Good day ladies and gentlemen, and welcome to the NRG Yield Q3 2013 Earnings Call, my name is Tracy and I will be your operator for today. At this time all participants are in listen only mode, we will conduct a question and answer session towards the end of this conference. (Operator Instructions). As a reminder this call is being recorded for replay purposes. I would now like to turn the call over to Mr. Chad Plotkin, Vice President of Investor Relations, please proceed sir, thank you.

Thank you Tracy and good morning, I'd like to welcome everyone to NRG Yield's Third Quarter, 2013 earnings call, this morning's call is being broadcast live over the phone and via webcast which can be located on our website at www.nrgyield.com. You can access the call, associated presentation material, as well as a replay of the call in the presentation and webcast section of our website, because this call including the presentation and Q&A session will be limited to a half hour we ask that you limit yourself to only one question and one follow up. In addition as this is the earnings call for NRG Yield any statements made on this call that may pertain to NRG Energy will be provided from NRG Yield's perspective. Before we begin I urge everyone to review the Safe Harbor statement provided in today's presentation which explains the risks and uncertainties associated with future events and the forward looking statements made in today's press release and presentation material. We caution you to consider the important risk factors contained in our press release and other filings with the SEC that could cause actual results to differ materially from those in the forward looking statements, in the press release and this conference call. In addition please note that the date of this conference call is Tuesday, November 12, 2013 and any forward looking statements that we make today are based on assumptions that we believe to be reasonable as of this day. We undertake no obligation to update these statements as a result of future events except as required by law. During this morning call we will refer to both GAAP and non-GAAP measures as the companies operating and financial results. For complete information regarding our non-GAAP financial information the most directly comparable GAAP measures and a quantitative reconciliation of those figures please refer to today's press release in this presentation. With that I'll now turn the call over to David Crane, NRG Yield's Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer.

Thank you Chad and good morning everyone, and thank you for joining us for this, NRG Yield's first ever quarterly earnings call. I'm joined here today by Kirk Andrews our Chief Financial Officer and Mauricio Gutierrez, our Chief Operating Officer, and both Kirk and Mauricio will be participating in the presentation and then also available to answer your question. I'm sure that many of you listened and maybe even participated in the NRG Energy earnings call which ended some 45 minutes ago and so much of what you may have heard in that call we will -- might be discuss again so we’re going to limit ourselves trying to be as briefly as possible to 30 minutes and our remarks should take no more than 10 minutes. Turning to slide three; before I turn it over to Mauricio and Kirk to discuss NRG Yield’s operational and financial performance for the quarter in some detail, I thought it would a good opportunity to reinforce the underlying investment proposition of NRG Yield. Simply put with the active support of NRG, NRG Yield seeks to be and in our opinion is the leading total return investment vehicle providing both current income and dividend growth via predictable and stable cash flow from a platform of over 2.5 gigawatts of conventional, renewable and thermal equipment generation assets underpinned in all cases by long term predictable off take agreements. Further along with the diversity and assets that come from a mix of conventional, renewable and thermal generation assets NRG Yield is well positioned for growth as a result of its favored relationship with NRG and its access to NRG’s intrinsic growth projects and NRG’s ability to realize upon extrinsic acquisition opportunities. Lastly and most importantly with the declaration of our first even dividend we aim to provide our investors between 10% to 15% of annual dividend per share growth over the next five years beginning with an increase of 20% by the third quarter of 2014. With that I will turn the call over to Mauricio.

Thank you, David. I will also be very brief with my remarks given that the portfolio is performing well within our expectations and the plans are meeting their contractual obligations. As always and starting with safety in slide five; the assets have an exceptional quarter with only one recordable injury and well within [indiscernible] performance. In our conventional segment our gas portfolio was exceptional with a 97% starting reliability across all three plants and March landing posting an impressive 98% availability factor in the first six months of operations. In our renewable segment our solar facilities have experienced normal installation levels resulting in production levels consistent with contractual obligations and our wind generation was slightly lower due to lower wind speeds despite high availability factors. Finally, our thermal business is performing as it has for the last couple of years, very steady and largely driven by weather. Colder weather across our Northern businesses increased steam production by 18% compared to last year. Power generation increased by the conversion from coal to gas at the [Dover] facility and the full year operation of the CHP facility of Princeton Hospital. With that, I will turn it over to Kirk for the financial review.

Thanks Mauricio. Turning to financial summary on slide seven, NRG Yield is reporting third quarter adjusted EBITDA of 83 million and 56 million in cash available for distribution. Through the first nine months of 2013 NRG Yield generated 178 million in adjusted EBITDA placing us on track to our previously announced 2013 guidance of 240 million. Cash available for distribution or CAFD was 83 million through the first nine months of 2013. Due to a reduction in 2013 maintenance capital expenditures specifically in our thermal segment, we are increasing guidance for 2013 cash available for distribution by 9 million, leading to revised CAFD guidance of 81 million. For 2014 we are reaffirming our guidance for both adjusted EBITDA and cash available for distribution. The 27% year-over-year increase in cash build for distribution is largely driven by the release of cash at CVSR which is now fully online and will begin making distribution in 2014. This organic growth commits significant dividend increases through 2014, establishing a base for our newly adopted dividend policy targeting 10% to 15% growth which I will discuss in greater detail shortly. In addition NRG has now indicated it tends to offer four write-off first offer asset to us through 2014 providing additional opportunities to increase CAFD. Finally our strong liquidity base of 272 million as of September 30th which well exceeds our minimum needs provides a meaningful capital surplus which may be used to fund drop downs or acquisitions reducing the need for external capital and enhancing accretion in CAFD per share. Turing to Slide eight, we’re pleased to announce NRG Yield's dividend policy which targets 10% to 15% annual dividend growth which will be achieved through a combination of regular quarterly dividends to be augmented by increases resulted from acquisitions and financing. Having now declared…

Thank you Kirk, before I turn it over to the operator to field your questions I just want to make one general comment, and when we were on the NRG Yield roadshow in July, we were very bullish on the company’s prospects and bullish not only in our ability to pay a healthy dividend of the assets already in the portfolio but on our ability to grow the asset base and the dividend based on both the future drop down of NRG's ROFO assets and additional growth stemming from extrinsic and intrinsic growth opportunities that would be made available to NRG and then through NRG to NRG Yield. Clearly we already have begun to identify those further opportunities and we remain very bullish on our ability to fulfill the promise of NRG Yield in terms of both yield and growth. So with that Tracy, we're happy to answer any questions that the listeners may have.

Thank you, (Operator Instructions). Your first question comes from the line of Paul Zimbardo from UBS. Please proceed.

Just one quick question, can you discuss your thought process around the ability of wind assets to be dropped in specifically those with PTCs and are there any kind of tax structures or ability there to improve the economics down the tax installments et cetera?

First of all, PTC’s asset would certainly be eligible for drop-down our acquisition by NRG Yield, obviously those PTCs would serve to offset or extend what we kind of call the tax runway given the entity the ability to continue to self-shield those taxes. As far as means by which to optimize or otherwise monetize those investments, those are available, however we have to be mindful of focusing on means which do not require the payment of current cash to a counterparty for example which obviously that would dilute the CAFD but otherwise we are open to and would be exploring opportunities to do that as long as we don’t sacrifice CAFD in the process.

And how long would you say that tax runway is right now approximately?

Now in the existing portfolio it’s about 10 years.

Thank you. Your next question comes from the line of Travis Miller from Morningstar. Please proceed

Wanted to ask you about, the valuation that you guys might put on or apologize if there is public contract around that for the ROFO assets and the potentially EME assets, I guess if there is another way, how do you think about the equity contribution from NRG Yield for the ROFO and potentially EME assets?

Well first of all Travis, the equity contribution is a function of NRG’s percentage interest in NRG Yield. For any dropdown, NRG would potentially take some combination of cash and stock in that, it would be the cash component that would drive the financing need with basically the units that NRG would take the B units in particular that NRG would take its currency not requiring any external financing. As far as valuation is concerned, I want to be careful to indicate that subject to the negotiation with the energy yield board and the approval of the NRG independent directors. But certainly a principle focus on that would be the impact not specifically but obviously importantly the impact on CAFD per share because this is all about driving accretion and growth and the dividend. As I noted in terms of the source of financing which would certainly has the ability to drive that accretion the fact that we’ve got some surplus capital and surplus liquidity currently at NRG Yield would have to -- would offset what would otherwise be any external equity raises or financing.

Thank you. You have no questions at the moment. (Operator Instructions).

I think, we promised to keep the call short answered. No further questions, we’re happy to -- there is one more question.

We do just have a question come through from the line of…

We’ll answer that question and we’ll just call it a day, operator. Thank you.

Okay. The next question comes from the line of Andrew Hughes from Bank of America Merrill Lynch. Please proceed.

Just a quick question with a little more clarity around the dropdown for the four 2014 ROFO assets, just curious about as an implications for when the EME winds assets make a dropdown, if that pushes that out at all or pulls it in.

So the interplay between the four announced and EME assets assuming that as in transaction closes for NRG energy around the end of the, sometime in the first quarter. So, how is that affected?

I would say, first of all that schedule of dropdowns has certainly been focused on independent of the EME transaction. I would not expect any material change in the bulk of the assets for dropdown if we were to consider other dropdown opportunities not limited to EME and acquisition. So, I think on a standalone basis, we feel comfortable with it and I don’t feel that we would expect a material change in that schedule.

So Tracy, I think that’s good for today. We appreciate everyone’s continued interest in NRG Yield and we look forward to talking to you all on our next quarterly call and not before. So, thank you very much.

Thank you for your participation in today’s conference. This concludes the presentation. You may now disconnect. Good day.