The ERG Group presented its 2018 – 2022 Business Plan during a meeting with the Financial Community in Milan on 8 March 2018.
Business Plan
We have radically changed our business portfolio in anticipation of long-term energy scenarios, achieving a leadership position in renewables not only in Italy but also in Europe. Since completing our industrial transformation that we began 10 years ago, we have become one of the leading independent producers of energy from renewable sources in Europe.
We have reached an installed capacity of more than 2,900 MW with a portfolio of assets that is well diversified, from both a technological and a geographical standpoint. Our strategy has always been to anticipate trends in the industry and it is for this reason that the 2018- 2022 Business Plan was approved a year in advance, in 2018.
The industry for the generation of electricity from renewable sources has radically and fundamentally changed in recent years in Europe. While on the one hand governments are pushing ever harder for decarbonization in favour of renewable sources, on the other hand there has been a drastic change in the competitive scenario through the gradual introduction of competitive auctioning for the award of new renewable capacity and the consequent abandonment of incentive systems.
Renewables have therefore changed from being a business with strong infrastructural connotations to a business with purely industrial characteristics. Within the changed competitive environment, our strategy is to continue growing in renewable energies, now leveraging our own industrial know-how, our territorial presence, the quality of our own assets, our operating efficiency and the flexibility of the integrated Energy Management portfolio.
The objective for the 2018-2022 period is to increase the installed capacity by approximately 850 MW via three channels:
1) Greenfield and co-Development: we intend to continue our growth strategy through internal growth of our pipeline of projects or co-development agreements in France, Germany and United Kingdom.
2) Repowering and Reblading in Italy: in view of technological developments in the wind power industry, we are aiming to carry out repowering and reblading on wind farms equipped with obsolete technology, with turbines below one MW, with incentives already expired or expiring, but at the same time located in the windiest sites and therefore with very high expected profitability even in the absence of incentives.
3) M&A: we intend to continue exploiting opportunities for growth in renewables in the countries of or interest, levering the experience acquired in the course of our transformation and the synergies deriving from consolidation with our own portfolio.
In the course of 2018, we took several steps forward in the growth outlined by the Business Plan, adding nearly 200 MW both through M&A in solar (with particular reference to the acquisition of Forvei for 89 MW and the recent acquisition of Andromeda for 51 MW, which is consolidated as from 2019), and through greenfield development (entry into operation of the Torfou and Valle del'Aa wind farms in France), and bringing forward the repowering project with presentation of the applications for authorisation for an even higher number of MW than included in the Plan.
We have reached an installed capacity of more than 2,900 MW with a portfolio of assets that is well diversified, from both a technological and a geographical standpoint. Our strategy has always been to anticipate trends in the industry and it is for this reason that the 2018- 2022 Business Plan was approved a year in advance, in 2018.
The industry for the generation of electricity from renewable sources has radically and fundamentally changed in recent years in Europe. While on the one hand governments are pushing ever harder for decarbonization in favour of renewable sources, on the other hand there has been a drastic change in the competitive scenario through the gradual introduction of competitive auctioning for the award of new renewable capacity and the consequent abandonment of incentive systems.
Renewables have therefore changed from being a business with strong infrastructural connotations to a business with purely industrial characteristics. Within the changed competitive environment, our strategy is to continue growing in renewable energies, now leveraging our own industrial know-how, our territorial presence, the quality of our own assets, our operating efficiency and the flexibility of the integrated Energy Management portfolio.
The objective for the 2018-2022 period is to increase the installed capacity by approximately 850 MW via three channels:
1) Greenfield and co-Development: we intend to continue our growth strategy through internal growth of our pipeline of projects or co-development agreements in France, Germany and United Kingdom.
2) Repowering and Reblading in Italy: in view of technological developments in the wind power industry, we are aiming to carry out repowering and reblading on wind farms equipped with obsolete technology, with turbines below one MW, with incentives already expired or expiring, but at the same time located in the windiest sites and therefore with very high expected profitability even in the absence of incentives.
3) M&A: we intend to continue exploiting opportunities for growth in renewables in the countries of or interest, levering the experience acquired in the course of our transformation and the synergies deriving from consolidation with our own portfolio.
In the course of 2018, we took several steps forward in the growth outlined by the Business Plan, adding nearly 200 MW both through M&A in solar (with particular reference to the acquisition of Forvei for 89 MW and the recent acquisition of Andromeda for 51 MW, which is consolidated as from 2019), and through greenfield development (entry into operation of the Torfou and Valle del'Aa wind farms in France), and bringing forward the repowering project with presentation of the applications for authorisation for an even higher number of MW than included in the Plan.
A BIG STEP FORWARD IN THE BP EXECUTION
| ESG Achievement | |
|---|---|
| ERG included in the ECPI Global Clean Energy Index | The inclusion of ERG in the ECPI Global Clean Energy Index, which selects the 80 top publicly-listed companies in developed countries, active in the production and trading of renewable energy, which satisfy ESG (Environmental, Social and Governance) criteria, has also been confirmed. |
| Achieved rating B from CDP | ERG achieved a B rating from the Climate Change programme promoted by the Carbon Disclosure Project (CDP), the international not-for-profit organisation set up to gather and disseminate quantitative and qualitative information and data regarding the strategies used by firms to combat "climate change". The rating assigned exceeds both the average achieved by the Utilities sector (C rating), and the average insofar as concerns the region of Europe (B- rating). |
| Ranked 16th in the | ERG ranked 16th place in the "Corporate Knights Global 100 Most Sustainable Corporations in the World Index" published by the Canadian company Corporate Knights. With a score of 75.39%, ERG is the leading Italian company, as well as the only one included among the Top 50. Read more on the press release published on 4 February 2019 |
| Obtained ESG rating from Vigeo, IGI, Ethibel and Oekom | |
| Signed 2 ESG Loans | 20 November 2018 - ERG executes two Environmental |
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