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REC Silicon

Investor Presentation Mar 28, 2024

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Information contained herein will not be updated. The following slides should be read and considered in connection with the information given orally during the presentation.

REC Silicon ASA shares have not been registered under the U.S. Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the "Act"), and may not be offered or sold in the United States absent registration or an applicable exemption from the registration requirements of the Act.

AGENDA

›The Business Opportunity

› Activity Update

› Financials

› Summary

THE BUSINESS OPPORTUNITY

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REC SILICON IS A SILICON MATERIAL COMPANY PROVIDING ENABLING MATERIALS FOR THE GREEN ENERGY TRANSITION

EXPOSURE TO ENERGY TRANSITION MEGATRENDS

* From 2025 and onwards

REC SILICON FEATURES

  • Largest supplier of silane outside China
  • Low-cost, low-carbon PV-poly producer
  • Strong position with leading semiplayers
  • Largest Silane Module container fleet
  • Immediate silane capacity available for anode material

Moses Lake

› 24,000 MT silane gas capacity

  • Prime high-purity granular polysilicon capacity 16,000 MT
  • ~ 2,400MT silane for merchant sales
  • › Risk mitigating offtake contract
  • › Low energy low cost and conflict-free

Butte

  • › 7,400 MT Silane gas capacity
  • High purity Float Zone polysilicon phasing out

›Silicon gases

  • Production expansion for DCS (3x)
  • Ongoing loading/container expansion for high value silicon gases

SILANE-BASED INDUSTRIES FACING DISRUPTIVE CHANGES

  • Strong political and regulatory pushLow-emission energy
    • Supply chain geographical diversification
    • End-user proximity
    • Tech war

Inflation Reduction Act 2022 (USD 500 bn)

  • › USD 394bn to clean energy and climate change (tax credits, grants and loan guarantees)
  • › Aims to boost investments in US manufacturing capacity

Bipartisan Infrastructure Law 2021 (USD 1.2trn)

› USD 15bn to EV charging infrastructure, buses and transit

The CHIPS Act 2022 (USD 280bn)

  • › Reduce reliance on overseas supply chains for semiconductors
  • › USD 50bn to expand US production of mature and advanced semiconductors

The Uygur Forced Labor Prevention Act (2022)

› Prohibits imports of goods produced in the Xinjian region or by certain Chinese entities

Key initiatives REC Silicon benefits

High purity granular polysilicon to the solar PV industry

  • › USD 3/kg in manufacturing tax credits for REC Silicon (Moses Lake)
  • › Full slate of incentives available for developers if 100% US supply chain
  • › Manufacturing tax credits for wafer, cell and module producers
  • › Low carbon focus
  • › Significant increase in demand from the solar industry (> 3x 2023 2030)
  • › Investment in ingot/wafer production capacity

Silicon Gas

  • › Investments in US semiconductor production
  • › Investments in US Si-Anode material production
  • › Investments in US PV Cell production

  • › 7% annual growth towards 2030
  • › 75% of growth from automotive electronics, wireless communication and computing/data storage
  • › US market accounts for 34% of current demand

Trillion dollar industry by 2030 Manufacturers struggling to go green Taking back supply chain control

  • › Strong net zero pledges among all major players
  • › Lack of realistic clean energy options for growth among Taiwanese and South Korean producers
  • › US has some of the largest access to renewable energy, to be increased further by the IRA Act

17.20%

21.50%

  • › Strong US reliance on semiconductor imports
  • › CHIPS Act main motive to re-shore production and reduce supply/demand gap
  • › USD 200bn of chip manufacturing investments already announced

Semiconductor 2030 outlook

PV MARKET

  • › 35% increase in expected installations in 2022-27 from the introduction of the IRA
  • › USD 100 bn of investments already announced from companies in the US, Asia and Europe
  • › Full impact throughout the US value chain

  • › Limited existing value chain for PV in the US

  • › Significant expansion is required, and announced for major value chain components
  • › REC Silicon has the only announced expansion of the solar grade polysilicon capacity (Moses Lake)

Strong impact from IRA already Value chain explosion The quest for low cost and low carbon

  • › Strong demand from end users and module producers for low carbon PV supply chain
  • › Moses Lake has ~ 70% lower carbon intensity than traditional polysilicon which is ~40% of total PV carbon footprint
  • › With IRA incentives, Moses Lake is also competitive with Chinese producers on a cost per kg basis

PV manufacturing carbon footprint (g/kWh)

Source: The Ultra Low Carbon Solar Alliance

300

SILANE GAS

  • › Global EV sales expected to grow 13% p.a. 2020-40
  • › Silane gas has strong potential as anode material in mobility battery storage
  • › Mobility growth also positive for semiconductor and electronics industries

Global EV Sales Forecast (mill units)

Electric mobility growth Driving battery storage growth US supply chain response

  • › Global battery storage demand expected to grow nearly 7x from 2022 to 2030
  • › Battery storage demand for mobility is set to account for more than 90% of the growth
  • › Battery storage demand in the US set to outpace Chinese growth with 26% p.a.

Li-ion battery demand (GWh)

  • › China dominates the battery markets
  • › Substantial initiatives in IRA has been met with rapid response
  • › Battery storage supply chain in the US set to grow more than 7x, driven by mobility and utility scale storage demand

US battery storage supply chain

Source: IES Source: SEIA

Source: McKinsey & Company

700

Mobility

Consumer electronics

Stationary storage

ACTIVITY UPDATE

ACCOMPLISHMENTS

What we've said What we've done Status

Refinance \$110M bond

Corporate debt financing \$110M, April 2023

\$30M one-year bank loan facility, June 2023

Financing of Moses Lake restart and Butte investments

\$100M three-year term loan agreement, July 2023

\$40M term loan, September 2023

Received the first tranche of prepayments under offtake contract

Secure long-term corporate funding

Second tranche of prepayments and first commercial delivery
Ongoing

Secure sustainable operation for Moses Lake

Signed 10-year offtake contract

Modifications

Installations

Moses Lake restart

Testing and recommissioning

Production start

Production ramp-up
Ongoing

Butte capacity expansions

DCS capacity expansion

Silane gas loading capacity expansion

Yulin JV

Sold 15% equity stake \$136M

Address Butte energy situation

Entered short-term hedging contracts

Discontinue polysilicon production
Ongoing

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THE MOSES LAKE RESTART PROCESS

BUTTE RESTRUCTURING

Capacity expansion and optimization

› DCS expansion

  • › Increased silicon gas container fleet
  • › Optimizing silane gas utilization
  • › Hi-grading product portfolio, focusing on profitable specialty gases

EG Poly shutdown

  • › Addressing the regional imbalance in supply and demand for electricity
  • › Lower energy consumption
  • › Accretive to the bottom line
  • › Reduce costs by USD 15-30M/year
  • › Ensure profitable operations

Unsustainable energy situation


DCS expansion
Average Electricity Price (Yearly MW)

Increased silicon gas container fleet

Optimizing silane gas utilization

Hi-grading product portfolio, focusing on
profitable specialty gases
EG Poly shutdown

Addressing the regional imbalance in supply and
demand for electricity

Lower energy consumption

Accretive to the bottom line

Reduce costs by USD 15-30M/year

Ensure profitable operations

Reduce GHG emissions
2018 2019 2020 2021 2022 2023

PRODUCT MIX TRANSFORMATION - OPTIMIZING SILANE GAS CAPACITY

Energy and carbon metrics 2023 Energy and carbon metrics 2026 and onwards

Semiconductors Solar Other › ~ 5,200 MT silane gas production › 2/3 of revenues in Asia Semiconductors Solar Energy storage Other › ~ 30,000 MT silane gas production › 2/3 of revenues in the US From exposure to volatile China markets and lower value commodity products To high exposure to US value chains with higher value products and significant growth trends Additional growth potential as value chains develop Strong competitive position due to location and available capacity Change in product mix to higher value products 2023 Exposure Exposure 2025 -> Substantial reduction of energy costs and GHG emissions

POSITIONING FOR NEW SILANE GAS OPPORTUNITIES

  • ›Tracking 7 different anode material producers potentially in USA
    • -All utilizing Silane as silicon source
  • › REC Silicon taking a direct market approach, targeting
    • -Battery anode material producers
    • -Selected distributors

› Moses Lake - A battery hub ?

  • -Several initiatives ongoing
  • -Silane-based anode material a common denominator

FINANCIALS

(Millions USD) Q4-23 Q4-22 2023 2022 Q3-23
Revenues \$40.5M Semiconductor Materials \$
40.3
\$
31.5
\$ 140.6 \$ 147.4 \$ 34.7
-
Polysilicon Sales volume decrease by 8.9%
vs. Q3-23
-
Silicon Gas Sales volume increase by 10.4% vs. Q3-23
Solar Materials
Other
0.1
0.0
0.1
0.1
0.4
0.2
0.2
0.2
0.1
0.1
Revenues \$
40.5
\$
31.6
\$ 141.1 \$ 147.8 \$ 34.8
EBITDA (\$31.2M)
-
Impacts:
Polysilicon shutdown accrual
-
Increase Moses Lake restart activities
Semiconductor Materials
Solar Materials
\$
1.1
(25.8)
\$
(6.5)
(10.5)
\$
14.0
(64.8)
\$
6.3
(19.9)
\$
6.1
(16.0)
-
Semiconductor Materials Segment
Other
EBITDA
(6.5)
\$ (31.2)
(6.6)
\$ (23.6)
(29.7)
\$ (80.5)
(21.3)
\$ (34.9)
(8.0)
\$ (17.8)
-
EBITDA
of \$1.1M
EBITDA Margin (77.0%) (74.7%) (57.0%) (23.6%) (51.2%)
Other
-
Net Expense of \$6.5M
Polysilicon Production
Polysilicon Sales
276 MT
182 MT
267 MT
302 MT
1,103 MT
749 MT
1,456 MT
1,502 MT
281 MT
199 MT
Silicon Gas Sales 832 MT 515 MT 3,075 MT 2,718 MT 754 MT

Revenues \$40.3M

  • 16.3% increase in revenues vs. Q3-23
  • Polysilicon Sales Volume 8.9% decrease vs. Q3-23
    • Semiconductor Grade Polysilicon increase by 3.5%
  • Polysilicon Sales Price 35.6% increase vs. Q3-23
    • Semiconductor Grade Polysilicon 20.9% increase vs Q3-23
  • Silicon Gas Sales Volume 10.4% increase vs. Q3-23
  • Silicon Gas Sales Price 2.0% increase vs. Q3-23

EBITDA Contribution \$1.1M

  • \$5.0M decrease in EBITDA contributed vs. Q3-23
  • Decreased production volumes
    • 2.0% decrease in Polysilicon Production vs. Q3-23 5 MT

Quarterly Revenue and EBITDA (USD Million)

Sales
Volumes
Q4-23 Q4-22 2023 Q3-23
Semiconductor 145 226 524 140
Grade MT MT MT MT
Other MT MT MT MT
Grades 37 76 225 59
Sales 182 302 749 199
Polysilicon MT MT MT MT
Silicon
Gas
Sales
832
MT
515
MT
3
075
MT
,
754
MT

CASH FLOWS

December 31, 2023 Cash Balance \$170.9M

\$49.2M Increase in Cash During Q4-23

Cash Flows From Operating Activities (\$44.8M)

  • (\$31.2M) EBITDA
  • (\$7.9M) Working Capital
    • (\$9.1M) Increase in inventories
    • (\$6.7M) Increase in receivables
    • \$7.9M Increase in payables
  • \$1.2M Interest received
  • (\$8.0M) Interest paid
  • \$0.7M Other items

Cash Inflows From Investing Activities \$96.0M

  • \$136.1 Proceeds from Yulin JV sale
  • (\$40.8M) Capital Expenditures
  • \$0.2M Other items

Cash Flows From Financing Activities (\$2.0M)

  • (\$1.1) Principal payment of property tax note
  • (\$0.9M) Payment of Lease Liabilities

Cash Flows (USD Million)

Debt Maturity Profile (USD Million)

Nominal Debt \$354.1M

  • \$1.4M Increase during Q4-23
    • (\$1.1M) Repayment of Debt
    • \$2.5M Changes in Lease Liabilities
  • Completion of Yulin JV share sale, Gross proceeds of USD 136.1M

Nominal Net Debt \$183.2M

  • \$47.8M Decrease during Q4-23
    • \$49.2M Increase in Cash
    • (\$1.4M) Increase in Nominal Debt

SUMMARY

Timing opportunity

  • Products driven by digitalization, renewable energy, and energy storage
  • US policies and incentives in place to drive demand and re-shoring of capacity to address these macro trends

Product opportunity

  • Silicon is at the heart of the identified macro trends, REC Silicon products essential to realize the transition
  • Significant capacity investments made to meet immediate demand

Location opportunity

  • The largest global producer of silane and high-purity granular polysilicon outside of China and the only one located in the US
  • The largest producer in the US of other key specialty silicon gases

Foundation in place

  • Growth capex and operating needs are fully funded through attractive financing and prepayments
  • Offtake with a high-quality counterparty has been executed
  • High-value specialty silicon gas investments in place in Butte
  • Moses Lake to ramp to 100% reactor capacity by end of 2024

Thank You

Q1 2024 Reporting May 10, 2024

www.recsilicon.com

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