competitive factors; unusual weather; geopolitical events, including war and acts of terrorism; cybersecurity threats and data security breaches; state, federal and foreign legislative and regulatory initiatives that affect cost and investment recovery, have an impact on rates or have an impact on asset operation or ownership or impose environmental compliance conditions; structures that affect the speed and degree to which competition enters the electric and natural gas markets; costs and other effects of legal and administrative proceedings, settlements, investigations and claims; actions by regulatory bodies impacting our nuclear operations; financial or regulatory accounting policies regulatory bodies impose; availability or cost of capital; work force factors; and other risk factors Xcel Energy lists in our on Form 10-K to the SEC, including Item 1A - Risk Factors and Exhibit 99.01, as they may be updated in our subsequent 10-Q and 8-K reports.