Company: MSEX
Filing Date: 2025-10-31
Form Type: 10-Q
Source: 0001628280-25-047821
Chunk: 19

Company: MIDDLESEX WATER CO
Filing Date: 2025-10-31
Form: 10-Q
Item: Part I, Item 1
Chunk 19
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 when there are unanticipated capital expenditures or regulatory related changes in operating expenses exceed certain annual thresholds, rates are increased. In 2024, capital expenditures did exceed the established threshold. Effective January 1, 2025, Southern Shores rates were increased $0.1 million or 6.51%. In 2025, Southern Shores capital expenditures exceeded the established threshold. Effective January 1, 2026, Southern Shores rates will be  increased $0.1 million or 4.89%.

Note 3 – Capitalization

Common Stock – During the nine months ended September 30, 2025 and 2024, there were 12,522 common shares (approximately $0.7 million) and 13,498 common shares (approximately $0.7 million) respectively, issued under the Middlesex Water Company Investment Plan.In April 2023, the NJBPU authorized Middlesex to issue and sell up to 1.0 million shares of its common stock, without par value, through December 31, 2025, through one or more traditional underwriting offerings and/or ATM offerings.  In September 2025, the NJBPU authorized Middlesex to issue and sell up to 2.5 million shares of its common stock, without par value, during the period January 2026 through December 2028, through one or more traditional underwriting offerings and/or ATM offerings. On May 12, 2025, Middlesex entered into an At-the-Market (ATM) Equity Offering Sales Agreement (Equity Sales Agreement) with BofA Securities, Inc., Robert W. Baird & Co. Incorporated, and Janney Montgomery Scott LLC, pursuant to which Middlesex may offer and sell shares of its common stock, no par value per share, from time to time in “at-the-market” offerings, having an aggregate gross sales price of up to $110.0 million. The Company intends to use the net proceeds from these sales, after deducting commissions and offering expenses, to fund our capital expenditures, to purchase and maintain plant equipment, as well as for other general corporate purposes. For the three and nine months ended September 30, 2025, Middlesex issued and sold a total of 316,786 and 380,741 shares of common stock, respectively, at a weighted average price of $53.47 and $54.10 per share, respectively, and received $16.7 million and $20.3 million in