Good morning, everyone, and thank you for participating in our conference call to discuss results relative to Q1 2023 for Eneva. Let's move on to slide 3, where we have the highlights for the first quarter. Before we start through the details for the quarter, I'd like to emphasize that early in 2023 will mark the delivery of several opportunities we had mapped out in our business plan, reinforcing the execution of our commitments and presenting significant advances both operationally, financially, and commercially. Within this context, I'd like to highlight that our adjusted EBITDA reached BRL 1.169 billion, a growth of 138% year-over-year. This is the highest EBITDA for individual quarter we have ever posted in the company's history.
This result reflects mainly the acquisition of CELSE and Termofortaleza operational assets with relevant fixed revenues, an increase in the availability in Jaguatirica Azulão, which exceeded 80% in the quarter, contributing BRL 69 million to the EBITDA number. A strong performance in energy trading, which filed an EBITDA of BRL 69 million in the period, driven by the reallocation of the Futura 1 contracts and also driven by larger commercial margins and also the energy export operations for Argentina, where demand has been growing. Even in a quarter where we have a peak in Brazil, we reached 220 gigawatts hours for export, which contributed with 39% of BRL for the quarter's EBITDA. The EBITDA also saw other important landmarks I'd like to highlight as we move forward.
Number one, our leverage level as measured by net debt over EBITDA, which reached 4.5 times at the end of the quarter. In Futura 1, all the UFVs have been energized and are already generating energy to meet the contracts in the free market. The ramp-up is expected to happen by the end of May. On May 9, we announced the closing of our partnership with White Martins, the signing of the partnership through which we'll trade energy from three of the six SPAs of the Futura project in high production regime at an average price of about BRL 204 per megawatt hour. We have ensured a supply contract for 2023 through 2030 in the amount of BRL 2.3 billion, considering the average price of March 2023, which will be readjusted as we move forward with the contract.
In addition to that, the PGC, our Parnaíba generation subsidiary, which includes Parnaíba One and Five. We have received the SUDENE tax incentive, reducing 75% our income tax for another 10 years due to investments in modernizing Parnaíba One as the cycle comes to an end. I now turn the floor over to Marcelo Alves who'll be talking about the export market. Thank you, Lino. Good morning, everyone. Moving on to slide 4. We can see on the slide how the demand for energy exports has been consistent and higher since 2023 when we compare that number with the same period of last year, which shows a larger window of opportunity for exports for this year. The light blue color in the chart shows that in the first quarter 2023, demand was mostly met by the export of the hydroelectric spill.
Since mid-March, with the approaching of the end of the wet period in Brazil, the turbine flow has been losing strength and opening room for more exports through thermal sources. Considering this wider window and with a higher volume of demand for exports throughout the year, the expectation of a drop in the turbine flow investments is starting the middle of the second quarter in the approach of the winter. We believe, we'll have a more favorable energy exports for 2023. Moving to slide 5. I now show you the result of our mark-to-market of our trading portfolio. In the first quarter of 2023, the energy sale contracts previously signed, the Futura 1 project, were reallocated to the trading company.
With this, the migration happened, The net result of the mark-to-market of the trading portfolio, our so-called book, has reached BRL 675 million at the end of March. In the chart on the left, we have the breakdown of this result by year. Once again, these are present values. In other words, an already discounted flow. If we look at the values on real basis, those contracts already in our portfolio show a potential of approximately BRL 100 million per year until 2027, ensuring a consistent flow of results for the coming years. It's important to emphasize that this strong performance is backed up by a diversified trading portfolio, most of which is composed of many consumers, 140 in total, spread across several segments as shown on the right-hand side.
I now give the floor back to Marcelo Habibe, who will be talking about our financial numbers for the quarter. Marcelo, over to you. Thank you, Marcelo. Good morning, everyone. Moving on to slide number 6, I have the impact of the net revenue in the quarter. We recorded a net revenue of BRL 2.5 billion in the first quarter of 2023, up 224% from the first quarter of 2022. In the quarter, our business lines contributed positively to the results.
A highlight were the incorporations of CELSE and Termofortaleza for the recent, recently acquired assets, the expansion of our trading portfolio of contracts and clients, which saw an increase of 600% in the volume of energy traded, in addition to the variation in the mark-to-market contracts, which contributed to an increase of BRL 183 million in the quarter, and a larger availability at Jaguatirica when compared to the previous year. Also important were the export of energy to Argentina with BRL 77 million, and the sale of oil and condensate from Anebá with BRL 33 million in the quarter. Moving on to slide 7, we have the main impacts on the EBITDA of the company.
The EBITDA for the first quarter was the highest ever recorded in a single quarter by Eneva, an increase of 138% when compared to the same quarter of last year. An important landmark for the company where we exceeded BRL 1 billion. The main factors driving those increases were BRL 39 million in export generation for Argentina, allocated at Parnaíba and upstream. BRL 50 million at Jaguatirica II, due to the increase in its availability throughout the first quarter of 2023. We also had another BRL 25 million monetizing the condensate trading produced by Azulão and also oil from Anebá. We also had BRL 471 million from acquisitions we made in 2022, BRL 347 million of which related to CELSE and BRL 124 million related to Termofortaleza.
In addition, we also had another BRL 248 million in our trading company, with an increase in the trading margin and an impact, again, of the mark-to-market of the allocation of the Futura 1 contract to the trading company. The main negative impact when we compare quarter on quarter came from the accounting record in the first quarter of 2022 of BRL 122 million relative to the advantageous purchase of Focus. It is worth mentioning that the EBITDA in the remaining of 2023 will be positively impacted by advances in important projects of the company, especially the availability at Jaguatirica, also availability at Parnaíba Five for exports through December 2023, and Futura 1, which is expected to happen in May. Moving on to slide 8, we have the main impacts on the consolidated financial results.
The financial numbers was negative at BRL 435 million in the first quarter, mainly driven by the CELSE debt, which came at BRL 182 million in the period. It's worth mentioning that we are actively working to renegotiate that debt and reduce its related costs. Other factors that have impacted the financial result were BRL 128 million by the growth in volume of debentures, the total indebtedness of the company. We also had BRL 58 million coming from the result of expenses with debt charges, interest on debentures, and monetary variation arising from the startup of Azulão, Jaguatirica, and Parnaíba Five, which were previously capitalized since the projects were not yet operational back then.
BRL 38 million relative to the CDI increase in the period, and BRL 46 million in interest on the lease, referring to the FSRU ship chartered by CELSE. The positive effects in the results were mainly due to the cash earnings in the quarter in the amount. Foreign exchange variations.
Slide 9 present the main changes in cash flow. The cash flow of our operating activities recorded at BRL 573 million in the quarter, with the main negative impact, the increase in working capital. The main factors driving this increase were the negative impact on the quarter's accounts payable and the accounting offset of the non-cash amount of the mark-to-market of the tradings contract recorded in this quarter's EBITDA that will materialize in the upcoming years. These factors were partially offset by lower accounts receivable balances related to export revenues. The cash flow from investment totaled a cash outflow of BRL 341 million in the quarter. These figures were allocated to Parnaíba VI project, the liquefaction plant in Maranhão, Azulão 950 MW project, and Futura 1, among other investments, with the company's current activities.
The cash flow from financing activities totaled an outflow of BRL 781 million. This amount refers mainly to the creation of links deposited in sales and payments of interest incurred in the period. As a result, Eneva ended the quarter with a cash position of BRL 1.5 billion. Now on slide 10, we see details on Eneva's capital structure. The first quarter of 2023, the company's net debt totaled BRL 17.1 billion, and the leverage measured by net debt over EBITDA was 4.6 times. The reduction in leverage compared to the fourth quarter of 2022 already signals an improvement in our leverage profile, which increased last year due to the company's growth.
Now, the average maturity of the consolidated debt was 5.3 years at the end of the quarter, with both maturities concentrated on 2026. The end of the period 42% of the debt was indexed to IPCA, 41% of the CDI and 15% was prefix. Fausto will talk about the investments of the quarter and talk about the status of our projects. Thank you, Habib. On slide 11, we see our investments total BRL 516 million in the competency-based views, and were destined mainly to the activities of projects under construction. In TPP Parnaíba VI, we invested a total of BRL 73 million.
In this project, we received the cooling tower structure and concluded the assembly of the heat recovery boiler models and the construction of the containment basin, a structure designed to retain the liquid waste generated by the plant's activities. In the Azulão 950 MW complex in the Amazon, a total of BRL 211 million were invested in the period, BRL 170 million of which were used to pay the first milestones to GE, the supplier of the simple cycle and combined cycle turbines. Also, BRL 63 million were directed to well drilling and completion activities, and BRL 24 million to basic engineering of the primary treatment unit, UTP. Draining and earth-moving projects were also approved in the period.
Parnaíba and the small scale LNG plant that is built close to Parnaíba complex, we invested BRL 40 million throughout the quarter. We signed contracts with the EPC employees responsible for liquefaction regasification, and with other logistic operations. Besides this, topography, drilling and factory inspections of the liquefaction equipment were started. Futura 1, the figures were mostly related to the registration of invoices for payments to suppliers of solar panels and equipment, and to a lesser extent, to operating and maintenance costs that are being capitalized, given that the solar park had not come into operation by the end of the quarter. Finally, in upstream, we invested BRL 32 million in the development of gas fields in Parnaíba complex, highlighting Gavião Preto, Gavião Belo, Gavião Tesouro, Gavião Carijó.
We also invested BRL 12 million in the exploratory activities in the Parnaíba and Amazonas basins, including amounts for long-duration tests carried out in Anebá. Now slide 12. This is the status of Futura 1 complex, one of the largest solar complexes in Latin America. In the beginning of the second quarter of 2023, we gradually started test operations in each of the 22 UFBs according to the releases received by ONS and ANEEL. At the end of last week, we completed the energization of all 22 UFBs. With this, all units are already generating energy for trading. We also requested the issuance of the DAP that are permanent generation authorizations granted by ONS.
Considering the deadlines for the issuance of the DAP by ONS and afterwards, the order by ANEEL, our forecast for the start of commercial operation of 100% of the complex is the end of May. Slide 13. This is the update of small scale LNG project in Parnaíba. The work is already 98.5% contracted with 96.3% of physical adherence. We have already concluded the earth-moving stages in the site in April and the mobilization of the EPC, which is the regasification site, which was concluded in May. As the next milestone for 2023, I highlight the beginning of the receivement of equipment at all sites in June, the conclusion of the manufacture of carts already 100% contracted.
In 2024, we calculate the conclusion of the reception of equipment at the sites in January, the conclusion of liquefaction commissioning in April, and the conclusion of regasification in May in order to allow the beginning of the commercial operation in the second quarter of 2024. On slide 14, I present the updates of Parnaíba VI project. The project is at 108.4% of physical compliance and 68.8% of physical progress in the works. We are preparing for the arrival of the generator and the complex in May, which is one of the project's milestones. We have already concluded the alignment of the steam turbine inner casing at the São Paulo plant, the positioning of the boiler drums and the assembly of the equipment bases and the substations measurement and building panel.
The milestone in 2023 include the delivery of steam turbine in Parnaíba in September and energization of the transformer in November. For 2024, we plan to complete mechanical assembly in February, start test operation in July, with commercial operations scheduled to begin in the third quarter of 2024 and CCER startup in January of 2025. On slide 15. We're very close to what will happen
Where we believe, in a high demand for the reserve auction. Our estimate is about 8 GW, which is part of what was decontract in terms of thermal companies until 2028. We believe that even if we look to achieve a neutral level, in other words, that thermal competing with other sources, including hydro plants, the trend for that product, we believe that thermal plants tend to be more competitive for this type of auction. Thank you, Marcelo. I have another question coming in about Argentina. How are you mitigating potential risks in sales to Argentina, given the fragile situation of the company? Can you talk about that topic a bit, please? Thank you for your question. Well, sales to Argentina happens through a middleman. Argentina sells to a trading company. The trading buys from the Brazilian trader.
Within this triangle, there are two insurance or assurance instruments. Argentina ensures the banking payment to the first top quality bank and the trading company through a different assurance structure, sometimes using the same bank, some other times using other banks. In any event, first-rate banks. With all of that combination of efforts, payments are assured. In short, sales to Argentina have a bank assurance in place as is. Thank you, Habibe. Let's move on with Argentina. We have a few questions about Argentina. I'll try to summarize them all into one question. Can you comment on the expectations for exports in Argentina for the coming quarters? As you complete the pipeline, could that limit the potential? Also, can you give us more details about the transmission capacity to Argentina, and how is Parnaíba competing with other thermal assets?
Thank you for the questions. Let's start with transmission data. Today, we have Garabi conversion company, which can convert 2.2 gigawatts or transfer 2.2 gigawatts from Brazil to Argentina. We also have the converting company in Melo with Uruguay, another 500 MW. In total, we have a capacity of transmission between Brazil and Argentina and Uruguay of 2.7 gigawatts . Uruguay is able to send energy to Argentina. In some periods of the year, all that capacity may be transferred to Argentina, depending on the demand coming from Uruguay, of course, also depending on internal restrictions of both countries. As for how the Parnaíba complex is competing with other thermal companies, early in the year, because of the high water availability, the turbine flow took up most of the energy which was exported to Argentina.
As we mentioned before during the call, as the wet period ended and as reservoir levels dropped, that turbine-based energy tends to converge to zero, and we'll be having a thermal-based export process. Three players have been meeting that demand for thermal generation. The cogeneration thermal plants from Petrobras, which generates to meet internal demands, and they are competitive, of course, because it is their opportunity to generate vis-a-vis spot prices. The coal-based thermal plants in the southern region of Brazil, which have some flexibility, and because of that, they turn out to be very competitive as well. Parnaíba, because of the R2W model, which brings competitiveness to the process. Throughout time, we have the bids, which happen through the trading companies in Brazil. Those players, those three players have been able to meet this limited demand, limited to the transmission capacity.
As I said, we believe that the wet period is coming to an end. We are already in the month of May, and the turbine-based flow is still happening at lower volumes than in February and March, but it tends to converge to zero in May. The trend is that thermal generation will be able to meet that export demand, and it should remain the same throughout the year. The pipeline expected to start this year should not change the possibility of our exports. With the second phase, which is expected for next year, we expect that for the summer periods, we may need to resort to other types of generation, but in the winter, because of heating equipments, we'll be able to export energy from Brazil to Argentina. Okay.
Here, Paolo Gonzaga from Ampere. Has there been an update of Bahia Terra complex? No, no update since Petrobras was notified by the MME the day after we spoke to Petrobras. They requested a period to understand and internally discuss with the new board to replan their strategy. Since that day, we haven't been able to talk to Petrobras due to their request, and we were never formally notified. We know that this is an ongoing process, we're still waiting for Petrobras' position in order to see what we will do within this process. We expect to receive a notification in the upcoming months. The next question. Now, replacements and generation. Can you talk about of substitution per generation? How would this work in practice? Thank you for your question.
This opportunity of generation replacement by flexible plants, this is an opportunity that we've mapped and we are working with interested partners, but there are challenges that we have to overcome. One would be a regulatory challenge because in the current regulation, this is not foreseen. Therefore, we have to focus on the regulatory point. At the same time, we have to develop models together with our potential partners. This works when you have a partner that has the gas opportunity cost to buy or to sell to a third party higher than your opportunity cost to generate in order to substitute this partner. Every time we have this, there is an arbitrage, and afterwards there is a possibility of sharing the result that is generated.
We are working on the contracts, and at the same time, we are also engaged together with the regulatory teams in order to enable this possibility within our regulation. Thank you. The next question. The Fortaleza thermal plant. Any update of receiving gas in the thermal plant Fortaleza through GNL? Thank you for your question. The two options are possible, and they have already been answered. Gasfor II is a project that TAG, the subsidiary of ENGIE, is interested in participating. The challenge here is the market to enable a project like Gasfor II 's, the thermal plants that work with a flexible modality. These thermal plants won't be able to work with their budget. With Cemig, we're working with a gas supplier, this is Shell, in order to have a supply contract option to participate in the auction.
We are closely following the evolution of the project, and we expect this supply to be feasible so it can participate in Termo Fortaleza in the upcoming auctions. For the time being, there is nothing materialized. Thank you, Marcelo. With this, we've approached all the points that we received through our Q&A box. Now we bring to the end the Q&A session. We thank all of you for your participation.