{"id":21402,"date":"2018-03-13T18:06:11","date_gmt":"2018-03-13T17:06:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/eph23.atelierzidlicky.eu\/?post_type=press-releases&#038;p=21402"},"modified":"2018-03-13T15:33:15","modified_gmt":"2018-03-13T14:33:15","slug":"ep-infrastructure-has-been-assigned-investment-grade-ratings-from-three-major-rating-agencies","status":"publish","type":"press-releases","link":"https:\/\/eph23.atelierzidlicky.eu\/en\/press-releases\/ep-infrastructure-has-been-assigned-investment-grade-ratings-from-three-major-rating-agencies\/","title":{"rendered":"EP Infrastructure has been assigned investment grade ratings from three major rating agencies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>These ratings have been issued by S&amp;P Global Ratings (Preliminary BBB), Moody\u2019s (Baa3) and&nbsp;Fitch Ratings (BBB-), all with a&nbsp;stable outlook.<\/p>\n<p>EP Infrastructure, a.s. (\u201cEPIF\u201d), which is majority owned by Czech energy group Energetick\u00fd a&nbsp;pr\u016fmyslov\u00fd holding, a.s. (\u201cEPH\u201d), benefits from (a) its&nbsp;stable and&nbsp;predictable highly cash-generative businesses, which are mainly regulated and\/or long-term contracted, (b) large, diverse and&nbsp;well maintained infrastructure asset base and&nbsp;(c) strong presence in&nbsp;fast growing and&nbsp;low risk markets \u2013 Slovakia and&nbsp;the&nbsp;Czech Republic.<\/p>\n<p>EPIF is a&nbsp;leading European utility operating critical energy infrastructure &#8211; gas transmission, gas and&nbsp;power distribution, heating infrastructure and&nbsp;gas storage &#8211; predominantly located in&nbsp;Slovakia and&nbsp;the&nbsp;Czech Republic. As traditional infrastructure, EPIF&#8217;s&nbsp;assets are regulated and\/or long term contracted. EPIF has strong and&nbsp;committed shareholders &#8211; EPH (69%), and&nbsp;from February 2017 a&nbsp;consortium of&nbsp;global institutional investors managed by Macquarie Infrastructure and&nbsp;Real Assets (MIRA) (31%). In&nbsp;2016 EPIF reported EBITDA of&nbsp;EUR&nbsp;1.4 billion with sales reaching EUR&nbsp;3.1 billion.<\/p>\n<p>EPH is an energy group focused on energy infrastructure, power generation and&nbsp;long-term contracted renewable energy that owns and&nbsp;operates assets in&nbsp;the&nbsp;Czech Republic, Slovakia, Germany, Italy, the&nbsp;UK and&nbsp;Hungary. The&nbsp;group is comprised of&nbsp;over 50 companies that employ nearly 25,000 people and&nbsp;covers the&nbsp;complete value chain in&nbsp;the&nbsp;energy sector and&nbsp;currently operates total installed electrical capacity of&nbsp;24.4 GWe.<\/p>\n<p>MIRA is the&nbsp;world\u2019s largest infrastructure asset manager with growing portfolios in&nbsp;real estate, agriculture and&nbsp;energy. As at 31 March 2017, MIRA managed approximately $A154 billion of&nbsp;assets on behalf of&nbsp;pension funds, sovereign funds, insurance companies and&nbsp;other investors.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>These ratings have been issued by S&amp;P Global Ratings (Preliminary BBB), Moody\u2019s (Baa3) and&nbsp;Fitch Ratings (BBB-), all with a&nbsp;stable outlook. EP Infrastructure, a.s. (\u201cEPIF\u201d), which is majority owned by Czech energy group Energetick\u00fd a&nbsp;pr\u016fmyslov\u00fd holding, a.s. (\u201cEPH\u201d), benefits from (a) its&nbsp;stable and&nbsp;predictable highly cash-generative businesses, which are mainly regulated and\/or long-term contracted, (b) large, diverse [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"template":"","meta":{"_expiration-date-status":"","_expiration-date":0,"_expiration-date-type":"","_expiration-date-categories":[],"_expiration-date-options":[]},"tax-year":[73],"acf":[],"wpml_current_locale":"en_US","wpml_translations":[{"locale":"cs_CZ","id":21401,"post_title":"EP Infrastructure byly p\u0159id\u011bleny ratingy od t\u0159\u00ed v\u00fdznamn\u00fdch ratingov\u00fdch agentur","href":"https:\/\/eph23.atelierzidlicky.eu\/ep-infrastructure-has-been-assigned-investment-grade-ratings-from-three-major-rating-agencies\/"}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eph23.atelierzidlicky.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/press-releases\/21402"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eph23.atelierzidlicky.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/press-releases"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eph23.atelierzidlicky.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/press-releases"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eph23.atelierzidlicky.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21402"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"tax-year","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eph23.atelierzidlicky.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tax-year?post=21402"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}