Good afternoon everyone and welcome to the CMS Energy’s 2009 third quarter results and outlook call. This call is being recorded. Just a reminder, there will be a rebroadcast of this conference call today, beginning at noon Eastern Time, running through November 5. This presentation is also being webcast and is available on CMS Energy’s website, in the Investor Relations section. At this time, I’d like to turn the call over to Ms. Laura Mountcastle, Vice President and Treasurer. Please go ahead.

Good afternoon and thank you for joining us for our call today. With me are Dave Joos, President and Chief Executive Officer; and Tom Webb Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer. Our earnings press release issued earlier today and the presentation use in this webcast are available on our website at www.cmsenergy.com. This presentation contains forward-looking statements. These statements are subject to risks and uncertainties and should be read in conjunction with our Form 10-Ks and 10-Qs. The management’s discussion and analysis forward-looking statements and information and Risk Factors section discuss important factors that could cause results to differ materially from those anticipated in such statements. This presentation also includes non-GAAP measures when describing the company’s results of operations and financial performance. A reconciliation of each of these measures to the most directly comparable GAAP measure is included in the appendix and posted in the investor section of our website. We expect 2009 reported earnings to be about the same as adjust earnings. Reported earnings could vary because of several factors. We are not providing reported earnings guidance, reconciliation because of the uncertainties associated with those factors. Now, I’ll turn the call over to Dave.

Thanks Laura and thanks for joining us today. As is our usual practice, I’ll start the presentation with a brief update on the business and then I’ll turn the call over to Tom for more detailed discussion on the financial results and outlook and then we’ll close with question-and-answers. Third quarter 2009 adjusted earnings were $0.32 a share, unchanged from last year. Rate relief resulting from the may self implementation at the electric utility was offset by lower electric sale, higher operating costs at the utility and premiums paid on the early retirement of parent debt and Tom will discuss the third quarter variances in more detail in a few minutes. For the full year we continue to expect adjusted earnings of $1.25 a share, which is unchanged from our original guidance that we introduced in February. That forecast of course, assumes an acceptable final order in depending electric rate case, which is due by November 14, so it is coming soon and it also includes the planned November 19, self implementation of an $89 million increase in base gas rates. The Michigan economy has been challenging over the past year as you all know with automotive bankruptcies and record unemployment. We are however starting to see positive signs in August, the department of energy awarded $1.3 billion in grants for 12 Michigan projects, involving advanced battery and electric vehicle manufacturing and development. These projects are estimated to create 6800 jobs in the next 18 months and thousands more by 2020. Earlier this month, the governor’s office announced that Georgia based Geneva incorporated is planning on investing $250 million in new solar manufacturing facility. In Saginaw county that is expected to create 500 new jobs over the next five years and two other companies announced plans to transform the idle…

Thanks Dave. Let me add my welcome to everyone on the call this afternoon. Our third quarter earnings as Dave mentioned is $0.32 a share were flat from last year. Similar to most utilities, we continue to manage through the weak economy, and mild weather. Cool weather this summer reduced earnings by $0.08. Otherwise, third quarter earnings would have been about $0.40. Again, as Dave mentioned, we still expect to be on plan for the year. Aggressive cost reductions help make this possible. Our capital investment also continues as planned to meet renewable energy efficiency, and environmental regulations as well as reliability, maintenance, and generation needs. Compared with 2008, utility earnings were up $0.04, with rate relief more than offsetting the impact of mild weather, and cost associated with investment plans. An enterprise was a big better, than last year. Costs associated with early debt retirement premiums however, reduced our earnings per share by a nickel. Now please recall, that these early debt retirement costs were more than offset, with gains of about $0.08 in the second quarter, related to that refinancing program. Earnings per share for September, year-to-date, of $0.88 is $0.05 below last year. Planned actions in the fourth quarter keep us on target to deliver $1.25 for the full year; of course the electric rate case order anticipated by November 14 will be an important part of this plan. Our self implemented electric rates are worth $0.19 in the last two quarters, and $0.11 in the fourth quarter. We expect self implemented gas rates to be worth $0.04 in the fourth quarter. Our capital structure, and liquidity are healthy, as you can see by the checks on this slide, much of the major work is done. We have completed plan long term financing actions at the utility…

(Operator Instructions) The first question comes from the line of Daniel Eggers of Credit Suisse. Please proceed.

Hey, good afternoon, guys.

Hi, Dan.

I was wondering we heard a lot of more momentum recently in Michigan on pushing forward and decoupling on the electric rate case side. Can you just kind of share your thoughts of how you expect to see that, one, if you expect to see it, two, how you expect to see that policy implemented you know with this upcoming order?

Well, it’s hard to predict anything specific. We know there’s been a lot of interest in and we’ve of course requested in our case in fact, the legislation on the gas side last year, the new law, actually requires it on the gas case we meet certain conditions. The administration has been interested as well, because they’ve obviously been very interested in energy efficiency, here in the state. So, we know there’s a lot of talk about it. We obviously have been advocating for it. We’re optimistic the Commissions going to improve something in the way of decoupling, but it’s a bit difficult to predict how comprehensive, and exactly what that mechanism might look like until we see the actual order.

With an order, with rates effective, I think in just a couple weeks now, could you get a decoupling mechanism in place in a timely fashion, or because you get made whole later it would be okay to give a little time for…?

Well, you know it’s a voodoo approved mechanism, I would expect it to go into effect you know very rapidly. The only point is, from a cash perspective, exactly when the true up occurs how it occurs all those details, I think would have to be sorted out. They may or may not be addressed, if they do approved something at that level of detail so, they may actually be follow-up proceedings. We just don’t know yet. I guess, what our concern is just looking at the issue of sales impact particularly on earnings, and obviously we concerned about cash flow as well, but directly on earnings to the extent we put something in place, we think that would be helpful and we’re hopeful the Commission is going to go there.

On the government grants on the Smart Grids this week, did that allocation or lack of allocation change any of your thought process and how you guys plan to rollout AMI in your service territory?

No, not really. I mean, we were a bit disappointed that we didn’t get to participate in that program. You know, we looked at what they did and I’m sure that you’re aware that there were about five times as many applications as got approved. So, we were in a very large crowd and at least in our assessment, we weren’t quite as far along with starting to rollout meters in some of the other utilities and that seemed to be one of their considerations. So we’re a bit disappointed, but does not going to preclude us from moving forward with our plan. We still think it’s a right thing to do. As you recall, it’s a fairly significant investment close to $900 million, over the next five years or so. Although, we don’t start the major part of that rolling out the meters for a couple of years yet and then, we also think it’s very important obviously for the energy efficiency goals that we want to achieve over the next decade.

Okay. Thank you, guys.

You’re welcome.

Thanks Dan.

The next question comes from the line of Greg Gordon - Morgan Stanley; please proceed.

Thank you, good afternoon.

Yes, hi, Greg.

When you formulated your guidance on slide 11, sort of a uncontinued, sort of modest decline in sales in the first half of 10 subsequent modest recovering in the second half, and therefore a flat expectation. I mean, is that, you all just trying to be ultra conservative in your approach to rate making? Not warning to have to rely too much on an uneconomic recovery to meet your revenue requirement? You know a real deep dive on what you think what your have you done you know a real deep dive on what you think, what you think, what your industrial customers are saying, their electricity consumption expectations are going to be?

Well somewhere in the middle, I mean, first of all, let me just say unequivocal be, when we do these forecast, we don’t do them to be conservative or anything else. We use our best shot at these forecasts. We use various economic projections and services to do that. We don’t necessarily go out to individual industrial customers and try to sort out what we think is going to happen, but we take into effect anything we know about. So, it’s a study on our part that we do internally and based on external economic forecasts and it’s our best shot of what we think it’s going to happen.

Just keep in mind Greg, that when you look at these numbers, that we have put together where it is down a little bit in the first half and then not in the second half, that’s the whole side. We do expect to see industrial sales clicking back up in the first quarter, second quarter, and even more in the third and fourth quarters, but what we’re anticipating as best we can judge, is that a resumption in growth on commercial in residential will follow and you can call that conservative its just our best guess at the economics from the data you see.

So, you do see a recovery and industrial happening on leading edge of the recovery in the rest of your local consumption?

Absolutely.

Okay thank you that was really what I was getting at.

(Operator Instructions) The next question comes from the line of Brian Russo of Ladenburg Thalmann. Please proceed.

Hi, good afternoon, guys.

Yes, Brian.

Just quickly, I didn’t see a CapEx slide in the presentation that usually include and I just wanted to make sure nothing has changed there?

I don’t know that we usually include in our quarterly calls, but we often do and certainly will be going over that here next week when we’re at EEI, but it really hasn’t changed. It is still in that $6 million plus range over the next five years.

Okay. Thank you.

You’re welcome.

We do look forward to talking more about it at EEI.

The next question comes from the line of Edward Hawkins of Wasco Capital; please proceed. Edward Hawkins – Wasco Capital: Yes, hi, guys. I just wonder if you could, just give us some a little more detail on the cash flow from the operations side for the third quarter. I mean, just trying to figure out it seems in like from my numbers seems like the number is around $65 million?

Yes, our cash flow really looks pretty good to us and I think on the numbers you see in the reports that we put out was pretty strong. This is a period, though in which we made our pension contribution and we did a few other small things like that, some settlements and the like. So, when you look at what we have done this year, we have put all that behind us and I would have you also look at slide number nine, which shows you the cash flow so you pick up the full year then and that will reflect what you would expect to see in the rest of the year. Again, I’d emphasize on the utility and working capital, that’s actually better than where we were in the second quarter report, by about $100 million of working capital. So we’re making some progress in the area of collections which is always a nice leading indicator on what might be happening in the economy and we have had some tax benefits and of course the lower commodity prices also help us a little bit. Edward Hawkins – Wasco Capital: Okay, alright. Thank you.

At this time there are no more questions in the queue.

Alright well, let me just wrap up. This is Dave Joos and Tom and I and Laura, John Russell will all be done at EEI here next week. We made mention several times of the electric rate case and of course November 14 is coming soon. I think the next commission scheduled meeting is next Friday and so, if I had to guess I would say we’re going to see rate order pretty soon, perhaps even next week. It will take us no doubt a little bit of time to analyze that and get the information out to you, but I promise you we will tell you what’s going on as quickly as we can in that regard and other than that I know we will see many of you down at EEI and have a chance to talk with you more about and what’s going on with the company I will be making a presentation, on Tuesday and we will get into some of the longer term issues like capital investment program and things of that nature. We continue to stay on track, it’s been challenging this year with the economy and particularly with the unfavorable weather, but we have worked hard to continue to stay on track with our numbers and we look forward to see what the commissioners have to say in the rate case. Thank you for joining us today.

This concludes today’s conference. We thank everyone for participating. Thank you.