applicable plan or program as of the Date of Termination, calculated as if the Executive was fully vested as of the Date of Termination. The lump sum present value, assuming commencement at the Executive’s age as of the Date of Termination, will be determined using the interest rate applicable to lump sum payments in the Cinergy Corp. Non-Union Employees’ Pension Plan or any successor to that plan for the plan year that includes the Date of Termination. To the extent no such interest rate is provided therein, the annual interest rate applicable under Section 417(e)(3) of the Code, or any successor provision thereto, for the second full calendar month preceding the first day of the calendar year that includes the Date of Termination will be used. This lump sum will be paid within thirty (30) days of the expiration of the revocation period contained in the Waiver and Release.
 
(3)                                  The Executive shall be fully vested in his accrued benefits as of the Date of Termination under the Executive Retirement Plans, and his aggregate accrued benefits thereunder and under Section 3b(ii) of this Agreement will be calculated, and he will be treated for all purposes, as if he was credited with three (3) additional years of age and service as of the Date of Termination, provided, however, that to the extent a calculation is made regarding the actuarial equivalent amount of any alternate form of benefit, the Executive will not be credited with three additional years of age for purposes of such calculation.
 
(4)                                  For a thirty-six (36) month period after the Date of Termination, Cinergy will arrange to provide to the Executive and/or the Executive’s eligible dependents life, disability, accident, and health insurance benefits substantially similar to those that the Executive and/or the Executive’s dependents are receiving immediately prior to the Notice of Termination at a substantially similar cost to the Executive (without giving effect to any reduction in those benefits subsequent to a Change in Control that constitutes Good Reason), except for any benefits that were waived by the Executive in writing.  If Cinergy arranges to provide the Executive and/or the Executive’s dependents with life, disability, accident, and health insurance benefits, those benefits will be reduced to the extent comparable benefits are actually received by or made available to

 

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the Executive and/or the Executive’s dependents during the thirty-six (36) month period following the Executive’s Date of Termination.  The Executive must report to Cinergy any such benefits that he or his dependents actually receives or that are made available to him or his dependents.  In lieu of the benefits described in the preceding sentences, Cinergy, in its sole discretion, may elect to pay to the Executive a lump sum cash payment equal to thirty-six (36) times the monthly premiums (or in the case of a self funded plan, the cost of COBRA continuation coverage) that would have been paid by Cinergy to provide those benefits to the Executive and/or the Executive’s dependents.  Nothing in this Section 5a(iii)(4) will affect the Executive’s right to elect COBRA continuation coverage in accordance with applicable law, and Cinergy will provide the benefits or make the payment described in this Clause whether or not the Executive elects COBRA continuation coverage, and whether or not the Executive receives health coverage from another employer.
 
(5)                                  In lieu of any and all other rights with respect to the automobile assigned by Cinergy to the Executive (or the equivalent cash allowance), Cinergy will provide the Executive with a lump sum payment in the amount of $60,000.  Such payment will be transferred to the Executive within thirty (30) days of the expiration of the revocation period contained in the Waiver and Release.
 
(6)                                  Cinergy will pay the Executive a lump sum amount, in cash, equal to $15,000 in order to cover tax counseling services through an agency selected by the Executive.  Such payment will be transferred to the Executive within thirty (30) days of the expiration of the revocation period contained in the Waiver and Release.
 
(7)                                  Cinergy will provide annual dues and assessments of the Executive for membership in a country club selected by the Executive until the end of the Employment Period.  Such payment will be transferred to the Executive within thirty (30) days of the expiration of the revocation period contained in the Waiver and Release.
 
(8)                                  Cinergy will provide outplacement services suitable to the Executive’s position until the end of the Employment Period; provided, however, that in no event shall the cost of such outplacement services exceed 15% of the Executive’s Annual Base Salary.

 

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For purposes of this Section 5a(iii), the Executive will be deemed to have incurred a Qualifying Termination upon a Change in Control if the Executive’s employment is terminated prior to a Change in Control, without Cause at the direction of a Person who has entered into an agreement with Cinergy, the consummation of which will constitute a Change in Control, or if the Executive terminates his employment for Good Reason prior to a Change in Control if the circumstances or event that constitutes Good Reason occurs at the direction of such a Person.

 

b.                                      Termination by Cinergy for Cause or by the Executive Other Than for Good Reason.  Subject to the provisions of Section 5c and Section 7, and notwithstanding any other provisions of this Agreement, if the Executive’s employment is terminated for Cause during the Employment Period, or if the Executive terminates employment during the Employment Period other than a termination for Good Reason, Cinergy will have no further obligations to the Executive under this Agreement other than the obligation to pay to the Executive the Accrued Obligations, plus any other earned but unpaid compensation, in each case to the extent not previously paid.

 

c.                                       Certain Tax Consequences.

 

(i)                                     In the event that any compensation and/or benefits paid or payable to the Executive or for his benefit pursuant to the terms of this Agreement or any other plan or arrangement in connection with, or arising out of, his employment with Cinergy or a change in ownership or effective control of Cinergy or of a substantial portion of its assets (a “Payment” or “Payments”) would be subject to any Excise Tax, then the Executive will be entitled to receive an additional payment (a “Gross-Up Payment”) in an amount such that after payment by the Executive of all taxes (including any interest, penalties, additional tax, or similar items imposed with respect thereto and the Excise Tax), including any Excise Tax imposed upon the Gross-Up Payment, the Executive retains an amount of the Gross-Up Payment equal to the Excise Tax imposed upon or assessable against the Executive due to the Payments.

 

(ii)                                  Subject to the provisions of Section 5c, all determinations required to be made under this Section 5c, including whether and when a Gross-Up Payment is required and the amount of such Gross-Up Payment and the assumptions to be utilized in arriving at such determination, shall be made by the Accounting Firm, which shall provide detailed supporting calculations both to the Company and the Executive within fifteen (15) business days of the receipt of notice from the Executive that there has been a Payment, or such earlier time as is requested by the Company.  If the Accounting Firm determines that no Excise Tax is payable by the Executive, it shall, at the same time as it makes such determination, furnish the Executive with an opinion that he has substantial authority not to report any Excise Tax on his federal income tax return.  All fees and expenses of the Accounting Firm shall be borne solely by the Company.  Any Gross-Up Payment, as determined pursuant to this Section 5c, shall

 

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be paid by Cinergy to the Executive within five (5) days of the receipt of the Accounting Firm’s determination.  Any determination by the Accounting Firm shall be binding upon Cinergy and the Executive.  As a result of the uncertainty in the application of Section 4999 of the Code at the time of the initial determination by the Accounting Firm hereunder, it is possible that Gross-Up Payments which will not have been made by Cinergy should have been made (“Underpayment”), consistent with the calculations required to be made hereunder.  In the event of any Underpayment, the Accounting Firm shall determine the amount of the Underpayment that has occurred and any such Underpayment shall be promptly paid by Cinergy to or for the benefit of the Executive, and Cinergy shall indemnify and hold harmless the Executive for any such Underpayment, on an after-tax basis, including interest and penalties with respect thereto.  In the event that the Excise Tax is subsequently determined to be less than the amount taken into account hereunder at the time of termination of the Executive’s employment, then, unless otherwise treated as an impermissible loan under applicable law, the Executive shall repay to the Company, at the time that the amount of such reduction in Excise Tax is finally determined, the portion of the Gross-Up Payment attributable to such reduction (plus that portion of the Gross-Up Payment attributable to the Excise Tax and federal, state and local income and employment tax imposed on the Gross-Up Payment being repaid by the Executive to the extent that such repayment results in a reduction in Excise Tax and/or a federal, state or local income or employment tax deduction) plus interest on the amount of such repayment at the rate provided in Code Section 1274(b)(2)(B).

 

(iii)                               The value of any non-cash benefits or any deferred payment or benefit paid or payable to the Executive will be determined in accordance with the principles of Code Sections 280G(d)(3) and (4).  For purposes of determining the amount of the Gross-Up Payment, the Executive will be deemed to pay federal income taxes at the highest marginal rate of federal income taxation in the calendar year in which the Gross-Up Payment is to be made and applicable state and local income taxes at the highest marginal rate of taxation in the state and locality of the Executive’s residence on the Date of Termination, net of the maximum reduction in federal income taxes that would be obtained from deduction of those state and local taxes.

 

(iv)                              Notwithstanding anything contained in this Agreement to the contrary, in the event that, according to the Accounting Firm’s determination, an Excise Tax will be imposed on any Payment or Payments, Cinergy will pay to the applicable government taxing authorities as Excise Tax withholding, the amount of the Excise Tax that Cinergy has actually withheld from the Payment or Payments in accordance with law.

 

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d.                                      Value Creation Plan and Stock Options.  Upon the Executive’s termination of employment for any reason, the Executive’s entitlement to restricted shares and performance shares under the Value Creation Plan and any stock options granted under the Cinergy Corp. Stock Option Plan, the LTIP or any other stock option plan will be determined under the terms of the appropriate plan and any applicable administrative guidelines and written agreements, provided, however, that following the occurrence of a Change in Control the terms of any such plan, administrative guideline or written agreement shall not be amended in a manner that would adversely affect the Executive with respect to awards granted to the Executive prior to the Change in Control.

 

e.                                       Benefit Plans in General.  Upon the Executive’s termination of employment for any reason, the Executive’s entitlements, if any, under all benefit plans of Cinergy, including but not limited to the Deferred Compensation Plan, 401(k) Excess Plan, Cinergy Corp. Supplemental Executive Retirement Plan, Cinergy Corp. Excess Profit Sharing Plan and any vacation policy, shall be determined under the terms of such plans, policies and any applicable administrative guidelines and written agreements, provided, however, that following the occurrence of a Change in Control the terms of such plans and policies and any applicable administrative guidelines and written agreements shall not be amended in a manner that would adversely affect the Executive with respect to benefits earned by the Executive prior to the Change in Control.

 

f.                                         Other Fees and Expenses.  Cinergy will also reimburse the Executive for all reasonable legal fees and expenses incurred by the Executive (i) in successfully disputing a termination which is ultimately determined to constitute a Qualifying Termination that entitles the Executive to Severance Benefits or (ii) in reasonably disputing whether or not Cinergy has terminated his employment for Cause.  Payment will be made within five (5) business days after delivery of the Executive’s written request for payment accompanied by such evidence of fees and expenses incurred as Cinergy reasonably may require.

 

6.                                      Non-Exclusivity of RightsNothing in this Agreement will prevent or limit the Executive’s continuing or future participation in any benefit, plan, program, policy, or practice provided by Cinergy and for which the Executive may qualify, except with respect to any benefit to which the Executive has waived his rights in writing or any plan, program, policy, or practice that expressly excludes the Executive from participation.  In addition, nothing in this Agreement will limit or otherwise affect the rights the Executive may have under any other contract or agreement with Cinergy entered into after the Effective Date.  Amounts that are vested benefits or that the Executive is otherwise entitled to receive under any benefit, plan, program, policy, or practice of, or any contract or agreement entered into after the Effective Date with Cinergy, at or subsequent to the Date of Termination, will be payable in accordance with that benefit, plan, program, policy or practice, or that contract or agreement, except as explicitly modified by this Agreement.  Notwithstanding the above, in the event that the Executive receives Severance Benefits under Section 5a(ii) or 5a(iii), (a) the Executive shall not be entitled to any benefits under any severance plan of Cinergy, including but not limited to the

 

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Severance Opportunity Plan for Non-Union Employees of Cinergy Corp. and (b) if the Executive receives such Severance Benefits as a result of his termination for Good Reason, as that term is defined in Section 4d(iv), Cinergy’s obligations under Sections 5a(ii) and 5a(iii) shall be reduced by the amount of any benefits payable to the Executive under any short-term or long-term disability plan of Cinergy, the amount of which shall be determined by Cinergy in good faith.

 

7.                                      Full Settlement:  MitigationExcept as otherwise provided herein, Cinergy’s obligation to make the payments provided for in this Agreement and otherwise to perform its obligations under this Agreement will not be affected by any set-off, counterclaim, recoupment, defense, or other claim, right, or action that Cinergy may have against the Executive or others.  In no event will the Executive be obligated to seek other employment or take any other action by way of mitigation of the amounts (including amounts for damages for breach) payable to the Executive under any of the provisions of this Agreement and, except as provided in Sections 3e, 5a(ii)(3) and 5a(iii)(4), those amounts will not be reduced simply because the Executive obtains other employment.  If the Executive finally prevails on the substantial claims brought with respect to any dispute between Cinergy and the Executive as to the interpretation, terms, validity, or enforceability of (including any dispute about the amount of any payment pursuant to) this Agreement, Cinergy agrees to pay all reasonable legal fees and expenses that the Executive may reasonably incur as a result of that dispute.

 

8.                                      Arbitration.  The parties agree that any dispute, claim, or controversy based on common law, equity, or any federal, state, or local statute, ordinance, or regulation (other than workers’ compensation claims) arising out of or relating in any way to the Executive’s employment, the terms, benefits, and conditions of employment, or concerning this Agreement or its termination and any resulting termination of employment, including whether such a dispute is arbitrable, shall be settled by arbitration.  This agreement to arbitrate includes but is not limited to all claims for any form of illegal discrimination, improper or unfair treatment or dismissal, and all tort claims.  The Executive will still have a right to file a discrimination charge with a federal or state agency, but the final resolution of any discrimination claim will be submitted to arbitration instead of a court or jury.  The arbitration proceeding will be conducted under the employment dispute resolution arbitration rules of the American Arbitration Association in effect at the time a demand for arbitration under the rules is made, and such proceeding will be adjudicated in the state of Ohio in accordance with the laws of the state of Ohio, without regard to any applicable state’s choice of law provisions.  The decision of the arbitrator(s), including determination of the amount of any damages suffered, will be exclusive, final, and binding on all parties, their heirs, executors, administrators, successors and assigns.  Each party will bear its own expenses in the arbitration for arbitrators’ fees and attorneys’ fees, for its witnesses, and for other expenses of presenting its case.  Other arbitration costs, including administrative fees and fees for records or transcripts, will be borne equally by the parties.  Notwithstanding anything in this Section to the contrary, if the Executive prevails with respect to any dispute submitted to arbitration under this Section, Cinergy will reimburse or pay all legal fees and expenses that the Executive may reasonably incur as a result of the dispute as required by Section 7.

 

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9.                                      Confidential Information.  The Executive will hold in a fiduciary capacity for the benefit of Cinergy, as well as all of Cinergy’s successors and assigns, all secret, confidential information, knowledge, or data relating to Cinergy, and its affiliated businesses, that the Executive obtains during the Executive’s employment by Cinergy or any of its affiliated companies, and that has not been or subsequently becomes public knowledge (other than by acts by the Executive or representatives of the Executive in violation of this Agreement).  During the Employment Period and thereafter, the Executive will not, without Cinergy’s prior written consent or as may otherwise be required by law or legal process, communicate or divulge any such information, knowledge, or data to anyone other than Cinergy and those designated by it.  The Executive understands that during the Employment Period, Cinergy may be required from time to time to make public disclosure of the terms or existence of the Executive’s employment relationship to comply with various laws and legal requirements.  In addition to all other remedies available to Cinergy in law and equity, this Agreement is subject to termination by Cinergy for Cause under Section 4b in the event the Executive violates any provision of this Section.

 

10.                               Successors.

 

a.                                       This Agreement is personal to the Executive and, without Cinergy’s prior written consent, cannot be assigned by the Executive other than Executive’s designation of a beneficiary of any amounts payable hereunder after the Executive’s death.  This Agreement will inure to the benefit of and be enforceable by the Executive’s legal representatives.

 

b.                                      This Agreement will inure to the benefit of and be binding upon Cinergy and its successors and assigns.

 

c.                                       Cinergy will require any successor (whether direct or indirect, by purchase, merger, consolidation or otherwise) to all or substantially all of the business and/or assets of Cinergy to assume expressly and agree to perform this Agreement in the same manner and to the same extent that Cinergy would be required to perform it if no succession had taken place.  Cinergy’s failure to obtain such an assumption and agreement prior to the effective date of a succession will be a breach of this Agreement and will entitle the Executive to compensation from Cinergy in the same amount and on the same terms as if the Executive were to terminate his employment for Good Reason upon a Change in Control, except that, for purposes of implementing the foregoing, the date on which any such succession becomes effective will be deemed the Date of Termination.

 

11.                               DefinitionsAs used in this Agreement, the following terms, when capitalized, will have the following meanings:

 

a.                                       Accounting Firm.  “Accounting Firm” means Cinergy’s independent auditors.

 

b.                                      Accrued Obligations.  “Accrued Obligations” means the accrued obligations described in Section 5a(i).

 

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c.                                       Agreement.  “Agreement” means this Employment Agreement between Cinergy and the Executive.

 

d.                                      AIP Benefit.  “AIP Benefit” means the Annual Incentive Plan benefit described in Section 5a(i).

 

e.                                       Annual Base Salary.  “Annual Base Salary” means, except where otherwise specified herein, the annual base salary payable to the Executive pursuant to Section 3a.

 

f.                                         Annual Bonus.  “Annual Bonus” has the meaning set forth in Section 5a(ii)(1).

 

g.                                      Annual Incentive Plan.  “Annual Incentive Plan” means the Cinergy Corp. Annual Incentive Plan or any similar plan or successor to the Annual Incentive Plan.

 

h.                                      Board of Directors or Board.  “Board of Directors” or “Board” means the board of directors of the Company.

 

i.                                          COBRA.  “COBRA” means the Consolidated Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1985, as amended.

 

j.                                          Cause.  “Cause” has the meaning set forth in Section 4b.

 

k.                                       Change in Control.  A “Change in Control” will be deemed to have occurred if any of the following events occur, after the Effective Date:

 

(i)                                     Any Person is or becomes the beneficial owner (as defined in Rule 13d-3 under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (“1934 Act”)), directly or indirectly, of securities of the Company (not including in the securities beneficially owned by such Person any securities acquired directly from the Company or its affiliates) representing more than twenty percent (20%) of the combined voting power of the Company’s then outstanding securities, excluding any Person who becomes such a beneficial owner in connection with a transaction described in Clause (1) of Paragraph (ii) below; or

 

(ii)                                  There is consummated a merger or consolidation of the Company or any direct or indirect subsidiary of the Company with any other corporation, partnership or other entity, other than (1) a merger or consolidation that would result in the voting securities of the Company outstanding immediately prior to that merger or consolidation continuing to represent (either by remaining outstanding or by being converted into voting securities of the surviving entity or its parent) at least sixty percent (60%) of the combined voting power of the securities of the Company or the surviving entity or its parent outstanding immediately after the merger or consolidation, or (2) a merger or consolidation effected to implement a recapitalization of the Company (or similar transaction) in which no Person is or becomes the beneficial owner, directly or indirectly, of

 

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securities of the Company (not including in the securities beneficially owned by such a Person any securities acquired directly from the Company or its affiliates other than in connection with the acquisition by the Company or its affiliates of a business) representing twenty percent (20%) or more of the combined voting power of the Company’s then outstanding securities; or

 

(iii)                               During any period of two (2) consecutive years, individuals who at the beginning of that period constitute the Board of Directors and any new director (other than a director whose initial assumption of office is in connection with an actual or threatened election contest, including but not limited to a consent solicitation, relating to the election of directors of the Company) whose appointment or election by the Company’s stockholders was approved or recommended by a vote of at least two-thirds (2/3) of the directors then still in office who either were directors at the beginning of that period or whose appointment, election, or nomination for election was previously so approved or recommended cease for any reason to constitute a majority of the Board of Directors; or

 

(iv)                              The stockholders of the Company approve a plan of complete liquidation or dissolution of the Company or there is consummated a sale or disposition by the Company of all or substantially all of the Company’s assets, other than a sale or disposition by the Company of all or substantially all of the Company’s assets to an entity, at least sixty percent (60%) of the combined voting power of the voting securities of which are owned by stockholders of the Company in substantially the same proportions as their ownership of the Company immediately prior to the sale.

 

l.                                          Change in Control Bonus.  “Change in Control Bonus” has the meaning set forth in Section 5a(iii)(1).

 

m.                                    Cinergy.  “Cinergy” means the Company, its subsidiaries, and/or its affiliates, and any successors to the foregoing.

 

n.                                      Code.  “Code” means the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended, and interpretive rules and regulations.

 

o.                                      Committee.  “Committee” means the duly designated compensation committee of Cinergy’s Board of Directors.

 

p.                                      Common Stock.  “Common Stock” means any authorized share of ownership of the Company represented by a common stock certificate, with par value of $.01 per share, or any other appropriate instrument evidencing the same.

 

q.                                      Company.  “Company” means Cinergy Corp.

 

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r.                                         Date of Termination.  “Date of Termination” means:

 

(i)                                     if the Executive’s employment is terminated by Cinergy for Cause, or by the Executive with Good Reason, the date of receipt of the Notice of Termination or any later date specified in the notice, as the case may be;

 

(ii)                                  if the Executive’s employment is terminated by the Executive without Good Reason, thirty (30) days after the date on which the Executive notifies Cinergy of the termination;

 

(iii)                               if the Executive’s employment is terminated by Cinergy other than for Cause, thirty (30) days after the date on which Cinergy notifies the Executive of the termination; and

 

(iv)                              if the Executive’s employment is terminated by reason of death, the date of death.

 

s.                                       Deferred Compensation Agreement.  “Deferred Compensation Agreement” means the deferred compensation agreement, dated December 16, 1992 and effective as of January 1, 1992, between the Executive and PSI Energy, Inc.

 

t.                                         Deferred Compensation Plan.  “Deferred Compensation Plan” means the Cinergy Corp. Non-Qualified Deferred Incentive Compensation Plan or any similar plan or successor to that plan.

 

u.                                      Effective Date.  “Effective Date” has the meaning given to that term in the first paragraph of this Agreement.

 

v.                                      Employment Period.  “Employment Period” has the meaning set forth in Section 1b.

 

w.                                    Excise Tax.  “Excise Tax” means any excise tax imposed by Code section 4999, together with any interest, penalties, additional tax or similar items that are incurred by the Executive with respect to the excise tax imposed by Code section 4999.

 

x.                                        Executive.  “Executive” has the meaning given to that term in the first paragraph of this Agreement.

 

y.                                      Executive Retirement Plans.  “Executive Retirement Plans” means the Pension Plan, the Cinergy Corp. Supplemental Executive Retirement Plan and the Cinergy Corp. Excess Pension Plan or any similar plans or successors to those plans.

 

z.                                        Executive Supplemental Life Program.  “Executive Supplemental Life Program” means the Cinergy Corp. Executive Supplemental Life Insurance Program or any similar program or successor to the Executive Supplemental Life Program.

 

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aa.                                 Fair Market Value.  “Fair Market Value” means, as of any particular date with respect to a share of Common Stock, the average of the high and low sales prices of a share of Common Stock on such date, or on the preceding trading day if that date was not a trading date, as reported by the “NYSE -Composite Transactions” published in The Wall Street Journal.

 

bb.                               401(k) Excess Plan.  “401(k) Excess Plan” means the Cinergy Corp. 401(k) Excess Plan, or any similar plan or successor to that plan.

 

cc.                                 Good Reason.  “Good Reason” has the meaning set forth in Section 4d.

 

dd.                               Gross-Up Payment.  “Gross-Up Payment” has the meaning set forth in Section 5c.

 

ee.                                 Highest Average Earnings.  “Highest Average Earnings” shall have the meaning given to such term in the Cinergy Corp. Supplemental Executive Retirement Plan (as modified where relevant by Section 3g(iv) hereof), provided, however, that any amount deferred by the Executive under the Deferred Compensation Agreement during any relevant period shall be included in the Executive’s Highest Average Earnings.  For purposes of clarity, the parties hereto acknowledge and agree that the Executive’s Highest Average Earnings for any year shall not include any benefits received by the Executive pursuant to Section 5 of this Agreement, other than pursuant to Section 5a(i) of this Agreement.

 

ff.                                     Insurance Agreement.  “Insurance Agreement” means the split dollar insurance agreement dated October 7, 1992 between the Executive and PSI Energy, Inc., as amended effective December 11, 1992 and June 1, 2000.

 

gg.                               Long-Term Incentive Plan or LTIP.  “Long-Term Incentive Plan” or “LTIP” means the long-term incentive plan implemented under the Cinergy Corp. 1996 Long-Term Incentive Compensation Plan or any successor to that plan.

 

hh.                               M&W Plans.  “M&W Plans” has the meaning set forth in Section 5a(ii)(3).

 

ii.                                       Maximum Annual Bonus.  “Maximum Annual Bonus” has the meaning set forth in Section 3b.

 

jj.                                       Nonelective Employer Contribution.  “Nonelective Employer Contribution” has the meaning set forth in the 401(k) Excess Plan.

 

kk.                                 Notice of Termination.  “Notice of Termination” has the meaning set forth in Section 4f.

 

ll.                                       Payment or Payments.  “Payment” or “Payments” has the meaning set forth in Section 5c.

 

mm.                           Pension Plan.  “Pension Plan” means the Cinergy Corp. Non-Union Employees’ Pension Plan or any successor to that plan.

 

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nn.                               Performance Award.  “Performance Award” has the meaning set forth in Section 3g.

 

oo.                               Performance Share Awards.  “Performance Share Awards” has the meaning set forth in Section 5a(ii)(2).

 

pp.                               Person.  “Person” has the meaning set forth in paragraph 3(a)(9) of the 1934 Act, as modified and used in subsections 13(d) and 14(d) of the 1934 Act; however, a Person will not include the following:

 

(i)                                     Cinergy or any of its subsidiaries or affiliates;

 

(ii)                                  A trustee or other fiduciary holding securities under an employee benefit plan of Cinergy or its subsidiaries or affiliates;

 

(iii)                               An underwriter temporarily holding securities pursuant to an offering of those securities; or

 

(iv)                              A corporation owned, directly or indirectly, by the stockholders of the Company in substantially the same proportions as their ownership of stock of the Company.

 

qq.                               Potential Change in Control.  A “Potential Change in Control” means any period during which any of the following circumstances exist:

 

(i)                                     The Company enters into an agreement, the consummation of which would result in the occurrence of a Change in Control; provided that a Potential Change in Control shall cease to exist upon the expiration or other termination of such agreement; or

 

(ii)                                  The Company or any Person publicly announces an intention to take or to consider taking actions which, if consummated, would constitute a Change in Control; provided that a Potential Change in Control shall cease to exist when the Company or such Person publicly announces that it no longer has such an intention; or

 

(iii)                               Any Person who is or becomes the beneficial owner (as defined in Rule 13d-3 under the 1934 Act), directly or indirectly, of securities of the Company representing ten percent (10%) or more of the combined voting power of the Company’s then outstanding securities, increases such Person’s beneficial ownership of such securities by an amount equal to five percent (5%) or more of the combined voting power of the Company’s then outstanding securities; or

 

(iv)                              The Board of Directors adopts a resolution to the effect that, for purposes hereof, a Potential Change in Control has occurred.

 

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Notwithstanding anything herein to the contrary, a Potential Change in Control shall cease to exist not later than the date that (i) the Board of Directors determines that the Potential Change in Control no longer exists, or (ii) a Change in Control occurs.

 

rr.                                     Prime Rate.  “Prime Rate” means the prime rate of interest promulgated by Citibank, N.A. and in effect as of the Date of Termination.

 

ss.                                 Qualifying Termination.  “Qualifying Termination” means (i) the termination by Cinergy of the Executive’s employment with Cinergy during the Employment Period other than a termination for Cause or (ii) the termination by the Executive of the Executive’s employment with Cinergy during the Employment Period for Good Reason.

 

tt.                                     Relocation Program.  “Relocation Program” means the Cinergy Corp. Relocation Program, or any similar program or successor to that program, as in effect on the date of the Executive’s termination of employment.

 

uu.                               Severance Benefits.  “Severance Benefits” means the payments and benefits payable to the Executive pursuant to Section 5.

 

vv.                               Shares.  “Shares” has the meaning set forth in Section 3g.

 

ww.                           Spouse.  “Spouse” means the Executive’s lawfully married spouse.  For this purpose, common law marriage or a similar arrangement will not be recognized unless otherwise required by federal law.

 

xx.                                   Stock Related Documents.  “Stock Related Documents” means the LTIP, the Cinergy Corp. Stock Option Plan, and the Value Creation Plan and any applicable administrative guidelines and written agreements relating to those plans.

 

yy.                               Target Annual Bonus.  “Target Annual Bonus” has the meaning set forth in Section 3b.

 

zz.                                   Target LTIP Bonus.  “Target LTIP Bonus” has the meaning set forth in Section 3b.

 

aaa.                           Value Creation Plan.  “Value Creation Plan” means the Value Creation Plan or any similar plan, or successor plan of the LTIP.

 

bbb.                        Waiver and Release.  “Waiver and Release” means a waiver and release, in substantially the form attached to this Agreement as Exhibit A.

 

12.                               Miscellaneous.

 

a.                                       This Agreement will be governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of the State of Ohio, without reference to principles of conflict of laws.  The captions of this Agreement are not part of its provisions and will have no force or effect.

 

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This Agreement may not be amended, modified, repealed, waived, extended, or discharged except by an agreement in writing signed by the party against whom enforcement of the amendment, modification, repeal, waiver, extension, or discharge is sought.  No person, other than pursuant to a resolution of the members of the Board of Directors (excluding the Executive) or a committee of the Board of Directors (excluding the Executive), will have authority on behalf of Cinergy to agree to amend, modify, repeal, waive, extend, or discharge any provision of this Agreement.

 

b.                                      All notices and other communications under this Agreement will be in writing and will be given by hand delivery to the other party or by Federal Express or other comparable national or international overnight delivery service, addressed in the name of such party at the following address, whichever is applicable:

 

If to the Executive:
Cinergy Corp.
221 East Fourth Street
Cincinnati, Ohio 45201-0960

 

If to Cinergy:
Cinergy Corp.
221 East Fourth Street
Cincinnati, Ohio 45201-0960
Attn: Chief Legal Officer

 

or to such other address as either party has furnished to the other in writing in accordance with this Agreement.  All notices and communications will be effective when actually received by the addressee.

 

c.                                       The invalidity or unenforceability of any provision of this Agreement will not affect the validity or enforceability of any other provision of this Agreement.

 

d.                                      Cinergy may withhold from any amounts payable under this Agreement such federal, state, or local taxes as are required to be withheld pursuant to any applicable law or regulation.

 

e.                                       The Executive’s or Cinergy’s failure to insist upon strict compliance with any provision of this Agreement or the failure to assert any right the Executive or Cinergy may have under this Agreement, including without limitation the right of the Executive to terminate employment for Good Reason pursuant to Section 4d or the right of Cinergy to terminate the Executive’s employment for Cause pursuant to Section 4b, will not be deemed to be a waiver of that provision or right or any other provision or right of this Agreement.

 

f.                                         References in this Agreement to the masculine include the feminine unless the context clearly indicates otherwise.

 

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g.                                      This instrument contains the entire agreement of the Executive and Cinergy with respect to the subject matter of this Agreement; and subject to any agreements evidencing stock option or restricted stock grants described in Section 3b and the Stock Related Documents, all promises, representations, understandings, arrangements, and prior agreements are merged into this Agreement and accordingly superseded.

 

h.                                      This Agreement may be executed in counterparts, each of which will be deemed to be an original but all of which together will constitute one and the same instrument.

 

i.                                          Cinergy and the Executive agree that Cinergy Services, Inc. will be authorized to act for Cinergy with respect to all aspects pertaining to the administration and interpretation of this Agreement.

 

 

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the Executive and the Company have caused this Agreement to be executed as of the Effective Date.

 

 

 

 

CINERGY SERVICES, INC.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

By:

/s/  Michael G. Browning

 

 

 

 

Michael G. Browning
Chairman, Compensation Committee of the Board of Directors

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

EXECUTIVE

 

 

 

 

 

 

/s/  James E. Rogers

 

 

 

James E. Rogers

 

 

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EXHIBIT A

 

*****

 

WAIVER AND RELEASE AGREEMENT

 

THIS WAIVER AND RELEASE AGREEMENT (this “Waiver and Release”) is entered into by and between James E. Rogers (the “Executive”) and Cinergy Corp.  (“Cinergy”) (collectively, the “Parties”).

 

WHEREAS, the Parties have entered into the Employment Agreement dated                                    (the “Employment Agreement”);

 

WHEREAS, the Executive’s employment has been terminated in accordance with the terms of the Employment Agreement;

 

WHEREAS, the Executive is required to sign this Waiver and Release in order to receive the payment of certain compensation under the Employment Agreement following termination of employment; and

 

WHEREAS, Cinergy has agreed to sign this Waiver and Release.

 

NOW, THEREFORE, in consideration of the promises and agreements contained herein and other good and valuable consideration, the sufficiency and receipt of which are hereby acknowledged, and intending to be legally bound, the Parties agree as follows:

 

1.                                       This Waiver and Release is effective on the date hereof and will continue in effect as provided herein.

 

2.                                       In consideration of the payments to be made and the benefits to be received by the Executive pursuant to Section 5 of the Employment Agreement (the “Severance Benefits”), which the Executive acknowledges are in addition to payment and benefits to which the Executive would be entitled to but for the Employment Agreement, the Executive, on behalf of himself, his heirs, representatives, agents and assigns hereby COVENANTS NOT TO SUE OR OTHERWISE VOLUNTARILY PARTICIPATE IN ANY LAWSUIT AGAINST, FULLY RELEASES, INDEMNIFIES, HOLDS HARMLESS, and OTHERWISE FOREVER DISCHARGES (i) Cinergy, (ii) its subsidiary or affiliated entities, (iii) all of their present or former directors, officers, employees, shareholders, and agents as well as (iv) all predecessors, successors and assigns thereof (the persons listed in clauses (i) through (iv) hereof shall be referred to collectively as the “Company”) from any and all actions, charges, claims, demands, damages or liabilities of any kind or character whatsoever, known or unknown, which Executive now has or may have had through the effective date of this Waiver and Release.  Executive acknowledges and understands that he is not hereby prevented from filing a charge of discrimination with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission or any state-equivalent agency or otherwise participate in any proceedings before such

 

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Commissions.  Executive also acknowledges and understands that in the event he does file such a charge, he shall be entitled to no remuneration, damages, back pay, front pay, or compensation whatsoever from the Company as a result of such charge.

 

3.                                       Without limiting the generality of the foregoing release, it shall include:  (i) all claims or potential claims arising under any federal, state or local laws relating to the Parties’ employment relationship, including any claims Executive may have under the Civil Rights Acts of 1866 and 1964, as amended, 42 U.S.C. §§ 1981 and 2000(e) et seq.; the Civil Rights Act of 1991; the Age Discrimination in Employment Act, as amended, 29 U.S.C. §§ 621 et seq.; the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990, as amended, 42 U.S.C. §§ 12,101 et seq.; the Fair Labor Standards Act, 29 U.S.C. §§ 201 et seq.; the Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification Act, 29 U.S.C. §§ 2101, et seq.; the Ohio Civil Rights Act, Chapter 4112 et seq.; and any other federal, state or local law governing the Parties’ employment relationship; (ii) any claims on account of, arising out of or in any way connected with Executive’s employment with the Company or leaving of that employment; (iii) any claims alleged or which could have been alleged in any charge or complaint against the Company; (iv) any claims relating to the conduct of any employee, officer, director, agent or other representative of the Company; (v) any claims of discrimination or harassment on any basis; (vi) any claims arising from any legal restrictions on an employer’s right to separate its employees; (vii) any claims for personal injury, compensatory or punitive damages or other forms of relief; and (viii) all other causes of action sounding in contract, tort or other common law basis, including: (a) the breach of any alleged oral or written contract; (b) negligent or intentional misrepresentations; (c) wrongful discharge; (d) just cause dismissal; (e) defamation; (f) interference with contract or business relationship; or (g) negligent or intentional infliction of emotional distress.

 

4.                                       The Parties acknowledge that it is their mutual and specific intent that the above waiver fully complies with the requirements of the Older Workers Benefit Protection Act (29 U.S.C. § 626) and any similar law governing release of claims.  Accordingly, Executive hereby acknowledges that:

 

(a)                                  He has carefully read and fully understands all of the provisions of this Waiver and Release and that he has entered into this Waiver and Release knowingly and voluntarily after extensive negotiations and having consulted with his counsel;

 

(b)                                 The Severance Benefits offered in exchange for Executive’s release of claims exceed in kind and scope that to which he would have otherwise been legally entitled;

 

(c)                                  Prior to signing this Waiver and Release, Executive had been advised in writing by this Waiver and Release as well as other writings to seek counsel from, and has in fact had an opportunity to consult with, an attorney of his choice concerning its terms and conditions; and

 

(d)                                 He has been offered at least twenty-one (21) days within which to review and consider this Waiver and Release.

 

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5.                                       The Parties agree that this Waiver and Release shall not become effective and enforceable until the date this Waiver and Release is signed by both Parties or seven (7) calendar days after its execution by Executive, whichever is later.  Executive may revoke this Waiver and Release for any reason by providing written notice of such intent to Cinergy within seven (7) days after he has signed this Waiver and Release, thereby forfeiting Executive’s right to receive any Severance Benefits provided hereunder and rendering this Waiver and Release null and void in its entirety.

 

6.                                       The Executive hereby affirms and acknowledges his continued obligations to comply with the post-termination covenants contained in his Employment Agreement, including but not limited to, the Confidential Information provisions of Section 9 of the Employment Agreement.  Executive acknowledges that the restrictions contained therein are valid and reasonable in every respect, are necessary to protect the Company’s legitimate business interests and hereby affirmatively waives any claim or defense to the contrary.

 

7.                                       Executive specifically agrees and understands that the existence and terms of this Waiver and Release are strictly CONFIDENTIAL and that such confidentiality is a material term of this Waiver and Release.  Accordingly, except as required by law or unless authorized to do so by Cinergy in writing, Executive agrees that he shall not communicate, display or otherwise reveal any of the contents of this Waiver and Release to anyone other than his spouse, primary legal counsel, tax advisor and financial advisor, provided, however, that they are first advised of the confidential nature of this Waiver and Release and Executive obtains their agreement to be bound by the same.  Cinergy agrees that Executive may respond to legitimate inquiries regarding his employment with Cinergy by stating that he voluntarily resigned to pursue other opportunities, that the Parties terminated their relationship on an amicable basis and that the Parties have entered into a confidential Waiver and Release that prohibits him from further discussing the specifics of his separation.  Nothing contained herein shall be construed to prevent Executive from discussing or otherwise advising subsequent employers of the existence of any obligations as set forth in his Employment Agreement.  Further, nothing contained herein shall be construed to limit or otherwise restrict the Company’s ability to disclose the terms and conditions of this Waiver and Release as may be required by business necessity.

 

8.                                       In the event that Executive breaches or threatens to breach any provision of this Waiver and Release, he agrees that Cinergy shall be entitled to seek any and all equitable and legal relief provided by law, specifically including immediate and permanent injunctive relief.  Executive hereby waives any claim that Cinergy has an adequate remedy at law.  In addition, and to the extent not prohibited by law, Executive agrees that Cinergy shall be entitled to an award of all reasonable costs and attorneys’ fees incurred by Cinergy in any successful effort to enforce the terms of this Waiver and Release.  Executive agrees that the foregoing relief shall not be construed to limit or otherwise restrict Cinergy’s ability to pursue any other remedy provided by law, including the recovery of any actual, compensatory or punitive damages.  Moreover, if Executive pursues any claims against the Company subject to the foregoing Waiver and Release, Executive agrees to

 

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immediately reimburse the Company for the value of all benefits received under this Waiver and Release to the fullest extent permitted by law.

 

9.                                       Cinergy hereby releases the Executive, his heirs, representatives, agents and assigns from any and all known claims, causes of action, grievances, damages and demands of any kind or nature based on acts or omissions committed by the Executive during and in the course of his employment with Cinergy provided such act or omission was committed in good faith and occurred within the scope of his normal duties and responsibilities.

 

10.                                 The Parties acknowledge that this Waiver and Release is entered into solely for the purpose of ending their employment relationship on an amicable basis and shall not be construed as an admission of liability or wrongdoing by either Party and that both Cinergy and Executive have expressly denied any such liability or wrongdoing.

 

11.                                 Each of the promises and obligations shall be binding upon and shall inure to the benefit of the heirs, executors, administrators, assigns and successors in interest of each of the Parties.

 

12.                                 The Parties agree that each and every paragraph, sentence, clause, term and provision of this Waiver and Release is severable and that, if any portion of this Waiver and Release should be deemed not enforceable for any reason, such portion shall be stricken and the remaining portion or portions thereof should continue to be enforced to the fullest extent permitted by applicable law.

 

13.                                 This Waiver and Release shall be governed by and interpreted in accordance with the laws of the State of Ohio without regard to any applicable state’s choice of law provisions.

 

14.                                 Executive represents and acknowledges that in signing this Waiver and Release he does not rely, and has not relied, upon any representation or statement made by Cinergy or by any of Cinergy’s employees, officers, agents, stockholders, directors or attorneys with regard to the subject matter, basis or effect of this Waiver and Release other than those specifically contained herein.

 

15.                                 This Waiver and Release represents the entire agreement between the Parties concerning the subject matter hereof, shall supercede any and all prior agreements which may otherwise exist between them concerning the subject matter hereof (specifically excluding, however, the post-termination obligations contained in any existing Employment Agreement or other legally-binding document), and shall not be altered, amended, modified or otherwise changed except by a writing executed by both Parties.

 

16.                                 Cinergy Corp. and the Executive agree that Cinergy Services, Inc. will be authorized to act for Cinergy Corp. with respect to all aspects pertaining to the administration and interpretation of this Waiver and Release.

 

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PLEASE READ CAREFULLY.  WITH RESPECT TO THE EXECUTIVE, THIS

 

WAIVER AND RELEASE INCLUDES A COMPLETE RELEASE OF ALL KNOWN

 

AND UNKNOWN CLAIMS.

 

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the Parties have themselves signed, or caused a duly authorized agent thereof to sign, this Waiver and Release on their behalf and thereby acknowledge their intent to be bound by its terms and conditions.

 

EXECUTIVE

CINERGY SERVICES, INC.

 

 

 

 

Signed:

 

 

By:

 

 

 

 

Printed:

 

 

Title:

 

 

 

 

Dated:

 

 

Dated:

 

 

 

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EX-10.D 4 a04-1370_1ex10dd.htm EX-10.D

Exhibit 10.d

 

AMENDMENT TO EMPLOYMENT AGREEMENT

 

The Employment Agreement between Cinergy Corp., its subsidiaries and/or its affiliates (“Cinergy”) and William J. Grealis (the “Executive”) dated as of October 11, 2002 (the “Agreement”) is hereby amended effective as of December 17, 2003.

AMENDMENTS

1.                                       Section 3b(ii) of the Agreement is hereby amended by adding the following new subsection (4) at the end thereof:

“(4)  Special Payment Election Without a Change in Control.  Notwithstanding the foregoing, the Executive may make an election, on a form provided by Cinergy, to receive a single lump sum cash payment in an amount equal to one-half of the Actuarial Equivalent (as defined above in Section 3b(ii)(3)(D)) of his supplemental retirement benefit payable no later than 30 days after the date of his termination of employment.  In order to be effective, the special payment election under this Section 3b(ii)(4) must be made either (A) at least one year prior to the termination of the Executive’s employment with Cinergy or (B) during 2003 and at least six months prior to the termination of the Executive’s employment with Cinergy.  The lump sum amount payable pursuant to this Section 3b(ii)(4) shall be calculated in accordance with the provisions of Section 3b(ii)(3)(D).  In the event an amount is paid to or on behalf of the Executive pursuant to this Section 3b(ii)(4), such payment shall discharge any liability under this Agreement to or on behalf of the Executive with respect to one-half of the Actuarial Equivalent (as defined above in Section 3b(ii)(3)(D)) of his supplemental retirement benefit.”

 

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the Executive and Cinergy have caused this Amendment to the Agreement to be executed as of the date first specified above.

 

 

 

CINERGY SERVICES, INC.

 

 

 

 

 

 

By:

/s/  James E. Rogers

 

 

 

 

James E. Rogers
Chairman and
Chief Executive Officer

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

EXECUTIVE

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

/s/  William J. Grealis

 

 

 

William J. Grealis

 

 

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EX-10.G 5 a04-1370_1ex10dg.htm EX-10.G

Exhibit 10.g

 

AMENDMENT TO EMPLOYMENT AGREEMENT

 

The Employment Agreement between Cinergy Corp., its subsidiaries and/or its affiliates (“Cinergy”) and Michael J. Cyrus (the “Executive”) dated as of September 12, 2002 (the “Agreement”) is hereby amended effective as of December 17, 2003.

 

AMENDMENTS

 

1.                                       Section 3b(ii) of the Agreement is hereby amended by adding the following new subsection (4) at the end thereof:

 

“(4)  Special Payment Election Without a Change in Control.  Notwithstanding the foregoing, the Executive may make an election, on a form provided by Cinergy, to receive a single lump sum cash payment in an amount equal to one-half of the Actuarial Equivalent (as defined above in Section 3b(ii)(3)(D)) of his supplemental retirement benefit payable no later than 30 days after the date of his termination of employment.  In order to be effective, the special payment election under this Section 3b(ii)(4) must be made either (A) at least one year prior to the termination of the Executive’s employment with Cinergy or (B) during 2003 and at least six months prior to the termination of the Executive’s employment with Cinergy.  The lump sum amount payable pursuant to this Section 3b(ii)(4) shall be calculated in accordance with the provisions of Section 3b(ii)(3)(D).  In the event an amount is paid to or on behalf of the Executive pursuant to this Section 3b(ii)(4), such payment shall discharge any liability under this Agreement to or on behalf of the Executive with respect to one-half of the Actuarial Equivalent (as defined above in Section 3b(ii)(3)(D)) of his supplemental retirement benefit.”

 

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the Executive and Cinergy have caused this Amendment to the Agreement to be executed as of the date first specified above.

 

 

 

CINERGY SERVICES, INC.

 

 

 

 

 

 

By:

/s/  James E. Rogers

 

 

 

 

James E. Rogers
Chairman and
Chief Executive Officer

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

EXECUTIVE

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

/s/  Michael J. Cyrus

 

 

 

Michael J. Cyrus

 

 

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EX-10.I 6 a04-1370_1ex10di.htm EX-10.I

Exhibit 10.i

 

AMENDMENT TO EMPLOYMENT AGREEMENT

 

The Employment Agreement between Cinergy Corp., its subsidiaries and/or its affiliates (“Cinergy”) and James L. Turner (the “Executive”) dated as of September 24, 2002 (the “Agreement”) is hereby amended effective as of December 17, 2003.

 

AMENDMENTS

 

1.             Section 3b(ii) of the Agreement is hereby amended by adding the following new subsection (4) at the end thereof:

 
“(4)  Special Payment Election Without a Change in Control.  Notwithstanding the foregoing, the Executive may make an election, on a form provided by Cinergy, to receive a single lump sum cash payment in an amount equal to one-half of the Actuarial Equivalent (as defined above in Section 3b(ii)(3)(D)) of his supplemental retirement benefit payable no later than 30 days after the date of his termination of employment.  In order to be effective, the special payment election under this Section 3b(ii)(4) must be made either (A) at least one year prior to the termination of the Executive’s employment with Cinergy or (B) during 2003 and at least six months prior to the termination of the Executive’s employment with Cinergy.  The lump sum amount payable pursuant to this Section 3b(ii)(4) shall be calculated in accordance with the provisions of Section 3b(ii)(3)(D).  In the event an amount is paid to or on behalf of the Executive pursuant to this Section 3b(ii)(4), such payment shall discharge any liability under this Agreement to or on behalf of the Executive with respect to one-half of the Actuarial Equivalent (as defined above in Section 3b(ii)(3)(D)) of his supplemental retirement benefit.”

 

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the Executive and Cinergy have caused this Amendment to the Agreement to be executed as of the date first specified above.

 

 

 

CINERGY SERVICES, INC.

 

 

 

 

 

 

By:

/s/  James E. Rogers

 

 

 

 

James E. Rogers
Chairman and
Chief Executive Officer

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

EXECUTIVE

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

/s/  James L. Turner

 

 

 

James L. Turner

 

 

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EX-10.K 7 a04-1370_1ex10dk.htm EX-10.K

Exhibit 10.k

 

AMENDMENT TO EMPLOYMENT AGREEMENT

 

The Employment Agreement between Cinergy Corp., its subsidiaries and/or its affiliates (“Cinergy”) and R. Foster Duncan (the “Executive”) dated as of January 1, 2002 (the “Agreement”) is hereby amended effective as of December 17, 2003.

 

AMENDMENTS

 

1.                                       Section 3b(ii) of the Agreement is hereby amended by adding the following new subsection (4) at the end thereof:

 

“(4)  Special Payment Election Without a Change in Control.  Notwithstanding the foregoing, the Executive may make an election, on a form provided by Cinergy, to receive a single lump sum cash payment in an amount equal to one-half of the Actuarial Equivalent (as defined above in Section 3b(ii)(3)(D)) of his supplemental retirement benefit payable no later than 30 days after the date of his termination of employment.  In order to be effective, the special payment election under this Section 3b(ii)(4) must be made either (A) at least one year prior to the termination of the Executive’s employment with Cinergy or (B) during 2003 and at least six months prior to the termination of the Executive’s employment with Cinergy.  The lump sum amount payable pursuant to this Section 3b(ii)(4) shall be calculated in accordance with the provisions of Section 3b(ii)(3)(D).  In the event an amount is paid to or on behalf of the Executive pursuant to this Section 3b(ii)(4), such payment shall discharge any liability under this Agreement to or on behalf of the Executive with respect to one-half of the Actuarial Equivalent (as defined above in Section 3b(ii)(3)(D)) of his supplemental retirement benefit.”

 

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the Executive and Cinergy have caused this Amendment to the Agreement to be executed as of the date first specified above.

 

 

 

CINERGY SERVICES, INC.

 

 

 

 

 

 

By:

/s/  James E. Rogers

 

 

 

 

James E. Rogers
Chairman and
Chief Executive Officer

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

EXECUTIVE

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

/s/  R. Foster Duncan

 

 

 

R. Foster Duncan

 

 

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EX-10.L 8 a04-1370_1ex10dl.htm EX-10.L

Exhibit 10.1

 

EMPLOYMENT AGREEMENT

 

This EMPLOYMENT AGREEMENT is made and entered into as of the 15th day of November, 2002 (the “Effective Date”), by and between Cinergy and Marc E. Manly (the “Executive”).  This Agreement replaces and supersedes any and all prior employment agreements between Cinergy and the Executive.  The capitalized words and terms used throughout this Agreement are defined in Section 11.

Recitals

 

A.            The Executive is currently serving as Executive Vice President and Chief Legal Officer of the Company, and Cinergy desires to secure the continued employment of the Executive in accordance with this Agreement.

 

B.            The Executive is willing to continue to remain in the employ of Cinergy on the terms and conditions set forth in this Agreement.

 

C.            The parties intend that this Agreement will replace and supersede any and all prior employment agreements between Cinergy (or any component company or business unit of Cinergy) and the Executive.

 

Agreement

 

In consideration of the mutual promises, covenants and agreements set forth below, the parties agree as follows:

 

1.             Employment and Term.

 

a.             Cinergy agrees to employ the Executive, and the Executive agrees to remain in the employ of Cinergy, in accordance with the terms and provisions of this Agreement, for the Employment Period set forth in Section 1b.  The parties agree that the Company will be responsible for carrying out all of the promises, covenants, and agreements of Cinergy set forth in this Agreement.

 

b.             The Employment Period of this Agreement will commence as of the Effective Date and continue until December 31, 2005; provided that, commencing on December 31, 2003, and on each subsequent December 31, the Employment Period will be extended for one (1) additional year unless either party gives the other party written notice not to extend this Agreement at least ninety (90) days before the extension would otherwise become effective.

 

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2.             Duties and Powers of Executive.

 

a.             Position.  The Executive will serve Cinergy as Executive Vice President and Chief Legal Officer of the Company and he will have such responsibilities, duties, and authority as are customary for someone of that position and such additional duties, consistent with his position, as may be assigned to him from time to time during the Employment Period by the Board of Directors or the Chief Executive Officer.  Executive shall devote substantially all of Executive’s business time, efforts and attention to the performance of Executive’s duties under this Agreement; provided, however, that this requirement shall not preclude Executive from reasonable participation in civic, charitable or professional activities or the management of Executive’s passive investments, so long as such activities do not materially interfere with the performance of Executive’s duties under this Agreement.

 

b.            Place of Performance.  In connection with the Executive’s employment, the Executive will be based at the principal executive offices of Cinergy, 221 East Fourth Street, Cincinnati, Ohio.  Except for required business travel to an extent substantially consistent with the present business travel obligations of Cinergy executives who have positions of authority comparable to that of the Executive, the Executive will not be required to relocate to a new principal place of business that is more than thirty (30) miles from such location.

 

3.             Compensation.  The Executive will receive the following compensation for his services under this Agreement.

 

a.             Salary.  The Executive’s Annual Base Salary, payable in pro rata installments not less often than semi-monthly, will be at the annual rate of not less than $475,008.  Any increase in the Annual Base Salary will not serve to limit or reduce any other obligation of Cinergy under this Agreement.  The Annual Base Salary will not be reduced except for across-the-board salary reductions similarly affecting all Cinergy management personnel.  If Annual Base Salary is increased or reduced during the Employment Period, then such adjusted salary will thereafter be the Annual Base Salary for all purposes under this Agreement.

 

b.             Retirement, Incentive, Welfare Benefit Plans and Other Benefits.

 

(i)            During the Employment Period, the Executive will be eligible, and Cinergy will take all necessary action to cause the Executive to become eligible, to participate in short-term and long-term incentive, stock option, restricted stock, performance unit, savings, retirement and welfare plans, practices, policies and programs applicable generally to other senior executives of Cinergy who are considered Tier II executives for compensation purposes, except with respect to any plan, practice, policy or program to which the Executive has waived his rights in writing. The Executive will be a participant in the Senior Executive Supplement portion of the Cinergy Corp. Supplemental Executive Retirement Plan (the “SERP”) and the Executive will receive a supplemental retirement benefit hereunder in an amount equal to the excess of the amount that he would be entitled to receive under the terms of the SERP if his “Total Pay Replacement Percentage” thereunder were equal to the product of five percent (5%) and the number of his years of “Senior Executive Service” not in excess of 15 (in whole years) as of the applicable date over the amount to which the Executive is actually entitled pursuant to the terms of the SERP as

 

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of the applicable date.  The supplemental retirement benefit described in the preceding sentence shall be payable in accordance with the terms of the SERP (including any applicable vesting schedule)  and shall be treated hereunder (including for purposes of Section 5a(iii)(3)) as if it were payable under the SERP.  Notwithstanding the foregoing, in no event shall the sum of the supplemental retirement benefit described in this Section 3b(i) and the Executive’s total aggregate annual benefit under the SERP exceed 60% of the Executive’s Highest Average Earnings.

 

(ii)           Supplemental Retirement Benefit.

 

(1)           Amount, Form, Timing and Method of Payment.  If the Executive retires from Cinergy after reaching age 62, the Executive will be entitled and fully vested in a supplemental retirement benefit in an amount which, when expressed as an annual amount payable during the life of the Executive, shall equal the excess of (1) 60% of the Executive’s Highest Average Earnings over (2) his total aggregate annual benefit, payable in the form of a single life annuity to the Executive, under Section 3b(i) hereof and under all Executive Retirement Plans.  Except as described below, the form (e.g., the 100% joint and survivor annuity form of benefit), timing, and method of payment of the supplemental retirement benefit payable under this Paragraph will be the same as those elected by the Executive under the Pension Plan, and the amount of such benefit shall be calculated after taking into account the actuarial factors contained in the Pension Plan, provided, however, that such benefit shall not be actuarially reduced for early commencement.

 

(2)           Death Benefit.  If the Executive dies after reaching age 62 but prior to his retirement from Cinergy, and if his Spouse, on the date of his death, is living on the date the first installment of the supplemental retirement benefit would be payable under this Paragraph, the Spouse will be entitled to receive the supplemental retirement benefit as a Spouse’s benefit.  The form, timing, and method of payment of any Spouse’s benefit under this Paragraph will be the same as those applicable to the Spouse under the Pension Plan, and the amount of such benefit shall be calculated after taking into account the actuarial factors contained in the Pension Plan, provided, however, that such benefit shall not be actuarially reduced for early commencement.

 

(3)           Special Payment Election Effective Upon a Change in Control.  Notwithstanding the foregoing, the Executive may make a special payment election with respect to his supplemental retirement benefit (if any) in accordance with the following provisions:

 

(A)          The Executive may elect, on a form provided by Cinergy, to receive a single lump sum cash payment in an amount equal to the Actuarial Equivalent (as defined below) of his supplemental retirement benefit (or the Actuarial Equivalent of the remaining payments to be made in connection with his supplemental retirement benefit in the event that payment of his supplemental retirement benefit has already commenced) payable no later than 30 days after the later of the occurrence of a Change in Control or the date of his termination of employment.

 

(B)           Such special payment election shall become operative only upon the occurrence of a Change in Control and only if the Executive’s termination of employment occurs either (1) prior to the occurrence of a Change in Control or (2) during the 24-month period commencing upon the

 
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occurrence of a Change in Control.  Once operative, such special payment election shall override any other payment election made by the Executive with respect to his supplemental retirement benefit.
 

(C)           In order to be effective, a special payment election (or withdrawal of that election) must be made either prior to the occurrence of a Potential Change in Control or, with the consent of Cinergy, during the 30-day period commencing upon the occurrence of a Potential Change in Control.  In the event that a Potential Change in Control occurs and subsequently ceases to exist, other than as a result of a Change in Control, such Potential Change in Control shall be disregarded for purposes of this Section.

 

(D)          In the event that the Executive makes a special payment election and pursuant to that election he becomes entitled to receive a single lump sum cash payment pursuant to this Section payable prior to the commencement of his supplemental retirement benefit in another form of payment, the Actuarial Equivalent of his supplemental retirement benefit shall be calculated based on the following assumptions:

 

(I)            The form of payment for each of the Executive’s retirement benefits under Section 3b(i) hereof and under the Executive Retirement Plans and the Executive’s supplemental retirement benefit shall be a single life annuity;

 

(II)           The commencement date for each of the Executive’s retirement benefits under Section 3b(i) hereof and under the Executive Retirement Plans and the Executive’s supplemental retirement benefit shall be the first day of the calendar month coincident with or next following his termination of employment;

 

(III)         The term “Actuarial Equivalent” has the meaning given to that term in the Pension Plan with respect to lump sum payments; and

 

(IV)         The amount of the Executive’s supplemental retirement benefit shall not be actuarially reduced for early commencement.

 

(E)           In the event that the Executive makes a special payment election and pursuant to that election he is entitled to receive a single lump sum cash payment payable after the commencement of his supplemental retirement benefit in another form of payment, his lump sum cash payment shall be equal to the Actuarial Equivalent (as that term is used in the Pension Plan with respect to lump sum payments) of the remaining payments to be made in connection with his supplemental retirement benefit.

 
(4)           Except as provided in Section 3b(ii)(3), the supplemental retirement benefit shall not be payable in the form of a single lump sum.
 

(iii)          Upon his retirement on or after having become fully vested in his benefit under the Pension Plan, the Executive will be eligible for comprehensive medical and dental benefits which are not materially different from the benefits provided to retirees under the Cinergy Corp. Welfare Benefits Program or any similar program or successor to that program. For purposes of

 

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determining the amount of the monthly premiums due from the Executive, the Executive will receive from Cinergy the maximum subsidy available as of the date of his retirement to an active Cinergy employee with the same medical benefits classification/eligibility as the Executive’s medical benefits classification/eligibility on the date of his retirement.

 

(iv)          The Executive will be a participant in the Annual Incentive Plan and will be paid pursuant to the terms and conditions of that plan, subject to the following: (1) The maximum annual bonus shall be not less than one hundred five percent (105%) of the Executive’s Annual Base Salary (the “Maximum Annual Bonus”); and (2) The target annual bonus shall be not less than sixty percent (60%) of the Executive’s Annual Base Salary (the “Target Annual Bonus”).

 

(v)           The Executive will be a participant in the Long-Term Incentive Plan (the “LTIP”), and the Executive’s annualized target award opportunity under the LTIP will be equal to no less than ninety percent (90%) of his Annual Base Salary (the “Target LTIP Bonus”).

 

(vi)          For purposes of Sections 3b(iv) and 3b(v), the Executive’s Annual Base Salary for any calendar year shall be increased by the amount of any Nonelective Employer Contributions made on behalf of the Executive during such calendar year under the 401(k) Excess Plan.

 

c.             Fringe Benefits and Perquisites.  During the Employment Period, the Executive will be entitled to the following additional fringe benefits in accordance with the terms and conditions of Cinergy’s policies and practices for such fringe benefits:

 

(i)            Cinergy will furnish to the Executive an automobile appropriate for the Executive’s level of position, or, at Cinergy’s discretion, a cash allowance of equivalent value.  Cinergy will also pay all of the related expenses for gasoline, insurance, maintenance, and repairs, or provide for such expenses within the cash allowance.  All benefits provided pursuant to this Section 3c(i) shall be provided in accordance with generally applicable procedures established from time to time by Cinergy in its sole discretion.

 

(ii)           Cinergy will pay the initiation fee and the annual dues, assessments, and other membership charges of the Executive for membership in a country club selected by the Executive.

 

(iii)          Cinergy will provide paid vacation for four (4) weeks per year (or such longer period for which Executive is otherwise eligible under Cinergy’s policy).

 

(iv)          Cinergy will furnish to the Executive annual financial planning and tax preparation services, provided, however, that the cost to Cinergy of such services shall not exceed $15,000 during any thirty-six (36) consecutive month period.  Notwithstanding the preceding sentence, in the event any  payment to the Executive pursuant to this Section 3c(iv) is subject to any  federal, state, or local income or employment taxes, Cinergy shall provide to the Executive an additional payment in an amount necessary such that after payment by the Executive of all such taxes (calculated after assuming that the Executive pays such taxes for the year in which the benefit occurs at the highest marginal tax rate applicable), including the taxes imposed on the additional payment, the Executive retains an amount equal to the benefit provided pursuant to this Section 3c(iv).

 

(v)           Cinergy will pay to relocate the Executive and his immediate family to the Cincinnati, Ohio area

 

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under the terms of the Relocation Program.

 

(v)           Cinergy will provide other fringe benefits in accordance with Cinergy plans, practices, programs, and policies in effect from time to time, commensurate with his position and at least comparable to those received by other Cinergy Tier II executives.

 

d.             Expenses.  Cinergy agrees to reimburse the Executive for all expenses, including those for travel and entertainment, properly incurred by him in the performance of his duties under this Agreement in accordance with the policies established from time to time by the Board of Directors.

 

e.             Relocation Benefits.  Following termination of the Executive’s employment for any reason (other than death), the Executive will be entitled to reimbursement from Cinergy for the reasonable costs of relocating from the Cincinnati, Ohio, area to a new primary residence in a manner that is consistent with the terms of the Relocation Program.  Notwithstanding the foregoing, if the Executive becomes employed by another employer and is eligible to receive relocation benefits under another employer-provided plan, any benefits provided to the Executive under this Section 3e will be secondary to those provided under the other employer-provided relocation plan.  The Executive must report to Cinergy any such relocation benefits that he actually receives under another employer-provided plan.

 

f.              Stock Options and Stock Appreciation Rights.  Notwithstanding Section 5d, upon the occurrence of a Change in Control, any stock options or stock appreciation rights then held by the Executive pursuant to the LTIP or Cinergy Corp. Stock Option Plan shall, to the extent not otherwise provided in the applicable Stock Related Documents, become immediately exercisable.  If the Executive terminates employment for any reason during the twenty-four (24) month period commencing upon the occurrence of a Change in Control, notwithstanding Section 5d, any stock options or stock appreciation rights then held by the Executive pursuant to the LTIP or Cinergy Corp. Stock Option Plan shall, to the extent not otherwise provided in the applicable Stock Related Documents, remain exercisable in accordance with their terms but in no event for a period less than the lesser of (i) three months following such termination of employment or (ii) the remaining term of such stock option or stock appreciation right (which remaining term shall be determined without regard to such termination of employment).

 

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4.             Termination of Employment.

 

a.             Death.  The Executive’s employment will terminate automatically upon the Executive’s death during the Employment Period.

 

b.             By Cinergy for Cause.  Cinergy may terminate the Executive’s employment during the Employment Period for Cause.  For purposes of this Employment Agreement, “Cause” means the following:

 

(i)            The willful and continued failure by the Executive to substantially perform the Executive’s duties with Cinergy (other than any such failure resulting from the Executive’s incapacity due to physical or mental illness) that, if curable, has not been cured within 30 days after the Board of Directors or the Chief Executive Officer has delivered to the Executive a written demand for substantial performance, which demand specifically identifies the manner in which the Executive has not substantially performed his duties.  This event will constitute Cause even if the Executive issues a Notice of Termination for Good Reason pursuant to Section 4d after the Board of Directors or Chief Executive Officer delivers a written demand for substantial performance.

 

(ii)           The breach by the Executive of the confidentiality provisions set forth in Section 9.

 

(iii)          The conviction of the Executive for the commission of a felony, including the entry of a guilty or nolo contendere plea, or any willful or grossly negligent action or inaction by the Executive that has a materially adverse effect on Cinergy.  For purposes of this definition of Cause, no act, or failure to act, on the Executive’s part will be deemed “willful” unless it is done, or omitted to be done, by the Executive in bad faith and without reasonable belief that the Executive’s act, or failure to act, was in the best interest of Cinergy.

 

(iv)          Notwithstanding the foregoing, Cinergy shall be deemed to have not terminated the employment of the Executive for Cause unless and until there shall have been delivered to the Executive a copy of a resolution duly adopted by the affirmative vote of not less than a majority of the Board then in office at a meeting of the Board called and held for such purpose (after reasonable notice to the Executive and an opportunity for the Executive, together with his counsel, to be heard by the Board), finding that, in the good faith opinion of the Board, the Executive had committed an act set forth above in this Section 4b and specifying the particulars thereof in detail.

 

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c.             By Cinergy Without Cause.  Cinergy may, upon at least 30 days advance written notice to the Executive, terminate the Executive’s employment during the Employment Period for a reason other than Cause, but the obligations placed upon Cinergy in Section 5 will apply.

 

d.             By the Executive for Good Reason.  The Executive may terminate his employment during the Employment Period for Good Reason.  For purposes of this Agreement, “Good Reason” means the following:

 

(i)            (1) A reduction in the Executive’s Annual Base Salary, except for across-the-board salary reductions similarly affecting all Cinergy management personnel, (2) a reduction in the amount of the Executive’s Maximum Annual Bonus under the Annual Incentive Plan, except for across-the-board Maximum Annual Bonus reductions similarly affecting all Cinergy management personnel, or (3) a reduction in any other benefit or payment described in Section 3 of this Agreement, except for changes to the employee benefits programs generally affecting Cinergy management personnel, provided that those changes, in the aggregate, will not result in a material adverse change with respect to the benefits to which the Executive was entitled as of the Effective Date.

 

(ii)           (1) The material reduction without his consent of the Executive’s title, authority, duties, or responsibilities from those in effect immediately prior to the reduction, (2) in the event the Executive is or becomes a member of the Board during the Employment Period, the failure by Cinergy without the consent of the Executive to nominate the Executive for re-election to the Board, or (3) a material adverse change in the Executive’s reporting responsibilities.

 

(iii)          Any breach by Cinergy of any other material provision of this Agreement (including but not limited to the place of performance as specified in Section 2b).

 

(iv)          The Executive’s disability due to physical or mental illness or injury that precludes the Executive from performing any job for which he is qualified and able to perform based upon his education, training or experience.

 

(v)           A failure by the Company to require any successor entity to the Company specifically to assume in writing all of the Company’s obligations to the Executive under this Agreement.

 

For purposes of determining whether Good Reason exists with respect to a Qualifying Termination occurring on or within 24 months following a Change in Control, any claim by the Executive that Good Reason exists shall be presumed to be correct unless the Company establishes to the Board by clear and convincing evidence that Good Reason does not exist.

 

e.             By the Executive Without Good Reason.  The Executive may terminate his employment without Good Reason upon prior written notice to the Company.

 

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f.              Notice of Termination.  Any termination of the Executive’s employment by Cinergy or by the Executive during the Employment Period (other than a termination due to the Executive’s death) will be communicated by a written Notice of Termination to the other party to this Agreement in accordance with Section 12b.  For purposes of this Agreement, a “Notice of Termination” means a written notice that specifies the particular provision of this Agreement relied upon and that sets forth in reasonable detail the facts and circumstances claimed to provide a basis for terminating the Executive’s employment under the specified provision.  The failure by the Executive or Cinergy to set forth in the Notice of Termination any fact or circumstance that contributes to a showing of Good Reason or Cause will not waive any right of the Executive or Cinergy under this Agreement or preclude the Executive or Cinergy from asserting that fact or circumstance in enforcing rights under this Agreement.

 

g.             Sale of Company Stock.  The Executive acknowledges and agrees that he shall not sell or otherwise dispose of any shares of Company stock acquired pursuant to the exercise of a stock option, other than shares sold in order to pay an option exercise price or the related tax withholding obligation, until 90 days after the Date of Termination.  Notwithstanding the foregoing, Cinergy, in its sole discretion, may waive the restrictions contained in the previous sentence.

 

5.             Obligations of Cinergy Upon Termination.

 

a.             Certain Terminations.

 

(i)            If a Qualifying Termination occurs during the Employment Period, Cinergy will pay to the Executive a lump sum amount, in cash, equal to the sum of the following Accrued Obligations:

 

(1)           the pro-rated portion of the Executive’s Annual Base Salary payable through the Date of Termination, to the extent not previously paid.

 

(2)           any amount payable to the Executive under the Annual Incentive Plan in respect of the most recently completed fiscal year, to the extent not theretofore paid.

 

(3)           an amount equal to the AIP Benefit for the fiscal year that includes the Date of Termination multiplied by a fraction, the numerator of which is the number of days from the beginning of that fiscal year to and including the Date of Termination and the denominator of which is three hundred and sixty-five (365).  The AIP Benefit component of the calculation will be equal to the annual bonus that would have been earned by the Executive pursuant to any annual bonus or incentive plan maintained by Cinergy in respect of the fiscal year in which occurs the Date of Termination, determined by projecting Cinergy’s performance and other applicable goals and objectives for the entire fiscal year based on Cinergy’s performance during the period of such fiscal year occurring prior to the Date of Termination, and based on such other assumptions and rates as Cinergy deems reasonable.

 

(4)           the Accrued Obligations described in this Section 5a(i) will be paid within thirty (30) days after the Date of Termination.  These Accrued Obligations are payable to the Executive regardless of whether a Change in Control has occurred.

 
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(ii)           In the event of a Qualifying Termination either prior to the occurrence of a Change in Control, or more than twenty-four (24) months following the occurrence of a Change in Control, Cinergy will pay the Accrued Obligations, and Cinergy will have the following additional obligations described in this Section 5a(ii); provided, however, that each of the benefits described below in this Section 5a(ii) shall only be provided to the Executive if, upon presentation to the Executive following a Qualifying Termination, the Executive timely executes and does not timely revoke the Waiver and Release.

 

(1)           Cinergy will pay to the Executive a lump sum amount, in cash, equal to three (3) times the sum of the Annual Base Salary and the Annual Bonus.  For this purpose, the Annual Base Salary will be at the rate in effect at the time Notice of Termination is given (without giving effect to any reduction in Annual Base Salary, if any, prior to the termination, other than across-the-board reductions), and shall include the amount of any Nonelective Employer Contributions made on behalf of the Executive under the 401(k) Excess Plan during the fiscal year in which the Executive’s Qualifying Termination occurs, and the Annual Bonus will be the higher of (A) the annual bonus earned by the Executive pursuant to any annual bonus or incentive plan maintained by Cinergy in respect of the year ending immediately prior to the fiscal year in which occurs the Date of Termination, and (B) the annual bonus that would have been earned by the Executive pursuant to any annual bonus or incentive plan maintained by Cinergy in respect of the fiscal year in which occurs the Date of Termination, calculated by projecting Cinergy’s performance and other applicable goals and objectives for the entire fiscal year based on Cinergy’s performance during the period of such fiscal year occurring prior to the Date of Termination, and based on such other assumptions and rates as Cinergy deems reasonable; provided, however that for purposes of this Section 5a(ii)(1)(B), the Annual Bonus shall not be less than the Target Annual Bonus, nor greater than the Maximum Annual Bonus for the year in which the Date of Termination occurs.  This lump sum will be paid within thirty (30) days after the expiration of the revocation period contained in the Waiver and Release.

 

(2)           Subject to Clauses (A), (B) and (C) below, Cinergy will provide, until the end of the Employment Period, medical and dental benefits to the Executive and/or the Executive’s dependents at least equal to those that would have been provided if the Executive’s employment had not been terminated (excluding benefits to which the Executive has waived his rights in writing).  The benefits described in the preceding sentence will be in accordance with the medical and welfare benefit plans, practices, programs, or policies of Cinergy (the “M&W Plans”) as then currently in effect and applicable generally to other Cinergy senior executives and their families.  In the event that any medical or dental benefits or payments provided pursuant to this Section 5a(ii)(2)(B) are subject to federal, state, or local income or employment taxes, Cinergy shall provide the Executive with an additional payment in the amount necessary such that after payment by the Executive of all such taxes (calculated after assuming that the Executive pays such taxes for the year in which the payment or benefit occurs at the highest marginal tax rate applicable), including the taxes imposed on the additional payment, the Executive retains an amount equal to the medical or dental benefits or payments provided pursuant to this Section 5a(ii)(2)(B).

 

(A)          If, as of the Executive’s Date of Termination, the Executive meets the eligibility requirements for Cinergy’s retiree medical and welfare benefit plans, the provision of those retiree medical and

 
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welfare benefit plans to the Executive will satisfy Cinergy’s obligation under this Section 5a(ii)(2).

 

(B)           If, as of the Executive’s Date of Termination, the provision to the Executive of the M&W Plan benefits described in this Section 5a(ii)(2) would either (1) violate the terms of the M&W Plans (or any related insurance policies) or (2) violate any of the Code’s nondiscrimination requirements applicable to the M&W Plans, then Cinergy, in its sole discretion, may elect to pay the Executive, in lieu of the M&W Plan benefits described under this Section 5a(ii)(2), a lump sum cash payment equal to the total monthly premiums (or in the case of a self funded plan, the cost of COBRA continuation coverage) that would have been paid by Cinergy for the Executive under the M&W Plans from the Date of Termination through the end of the Employment Period.  Nothing in this Clause will affect the Executive’s right to elect COBRA continuation coverage under a M&W Plan in accordance with applicable law, and Cinergy will make the payment described in this Clause whether or not the Executive elects COBRA continuation coverage, and whether or not the Executive receives health coverage from another employer.

 

(C)           If the Executive becomes employed by another employer and is eligible to receive medical or other welfare benefits under another employer-provided plan, any benefits provided to the Executive under the M&W Plans will be secondary to those provided under the other employer-provided plan during the Executive’s applicable period of eligibility.

 

(3)           Cinergy will pay the Executive a lump sum amount, in cash, equal to $15,000 in order to cover tax counseling services through an agency selected by the Executive.  In the event any payment to the Executive pursuant to this Section 5a(ii)(3) is subject to any federal, state, or local income or employment taxes, Cinergy shall provide to the Executive an additional payment in an amount necessary such that after payment by the Executive of all such taxes (calculated after assuming that the Executive pays such taxes for the year in which his Date of Termination occurs at the highest marginal tax rate applicable), including the taxes imposed on the additional payment, the Executive retains an amount equal to the payment provided pursuant to this Section 5a(ii)(3).  Such payment will be transferred to the Executive within thirty (30) days of the expiration of the revocation period contained in the Waiver and Release.

 

(iii)          In the event of a Qualifying Termination during the twenty-four (24) month period beginning upon the occurrence of a Change in Control, Cinergy will pay the Accrued Obligations listed in Sections 5a(i)(1) and (2), Cinergy will pay the Accrued Obligations listed in Section 5a(i)(3) (but only if such Qualifying Termination occurs after the calendar year in which occurs such Change in Control) and Cinergy will have the following additional obligations described in this Section 5a(iii); provided, however, that each of the benefits described below in this Section 5a(iii) shall only be provided to the Executive if, upon presentation to the Executive following a Qualifying Termination, the Executive timely executes and does not timely revoke the Waiver and Release.

 

(1)           Cinergy will pay to the Executive a lump sum severance payment, in cash, equal to three (3) times the higher of (x) the sum of the Executive’s current Annual Base Salary and Target Annual Bonus and (y) the sum of the Executive’s Annual Base Salary in effect immediately prior to the Change in Control and the Change in Control Bonus.  For purposes of the preceding sentence, the Executive’s Annual Base Salary on any given date shall include the amount of any

 
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Nonelective Employer Contributions made on behalf of the Executive under the 401(k) Excess Plan during the fiscal year in which such date occurs.  For purposes of this Agreement, the Change in Control Bonus shall mean the higher of (A) the annual bonus earned by the Executive pursuant to any annual bonus or incentive plan maintained by Cinergy in respect of the year ending immediately prior to the fiscal year in which occurs the Date of Termination or, if higher, immediately prior to the fiscal year in which occurs the Change in Control, and (B) the annual bonus that would have been earned by the Executive pursuant to any annual bonus or incentive plan maintained by Cinergy in respect of the year in which occurs the Date of Termination, calculated by projecting Cinergy’s performance and other applicable goals and objective for the entire fiscal year based on Cinergy’s performance during the period of such fiscal year occurring prior to the Date of Termination, and based on such other assumptions and rates as Cinergy deems reasonable, provided, however, that  for purposes of this Section 5a(iii)(1)(B), such Change in Control Bonus shall not be less than the Target Annual Bonus, nor greater than the Maximum Annual Bonus.  This lump sum will be paid within thirty (30) days of the expiration of the revocation period contained in the Waiver and Release.  Nothing in this Section 5a(iii)(1) shall preclude the Executive from receiving the amount, if any, to which he is entitled in accordance with the terms of the Annual Incentive Plan for the fiscal year that includes the Date of Termination.
 

(2)           Cinergy will pay to the Executive the lump sum present value of any benefits under the Executive Supplemental Life Program under the terms of the applicable plan or program as of the Date of Termination, calculated as if the Executive was fully vested as of the Date of Termination. The lump sum present value, assuming commencement at age 50 or the Executive’s age as of the Date of Termination if later, will be determined using the interest rate applicable to lump sum payments in the Cinergy Corp. Non-Union Employees’ Pension Plan or any successor to that plan for the plan year that includes the Date of Termination. To the extent no such interest rate is provided therein, the annual interest rate applicable under Section 417(e)(3) of the Code, or any successor provision thereto, for the second full calendar month preceding the first day of the calendar year that includes the Date of Termination will be used. This lump sum will be paid within thirty (30) days of the expiration of the revocation period contained in the Waiver and Release.

 

(3)           The Executive shall be fully vested in his accrued benefits as of the Date of Termination under the Executive Retirement Plans and the last three sentences of Section 3b(i) of this Agreement and, and his aggregate accrued benefits thereunder and under Section 3b(ii) of this Agreement will be calculated, and he will be treated for all purposes, as if he was credited with three (3) additional years of age and service as of the Date of Termination, provided, however, that to the extent a calculation is made regarding the actuarial equivalent amount of any alternate form of benefit, the Executive will not be credited with three additional years of age for purposes of such calculation.  However, Cinergy will not commence payment of such benefits prior to the date that the Executive has attained, or is treated (after taking into account the preceding sentence) as if he had attained, age 50.

 

(4)           For a thirty-six (36) month period after the Date of Termination, Cinergy will arrange to provide to the Executive and/or the Executive’s dependents life, disability, accident, and health insurance benefits substantially similar to those that the Executive and/or the Executive’s dependents are

 
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receiving immediately prior to the Notice of Termination at a substantially similar cost to the Executive (without giving effect to any reduction in those benefits subsequent to a Change in Control that constitutes Good Reason), except for any benefits that were waived by the Executive in writing.  If Cinergy arranges to provide the Executive and/or the Executive’s dependents with life, disability, accident, and health insurance benefits, those benefits will be reduced to the extent comparable benefits are actually received by or made available to the Executive and/or the Executive’s dependents during the thirty-six (36) month period following the Executive’s Date of Termination.  The Executive must report to Cinergy any such benefits that he or his dependents actually receives or that are made available to him or his dependents.  In lieu of the benefits described in the preceding sentences, Cinergy, in its sole discretion, may elect to pay to the Executive a lump sum cash payment equal to thirty-six (36) times the monthly premiums (or in the case of a self funded plan, the cost of COBRA continuation coverage) that would have been paid by Cinergy to provide those benefits to the Executive and/or the Executive’s dependents.  Nothing in this Section 5a(iii)(4) will affect the Executive’s right to elect COBRA continuation coverage in accordance with applicable law, and Cinergy will provide the benefits or make the payment described in this Clause whether or not the Executive elects COBRA continuation coverage, and whether or not the Executive receives health coverage from another employer.  In the event that any benefits or payments provided pursuant to this Section 5a(iii)(4) are subject to federal, state, or local income or employment taxes, Cinergy shall provide the Executive with an additional payment in the amount necessary such that after payment by the Executive of all such taxes (calculated after assuming that the Executive pays such taxes for the year in which the payment or benefit occurs at the highest marginal tax rate applicable), including the taxes imposed on the additional payment, the Executive retains an amount equal to the benefits or payments provided pursuant to this Section 5a(iii)(4).

 

(5)           In lieu of any and all other rights with respect to the automobile assigned by Cinergy to the Executive, Cinergy will provide the Executive with a lump sum payment in the amount of $50,000.  In the event any payment to the Executive pursuant to this Section 5a(iii)(5) is subject to any federal, state, or local income or employment taxes, Cinergy shall provide to the Executive an additional payment in an amount necessary such that after payment by the Executive of all such taxes (calculated after assuming that the Executive pays such taxes for the year in which his Date of Termination occurs at the highest marginal tax rate applicable), including the taxes imposed on the additional payment, the Executive retains an amount equal to the payment provided pursuant to this Section 5a(iii)(5).  Such payment will be transferred to the Executive within thirty (30) days of the expiration of the revocation period contained in the Waiver and Release.

 

(6)           Cinergy will pay the Executive a lump sum amount, in cash, equal to $15,000 in order to cover tax counseling services through an agency selected by the Executive.  In the event any payment to the Executive pursuant to this Section 5a(iii)(6) is subject to any federal, state, or local income or employment taxes, Cinergy shall provide to the Executive an additional payment in an amount necessary such that after payment by the Executive of all such taxes (calculated after assuming that the Executive pays such taxes for the year in which his Date of Termination occurs at the highest marginal tax rate applicable), including the taxes imposed on the additional payment, the Executive retains an amount equal to the payment provided pursuant to this Section 5a(iii)(6).  Such payment will be transferred to the Executive within thirty (30) days of the expiration of the

 
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revocation period contained in the Waiver and Release.
 

(7)           Cinergy will provide annual dues and assessments of the Executive for membership in a country club selected by the Executive until the end of the Employment Period.

 

(8)           Cinergy will provide outplacement services suitable to the Executive’s position until the end of the Employment Period or, if earlier, until the first acceptance by the Executive of an offer of employment.  At the Executive’s discretion, 15% of Annual Base Salary may be paid in lieu of outplacement services, which payment will be transferred to the Executive within thirty (30) days of the expiration of the revocation period contained in the Waiver and Release.

 

For purposes of this Section 5a(iii), the Executive will be deemed to have incurred a Qualifying Termination upon a Change in Control if the Executive’s employment is terminated prior to a Change in Control, without Cause at the direction of a Person who has entered into an agreement with Cinergy, the consummation of which will constitute a Change in Control, or if the Executive terminates his employment for Good Reason prior to a Change in Control if the circumstances or event that constitutes Good Reason occurs at the direction of such a Person.

 

b.             Termination by Cinergy for Cause or by the Executive Other Than for Good Reason.  Subject to the provisions of Section 7, and notwithstanding any other provisions of this Agreement, if the Executive’s employment is terminated for Cause during the Employment Period, or if the Executive terminates employment during the Employment Period other than a termination for Good Reason, Cinergy will have no further obligations to the Executive under this Agreement other than the obligation to pay to the Executive the Accrued Obligations, plus any other earned but unpaid compensation, in each case to the extent not previously paid.

 

c.             Certain Tax Consequences.

 

(i)            In the event that any benefits paid or payable to the Executive or for his benefit pursuant to the terms of this Agreement or any other plan or arrangement in connection with, or arising out of, his employment with Cinergy or a change in ownership or effective control of Cinergy or of a substantial portion of its assets (a “Payment” or “Payments”) would be subject to any Excise Tax, then the Executive will be entitled to receive an additional payment (a “Gross-Up Payment”) in an amount such that after payment by the Executive of all taxes (including any interest, penalties, additional tax, or similar items imposed with respect thereto and the Excise Tax), including any Excise Tax imposed upon the Gross-Up Payment, the Executive retains an amount of the Gross-Up Payment equal to the Excise Tax imposed upon or assessable against the Executive due to the Payments.

 

(ii)           Subject to the provisions of Section 5c, all determinations required to be made under this Section 5c, including whether and when a Gross-Up Payment is required and the amount of such Gross-Up Payment and the assumptions to be utilized in arriving at such determination, shall be made by the Accounting Firm, which shall provide detailed supporting calculations both to the Company and the Executive within fifteen (15) business days of the receipt of notice from the Executive that there has been a Payment, or such earlier time as is requested by the Company.  If the Accounting Firm determines that no Excise Tax is payable by the Executive, it shall, at the

 

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same time as it makes such determination, furnish the Executive with an opinion that he has substantial authority not to report any Excise Tax on his federal income tax return.  All fees and expenses of the Accounting Firm shall be borne solely by the Company.  Any Gross-Up Payment, as determined pursuant to this Section 5c, shall be paid by Cinergy to the Executive within five (5) days of the receipt of the Accounting Firm’s determination.  Any determination by the Accounting Firm shall be binding upon Cinergy and the Executive.  As a result of the uncertainty in the application of Section 4999 of the Code at the time of the initial determination by the Accounting Firm hereunder, it is possible that Gross-Up Payments which will not have been made by Cinergy should have been made (“Underpayment”), consistent with the calculations required to be made hereunder.  In the event of any Underpayment, the Accounting Firm shall determine the amount of the Underpayment that has occurred and any such Underpayment shall be promptly paid by Cinergy to or for the benefit of the Executive, and Cinergy shall indemnify and hold harmless the Executive for any such Underpayment, on an after-tax basis, including interest and penalties with respect thereto.  In the event that the Excise Tax is subsequently determined to be less than the amount taken into account hereunder at the time of termination of the Executive’s employment, the Executive shall repay to the Company, at the time that the amount of such reduction in Excise Tax is finally determined, the portion of the Gross-Up Payment attributable to such reduction (plus that portion of the Gross-Up Payment attributable to the Excise Tax and federal, state and local income and employment tax imposed on the Gross-Up Payment being repaid by the Executive to the extent that such repayment results in a reduction in Excise Tax and/or a federal, state or local income or employment tax deduction) plus interest on the amount of such repayment at the rate provided in Code Section 1274(b)(2)(B).

 

(iii)          The value of any non-cash benefits or any deferred payment or benefit paid or payable to the Executive will be determined in accordance with the principles of Code Sections 280G(d)(3) and (4).  For purposes of determining the amount of the Gross-Up Payment, the Executive will be deemed to pay federal income taxes at the highest marginal rate of federal income taxation in the calendar year in which the Gross-Up Payment is to be made and applicable state and local income taxes at the highest marginal rate of taxation in the state and locality of the Executive’s residence on the Date of Termination, net of the maximum reduction in federal income taxes that would be obtained from deduction of those state and local taxes.

 

(iv)          Notwithstanding anything contained in this Agreement to the contrary, in the event that, according to the Accounting Firm’s determination, an Excise Tax will be imposed on any Payment or Payments, Cinergy will pay to the applicable government taxing authorities as Excise Tax withholding, the amount of the Excise Tax that Cinergy has actually withheld from the Payment or Payments in accordance with law.

 

d.             Value Creation Plan and Stock Options.  Upon the Executive’s termination of employment for any reason, the Executive’s entitlement to restricted shares and performance shares under the Value Creation Plan and any stock options granted under the Cinergy Corp. Stock Option Plan, the LTIP or any other stock option plan will be determined under the terms of the appropriate plan and any applicable administrative guidelines and written agreements, provided, however, that following the occurrence of a Change in Control the terms of any such plan, administrative guideline or written agreement shall not be amended in a manner that would adversely affect the

 

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Executive with respect to awards granted to the Executive prior to the Change in Control.

 

e.             Benefit Plans in General.  Upon the Executive’s termination of employment for any reason, the Executive’s entitlements, if any, under all benefit plans of Cinergy, including but not limited to the Deferred Compensation Plan, 401(k) Excess Plan, Cinergy Corp. Supplemental Executive Retirement Plan, Cinergy Corp. Excess Profit Sharing Plan and any vacation policy, shall be determined under the terms of such plans, policies and any applicable administrative guidelines and written agreements, provided, however, that following the occurrence of a Change in Control the terms of such plans and policies and any applicable administrative guidelines and written agreements shall not be amended in a manner that would adversely affect the Executive with respect to benefits earned by the Executive prior to the Change in Control.

 

f.              Other Fees and Expenses.  Cinergy will also reimburse the Executive for all reasonable legal fees and expenses incurred by the Executive (i) in successfully disputing a Qualifying Termination that entitles the Executive to Severance Benefits or (ii) in reasonably disputing whether or not Cinergy has terminated his employment for Cause.  Payment will be made within five (5) business days after delivery of the Executive’s written request for payment accompanied by such evidence of fees and expenses incurred as Cinergy reasonably may require.

 

6.             Non-Exclusivity of Rights.  Nothing in this Agreement will prevent or limit the Executive’s continuing or future participation in any benefit, plan, program, policy, or practice provided by Cinergy and for which the Executive may qualify, except with respect to any benefit to which the Executive has waived his rights in writing or any plan, program, policy, or practice that expressly excludes the Executive from participation.  In addition, nothing in this Agreement will limit or otherwise affect the rights the Executive may have under any other contract or agreement with Cinergy entered into after the Effective Date.  Amounts that are vested benefits or that the Executive is otherwise entitled to receive under any benefit, plan, program, policy, or practice of, or any contract or agreement entered into after the Effective Date with Cinergy, at or subsequent to the Date of Termination, will be payable in accordance with that benefit, plan, program, policy or practice, or that contract or agreement, except as explicitly modified by this Agreement.  Notwithstanding the above, in the event that the Executive receives Severance Benefits under Section 5a(ii) or 5a(iii), (a) the Executive shall not be entitled to any benefits under any severance plan of Cinergy, including but not limited to the Severance Opportunity Plan for Non-Union Employees of Cinergy Corp. and (b) if the Executive receives such Severance Benefits as a result of his termination for Good Reason, as that term is defined in Section 4d(iv), Cinergy’s obligations under Sections 5a(ii) and 5a(iii) shall be reduced by the amount of any benefits payable to the Executive under any short-term or long-term disability plan of Cinergy, the amount of which shall be determined by Cinergy in good faith.

 

7.             Full Settlement:  Mitigation.  Except as otherwise provided herein, Cinergy’s obligation to make the payments provided for in this Agreement and otherwise to perform its obligations under this Agreement will not be affected by any set-off, counterclaim, recoupment, defense, or other claim, right, or action that Cinergy may have against the Executive or others.  In no event will the Executive be obligated to seek other employment or take any other action by way of mitigation of the amounts (including amounts for damages for breach) payable to the Executive under any of the provisions of this Agreement and, except as provided in Sections 3e, 5a(ii)(2)

 

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and 5a(iii)(4), those amounts will not be reduced simply because the Executive obtains other employment.  If the Executive finally prevails on the substantial claims brought with respect to any dispute between Cinergy and the Executive as to the interpretation, terms, validity, or enforceability of (including any dispute about the amount of any payment pursuant to) this Agreement, Cinergy agrees to pay all reasonable legal fees and expenses that the Executive may reasonably incur as a result of that dispute.

 

8.             Arbitration.  The parties agree that any dispute, claim, or controversy based on common law, equity, or any federal, state, or local statute, ordinance, or regulation (other than workers’ compensation claims) arising out of or relating in any way to the Executive’s employment, the terms, benefits, and conditions of employment, or concerning this Agreement or its termination and any resulting termination of employment, including whether such a dispute is arbitrable, shall be settled by arbitration.  This agreement to arbitrate includes but is not limited to all claims for any form of illegal discrimination, improper or unfair treatment or dismissal, and all tort claims.  The Executive will still have a right to file a discrimination charge with a federal or state agency, but the final resolution of any discrimination claim will be submitted to arbitration instead of a court or jury.  The arbitration proceeding will be conducted under the employment dispute resolution arbitration rules of the American Arbitration Association in effect at the time a demand for arbitration under the rules is made, and such proceeding will be adjudicated in the state of Ohio in accordance with the laws of the state of Ohio.  The decision of the arbitrator(s), including determination of the amount of any damages suffered, will be exclusive, final, and binding on all parties, their heirs, executors, administrators, successors and assigns.  Each party will bear its own expenses in the arbitration for arbitrators’ fees and attorneys’ fees, for its witnesses, and for other expenses of presenting its case.  Other arbitration costs, including administrative fees and fees for records or transcripts, will be borne equally by the parties.  Notwithstanding anything in this Section to the contrary, if the Executive prevails with respect to any dispute submitted to arbitration under this Section, Cinergy will reimburse or pay all legal fees and expenses that the Executive may reasonably incur as a result of the dispute as required by Section 7.

 

9.             Confidential Information.  The Executive will hold in a fiduciary capacity for the benefit of Cinergy, as well as all of Cinergy’s successors and assigns, all secret, confidential information, knowledge, or data relating to Cinergy, and its affiliated businesses, that the Executive obtains during the Executive’s employment by Cinergy or any of its affiliated companies, and that has not been or subsequently becomes public knowledge (other than by acts by the Executive or representatives of the Executive in violation of this Agreement).  During the Employment Period and thereafter, the Executive will not, without Cinergy’s prior written consent or as may otherwise be required by law or legal process, communicate or divulge any such information, knowledge, or data to anyone other than Cinergy and those designated by it.  The Executive understands that during the Employment Period, Cinergy may be required from time to time to make public disclosure of the terms or existence of the Executive’s employment relationship to comply with various laws and legal requirements.  In addition to all other remedies available to Cinergy in law and equity, this Agreement is subject to termination by Cinergy for Cause under Section 4b in the event the Executive violates any provision of this Section.

 

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10.          Successors.

 

a.             This Agreement is personal to the Executive and, without Cinergy’s prior written consent, cannot be assigned by the Executive other than Executive’s designation of a beneficiary of any amounts payable hereunder after the Executive’s death.  This Agreement will inure to the benefit of and be enforceable by the Executive’s legal representatives.

 

b.             This Agreement will inure to the benefit of and be binding upon Cinergy and its successors and assigns.

 

c.             Cinergy will require any successor (whether direct or indirect, by purchase, merger, consolidation or otherwise) to all or substantially all of the business and/or assets of Cinergy to assume expressly and agree to perform this Agreement in the same manner and to the same extent that Cinergy would be required to perform it if no succession had taken place.  Cinergy’s failure to obtain such an assumption and agreement prior to the effective date of a succession will be a breach of this Agreement and will entitle the Executive to compensation from Cinergy in the same amount and on the same terms as if the Executive were to terminate his employment for Good Reason upon a Change in Control, except that, for purposes of implementing the foregoing, the date on which any such succession becomes effective will be deemed the Date of Termination.

 

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11.          Definitions.  As used in this Agreement, the following terms, when capitalized, will have the following meanings:

 

a.             Accounting Firm.  “Accounting Firm” means Cinergy’s independent auditors.

 

b.             Accrued Obligations.  “Accrued Obligations” means the accrued obligations described in Section 5a(i).

 

c.             Agreement.  “Agreement” means this Employment Agreement between Cinergy and the Executive.

 

d.             AIP Benefit.  “AIP Benefit” means the Annual Incentive Plan benefit described in Section 5a(i).

 

e.             Annual Base Salary.  “Annual Base Salary” means, except where otherwise specified herein, the annual base salary payable to the Executive pursuant to Section 3a.

 

f.              Annual Bonus.  “Annual Bonus” has the meaning set forth in Section 5a(ii)(1).

 

g.             Annual Incentive Plan.  “Annual Incentive Plan” means the Cinergy Corp. Annual Incentive Plan or any similar plan or successor to the Annual Incentive Plan.

 

h.             Board of Directors or Board.  “Board of Directors” or “Board” means the board of directors of the Company.

 

i.              COBRA.  “COBRA” means the Consolidated Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1985, as amended.

 

j.              Cause.  “Cause” has the meaning set forth in Section 4b.

 

k.             Change in Control.  A “Change in Control” will be deemed to have occurred if any of the following events occur, after the Effective Date:

 

(i)            Any Person is or becomes the beneficial owner (as defined in Rule 13d-3 under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (“1934 Act”)), directly or indirectly, of securities of the Company (not including in the securities beneficially owned by such Person any securities acquired directly from the Company or its affiliates) representing more than twenty percent (20%) of the combined voting power of the Company’s then outstanding securities, excluding any Person who becomes such a beneficial owner in connection with a transaction described in Clause (1) of Paragraph (ii) below; or

 

(ii)           There is consummated a merger or consolidation of the Company or any direct or indirect subsidiary of the Company with any other corporation, partnership or other entity, other than (1) a merger or consolidation that would result in the voting securities of the Company outstanding immediately prior to that merger or consolidation continuing to represent (either by remaining outstanding or by being converted into voting securities of the surviving entity or its parent) at least sixty percent (60%) of the combined voting power of the securities of the Company or the surviving entity or its parent outstanding immediately after the merger or consolidation, or (2) a

 

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merger or consolidation effected to implement a recapitalization of the Company (or similar transaction) in which no Person is or becomes the beneficial owner, directly or indirectly, of securities of the Company (not including in the securities beneficially owned by such a Person any securities acquired directly from the Company or its affiliates other than in connection with the acquisition by the Company or its affiliates of a business) representing twenty percent (20%) or more of the combined voting power of the Company’s then outstanding securities; or

 

(iii)          During any period of two (2) consecutive years, individuals who at the beginning of that period constitute the Board of Directors and any new director (other than a director whose initial assumption of office is in connection with an actual or threatened election contest, including but not limited to a consent solicitation, relating to the election of directors of the Company) whose appointment or election by the Company’s stockholders was approved or recommended by a vote of at least two-thirds (2/3) of the directors then still in office who either were directors at the beginning of that period or whose appointment, election, or nomination for election was previously so approved or recommended cease for any reason to constitute a majority of the Board of Directors; or

 

(iv)          The stockholders of the Company approve a plan of complete liquidation or dissolution of the Company or there is consummated a sale or disposition by the Company of all or substantially all of the Company’s assets, other than a sale or disposition by the Company of all or substantially all of the Company’s assets to an entity, at least sixty percent (60%) of the combined voting power of the voting securities of which are owned by stockholders of the Company in substantially the same proportions as their ownership of the Company immediately prior to the sale.

 

l.              Change in Control Bonus.  “Change in Control Bonus” has the meaning set forth in Section 5a(iii)(1).

 

m.            Chief Executive Officer.  “Chief Executive Officer” means the individual who, at any relevant time, is then serving as the chief executive officer of the Company.

 

n.             Cinergy.  “Cinergy” means the Company, its subsidiaries, and/or its affiliates, and any successors to the foregoing.

 

o.             Code.  “Code” means the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended, and interpretive rules and regulations.

 

p.             Company.  “Company” means Cinergy Corp.

 

q.             Date of Termination.  “Date of Termination” means:

 

(i)            if the Executive’s employment is terminated by Cinergy for Cause, or by the Executive with Good Reason, the date of receipt of the Notice of Termination or any later date specified in the notice, as the case may be;

 

(ii)           if the Executive’s employment is terminated by the Executive without Good Reason, thirty (30) days after the date on which the Executive notifies Cinergy of the termination;

 

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(iii)          if the Executive’s employment is terminated by Cinergy other than for Cause, thirty (30) days after the date on which Cinergy notifies the Executive of the termination; and

 

(iv)          if the Executive’s employment is terminated by reason of death, the date of death.

 

r.              Deferred Compensation Plan.  “Deferred Compensation Plan” means the Cinergy Corp. Non-Qualified Deferred Incentive Compensation Plan or any similar plan or successor to that plan.

 

s.             Effective Date.  “Effective Date” has the meaning given to that term in the first paragraph of this Agreement.

 

t.              Employment Period.  “Employment Period” has the meaning set forth in Section 1b.

 

u.             Excise Tax.  “Excise Tax” means any excise tax imposed by Code section 4999, together with any interest, penalties, additional tax or similar items that are incurred by the Executive with respect to the excise tax imposed by Code section 4999.

 

v.             Executive.  “Executive” has the meaning given to that term in the first paragraph of this Agreement.

 

w.            Executive Retirement Plans.  “Executive Retirement Plans” means the Pension Plan, the Cinergy Corp. Supplemental Executive Retirement Plan and the Cinergy Corp. Excess Pension Plan or any similar plans or successors to those plans.

 

x.             Executive Supplemental Life Program.  “Executive Supplemental Life Program” means the Cinergy Corp. Executive Supplemental Life Insurance Program or any similar program or successor to the Executive Supplemental Life Program.

 

y.             401(k) Excess Plan.  “401(k) Excess Plan” means the Cinergy Corp. 401(k) Excess Plan, or any similar plan or successor to that plan.

 

z.             Good Reason.  “Good Reason” has the meaning set forth in Section 4d.

 

aa.           Gross-Up Payment.  “Gross-Up Payment” has the meaning set forth in Section 5c.

 

bb.          Highest Average Earnings.  “Highest Average Earnings” shall have the meaning given to such term in the Cinergy Corp. Supplemental Executive Retirement Plan.  For purposes of clarity, the parties hereto acknowledge and agree that the Executive’s Highest Average Earnings for any year shall not include any benefits received by the Executive pursuant to Section 5 of this Agreement, other than pursuant to Section 5a(i) of this Agreement.

 

cc.           Long-Term Incentive Plan or LTIP.  “Long-Term Incentive Plan” or “LTIP” means the long-term incentive plan implemented under the Cinergy Corp. 1996 Long-Term Incentive Compensation Plan or any successor to that plan.

 

dd.          M&W Plans.  “M&W Plans” has the meaning set forth in Section 5a(ii)(2).

 

ee.           Maximum Annual Bonus.  “Maximum Annual Bonus” has the meaning set forth in Section 3b.

 

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ff.            Nonelective Employer Contribution. “Nonelective Employer Contribution” has the meaning set forth in the 401(k) Excess Plan.

 

gg.          Notice of Termination.  “Notice of Termination” has the meaning set forth in Section 4f.

 

hh.          Payment or Payments.  “Payment” or “Payments” has the meaning set forth in Section 5c.

 

ii.             Pension Plan.  “Pension Plan” means the Cinergy Corp. Non-Union Employees’ Pension Plan or any successor to that plan.

 

jj.             Person.  “Person” has the meaning set forth in paragraph 3(a)(9) of the 1934 Act, as modified and used in subsections 13(d) and 14(d) of the 1934 Act; however, a Person will not include the following:

 

(i)            Cinergy or any of its subsidiaries or affiliates;

 

(ii)           A trustee or other fiduciary holding securities under an employee benefit plan of Cinergy or its subsidiaries or affiliates;

 

(iii)          An underwriter temporarily holding securities pursuant to an offering of those securities; or

 

(iv)          A corporation owned, directly or indirectly, by the stockholders of the Company in substantially the same proportions as their ownership of stock of the Company.

 

kk.           Potential Change in Control.  A “Potential Change in Control” means any period during which any of the following circumstances exist:

 

(i)            The Company enters into an agreement, the consummation of which would result in the occurrence of a Change in Control; provided that a Potential Change in Control shall cease to exist upon the expiration or other termination of such agreement; or

 

(ii)           The Company or any Person publicly announces an intention to take or to consider taking actions which, if consummated, would constitute a Change in Control; provided that a Potential Change in Control shall cease to exist when the Company or such Person publicly announces that it no longer has such an intention; or

 

(iii)          Any Person who is or becomes the beneficial owner (as defined in Rule 13d-3 under the 1934 Act), directly or indirectly, of securities of the Company representing ten percent (10%) or more of the combined voting power of the Company’s then outstanding securities, increases such Person’s beneficial ownership of such securities by an amount equal to five percent (5%) or more of the combined voting power of the Company’s then outstanding securities; or

 

(iv)          The Board of Directors adopts a resolution to the effect that, for purposes hereof, a Potential Change in Control has occurred.

 

Notwithstanding anything herein to the contrary, a Potential Change in Control shall cease to exist not later than the date that (i) the Board of Directors

 

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determines that the Potential Change in Control no longer exists, or (ii) a Change in Control occurs.

 

ll.             Qualifying Termination.  “Qualifying Termination” means (i) the termination by Cinergy of the Executive’s employment with Cinergy during the Employment Period other than a termination for Cause or (ii) the termination by the Executive of the Executive’s employment with Cinergy during the Employment Period for Good Reason.

 

mm.         Relocation Program.  “Relocation Program” means the Cinergy Corp. Relocation Program, or any similar program or successor to that program, as in effect on the date of the Executive’s termination of employment.

 

nn.          Severance Benefits.  “Severance Benefits” means the payments and benefits payable to the Executive pursuant to Section 5.

 

oo.          Spouse.  “Spouse” means the Executive’s lawfully married spouse.  For this purpose, common law marriage or a similar arrangement will not be recognized unless otherwise required by federal law.

 

pp.          Stock Related Documents.  “Stock Related Documents” means the LTIP, the Cinergy Corp. Stock Option Plan, and the Value Creation Plan and any applicable administrative guidelines and written agreements relating to those plans.

 

qq.          Target Annual Bonus.  “Target Annual Bonus” has the meaning set forth in Section 3b.

 

rr.            Target LTIP Bonus.  “Target LTIP Bonus” has the meaning set forth in Section 3b.

 

ss.           Value Creation Plan.  “Value Creation Plan” means the Value Creation Plan or any similar plan, or successor plan of the LTIP.

 

tt.            Waiver and Release.  “Waiver and Release” means a waiver and release, in substantially the form attached to this Agreement as Exhibit A.

 

12.          Miscellaneous.

 

a.             This Agreement will be governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of the State of Ohio, without reference to principles of conflict of laws.  The captions of this Agreement are not part of its provisions and will have no force or effect.  This Agreement may not be amended, modified, repealed, waived, extended, or discharged except by an agreement in writing signed by the party against whom enforcement of the amendment, modification, repeal, waiver, extension, or discharge is sought.  Only the Chief Executive Officer or his designee will have authority on behalf of Cinergy to agree to amend, modify, repeal, waive, extend, or discharge any provision of this Agreement.

 

b.             All notices and other communications under this Agreement will be in writing and will be given by hand delivery to the other party or by Federal Express or other comparable national or international overnight delivery service, addressed in the name of such party at the following

 

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address, whichever is applicable:

 

If to the Executive:

Cinergy Corp.

221 East Fourth Street

Cincinnati, Ohio 45201-0960

 

If to Cinergy:

Cinergy Corp.

221 East Fourth Street

Cincinnati, Ohio 45201-0960

Attn: Chief Executive Officer

 

or to such other address as either party has furnished to the other in writing in accordance with this Agreement.  All notices and communications will be effective when actually received by the addressee.

 

c.             The invalidity or unenforceability of any provision of this Agreement will not affect the validity or enforceability of any other provision of this Agreement.

 

d.             Cinergy may withhold from any amounts payable under this Agreement such federal, state, or local taxes as are required to be withheld pursuant to any applicable law or regulation.

 

e.             The Executive’s or Cinergy’s failure to insist upon strict compliance with any provision of this Agreement or the failure to assert any right the Executive or Cinergy may have under this Agreement, including without limitation the right of the Executive to terminate employment for Good Reason pursuant to Section 4d or the right of Cinergy to terminate the Executive’s employment for Cause pursuant to Section 4b, will not be deemed to be a waiver of that provision or right or any other provision or right of this Agreement.

 

f.              References in this Agreement to the masculine include the feminine unless the context clearly indicates otherwise.

 

g.             This instrument contains the entire agreement of the Executive and Cinergy with respect to the subject matter of this Agreement; and subject to any agreements evidencing stock option or restricted stock grants described in Section 3b and the Stock Related Documents, all promises, representations, understandings, arrangements, and prior agreements are merged into this Agreement and accordingly superseded.

 

h.             This Agreement may be executed in counterparts, each of which will be deemed to be an original but all of which together will constitute one and the same instrument.

 

i.              Cinergy and the Executive agree that Cinergy Services, Inc. will be authorized to act for Cinergy with respect to all aspects pertaining to the administration and interpretation of this Agreement.

 

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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the Executive and the Company have caused this Agreement to be executed as of the Effective Date.

 

 

 

CINERGY SERVICES, INC.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

By:

 

/s/ James E. Rogers

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

James E. Rogers

 

 

 

Chairman and
Chief Executive Officer

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

EXECUTIVE

 

 

 

 

 

 

/s/ Marc E. Manly

 

 

 

 

 

 

Marc E. Manly

 

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EXHIBIT A

 

*****

 

WAIVER AND RELEASE AGREEMENT

 

THIS WAIVER AND RELEASE AGREEMENT (this “Waiver and Release”) is entered into by and between Marc E. Manly (the “Executive”) and Cinergy Corp.  (“Cinergy”) (collectively, the “Parties”).

 

WHEREAS, the Parties have entered into the Employment Agreement dated                                    (the “Employment Agreement”);

 

WHEREAS, the Executive’s employment has been terminated in accordance with the terms of the Employment Agreement;

 

WHEREAS, the Executive is required to sign this Waiver and Release in order to receive the payment of certain compensation under the Employment Agreement following termination of employment; and

 

WHEREAS, Cinergy has agreed to sign this Waiver and Release.

 

NOW, THEREFORE, in consideration of the promises and agreements contained herein and other good and valuable consideration, the sufficiency and receipt of which are hereby acknowledged, and intending to be legally bound, the Parties agree as follows:

 

1.             This Waiver and Release is effective on the date hereof and will continue in effect as provided herein.

 

2.             In consideration of the payments to be made and the benefits to be received by the Executive pursuant to Section 5 of the Employment Agreement (the “Severance Benefits”), which the Executive acknowledges are in addition to payment and benefits to which the Executive would be entitled to but for the Employment Agreement, the Executive, on behalf of himself, his heirs, representatives, agents and assigns hereby COVENANTS NOT TO SUE OR OTHERWISE VOLUNTARILY PARTICIPATE IN ANY LAWSUIT AGAINST, FULLY RELEASES, INDEMNIFIES, HOLDS HARMLESS, and OTHERWISE FOREVER DISCHARGES (i) Cinergy, (ii) its subsidiary or affiliated entities, (iii) all of their present or former directors, officers, employees, shareholders, and agents as well as (iv) all predecessors, successors and assigns thereof (the persons listed in clauses (i) through (iv) hereof shall be referred to collectively as the “Company”) from any and all actions, charges, claims, demands, damages or liabilities of any kind or character whatsoever, known or unknown, which Executive now has or may have had through the effective date of this Waiver and Release.  Executive acknowledges and understands that he is not hereby prevented from filing a charge of discrimination with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission or any state-equivalent agency or otherwise participate in any proceedings before such Commissions.  Executive also acknowledges and understands that in the event he does file such a charge, he shall be entitled to no remuneration,

 

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damages, back pay, front pay, or compensation whatsoever from the Company as a result of such charge.

 

3.             Without limiting the generality of the foregoing release, it shall include:  (i) all claims or potential claims arising under any federal, state or local laws relating to the Parties’ employment relationship, including any claims Executive may have under the Civil Rights Acts of 1866 and 1964, as amended, 42 U.S.C. §§ 1981 and 2000(e) et seq.; the Civil Rights Act of 1991; the Age Discrimination in Employment Act, as amended, 29 U.S.C. §§ 621 et seq.; the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990, as amended, 42 U.S.C. §§ 12,101 et seq.; the Fair Labor Standards Act, 29 U.S.C. §§ 201 et seq.; the Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification Act, 29 U.S.C. §§ 2101, et seq.; the Ohio Civil Rights Act, Chapter 4112 et seq.; and any other federal, state or local law governing the Parties’ employment relationship; (ii) any claims on account of, arising out of or in any way connected with Executive’s employment with the Company or leaving of that employment; (iii) any claims alleged or which could have been alleged in any charge or complaint against the Company; (iv) any claims relating to the conduct of any employee, officer, director, agent or other representative of the Company; (v) any claims of discrimination or harassment on any basis; (vi) any claims arising from any legal restrictions on an employer’s right to separate its employees; (vii) any claims for personal injury, compensatory or punitive damages or other forms of relief; and (viii) all other causes of action sounding in contract, tort or other common law basis, including: (a) the breach of any alleged oral or written contract; (b) negligent or intentional misrepresentations; (c) wrongful discharge; (d) just cause dismissal; (e) defamation; (f) interference with contract or business relationship; or (g) negligent or intentional infliction of emotional distress.

 

4.             The Parties acknowledge that it is their mutual and specific intent that the above waiver fully complies with the requirements of the Older Workers Benefit Protection Act (29 U.S.C. § 626) and any similar law governing release of claims.  Accordingly, Executive hereby acknowledges that:

 

(a)           He has carefully read and fully understands all of the provisions of this Waiver and Release and that he has entered into this Waiver and Release knowingly and voluntarily after extensive negotiations and having consulted with his counsel;

 

(b)           The Severance Benefits offered in exchange for Executive’s release of claims exceed in kind and scope that to which he would have otherwise been legally entitled;

 

(c)           Prior to signing this Waiver and Release, Executive had been advised in writing by this Waiver and Release as well as other writings to seek counsel from, and has in fact had an opportunity to consult with, an attorney of his choice concerning its terms and conditions; and

 

(d)           He has been offered at least twenty-one (21) days within which to review and consider this Waiver and Release.

 

5.             The Parties agree that this Waiver and Release shall not become effective and enforceable until the date this Waiver and Release is signed by both Parties or seven (7) calendar days after its execution by Executive, whichever is later.  Executive may revoke this Waiver and Release for

 

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any reason by providing written notice of such intent to Cinergy within seven (7) days after he has signed this Waiver and Release, thereby forfeiting Executive’s right to receive any Severance Benefits provided hereunder and rendering this Waiver and Release null and void in its entirety.

 

6.             The Executive hereby affirms and acknowledges his continued obligations to comply with the post-termination covenants contained in his Employment Agreement, including but not limited to, the Confidential Information provisions of Section 9 of the Employment Agreement.  Executive acknowledges that the restrictions contained therein are valid and reasonable in every respect, are necessary to protect the Company’s legitimate business interests and hereby affirmatively waives any claim or defense to the contrary.

 

7.             Executive specifically agrees and understands that the existence and terms of this Waiver and Release are strictly CONFIDENTIAL and that such confidentiality is a material term of this Waiver and Release.  Accordingly, except as required by law or unless authorized to do so by Cinergy in writing, Executive agrees that he shall not communicate, display or otherwise reveal any of the contents of this Waiver and Release to anyone other than his spouse, primary legal counsel or financial advisor, provided, however, that they are first advised of the confidential nature of this Waiver and Release and Executive obtains their agreement to be bound by the same.  Cinergy agrees that Executive may respond to legitimate inquiries regarding his employment with Cinergy by stating that he voluntarily resigned to pursue other opportunities, that the Parties terminated their relationship on an amicable basis and that the Parties have entered into a confidential Waiver and Release that prohibits him from further discussing the specifics of his separation.  Nothing contained herein shall be construed to prevent Executive from discussing or otherwise advising subsequent employers of the existence of any obligations as set forth in his Employment Agreement.  Further, nothing contained herein shall be construed to limit or otherwise restrict the Company’s ability to disclose the terms and conditions of this Waiver and Release as may be required by business necessity.

 

8.             In the event that Executive breaches or threatens to breach any provision of this Waiver and Release, he agrees that Cinergy shall be entitled to seek any and all equitable and legal relief provided by law, specifically including immediate and permanent injunctive relief.  Executive hereby waives any claim that Cinergy has an adequate remedy at law.  In addition, and to the extent not prohibited by law, Executive agrees that Cinergy shall be entitled to an award of all costs and attorneys’ fees incurred by Cinergy in any successful effort to enforce the terms of this Waiver and Release.  Executive agrees that the foregoing relief shall not be construed to limit or otherwise restrict Cinergy’s ability to pursue any other remedy provided by law, including the recovery of any actual, compensatory or punitive damages.  Moreover, if Executive pursues any claims against the Company subject to the foregoing Waiver and Release, Executive agrees to immediately reimburse the Company for the value of all benefits received under this Waiver and Release to the fullest extent permitted by law.

 

9.             Cinergy hereby releases the Executive, his heirs, representatives, agents and assigns from any and all known claims, causes of action, grievances, damages and demands of any kind or nature based on acts or omissions committed by the Executive during and in the course of his employment with Cinergy provided such act or omission was committed in good faith and occurred within the scope of his normal duties and responsibilities.

 

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10.           The Parties acknowledge that this Waiver and Release is entered into solely for the purpose of ending their employment relationship on an amicable basis and shall not be construed as an admission of liability or wrongdoing by either Party and that both Cinergy and Executive have expressly denied any such liability or wrongdoing.

 

11.           Each of the promises and obligations shall be binding upon and shall inure to the benefit of the heirs, executors, administrators, assigns and successors in interest of each of the Parties.

 

12.           The Parties agree that each and every paragraph, sentence, clause, term and provision of this Waiver and Release is severable and that, if any portion of this Waiver and Release should be deemed not enforceable for any reason, such portion shall be stricken and the remaining portion or portions thereof should continue to be enforced to the fullest extent permitted by applicable law.

 

13.           This Waiver and Release shall be governed by and interpreted in accordance with the laws of the State of Ohio without regard to any applicable state’s choice of law provisions.

 

14.           Executive represents and acknowledges that in signing this Waiver and Release he does not rely, and has not relied, upon any representation or statement made by Cinergy or by any of Cinergy’s employees, officers, agents, stockholders, directors or attorneys with regard to the subject matter, basis or effect of this Waiver and Release other than those specifically contained herein.

 

15.           This Waiver and Release represents the entire agreement between the Parties concerning the subject matter hereof, shall supercede any and all prior agreements which may otherwise exist between them concerning the subject matter hereof (specifically excluding, however, the post-termination obligations contained in any existing Employment Agreement or other legally-binding document), and shall not be altered, amended, modified or otherwise changed except by a writing executed by both Parties.

 

16.           Cinergy Corp. and the Executive agree that Cinergy Services, Inc. will be authorized to act for Cinergy Corp. with respect to all aspects pertaining to the administration and interpretation of this Waiver and Release.

 

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PLEASE READ CAREFULLY.  WITH RESPECT TO THE EXECUTIVE, THIS

 

WAIVER AND RELEASE INCLUDES A COMPLETE RELEASE OF ALL KNOWN

 

AND UNKNOWN CLAIMS.

 

 

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the Parties have themselves signed, or caused a duly authorized agent thereof to sign, this Waiver and Release on their behalf and thereby acknowledge their intent to be bound by its terms and conditions.

 

EXECUTIVE

CINERGY SERVICES, INC.

 

 

 

 

Signed:

 

 

By:

 

 

 

 

Printed: Marc E. Manly

Title:

 

 

 

 

Dated:

 

 

Dated:

 

 

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EX-10.X 9 a04-1370_1ex10dx.htm EX-10.X

Exhibit 10.x

 

Adopted by the Cinergy Corp.
Benefits Committee on October 10, 2003

 

AMENDMENT TO THE
CINERGY CORP. SUPPLEMENTAL EXECUTIVE RETIREMENT PLAN

 

The Cinergy Corp. Supplemental Executive Retirement Plan, as amended and restated effective as of January 1, 1999, as amended from time to time (the “Plan”), is hereby amended effective as of January 1, 2003.

 

(1)                                 Explanation of Amendment

 

The Plan is amended to clarify the relationship between the Plan, the Cinergy Corp. Non-Union Employees’ Pension Plan and the Cinergy Corp. Excess Pension Plan in light of the Retirement Choice program and to ensure that benefits under the Plan are not payable in the form of a single sum (other than under the “small benefits” and “change in control” provisions).  The Plan is also amended to make certain non-substantive changes.

 

(2)                                 Amendment

 

(a)                                  The first paragraph of Section 3.3 of the Plan is hereby amended by deleting the phrase “under Cinergy’s Pension Plan and Cinergy’s Excess Pension Plan,” where it appears therein and substituting therefor the phrase “under Cinergy’s Pension Plan and Cinergy’s Excess Pension Plan based in each case on the formula for a participant who is not a Cash Balance Participant (as defined under Cinergy’s Pension Plan),”

 

(b)                                 Section 3.3 of the Plan is hereby amended by deleting the word “and” from the end of paragraph (a) thereof, by re-lettering paragraph (b) thereof as paragraph (c) and by adding a new paragraph (b) to provide as follows:

 

“(b)                           for a Participant who is classified as a “Cash Balance Participant” under Cinergy’s Pension Plan, 100 percent of the annual amount of pension that is payable to the Participant as a straight-life annuity for the Participant commencing as of the Participant’s age (not less than Age 62) on the date of the commencement of benefits on the Participant’s behalf under Cinergy’s Pension Plan, where such pension is the Actuarial Equivalent (calculated on the basis of the conversion factors used in Cinergy’s Pension Plan to convert a cash balance account to an annuity) of the aggregate account balance that the Participant would have had under the Cinergy Corp. Non-Union Employees’ 401(k) Plan and the Cinergy Corp. Excess Profit Sharing Plan (the “DC Plans”) based on the following assumptions (collectively, the “DC Plan Assumptions”):  (i) Cinergy is deemed to have contributed, during the period over which the Participant

 

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was entitled to receive profit sharing contributions to his account under the DC Plans, profit sharing contributions at the “target level,” (ii) Interest Credits (as defined under Cinergy’s Pension Plan) are deemed to have been credited to the Participant’s accounts under the DC Plans, in lieu of any other earnings, at the time, in the manner and as if each such account had been a Cash Balance Account (as defined under Cinergy’s Pension Plan) and (iii) no other amounts are credited to the Participant’s accounts under the DC Plans; and”

 

(c)                                  Section 4.3 of the Plan is hereby amended by deleting the word “and” from the end of paragraph (c) thereof, by re-lettering paragraph (d) thereof as paragraph (e) and by adding a new paragraph (d) to provide as follows:

 

“(d)                           for a Participant who is classified as a “Cash Balance Participant” under Cinergy’s Pension Plan, 100 percent of the annual amount of pension that is payable to the Participant as a straight-life annuity for the Participant commencing as of the Participant’s age (not less than Age 62) on the date of the commencement of benefits on the Participant’s behalf under Cinergy’s Pension Plan, where such pension is the Actuarial Equivalent (calculated on the basis of the conversion factors used in Cinergy’s Pension Plan to convert a cash balance account to an annuity) of the aggregate account balance that the Participant would have had under the DC Plans based on the DC Plan Assumptions; and”

 

(d)                                 The second sentence of Section 4.4(b) of the Plan is hereby amended to provide as follows:

 

“If the Employee elects under Cinergy’s Pension Plan to have the benefit begin before Age 62, the amount of the Employee’s Nonforfeitable annual pension under Section 4.3 will be multiplied by the appropriate early payment factor, if any, that is applicable (to a participant in Cinergy’s Pension Plan who is not classified as a “Cash Balance Participant” under Cinergy’s Pension Plan) under Section 4.4 of Cinergy’s Pension Plan (General Method of Computing Annual Pension for Retirement at Early Retirement Date).”

 

(e)                                  The first paragraph of Section 5.3(a) of the Plan is hereby amended by deleting the phrase “under Cinergy’s Pension Plan and Cinergy’s Excess Pension Plan,” where it appears therein and substituting therefor the phrase “under Cinergy’s Pension Plan and Cinergy’s Excess Pension Plan based in each case on the formula for a participant who is not a Cash Balance Participant (as defined under Cinergy’s Pension Plan),”

 

(f)                                    Section 5.3(a) of the Plan is hereby amended by deleting the word “and” from the end of paragraph (1) thereof, by re-numbering paragraph (2) thereof as paragraph (3) and by adding a new paragraph (2) to provide as follows:

 

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“(2)                            for a Participant who is classified as a “Cash Balance Participant” under Cinergy’s Pension Plan, 100 percent of the annual amount of pension that is payable to the Participant as a straight-life annuity for the Participant commencing as of the Participant’s Age 62, where such pension is the Actuarial Equivalent (calculated on the basis of the conversion factors used in Cinergy’s Pension Plan to convert a cash balance account to an annuity) of the aggregate account balance that the Participant would have had under the DC Plans based on the DC Plan Assumptions; and”

 

(g)                                 Section 5.3(b) of the Plan is hereby amended by deleting the phrase “on any date on or after his 50th birthday and before he reaches Age 62” where it appears therein and substituting therefor the phrase “on a date before he reaches Age 62”.

 

(h)                                 Section 5.4(a) of the Plan is amended by deleting the word “and” from the end of paragraph (3), re-numbering paragraph (4) as paragraph (5) and by adding a new paragraph (4) to provide as follows:

 

“(4)                            for a Participant who is classified as a “Cash Balance Participant” under Cinergy’s Pension Plan, 100 percent of the annual amount of pension that is payable to the Participant as a straight-life annuity for the Participant commencing as of the Participant’s Age 62, where such pension is the Actuarial Equivalent (calculated on the basis of the conversion factors used in Cinergy’s Pension Plan to convert a cash balance account to an annuity) of the aggregate account balance that the Participant would have had under the DC Plans based on the DC Plan Assumptions; and”

 

(i)                                     The first sentence of Section 5.4(b) of the Plan is amended to provide as follows:

 

“A disabled Participant may elect under Cinergy’s Pension Plan to begin receiving his pension on a date before he reaches Age 62.”

 

(j)                                     The first sentence of Section 6.1 of the Plan is hereby amended by deleting the phrase “terminated before the Participant reached age 50,” where it appears therein and substituting therefor the phrase “had terminated prior to the date of his death,”

 

(k)                                  Section 6.1(a) of the Plan is hereby amended in its entirety to read as follows:

 

“(a)                            If, at the date of his death, the Participant was either an Eligible Active Participant or an Eligible Former Participant who had reached age 50, the Spouse’s Benefit will be equal to the annual amount of pension that would have been payable to the Spouse under the provisions of Cinergy’s Pension Plan and Cinergy’s Excess Pension Plan based in each case on the

 

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formula for a participant who is not a Cash Balance Participant (as defined under Cinergy’s Pension Plan), as in effect on the date of the Participant’s death, if the Participant’s years of “participation” as defined under Cinergy’s Pension Plan were equal to the Participant’s years of Participation under this Plan, reduced by:

 

(1)                                  100 percent of the annual death benefit actually payable to the Participant’s Spouse under Cinergy’s Pension Plan and Cinergy’s Excess Pension Plan (or would have been payable to the Participant’s Spouse if the Participant’s Spouse were the Participant’s Beneficiary under Cinergy’s Pension Plan and Cinergy’s Excess Pension Plan), as in effect on the date of the Participant’s death;

 

(2)                                  for a Participant who is classified as a “Cash Balance Participant” under Cinergy’s Pension Plan, 100 percent of the annual amount of pension that is payable to the Participant’s Spouse as a straight-life annuity for the Spouse commencing as of the date of the Participant’s death, where such pension is the Actuarial Equivalent (calculated on the basis of the conversion factors used in Cinergy’s Pension Plan to convert a cash balance account to an annuity) of the aggregate account balance that the Participant would have had under the DC Plans based on the DC Plan Assumptions; and

 

(3)                                  50 percent of the Participant’s Reduced Primary Social Security Benefit, calculated as of the date of the Participant’s death.”

 

(l)                                     Section 6.1(c) of the Plan is hereby amended in its entirety to read as follows:

 

“(c)                            If, at the date of his death, the Participant was either an Eligible Active Participant or an Eligible Former Participant who, in either case, had not reached age 50, the annual amount of the Spouse’s Benefit under Subsection (a) will be calculated in the manner prescribed by Subsection 6.1(c) of Cinergy’s Pension Plan (Determination of Spouse’s Benefit), with the reductions prescribed in Subsection (a)(1)-(3) (calculated as if the Participant had survived until age 50 and died at such time) and the early payment factor prescribed by Subsection 6.1(c) of Cinergy’s Pension Plan (Determination of Spouse’s Benefit).”

 

(m)                               The first sentence of Section 6.2 of the Plan is hereby amended by deleting the phrase “terminated before the Participant reached age 50, and whose pension had not yet begun” where it appears therein and substituting therefor the phrase “had terminated prior to the date of his death, and whose pension under the Plan had not yet begun.”

 

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(n)                                 Section 6.2(a)(3) and 6.2(a)(4) of the Plan are hereby amended in their entirety to read as follows:

 

“(3)                            100 percent of the annual death benefit actually payable to the Participant’s Spouse under Cinergy’s Pension Plan and Cinergy’s Excess Pension Plan (or would have been payable to the Participant’s Spouse if the Participant’s Spouse were the Participant’s Beneficiary under Cinergy’s Pension Plan and Cinergy’s Excess Pension Plan), as in effect on the date of the Participant’s death;

 

(4)                                  for a Participant who is classified as a “Cash Balance Participant” under Cinergy’s Pension Plan, 100 percent of the annual amount of pension that is payable to the Participant’s Spouse as a straight-life annuity for the Spouse commencing as of the date of the Participant’s death, where such pension is the Actuarial Equivalent (calculated on the basis of the conversion factors used in Cinergy’s Pension Plan to convert a cash balance account to an annuity) of the aggregate account balance that the Participant would have had under the DC Plans based on the DC Plan Assumptions; and

 

(5)                                  50 percent of the Participant’s Reduced Primary Social Security Benefit, calculated as of the date of the Participant’s death.”

 

(o)                                 Section 6.2(c) of the Plan is hereby amended in its entirety to read as follows:

 

“(c)                            If, at the date of his death, the Participant was either an Eligible Active Participant or an Eligible Former Participant who, in either case, had not reached age 50, the annual amount of the Spouse’s Benefit under Subsection (a) will be calculated in the manner prescribed by Subsection 6.1(c) of Cinergy’s Pension Plan (Determination of Spouse’s Benefit), with the reductions prescribed in Subsection (a)(3)-(5) (calculated as if the Participant had survived until age 50 and died at such time) and the early payment factor prescribed by Subsection 6.1(c) of Cinergy’s Pension Plan (Determination of Spouse’s Benefit).”

 

(p)                                 Article 7 of the Plan is hereby amended by adding the following at the end thereof:

 

“Notwithstanding the foregoing, the following shall apply:

 

(a)                                  Except as otherwise provided in Sections 8.3 and 8.6, no amount shall be payable under the Plan in the form of a single lump sum cash payment.

 

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(b)                                 In the event that a Participant who is classified as a “Cash Balance Participant” under Cinergy’s Pension Plan elects to receive his benefits thereunder in the form of a single lump sum cash payment, such Participant’s benefits under the Plan shall be payable in the applicable normal form of pension specified in Section 7.1 of Cinergy’s Pension Plan.”

 

(q)                                 Sections 8.6(e)(I) and 8.6(e)(II) of the Plan are hereby amended in their entirety to read as follows:

 

“(I)                              The form of payment for each of the Selected Participant’s retirement benefits under the Plan, Cinergy’s Pension Plan, Cinergy’s Excess Pension Plan and the aggregate account balance that the Selected Participant would have had under the DC Plans based on the DC Plan Assumptions shall be a single life annuity;

 

(II)                                The commencement date for each of the Selected Participant’s retirement benefits under the Plan, Cinergy’s Pension Plan, Cinergy’s Excess Pension Plan and the DC Plans shall be the first day of the calendar month coincident with or next following the later of his Severance from Service Date or his 50th birthday; and”

 

(r)                                    The last sentence of Article 11 of the Plan is hereby deleted in its entirety.

 

 

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, Cinergy Corp. has caused this Amendment to be executed and approved by its duly authorized officer effective as of the date set forth herein.

 

 

By:

/s/ Timothy J. Verhagen

 

 

 

 

 

 

Timothy J. Verhagen

 

 

Vice President of Human Resources

 

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EX-10.Y 10 a04-1370_1ex10dy.htm EX-10.Y

Exhibit 10.y

 

AMENDMENT TO THE
CINERGY CORP. SUPPLEMENTAL EXECUTIVE RETIREMENT PLAN

 

 

The Cinergy Corp. Supplemental Executive Retirement Plan, as amended and restated effective as of January 1, 1999 and as further amended from time to time (the “Plan”), is hereby amended effective as of December 15, 2003.

 

(1)           Explanation of Amendment

 

The Plan is amended to provide designated participants with the opportunity to elect to receive one-half of their Plan benefits in a single lump sum under certain circumstances.  The Plan is further amended by revising its definition of “Highest Average Earnings” to provide that the Compensation Committee of the Board of Directors may from time to time designate specific amounts that shall be included in a specified Participant’s Highest Average Earnings.

 

(2)           Amendment

 

(a)                                  Section 1.23 of the Plan is hereby amended by adding the following at the end thereof:

 

“The Compensation Committee of the Board of Directors from time to time, in its sole discretion, may designate other amounts that shall be taken into account when calculating the Highest Average Earnings for one or more Participant’s specified by the Compensation Committee of the Board of Directors.”

 

(b)                                 Section 8.6 of the Plan is hereby amended by adding the following new subsection (i) at the end thereof:

 

“(i)                               Special Payment Election Without a Change in Control. Notwithstanding the foregoing, each Participant who is designated as a “Designated Participant” by the Committee (a “Designated Participant”) may make an election, on a form provided by the Committee, to receive a single lump sum cash payment in an amount equal to one-half of the Actuarial Equivalent (as defined above in Section 8.6(e)) of his benefits under the Plan payable no later than 30 days after his Severance from Service Date.   In order to be effective, the special payment election under this Section 8.6(i) must be made either (A) at least one year prior to the Participant’s Severance from Service Date or (B) during the 2003 Plan Year and at least six months prior to the Participant’s Severance from Service Date.  The lump sum amount payable pursuant to this Section 8.6(i) shall be calculated in accordance with the provisions of Section 8.6(e).  In the event an amount is paid to or on behalf of a Designated Participant pursuant to this Section 8.6(i), such payment shall discharge any liability under the Plan to or on behalf of the Designated Participant with respect to one-half of the Actuarial Equivalent (as defined above in Section 8.6(e)) of his benefits under the Plan.”

 

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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, Cinergy Corp. has caused this Amendment to be executed and approved by its duly authorized officer as of the date set forth above.

 

 

 

By:

/s/ Timothy J. Verhagen

 

 

 

 

 

 

Timothy J. Verhagen

 

 

Vice President of Human Resources

 

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EX-10.M 11 a04-1370_1ex10dm.htm EX-10.M

Exhibit 10.m

 

AMENDMENT TO EMPLOYMENT AGREEMENT

 

The Employment Agreement between Cinergy Corp., its subsidiaries and/or its affiliates (“Cinergy”) and Marc E. Manly (the “Executive”) dated as of November 15, 2002 (the “Agreement”) is hereby amended effective as of December 17, 2003.

 

AMENDMENTS

 

1.             Section 3b(ii)(4) of the Agreement is hereby amended and restated to read, in its entirety, as follows:

 

“Except as provided in Sections 3b(ii)(3) and 3b(ii)(5), the supplemental retirement benefit shall not be payable in the form of a single lump sum.”

 

2.             Section 3b(ii) of the Agreement is hereby amended by adding the following new subsection (5) at the end thereof:

 
“(5)  Special Payment Election Without a Change in Control.  Notwithstanding the foregoing, the Executive may make an election, on a form provided by Cinergy, to receive a single lump sum cash payment in an amount equal to one-half of the Actuarial Equivalent (as defined above in Section 3b(ii)(3)(D)) of his supplemental retirement benefit payable no later than 30 days after the date of his termination of employment.  In order to be effective, the special payment election under this Section 3b(ii)(5) must be made either (A) at least one year prior to the termination of the Executive’s employment with Cinergy or (B) during 2003 and at least six months prior to the termination of the Executive’s employment with Cinergy.  The lump sum amount payable pursuant to this Section 3b(ii)(5) shall be calculated in accordance with the provisions of Section 3b(ii)(3)(D).  In the event an amount is paid to or on behalf of the Executive pursuant to this Section 3b(ii)(5), such payment shall discharge any liability under this Agreement to or on behalf of the Executive with respect to one-half of the Actuarial Equivalent (as defined above in Section 3b(ii)(3)(D)) of his supplemental retirement benefit.”

 

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the Executive and Cinergy have caused this Amendment to the Agreement to be executed as of the date first specified above.

 

 

CINERGY SERVICES, INC.

 

 

 

 

By:

/s/  James E. Rogers

 

 

 

James E. Rogers

 

 

Chairman and

 

 

Chief Executive Officer

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

EXECUTIVE

 

 

 

 

/s/ Marc E. Manly

 

 

Marc E. Manly

 


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EX-10.MM 12 a04-1370_1ex10dmm.htm EX-10.MM

Exhibit 10.mm

 

CINERGY CORP. EXECUTIVE LIFE INSURANCE PLAN

 

ARTICLE I

NATURE AND PURPOSE OF PLAN

 

1.1                                 Type of Plan.  The name of this Plan is the Cinergy Corp. Executive Life Insurance Plan, effective January 1, 2004.  The Plan is maintained by the Company as an insured welfare plan for a select group of the Employer’s management or highly-compensated employees.

 

1.2                                 Purpose of Plan.  The purpose of the Plan is to provide executives with a portable and flexible insurance benefit.

 

ARTICLE II

DEFINITIONS AND RULES OF CONSTRUCTION

 

2.1                                 Definitions.  As used in the Plan, the following words and phrases, when capitalized, have the following meanings except when used in a context that plainly requires a different meaning:

 

(a)                                  “Base Salary” means the annual base rate of cash compensation payable by the Employer to a Participant.

 

(b)                                 “Board of Directors” means the duly constituted board of directors of the Company on the applicable date.

 

(c)                                  “Code” means the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended from time to time, and interpretive rules and regulations thereunder.

 

(d)                                 “Committee” means the Benefits Committee of the Company.

 

(e)                                  “Company” means Cinergy Corp., a Delaware corporation, and any corporation that shall succeed to its business and adopt the Plan.

 

(f)                                    “Eligible Employee” means a management or highly compensated Employee who is selected by the Committee to participate in this Plan.

 

(g)                                 “Employee” means any person employed by the Employer as a common law employee, including officers of the Company or a Related Employer.

 

(h)           “Employer” means the Company and any Related Employer.

 

(i)                                     “ERISA” means the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974, as amended from time to time, and interpretative rules and regulations thereunder.

 

(j)                                     “Insurance Policy” means one or more life insurance contracts issued by the Insurer on the life of a Participant.

 

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(k)                                  “Insurer” means the insurance company or companies selected by the Company to which a Participant shall apply for insurance on the Participant’s life.

 

(l)                                     “Participant” means an Eligible Employee, or an Employee who is a former Eligible Employee, who has purchased an Insurance Policy pursuant to Section 4.1.

 

(m)                               “Plan” means this instrument, as amended from time to time, and the insured welfare benefit plan so established.

 

(n)                                 “Plan Year” means each calendar year commencing on or after January 1, 2004.

 

(o)                                 “Related Employer” means any affiliate of the Company that employs an Eligible Employee.

 

(p)                                 “Target Annual Bonus” means the annual target cash incentive compensation payable pursuant to the Cinergy Corp. Annual Incentive Plan or any other annual incentive compensation plan of the Company or an affiliate in which an Eligible Employee participates.

 

(q)                                 “Termination of Employment” means, with respect to a Participant, the cessation of the relationship of Employer and Employee between the Participant and the Employer for any reason.  A Participant shall not be treated as having incurred a Termination of Employment until the employment relationship between the Participant and all Related Employers has terminated.

 

2.2                                 Rules of Construction.  The following rules of construction shall govern in interpreting the Plan.  The provisions of this Plan shall be construed and governed in all respects under and by the internal laws of the State of Ohio, to the extent not preempted by federal law.  Words used in the masculine gender shall be construed to include the feminine gender, where appropriate, and vice versa.  Words used in the singular shall be construed to include the plural, where appropriate, and vice versa.  The headings and subheadings in the Plan are inserted for convenience of reference only and are not to be considered in the construction of any provision of the Plan.  If any provision of the Plan shall be held to be illegal or invalid for any reason, that provision shall be deemed to be null and void, but the invalidation of that provision shall not otherwise impair or affect the Plan.

 

ARTICLE III

ELIGIBILITY AND PARTICIPATION

 

3.1                                 Eligibility.  Participation in the Plan is limited to Eligible Employees.  It is intended that participation be limited to Employees who will qualify as members of a “select group of management or highly compensated employees” under Title I of ERISA.

 

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3.2                                 Initial Participation.  An Employee may begin participation in the Plan by purchasing an Insurance Policy pursuant to Section 4.1 at any time after being selected as an Eligible Employee.

 

3.3                                 Status Change.  Upon the date an Employee is determined to no longer be an Eligible Employee, the Employer shall no longer have an obligation to provide premium payments pursuant to Section 4.1 below.

 

3.4                               Termination of Employment.  Upon a Participant’s Termination of Employment, his participation in the Plan shall cease and the Employer shall have no further obligation concerning his Insurance Policy.   Such person shall not be required to sell or otherwise relinquish ownership of the Insurance Policy.

 

ARTICLE IV

INSURANCE POLICY

 

4.1                                 Basic Coverage.

 

(a)                                  Purchase,  Initial Coverage.  In accordance with procedures prescribed by the Committee, a Participant shall apply to the Insurer for the purchase of an Insurance Policy providing a death benefit equal to the Participant’s Base Salary plus Target Annual Bonus, which amount shall be determined as of the time of application.

 

(b)                                 Premium Payments.  While a Participant is an Eligible Employee, any premium payment due and payable under the Participant’s Insurance Policy for the basic coverage described in Section 4.1(a) shall be paid by his Employer.  On or before the due date of each Insurance Policy premium, the Employer shall forward to the Insurer the full amount of the premium then due for each Participant.  If the Participant ceases to be an Eligible Employee, the Employer’s obligation to provide premium payments shall cease.

 

(c)                                  Coverage Adjustment.  If the Participant’s Base Salary or Target Annual Bonus increase at any time after the Participant applies for an Insurance Policy, the Committee may from time to time, but is not required to, increase the basic coverage offered under the Participant’s Insurance Policy and pay the corresponding increase in premiums.

 

4.2           Supplemental Coverage.

 

(a)                                  Purchase.  An Eligible Employee may purchase supplemental coverage from the Insurer in accordance with procedures prescribed by the Committee.

 

(b)                                 Premium Payments.  The Eligible Employee shall pay any premium amounts associated with any supplemental coverage.   The Eligible Employee may, pursuant to procedures prescribed by the Committee, authorize his Employer to

 

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make such payments on his behalf using any resources provided by his Employer (including but not limited to withholding from Base Salary or using amounts credited to his financial planning allowance).

 

4.3                                 Incidents of Ownership.  Neither the Company nor any Employer shall have any rights or incidents of ownership with respect to any Insurance Policy.  Each Participant shall own his Insurance Policy and shall be entitled to exercise all rights of ownership concerning such Insurance Policy.

 

ARTICLE V

ADMINISTRATION

 

5.1                                 Administrator.  The Committee shall be the administrator of the Plan.

 

5.2                                 Notices.  Any notice or filing required or permitted to be given to the Committee under the Plan shall be sufficient if it is in writing and hand delivered, or sent by registered or certified mail, to any member of the Committee or its designate.  The notice or filing shall be deemed made as of the date of delivery, or if delivery is made by mail, as of the date shown on the postmark on the receipt for registration or certification.

 

5.3                                 Powers and Duties of the Committee.  Subject to the specific limitations stated in this Plan, the Committee shall have the following powers, duties, and responsibilities:  to carry out the general administration of the Plan; to cause to be prepared all forms necessary or appropriate for the administration of the Plan; to keep appropriate books and records; to determine amounts to be distributed to Insurers under the provisions of the Plan; to determine, consistent with the provisions of this instrument, all questions of eligibility, rights, and status of Participants under the Plan; to issue, amend, and rescind rules relating to the administration of the Plan, including a claims procedure, to the extent those rules are consistent with the provisions of this document; to exercise all other powers and duties specifically conferred upon the Committee elsewhere in this document; and to interpret, with discretionary authority, the provisions of this Plan and to resolve, with discretionary authority, all disputed questions of Plan interpretation and benefit eligibility.

 

ARTICLE VI

AMENDMENT AND TERMINATION

 

6.1                                 Amendment.  The Company reserves the right to amend the Plan at any time by action of the Board of Directors or the Committee, with written notice given to each Participant in the Plan.

 

6.2                                 Termination.  The Company reserves the right to terminate the Plan, by action of the Board of Directors or the Committee, at any time it deems appropriate.  Upon termination of the Plan, no further premiums shall be made by any Employer to the Insurer.

 

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ARTICLE VII

MISCELLANEOUS

 

7.1                                 Relationship.  Notwithstanding any other provision of this Plan, this Plan and action taken pursuant to it shall not be deemed or construed to establish a trust or fiduciary relationship of any kind between or among the Company, Participants or any other persons.  The Plan is intended to be unfunded for purposes of the Code and ERISA.  The rights of Insurers to receive payment and of Participants to have payments made on their behalf under the Plan is strictly a contractual right of payment.  This Plan does not grant, nor shall it be deemed to grant Insurers, Participants or any other person any interest or right to any of the funds, property, or assets of the Employer other than as an unsecured general creditor of the Employer.

 

7.2                                 Other Benefits and Plans.  Nothing in this Plan shall be deemed to prevent Participants from receiving, in addition to the benefits provided for under this Plan, any benefits that may be provided to them at any time under any other present or future retirement or incentive plan of the Employer.

 

7.3                                 Anticipation of Benefits.  Any premium payments that may be made under this Plan shall not be subject to attachment, garnishment, execution, or be transferable by operation of law in the event of bankruptcy, insolvency, or otherwise.

 

7.4                                 No Guarantee of Continued Employment.  Nothing contained in this Plan or any action taken under the Plan shall be construed as a contract of employment or as giving any Participant any right to be retained in employment with the Employer.  The Employer specifically reserves the right to terminate any Participant’s employment at any time with or without cause, and with or without notice or assigning a reason, subject to the terms of any written employment agreement between the Participant and the Employer.

 

7.5                                 Waiver of Breach.  The Company’s or the Committee’s waiver of any Plan provision shall not operate or be construed as a waiver of any subsequent breach by the Participant.

 

7.6                                 Protective Provisions.  Each Participant shall cooperate with the Company and the Committee by furnishing any and all information requested by the Company or the Committee in order to facilitate the payment of benefits under the Plan, and by taking any other relevant action as may be requested by the Company or the Committee.  If any Participant refuses so to cooperate, the Company shall have no further obligation to the Participant under this Plan.

 

7.7                                 Benefit.  This Plan shall be binding upon and inure to the benefit of the Employer and its successors and assigns.

 

7.8                                 Responsibility for Legal Effect.  Neither the Committee nor the Company makes any recommendations or warranties, express or implied, or assumes any responsibility concerning the legal context or other implications or effects of this Plan or of any Insurance Policy.

 

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7.9                                 Tax Withholding.  The Employer may withhold from any premiums payable hereunder, or any other available sources, any amounts required to be withheld under applicable tax laws.

 

Cinergy Corp. has caused this document to be executed by its duly authorized officer, as of the 18th day of December, 2003.

 

 

By:

/s/ Timothy J. Verhagen

 

 

 

 

 

 

Timothy J. Verhagen

 

 

Vice President of Human Resources

 

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EX-10.VV 13 a04-1370_1ex10dvv.htm EX-10.VV

Exhibit 10.vv

 

Adopted pursuant to resolutions of the
Cinergy Corp. Benefits Committee on October 10, 2003

 

AMENDMENT TO THE

CINERGY CORP. NON-UNION EMPLOYEES’ PENSION PLAN

 

The Cinergy Corp. Non-Union Employees’ Pension Plan, as amended and restated effective January 1, 2003, is hereby amended, effective as of May 1, 2003, as follows.

 

(1)           Explanation of Amendment

 

The Amendment renumbers Section 4.10 as Section 4.11 and adds a new Section 4.10, effective as of May 1, 2003, to provide enhanced benefits under the Plan for those eligible participants who elect between May 1, 2003 and June 16, 2003 (or such other period specified by an Employer) to retire during an open window retirement period.

 

(2)           Section 4.10 as Added

 

(a)           Section 4.10 is hereby renumbered as Section 4.11.

 

(b)           A new Section 4.10, as hereby added, reads as follows:

 

4.10      2003 Voluntary Early Retirement Program

 

(a)                                Eligibility

 

The provisions of this Section, which govern the 2003 Voluntary Early Retirement Program (“2003 VERP”), apply to an individual who:

 

(1)                                  is a Participant in the Plan who is classified by the Employer as a “full-time” employee and who is not an officer of an Employer;

 

(2)                                  attains age 54 on or before December 31, 2003;

 

(3)                                  attains at least five years of Service with an Employer on or before July 1, 2003 (or September 1, 2003 for certain designated Participants) (or would have attained at least five years of Service with an Employer on or before July 1, 2003 (or September 1, 2003 for certain designated Participants) if he had remained employed with an Employer until such date);

 

(4)                                  on a form provided by Cinergy, elects between May 1, 2003 and June 16, 2003 (or such other period specified by an Employer) to incur a Severance from Service on July 31, 2003 (or such other date selected by his

 

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Employer), agrees that his Employer may select the Severance from Service Date and remains employed until such date;

 

(5)                                  has been selected by an Employer for participation in the 2003 VERP based on job classification; and

 

(6)                                  signs and does not revoke a waiver of claims in the form specified by his Employer.

 

(b)           2003 VERP Benefits

 

(1)                                Waiver of Early Payment Factor

 

For each Participant who elects to incur a Severance from Service under the provisions of this Section and whose Nonforfeitable Annual Pension is otherwise computed pursuant to the terms of Section 4.4 (General Method of Computing Annual Pension for Retirement at Early Retirement Date), the Nonforfeitable Annual Pension will be calculated without applying an early payment factor.

 

(2)                                Special Supplemental Benefit

 

Each Participant who elects to incur a Severance from Service under the provisions of this Section will receive a special supplemental benefit equal to the Actuarial Equivalent of the product of two times his weekly Base Salary or weekly Base Wage as of his Severance from Service Date multiplied by his whole years of Service as of his Severance from Service Date, payable in accordance with Section 7.1 (Normal Forms of Pension). The Participant may elect to receive his special supplemental benefit in any optional form of payment provided in Section 7.2 (Optional Forms of Retirement Income) other than those described in Subsections 7.2(d), (e) and (f).

 

(3)                                Lump Sum Payment Available in Lieu of Annuity

 

(A)                            In lieu of the normal form of payment that would otherwise apply to the special supplemental benefit payable to the Participant under Article 7 (Forms of Pension), his Spouse or any other Beneficiary or Contingent Annuitant under the Plan, a lump sum distribution of the special supplemental benefit is available at the eligible Participant’s election with spousal consent in accordance with Section 7.2 (Optional Forms of Retirement Income).

 

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(B)                              The lump sum distribution of the special supplemental benefit will be in an amount equal to the Actuarial Equivalent of the special supplemental benefit.

 

(C)                                Time of Payment

 

The lump sum distribution of the special supplemental benefit will be payable as of the Participant’s Annuity Starting Date or as soon as administratively feasible thereafter.

 

(D)                               Election Period

 

A lump sum distribution of the special supplemental benefit must be elected within the 90 day period ending on the Participant’s Annuity Starting Date.  If the Participant chooses an annuity option and selects a Beneficiary other than a Spouse for the special supplemental benefit, the Participant must do so in writing and confirm or withdraw that election within 90 days preceding the Annuity Starting Date.

 

(E)                               Beneficiary

 

A Participant’s Beneficiary of the lump sum distribution of the special supplemental benefit will be his Spouse unless the Participant’s Spouse has consented to another Beneficiary pursuant to Section 7.2 (Optional Forms of Retirement Income).  A Participant who elects a lump sum distribution of the special supplemental benefit may designate one Beneficiary for the special supplemental benefit in the event the Participant dies before the lump sum is distributed.  A married Participant’s designation of a Beneficiary other than the Participant’s Spouse will not be effective unless the Participant’s Spouse consents to the election and designation in accordance with Section 7.2 (Optional Forms of Retirement Income).

 

(F)           Death of a Participant

 

In the event of the death of a Participant who elected a lump sum distribution of the special supplemental benefit prior to the distribution date, the lump sum will be distributed as soon as administratively feasible following the Participant’s death.  If the Participant’s Spouse is his Beneficiary, the Spouse may elect payment in the form of a lump sum or in the form that applies to other benefits payable to the Spouse under the Plan after the Participant’s death.

 

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(4)                                  Actuarial Equivalent.  For purposes of calculating the Actuarial Equivalent amount of the benefit described in Sections 4.10(b)(2) and (3), “Actuarial Equivalent” means a benefit having the same actuarially determined value as the benefit that the Actuarial Equivalent replaces, calculated using the “applicable mortality table” described in Section 417(e)(3)(A)(ii)(I) of the Code and the “applicable interest rate” described in Section 417(e)(3)(A)(ii)(II) of the Code for the calendar month specified by the Plan in Section 1.5(c) for purposes of calculating the Actuarial Equivalent amount of any lump sum payment.

 

(c)                                Construction of the 2003 VERP Provisions

 

The benefits provided under the 2003 VERP will be paid in accordance with and consistent with Plan provisions that apply to the payment of normal or early retirement benefits, except where specific exceptions or provisions are included in this Section.

 

(d)                               Special Eligibility Rule

 

Any Retired Participant who incurred a Severance from Service between January 1, 2003 and July 1, 2003, is eligible to receive the 2003 VERP benefits described in Subsection 4.10(b) if he meets the applicable eligibility and participation requirements described in Subsection 4.10(a) and he returns to his Employer any termination related benefits previously received.

 

(e)                                Election Information

 

Prior to electing to participate in the 2003 VERP, an eligible Participant will be provided with a written explanation of the terms and conditions of the survivor annuity which will be paid to the Participant’s Spouse if the Participant dies without electing a lump sum distribution of the special supplemental benefit, the Participant’s right to elect a lump sum distribution in lieu of a survivor annuity of this benefit and the effect of such an election, the rights of the Participant’s Spouse described in Section 7.2 (Optional Forms of Retirement Income), and the right of a Participant to revoke and the effect of revoking such an election.”

 

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, Cinergy Corp. has caused this Amendment to be executed and approved by its duly authorized officer effective as of the date set forth herein.

 

 

 

By:

/s/ Timothy J. Verhagen

 

 

 

 

 

 

Timothy J. Verhagen

 

 

Vice President of Human Resources

 

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EX-10.WW 14 a04-1370_1ex10dww.htm EX-10.WW

Exhibit 10.ww

 

Adopted pursuant to resolutions of the
Cinergy Corp. Benefits Committee on October 10, 2003

 

AMENDMENT TO THE
CINERGY CORP. NON-UNION EMPLOYEES’ PENSION PLAN

 

The Cinergy Corp. Non-Union Employees’ Pension Plan, as amended and restated effective January 1, 2003, is hereby amended, effective for compensation received after December 1, 2003.

 

(1)           Explanation of Amendment

 

The amendment caps the amount of annual “EMBU” bonuses included in earnings under the Plan.

 

(2)                                 Amendment

 

Section 1.12 of the Plan is hereby amended to provide as follows:

 

““Annual Performance Cash Award” means, with respect to an Employee, the cash award received by the Employee under the provisions of an Employer’s annual bonus or incentive pay plan or program, including, but without limitation because of enumeration, the Cinergy Annual Incentive Plan, the Cinergy Non-Union Employees’ Incentive Plan, or any successor plan; except that for an Employee who is a participant in the Energy Merchant Business Unit Annual Incentive Plan, (i) the amount of the “Annual Performance Cash Award” that may be taken into account under the Plan for a Plan Year shall not exceed the Employee’s rate of annual Base Salary or rate of annual Base Wage, as applicable, as of the last day of the performance period for which the Annual Performance Cash Award is calculated and (ii) for purposes of clarity, any amount payable under the Energy Merchant Business Unit Annual Incentive Plan that is automatically deferred until a subsequent Plan Year shall not be considered as part of the Employee’s “Annual Performance Cash Award.”

 

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, Cinergy Corp. has caused this Amendment to be executed and approved by its duly authorized officer, effective as of the date set forth herein.

 

 

 

By:

/s/ Timothy J. Verhagen

 

 

 

 

 

 

Timothy J. Verhagen

 

 

Vice President of Human Resources

 


EX-10.BBB 15 a04-1370_1ex10dbbb.htm EX-10.BBB

Exhibit 10.bbb

 

Adopted pursuant to resolutions of the
Cinergy Corp. Benefits Committee on October 10, 2003

 

 

AMENDMENT TO THE
CINERGY CORP. NON-UNION EMPLOYEES’ 401(K) PLAN

 

The Cinergy Corp. Non-Union Employees’ 401(k) Plan, as amended and restated effective January 1, 2003, is hereby amended, effective for compensation received after December 1, 2003.

 

(1)           Explanation of Amendment

 

The amendment caps the amount of annual “EMBU” bonuses included in profit sharing earnings under the Plan.

(2)                                 Amendment

 

Subsection 4.10(c)(3)(I) of the Plan is hereby amended to provide as follows:

 

““Annual Performance Cash Award” means, with respect to an Employee, the cash award received by the Employee under the provisions of an Employer’s annual bonus or incentive pay plan or program, including, but without limitation because of enumeration, the Cinergy Annual Incentive Plan, the Cinergy Non-Union Employees’ Incentive Plan, or any successor plan; except that for an Employee who is a participant in the Energy Merchant Business Unit Annual Incentive Plan, (i) the amount of the “Annual Performance Cash Award” that may be taken into account under the Plan for a Plan Year shall not exceed the Employee’s rate of annual Base Salary or rate of annual Base Wage, as applicable, as of the last day of the performance period for which the Annual Performance Cash Award is calculated and (ii) for purposes of clarity, any amount payable under the Energy Merchant Business Unit Annual Incentive Plan that is automatically deferred until a subsequent Plan Year shall not be considered as part of the Employee’s “Annual Performance Cash Award.”

 

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, Cinergy Corp. has caused this Amendment to be executed and approved by its duly authorized officer, effective as of the date set forth herein.

 

 

 

By:

/s/ Timothy J. Verhagen

 

 

 

 

 

 

Timothy J. Verhagen

 

 

Vice President of Human Resources

 


EX-10.CCC 16 a04-1370_1ex10dccc.htm EX-10.CCC

Exhibit 10.ccc

 

Adopted pursuant to resolutions of the Cinergy Corp.

Benefits Committee on December 16, 2003

 

 

AMENDMENT TO THE

CINERGY CORP. NON-UNION EMPLOYEES’ 401(K) PLAN

 

The Cinergy Corp. Non-Union Employees’ 401(k) Plan, as amended and restated effective January 1, 2003, and as subsequently amended, is hereby amended, effective as of January 1, 2004.

 

Explanation of Amendment

 

The amendment (i) provides that the portion of each participant’s Profit Sharing Contributions Account that is attributable to dividends on Cinergy Stock is to be at all times fully vested, (ii) permits investment diversification at any time with respect to the portion of each participant’s Profit Sharing Contributions Account that is attributable to dividends on Cinergy Stock and (iii) clarifies when investment diversification is permitted with respect to Profit Sharing Contributions made to the Plan.

 

Amendment

 

(a)                                    Section 5.2 of the Plan is hereby amended and restated in its entirety to provide as follows:

 

5.2        Profit Sharing Contributions Account.

 

A Member shall be fully vested and have a nonforfeitable interest in his Profit Sharing Contributions Account upon the earlier of (i) completion of three Years of Service or (ii) after reaching age 65 while an Employee.  Notwithstanding the immediately preceding sentence, a Member shall at all times be fully vested and have a nonforfeitable interest in that portion of his Profit Sharing Contributions Account that is attributable to dividends on Cinergy Stock.”

 

(b)                                   Section 7.2(b) of the Plan is hereby amended and restated in its entirety to provide as follows:

 

“(b)        Investment Transfers.  Except as otherwise provided in this section, assets in the Member’s Matching Contributions Account and Profit Sharing Contributions Account will remain invested in the Cinergy Stock Fund until distributed under Article 6, and may not be reallocated among the Investment Funds.

 

(1)                                    A Member who has attained age 50 may reallocate assets in the Matching Contributions Account and Profit Sharing Contributions Account among the Investment Funds, in accordance with the provisions of Subsection 7.1(b).

 

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(2)                                    At any time a Member may reallocate among the Investment Funds, in accordance with the provisions of Subsection 7.1(b), that portion of his Profit Sharing Contributions Account that is attributable to dividends on Cinergy Stock.

 

(3)                                    At any time after March 1 of the third Plan Year following the Plan Year during which a Profit Sharing Contribution is made on behalf of a Member, the Member may reallocate among the Investment Funds, in accordance with the provisions of Subsection 7.1(b), that portion of his Profit Sharing Contributions Account that is attributable to such Profit Sharing Contribution.”

 

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, Cinergy Corp. has caused this Amendment to be executed and approved by its duly authorized officer, effective as of the date set forth herein.

 

 

 

By:

/s/ Timothy J. Verhagen

 

 

 

 

 

 

Timothy J. Verhagen

 

 

Vice President of Human Resources

 

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EX-10.FFF 17 a04-1370_1ex10dfff.htm EX-10.FFF

Exhibit 10.fff

 

Adopted pursuant to resolutions of the Cinergy Corp.

Benefits Committee on December 16, 2003

 

 

AMENDMENT TO THE

CINERGY CORP. UNION EMPLOYEES’ 401(K) PLAN

 

The Cinergy Corp. Union Employees’ 401(k) Plan, as amended and restated effective January 1, 2003, is hereby amended, effective as of January 1, 2004.

 

Explanation of Amendment

 

The amendment (i) provides that the portion of each participant’s Profit Sharing Contributions Account that is attributable to dividends on Cinergy Stock is to be at all times fully vested, (ii) permits investment diversification at any time with respect to the portion of each participant’s Profit Sharing Contributions Account that is attributable to dividends on Cinergy Stock and (iii) clarifies when investment diversification is permitted with respect to Profit Sharing Contributions made to the Plan.

 

Amendment

 

(a)                                    Section 5.2 of the Plan is hereby amended and restated in its entirety to provide as follows:

 

5.2        Profit Sharing Contributions Account.

 

A Member shall be fully vested and have a nonforfeitable interest in his Profit Sharing Contributions Account upon the earlier of (i) completion of three Years of Service or (ii) after reaching age 65 while an Employee.  Notwithstanding the immediately preceding sentence, a Member shall at all times be fully vested and have a nonforfeitable interest in that portion of his Profit Sharing Contributions Account that is attributable to dividends on Cinergy Stock.”

 

(b)                                   Section 7.2(b) of the Plan is hereby amended and restated in its entirety to provide as follows:

 

“(b)        Investment Transfers.  Except as otherwise provided in this section, assets in the Member’s Matching Contributions Account and Profit Sharing Contributions Account will remain invested in the Cinergy Stock Fund until distributed under Article 6, and may not be reallocated among the Investment Funds.

 

(1)                                    A Member who has attained age 50 may reallocate assets in the Matching Contributions Account and Profit Sharing Contributions Account among the Investment Funds, in accordance with the provisions of Subsection 7.1(b).

 

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(2)                                    At any time a Member may reallocate among the Investment Funds, in accordance with the provisions of Subsection 7.1(b), that portion of his Profit Sharing Contributions Account that is attributable to dividends on Cinergy Stock.

 

(3)                                    At any time after March 1 of the third Plan Year following the Plan Year during which a Profit Sharing Contribution is made on behalf of a Member, the Member may reallocate among the Investment Funds, in accordance with the provisions of Subsection 7.1(b), that portion of his Profit Sharing Contributions Account that is attributable to such Profit Sharing Contribution.”

 

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, Cinergy Corp. has caused this Amendment to be executed and approved by its duly authorized officer, effective as of the date set forth herein.

 

 

 

By:

/s/ Timothy J. Verhagen

 

 

 

 

 

 

Timothy J. Verhagen

 

 

Vice President of Human Resources

 

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EX-10.III 18 a04-1370_1ex10diii.htm EX-10.III

Exhibit 10.iii

 

Adopted pursuant to resolutions of the Cinergy Corp.

Benefits Committee on December 16, 2003

 

 

AMENDMENT TO THE

CINERGY CORP. UNION EMPLOYEES’ SAVINGS INCENTIVE PLAN

 

The Cinergy Corp. Union Employees’ Savings Incentive Plan, as amended and restated effective January 1, 2003, is hereby amended, effective as of January 1, 2004.

 

Explanation of Amendment

 

The amendment (i) provides that the portion of each participant’s Profit Sharing Contributions Account that is attributable to dividends on Cinergy Stock is to be at all times fully vested, (ii) permits investment diversification at any time with respect to the portion of each participant’s Profit Sharing Contributions Account that is attributable to dividends on Cinergy Stock and (iii) clarifies when investment diversification is permitted with respect to Profit Sharing Contributions made to the Plan.

 

Amendment

 

(a)                                    Section 5.2 of the Plan is hereby amended and restated in its entirety to provide as follows:

 

5.2        Profit Sharing Contributions Account.

 

A Member shall be fully vested and have a nonforfeitable interest in his Profit Sharing Contributions Account upon the earlier of (i) completion of three Years of Service or (ii) after reaching age 65 while an Employee.  Notwithstanding the immediately preceding sentence, a Member shall at all times be fully vested and have a nonforfeitable interest in that portion of his Profit Sharing Contributions Account that is attributable to dividends on Cinergy Stock.”

 

(b)                                   Section 7.2(b) of the Plan is hereby amended and restated in its entirety to provide as follows:

 

“(b)        Investment Transfers.  Except as otherwise provided in this section, assets in the Member’s Matching Contributions Account and Profit Sharing Contributions Account will remain invested in the Cinergy Stock Fund until distributed under Article 6, and may not be reallocated among the Investment Funds.

 

(1)                                    A Member who has attained age 50 may reallocate assets in the Matching Contributions Account and Profit Sharing Contributions Account among the Investment Funds, in accordance with the provisions of Subsection 7.1(b).

 

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(2)                                    At any time a Member may reallocate among the Investment Funds, in accordance with the provisions of Subsection 7.1(b), that portion of his Profit Sharing Contributions Account that is attributable to dividends on Cinergy Stock.

 

(3)                                    At any time after March 1 of the third Plan Year following the Plan Year during which a Profit Sharing Contribution is made on behalf of a Member, the Member may reallocate among the Investment Funds, in accordance with the provisions of Subsection 7.1(b), that portion of his Profit Sharing Contributions Account that is attributable to such Profit Sharing Contribution.”

 

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, Cinergy Corp. has caused this Amendment to be executed and approved by its duly authorized officer, effective as of the date set forth herein.

 

 

 

By:

/s/ Timothy J. Verhagen

 

 

 

 

 

 

Timothy J. Verhagen

 

 

Vice President of Human Resources

 

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EX-10.JJJ 19 a04-1370_1ex10djjj.htm EX-10.JJJ

Exhibit 10.jjj

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

CINERGY CORP. EXCESS PROFIT SHARING PLAN

 

(Effective as of January 1, 2003)

 

 

 

 

 



(Note:  This Table of Contents is not part of the Cinergy Corp. Excess Profit Sharing Plan; instead, this Table of Contents is merely for convenience of reference.)

 

 

TABLE OF CONTENTS

 

 

ARTICLE I

NATURE AND PURPOSE OF PLAN

 

 

 

 

1.1

Type of Plan

 

1.2

Purpose of Plan

 

 

 

 

ARTICLE II

DEFINITIONS AND RULES OF CONSTRUCTION

 

 

 

 

2.1

Definitions

 

2.2

Rules of Construction

 

 

 

 

ARTICLE III

ELIGIBILITY AND PARTICIPATION

 

 

 

 

3.1

Eligibility

 

3.2

Employer Profit Sharing Contributions

 

3.3

Cessation of Participation

 

 

 

 

ARTICLE IV

PARTICIPANTS’ ACCOUNTS

 

 

 

 

4.1

Establishment of Account

 

4.2

Earnings and Losses

 

4.3

Credits to Account

 

4.4

Accounts Unfunded

 

 

 

 

ARTICLE V

DISTRIBUTION OF BENEFITS

 

 

 

 

5.1

General Distribution Rules

 

5.2

Distribution Upon a Change in Control

 

5.3

Death Benefits

 

5.4

Designation of Beneficiary

 

 

 

 

ARTICLE VI

ADMINISTRATION

 

 

 

 

6.1

Administrator

 

6.2

Notices

 

6.3

Powers and Duties of the Committee

 

 

 

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ARTICLE VII

AMENDMENT AND TERMINATION

 

 

 

 

7.1

Amendment

 

7.2

Termination

 

 

 

 

ARTICLE VIII

MISCELLANEOUS

 

 

 

 

8.1

Relationship

 

8.2

Other Benefits and Plans

 

8.3

Anticipation of Benefits

 

8.4

No Guarantee of Continued Employment

 

8.5

Waiver of Breach

 

8.6

Protective Provisions

 

8.7

Benefit

 

8.8

Responsibility for Legal Effect

 

8.9

Tax Withholding

 

 

 

 

 

AUTHORIZED SIGNATURE

 

 

 

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CINERGY CORP. EXCESS PROFIT SHARING PLAN

 

ARTICLE I

NATURE AND PURPOSE OF PLAN

 

1.1                                 Type of Plan.  The name of this Plan is the Cinergy Corp. Excess Profit Sharing Plan, effective January 1, 2003.  The Plan is maintained by the Company as an unfunded, nonqualified deferred compensation plan for a select group of the Employer’s management or highly-compensated employees.

 

1.2                                 Purpose of Plan.  The purpose of the Plan is to restore the additional employer profit sharing contributions that an Eligible Employee would have received under the Qualified Plan if the limitations of Code Subsection 415(c) and Code Paragraph 401(a)(17) were not imposed to limit the Eligible Employee’s employer profit sharing contributions under the Qualified Plan.

 

ARTICLE II

DEFINITIONS AND RULES OF CONSTRUCTION

 

2.1                                 Definitions.  As used in the Plan, the following words and phrases, when capitalized, have the following meanings except when used in a context that plainly requires a different meaning:

 

(a)                                  “Account” means the record of a Participant’s total interest in the Plan.

 

(b)                                 “Beneficiary” means, with respect to a Participant, the person or persons designated pursuant to Section 5.4 to receive benefits under the Plan in the event of the Participant’s death.

 

(c)                                  “Board of Directors” means the duly constituted board of directors of the Company on the applicable date.

 

(d)                                 “Change in Control” means an event described in Subsection 5.2(c).

 

(e)                                  “Code” means the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended from time to time, and interpretive rules and regulations thereunder.

 

(f)                                    “Committee” means a committee composed of those members of the Compensation Committee of the Board of Directors who are not Participants in the Plan.  To the extent authority to administer the Plan has been delegated to the Cinergy Corp. Benefits Committee, the term “Committee” shall mean the Cinergy Corp. Benefits Committee.

 

(g)                                 “Company” means Cinergy Corp., a Delaware Corporation, and any corporation that shall succeed to its business and adopt the Plan.

 

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(h)                                 “Effective Date” means January 1, 2003.

 

(i)                                     “Eligible Employee” means a management or highly compensated Employee who is selected by the Committee to participate in this Plan.

 

(j)                                     “Employee” means any person who is classified by the Employer as an employee, including officers of the Company or a Related Employer.

 

(k)           “Employer” means the Company and any Related Employer.

 

(l)                                     “Employer Profit Sharing Contribution” means, with respect to a Participant, the contribution made by the Employer on behalf of a Participant pursuant to Section 3.2.

 

(m)                               “ERISA” means the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974, as amended from time to time, and interpretative rules and regulations thereunder.

 

(n)                                 “Insolvent” means, with respect to the Company, the Company being unable to pay its debts as they are due, or the Company being subject to a pending proceeding as a debtor under the United States Bankruptcy Code.

 

(o)                                 “Investment Options” means, with respect to any period, the investment options that the Committee makes available to Participants under the Plan.  The Committee, in its sole discretion, may from time to time establish procedures under which one or more Investment Options are made available, in accordance with terms and conditions established by the Committee, only to certain Participants and/or only for certain periods.

 

(p)                                 “Participant” means an Eligible Employee or former Eligible Employee who has an interest in the Plan pursuant to Section 3.2.

 

(q)                                 “Plan” means this instrument, as amended from time to time, and the nonqualified deferred compensation plan so established.

 

(r)                                    “Plan Year” means a calendar year commencing on or after January 1, 2003.

 

(s)                                  “Qualified Plan” means collectively the defined contribution plan(s) intended to meet the qualification requirements of Code Subsection 401(a) that the Committee, in its sole discretion, may designate from time to time, and which shall initially be limited to the Cinergy Corp. Non-Union Employees’ 401(k) Plan.

 

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(t)                                    “Rabbi Trust” means the grantor trust that the Company, in its sole discretion, may establish pursuant to Subsection 4.4(b) for the deposit of funds to be used for the Employers’ purpose of paying benefits accrued under the Plan, subject to the claims of the Employers’ general creditors in the event that any Employer becomes Insolvent.

 

(u)                                 “Related Employer” means any Employer that, together with the Company, is under common control or a member of an affiliated service group, as determined under Code Subsections 414(b), (c), (m), and (o).

 

(v)                                 “Termination of Employment” means, with respect to a Participant, the cessation of the relationship of Employer and Employee between the Participant and the Employer for any reason other than the Participant’s death.  A Participant shall not be treated as having incurred a Termination of Employment until the employment relationship between the Participant and all Related Employers has terminated.

 

(w)                               “Trustee” means the trustee of the Rabbi Trust that the Company, in its sole discretion, may establish pursuant to Subsection 4.4(b).

 

2.2                                 Rules of Construction.  The following rules of construction shall govern in interpreting the Plan.  The provisions of this Plan shall be construed and governed in all respects under and by the internal laws of the State of Ohio, to the extent not preempted by federal law.  Words used in the masculine gender shall be construed to include the feminine gender, where appropriate, and vice versa.  Words used in the singular shall be construed to include the plural, where appropriate, and vice versa.  The headings and subheadings in the Plan are inserted for convenience of reference only and are not to be considered in the construction of any provision of the Plan.  If any provision of the Plan shall be held to be illegal or invalid for any reason, that provision shall be deemed to be null and void, but the invalidation of that provision shall not otherwise impair or affect the Plan.

 

ARTICLE III

ELIGIBILITY AND PARTICIPATION

 

3.1                                 Eligibility.  Participation in the Plan is limited to Eligible Employees.  It is intended that participation be limited to Employees who will qualify as members of a “select group of management or highly compensated employees” under Title I of ERISA.

 

3.2                                 Employer Profit Sharing Contributions.  If an Eligible Employee is credited with an employer profit sharing contribution under the Qualified Plan for a Plan Year, to the extent applicable the Employer shall credit an Employer Profit Sharing Contribution to the Participant’s Account equal to the additional employer profit sharing contribution that the Eligible Employee would have had credited to his

 

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account in the Qualified Plan for the Plan Year if the limitations of Code Subsection 415(c) and Code Paragraph 401(a)(17) were not imposed to limit the Eligible Employee’s employer profit sharing contribution under the Qualified Plan.

 

3.3                                 Cessation of Participation.  Any Participant who ceases to be an Eligible Employee, but continues to be an Employee, shall cease to be eligible to receive contributions under this Article but shall continue to have a Account, shall continue to be credited with earnings and losses on his Account under Section 4.2 (until the Account is fully distributed pursuant to Article V) and shall be entitled to receive benefits under Article V.

 

ARTICLE IV

PARTICIPANTS’ ACCOUNT

 

4.1                                 Establishment of Account.  The Committee shall create and maintain adequate records to disclose the interest in the Plan of each Participant and Beneficiary.  Records shall be in the form of individual bookkeeping accounts, which shall be credited with contributions pursuant to Sections 3.2 and earnings and losses pursuant to Section 4.2, and debited with any payments pursuant to Article V.  The Participant shall have the same vested interest in his Account under the Plan as he has with respect to employer profit sharing contributions under the Qualified Plan, and all determinations regarding the Participant’s vested interest in his Account under the Plan shall be made by the Committee in accordance with the terms of the Qualified Plan.  Notwithstanding the preceding sentence, the Participant’s interest in his Account shall be subject to the claims of the Employers’ general creditors in the event the Employer becomes Insolvent.

 

4.2           Earnings and Losses.

 

(a)                                  Deemed Investment of Accounts.  During each Plan Year, a Participant’s Account shall be credited with earnings and losses as though they are invested, pursuant to Subsection (b), Subsection (c) or both, as applicable, in one or more of the Investment Options.  The deemed investment of a Participant’s Account among the Investment Options is solely the measure of the investment performance of the Account.  It does not give the Participant any ownership interest in any Investment Option, nor does it bind the Company, the Committee, or the Trustee as to the investment of any Rabbi Trust or any other amounts represented by the Account.

 

(b)                                 Initial Deemed Investment.  Each Employer Profit Sharing Contribution initially shall be deemed invested in such Investment Option(s) as the Committee, in its sole discretion, may from time to time designate in investment procedures, and which initially shall be the Investment Option known as the Cinergy Corp. Common Stock Fund.  The Employer Profit Sharing Contribution for each Plan Year and earnings and losses thereon

 

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shall remain deemed invested in such Investment Option(s) until the Employer Profit Sharing Contribution for the Plan Year (and earnings thereon) becomes subject to Participant direction, which shall occur at such time or times as the Committee, in its sole discretion, may from time to time prescribe in investment procedures, and which initially shall be the earlier of (i) the date on which the Participant attains age 50 or (ii) the date that is three years from the date that the Employer Profit Sharing Contribution for the Plan Year is credited to the Participant’s Account.  An Employer Profit Sharing Contribution that is subject to Participant direction shall be deemed invested in accordance with Subsection (c).

 

(c)                                  Election Procedure.  Each Participant may make elections, on a form provided by the Committee, to allocate the portion, if any, of his Account that is subject to Participant direction among the Investment Options.  If the Participant fails to make an election with respect to his Account, he shall be deemed to have elected to allocate the portion of his Account that is subject to Participant direction to the Investment Option(s) as the Committee, in its sole discretion, may from time to time designate in investment procedures.  The Committee, in its sole discretion, may establish from time to time investment procedures for a Participant to change his Investment Option designations (for his future amounts subject to Participant direction, his existing amounts subject to Participant direction, or both).  Until a Participant timely files a new investment election form, his prior Investment Option designations shall control.

 

4.3                                 Credits to Account.  The Employer Profit Sharing Contribution shall be credited to a Participant’s Account in terms of cash on the same date(s) as employer profit sharing contributions are credited to participants’ accounts under the Qualified Plan.

 

4.4           Accounts Unfunded.

 

(a)                                  Accounts shall be accounting accruals, in the names of Participants, on the Employer’s books.  Accounts shall be unfunded, so that the Employer’s obligation to pay benefits under the Plan is merely a contractual duty to make payments when due under the Plan.  The Employer’s promise to pay benefits under the Plan shall not be secured in any way, and except as provided in Subsection (b), the Company shall not set aside or segregate assets for the purpose of paying amounts credited to Participants’ Account.

 

(b)                                 Notwithstanding the provisions of Subsection (a), the Company, in its sole discretion, may establish a Rabbi Trust.  The Employer, in its sole discretion, may make such contributions to the Rabbi Trust as the Committee determines are appropriate to enable the Employer to pay benefits under the Plan.  Any Rabbi Trust established under this Section

 

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shall be created pursuant to a written trust document that conforms to the model form of rabbi trust agreement approved by the Internal Revenue Service in Revenue Procedure 92-64 (as amended from time to time).

 

ARTICLE V

DISTRIBUTION OF BENEFITS

 

5.1           General Distribution Rules.

 

(a)                                  General Provisions.  Except as otherwise provided in Sections 5.2 and Section 5.3, a Participant’s Account shall be distributed to the Participant (or to his Beneficiary in the event of his death) as provided in this Section.

 

(b)                                 Participant’s Election.  A Participant may elect, on a form provided by the Committee and from among the options described in this Section, the form for the payment of his Account.  Notwithstanding the payment terms designated by a Participant on any prior election form, a Participant may elect to change the form of payment of his Account to a form of payment otherwise permitted under this Section; provided that such election shall be made on a form provided by the Committee, and provided further that any such election made less than one year prior to the Participant’s Termination of Employment shall not be valid, and in such case, the distribution of his Account shall be made in accordance with the latest valid election or elections of the Participant.

 

(1)                                  Form of Distribution.  A Participant may elect to have his contributions (and attributable earnings) for a Plan Year distributed in one of the following forms:

 

(A)

A lump sum payment; or

 

 

(B)

Substantially equal annual installments over a specified number of two to ten years.

 

(2)                                  Time of Distribution.  Distribution of a Participant’s interest in his Account shall commence as soon as reasonably practicable after the earlier of the Participant’s death or his Termination of Employment.  Subsequent installments shall be payable on or as soon as administratively feasible following the first business day of each succeeding year.

 

(c)                                  Default Procedure.  If a Participant fails to make an election pursuant to this Section, then, except as otherwise provided in Section 5.2  and Section 5.3, the Participant’s Account (and attributable earnings) shall be distributed in five substantially equal annual installments commencing as

 

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                                                                soon as reasonably practicable after the earlier of the Participant’s death or his Termination of Employment.

 

(d)                                 Distribution in Cash.  All distributions from the Plan shall be made in the form of cash.

 

(e)                                  Small Accounts.  Notwithstanding a Participant’s election regarding the form of payment of his Account, in the event that a Participant’s Account has an aggregate value of less than $50,000 as of his Termination of Employment, the Committee shall have the discretion to distribute the Participant’s entire interest in his Account in a single lump sum payment in cash.

 

5.2           Distribution Upon a Change in Control.

 

(a)                                  Election for a Lump Sum Payment.  Each Participant who is designated as a “Selected Participant” by the Committee of the Company (a “Selected Participant”) shall be entitled to make a special payment election in accordance with the provisions of this Section 5.2(a).

 

(i)                                     Distribution Pursuant to Special Payment Election.  A Selected Participant may elect, on a form provided by the Committee, to receive a distribution of his Account in a single lump sum payable no later than 30 days after the later of (1) the occurrence of a Change in Control or (2) the date of his Termination of Employment.

 

(ii)                                  Effectiveness of Special Payment Election.  An election made pursuant to this Section 5.2(a) shall become operative only upon the occurrence of a Change in Control.  Once operative, an election made pursuant to this Section 5.2(a) shall override any other payment election made by the Selected Participant pursuant to Section 5.1(b), but only if the Selected Participant’s Termination of Employment occurs either (1) prior to the occurrence of a Change in Control or (2) during the 24-month period commencing upon the occurrence of a Change in Control.

 

(iii)                               Deadline for Special Payment Election.  In order to be effective, an election made pursuant to this Section 5.2(a) must be made either:

 

(1)                                  Prior to the occurrence of a Potential Change in Control; or

 

(2)                                  With the consent of the Committee, during the thirty-day period commencing upon the occurrence of a Potential Change in Control.

 

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In the event that a Potential Change in Control occurs and subsequently ceases to exist, other than as a result of a Change in Control, such Potential Change in Control shall be disregarded for purposes of this Section 5.2(a)(iii).

 

(iv)                              Withdrawal of Special Payment Election.  A Selected Participant may withdraw, on a form provided by the Committee, a special payment election made by him pursuant to this Section 5.2(a) at anytime specified in Section 5.2(a)(iii)(1) or (2).

 

(b)                               Committee Discretion for a Lump Sum Payment.  Notwithstanding any other Section, if a Change in Control occurs, the Committee in its sole discretion may elect to accelerate the distribution of a Participant’s Account so that a Participant’s Account shall be distributed to the Participant (or, in the event of his death, to his Beneficiary) in a single lump sum payment no later than 30 days after the Change in Control occurs.

 

(c)                                Definition of Change in Control.  A “Change in Control” of the Company will be deemed to have occurred if any of the following events occur:

 

(i)                                     Any Person is or becomes the beneficial owner (as defined in Rule 13d-3 under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (“1934 Act”)), directly or indirectly, of securities of the Company (not including in the securities beneficially owned by such Person any securities acquired directly from the Company or its affiliates) representing more than twenty percent (20%) of the combined voting power of the Company’s then outstanding securities, excluding any Person who becomes such a beneficial owner in connection with a transaction described in Clause (1) of Paragraph (ii) below; or

 

(ii)                                  There is consummated a merger or consolidation of the Company or any direct or indirect subsidiary of the Company with any other corporation, partnership or other entity, other than (1) a merger or consolidation that would result in the voting securities of the Company outstanding immediately prior to that merger or consolidation continuing to represent (either by remaining outstanding or by being converted into voting securities of the surviving entity or its parent) at least sixty percent (60%) of the combined voting power of the securities of the Company or the surviving entity or its parent outstanding immediately after the merger or consolidation, or (2) a merger or consolidation effected to im­plement a recapitalization of the Company (or similar transaction) in which no Person is or becomes the beneficial owner, directly or indirectly, of securities of the Company (not including in the

 

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                                                securities beneficially owned by such a Person any securities acquired directly from the Company or its affiliates other than in connection with the acquisition by the Company or its affiliates of a business) representing twenty percent (20%) or more of the combined voting power of the Company’s then outstanding securities; or

 

(iii)                               During any period of two (2) consecutive years, individuals who at the beginning of that period constitute the Board of Directors and any new director (other than a director whose initial assumption of office is in connection with an actual or threatened election contest, including but not limited to a consent solicitation, relating to the election of directors of the Company) whose appointment or election by the Company’s stockholders was approved or recommended by a vote of at least two-thirds (2/3) of the directors then still in office who either were directors at the beginning of that period or whose appointment, election, or nomination for election was previously so approved or recommended cease for any reason to constitute a majority of the Board of Directors; or

 

(iv)                              The stockholders of the Company approve a plan of complete liquidation or dissolution of the Company or there is consummated a sale or disposition by the Com­pany of all or substantially all of the Company’s assets, other than a sale or disposition by the Company of all or substantially all of the Company’s assets to an entity, at least sixty percent (60%) of the combined voting power of the voting se­curities of which are owned by stockholders of the Company in substantially the same proportions as their ownership of the Company immediately prior to the sale.

 

(d)                               Definition of Potential Change in Control.  A “Potential Change in Control” means any period during which any of the following circumstances exist:

 

(i)                                     The Company enters into an agreement, the consummation of which would result in the occurrence of a Change in Control; provided that a Potential Change in Control shall cease to exist upon the expiration or other termination of such agreement; or

 

(ii)                                  The Company or any Person publicly announces an intention to take or to consider taking actions which, if consummated, would constitute a Change in Control; provided that a Potential Change in Control shall cease to exist when the Company or such Person publicly announces that it no longer has such an intention; or

 

(iii)                               Any Person who is or becomes the beneficial owner (as defined in Rule 13d-3 under the 1934 Act), directly or indirectly, of securities

 

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                                                of the Company representing ten percent (10%) or more of the combined voting power of the Company’s then outstanding securities, increases such Person’s beneficial ownership of such securities by an amount equal to five percent (5%) or more of the combined voting power of the Company’s then outstanding securities; or

 

(iv)                              The Board of Directors adopts a resolution to the effect that, for purposes hereof, a Potential Change in Control has occurred.

 

Notwithstanding anything herein to the contrary, a Potential Change in Control shall cease to exist not later than the date that (i) the Board of Directors determines that the Potential Change in Control no longer exists, or (ii) a Change in Control occurs.

 

(e)                                  Definition of Person.  “Person” has the meaning set forth in paragraph 3(a)(9) of the 1934 Act, as modified and used in subsections 13(d) and 14(d) of the 1934 Act; however, a Person will not include the following: (1) the Company or any of its subsidiaries or affiliates; (2) a trustee or other fiduciary holding securities under an employee benefit plan of the Company or any of its subsidiaries or affiliates; (3) an underwriter temporarily holding securities pursuant to an offering of those securities; or (4) a corporation owned, directly or indirectly, by the stockholders of the Company in substantially the same proportions as their ownership of stock of the Company.

 

5.3                                 Death Benefits.  In the event that a Participant dies before his Account is completely distributed, his Beneficiary shall be entitled to a death benefit equal to the amount credited to the Participant’s Account immediately before his death.  The form and timing of the payment of the death benefit shall be determined pursuant to Section 5.1.

 

5.4                                 Designation of Beneficiary.  A Participant’s Beneficiary shall be the person or persons, including a trustee, designated by the Participant pursuant to the practices of, or rules prescribed by, the Committee, as the recipient of any benefits payable under the Plan following the Participant’s death.  To be effective, a Beneficiary designation must be filed with the Committee during the Participant’s life on a form prescribed by the Committee; provided, however, that finalized divorce or marriage (other than a common law marriage) shall automatically revoke a previously filed Beneficiary designation, unless in the case of divorce the former spouse was not designated as the Beneficiary or in the case of marriage the Participant’s new spouse is already the designated Beneficiary.  If the Participant designates more than one Beneficiary, any payments under this Article to each Beneficiary shall be made in equal shares unless the Participant has designated otherwise, in which case the payments shall be made in the shares designated by the Participant.  If no person has been

 

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                                                designated as the Participant’s Beneficiary, if a Participant’s Beneficiary designation has been revoked by marriage or divorce, or if no person designated as Beneficiary survives the Participant, the Participant’s estate shall be his Beneficiary.

 

ARTICLE VI

ADMINISTRATION

 

6.1                                 Administrator.  The Cinergy Corp. Benefits Committee shall be the Administrator of the Plan.  All decisions of the Committee shall be by a vote of a majority of its members and shall be final and binding.

 

6.2                                 Notices.  Any notice or filing required or permitted to be given to the Committee under the Plan shall be sufficient if it is in writing and is hand delivered, or sent by registered or certified mail, to any member of the Committee or its designate.  The notice or filing shall be deemed made as of the date of delivery, or if delivery is made by mail, as of the date shown on the postmark on the receipt for registration or certification.

 

6.3                                 Powers and Duties of the Committee.  Subject to the specific limitations stated in this Plan, the Committee shall have the following powers, duties, and responsibilities:  to carry out the general administration of the Plan; to cause to be prepared all forms necessary or appropriate for the administration of the Plan; to keep appropriate books and records; to determine amounts to be distributed to Participants and Beneficiaries under the provisions of the Plan; to determine, consistent with the provisions of this instrument, all questions of eligibility, rights, and status of Participants and Beneficiaries under the Plan; to issue, amend, and rescind rules relating to the administration of the Plan, to the extent those rules are consistent with the provisions of this document; to exercise all other powers and duties specifically conferred upon the Committee elsewhere in this document; and to interpret, with discretionary authority, the provisions of this Plan and to resolve, with discretionary authority, all disputed questions of Plan interpretation and benefit eligibility.

 

ARTICLE VII

AMENDMENT AND TERMINATION

 

7.1                                 Amendment.  The Company reserves the right to amend the Plan at any time by action of the Board of Directors or the Committee.  The Company, however, may not make any amendment that reduces a Participant’s benefits accrued as of the date of the amendment unless the Participant consents in writing to the amendment.  Notwithstanding the foregoing, the Company may not amend any of the provisions of Section 5.2 within three years of a Change in Control.

 

7.2                                 Termination.  The Company reserves the right to terminate the Plan, by action of the Board of Directors or the Committee, at any time it deems appropriate.  Upon

 

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                                                termination of the Plan, no further contribution shall be made to the Plan.  Subject to Section 5.2, distribution following termination of the Plan shall be made at the time and under the terms and conditions as the Company, in its sole discretion, shall determine, which shall commence no later than the earlier of a Participant’s death or Termination of Employment.

 

ARTICLE VIII

MISCELLANEOUS

 

8.1                                 Relationship.  Notwithstanding any other provision of this Plan, this Plan and action taken pursuant to it shall not be deemed or construed to establish a trust or fiduciary relationship of any kind between or among the Company, Participants, Beneficiaries or any other persons.  The Plan is intended to be unfunded for purposes of the Code and ERISA.  The rights of Participants and Beneficiaries to receive payment of deferred compensation under the Plan is strictly a contractual right of payment, and this Plan does not grant, nor shall it be deemed to grant Participants, Beneficiaries, or any other person any interest or right to any of the funds, property, or assets of the Employer other than as an unsecured general creditor of the Employer.

 

8.2                                 Other Benefits and Plans.  Nothing in this Plan shall be deemed to prevent Participants from receiving, in addition to the benefits provided for under this Plan, any funds that may be distributable to them at any time under any other present or future retirement or incentive plan of the Employer.

 

8.3                                 Anticipation of Benefits.  Neither Participants nor Beneficiaries shall have the power to transfer, assign, anticipate, pledge, alienate, or otherwise encumber in advance any of the payments that may become due under this Plan, and any attempt to do so shall be void.  Any payments that may become due under this Plan shall not be subject to attachment, garnishment, execution, or be transferable by operation of law in the event of bankruptcy, insolvency, or otherwise.

 

8.4                                 No Guarantee of Continued Employment.  Nothing contained in this Plan or any action taken under the Plan shall be construed as a contract of employment or as giving any Participant any right to be retained in employment with the Employer.  The Employer specifically reserves the right to terminate any Participant’s employment at any time with or without cause, and with or without notice or assigning a reason, subject to the terms of any written employment agreement between the Participant and the Employer.

 

8.5                                 Waiver of Breach.  The Company’s or the Committee’s waiver of any Plan provision shall not operate or be construed as a waiver of any subsequent breach by the Participant.

 

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8.6                                 Protective Provisions.  Each Participant shall cooperate with the Company and the Committee by furnishing any and all information requested by the Company or the Committee in order to facilitate the payment of benefits under the Plan, and by taking any other relevant action as may be requested by the Company or the Committee.  If any Participant refuses so to cooperate, the Company shall have no further obligation to the Participant or his Beneficiary under this Plan, other than to distribute to the Participant the  cumulative contributions that have been made on his behalf, pursuant to the Plan; provided, however, that the Committee may determine that benefits may be payable in an amount reduced to compensate the Company for any loss, cost, damage, or expense suffered or incurred by the Company as a result in any way of the Participant’s action or failure to act.

 

8.7                                 Benefit.  This Plan shall be binding upon and inure to the benefit of the Employer and its successors and assigns.

 

8.8                                 Responsibility for Legal Effect.  Neither the Committee nor the Company makes any recommendations or warranties, express or implied, or assumes any responsibility concerning the legal context or other implications or effects of this Plan.

 

8.9                                 Tax Withholding.  The Employer shall withhold from any contributions or from any payment made under the Plan such amount or amounts as may be required by applicable federal, State, or local laws.

 

                Cinergy Corp. has caused this document to be executed by its duly authorized officer, as of the 20th day of December, 2002.

 

 

/s/  Timothy J. Verhagen

By:

 

 

Timothy J. Verhagen

 

Vice President

 

Human Resources

 


EX-10.KKK 20 a04-1370_1ex10dkkk.htm EX-10.KKK

Exhibit 10.kkk

 

 

(NOTE:

 

THIS TABLE OF CONTENTS IS NOT PART OF THE CINERGY CORP. EXCESS PENSION PLAN; INSTEAD, THIS TABLE OF CONTENTS IS MERELY FOR CONVENIENCE OF REFERENCE.)

 

TABLE OF CONTENTS

 

INTRODUCTION

 

 

 

 

ARTICLE 1

DEFINITIONS

 

 

 

 

ARTICLE 2

EFFECTIVE DATE OF PLAN

 

 

 

 

ARTICLE 3

ELIGIBILITY AND PARTICIPATION

 

 

 

 

ARTICLE 4

BENEFITS

 

 

 

 

ARTICLE 5

SPOUSE’S BENEFIT

 

5.1

Determination of Spouse’s Benefit

 

5.2

Method of Payment of Spouse’s Benefit

 

 

 

 

ARTICLE 6

MANNER OF PAYMENT

 

6.1

Form of Payment

 

6.2

Timing of Payment

 

6.3

Method of Payments

 

6.4

Small Benefits

 

6.5

Facility of Payment

 

 

 

 

ARTICLE 7

NONALIENATION OF BENEFITS

 

 

 

 

ARTICLE 8

ADMINISTRATION

 

8.1

Administrator

 

8.2

Removal and Replacement of Committee Members

 

8.3

Disqualification and Resignation

 

8.4

Chairperson, Services, and Counsel

 

8.5

Meetings

 

8.6

Quorum

 

8.7

Action Without Meeting

 

8.8

Correction of Defects

 

8.9

Reliance Upon Legal Counsel

 

8.10

Expenses

 

8.11

Indemnification

 

8.12

Powers and Duties of Committee

 

 



 

ARTICLE 9

BENEFIT CLAIMS PROCEDURES

 

 

 

 

ARTICLE 10

FUNDING POLICY AND METHOD

 

 

 

 

ARTICLE 11

CONTRIBUTIONS

 

 

 

 

ARTICLE 12

MISCELLANEOUS

 

12.1

No Enlargement of Employee Benefits

 

12.2

Notice of Address

 

12.3

Data

 

12.4

No Individual Liability

 

12.5

Governing Laws

 

12.6

Severability

 

12.7

Interpretation and Regulation of Plan

 

12.8

Communication by Participants

 

12.9

Headings

 

 

 

 

ARTICLE 13

CONTINUED APPROVAL OF CINERGY’S PENSION PLAN

 

 

 

 

ARTICLE 14

AMENDMENT AND TERMINATION

 

14.1

Authority to Amend

 

14.2

Merger,  Consolidation, or Change in Control

 

 

 

 

ARTICLE 15

PARTICIPATION BY OTHER EMPLOYERS

 

15.1

Adoption of the Plan

 

15.2

Withdrawal from Participation

 

15.3

Cinergy as Agent for Employers

 

 

 

 

ARTICLE 16

CONTINUANCE BY A SUCCESSOR

 

 

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Adopted by the Board of Directors

 

CINERGY CORP.

EXCESS PENSION PLAN

 

(As Amended and Restated Effective January 1, 1998)

 

INTRODUCTION

 

Effective January 1, 1986, PSI Energy, Inc. (formerly Public Service Company of Indiana, Inc. (“PSI”), adopted an excess benefit plan intended to provide to employees benefits that were above the level of benefits available under PSI’s qualified pension plan.  This plan was originally named the “PSI Energy, Inc. Supplemental Pension Plan.”  Effective January 1, 1989, the Plan was restated and renamed the “PSI Energy, Inc. Excess Benefit Plan.”

 

As a result of a corporate reorganization and merger that became effective October 24, 1994 (the “Merger”), PSI and The Cincinnati Gas & Electric Company (“CG&E”) became wholly-owned subsidiaries of Cinergy Corp. (“Cinergy”), a public utility holding company under the Public Utility Holding Company Act of 1935.  Effective January 1, 1997, the PSI Energy, Inc. Excess Benefit Plan was renamed the “Cinergy Corp. Excess Pension Plan” (the “Plan”), and the Plan became applicable to Cinergy and any employer (as defined in the Plan) that adopts the Plan with the consent of Cinergy.  PSI became a participating employer effective January 1, 1986.  CG&E, Union Light, Heat & Power Company, and Lawrenceburg Gas Company became participating employers effective January 1, 1997, and Cinergy Resources, Inc., Cinergy Services, Inc., Cinergy Capital & Trading, Inc., and Cinergy Solutions, Inc. became participating employers effective January 1, 1998.

 

The purpose of the Plan is to restore benefits earned, but not available, to certain Employees because of certain legal limits imposed on qualified retirement plan benefits by the Code.  The Plan is a nonqualified plan.

 

This document is a continuation of and complete restatement of the Plan.  The Plan, as effective January 1, 1998, is set forth in its entirety.

 

 

ARTICLE 1

DEFINITIONS

 

As used in the document, the following words and phrases, when capitalized, will have the meanings set forth below, unless a different meaning is plainly required by the context:

 

1.1                                 “Actuarial Equivalent” means “Actuarial Equivalent” as defined in Cinergy’s Pension Plan.

 



 

1.2                                 “Affiliate” means any employer that together with an Employer is under common control or a member of an affiliated service group as determined under Code subsections 414(b), (c), (m) and (o).

 

1.3                                 “Beneficiary” means, with respect to each Participant, the person or persons who are entitled to receive benefits under the Plan after the Participant’s death.

 

1.4                                 “Board of Directors” means the duly constituted board of directors of Cinergy on the applicable date.

 

1.5                                 “Change in Control” means “Change in Control” as defined in Cinergy’s Pension Plan.

 

1.6                                 “Cinergy” means Cinergy Corp., a Delaware corporation, and any corporation that succeeds to its business and adopts the Plan.

 

1.7                                 “Cinergy’s Pension Plan” means the Code qualified pension plan known as the “Cinergy Corp. Non-Union Employees’ Pension Plan,” as amended from time to time.

 

1.8                                 “Claimant” means a person submitting a claim for benefits under the Plan.

 

1.9                                 “Code” means the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended from time to time, and interpretive rulings and regulations.

 

1.10                           “Committee” means the benefits committee established pursuant to Article 8 (Administration) to serve as administrator of the Plan.

 

1.11                           “Contingent Annuitant” means, with respect to any Participant electing a contingent pension option under Cinergy’s Pension Plan, the person designated by the Participant to receive a contingent pension after the Participant’s death.

 

1.12                           “Employee” means any person employed by an Employer.

 

1.13                           “Employer” means Cinergy and any Affiliate which, with the consent of the Board of Directors, elects to participate in the Plan pursuant to Section 15.1 (Adoption of Plan) and any successor corporation or other organization or entity that adopts the Plan pursuant to Article 16 (Continuance by a Successor).  If an Affiliate withdraws from participation in the Plan pursuant to Section 15.2 (Withdrawal from Participation), that Affiliate will cease to be an Employer.

 

1.14                           “Insolvent” means, with respect to Cinergy, Cinergy being unable to pay its debts as they are due, or Cinergy being subject to a pending proceeding as a debtor under the United States Bankruptcy Code.

 

1.15                           “Maximum Benefit” means the monthly equivalent of the maximum benefit permitted after applying Code subsections 415(b) and (e) and Code paragraph 401(a)(17) payable to a Participant under Cinergy’s Pension Plan.

 

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1.16                           “Participant” means any Employee who has met the eligibility requirements set forth in Article 3 (Eligibility and Participation) and for whom benefits are to be provided under the Plan.

 

1.17                           “Plan” means the unfunded excess pension plan known as the “Cinergy Corp. Excess Pension Plan,” as amended from time to time.  Effective January 1, 1998, this document sets forth the Plan.

 

1.18                           “Plan Year” means the calendar year.

 

1.19                           “Rabbi Trust” means the grantor trust that Cinergy, in its sole discretion, may establish pursuant to Article 10 (Funding Policy and Method) for the deposit of funds to be used for the exclusive purpose of paying benefits accrued under the Plan, subject to the claims of Cinergy’s general creditors in the event Cinergy becomes Insolvent.

 

1.20                           “Retirement Date” means, with respect to any Participant, the same date as the Participant’s “normal retirement date,” “early retirement date,” or “severance from service date” (as those terms are defined in Cinergy’s Pension Plan), whichever is applicable to the Participant, under Cinergy’s Pension Plan.

 

1.21                           “Spouse” means, with respect to any Participant, the Participant’s lawfully married Spouse, if any, on the applicable date.  The Plan will not recognize common law marriages or similar arrangements unless required to do so by federal law.

 

1.22                           “Unrestricted Benefit” means, with respect to any Participant, the monthly equivalent of the benefit to which the Participant would have been entitled under Cinergy’s Pension Plan, if that benefit had been determined without regard to the limitations imposed on qualified retirement plan benefits under Code subsections 415(b) and (e), and the limitation imposed on qualified retirement plan compensation under Code paragraph 401(a)(17).

 

The uses of singular and masculine words are for practical purposes only and will be deemed to include the plural and feminine, respectively, unless the context plainly indicates a distinction.  Certain other definitions, as required, appear in the following Articles of the Plan.

 

 

ARTICLE 2

EFFECTIVE DATE OF PLAN

 

The effective date of this restated Plan is January 1, 1998, as to Cinergy and will be effective with respect to any other Employer as of the date that Employer elects to participate in the Plan pursuant to Article 15 (Participation by Other Employers).

 

This restated Plan applies only to Employees who are credited with at least one “hour of service” (as defined in Cinergy’s Pension Plan) on or after January 1, 1998.  This restated Plan will not affect the rights of former Participants (and their Beneficiaries) who retired, died, or

 

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otherwise terminated their employment with an Employer prior to January 1, 1998.  The rights, if any, of those former Participants (and their Beneficiaries), and the amount of their benefits, if any, will be governed by the Plan’s provisions as the same were in effect prior to January 1, 1998.

 

 

ARTICLE 3

ELIGIBILITY AND PARTICIPATION

 

Any Employee who is a participant in Cinergy’s Pension Plan on or after January 1, 1986, and whose Unrestricted Benefit would exceed his Maximum Benefit, is eligible to participate in the Plan.

 

 

ARTICLE 4

BENEFITS

 

Upon a Participant’s Retirement Date, the Participant will be entitled to a monthly benefit under this Plan that is equal in amount to the difference between his Unrestricted Benefit and his Maximum Benefit.  The benefit payable under this Plan will be calculated after the Participant’s benefits payable under Cinergy’s Pension Plan are calculated, but before benefits payable under Cinergy’s supplemental executive retirement plan known as the “Cinergy Corp. Supplemental Executive Retirement Plan,” as amended from time to time, are calculated.

 

 

ARTICLE 5

SPOUSE’S BENEFIT

 

5.1                                 Determination of Spouse’s Benefit

 

Upon a Participant’s death, if his Spouse is entitled to receive a Spouse’s benefit under Article 6 of Cinergy’s Pension Plan, his Spouse will be entitled to receive an annual benefit under this Plan that is equal to the amount the Participant would have received under Article 4 (Benefits).

 

5.2                                 Method of Payment of Spouse’s Benefit

 

Any excess pension benefits payable under this Article to a Spouse will be payable in equal monthly installments, each installment being equal to 1/12th of the annul amount as determined pursuant to this Article.  If at the date of his death a Participant had reached age 50, the first monthly installment will be payable to the Participant’s Spouse on the first day of the calendar month coincident with or following the date of the Participant’s death, if his Spouse is then living.  If at the date of his death the Participant had not reached age 50, the first monthly installment will be payable to the Participant’s Spouse on the first day of the calendar month coincident with or following the date the Participant would have reached age 50, had he survived until that date if his Spouse is then living.  In either event, subsequent monthly installments will

 

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be payable on the first day of each month and will cease upon the payment of the installment due on the first day of the calendar month in which the Spouse dies.

 

 

ARTICLE 6

MANNER OF PAYMENT

 

6.1                                 Form of Payment

 

The form of an excess pension payable under the Plan to a Participant will be the same form in which the pension is payable to the Participant under Article 7 of Cinergy’s Pension Plan.

 

6.2                                 Timing of Payment

 

The payment of a Participant’s excess pension benefits under this Plan will begin as of the same date his benefits under Cinergy’s Pension Plan begin.

 

6.3                                 Method of Payments

 

The method of payment of an excess pension payable to a Participant under the Plan will be the same method of payment applicable to the Participant under Article 8 of Cinergy’s Pension Plan.

 

6.4                                 Small Benefits

 

Notwithstanding any other provision of the Plan, where the Actuarial Equivalent present value of a Participant’s or Spouse’s excess pension payable under this Plan does not exceed $5,000, the Committee or its designee will pay the excess pension in a single-sum cash payment equal to the Actuarial Equivalent of the excess pension otherwise payable.

 

6.5                                 Facility of Payment

 

If any benefit under the Plan is payable to a person whom the Committee knows is a minor or otherwise under legal incapacity, the Committee or its designee may have the payment made to the legal guardian of that person or to the person or organization as a court of competent jurisdiction may direct.  To the extent permitted by law, any payment under this Section will be a complete discharge of any liability under the Plan to that person.

 

 

ARTICLE 7

NONALIENATION OF BENEFITS

 

The Plan will not in any manner be liable for, or subject to, the debts or liabilities of any Participant, Beneficiary, Contingent Annuitant, Spouse, or any other person entitled to any Plan benefit.  No Payee may assign any payment due him under the Plan.  No pension or other

 

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benefits at any time payable under the Plan will be subject in any manner to anticipation, alienation, sale, transfer, assignment, pledge, attachment, garnishment, levy, execution, or other legal or equitable process, or encumbrance of any kind.  Any attempt to alienate, sell, transfer, assign, or otherwise encumber any such benefit, whether presently or thereafter payable, will be void.

 

 

ARTICLE 8

ADMINISTRATION

 

8.1                                 Administrator

 

The Benefits Committee will be the administrator of the Plan.  The Committee will consist of the number of members, not fewer than three, that is specified from time to time by the Board of Directors or its designee.  All members of the Committee will be employees or officers of an Employer.  All members of the Committee will serve without compensation.

 

8.2                                 Removal and Replacement of Committee Members

 

The members of the Committee will serve at the pleasure of the Board of Directors and may be removed by the Board of Directors with or without cause.  Any vacancy among the members will be filled by the Board of Directors or its designee.

 

8.3                                 Disqualification and Resignation

 

On the date when a Committee member is neither an Employee nor an officer of an Employer, he will be disqualified from membership on the Committee.  A member of the Committee may resign by delivering his written resignation to any other member of the Committee.  A resignation will become effective on the date specified in the instrument of resignation.

 

8.4                                 Chairperson, Services, and Counsel

 

The members of the Committee will elect one of their members as Chairperson and will elect a Secretary, who may be, but need not be, one of the members of the Committee.  Cinergy will provide the Committee, at Cinergy’s expense, with such clerical, accounting, actuarial, and other services as may be reasonably required by the Committee in carrying out its responsibilities.  The Committee may employ counsel, who may be, but need not be, counsel to Cinergy.

 

8.5                                 Meetings

 

The Committee will hold meetings upon such notice, at the places, and at the times as the Committee may from time to time determine.

 

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8.6                                 Quorum

 

A majority of the members of the Committee at the time holding office will constitute a quorum for the transaction of business.  All resolutions and other action taken by the Committee at any meeting will be by the vote of the majority of the members of the Committee present at the meeting.

 

8.7                                 Action Without Meeting

 

Any decision, order, direction, or other action made in writing signed by a majority of the members of the Committee at the time holding office will constitute valid and effective action of the Committee, whether or not the matter to which that decision, order, directions, or other action pertains had already been acted upon at a duly called and held meeting of the Committee.

 

8.8                                 Correction of Defects

 

The Committee may correct any defect or supply any omission or reconcile any error or inconsistency in its previous proceedings, decisions, orders, directions, or other actions in the manner and to the extent as it deems advisable to carry out the Plan’s purposes.

 

8.9                                 Reliance Upon Legal Counsel

 

The members of the Committee, and Cinergy and its officers and directors, will be entitled to rely upon all opinions given by legal counsel selected by the Committee.

 

8.10                           Expenses

 

In the performance of its duties, the Committee is authorized to incur reasonable expenses, including counsel fees, which will be paid by Employers.

 

8.11                           Indemnification

 

Cinergy agrees to indemnify and hold harmless each member of the Committee against any cost, expenses, or liability (including any sum paid in settlement of any claim with the approval of the Board of Directors) arising out of any act or omission to act as a member of the Committee, except only acts and omissions representing willful misconduct, fraud, or lack of good faith.

 

8.12                           Powers and Duties of Committee

 

Subject to the specific limitations stated in this document, the Committee will have the following powers, duties, and responsibilities.

 

(a)                                  to carry out the Plan’s general administration;

 

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(b)                                 to cause to be prepared all forms necessary or appropriate for the Plan’s administration;

 

(c)                                  to keep appropriate books and records, including minutes of the Committee’s meetings;

 

(d)                                 to give directions as to the amounts to be disbursed to Participant and others under the Plan’s provisions;

 

(e)                                  to determine, with discretionary authority and consistent with the provisions of this document, all questions of the eligibility, rights, and status of Participants and others under the Plan;

 

(f)                                    to exercise all other powers and duties specifically conferred upon the Committee elsewhere in this document;

 

(g)                                 to interpret, with discretionary authority, the provisions of the Plan and to resolve, with discretionary authority, all disputed questions of Plan interpretation and benefit eligibility; and

 

(h)                                 to employ agents to assist it in performing its administrative duties.

 

The Committee will at all times make similar decisions on similar questions involving similar circumstances.  Subject to the provisions of Article 9 (Benefit Claims Procedures), all decisions of the Committee made in good faith on all matters within the scope of its authority under the provisions of this document will be final and binding upon all persons.

 

 

ARTICLE 9

BENEFIT CLAIMS PROCEDURES

 

Claims for benefits under the Plan will be made in writing to the Committee or its designee.  If a claim for benefits is wholly or partially denied, the Committee or its designee will notify the Claimant of the claim’s denial within a reasonable period of time.  The Committee or its designee is authorized to develop more fully the Plan’s benefit claims procedures by establishing from time to time various rules and procedures.

 

Within 60 days after the Claimant’s receipt of written notice of the claim’s denial, the Claimant, or his duly authorized representative, may file a written request with the Committee requesting a full and fair review of the denial of the Claimant’s claim for benefits.  In connection with the Claimant’s appeal of the denial of his claim for benefits, the Claimant may review pertinent documents in the Committee’s possession and may submit issues and comments in writing.  The Committee will make a decision on review promptly after receipt of the Claimant’s request for review.  The decision on review will be in writing and written in a manner calculated to be understood by the Claimant, and will set forth the specific reason or reasons for the decision and will contain a specific reference to the pertinent Plan provisions on which the

 

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decision is based.  If the decision on review is not furnished to the Claimant within 60 days of receipt of the request for review, the claim will be deemed denied on review.

 

 

ARTICLE 10

FUNDING POLICY AND METHOD

 

The Plan will be totally unfunded, so that the Employer’s obligation to pay benefits under the Plan is merely a contractual duty to make payments when due under the Plan.  The Employer’s promise to pay benefits under the Plan will be unsecured, will be paid out of the Employer’s general assets and, except as provided in the following Paragraph, Cinergy will not set aside or segregate assets for the purpose of paying benefits under the Plan.

 

Notwithstanding the preceding paragraph, Cinergy, in its sole discretion, may establish a Rabbi Trust.  The Employer, in its sole discretion, may make such contributions to the Rabbi Trust as the Committee determines are appropriate to enable the Employer to pay benefits under the Plan.  Any Rabbi Trust established under this Article will be created pursuant to a written trust document that substantially conforms to the model form of rabbi trust agreement approved by the Internal Revenue Service in Revenue Procedure 92-64 (as amended from time to time).

 

 

ARTICLE 11

CONTRIBUTIONS

 

No contributions to the Plan by Participants will be required or permitted under the Plan.

 

During the continuance of the Plan and for purposes of providing the benefits contemplated under the Plan, each Employer intends to pay out of its general assets, from time to time, those sums of money which the Committee deems sufficient to provide the benefits under the Plan.

 

 

ARTICLE 12

MISCELLANEOUS

 

12.1                           No Enlargement of Employee Benefits

 

This Plan is strictly a voluntary undertaking on the part of each Employer and will not be deemed to constitute a contract between the Employer and any Employee or to be consideration for, or an inducement to, or a condition of, the employment of any Employee.  Nothing contained in the Plan will be deemed to give any Employee the right to be retained in the service of any Employer or to interfere with the right of any Employer to discharge any Employee at any time.  No person will have any right to benefits except to the extent provided in the Plan.

 

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12.2                           Notice of Address

 

Each Participant, former Participant, Beneficiary, Contingent Annuitant, and Spouse entitled to benefits under the Plan must submit to the Committee or its designee his post office address and each change of post office address.  Any communication, statement or notice addressed to a person at his latest post office address as filed with the Committee or its designee will, upon deposit in the United States mail with postage prepaid, be binding upon that person for all Plan purposes, and the Committee will not be obligated to search for, or to ascertain the whereabouts of, any person, except as otherwise required by law.

 

12.3                           Data

 

Participants, former Participants, Beneficiaries, Contingent Annuitants, and Spouses must furnish to the Committee or its designee any documents, evidence, or information that the Committee considers necessary or desirable for the purpose of administering the Plan, or to protect the Committee; and it will be a condition of the Plan that each person must furnish this information promptly and sign required documents before any benefits become payable under the Plan.

 

12.4                           No Individual Liability

 

It is the express purpose and intention of the Plan that no individual liability whatever will attach to, or be incurred by, the shareholders, officers, or members of the board of directors of any Employer, or the Committee or its members, or any fiduciary designated pursuant to Section 8.12 (Powers and Duties of Committee), or any representative appointed by Cinergy, under or by reason of any of the terms or conditions of the Plan.

 

12.5                           Governing Laws

 

The Plan will be construed and administered according to the internal laws of the State of Ohio to the extent that those laws are not preempted by federal law.

 

12.6                           Severability

 

If any part of the Plan is adjudged by a court of competent jurisdiction to be contrary to the laws governing the Plan, then the Plan will, in all other respects, be and remain legally effective and binding to the full extent permissible under the law.

 

12.7                           Interpretation and Regulation of Plan

 

Cinergy, by action of the Committee, reserves the right to interpret and regulate the Plan, by exercise of discretionary authority, and its interpretation and regulations will be legally effective and binding on all parties concerned.

 

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12.8                           Communication by Participants

 

All communications by Participants, former Participants and other concerned parties concerning the Plan must be in writing and directed to Cinergy’s General Manager, Benefits, 1000 East Main Street, Plainfield, Indiana 46168.

 

12.9                           Headings

 

The headings of Articles, Sections, Subsections, and Paragraphs, or other parts of the Plan are for convenience of references only and do not define, limit, construe, or otherwise affect the contents of this document.

 

 

ARTICLE 13

CONTINUED APPROVAL OF CINERGY’S PENSION PLAN

 

The Plan, as set forth in this document, is intended to provide retirement benefits supplemental to those provided under Cinergy’s Pension Plan.  The Plan’s implementation and continuance are expressly conditioned upon the absence of any disqualifying effects of implementation and continuance upon Cinergy’s Pension Plan under the Code.  Any modification, amendment, or termination of the Plan may be made, retroactive or otherwise, as necessary or appropriate to maintain the qualification of Cinergy’s Pension Plan under the Code or to otherwise cause Cinergy’s Pension Plan to comply with any applicable requirements of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974, as amended from time to time.

 

 

ARTICLE 14

AMENDMENT AND TERMINATION

 

14.1                           Authority to Amend

 

Cinergy, by resolution of the Board of Directors or by any person or persons duly authorized by resolution by Cinergy’s Board of Directors, will have the right, authority, and power to alter, amend, modify, revoke, or terminate the Plan, and Cinergy, by resolution of the Board of Directors or by any person or persons duly authorized by resolution by the Board of Directors, will also have the right, authority, and power to terminate the Plan and to discontinue or suspend the payment of benefits under the Plan.

 

14.2                           Merger,  Consolidation, or Change in Control

 

If Cinergy should be reorganized by merger, consolidation, transfer of assets, or otherwise, so that a corporation, partnership, or person shall succeed to all or substantially all of Cinergy’s business, or a Change in Control occurs, then the obligations and responsibilities of Cinergy under the Plan will be assumed by any successor, acquiring corporation, or controlling entity, and all of the rights, privileges, and benefits of the Participants under the Plan will continue.  Notwithstanding the provisions of Section 14.1 (Authority to Amend), the provisions

 

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of this Section may not be amended by an amendment to the Plan effective within three years of the occurrence of any of the events described in the preceding sentence.

 

 

ARTICLE 15

PARTICIPATION BY OTHER EMPLOYERS

 

15.1                           Adoption of the Plan

 

With Cinergy’s consent, any Affiliate may become a participating Employer under the Plan by (a) taking any action necessary to adopt the Plan, (b) filing with Cinergy a duly certified copy of the Plan as adopted by the Affiliate, and (c) executing and delivering any documents and taking any other action as may be necessary or desirable to put the Plan into effect with respect to that corporation or entity.

 

15.2                           Withdrawal from Participation

 

Any Employer, may with Cinergy’s consent, withdraw from participation in the Plan at any time by filing with Cinergy a duly certified copy of a resolution of its board of directors to that effect and giving notice of its intended withdrawal to Cinergy prior to the effective date of withdrawal.

 

15.3                           Cinergy as Agent for Employers

 

Each Affiliate that becomes a participating Employer pursuant to Section 15.1 (Adoption of the Plan) or Article 16 (Continuance by a Successor) by so doing will be deemed to have appointed Cinergy its agent to exercise on its behalf all of the powers and authorities conferred upon Cinergy by the terms of the Plan, including, but not limited to, the power to amend and terminate the Plan.  Each Employer must, from time to time, upon Cinergy’s request, furnish to Cinergy any data and information as Cinergy requires in the performance of its duties.

 

 

ARTICLE 16

CONTINUANCE BY A SUCCESSOR

 

If Cinergy or any other Employee is reorganized by way of merger, consolidation, transfer of assets, or otherwise, so that a corporation, partnership, or person other than an Employer succeeds to all or substantially all of an Employer’s business, the successor may be substituted for the Employer under the Plan by adopting the Plan.  Benefit payments by the Employer will be automatically suspended from the effective date of any reorganization until the date upon which the substitution of the successor corporation for the Employer under the Plan becomes effective.  If, within 90 days following the effective date of any reorganization, the successor has not elected to become a party to the Plan, or if the Employer adopts a plan of complete liquidation other than in connection with a reorganization, the Plan will be automatically terminated with respect to employees of that Employer as of the close of business

 

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on the 90th day following the effective date of the reorganization or as of the close of business on the date of adoption of the plan of complete liquidation, as the case may be.

 

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, Cinergy Corp. has caused this Plan document to be executed and approved by its duly authorized officers, effective as of January 1, 1998.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

BY:

/s/  Madeleine W. Ludlow

 

 

 

 

 

Madeleine W. Ludlow

 

 

 

 

 

Vice President and Chief Financial Officer

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Dated:

January 1, 1998

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

APPROVED:

 

 

 

 

 

/s/  Jerome A. Vennemann

 

 

 

 

 

Jerome A. Vennemann

 

 

 

 

 

Acting General Counsel and

 

 

 

 

 

Assistant Corporate Secretary

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Dated:

January 1, 1998

 

 

 

 

 

 

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EX-10.LLL 21 a04-1370_1ex10dlll.htm EX-10.LLL

Exhibit 10-lll

 

Adopted by the Cinergy Corp.

Benefits Committee on August 29, 2002

 

 

AMENDMENT TO THE

CINERGY CORP. EXCESS PENSION PLAN

 

 

The Cinergy Corp. Excess Pension Plan, as amended and restated effective as of January 1, 1998 (the “Plan”), is hereby amended effective as of August 29, 2002.


(1)           Explanation of Amendment

 

The Plan is amended to provide certain participants with the opportunity to make an election to receive their Plan benefits in a single lump sum under certain circumstances following a Change in Control.  The Plan is further amended to provide that nonelective employer contributions made on behalf of a participant under the Cinergy Corp. Excess 401(k) Plan shall be taken into account when determining a participant’s Unrestricted Benefit, but only to the extent specifically provided by the Committee.

 

(2)           Amendment

 

(a)                                  Section 1.22 of the Plan is hereby amended by adding the following at the end thereof:

 

“Notwithstanding the preceding sentence, but only to the extent specified by the Committee, (a) any nonelective employer contributions (other than matching contributions) made on behalf of a Participant under the Cinergy Corp. 401(k) Excess Plan during any applicable period shall be taken into account when calculating such Participant’s Unrestricted Benefit and (b) any Participant who receives nonelective employer contributions (other than matching contributions) under the Cinergy Corp. 401(k) Excess Plan during the year in which occurs his Severance from Service Date (as defined in Cinergy’s Pension Plan) shall be treated, for purposes of calculating his Unrestricted Benefit, as if he had received Sabbatical Vacation Pay (as defined in Cinergy’s Pension Plan) in the amount that he would have received if such nonelective employer contributions were part of his Base Salary (as defined in Cinergy’s Pension Plan) during the year in which occurs his Severance from Service Date.”

 

(b)                                 Article 1 of the Plan is hereby amended by adding the following new Section 1.23 immediately following Section 1.22:

 

“1.23                     “Potential Change in Control” means any period during which any of the following circumstances exist:

 

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(a)                                  Cinergy enters into an agreement, the consummation of which would result in the occurrence of a Change in Control; provided that a Potential Change in Control shall cease to exist upon the expiration or other termination of such agreement; or

 

(b)                                 Cinergy or any Person publicly announces an intention to take or to consider taking actions which, if consummated, would constitute a Change in Control; provided that a Potential Change in Control shall cease to exist when Cinergy or such Person publicly announces that it no longer has such an intention; or

 

(c)                                  Any Person who is or becomes the beneficial owner (as defined in Rule 13d-3 under the Securities Exchange Act), directly or indirectly, of securities of Cinergy representing ten percent (10%) or more of the combined voting power of Cinergy’s then outstanding securities, increases such Person’s beneficial ownership of such securities by an amount equal to five percent (5%) or more of the combined voting power of Cinergy’s then outstanding securities; or

 

(d)                                 The Board of Directors adopts a resolution to the effect that, for purposes hereof, a Potential Change in Control has occurred.

 

Notwithstanding anything herein to the contrary, a Potential Change in Control shall cease to exist not later than the date that (i) the Board of Directors determines that the Potential Change in Control no longer exists, or (ii) a Change in Control occurs.

 

The terms “Person” and “Securities Exchange Act” where used herein shall have the meaning given to such terms in the Cinergy’s Pension Plan.”

 

(c)                                  Article 6 of the Plan is hereby amended by adding the following new Section 6.6 at the end thereof:

 

“6.6         Special Payment Election Effective Upon a Change in Control.

 

Notwithstanding any other provision of this Plan, each Participant who is designated as a “Selected Participant” by the Committee (a “Selected Participant”) shall be entitled to make a special payment election in accordance with the provisions of this Section 6.6.

 

(a)                                       Distribution Pursuant to Special Payment Election.  A Selected Participant may elect, on a form provided by the Committee, to receive a single lump sum cash payment in an amount equal to the Actuarial Equivalent (as defined below) of his benefits under the

 

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                                                   Plan (or the Actuarial Equivalent of his remaining benefits under the Plan in the event that payment of his benefits under the Plan has already commenced) payable no later than 30 days after the later of the occurrence of a Change in Control or the date of his termination of employment with Cinergy and its Affiliates.

 

(b)                           Effectiveness of Special Payment Election.  An election made pursuant to this Section shall become operative only upon the occurrence of a Change in Control and only if the Participant’s termination of employment with Cinergy and its Affiliates occurs either (1) prior to the occurrence of a Change in Control or (2) during the 24-month period commencing upon the occurrence of a Change in Control.  Once operative, such special payment election shall override any other payment election made by the Participant with respect to his benefits under the Plan.

 

(c)                            Deadline for Special Payment Election.  In order to be effective, an election made pursuant to this Section must be made either prior to the occurrence of a Potential Change in Control or, with the consent of the Committee, during the thirty-day period commencing upon the occurrence of a Potential Change in Control.  In the event that a Potential Change in Control occurs and subsequently ceases to exist, other than as a result of a Change in Control, such Potential Change in Control shall be disregarded for purposes of this Section.

 

(d)                           Withdrawal of Special Payment Election.  A Selected Participant may withdraw, on a form provided by the Committee, a special payment election made by him pursuant to this Section at anytime specified in the first sentence of Section 6.6(c).

 

(e)                            In the event a Selected Participant makes a special payment election and pursuant to that election becomes entitled to receive a single lump sum cash payment pursuant to this Section payable prior to the commencement of the payment of his benefits, for purposes of this Section the Actuarial Equivalent of his benefits under the Plan shall be calculated based on the following assumptions:

 

 (I)                                      The form of payment for each of the Selected Participant’s retirement benefits under the Plan and Cinergy’s Pension Plan shall be a single life annuity;

 

 (II)                                  The commencement date for each of the Selected Participant’s retirement benefits under the Plan and Cinergy’s Pension Plan shall be the first day of the calendar

 

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                                                   month coincident with or next following the later of his Severance from Service Date (as defined in Cinergy’s Pension Plan) or his 50th birthday; and

 

 (III)                              The term “Actuarial Equivalent” has the meaning given to that term in Cinergy’s Pension Plan with respect to lump sum payments.

 

(f)                              In the event a Selected Participant makes a special payment election pursuant to this Section and pursuant to that election becomes entitled to receive a single lump sum cash payment payable after the commencement of the payment of his benefits, his lump sum cash payment shall be equal to the Actuarial Equivalent (as that term is used in Cinergy’s Pension Plan with respect to lump sum payments) of his remaining benefits under the Plan.

 

(g)                           The payment of a single lump sum in cash, pursuant to this Section, to or on behalf of a Participant shall completely discharge any liability under the Plan to or on behalf of that Participant.

 

(h)                           Committee Discretion for a Lump Sum Payment.  Notwithstanding any other Section, if a Change in Control occurs, the Committee in its sole discretion may elect to accelerate the distribution of a Participant’s benefits under the Plan so that the Actuarial Equivalent of such benefits shall be distributed to the Participant (or, in the event of his death, to his Beneficiary) in a single lump sum payment no later than 30 days after the Change in Control occurs.”

 

 

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, Cinergy Corp. has caused this Amendment to be executed and approved by its duly authorized officer as of August 29, 2002.

 

 

 

/s/  Timothy J. Verhagen

 

 

By:

 

 

 

 

Timothy J. Verhagen

 

 

Vice President, Human Resources

 

 

 

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EX-10.MMM 22 a04-1370_1ex10dmmm.htm EX-10.MMM

Exhibit 10.mmm

 

Adopted by the Cinergy Corp.

Benefits Committee on October 10, 2003

 

 

AMENDMENT TO THE

CINERGY CORP. EXCESS PENSION PLAN

 

 

The Cinergy Corp. Excess Pension Plan, as amended and restated effective as of January 1, 1998, and as amended from time to time (the “Plan”), is hereby amended effective as of January 1, 2003.


(1)           Explanation of Amendment

 

The Plan is amended to clarify the relationship between the Plan and the Cinergy Corp. Non-Union Employees’ Pension Plan in light of the Retirement Choice program.  The Plan is also amended to make certain non-substantive changes.

 

(2)           Amendment

 

(a)                          Article 5 of the Plan is hereby amended by deleting the phrase “Spouse’s Benefit” in the title thereof and substituting therefor the phrase “Death Benefit.”

 

(b)                         Article 5 of the Plan is hereby amended by adding the following Section 5.3 at the end thereof:

 

“5.3         Cash Balance Participant’s Death Benefit

 

The following rules shall apply upon the death of a Participant who is classified as a “Cash Balance Participant” under Cinergy’s Pension Plan:

 

(a)                                    Spouse Beneficiary.  If a death benefit is payable under Article 6 of Cinergy’s Pension Plan on account of the Participant’s death and the Participant’s Beneficiary (as defined in Cinergy’s Pension Plan) at the date of the Participant’s death is his Spouse, such Spouse shall receive a death benefit in an amount equal to the Actuarial Equivalent (as defined in Cinergy’s Pension Plan) of the benefits that would otherwise have been payable to the Participant under the Plan.  The form of the death benefit payable to the Spouse under the Plan shall be the same form in which the Spouse’s benefit is payable under Cinergy’s Pension Plan.  The payment of the Spouse’s death benefit under the Plan shall be made, or shall commence, as of the same date as the Spouse’s benefit under Cinergy’s Pension Plan is made or commences.

 

(b)                                   Non-Spouse Beneficiary.  If a death benefit is payable under Article 6 of Cinergy’s Pension Plan on account of the Participant’s death and the

 

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Participant’s Beneficiary (as defined in Cinergy’s Pension Plan) at the date of the Participant’s death is any person other than the Participant’s Spouse, such Beneficiary shall receive a death benefit in an amount equal to the Actuarial Equivalent (as defined in Cinergy’s Pension Plan) of the benefits that would otherwise have been payable to the Participant under the Plan.  The death benefit shall be payable in the form of a single lump sum cash payment and shall be made as soon as administratively practicable following the Participant’s death.

 

(c)                                  The first sentence of Section 5.2 of the Plan is hereby amended by deleting the word “annul” where it appears therein and substituting therefor the word “annual.”  The first sentence of Article 16 of the Plan is hereby amended by deleting the word “Employee” where it appears therein and substituting therefor the word “Employer.”  The last sentence of Article 9 of the Plan is hereby deleted.

 

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, Cinergy Corp. has caused this Amendment to be executed and approved by its duly authorized officer effective as of the date set forth herein.

 

 

 

/s/  Timothy J. Verhagen

 

By:

 

 

 

Timothy J. Verhagen

 

 

Vice President of Human Resources

 

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EX-10.NNN 23 a04-1370_1ex10dnnn.htm EX-10.NNN

Exhibit 10.nnn

 

AMENDMENT TO THE

CINERGY CORP. EXCESS PENSION PLAN

 

The Cinergy Corp. Excess Pension Plan, as amended and restated effective as of January 1, 1998 and as further amended from time to time (the “Plan”), is hereby amended effective as of December 15, 2003.

 

(1)                                 Explanation of Amendment

 

The Plan is amended to provide designated participants with the opportunity to elect to receive one-half of the actuarial equivalent of their Plan benefits in a single lump sum under certain circumstances.  The Plan is further amended to provide that the Compensation Committee of the Board of Directors may from time to time designate specific amounts that shall be included in pensionable earnings for purposes of determining a specified Participant’s Plan benefits.

 

(2)           Amendment

 

(a)                                    Section 1.22 of the Plan is hereby amended by adding the following at the end thereof:

 

“The Compensation Committee of the Board of Directors from time to time, in its sole discretion, may designate other amounts that shall be taken into account when calculating a Participant’s Unrestricted Benefit.”

 

(b)                                   Section 6.1 of the Plan is hereby amended in its entirety to read as follows:

 

“Except as otherwise provided in Section 6.4 and Section 6.6 hereof, the form of an excess pension payable under the Plan to a Participant will be the same form in which the pension is payable to a Participant under Article 7 of Cinergy’s Pension Plan.”

 

(c)                                    Section 6.6 of the Plan is hereby amended by adding the following new subsection (i) at the end thereof:

 

“(i)                               Special Payment Election Without a Change in Control.  Notwithstanding the foregoing, each Participant who is designated as a “Designated Participant” by the Committee (a “Designated Participant”) may make an election, on a form provided by the Committee, to receive a single lump sum cash payment in an amount equal to one-half of the Actuarial Equivalent (as defined above in Section 6.6(e)) of his benefits under the Plan payable no later than 30 days after the date of his termination of employment with Cinergy and its Affiliates.  In order to be effective, the special payment election under this Section 6.6(i) must be made either (A) at least one year prior to the termination of the Participant’s employment with Cinergy and its Affiliates or (B) during the 2003 Plan Year and at least six months prior to the termination of the Participant’s employment with

 

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Cinergy and its Affiliates.  The lump sum amount payable pursuant to this Section 6.6(i) shall be calculated in accordance with the provisions of Section 6.6(e).  In the event an amount is paid to or on behalf of a Designated Participant pursuant to this Section 6.6(i), such payment shall discharge any liability under the Plan to or on behalf of the Designated Participant with respect to one-half of the Actuarial Equivalent (as defined above in Section 6.6(e)) of his benefits under the Plan.”

 

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, Cinergy Corp. has caused this Amendment to be executed and approved by its duly authorized officer as of the date set forth above.

 

 

 

 

 

By:

/s/  Timothy J. Verhagen

 

 

 

 

 

 

Timothy J. Verhagen

 

 

 

 

 

Vice President of Human Resources

 

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EX-10.OOO 24 a04-1370_1ex10dooo.htm EX-10.OOO

Exhibit 10.ooo

 

Adopted by the Benefits Committee

of Cinergy Corp. on December 16, 2003

 

 

AMENDMENT TO THE

CINERGY CORP. EXCESS PENSION PLAN

 

The Cinergy Corp. Excess Pension Plan, as amended and restated effective as of January 1, 1998, and as amended from time to time (the “Plan”), is hereby amended effective for compensation received on or after January 1, 2004.


(1)           Explanation of Amendment

 

The Plan is amended to provide that the benefits under the Plan shall be calculated with a cap on the amount of any bonus received on or after January 1, 2004 that will be included in eligible earnings for employees in the Cinergy Corp. Commercial Business Unit (formerly known as the Energy Merchant Business Unit).

 

(2)           Amendment

 

                                                  Article 4 of the Plan is hereby amended by adding the following at the end thereof:

 

                                                  “Effective with respect to amounts received on or after January 1, 2004, notwithstanding any other provision of the Plan, for purposes of calculating the Maximum Benefit and Unrestricted Benefit of any Participant who is an employee in the Commercial Business Unit: (i) the amount of the Annual Performance Cash Award (as defined in Cinergy’s Pension Plan) that is to be taken into account under Cinergy’s Pension Plan for a Plan Year shall not exceed the Participant’s rate of annual Base Salary or Base Wage (as those terms are defined in Cinergy’s Pension Plan), as applicable, as of the last day of the performance period for which the Annual Performance Cash Award (as defined in Cinergy’s Pension Plan) is calculated and (ii) for purposes of clarity, any amount payable under the Commercial Business Unit Annual Incentive Plan (formerly known as the Energy Merchant Business Unit Annual Incentive Plan) or any other annual incentive plan maintained by the Commercial Business Unit that is automatically deferred until a subsequent Plan Year shall not be considered as part of the Participant’s Annual Performance Cash Award (as defined in Cinergy’s Pension Plan), provided, however, that the limitations contained in this sentence shall not apply to amounts payable under the Cinergy Corp. Annual Incentive Plan.”

 

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, Cinergy Corp. has caused this Amendment to be executed and approved by its duly authorized officer as of the date set forth above.

 

 

 

 

 

By:

/s/  Timothy J. Verhagen

 

 

 

 

 

Timothy J. Verhagen

 

 

 

 

 

Vice President of Human Resources

 

 

 

 


EX-21 25 a04-1370_1ex21.htm EX-21

Exhibit 21

Subsidiary Listing

 

As of December 31, 2003, the following is a listing of the subsidiaries of each registrant in which Cinergy Corp. has a greater than 10% ownership interest in and their state or country of incorporation or organization indented to show degree of remoteness from registrant.

 

Name of Company
(Indentation indicates subsidiary relationship)

 

State or Country of
Organization or
Incorporation

 

 

 

Cinergy Corp. (1)

 

Delaware

 

 

 

Cinergy Services, Inc.

 

Delaware

 

 

 

CC Funding Trust I

 

Delaware

 

 

 

CC Funding Trust II

 

Delaware

 

 

 

Cinergy Receivables Company LLC

 

Delaware

 

 

 

The Cincinnati Gas & Electric Company (1)

 

Ohio

Cinergy Power Investments, Inc.

 

Ohio

CPI Allowance Management, LLC

 

Delaware

CPI Investments, LLC

 

Delaware

The Union Light, Heat and Power Company (1)

 

Kentucky

Tri-State Improvement Company

 

Ohio

Lawrenceburg Gas Company

 

Indiana

Miami Power Corporation

 

Indiana

KO Transmission Company

 

Kentucky

 

 

 

PSI Energy, Inc. (1)

 

Indiana

South Construction Company, Inc.

 

Indiana

 

 

 

Cinergy Investments, Inc.

 

Delaware

Cinergy-Cadence, Inc.

 

Indiana

Cadence Network, Inc.

 

Delaware

Cinergy Capital & Trading, Inc.

 

Indiana

Brownsville Power I, LLC

 

Delaware

Caledonia Power I, LLC

 

Delaware

CinPower I, LLC

 

Delaware

Cinergy Canada, Inc.

 

Canada

Cinergy Climate Change Investments LLC

 

Delaware

Cinergy Limited Holdings, LLC

 

Delaware

Cinergy Marketing & Trading, LP

 

Delaware

Ohio River Valley Propane, LLC

 

Delaware

Cinergy General Holdings, LLC

 

Delaware

Cinergy Retail Power Limited, Inc.

 

Delaware

Cinergy Retail Power, L.P.

 

Delaware

Cinergy Retail Power General, Inc.

 

Texas

Cinergy Retail Sales, LLC

 

Delaware

CinFuel Resources, Inc.

 

Delaware

LH1, LLC

 

Delaware

Oak Mountain Products, LLC

 

Delaware

Cinergy Transportation, LLC

 

Delaware

SynCap II, LLC

 

Delaware

 


(1) Companies indicated are registrants with the Securities and Exchange Commission.

 

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Cinergy Telecommunications Holding Company, Inc.

 

Delaware

Q-Comm Corporation

 

Nevada

QCC, Inc.

 

Nevada

Cinergy Communications Company

 

Kentucky

Cinergy MetroNet, Inc.

 

Indiana

Kentucky Data Link, Inc.

 

Kentucky

Chattanooga Data Link, Inc.

 

Tennessee

Cincinnati Data Link, Inc.

 

Ohio

Cinergy Telecommunication Networks – Indiana, Inc.

 

Indiana

Cinergy Telecommunication Networks – Ohio, Inc.

 

Ohio

Indianapolis Data Link, Inc.

 

Indiana

KDL Holdings, LLC

 

Delaware

Knoxville Data Link, Inc.

 

Tennessee

Lexington Data Link, Inc.

 

Kentucky

Louisville Data Link, Inc.

 

Kentucky

Memphis Data Link, Inc.

 

Tennessee

Nashville Data Link, Inc.

 

Tennessee

Lattice Communications, LLC

 

Delaware

LB Tower Company, LLC

 

Delaware

Cinergy Engineering, Inc.

 

Ohio

Cinergy-Centrus, Inc.

 

Delaware

Cinergy-Centrus Communications, Inc.

 

Delaware

Cinergy Solutions Holding Company, Inc.

 

Delaware

3036243 Nova Scotia Company

 

Canada

Cinergy Solutions Limited Partnership

 

Canada

3075959 Nova Scotia Company

 

Canada

1388368 Ontario Inc.

 

Canada

Vestar, Inc.

 

Delaware

Vestar Limited

 

Canada

Keen Rose Technology Group Limited

 

Canada

Optimira Controls, Inc.

 

Canada

Cinergy EPCOM, LLC

 

Delaware

Cinergy EPCOM College Park, LLC

 

Delaware

Cinergy Solutions, Inc.

 

Delaware

BSPE Holdings, LLC

 

Delaware

BSPE Limited, LLC

 

Delaware

BSPE, L.P.

 

Delaware

BSPE General, LLC

 

Texas

Cinergy Energy Solutions, Inc.

 

Delaware

U.S. Energy Biogas Corp

 

Delaware

Biogas Financial Corporation

 

Connecticut

ZFC Energy, Inc.

 

Delaware

Power Generation (Suffolk), Inc.

 

Delaware

Suffolk Energy Partners, L.P.

 

Virginia

Suffolk Biogas, Inc.

 

Delaware

Lafayette Energy Partners, L.P.

 

New Jersey

Taylor Energy Partners, L.P.

 

Pennsylvania

Resources Generating Systems, Inc.

 

New York

Hoffman Road Energy Partners, LLC

 

Delaware

Illinois Electrical Generation Partners, L.P.

 

Delaware

Zapco Illinois Energy, Inc.

 

Delaware

Avon Energy Partners, L.L.C.

 

Illinois

Devonshire Power Partners, L.L.C.

 

Illinois

Riverside Resource Recovery, L.L.C.

 

Illinois

Illinois Electrical Generation Partners II L.P.

 

Delaware

BMC Energy, LLC

 

Delaware

Brookhaven Energy Partners, LLC

 

New York

Countryside Genco, L.L.C.

 

Delaware

Morris Genco, L.L.C.

 

Delaware

Brickyard Energy Partners, LLC

 

Delaware

 



 

Dixon/Lee Energy Partners, LLC

 

Delaware

Roxanna Resource Recovery L.L.C.

 

Illinois

Streator Energy Partners, LLC

 

Delaware

Upper Rock Energy Partners, LLC

 

Delaware

Barre Energy Partners, L.P.

 

Delaware

Biomass New Jersey L.L.C.

 

New Jersey

Brown County Energy Associates, LLC

 

Delaware

Burlington Energy, Inc.

 

Vermont

Cape May Energy Associates, L.P.

 

Delaware

Dunbarton Energy Partners, Limited Partnership

 

New Hampshire

Garland Energy Development, LLC

 

Delaware

Oceanside Energy, Inc.

 

New York

Onondaga Energy Partners, L.P.

 

New York

Oyster Bay Energy Partners, L.P.

 

New York

Smithtown Energy Partners, L.P.

 

New York

Springfield Energy Associates Limited Partnership

 

Vermont

Suffolk Transmission Partner, L.P.

 

Delaware

Tucson Energy Partners LP

 

Delaware

Zapco Broome Nanticoke Corp.

 

New York

Zapco Development Corporation

 

Delaware

Zapco Energy Tactics Corporation

 

Delaware

Zapco Readville Cogeneration, Inc.

 

Delaware

ZFC Royalty Partners, A Connecticut Limited Partnership

 

Connecticut

ZMG, Inc.

 

Delaware

Cinergy GASCO Solutions, LLC

 

Delaware

Countryside Landfill Gasco., L.L.C.

 

Delaware

Morris Gasco, L.L.C.

 

Delaware

Brown County Landfill Gas Associates, L.P.

 

Delaware

Cinergy Solutions of Monaca, LLC

 

Delaware

Cinergy Solutions of Narrows, LLC

 

Delaware

Cinergy Solutions of Rock Hill, LLC

 

Delaware

Cinergy Solutions of St. Bernard, LLC

 

Delaware

Cinergy Solutions Operating Services of Lansing, LLC

 

Delaware

Cinergy Solutions Operating Services of Shreveport, LLC

 

Delaware

Cinergy Solutions Operating Services of Oklahoma, LLC

 

Delaware

Cinergy Solutions of Philadelphia, LLC

 

Delaware

Cinergy Solutions Partners, LLC

 

Delaware

CST Limited, LLC

 

Delaware

CST Green Power, L.P.

 

Delaware

Green Power Holdings, LLC

 

Delaware

Green Power Limited, LLC

 

Delaware

South Houston Green Power, L.P.

 

Delaware

Green Power G.P., LLC

 

Texas

CST General, LLC

 

Delaware

CSGP of Southeast Texas, LLC

 

Delaware

CSGP Limited, LLC

 

Delaware

CSGP Services, L.P.

 

Delaware

CSGP General, LLC

 

Texas

Lansing Grand River Utilities, LLC

 

Delaware

Oklahoma Arcadian Utilities, LLC

 

Delaware

Shreveport Red River Utilities, LLC

 

Delaware

Cinergy Solutions of Tuscola, Inc.

 

Delaware

Delta Township Utilities, LLC

 

Delaware

Energy Equipment Leasing LLC

 

Delaware

Trigen-Cinergy Solutions LLC

 

Delaware

Trigen-Cinergy Solutions of Ashtabula LLC

 

Delaware

Cinergy Solutions of Boca Raton, LLC

 

Delaware

Cinergy Solutions of Cincinnati LLC

 

Ohio

Trigen-Cinergy Solutions of Lansing LLC

 

Delaware

Trigen/Cinergy – USFOS of Lansing LLC

 

Delaware

Trigen-Cinergy Solutions of Orlando LLC

 

Delaware

 



 

Trigen-Cinergy Solutions of Owings Mills LLC

 

Delaware

Trigen-Cinergy Solutions of Owings Mills Energy Equipment Leasing, LLC

 

Delaware

Trigen-Cinergy Solutions of Rochester LLC

 

Delaware

Trigen-Cinergy Solutions of San Diego LLC

 

Delaware

Trigen-Cinergy Solutions of Silver Grove LLC

 

Delaware

Trigen-Cinergy Solutions of the Southeast LLC

 

Delaware

Cinergy Solutions of St. Paul LLC

 

Delaware

Environmental Wood Supply, LLC

 

Minnesota

St. Paul Cogeneration LLC

 

Minnesota

Trigen-Cinergy Solutions of Tuscola, LLC

 

Delaware

Cinergy Supply Network, Inc.

 

Delaware

Reliant Services, LLC

 

Indiana

MP Acquisitions Corp., Inc.

 

Indiana

Miller Pipeline Corporation

 

Indiana

Fiber Link, LLC

 

Indiana

Cinergy Technology, Inc.

 

Indiana

 

 

 

Cinergy Global Resources, Inc.

 

Delaware

Cinergy UK, Inc.

 

Delaware

Cinergy Global Power, Inc.

 

Delaware

CGP Global Greece Holdings, SA

 

Greece

Attiki Denmark ApS

 

Denmark

Attiki Gas Supply Company SA

 

Greece

Cinergy Global Chandler Holding, Inc.

 

Delaware

Cinergy Global Chandler I, Inc.

 

Delaware

Cinergy Global Ely, Inc.

 

Delaware

EPR Ely Power Limited

 

England

EPR Ely Limited

 

England

Ely Power Limited

 

England

Anglian Straw Limited

 

England

Anglian Ash Limited

 

England

Cinergy Global Foote Creek, Inc.

 

Delaware

Cinergy Global Foote Creek II, Inc.

 

Delaware

Cinergy Global Foote Creek IV, Inc.

 

Delaware

Cinergy Global Peetz Table I, Inc.

 

Delaware

Cinergy Global Power Services Limited

 

England

Cinergy Global Power (UK) Limited

 

England

Cinergy Global Trading Limited

 

England

Cinergy Trading and Marketing Limited

 

England & Wales

Commercial Electricity Supplies Limited

 

England

Cinergy Renewable Trading Limited

 

England

UK Electric Power Limited

 

England

Cinergy Global Power Iberia, S.A.

 

Spain

Cinergy Global Holdings, Inc.

 

Delaware

Cinergy Holdings B.V.

 

The Netherlands

Cinergetika U/L a.s.

 

Czech Republic

Cinergy Global Polska Sp. Z.o.o.

 

Poland

Cinergy Zambia B.V.

 

The Netherlands

Copperbelt Energy Corporation PLC

 

Republic of Zambia

Power Sports Limited

 

Republic of Zambia

Moravske Teplarny a.s.

 

Czech Republic

Cinergy Global (Cayman) Holdings, Inc.

 

Cayman Islands

Cinergy Global Hydrocarbons Pakistan

 

Cayman Islands

Cinergy Global Tsavo Power

 

Cayman Islands

IPS-Cinergy Power Limited

 

Kenya

Tsavo Power Company Limited

 

Kenya

Cinergy MPI V, Inc.

 

Cayman Islands

Cinergy Global One, Inc.

 

Delaware

CZECHPOL ENERGY spol, s.r.o.

 

Czech Republic

eVent Resources Overseas I, LLC

 

Delaware

 



 

Midlands Hydrocarbons (Bangladesh) Limited

 

England

Cinergy Global Power Africa (Proprietary) Limited

 

South Africa

 

 

 

CinTec LLC

 

Delaware

CinTec I LLC

 

Delaware

eVent Resources I LLC

 

Delaware

eVent Resources Holdings LLC

 

Delaware

CinTec II LLC

 

Delaware

 

 

 

Cinergy Technologies, Inc.

 

Delaware

Cinergy Broadband, LLC

 

Delaware

CCB Communications, LLC

 

Delaware

CCB Indiana, LLC

 

Delaware

CCB Kentucky, LLC

 

Delaware

CCB Ohio, LLC

 

Delaware

National BPL, LLC

 

Delaware

Cinergy Ventures, LLC

 

Delaware

Configured Energy Systems, Inc.

 

Delaware

Maximum Performance Group, Inc.

 

Delaware

Kreiss Johnson Technologies, Inc.

 

California

Cinergy Ventures II, LLC

 

Delaware

Catalytic Solutions, Inc.

 

California

Electric City Corp.

 

Delaware

Cinergy e-Supply Network, LLC

 

Delaware

Pantellos

 

Delaware

Cinergy One, Inc.

 

Delaware

Cinergy Two, Inc.

 

Delaware

 

 

 

Cinergy Wholesale Energy, Inc.

 

Ohio

Cinergy Power Generation Services, LLC

 

Delaware

Cinergy Origination & Trade, LLC

 

Delaware

 

 

 

Cinergy Foundation, Inc.

 

Indiana

 


EX-23 26 a04-1370_1ex23.htm EX-23

Exhibit 23

 

INDEPENDENT AUDITORS’ CONSENT

 

We consent to the incorporation by reference in Cinergy Corp.’s Registration Statement Nos. 33-55267, 33-55713, 33-56089, 33-56091, 33-56093, 33-56095, 333-51484, 333-83461, 333-83467, 333-72898, 333-72900, 333-72902, 333-81770, 333-101707 and 333-102515 of our report dated February 16, 2004 (which expresses an unqualified opinion on the Company’s consolidated financial statements and includes an explanatory paragraph referring to the Company’s change effective in 2002 in its method of accounting for goodwill; change effective January 1, 2003 in its accounting for stock based compensation; change effective January 1, 2003 in its accounting for energy trading and derivative contracts with the adoption of EITF 02-3; change effective January 1, 2003 in its accounting method for asset retirement obligations; and change effective July 1, 2003 in its accounting for the consolidation of variable interest entities), appearing in this Annual Report on Form 10-K of Cinergy Corp. for the year ended December 31, 2003.

 

 

Deloitte & Touche LLP

Cincinnati, Ohio

February 25, 2004

 



 

INDEPENDENT AUDITORS’ CONSENT

 

We consent to the incorporation by reference in PSI Energy, Inc.’s Registration Statement No. 333-103304 of our report dated February 16, 2004 (which expresses an unqualified opinion on the Company’s consolidated financial statements and includes an explanatory paragraph referring to the Company’s change effective January 1, 2003 in its accounting for energy trading and derivative contracts with the adoption of EITF 02-3 and change effective January 1, 2003 in it’s accounting method for asset retirement obligations), appearing in this Annual Report on Form 10-K of PSI Energy, Inc. for the year ended December 31, 2003.

 

 

Deloitte & Touche LLP

Cincinnati, Ohio

February 25, 2004

 



 

INDEPENDENT AUDITORS’ CONSENT

 

We consent to the incorporation by reference in The Cincinnati Gas & Electric Company’s Registration Statement No. 333-103200 of our report dated February 16, 2004 (which expresses an unqualified opinion on the Company’s consolidated financial statements and includes an explanatory paragraph referring to the Company’s change effective January 1, 2003 in its accounting for energy trading and derivative contracts with the adoption of EITF 02-3 and change effective January 1, 2003 in its accounting method for asset retirement obligations), appearing in this Annual Report on Form 10-K of The Cincinnati Gas & Electric Company for the year ended December 31, 2003.

 

 

Deloitte & Touche LLP

Cincinnati, Ohio

February 25, 2004

 



 

INDEPENDENT AUDITORS’ CONSENT

 

We consent to the incorporation by reference in The Union Light, Heat and Power Company’s Registration Statement Nos. 33-40245 and 333-83381 of our report dated February 16, 2004 (which expresses an unqualified opinion on the Company’s financial statements and includes an explanatory paragraph referring to the Company’s change effective January 1, 2003 in its accounting method for asset retirement obligations), appearing in this Annual Report on Form 10-K of The Union Light, Heat and Power Company for the year ended December 31, 2003.

 

 

Deloitte & Touche LLP

Cincinnati, Ohio

February 25, 2004

 


EX-24 27 a04-1370_1ex24.htm EX-24

Exhibit 24

 

POWER OF ATTORNEY

 

KNOW ALL BY THESE PRESENTS, that the undersigned hereby constitutes and appoints James E. Rogers and R. Foster Duncan, or either of them with full power to act without the other, the undersigned’s true and lawful attorneys-in-fact and agents, with full power of substitution and resubstitution, to execute for and on behalf of the undersigned, in the undersigned’s capacity as a director of each of Cinergy Corp. and PSI Energy, Inc., the Form 10-K Annual Report of each corporation for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2003, and to deliver said Form 10-K Annual Reports so signed for filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission.

 

The undersigned does hereby ratify and confirm all that said attorneys-in-fact and agents, and each of them, shall lawfully do by virtue hereof.

 

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the undersigned has hereunto caused this Power of Attorney to be executed on this 18th day of February, 2004.

 

 

 

/s/  Michael G. Browning

 

Michael G. Browning

 



 

POWER OF ATTORNEY

 

KNOW ALL BY THESE PRESENTS, that the undersigned hereby constitutes and appoints James E. Rogers and R. Foster Duncan, or either of them with full power to act without the other, the undersigned’s true and lawful attorneys-in-fact and agents, with full power of substitution and resubstitution, to execute for and on behalf of the undersigned, in the undersigned’s capacity as a director of Cinergy Corp., the Form 10-K Annual Report of said corporation for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2003, and to deliver said Form 10-K Annual Report so signed for filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission.

 

The undersigned does hereby ratify and confirm all that said attorneys-in-fact and agents, and each of them, shall lawfully do by virtue hereof.

 

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the undersigned has hereunto caused this Power of Attorney to be executed on this 24th day of February, 2004.

 

 

 

/s/  Phillip R. Cox

 

Phillip R. Cox

 



 

POWER OF ATTORNEY

 

KNOW ALL BY THESE PRESENTS, that the undersigned hereby constitutes and appoints James E. Rogers and R. Foster Duncan, or either of them with full power to act without the other, the undersigned’s true and lawful attorneys-in-fact and agents, with full power of substitution and resubstitution, to execute for and on behalf of the undersigned, in the undersigned’s capacity as a director of  PSI Energy, Inc., the Form 10-K Annual Report of said corporation for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2003, and to deliver said Form 10-K Annual Report so signed for filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission.

 

The undersigned does hereby ratify and confirm all that said attorneys-in-fact and agents, and each of them, shall lawfully do by virtue hereof.

 

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the undersigned has hereunto caused this Power of Attorney to be executed on this 20th day of February, 2004.

 

 

 

/s/  Douglas F. Esamann

 

Douglas F. Esamann

 



 

POWER OF ATTORNEY

 

KNOW ALL BY THESE PRESENTS, that the undersigned hereby constitutes and appoints James E. Rogers and R. Foster Duncan, or either of them with full power to act without the other, the undersigned’s true and lawful attorneys-in-fact and agents, with full power of substitution and resubstitution, to execute for and on behalf of the undersigned, in the undersigned’s capacity as a director of Cinergy Corp., the Form 10-K Annual Report of said corporation for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2003, and to deliver said Form 10-K Annual Report so signed for filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission.

 

The undersigned does hereby ratify and confirm all that said attorneys-in-fact and agents, and each of them, shall lawfully do by virtue hereof.

 

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the undersigned has hereunto caused this Power of Attorney to be executed on this 20th day of February, 2004.

 

 

 

/s/  George C. Juilfs

 

George C. Juilfs

 



 

POWER OF ATTORNEY

 

KNOW ALL BY THESE PRESENTS, that the undersigned hereby constitutes and appoints James E. Rogers and R. Foster Duncan, or either of them with full power to act without the other, the undersigned’s true and lawful attorneys-in-fact and agents, with full power of substitution and resubstitution, to execute for and on behalf of the undersigned, in the undersigned’s capacity as a director of Cinergy Corp., the Form 10-K Annual Report of said corporation for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2003, and to deliver said Form 10-K Annual Report so signed for filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission.

 

The undersigned does hereby ratify and confirm all that said attorneys-in-fact and agents, and each of them, shall lawfully do by virtue hereof.

 

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the undersigned has hereunto caused this Power of Attorney to be executed on this 19th day of February, 2004.

 

 

 

/s/  Thomas E. Petry

 

Thomas E. Petry

 



 

POWER OF ATTORNEY

 

KNOW ALL BY THESE PRESENTS, that the undersigned hereby constitutes and appoints James E. Rogers and R. Foster Duncan, or either of them with full power to act without the other, the undersigned’s true and lawful attorneys-in-fact and agents, with full power of substitution and resubstitution, to execute for and on behalf of the undersigned, in the undersigned’s capacity as a director of Cinergy Corp., the Form 10-K Annual Report of said corporation for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2003, and to deliver said Form 10-K Annual Report so signed for filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission.

 

The undersigned does hereby ratify and confirm all that said attorneys-in-fact and agents, and each of them, shall lawfully do by virtue hereof.

 

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the undersigned has hereunto caused this Power of Attorney to be executed on this 17th day of February, 2004.

 

 

 

/s/  Mary L. Schapiro

 

Mary L. Schapiro

 



 

POWER OF ATTORNEY

 

KNOW ALL BY THESE PRESENTS, that the undersigned hereby constitutes and appoints James E. Rogers and R. Foster Duncan, or either of them with full power to act without the other, the undersigned’s true and lawful attorneys-in-fact and agents, with full power of substitution and resubstitution, to execute for and on behalf of the undersigned, in the undersigned’s capacity as a director of Cinergy Corp., the Form 10-K Annual Report of said corporation for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2003, and to deliver said Form 10-K Annual Report so signed for filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission.

 

The undersigned does hereby ratify and confirm all that said attorneys-in-fact and agents, and each of them, shall lawfully do by virtue hereof.

 

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the undersigned has hereunto caused this Power of Attorney to be executed on this 18th day of February, 2004.

 

 

 

/s/  John J. Schiff, Jr.

 

John J. Schiff, Jr.

 



 

POWER OF ATTORNEY

 

KNOW ALL BY THESE PRESENTS, that the undersigned hereby constitutes and appoints James E. Rogers and R. Foster Duncan, or either of them with full power to act without the other, the undersigned’s true and lawful attorneys-in-fact and agents, with full power of substitution and resubstitution, to execute for and on behalf of the undersigned, in the undersigned’s capacity as a director of Cinergy Corp., the Form 10-K Annual Report of said corporation for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2003, and to deliver said Form 10-K Annual Report so signed for filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission.

 

The undersigned does hereby ratify and confirm all that said attorneys-in-fact and agents, and each of them, shall lawfully do by virtue hereof.

 

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the undersigned has hereunto caused this Power of Attorney to be executed on this 17th day of February, 2004.

 

 

 

/s/  Philip R. Sharp

 

Philip R. Sharp

 



 

POWER OF ATTORNEY

 

KNOW ALL BY THESE PRESENTS, that the undersigned hereby constitutes and appoints James E. Rogers and R. Foster Duncan, or either of them with full power to act without the other, the undersigned’s true and lawful attorneys-in-fact and agents, with full power of substitution and resubstitution, to execute for and on behalf of the undersigned, in the undersigned’s capacity as a director of Cinergy Corp., the Form 10-K Annual Report of said corporation for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2003, and to deliver said Form 10-K Annual Report so signed for filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission.

 

The undersigned does hereby ratify and confirm all that said attorneys-in-fact and agents, and each of them, shall lawfully do by virtue hereof.

 

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the undersigned has hereunto caused this Power of Attorney to be executed on this 24th day of February, 2004.

 

 

 

/s/  Dudley S. Taft

 

Dudley S. Taft

 



 

POWER OF ATTORNEY

 

KNOW ALL BY THESE PRESENTS, that the undersigned hereby constitutes and appoints James E. Rogers and R. Foster Duncan, or either of them with full power to act without the other, the undersigned’s true and lawful attorneys-in-fact and agents, with full power of substitution and resubstitution, to execute for and on behalf of the undersigned, in the undersigned’s capacity as a director of each of The Cincinnati Gas & Electric Company and The Union Light, Heat and Power Company, the Form 10-K Annual Report of each corporation for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2003, and to deliver said Form 10-K Annual Reports so signed for filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission.

 

The undersigned does hereby ratify and confirm all that said attorneys-in-fact and agents, and each of them, shall lawfully do by virtue hereof.

 

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the undersigned has hereunto caused this Power of Attorney to be executed on this 24th day of February, 2004.

 

 

 

/s/  James L. Turner

 

James L. Turner

 


EX-31.A 28 a04-1370_1ex31da.htm EX-31.A

Exhibit 31.a

CERTIFICATION OF THE CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER

PURSUANT TO SECTION 302 OF THE SARBANES-OXLEY ACT OF 2002

 

I, James E. Rogers, certify that:

 

1. I have reviewed this annual report on Form 10-K of Cinergy Corp., The Cincinnati Gas & Electric Company, PSI Energy, Inc., and The Union Light, Heat and Power Company;

 

2. Based on my knowledge, this report does not contain any untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state a material fact necessary to make the statements made, in light of the circumstances under which such statements were made, not misleading with respect to the period covered by this report;

 

3. Based on my knowledge, the financial statements, and other financial information included in this report, fairly present in all material respects the financial condition, results of operations and cash flows of the registrants as of, and for, the periods presented in this report;

 

4. The registrants’ other certifying officers and I are responsible for establishing and maintaining disclosure controls and procedures (as defined in Exchange Act Rules 13a-15(e) and 15d-15(e)) for the registrants and have:

 

a)  Designed such disclosure controls and procedures, or caused such disclosure controls and procedures to be designed under our supervision, to ensure that material information relating to the registrants, including their consolidated subsidiaries, is made known to us by others within those entities, particularly during the period in which this report is being prepared;

 

b)  Evaluated the effectiveness of the registrants’ disclosure controls and procedures and presented in this report our conclusions about the effectiveness of the disclosure controls and procedures, as of the end of the period covered by this report based on such evaluation; and

 

c)  Disclosed in this report any change in the registrants’ internal control over financial reporting that occurred during the registrants’ most recent fiscal quarter (the registrants’ fourth fiscal quarter in the case of an annual report) that has materially affected, or is reasonably likely to materially affect, the registrants’ internal control over financial reporting; and

 

5. The registrants’ other certifying officers and I have disclosed, based on our most recent evaluation of internal control over financial reporting, to the registrants’ auditors and the audit committee of the registrants’ board of directors (or persons performing the equivalent functions):

 

a)  All significant deficiencies and material weaknesses in the design or operation of internal control over financial reporting which are reasonably likely to adversely affect the registrants’ ability to record, process, summarize and report financial information; and

 

b)  Any fraud, whether or not material, that involves management or other employees who have a significant role in the registrants’ internal control over financial reporting.

 

 

Date: March 3, 2004

 

 

/s/ James E. Rogers

 

 

 

 

James E. Rogers

Chief Executive Officer

 

 

 


EX-31.B 29 a04-1370_1ex31db.htm EX-31.B

Exhibit 31-b

 

CERTIFICATION OF THE CHIEF FINANCIAL OFFICER

 

PURSUANT TO SECTION 302 OF THE SARBANES-OXLEY ACT OF 2002

 

I, R. Foster Duncan, certify that:

 

1. I have reviewed this annual report on Form 10-K of Cinergy Corp., The Cincinnati Gas & Electric Company, PSI Energy, Inc., and The Union Light, Heat and Power Company;

 

2. Based on my knowledge, this report does not contain any untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state a material fact necessary to make the statements made, in light of the circumstances under which such statements were made, not misleading with respect to the period covered by this report;

 

3. Based on my knowledge, the financial statements, and other financial information included in this report, fairly present in all material respects the financial condition, results of operations and cash flows of the registrants as of, and for, the periods presented in this report;

 

4. The registrants’ other certifying officers and I are responsible for establishing and maintaining disclosure controls and procedures (as defined in Exchange Act Rules 13a-15(e) and 15d-15(e)) for the registrants and have:

 

a)  Designed such disclosure controls and procedures, or caused such disclosure controls and procedures to be designed under our supervision, to ensure that material information relating to the registrants, including their consolidated subsidiaries, is made known to us by others within those entities, particularly during the period in which this report is being prepared;

 

b) Evaluated the effectiveness of the registrants’ disclosure controls and procedures and presented in this report our conclusions about the effectiveness of the disclosure controls and procedures, as of the end of the period covered by this report based on such evaluation; and

 

c)  Disclosed in this report any change in the registrants’ internal control over financial reporting that occurred during the registrants’ most recent fiscal quarter (the registrants’ fourth fiscal quarter in the case of an annual report) that has materially affected, or is reasonably likely to materially affect, the registrants’ internal control over financial reporting; and

 

5. The registrants’ other certifying officers and I have disclosed, based on our most recent evaluation of internal control over financial reporting, to the registrants’ auditors and the audit committee of the registrants’ board of directors (or persons performing the equivalent functions):

 

a)  All significant deficiencies and material weaknesses in the design or operation of internal control over financial reporting which are reasonably likely to adversely affect the registrants’ ability to record, process, summarize and report financial information; and

 

b) Any fraud, whether or not material, that involves management or other employees who have a significant role in the registrants’ internal control over financial reporting.

 

 

Date: March 3, 2004

 

 

 

/s/ R. Foster Duncan

 

 

 

 

 

 

R. Foster Duncan

 

Chief Financial Officer

 

 


EX-32.A 30 a04-1370_1ex32da.htm EX-32.A

Exhibit 32.a

 

CERTIFICATION PURSUANT TO

18 U.S.C. SECTION 1350,

AS ADOPTED PURSUANT TO

SECTION 906 OF THE SARBANES-OXLEY ACT OF 2002

 

In connection with the Annual Report of Cinergy Corp., The Cincinnati Gas & Electric Company, PSI Energy, Inc. and The Union Light, Heat and Power Company (the “Companies”) on Form 10-K for the period ending December 31, 2003 as filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on the date hereof (the “Report”), I, James E. Rogers, Chief Executive Officer of the Companies, certify, pursuant to 18 U.S.C. § 1350, as adopted pursuant to § 906 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002, to the best of my knowledge and belief, that:

 

(1)   The Report fully complies with the requirements of section 13(a) or 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934; and

 

(2)   The information contained in the Report fairly presents, in all material respects, the financial condition and result of operations of the Companies.

 

 

/s/ James E. Rogers

 

James E. Rogers

Chief Executive Officer

March 3, 2004

 


EX-32.B 31 a04-1370_1ex32db.htm EX-32.B

Exhibit 32.b

 

CERTIFICATION PURSUANT TO

18 U.S.C. SECTION 1350,

AS ADOPTED PURSUANT TO

SECTION 906 OF THE SARBANES-OXLEY ACT OF 2002

 

In connection with the Annual Report of Cinergy Corp., The Cincinnati Gas & Electric Company, PSI Energy, Inc. and The Union Light, Heat and Power Company (the “Companies”) on Form 10-K for the period ending December 31, 2003 as filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on the date hereof (the “Report”), I, R. Foster Duncan, Chief Financial Officer of the Companies, certify, pursuant to 18 U.S.C. § 1350, as adopted pursuant to § 906 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002, to the best of my knowledge and belief, that:

 

(1)   The Report fully complies with the requirements of section 13(a) or 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934; and

 

(2)   The information contained in the Report fairly presents, in all material respects, the financial condition and result of operations of the Companies.

 

 

/s/ R. Foster Duncan

 

R. Foster Duncan

Chief Financial Officer

March 3, 2004

 


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