Management's Letter: Turnaround Results and Scorecard

TXU delivered good results in 2005 with strong financials and some terrific operational successes. But we also know we can do better, and we will. To assess our progress, we compared the results from 2003 (prior to the turnaround) to our performance through 2005. We measure our progress against the hallmarks of successful industrial companies: operational excellence, market leadership, a strict risk/return mindset for all key business decisions, and a rigorous performance management system. We believe that executing against these elements is necessary to deliver top-quartile financial performance, shareholder return, and financial flexibility. A high-level version of the comprehensive scorecard we use to monitor our business performance appears above. The following pages note how we are doing, along with my grade on an A-F scale: Financial Performance, Operational Excellence, Market Leadership, Risk/Return Mindset, and Performance Management.

Performance Scorecard
Performance Metric Measure 20031 2005 % Improvement Evaluation
Financial Performance2
Operational earnings per share $/share 1.01 3.33 230 Big improvement!
Normalized operating cash flow $ millions 1,860 2,902 56
Normalized free cash flow $ millions 860 1,798 109
Return on invested capital percent 6.5 15.4 137
EBITDA/interest ratio 3.0 4.9 63 Much stronger company
Operational Excellence
Lignite generation gigawatt-hours 41,311 44,005 7 Terrific!
Nuclear generation3 gigawatt-hours 17,717 19,300 9 Great job
SAIDI4 minutes 74.2 76.8 (4) Aggressively improving
Safety5 rate 0.26 0.07 73 Excellent, but can't let up
Total operating costs and SG&A expenses6 $ millions 2,773 2,206 20 Good start
Fixed costs7 $ millions 4,359 3,182 27 Excellent
Market Leadership
Call answer time seconds 268 11 96 World class!
PUC complaints # thousands 5.4 2.3 57 Progressing
Retail bad-debt expense $ millions 121 53 56 Big improvement
Risk/Return Mindset
Total shareholder return (2-year) percent (46) 343 - Dramatically better

1 Based on actual 2003 financial results including subsequently discontinued operations.
2 See Regulation G financial definitions and reconciliations.
3 Nuclear generation operations refueled both units in 2005; 2005 results have been adjusted to approximate a single outage year.
4 System Average Interruption Duration Index: the number of minutes an average customer's power is out during a year.
5 Based on Lost Time Incident Rate: the number of injuries requiring time away from the job per 200,000 employee hours worked.
6 2003 amount includes $477 million related to discontinued operations.
7 Includes non-variable operating costs and SG&A expenses, interest expense and related charges, and maintenance capital expenditures. All operating costs, SG&A expenses, interest expense and related charges, and capital expenditures totaled $4,704 million in 2003 and $4,055 million in 2005. Of this total 2003 amount, $903 million relates to discontinued operations.

Financial Performance | Operational Excellence | Market Leadership | Risk/Return Mindset | Performance Management

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