{"id":26074,"date":"2020-06-15T15:36:43","date_gmt":"2020-06-15T14:36:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/eph23.atelierzidlicky.eu\/?post_type=press-releases&#038;p=26074"},"modified":"2020-06-15T15:36:44","modified_gmt":"2020-06-15T14:36:44","slug":"eph-results-for-2019","status":"publish","type":"press-releases","link":"https:\/\/eph23.atelierzidlicky.eu\/en\/press-releases\/eph-results-for-2019\/","title":{"rendered":"EPH results for 2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Energetick\u00fd a&nbsp;pr\u016fmyslov\u00fd holding, a.s. (\u201cEPH\u201d) achieved record results in&nbsp;2019. Consolidated EPH sales reached EUR&nbsp;8.6 billion last year (compared to EUR&nbsp;7 billion in&nbsp;2018), Adjusted EBITDA* totalled EUR&nbsp;2.1 billion (compared to EUR&nbsp;1.9 billion in&nbsp;2018).<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The total consolidated net debt ratio** was 2.4 times EBITDA (compared to 2.6 times EBITDA in&nbsp;2018). The&nbsp;group\u2019s strong performance, resulting from the&nbsp;high share of&nbsp;regulated and&nbsp;long-term contracted infrastructure assets of&nbsp;the&nbsp;group complemented by long-term contracted biomass plants in&nbsp;the&nbsp;UK and&nbsp;Italy, gas-fired plants with secured capacity payments mainly in&nbsp;the&nbsp;UK, and&nbsp;high conversion of&nbsp;group EBITDA into cash flow, contributed to low level of&nbsp;consolidated debt. In&nbsp;this respect, the&nbsp;Group is fully comparable to European investment grade rated companies.<\/p>\n<p>In 2019, EPH benefited from the&nbsp;completed Lynemouth biomass plant (the&nbsp;conversion was completed in&nbsp;2018) as well as positive development in&nbsp;relevant markets especially in&nbsp;relation to a&nbsp;significant increase in&nbsp;the&nbsp;volume of&nbsp;transported gas. Furthermore, the&nbsp;group managed to reduce the&nbsp;share of&nbsp;electricity manufactured from coal to less than 21% compared to less than 33% in&nbsp;2018 and&nbsp;compared to more than 62% in&nbsp;2015, despite the&nbsp;overall increase in&nbsp;produced electricity.<\/p>\n<p>The above-mentioned results do not include performance of&nbsp;assets that are under joint control, which, according to the&nbsp;international financial reporting standards (IFRS), are not reflected in&nbsp;the&nbsp;consolidated figures (these include namely our shares in&nbsp;LEAG and&nbsp;Slovensk\u00e9 elektr\u00e1rn\u011b).<\/p>\n<p>In terms of&nbsp;operational indicators in&nbsp;2019, companies under EPH transmitted more than 69 bcm and&nbsp;distributed almost 5 bcm of&nbsp;natural gas, distributed more than 6 TWh of&nbsp;electricity, delivered over 26 PJ&nbsp;of&nbsp;heat, and&nbsp;used almost all of&nbsp;their natural gas storage capacity of&nbsp;61 TWh. Power plants operated by EPH produced 100 TWh of&nbsp;electricity last year, ranking EPH as the&nbsp;seventh largest European electricity producer.<\/p>\n<p><em>* The&nbsp;Adjusted EBITDA indicator represents the&nbsp;operating profit before depreciation and&nbsp;amortisation and&nbsp;negative goodwill further adjusted for selected effects of&nbsp;predominantly one-off and&nbsp;non-cash nature and&nbsp;partially reflects pro-forma impact of&nbsp;acquisitions realized in&nbsp;2018.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>** Calculated based on Adjusted EBITDA<\/em><\/p>\n<p>EPH\u00b4s audited financial results of&nbsp;2019 are available <a href=\"https:\/\/eph23.atelierzidlicky.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/eph-ar-2019-signed.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Energetick\u00fd a&nbsp;pr\u016fmyslov\u00fd holding, a.s. (\u201cEPH\u201d) achieved record results in&nbsp;2019. Consolidated EPH sales reached EUR&nbsp;8.6 billion last year (compared to EUR&nbsp;7 billion in&nbsp;2018), Adjusted EBITDA* totalled EUR&nbsp;2.1 billion (compared to EUR&nbsp;1.9 billion in&nbsp;2018). The&nbsp;total consolidated net debt ratio** was 2.4 times EBITDA (compared to 2.6 times EBITDA in&nbsp;2018). The&nbsp;group\u2019s strong performance, resulting from the&nbsp;high share [&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":[90],"acf":[],"wpml_current_locale":"en_US","wpml_translations":[{"locale":"cs_CZ","id":26073,"post_title":"Hospod\u00e1\u0159sk\u00e9 v\u00fdsledky EPH za rok 2019","href":"https:\/\/eph23.atelierzidlicky.eu\/hospodarske-vysledky-eph-za-rok-2019\/"}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eph23.atelierzidlicky.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/press-releases\/26074"}],"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=26074"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"tax-year","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eph23.atelierzidlicky.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tax-year?post=26074"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}