Form 8-K

UNITED STATES

SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

Washington, D.C.  20549

 

FORM 8-K

CURRENT REPORT

 

PURSUANT TO SECTION 13 OR 15(d) OF THE

SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934

 

Date of Report (Date of earliest events reported)

  June 6, 2005

(April 30, 2005)

 


Commission

 


Name of Registrants, State of Incorporation,

 


I.R.S. Employer

File Number

 

Address and Telephone Number

 

Identification No.

         

333-32170

  PNM Resources, Inc.   85-0468296
  (A New Mexico Corporation)    
  Alvarado Square    
  Albuquerque, New Mexico  87158    
  (505) 241-2700    
       

1-6986

  Public Service Company of New Mexico   85-0019030
  (A New Mexico Corporation)    
  Alvarado Square    
  Albuquerque, New Mexico  87158    
  (505) 241-2700    

______________________________

(Former name, former address and former fiscal year, if changed since last report)

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Item  7.01    Regulation FD Disclosure.

PNM Resources, Inc. and Subsidiaries (the "Company") is furnishing in this Current Report on Form 8-K select Comparative Operating Statistics for the months of April 2005 and 2004 and the four months ended April 30, 2005 and April 30, 2004 to provide investors with key monthly business indicators.  Readers of this Current Report on Form 8-K should refer to the Management's Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations in the Company's annual and quarterly periodic reporting on Form 10-K and Form 10-Q, respectively, for a discussion of actual results of operations and any significant trends.

PNM Resources, Inc. and Subsidiaries

Comparative Operating Statistics

Month Ended

Four Months Ended

April 30,

 

April 30,

2005

 

2004

 

2005

 

2004

Electric Service:

Energy Sales - MWh (in thousands)

Retail

559

546

2,349

2,340

Wholesale

Long Term Sales

172

220

897

934

Forward Sales

205

217

970

840

Short Term Sales

337

436

1,697

2,080

Total Wholesale Sales

714

873

3,564

3,854

Total Energy Sales

1,273

1,419

5,913

6,194

April wholesale sales were down 158,993 MWhs due to several plant outages, which resulted in reduced sales and lower velocity.  The Company also had less energy available for sale from its power purchase contracts due to higher gas prices.  In addition, outages are also expected later in the second quarter of 2005 that were not in the 2005 earnings forecast.

San Juan Generating Station ("SJGS") Unit 4 was off-line for three weeks beginning March 26 after a circulating water pipe ruptured.  An outage planned for the fourth quarter of 2005 was accelerated to minimize the financial impact to the Company.  A scheduled maintenance outage for SJGS Unit 2 was shifted from the first quarter to the second quarter after the SJGS Unit 4 outage was completed.  Work on SJGS Unit 2 began April 25 and lasted three weeks.  These changes to the plant outage schedule at SJGS had been previously announced.

SJGS Unit 3 was off-line eight days in April for a tune-up outage and to repair a leak on a circulating water pipe similar to the SJGS Unit 4 circulating water pipe repair.  A second, unrelated outage caused by a transformer malfunction took SJGS Unit 3 off-line on May 20.  SJGS Unit 3 was returned to service on May 29.  These plant outages were not in the Company's forecast of 2005 earnings.

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A Palo Verde Nuclear Generating Station ("PVNGS") Unit 2 refueling outage that started on April 1 was extended approximately two weeks until May 20.  This outage extension was not in the Company's forecast of 2005 earnings.

Another outage that will affect energy sales in future months, not included in the Company's forecast of 2005 earnings, is a recently announced PVNGS Unit 3 outage, which started on May 23 and is expected to last until approximately June 15.  In addition, a phase adjustment of Four Corners Power Plant Unit 5 that started in mid-April and lasted for three weeks was extended for three days. 

Weather:

Heating Degree Days (HDD) and Cooling Degree Days (CDD) - Albuquerque, New Mexico

HDD

461

347

2,544

2,621

CDD

1

1

1

1

The Company has previously utilized and reported on previously filed Forms 8-K, the historical HDD values and CDD values that represented the accumulation in degrees that the daily mean temperature was below or above, respectively, 65 degrees Fahrenheit during a period of time, typically corresponding to a calendar month.  As discussed in Item 2, "Management's Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations," of the Company's Form 10-Q for the three months ended March 31, 2005, in order to provide a greater correlation between energy consumption and weather, the Company has decided to utilize and report HDD and CDD that have been weighted based on the Company's billing cycle days.  The Company believes that this approach provides a better means of assessing the impact of weather on revenues.

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SIGNATURE

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the registrants have duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned thereunto duly authorized.

PNM RESOURCES, INC. AND

PUBLIC SERVICE COMPANY OF NEW MEXICO

(Registrants)


 

Date:  June 6, 2005

/s/ Thomas G. Sategna

Thomas G. Sategna

Vice President and Corporate Controller

(Officer duly authorized to sign this report)

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