Engie Brasil Ene Sa S/Adr

in addition to a complete financial statement and other documents filed at CVM, where analysis of financial statements, operational results, ESG indicators, and progress in the implementation of new projects are disclosed in detail among other highlights of the period. Before moving on, I would like to clarify that all statements made during this video conference regarding business outlook of the company should be treated as forecast, depending on the country's macroeconomic conditions, performance, and regulations of the electric sector, in addition to other variables. Therefore, they are due to changes. We remind you that journalists who wish to ask questions can do so by email and send them to the company's press office. Today with us, we have Mr. Eduardo Saramini, CEO, Guilherme Ferrari, Managing Director Renewables and Batteries, Mr. Gustavo Labanca, Director of Power Networks, Mr. Marco Keller, Chief Supply and Energy Management Officer and Mr. Leonardo Dupin, Investors Relations Manager. I now turn over to Mr. Santamiri. Hello, everyone. It's a pleasure to be with you once again, and I wish you all a good morning. We continue navigating in this extremely challenging environment to the Brazilian electric sector with regulatory actions that are controversial. But we move on with our pathway and long-term vision. I would now like to share our highlights with you to demonstrate our commitment with our future. Today, we have the Serra do Assura wind complex with 100% physical progress, being 88% commercially operating and 12% under test. The requirements to start operation have been started by UNAS, and it's taken us a little longer for us to generate and start commercial operation. So these are some of the changes that we can see, and they result from a more conservative approach. for a new capacity. Asus saw photovoltaic complex with 96% of physical progress, 24% of the plants under commercial operation and 63% under test. At the end of the third quarter, we are likely to have this plant fully operational. And the declaration of the commercial operation will be obtained with the operator. In July, we also concluded the 15th debenture issue totaling 2.2 billion. It is considered as a green debenture classification. And it demonstrates our capacity to obtain resources, competitiveness in terms of obtaining capital. In the past quarter, we also had the restructuring of the executive board. We will talk about this in detail, but the idea is to align the board of directors to the main businesses of the group here in Brazil. We will talk in detail in slide number seven. At the meeting we had with the board of directors, we had entering dividends distribution of $719.2 million. And later, we will have more definitions on the company's cash. Now in the next slide, we have the new composition of the executive board. All right, idea here is to include the business areas and put them ahead of the business with a renewables storage and the whole spectrum from the development, construction, operation of the renewables, just as with Gustavo La Banca in energy transmission, with the three most important parts. With this, our business becomes more fluid, and we have a strategy for portfolio. And these three business areas are supported by the financial area, regulation, strategy, and communication with Gabriel Mann. Sophie with Human Resources, Felipe Batista with Legal and Ethics, and we have an ongoing process and we will soon inform you about our sustainability area. This is a new statutory position which is being created. and it will be part of our extraordinary assembly where we will propose the creation of this statutory area. And so, moving on, in the financial highlights, we have our ETEDA above all, and I would like to remind you that we have some non-recurring events which cause a bit of a distortion. First of all, and the first remark we want to make is that when we compare quarter over quarter, this is very difficult for a company that generates and has different seasonality strategies for its resources. So this is the first comment. But when we remove the issue of non-recurring events, we can see that our growth strategy is in place. And we have growth from one quarter to the other, even if the comparison is not the best one to make. We have 10% from the second quarter of 24 to the first of 25. Also, when we talk about the accrued results for the year, from 24 to the first half of 25. We reaffirm a sustainable and profitable growth of the company. We generate cash. But of course, in terms of net profit with high interest rates, and at a moment when we are investing, we still do not have an increased It will take some more time. With that, our financial results had a decrease, and this is the situation that we see when we talk about net profit after evaluating these aspects, including the interest rate. and this lag between investment and return so that we have this decrease in our net profit. But moving on to ESG KPIs in the next slide, we can see that our emissions intensity is very low when we look at the reference of ins it is 10 times lower and it is totally aligned with esg safety indicators also show a significant control of the safety of our employees we have evolved in terms of diversity in our workforce We've made investments in innovation throughout the past years so that we can provide instructions and investments on operational safety. This is our main focus. In terms of social responsibility, of course, we have incentivated resources and they vary from year two year, but our goal is to invest 100% of the resources available, also engaging with the community, which is a very important element. And this is something we monitor and it is very important for us so that we can have a positive impact on the largest number of people participating in our operations. in the next slide we will talk about the operating highlights and i will turn over to guilherme ferrari so that he can talk about energy generation good morning everyone I would like to share some highlights with you in these first six months. Regarding hydroelectric generation, we had a decrease. There is seasonality, and there won't be major impact on the company's results. But this is normal. Last year, we had a very large volume, which was not seen this year. I would like to talk a little bit about a project of modernization in one of our plants in Jagua. We obtained it in an auction last year with Semig. This is a process that we're starting now. and will increase next year. Regarding the renewable energies, as mentioned before today, we had Santo Agostinho inclusion in the north, and also Asuruá, where we are in the process of implementation. As mentioned, the regulatory aspects are delayed. Last year, we had the closing of the acquisition of the Atlas. assets and that increases our solar energy also asusol which is something new and last year we had one in paracatu we're resuming this project with an expansion beyond the new projects It is worthwhile to highlight the improved availability and performance of our wind assets. Today we have the performance area working along with engineering. so that we can leverage our assets. In the past years, this year, we saw significant improvement in performance, both in our wind and solar assets. Regarding our wind assets, this quarter, our profile was a bit more favorable and helped us to provide better wind generation, or to further our wind generation. In the next slide, I think this is something that you're all familiar with, but I would like to share with you the impact on energy generation for renewable energies. Curtainment is one of the main challenges we have, and it has impacted generation quite significantly. I would like to reinforce that for us, in renewables, containment had an impact of 14%, including wind and solar, with an average of 14% for both of them. But the solar timing is more impacted. And it is aligned. with what happens in the system, in the national integrated system of 15%. And of course, when we analyze our portfolio, this impact is significantly reduced according to our technology diversification strategies. And that leads to an impact of 5% at the end. And these are the highlights for generation in this first half of the year. I would now turn over to Keller. Good morning, everyone. I'm now going to summarize our commercial activities for the quarter on the left side you can see that we've maintained our strategy for the portfolio with a lot of care regarding our risks including hydrological risk and so we have some energy available to sell in 26, in 27, and gradually we will increase our availability, always following our strategy to sell energy in a continued manner with some mild fluctuations in the market. This is demonstrated on the right side graph. You can see the availability every quarter, And this was not a quarter where we had intensive sales. There was a trend towards price decrease in the whole quarter. This is being reverted now. But there was this trend. and it wasn't the best time for us to accelerate our sales. We also had the issue of sub-market risks and we have to pay a lot of attention to our sales position. Another factor to be highlighted is that the business team is focused on longer sales, which did not really happen but we still have some concessions, but we are focusing on this aspect. Also, we paid more attention to the longer access according to our strategy shown on the left side graph on our availabilities. In terms of number of clients, we had a significant advance. We had an increase of almost 22% when compared to the previous year. In terms of consuming units, we've gone beyond over 4,000, an increase of 15% when compared to the second quarter of 24. And I would like to remind you that this does not yet include some of our assets, which will be closed throughout the quarter. I will now turn over for the continuation of this presentation. Okay, so I will come back now and talk a little bit about our expansions. As Marcos Keller just commented, And as informed to the market, we had the signing of this contract in March. And we expect that in the next few days, we will be informing you of the closing of this operation. We do believe that in the short term, we will get there. We have hired 100% and they are safe and for the long term. This is very important for us because it enables us to elongate a little bit our deadlines. And because of our very large park, we will try to extract as much value as possible. It is well adjusted to our portfolio of projects in Engie Brazil Energy. A very important aspect I would like to highlight for the strategic aspects, we're always trying to balance different types of assets and We also have the opportunities that will arise in the market and therefore we always pay close attention to the opportunities that may be added. and that we will keep on analyzing and moving on with our projects. We've had some information on the Serra do Assura wind complex and the main aspect today has to do with the delay in obtaining the declaration of studies that are required today the requirements are higher than they were in the past we do believe however that all of the spes will have their commercial operation approved in the near future this was a very challenging implementation due to its size. 68 were generators, but everything went really fine. All of the indicators were met, CAPEX, the schedule, safety and health, our license to operate. So everything went fine in all regards. And a very important thing to mention, as you know, the performance of these machines has been very good. and above what was expected, which is very important for Cerrado Asura wind complex. And then in the next one, we have Asuso Photovoltaic Complex, where we already have an ongoing process where we have energized 14 of the 16 units and we do believe that in this process along with ans we will be able to obtain in the next months to obtain all of the declarations because we will start a business operation also a project that is going really well according to the anticipated CAPEX and schedule, which is very interesting. And within our expectations, these assets have a good performance with providers, And so the performance of the asset has proven to be very positive for the business. And these are some of the highlights for us to solve photovoltaic process. And Gustavo will talk about the transmission project. Thank you very much. It's a pleasure to be able to be here with you with an update of this project which is being implemented for energy transmission. We have the Azabranca project. It is very important for the country. We're talking about 1,000 kilometers uh from the center south of bahia all the way to the state of espiritu santos which is key for the expansion we see in the northeast the project is updated and the main highlights to share now is that we're doing really well and the first uh area it represents one-third of the ip and we will start operating early this year We're talking about an RIP of 9 million BRLs per year. We also have three segments where we hand the issuance of the environmental license at the end of June. And the teams are working together so that we can have the license issued with authorization to start in the beginning of next year. And of course, we're talking about a project with 2.7 billion BRLs CAPEX. And the next one to be implemented is the Graúna project. It is also very important. And we have a lot of synergism with our Gralha Azul project in the state of Santa Catarina and Paraná. But we also have brownfield an ISA asset located in the state of Espiritu Santo, which it was already operating, but the license was due to expire. So this is very important news we're sharing. We are already operating the asset 100%. And we've been doing it since July 18, which is really nice in terms of revenue. It represents 5% of our total for the plant. And if we add it to 90% of the first plant, we will have 100 million BRLs of additional revenue for our transmission assets, which is very important. We have some important updates also. We have RAP updated for the new cycle and the total project CAPEX of about 2.9 billion and 268 of RAP. Now, the environmental licensee has moved on well so that we can comply with our schedule and also follow an IELTS program, which is anticipated to be for 2029. We have the October 31st auction. We're talking about 8 billion barrels in capex and we are analyzing the lots that we should be looking at more carefully and participate on the 31st. So I will return to talk about the expansions. You all know that Giral is very important for our group. Today, it's not within the network we have overcome different technical challenges this year we obtained approval of the expanded quota and then after that the constant quota in eventual transfer to brazil energy we will be monitoring today you know we have angie and mitsui everything is done together but um we might have to incorporate it later and if we do that we'll inform the market and moving on to the next slide regarding our expansion capacity as we mentioned before we have two projects under construction and we have two projects that are being developed in our portfolio these are options that we have, Santo Agostinho in phase two, the solar complex in Santo Agostinho for a hybrid project. In Humburanas, we also have a capacity for expansion. An important aspect I would like to mention, and it's nothing new for you, We will maintain our pipeline for the future. Today, we do not think that we will implement new parks because of the low energy offer in upcoming years. Some regulatory measures have to be taken so that we can make new investments without harming the sector as a whole. I will now turn over to Leonardo for the financial performance presentation. We have two highlights. Good morning, everyone. We had a decrease in ROI and part of it to ROE and ROIC. We had inflated revenues and as we add new assets, the ROIC goes back to a more normal Because the assets are new, they're not all operating, and therefore they are not delivering the expected results for wind and solar energy, also for the transmission units under construction. On the line below, we can see that in 2016, we were 100% generation, and today we have 25% outside generation with the two transmitters. and 9% representing gas transportation. And moving on to the next slide, we can see the changes in our operating revenue. We had an increase of 10%. Even with the indemnity made for Santo Agostinho also, we have the transmission assets and quarter over quarter we can see the significant 10 percent increase in the next slide we can see the results of four equity income this is a tags second isolated quarter the profit uh was, as you can see here on the slide, and there was a stake of 17.5% in TAG, resulting in the contribution of $199 million through equity income to the company's ETIDA in the second quarter. The result was strong. And moving on to the ETIDA evolution, this is a more complex graph to analyze. We can see the ETIDA as published by accounting on the... And then we have the adjusted ETIDA. We remove the non-recurring events. We also remove IFRS and financial and transmission assets. So when we get to the columns in the center, our results, which are close... to regulatory, we can see a result of a minus 8%, but we have the Centro Agostinho aspect, and if we do not take it into account, adjusted Etida would have increased 7%, which represents better organic movement for the period, and then In blue, we can see tax improvement compared to the same quarter last year. And now, talking about the net income, we can see non-recurring with a 25% decrease and non-recurring with 34%. even though we call it non-recurring, you also had a strong impact because of Santo Agostinho, which is included in the adjusted editor. We also had a very specific event, which harmed us now. It has to do with a non-cash event, which impacted our financial result, but it will be adjusted in the near future. And if we adjusted, the results would have been very similar to the past quarter. And so moving on to the balanced debt, because of the CAPE cycle, our debt is increasing. We have a net debt of 2.9 times the ETEDA. It is still healthy. The growth data, you can also see our cash positions at 6.6 billion because of the CAPEX, especially of transmission to be obtained in the future, and then also JARI, which will take place within the next week, and this will be adjusted in Q3. The debt profile remains healthy. We can see that the situation is healthy. The mean time remains seven year. Today, we have interest rates of 15 and inflation rates of 5, 5.5. So we went from 9.5 to 11%. And the composition of this data, you can see here with a nominal cost of debt of 11.8% annually, equivalent to IPCA plus 6.1%. And we are also protected by our cash. The indexation of energy sales contracts mitigates exposure of debt to IPCA, and cash position mitigates part of the CDI exposure. Regarding CAPEX, I've already talked about it. This year, we had about 6.5 billion BRLs, some of it for the acquisition of Jari and Asuni, and the main ramp in Asa Branca. For 2027, we will have the conclusion of Graúna and Asa Branca. And this is what we have for the future. Regarding dividends, we maintained the 55% as expected. With the leverage going up, it's reasonable that we hold our results to keep it in healthier terms. So for this quarter, I told you already, we had a payout. And I will now turn over to Adriana because we're starting our Q&A. Well, perfect. Thank you very much. We're going to start our Q&A now. To ask questions, please submit it to this conference Q&A tool. Our first question is from Victor Cunha from Itaú Southside, and he has two questions. Could you give some more visibility regarding the PMSO increase in the quarter, especially in the line of material and third-party services. Given this leveraging higher after next year, what is the company's strategy for growth? Can we expect capital allocation in transmission and or generation? Well, this is what the company or the impact of the company in the last eight months with the new assets. Last year at this time, Santo Agostinho was not fully operating. We also have Atlas assets that were acquired in the second quarter of last year. Since then, Suraya, Suso, also added PEMSO as they started operating. So this was due to a scope of variation. In addition to that, the organic variation was very low in line with what was to be expected and according to the inflation rates of the period. So we did not have any PEMSO highlights. yes and the trend is that we will have operational improvements to be made and they will end up demanding in the first or second year of operations investment and operational improvements this is the added value when we purchase assets regarding capital allocation, the trend with excess offer right now is not to invest in green fields and renewables until we have better visibility. For renewables, eventually we could invest according to the hired M&A, which is the tax case, and the two Plans that we acquired from ADP with the financial closing to be performed in the next few weeks. We will continue investing in Greenfield in transmission, which has been very successful, and we will gradually increase our portfolio with transmission lines. Gustavo is heading this team. He will look at the auctions in the second quarter. Well, thank you very much. Moving on with the questions, we have a question from Maria Carolina Carneiro, SAFRA analyst. She has two questions. The curtailment pressure remains so strong in the sector. Does it change the way you view resource allocation in this segment and the assets that you have today in your portfolio? And I would also like to know if you think that this problem can be solved in the short term. We've seen that you sold some energy for longer vertices. What is liquidity like in the market? Well, regarding containment, this is what Satamini and myself had already mentioned. The environment today for new investments remain favorable. and it does impact the generation of renewables. The impact is quite significant regarding curtailment. Actions for reduction, this is something that we analyze the whole time. We are trying to find other solutions so that we can have a decrease with lower impact. well uh guilherme this is something very important that i would like to mention we have a distributed generation which is a main problem for the electric sector with the development of the generation capacity and the distribution network and the pocket of our consumers. This ends up generating distortions and problems to all agents. So the contention is very important. We've been talking about this. We're trying to... discuss it with the sector, but this is something that has to be discussed by our Congress, and we have to raise awareness of the legislative branch. This is something that we insist on, and it will be very important for us to be able to reduce containment from now on. If things remains as they are, Curtainment will end up with this industry in the country and create so much complexity and cost for the society, which will be absurd. I think this is it. so do we have another part of the question well the second aspect is that we've seen that you've sold energy for longer terms and what is liquidity like keller well i'm going to answer this one but i would like to make a comment regarding curtailment in addition to what was already said from the point of view of portfolio effect, there was a partial compensation of the effects on the day between wind, solar generation and hydroelectric generation. It is what Guilherme showed in his first slides. When we look at the portfolio as a whole, of course, the impact of containment is lower when we have a more diversified approach. In addition to that, we have different effects. The operation among the different sources move back and forth, but it has to do with portfolio management. Regarding sales, Yes, a little bit more in the longer vertices and the shorter ones. I've already explained it. We have little energy to sell. We have to be more careful with prices. Yes, there is liquidity. of course it's not as good as it is for the shorter access but we have a very large scope of clients so we have some sales for 28 and 29 And, Keller, regarding sales, I would like to add that we can see a movement of consumers trying to obtain generators which have the competence and capacity to deliver. When the generator has problems with generation, There is a challenge in developing the promised energy to buyers, and that has an impact. It's important to have generators with energy quality, with a balanced portfolio. Well, thank you very much. I will now combine some related questions regarding payout and dividends. The first one by Felipe and then Ramos, physical persons. Could the company enable payout increase for next year or will it focus on this leveraging? In addition to that, do you intend to change the payout policy what was the question where philippine and will well philippine will by the end of the year we are likely to conclude this cycle of renewables with Asura and Asuson. So our leveraging today is below three. It will be over three as soon as we conclude the purchase of Arigashira assets. And we will see that in the first half half of next year so according to what we have today it's not prudent to increase dividends and also in this environment with high interest rates which impact our leverage and to keep it controlled between 3 and 3.5 this level of 55 seems to be good was there anything else on dividends well i think that there is another one there's yeah there's another one that we've addressed with your answer we have one by joel pimentel cell side analyst from citibank the conclusion of the increase of jirao's physical warranty would be the last pending aspect to consider the transfer of this asset to ANGIE Brazil and considering into account the relevant volume of resources required for the acquisition, how does it behave in the balance sheet, which seems to be restrictive? Well, this is an important factor. As I mentioned in the past years, Girao has been able to solve some regulatory issues And the asset has less risks. But this is not a main requisite for such. We have an alignment with the group. And as I commented, this is not a demand. what we see is Zhidao evolving with its performance, solving its problems over time. With that, we are closer and closer to a transaction. Also, pressuring them for a balance. This is a concern. The balance is fuller, let's put it this way. It's not in full capacity, but it is better compared to some years ago. but it is a way to deal with it. This is something that will be taken into account by the group and the committee so that we can bring in the asset for transfer. And we are closer and closer to making it come through. This is an element that will define how and when we do it. Thank you. We have from CD regarding TAG. How do you see these discussions regarding LRCAP and the gas pass-through issue? Well, this is something that was being discussed until very recently, and we continue discussing it with our representative at TAG. We have some more information to give you. Gustavo, please. Well, thank you very much. Thank you, Sata. This is an excellent question, João. This is something that would require a little bit more time. And so when you are with Adriana, we can talk about it in detail. But in general, LR cap is very important. It is an issue we have a need to. to meet the needs at the end. We have thermal units whose contracts are expiring. We would have to adjust that. We're talking about flexible thermal plants. The delay was not caused by the pass-through. the delay had to do with factor a for those who are following it it has to do with the operational flexibility of the thermal plant they need to be able to dispatch quickly and this was valued in the auctions rules the pass-through issue what i can tell you is that we're not going to have supply guarantee if we do not integrate all of them in our transportation mesh when you have isolated sources from the transportation mesh you do not guarantee supply Because if we have any unavailability caused by a lack of ships, higher prices in other countries, and higher tides, we do not have any safety. But as well, we could just candle a discussion along with Adriana, because this is something very complex, and it would take time to do that. Thank you very much, Gustavo. The next question is from Marcos Andrade, a physical person in Vester. He asks, recently there was a GSF auction where I thought that the participation would make a lot of sense for Angie. Could you let me know why you chose not to participate? Well, I could start answering, and maybe, Keller, you could continue. Basically, we analyzed it. But days before the auction, a lot of uncertainties arose. And so we closed with one of Annel's directors Also, some issues related to the auction. There was risk. There were elements that would cause a lot of risk to the process. And our position was correct, because we saw that immediately after the auction, the PCO taking some actions, and the uncertainties may be consolidated. We wouldn't like it to happen, but our perception was correct when we decided not to participate. And these were things that happened shortly before the auction. Guilherme, yes, there's nothing to add. You covered the most important aspects with a definition of the regulatory risk and we decided not to participate. Well, perfect. Thank you very much. The next question is by Ricardo Citolo, physical person investor. He asks why the dividend payments was not announced along with Datacom's announcement Datacom is always disseminated along with the information to shareholders and payment dates are informed later on. I think that this is Ricardo's question. I will answer it because we still have dividends scheduled for December 20. I don't remember the exact date. So the next one for the first half will be paid in the first quarter of 26. We chose not to include a date because we still have some time ahead of us and we will have a more accurate date later on. We still have a lot to happen until then. We have other possible flows. which will have an impact on Q1, and we will define the date when it's closer. Thank you very much. Our last question comes from Reyna, our Infinity Investment Club. Do you consider selling the remaining of TAG so that you can pay for the scheduled investments and or this leveraging balance? Well, it is a possibility. It's not what we're willing right now. And this will be done according to the context of the management and the company's capital structure. Right now, we participate as a group with 50% of tax capital. We understand that we should have a participation with CDPQ control. We do not have a plan in place for the short term. But it is a possibility so that we can rotate assets. Yes. Perfect. Thank you very much. Right now, we're closing our Q&A session, and I would like to turn over to Sadamini for his final considerations. Well, I wanted to thank you all for your presence here today with this new setup. It creates a better dynamics and access to the other executive directors of the group. We're inaugurating a new phase, a new structure, and we want to give more transparency to our operations and, of course, strive for operational efficiency, competitiveness. We know that markets are challenging. They are more and more competitive. We have to lead this competition. This is our purpose, generate transparency. and information to our investors. Thank you, Angie Brazil.