FORWARD-LOOKING STATEMENTS
Except for the historical statements contained herein and therein, the matters discussed in this prospectus and the documents incorporated by reference are forward-looking statements that are not historical fact and constitute “forward-looking statements.” Such forward-looking statements are intended to be identified in this document by the words “anticipate,” “believe,” “estimate,” “expect,” “intend,” “objective,” “plan,” “possible,” “potential,” “project,” “target” and similar expressions. Forward-looking statements are not guarantees of performance. They involve risks, uncertainties and assumptions. Our future results may differ materially from those expressed in these forward-looking statements. These statements are necessarily based upon various assumptions involving judgments with respect to the future and other risks, including, among others:
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general economic conditions, including the availability of credit, access to existing lines of credit, access to the commercial paper markets, actions of rating agencies and their impact on capital expenditures;
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our ability and the ability of our subsidiaries to access the capital markets and obtain financing on favorable terms as well as inflation rates and monetary fluctuations;
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the ability to obtain timely and sufficient rate relief to allow for recovery of items such as capital expenditures, fuel costs, operating costs, transmission costs and deferred expenditures;
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prices and availability of electricity, coal, natural gas and natural gas liquids;
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the timing and extent of changes in commodity prices, particularly natural gas and natural gas liquids, the competitive effects of the available pipeline capacity in the regions Enable Midstream Partners, LP (“Enable”) serves and the effects of geographic and seasonal commodity price differentials, including the effects of these circumstances on re-contracting available capacity on Enable’s interstate pipelines;
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the timing and extent of changes in the supply of natural gas, particularly supplies available for gathering by Enable’s gathering and processing business and transporting by Enable’s interstate and intrastate pipelines, including the impact of natural gas and natural gas liquids prices on the level of drilling and production activities in the regions Enable serves;
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business conditions in the energy and natural gas midstream industries, including the demand for natural gas, natural gas liquids, crude oil and midstream services;
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competitive factors including the extent and timing of the entry of additional competition in the markets we serve;
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the impact on demand for our services resulting from cost-competitive advances in technology, such as distributed electricity generation and customer energy efficiency programs;
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technological developments, changing markets and other factors that result in competitive disadvantages and create the potential for impairment of existing assets;
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factors affecting utility operations such as unusual weather conditions; catastrophic weather-related damage; unscheduled generation outages, unusual maintenance or repairs; unanticipated changes to fossil fuel, natural gas or coal supply costs or availability due to higher demand, shortages, transportation problems or other developments; environmental incidents; or electric transmission or gas pipeline system constraints;
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availability and prices of raw materials for current and future construction projects;
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the effect of retroactive pricing of transactions in the Southwest Power Pool markets or adjustments in market pricing mechanisms by the Southwest Power Pool;
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federal or state legislation and regulatory decisions and initiatives that affect cost and investment recovery, have an impact on rate structures or affect the speed and degree to which competition enters our markets;
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environmental laws, safety laws or other regulations that may impact the cost of operations or restrict or change the way our facilities are operated;