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All other unitholder, customer, vendor, employee and other complaints, concerns and communications will be handled by management, with Board involvement as advisable with respect to those matters that management reasonably concludes to be significant.
Communications that are of a personal nature or not related to the duties and responsibilities of the Board, that are unduly hostile, threatening, illegal or similarly inappropriate or unsuitable, that are conclusory or vague in nature, or that are surveys, junk mail, resumes, service or product inquiries, complaints, business solicitations or advertisements, generally will not be forwarded to any director unless the director otherwise requests or the corporate secretary determines otherwise.
Procedures for Review, Approval and Ratification of Related Person Transactions
The Conflicts Committee of the Board reviews and approves related person transactions to the extent required by the Partnership Agreement or to the extent that the Board seeks the approval of the Conflicts Committee.
The management of the Company is charged with primary responsibility for determining whether, based on the facts and circumstances, a proposed transaction is a related person transaction. For the purposes of this determination, (1) a related person includes any director or executive officer of the Company, any nominee for director of the Company, any unitholder known to the Company to be the beneficial owner of more than 5% of any class of the Company’s voting securities, and any immediate family member of any such person and (2) a related person transaction includes any transaction, since the beginning of the Company’s last fiscal year, or any currently proposed transaction, in which the Company was or is to be a participant and the amount involved exceeds $120,000, and in which any related person had or will have a direct or indirect material interest.
If, after weighing all of the facts and circumstances, management determines that a proposed transaction is a related person transaction, management must present the proposed transaction to the Board for review or, if impracticable under the circumstances, to the Chairman. The Board must then either approve or reject the transaction. The Board may, but is not required to, seek the approval of the Conflicts Committee for the resolution of any related person transaction.
In addition, certain transactions must be referred to the Conflicts Committee pursuant to the terms of the Company’s Partnership Agreement and the Conflicts Committee’s charter. The Partnership Agreement and the Conflicts Committee’s charter are available on the Company’s website at www.xplrinfrastructure.com.
Transactions with Related Persons
NEE Equity, a wholly owned subsidiary of NextEra Energy, owns all of the Company’s special voting units and a majority of the common units of XPLR OpCo, which indirectly owns the Company’s projects. The Company owns the balance of outstanding XPLR OpCo common units.
The following is a summary of certain transactions between the Company and the NextEra Energy Group for 2024.
Amended and Restated Management Services Agreement
The Company, XPLR OpCo and XPLR Infrastructure Operating Partners GP, LLC, which is XPLR OpCo’s general partner (“XPLR OpCo GP”), are parties to a Fifth Amended and Restated Management Services Agreement with NextEra Energy Management Partners, LP (“NEE Management”), under which:
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NEE Management provides or arranges for the provision of management, operations and administrative services to the Company and its subsidiaries under the direction of the Board, including managing their day-to-day affairs and providing individuals to act as executive officers and directors, to the extent such services are not otherwise provided under operation and maintenance services agreements and administrative service agreements (“ASAs”) between affiliates of NextEra Energy and the Company’s subsidiaries; and
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XPLR OpCo pays, on the Company’s behalf, all operations and maintenance services fees or other expenses the Company or its subsidiaries incur.
Under the MSA, among other restrictions, NEE Management, its subsidiaries and any other entity or individual that NEE Management has arranged to provide services to the Company and its subsidiaries, are required to refrain from taking any action that, to NEE Management’s knowledge, at the time such action is taken, is intended to materially conflict with or directly contravene any resolution or other determination of the Board, in each case relating to the following significant activities of the Company: