EDPR first-half profit more than doubles on capital gains
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By Sergio Goncalves
LISBON, July 26 (Reuters) -The world's fourth-largest wind energy producer, EDP Renovaveis EDPR.LS, more than doubled first-half net profit on Friday thanks to capital gains from selling stakes in older assets and a rebound in electricity revenues.
EDPR, the renewables arm of Portugal's largest utility EDP EDP.LS, booked 171 million euros ($185.60 million) in capital gains from the sale of stakes in wind projects in Canada and Italy and a solar farm in the United States as part of its 'rotation' strategy to sell mature plants to finance new ones.
Chief Executive Miguel Stilwell de Andrade expects second-half core earnings excluding capital gains to be "a touch above" the first half result, while the company still expects to close new asset rotation deals this year or in early 2025.
Consolidated earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization (EBITDA) rose to 960 million euros, more than the 899 million euros expected on average by analysts surveyed by LSEG.
The company's shares were up 1.56% in morning trading.
Net income rose to 210 million euros ($227.87 million) in the first half, up from 80 million euros a year ago and well above the analysts' forecast of 153 million.
EDPR said in a statement that the increase in net profit reflected "the recovery of the operational performance and the capital gains", despite a 64 million euro increase in financial costs.
"We are in a relatively good position with a good underlying performance... and we continue to see solid renewable demand growth in EDPR's core markets," the CEO told analysts on a call.
Electricity sales rose 5% to 1.1 billion euros along with a same-sized increase in power generation to 18,893 gigawatt-hours (GWh), mainly in North America.
The CEO said new Power Purchase Agreements (PPA) amounting to 1.3 GW in the first half, mainly with big tech companies, of which 60% in the United States, were "providing good revenue visibility and good expected returns".
EDPR, which operates in 28 countries across Europe, Asia and the Americas, said that in June its installed capacity reached 16.6 GW, up 2.9 GW from a year ago.
($1 = 0.9213 euros)
Reporting by Sergio Goncalves; editing by Inti Landauro, Christina Fincher, Elaine Hardcastle
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