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EVN AG Investor Presentation 2015

Sep 25, 2015

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EVN Company presentation September 2015

Agenda

  • EVN at a glance
  • Market environment and strategy
  • EVN's success drivers
  • Appendix
  • − Management Board
  • − Financial performance Q. 1-3 2014/15
  • − Description of segments
  • − CSR
  • − RAG
  • − Investments and projects
  • − Retrospective adjustments of 2012/13 financial figures
  • − Contact details

EVN profile

  • Leading integrated energy and environmental services company serving customers in Lower Austria, SEE and CEE
  • Key activities
  • − Energy generation (renewable, thermal)
  • − Regulated grid (electricity, natural gas)
  • − Energy supply
  • − Environmental services

Shareholder structure (as of 30.06.2015)

Energy business – 6 countries

Albania 1)
Austria
Bulgaria
Croatia
Germany 2) 3)
Macedonia
  • 1) EVN share: 50%
  • 2) EVN share: 13%
  • 3) EVN share: 49%

Environmental services business – 12 countries

  • 1) Thermal waste utilisation plant, drinking water supply
  • 2) Thermal waste utilisation plant

Strategic investments

Lower Austria – EVN's prosperous domestic market

Province of Lower Austria at a glance:

Area: 19,186 km2
(~ Half size
of
Switzerland)
Population (2014) 1,625,485
Economically active
population, 15-64 years
(2014):
72.8%
(Austria: 72.3%)
GDP per capita (2014): EUR 31,1001)
(Austria: EUR 38,540;
Germany: EUR 35,250)

Sources: Statistics Austria; Eurostat; World Bank

Bulgaria – EVN's focus in SEE

Bulgaria at a glance:

Area: 111,000 km2
EVN's
supply
area:
~42,000 km2
(~ Size of
Switzerland)
Population (2014) 7,364,570
Economically active
population, 15-64 years
(2014)
62.2%
(Austria: 75.6%)
GDP per capita (2014) EUR 6,420
(Austria: EUR 38,540;
Germany: EUR 35,250)

Macedonia – EVN's focus in SEE

Macedonia at a glance:

Area: 25,713 km2
EVN's
supply
area:
25,713 km2
Population (2014) 2,065,769
Economically active
population, 15-64 years
(2014):
65.3%
(Austria: 75.6%)
GDP per capita (2013) EUR 4,470
(Austria: EUR 38,540;
Germany: EUR 35,250)

Contribution by business segments for 2013/14 (Financial year 2013/14 figures adjusted for one-off effects)

Financial figures 2013/14

y-o-y
EURm 2013/14 in % 2012/13
Revenue 1,974.8 –6.2 2,105.9
EBITDA 184.1 –65.9 540.0
EBIT –341,4 242,2
Group net
result
–299.0 109.3
Net cash flow from
operating activities
546.0 –4.2 570.0
Investments1) 396.3 6.3 372.9
Balance sheet total 6,841.8 –6.1 7,283.7
Equity 2,632.7 –14.5 3,079.2
Equity ratio 38.5% 42.3%
Net debt 1,622.4 –10.3 1,809.6
Gearing 61.6% 58.8%

The EVN share

Performance of the EVN share

EVN at a glance 12

  • EVN at a glance
  • Market environment and strategy
  • EVN's success drivers
  • Appendix
  • − Management Board
  • − Financial performance Q. 1-3 2014/15
  • − Description of segments
  • − CSR
  • − RAG
  • − Investments and projects
  • − Retrospective adjustments of 2012/13 financial figures
  • − Contact details

Market environment

  • Distorted energy markets
  • − Increasing share of volatile renewable production supported by subsidised feed in tariffs
  • − Deterioration of wholesale electricity prices
  • − Operation of state-of-the-art gas-fired power plants actually unprofitable
  • − Market design under discussion
  • Uncertainty in economic environment
  • − China's stock markets under pressure
  • − Increase in interest rates by the US FED is now expected
  • − EU economies develop differently
  • South Eastern Europe economies show increasing GDPs but remain politically instable

Energy price developments

The respective spot market prices had been considered until the notification day

Hard coal prices API2 in EUR/tonne

The respective spot market prices had been considered until the notification day

The respective spot market prices had been considered until the notification day

Network Electricity Gas Comments
Regulatory authority E-Control GmbH E-Control GmbH
Start of the regulatory period 01.01.2014 01.01.2013
Next regulatory adjustment 01.01.2019 01.01.2018 Adjustment of WACC and productivity factors
Duration of the regulatory period 5 years 5 years
Regulatory method Revenue caps Revenue caps
RAB (EURm) Annually adjusted Annually adjusted Annual investments are added to the RAB in the
following year
WACC (pre-tax, nominal) 6.42% 6.42% Set for length of regulatory period
General productivity factor 1.25% 1.95% Electricity: 50% of the achieved productivity increases
are passed on to end customers during the regulatory
period
Natural gas: Gains from cost reductions remain with the
company during the regulatory period
Company specific productivity factor 0.36% 0.00% Additional X factor is company specific
Inflation Annual adjustment Annual adjustment Network operator price index consists of consumer (30%)
and building price (40%) indices as well as wage increase
index

Regulated business in South Eastern Europe

Electricity Bulgaria1)
(electricity)
Bulgaria
(heat)
Macedonia
(electricity)
Regulatory authority SEWRC
(State Energy and Water
Regulatory Commission)
SEWRC
(State Energy and Water
Regulatory Commission)
ERC
(Energy Regulatory Commission)
Start of the regulatory period 01.08.2015 01.07.2015 01.01.2015
Next regulatory adjustment 01.08.2018 01.07.2016 01.01.2018
Duration of the regulatory period 3 years 1 year 3 years
Regulatory method2) Revenue caps Rate of return on capital Revenue caps
RAB (EURm) Annually adjusted Annually adjusted Annually adjusted
WACC (pre-tax, nominal) 7.0% 5.1% 6.7%
Recognised
network losses
8.0% 30.0 % 14.0%
Productivity factor Yes Yes No
Investment factor3) Yes No Yes

1) Regulatory decision based on new energy law still pending.

3) Annual review and approval of company's investment plans by the regulatory authority.

Source: Regulators in Bulgaria (SEWRC) and in Macedonia (ERC) Market environment and strategy 17

2) The revenue caps comprise the recognised operating expenses, the amortisation and depreciation as well as the recognised return on the RAB.

EVN's position within the value chain in SEE

Price development in Bulgaria – regulated HH tariff

Price development in Macedonia – regulated HH tariff (EUR2)/MWh)

Energy supply for regulated business is performed by EVN Bulgaria EC and EVN Macedonia

Price increases in "Energy supply" mainly due to increased electricity procurement costs for EVN from governmental owned suppliers NEK and ELEM!

Tariff schemes 2015 for renewable energy sources

Renewable
energy
source
Austria Bulgaria Macedonia
Wind
Feed-in-tariffs Feed-in-tariffs Feed-in-tariffs
Tariff (EUR-cent1)/kWh) 9.27 6.1 –
9.8
8.9
Duration (in years) 13 12 20
Installed capacity 2014 (MW) 2,100 700 36.8
Target value for installed capacity 2020 (MW) 2,578 1,440 150
Water
Feed-in-tariffs Feed-in-tariffs Feed-in-tariffs
Tariff (EUR-cent1)/kWh) 3.2 –
10.4
4.8 –
13.6
4.5 -
12.0
Duration (in years) 13 15 20
Installed capacity 2014 (MW) 8,370 3,215 37.5
Target value for installed capacity 2020 (MW) 8,998 3,288 -
Photovoltaic
Feed-in-tariffs Feed-in-tariffs Feed-in-tariffs
Tariff (EUR-cent1)/kWh) 10.0 –
11.5
8.6 –
37.3
12.0 -
16.0
Duration (in years) 13 20 15
Installed capacity 2014 (MW) 530 1,027 15.8
Target value for installed capacity 2020 (MW) 322 303 18

Sources: "Investieren in Erneuerbare Energie 2014", Kommunalkredit; 503. Verordnung: Änderung der Ökostrom-Einspeisetarifverordnung 2012 (ÖSET-VO 2012) http://www.e-control.at/portal/page/portal/medienbibliothek/oeko-energie/dokumente/pdfs/BGBLA\_2013\_II\_503-novelle-oekostrom-einspeisetarif-vo-2012.pdf

1) In countries with tariffs in local currencies, tariffs have been converted with the exchange rate as of 01.07.2014.

2) "Installed capacity 2014" relates to estimates and assumptions due to available information as of 01.02.2013. Market environment and strategy

  • Virtue of integrated business model
  • Focus on region of Lower Austria (multi-utility in Lower Austria)
  • Provider of high quality services
  • − Electricity, gas, drinking water, wastewater treatment, thermal waste utilisation, cable TV, telecommunication
  • Focus on stable business
  • − Regulated and non-regulated
  • Provide consistent dividends
  • Upside potential in
  • − Renewable energy production (mainly wind)
  • − South Eastern Europe
  • − Environmental services

  • EVN at a glance

  • Market environment and strategy
  • EVN's success drivers
  • Appendix
  • − Management Board
  • − Financial performance Q. 1-3 2014/15
  • − Description of segments
  • − CSR
  • − RAG
  • − Investments and projects
  • − Retrospective adjustments of 2012/13 financial figures
  • − Contact details
# 1 Solid home market
# 2 Strong market position
# 3 High share
of earnings
from
regulated
and stable
business
# 4 Upside
potential in SEE
# 5 Diversification
through
environmental business
# 6 Strategic investments
# 7 Solid capital structure

# 1: Solid home market

The Austrian electricity market continues to be stable1)

  • − Increase in number of households (more senior citizens and single households)
  • − Increase in demand for transport sector, lighting, electronic data processing applications, heating and air conditioning
  • Continuous growth in Lower Austrian electricity consumption
Electricity consumption in
in TWh Austria Germany
2014 (Jan-June) 30.6 272.3
2015 (Jan-June) 31.3 273.9
Change (%) 2.49% 0.59%

Source: Austria: www.e-control.at; Germany: www.ag-energiebilanzen.de

Outlook on electricity consumption in Lower Austria2)

  • No nuclear power generation
  • − Public vote in the 1970s against nuclear power
  • High share of hydropower assets
  • − 67%1) of Austrian electricity generation sourced from hydropower

  • − In 2013, #1 in EU at share of renewable energy sources in electricity generation measured by the country's land area2) (75% of Austrian electricity generation sourced from renewable energies)

  • Further renewable energy projects are in the planning or implementation process

1) Source: Oesterreichs Energie (www.oesterreichsenergie.at); data from 2013

2) Source: Energiestatus Österreich 2013, Bundesministerium für Wirtschaft, Familie und Jugend EVN's success drivers 25

Characteristics of the Austrian utility market

3) Source: Forschungsprojekt Nr. 54/09 des BMWi, "Erhebung des Energieverbrauchs der privaten Haushalte für die Jahre 2009-2010" (pdf)

# 2: Strong market position in Austria

Source market shares: E-Control 2014, annual report and company numbers Source churn rates: E-Control, market statistics – consumer attitude/churn rates electricity and gas according to network areas EVN holds a 45% stake in EAA & Partners and a 16.51% stake in EconGas

EVN's success drivers 27

# 2: Decentralised renewable production portfolio

Map of Lower Austria

  • #2 wind producer in Austria
  • Strong, decentralised portfolio
  • 5% of EBITDA1)
  • Hydropower
    • 5 storage and 67 run-of-river hydropower plants with 109 MW generation capacity
    • Purchasing rights from hydropower plants along the Danube, Melk, Greifenstein and Freudenau
    • Investment in hydropower plant Nussdorf and Verbund-Innkraftwerke
  • Windpower
    • 14 windparks with 234 MW generation capacity
    • Investments: EUR ~290m

# 2: Wide-spread heat and biomass portfolio

Map of Lower Austria

  • #1 in biomass heating in Austria
  • 6% of EBITDA1)
  • Biomass portfolio
  • − More than 60 biomass plants in Lower Austria
  • − Investments (in total): EUR 400m
  • − Contract duration: ø 15 years
  • Heat extraction from EVN AG's thermal power plants
  • Index pricing ensures business provides stable margins and is cash flow generative

# 2: Drinking water supply

Map of Lower Austria

  • #1 drinking water supplier in Lower Austria (50 years of experience)
  • 3.1% of Group EBITDA1)
  • Operation of 36 local drinking water supply networks
  • More than 500,000 customers
  • − thereof 87,000 directly supplied

# 3: High share of earnings from regulated and stable business

Majority of EBITDA (76%) derives from regulated or stable earnings

(Financial year 2013/14 figures adjusted for one-off effects)

  • Regulated business
  • − Grid in Austria
  • − Grid, supply and heating in SEE
  • − Wind production in Austria and SEE
  • Unregulated business
  • − Energy trade and supply
  • − International environmental projects
  • − Generation
  • − Oil and gas E&P/gas storage

  • Stable business

  • − Water supply business in Lower Austria (3.1%)
  • − Heating business in Lower Austria (6.0%)
  • − Cable TV and telecommunication (5.3%)
  • − Waste incineration in Lower Austria (5.3%)
  • − Earnings contribution from Burgenland Holding (1.5%)

# 3: Geographical split of revenues and EBITDA (Financial year 2013/14 figures adjusted for one-off effects)

Geographical revenue split1) Geographical EBITDA split1)

# 4: Upside potential from South Eastern European market development

  • EVN's activities in Austria cover
  • − Drinking water supply
  • − Wastewater treatment
  • − Thermal waste utilisation plant
  • EVN owns facilities
  • EVN holds concessions

Austrian business International project business

  • EVN designs and constructs
  • − Drinking water plants
  • − Wastewater treatment plants
  • − Thermal waste utilisation plants
  • More than 100 turn-key and PPP projects in 18 countries since 1983
  • − 8 projects currently under construction
  • Strong demand for infrastructure projects set to continue

# 5: Project types of international environmental services business

Turn-key project PPP project
Scope of activities Design
Construct/build
Operate (optional)
Design
Construct/build
Operate
Structure financing
Own part or all of equity
Contract length 1–3 years (designing and building)
5–15 years (operations)
10–30 years
Capital intensity Low High
Return characteristics Design and build –
POC
Operations –
recurring annual revenues
Design and build –
Percentage of
completion (POC)
Operations –
recurring annual revenues
Capital charge payment (recurring or one
time payment)
Financing None to EVN –
done by customer
Non-recourse financing to EVN post
construction period
Market
characteristics
Low barrier to entry –
intensive
competition driving margins down
High barrier to entry due to necessary
project management expertise and high
capital demands for financing

# 6: Strategic investments

Significant contribution to EVN's net profit

  • RAG and Verbund are the main contributors
  • Income from RAG below prior-years level mainly due to absence of positive oneoffs in 2012/13
  • Contribution from Verbund increased due to higher dividend for 2013 of 1.00 EUR/share

# 7: Solid capital structure

Solid equity ratio

  • Reduced net debt; gearing ratio influenced by slightly decreased equity
  • Rating
  • − S&P: BBB+, stable
  • − Moody's: A3, stable
  • EVN aims at preserving a competitive investment grade credit rating

Balanced debt maturity profile Liquidity reserves − Syndicated loan of EUR 400m − Committed bilateral credit lines of EUR 175.0m

# 7: Strong operating cash flow

Strong cash flow

  • − due to high share of regulated and stable business
  • − secures attractive and stable dividends and future investment activities

  • Financial policy going forward based on selected key ratios (unadjusted):

  • Equity ratio > 40% (30.09.2014: 38.5%)
  • Net debt coverage (FFO) ≥ 30% (30.09.2014: 41.3%)
  • Interest cover (FFO) ≥ 5x (30.09.2014: 8.1x)
  • Dividend: EVN follows an attractive and sustainable dividend policy

  • EVN at a glance

  • Market environment and strategy
  • EVN's success drivers
  • Appendix
  • − Management Board
  • − Financial performance Q. 1-3 2014/15
  • − Description of segments
  • − CSR
  • − RAG
  • − Investments and projects
  • − Retrospective adjustments of 2012/13 financial figures
  • − Contact details

Appendix

  • EVN at a glance
  • Market environment and strategy
  • EVN's success drivers
  • Appendix
  • − Management Board
  • − Financial performance Q. 1-3 2014/15
  • − Description of segments
  • − CSR
  • − RAG
  • − Investments and projects
  • − Retrospective adjustments of 2012/13 financial figures
  • − Contact details

EVN's Management Board

Peter Layr, Spokesman of the Executive Board

  • Born in 1953. Doctorate in Technical Science. Joined EVN in 1978.
  • Member of the EVN Executive Board since October 1999. Named Spokesman of the EVN Executive Board in January 2011.
  • His term of office expires on 30 September 2019.

Stefan Szyszkowitz, Member of the Executive Board

  • Born in 1964, Master of Law, Master of Business Administration. Joined EVN in 1993.
  • Member of the Executive Board since January 2011.
  • His term of office expires on 19 January 2021.

  • EVN at a glance

  • Market environment and strategy
  • EVN's success drivers
  • Appendix
  • − Management Board
  • − Financial performance Q. 1-3 2014/15
  • − Description of segments
  • − CSR
  • − RAG
  • − Investments and projects
  • − Retrospective adjustments of 2012/13 financial figures
  • − Contact details

Business development Q. 1-3 2014/15

  • Increase in electricity generation
  • expansion of renewable energy production
  • full operations in the Duisburg-Walsum power plant
  • usage of gas power plants to ensure network stability
  • New tariffs in Bulgaria and Macedonia announced by the regulators
  • Sale of the sodium hypochlorite plant to the Moscow city water supply and wastewater disposal company
  • Operating result and group net result above prior year
  • Net debt down by 21.2% to EUR 1.29bn; Gearing at 49.1%

Key financials

EURm 2014/15
Q. 1-3
+/–
in %
Revenue 1,664.1 11.3
EBITDA 497.2 38.8
EBIT 286.5
Financial results –41.2
Group net
profit
187.1
Net cash flow from
operating activities
316.1 –13.9
EUR
Earnings per share 1.05

Year-on-year rise in revenue

  • Increase in electricity production
  • Growth in natural gas marketing activities

Improved EBITDA and EBIT

  • Improved energy contribution margin
  • Sale of sodium hypochlorite plant
  • Better results from equity accounted investees with operational nature
  • Absence of last year's one-off effects

Decline in financial results

  • Lower dividend payment from Verbund AG
  • Termination of the hedge and investment guarantee for the sodium hypochlorite plant

Working capital related reduction of operating cash flow

Solid balance sheet structure

  • Equity ratio 40.4% in comparison to 38.5% as of 30.09.2014
  • Net debt reduced by EUR 328.9m to EUR 1.293.6m (compared to 30.09.2014)
  • Gearing decreased from 61.6% to 49.1% (compared to 30.09.2014)

EBITDA development by segments

Generation

Electricity generation
volumes
GWh 2014/15
Q. 1-3
+/–
in %
Total 3,260 27.3
Renewable
energy
sources
1,318 17.1
Thermal energy
sources
1,942 35.3
Financial performance EURm
Revenue 171.2 22.9
EBITDA 84.9 45.0
EBIT 27.0

Increase in thermal production

Full operations of Duisburg-Walsum

Rise in production from renewable energy sources

  • Full operations of the Prellenkirchen wind park
  • Commissioning of the Prottes-Ollersdorf windpark

Higher EBITDA and EBIT

  • Higher revenue
  • Increased call of EVN's natural gas power plants to ensure network stability in Austria and Germany
  • Rise in depreciation and amortisation

Energy Trade and Supply

End customer
price
adjustment1)
Electricity
and
gas
1.10.2014 –10.0%
Sales
volumes
to
end customers
GWh 2014/15
Q. 1-3
+/–
in %
Electricity 5,181 –0.5
Natural Gas 4,937 –2.0
Heat 1,554 0.6
Financial performance EURm
Revenue 381.6 7.4
EBITDA 74.9 –7.6
EBIT 62.4 –10.0

Different development of sales volumes

  • Natural gas and heating sales volumes nearly unchanged
  • Decrease in natural gas sales volumes due to a decline in the household segment

Rise in revenues and operating expenses

  • Marketing of the production from the Duisburg-Walsum power plant
  • Increase in natural gas trading activities

Decrease in EBITDA and EBIT

  • Declining energy contribution margin
  • Better results from equity accounted investees with operational nature

Network Infrastructure Austria

Tariff
structures1)
Electricity 01.01.2015 –1.0%
01.01.2014 –9.0%
Natural gas 01.01.2015 –3.0%
01.01.2014 7.7%
Network distribution 2014/15 +/–
volumes GWh Q. 1-3 in %
Electricity 6,152 2.3
Natural gas2) 12,855 6.6
Financial performance EURm
Revenue 366.0 –1.5
EBITDA 170.3 –1.5
EBIT 92.9 –4.6

Increase in network distribution volumes

  • Higher electricity distribution volumes driven by higher demand from industrial customers
  • Rise in gas distribution volume mainly due to operation of gas-fired power plants

Decrease in EBITDA and EBIT

  • Decrease in network tariffs for electricity and natural gas in January 2015
  • Higher revenue in cable TV and telecommunication services
  • Decline in operating expenses
End customer
price
adjustments1)
Bulgaria electricity 1.8.2015 –0.4%
1.10.2014 9.7%
heat 1.7.2015 –7.0%
1.7.2014 5.1%
Macedonia electricity 1.7.2015 –0.3%
1.7.2014 3.5%
2014/15 +/–
Key energy
business
indicators
GWh Q. 1-3 in %
Electricity
generation volumes
414 33.8
volumes2)
Network distribution
10,430 4.3
Heat
sales
volumes
to
end customers
198 15.2
Financial performance EURm
Revenue 800.0 21.0
EBITDA 79.6
EBIT 33.6

Higher electricity generation volumes

Good water flows in Macedonia

Sales volumes increased

Temperature-related increase in electricity network distribution volumes and heat sales volumes in Bulgaria

Year-on-year EBITDA and EBIT increase

  • Demand and price related increase in sales revenues
  • Higher energy purchase costs due to regulatory decisions
  • Continued reduction of network losses
  • Absence of last year's impairment effects

2) In Bulgaria and Macedonia energy sales volumes fairly equal present network distribution volumes

Environmental Services

EURm 2014/15
Q. 1-3
+/–
in %
127.6 –5.4
36.9 –1.0
17.1 21.7
-6.4
10.6 –11.1

Declined revenues. improvement of EBIT

  • Sale of the sodium hypochlorite plant
  • Positive effects from water supply and thermal waste utilisation in Lower Austria

Drop in financial results

  • Termination of the hedge and investment guarantee for the sodium hypochlorite plant
  • Decrease in interest income

Business development

  • Takeover of the sodium hypochlorite plant by the city of Moscow successfully completed
  • Participation in tenders for 10 waste water treatment plant projects

Cash flow

EURm 2014/15
Q. 1-3
+/–
in %
Gross
CF
387.6 17.4
Net CF from operating activities 316.1 –13.9
Net CF from investing activities 45.4
Net CF from financing activities -340.6 –42.8
Net change in cash and cash
equivalents
20.9

Increase of gross cash flow

Increase in the result before income tax

Reduction in net cash flow from operating activities

Working capital effect

Positive cash flow from investing activities

Sale of the sodium hypochlorite plant

Decrease in net cash flow from financing activities

  • Repayment of the financing for the sodium hypochlorite plant
  • Scheduled repayments

Outlook 2014/15

Group net result after stable first three quarters is expected to exceed 2012/13 level

  • Energy-economic assumptions for the remaining fiscal year are based on long-term averages
  • Possible influence on the result due to regulatory conditions, developments in the proceedings related to claims from the tariff decisions in Bulgaria and the Duisburg-Walsum power plant as well as the progress of the activities in Moscow

EVN's strategy:

  • Integrated business model
  • Consolidation of existing business in core markets
  • Increase of efficiency

Investment focus on security of supply and expansion of renewable energy production capacities in Lower Austria

  • EVN at a glance
  • Market environment and strategy
  • EVN's success drivers
  • Appendix
  • − Management Board
  • − Financial performance Q. 1-3 2014/15
  • − Description of segments
  • − CSR
  • − RAG
  • − Investments and projects
  • − Retrospective adjustments of 2012/13 financial figures
  • − Contact details

Generation

• Electricity generation from thermal sources and renewable energies (Austria, Germany, Albania and Bulgaria)

Energy Trade and Supply

  • Procurement of electricity and primary energy sources (Austria and Germany)
  • Trading and selling of electricity and natural gas to end customers and on wholesale markets (Austria and Germany)
  • Heat generation and sales (Austria)

Network Infrastructure Austria

  • Operation of regional electricity and natural gas networks (Austria)
  • Cable TV and telecommunications networks (Austria)

Energy Supply South East Europe

  • Operation of electricity networks and electricity sales (Bulgaria and Macedonia)
  • Heat generation and heat sales (Bulgaria); Electricity production (Macedonia)
  • Construction and operation of natural gas networks (Croatia)
  • Energy trading within the whole region

Environmental Services

  • Drinking water supply, wastewater disposal, thermal waste incineration (Austria)
  • Combined cycle heat and power co-generation plants
  • International project business

  • EVN at a glance

  • Market environment and strategy
  • EVN's success drivers

Appendix

  • − Management Board
  • − Financial performance Q. 1-3 2014/15
  • − Description of segments
  • − CSR
  • − RAG
  • − Investments and projects
  • − Retrospective adjustments of 2012/13 financial figures
  • − Contact details

Strong brand through Corporate Social Responsibility

  • Integration of CSR in EVN's strategy: focus on 12 material CSR areas of activity
  • External communication and evaluation of EVN's CSR performance
  • Comprehensive CSR organisation (CSR steering comittee, CSR advisory team, more than 40 CSR network officers)
  • Intense stakeholder dialogue:
  • − EVN Advisory Board for the Environment and Social Responsibility, EVN Customer Advisory Board, EVN Social Fund and EVN Art Advisory Board, complaint management, stakeholder surveys, project mediation, etc.

EVN – A responsible energy and environmental services provider

Sustainable Investment: listed in 4 sustainability indices (VÖNIX, FTSE4Good, Ethibel, ECPI)

Reporting to the Carbon Disclosure Project (2014 result: 63D)

CSR reporting: EVN publishes an integrated financial and sustainabilty report according to GRI G4 "comprehensive" (Winner of the Austrian Sustainability Reporting Award 2013)

Member of the UN Global Compact

EMAS certified environmental management system

CSR strategy and organisation

Sustainability issues are integrated in EVN's corporate strategy – its actual implementation is facilitated by an extensive CSR organisation:

Spokesman of the board represents CSR management

CSR steering comittee consisting of the executive board

More than 40 CSR network officers in all departments of the Group

CSR advisory team – interface between strategy & implementation

  • The most recent stakeholder survey and workshop in 2014 resulted in EVN's materiality matrix consisting of 12 strategic areas of activity
  • The six most important areas and examples for CSR goals are:
  • Security of supply CSR goal: coverage ratio of 30% of electricity sales
  • Sustainable energy generation and climate protection CSR-goal: 50% generation from renewables
  • Responsible employer CSR goal: Increased share of women in new hiring and in management development programmes
  • Sustainable increase in corporate value CSR goal: integration of sustainability aspects in risk management
  • Environmental protection and resource conversation
  • Customer focus
  • The extensive CSR programme consists of more than 250 goals and measures (a comprehensive selection is listed in EVN's full report)

  • EVN at a glance

  • Market environment and strategy
  • CSR
  • EVN's success drivers
  • Appendix
  • − Management Board
  • − Financial performance Q. 1-3 2014/15
  • − Description of segments
  • − CSR
  • − RAG
  • − Investments and projects
  • − Retrospective adjustments of 2012/13 financial figures
  • − Contact details

Case Study: RAG – Rohöl-Aufsuchungs AG1)

EBITDA, EBIT and Net profit

Case Study: RAG – Rohöl-Aufsuchungs AG1)

Production statistics 2014
Gas production m m³ 248.7
Gas sales2) m m³ 911.5
Gas reserves m m³ 3,722
Oil production t 135,333
Oil reserves t 862,000
Oil tank storage capacity t 260,000

Natural gas storage

Capacity
(as
of 31.12.2014)
m m³
5,716
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Core areas of business

  • Oil and natural gas E&P
  • Natural gas storage

Concessions

  • Austria (5,414 km²)
  • Germany (4,577 km²)
  • Hungary (3,391 km²)
  • Romania (1,106 km²)

Storage facilities (Salzburg, Upper Austria)

  • Haidach (JV with Gazprom & Wingas; 2,656 m m³)
  • Aigelsbrunn (130 m m³)
  • Nussdorf/Zagling (117 m m³)
  • Puchkirchen (1,080 m m³)
  • 7Fields (1,733 m m³)

  • EVN holds a 50.03% stake in RAG through its fully consolidated subsidiary RAG-Beteiligungs-Aktiengesellschaft

  • 100% of RAG earnings are recognised as share of profit of equity accounted investees with operational nature
  • 49.97% of RAG earnings assigned to minority interest
  • EVN contractually not entitled to exercise a controlling influence over RAG

  • EVN at a glance

  • Market environment and strategy
  • EVN's success drivers
  • Appendix
  • − Management Board
  • − Financial performance Q. 1-3 2014/15
  • − Description of segments
  • − CSR
  • − RAG
  • − Investments and projects
  • − Retrospective adjustments of 2012/13 financial figures
  • − Contact details

Investments 2013/141)

  • Environmental Services
  • Energy Supply South East Europe
  • Network Infrastructure Austria
  • Energy Trade and Supply
  • Generation

Key investments

  • Network infrastructure Austria
  • Completion of 143km natural gas pipeline Westschiene
  • Commissioning (24 MW) and construction (37 MW) of windparks in Lower Austria
  • Expansion of heat networks and biomass capacities in Lower Austria
  • Expansion of the network infrastructure and replacement of metres in SEE
  • Investments in natural gas network in Croatia

1) In intangible assets and property, plant and equipment; Pre consolidation

Power generation capacities of EVN power plants

Natural gas

  • Coal
  • Biomass, photovoltaics and other renewables
  • Windpower
  • Hydropower

Key investments

  • Total generation capacity 2,277 MW
  • Generation capacities from renewable energy increased by 37 MW to 600 MW
  • Generation capacities from thermal power increased by 190 MW to 1,677 MW
  • Share of generation capacities from renewable energy at 26.3%
  • Outlook: Medium-term goal is to increase EVN's wind power capacities to around 300 MW

Growth perspective in renewable energy production

Coverage ratio

Increase coverage ratio in the mid-term to 30% on Group level

Balanced integrated business model

Diversified generation portfolio

  • Renewable production mainly influenced by commissioning of Duisburg-Walsum power plant in 12/2013
  • Focus on wind in Austria

Gas-fired power plants in Theiss and Korneuburg

Reserve capacity for Southern Germany

  • Reserve capacity for winter half-year:
  • − 785 MW for 2015/16
  • − 775 MW for 2016/17
  • − 450 MW for 2017/18
  • Supply upon request of Federal Network Agency of Germany ("Bundesnetzagentur")
  • Securing the sites

New wind park in Lower Austria

Wind park Prottes-Ollersdorf

  • 12 wind turbines
  • Total capacity of 37 MW
  • Commissioning in 1. HY 2014/15 completed successfully
  • In total, EVN's generation capacities from wind power amount to 250 MW

Hydropower plant project in Bulgaria

Gorna Arda

  • 70% EVN stake, 30% NEK (National Electricity Company in Bulgaria)
  • River Arda, South Eastern Bulgaria
  • Total capacity: 120 MW
  • Generation: ~350 GWh p.a.
  • Total investments: up to EUR 500m
  • Start of operations after 2020 (depending on date of construction decision)

Gas supply in Lower Austria

Map of Lower Austria

Südschiene

  • Gänserndorf-Semmering
  • Completion: July 2011
  • Natural gas pipeline: ~120 km
  • Investments: EUR 114m

Westschiene

  • Auersthal-Amstetten
  • Completion: May 2014
  • Natural gas pipeline: 143 km
  • Investments: EUR 150m

Gas supply in Croatia

Concessions to build and operate a natural gas distribution network on the Dalmatian coast

  • Three counties: Zadar, Sibenik and Split
  • Concession period: 30 years
  • Total pipeline length: 1,450 km
  • ~130,000 households
  • Start of construction: April 2011
  • Network in all three counties in operation and customer connected
  • Gas Station in Sibenik Completion of main network: End of 2017

International environmental services projects

Projects

  • Currently 8 international waste water treatment projects under construction
  • − Cyprus, Montenegro, Poland, Romania, Serbia
  • Latest commissionings of plants in Cyprus, Poland and Romania

  • EVN at a glance

  • Market environment and strategy
  • EVN's success drivers
  • Appendix
  • − Management Board
  • − Financial performance Q. 1-3 2014/15
  • − Description of segments
  • − CSR
  • − RAG
  • − Investments and projects
  • − Retrospective adjustments of 2012/13 financial figures
  • − Contact details

Retrospective adjustments for 2012/13 financial figures

Consolidated statement of financial
position & operations
2012/13
(30.09.2013)
EURm previous CONS REG adjusted
Non-current assets 6,125.1 282.7 -0.7 6,407.2
Current assets 977.0 -90.2 -10.3 876.5
Equity 3,066.5 22.9 -10.2 3,079.2
Liabilities 4,035.7 169.7 -0.8 4,204.4
Balance sheet total 7,102.1 192.6 -11.0 7,283.7
Revenue 2,755.0 -641.1 -8.0 2,105.9
Share of results from equity accounted
investees with operational nature
95.0 95.0
Results from operating activities (EBIT) 218.5 32.1 -8.4 242.2
Financial results -38.1 -33.2 -0.1 -71.5
Group net profit 114.7 1.0 -6.4 109.3
  • Initial application of IFRS 10–12 in Q. 1–3 2013/14 financial statements and non recognition of regulatory assets and liabilities as of 30 September 2014
  • − 2012/13 figures had to be adjusted retrospectively
  • Impact on EVN Group
  • − EVN KG and EAA are presented as at equity consolidated companies whereas STEAG-EVN Walsum is "line by line" consolidated
  • − At equity results from companies attributable to EVN Group's core business are presented in the operating results
  • − Absence of regulatory assets and liabilities mainly influence Netz NÖ GmbH results (non-cash effective)

  • EVN at a glance

  • Market environment and strategy
  • EVN's success drivers
  • CSR
  • Appendix
  • − Management Board
  • − Financial performance Q. 1-3 2014/15
  • − Description of segments
  • − RAG
  • − Investments and projects
  • − Retrospective adjustments of 2012/13 financial figures
  • − Contact details

Contact details

Stefan Szyszkowitz

CFO Phone: +43 2236 200-12132 Fax: +43 2236 200-82132 E-mail: [email protected]

Gerald Reidinger

Head of Controlling and Investor Relations Phone: +43 2236 200-12698 Fax: +43 2236 200-82698 E-mail: [email protected]

Alexander Sipek

Investor Relations Officer Phone: +43 2236 200-12360 Fax: +43 2236 200-82360 E-mail: [email protected] 81

Investor's contact point

www.evn.at E-mail: [email protected]

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