Naturgy has successfully completed a bond and hybrid instrument buyback for a total of €1 billion, focusing on securities maturing in 2026 and 2027. This operation is part of the company's strategy to optimise its debt structure and reduce refinancing risk in the coming years.
Naturgy Chairman and CEO, Francisco Reynés, chaired the company’s Ordinary General Shareholders’ Meeting, held today in Madrid online as a result of mobility restrictions and to maintain safety due to Covid-19. Shareholders approved the company’s results and management report for 2020, as well as a complementary dividend of €0.63/share, which will be paid on 17 March.
Cleantech Camp, the programme that focuses on accelerating the energy transition in Europe, is celebrating this year its 6th edition. Throughout the month of March, startups that are developing projects related to clean energy will be able to submit their applications to enter into a selection process that will allow up to 15 emerging companies from different European countries to participate in the programme between the months of April and July. The programme is promoted by EIT InnoEnergy, Naturgy, Enagás Emprende, CRH and PRIO, in collaboration with Barcelona Activa (Local Partner) and Bridge the Gap, Osborne & Clarke and ZBM Patents & Trademarks.
Start4big, the first multisector open innovation initiative promoted by Aigües de Barcelona, CaixaBank, Naturgy, SEAT and Telefónica, has chosen the winning startups of its second Wave of Innovation. In total, six of the 192 proposals submitted reached this final phase, which could involve starting different pilot projects with one of the major companies promoting the initiative. The winners are Validated ID, Mobbeel, Innovae, Solum, Urban Air Purifier and Climate Trade.
Naturgy has signed an agreement with Gestamp in order to secure the consumption of renewable energy in Spain. The agreement will ensure that from 2022 onwards, all the Group´s productive facilities and R&D centers in Spain will operate with 100% renewable energy.
Naturgy has presented the Spanish government’s Ministry of Ecological Transition and Demographic Challenge, Ministry of Industry, Trade and Tourism and Ministry of Science and Innovation with a project to build 38 hydrogen fuel stations at a national level with the aim of providing a hydrogen-refuelling service in the urban-to-interurban environment and thereby boosting sustainable mobility in the Iberian Peninsula. The total infrastructure to be developed during the second stage will come to 120 hydrogen fuel stations.
Naturgy has closed FY20 in a stronger position to take on the energy transition and having made significant progress towards its financial, operational, and ESG (Environmental, Social and Governance) commitments. All of the above has been achieved in a financial year marked by the economic and social impacts of the pandemic and an adverse energy scenario, with a generalised drop in energy demand.
Naturgy and Enagás are studying the production of green hydrogen from a 250-MW floating offshore wind farm and another 100-MW onshore wind farm in Asturias for industrial consumption in this Autonomous Region. The project is a candidate Important Project of Common European Interest (IPCEI) and makes it possible to generate green hydrogen using local energy resources for added value.
Naturgy has acquired 100% of the economic interests in Hamel Renewables, a solar and energy storage development platform in the United States. The transaction represents Naturgy’s first investment in the US renewable energy market and demonstrates the company's firm commitment to developing its renewables portfolio internationally, focusing on stable geographies and early stage of development projects.
Global Power Generation (GPG), a joint venture of Naturgy Energy Group, SA (75%) and the Kuwait Investment Authority (25%), has been awarded the contract to build a 97 MW wind farm located at Hawkesdale in Victoria, approximately 270 km from Melbourne, Australia.
Naturgy, ENI and the Arab Republic of Egypt have reached a new agreement to amicably resolve the disputes affecting Unión Fenosa Gas (UFG), a 50%/50% joint venture between Naturgy and ENI. The parties have signed an agreement whereby Naturgy will receive a series of cash payments adding up to approximately US$0.6 bn, as well as most of the assets outside of Egypt, excluding UFG’s commercial activities in Spain.
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