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Thank you, Gigi. Good morning, ladies and gentlemen, and welcome to our third quarter 2024 results presentation. I'm Jorge Velis, Head of Investor Relations of Enel Américas. In the coming slides, our CEO, Aurelio Bustilho, and our CFO, Rafael de la Haza, will be presenting the main figures of the period. Let me remind you that this presentation will follow the slides that have already been uploaded in the company's website. Following the presentation, we will have the Q&A session. If you want to ask a question, please send it to the webcast or write to us at our corporate email, ir.enelamericas@enel.com. Let me hand over the call to Aurelio, who will start by outlining the main highlights of the period.
Thank you, Jorge. During the third quarter, we saw a significant increase in investments in grids business of 30%, reaching $0.4 billion. This is aligned with our strategy of having a more resilient network and improved service quality for our customers. Regarding operational indicators in generation business, we have continued to add new renewable capacity, reaching 8,800 MW of new capacity in 2024. In grids business, we saw an increase in energy demand mainly in Brazil, as a consequence of higher temperatures. EBITDA in the third quarter reached $0.94 billion, which is 6% lower than third quarter of last year. This is mainly explained by the depreciation of Brazilian reais which had a negative impact of -$91 million.
Lower EBITDA in generation business in Colombia explained by the hydrological situation of that country that we will later analyze. These negative effects were partially compensated by better results in Argentina and in generation business in Brazil. Gross debt reached $5.7 billion as of September, 30% reduction compared to December last year, explained by the reduction in debts we have implemented mainly in Brazil, which has been done with the proceeds from the sale of relevant assets. This allowed us to decrease financial expense by 33%. Before going into details of our operational and financial performance of last quarter, I would like to have a focus on two very significant situations that we are facing in these days.
First, the climate event that we suffered in São Paulo a few weeks ago and the hydrology situation that we are seeing in Colombia. Let's begin with the situation of São Paulo in the coming slides. On October 11, São Paulo suffered the most intensive windstorm in the last 30 years, with winds surpassing 107 km per hour, which caused severe damage to our electricity grids and disrupting electricity supply to almost 3.1 million customers. Thanks to the use of automation systems and remote control of the electrical network the number of affected customers was reduced by 1 million in the same night, and by the end of next day, 80% of the customers had their service back. In response to the storm, the company immediately activated its operational plan for extreme weather events and increased the number of teams on the ground.
The company mobilized professionals from its distribution companies in Rio and Ceará, as well as teams from Chile, Italy, Spain, and Argentina. With this, the number of professionals on the ground reached 2,800. In addition to this São Paulo delivered 500 generators for essential services such as hospitals. We continue work in order to strengthen our infrastructure and improve our emergency protocols. As we have mentioned we are investing BRL 6.2 billion in 2024-2026 period. Now, let's have a focus on hydrology situation of Colombia in the coming slide. Hydrology in Colombia is in a very stressed situation since the last two months.
After El Niño phenomenon affected the country last year and the first months of this year, we entered into a neutral phase with high probability of La Niña to arrive, meaning higher rain probability. However, La Niña has not arrived, and we have been in a dry neutral phase for the last two months with a very few rainfalls in the country. H ydro reservoir are below its historical level, and thermal generation has increased in a significant amount. This, of course, is impacting the spot price, which as you can see in the lower right chart has been increasing significantly since July. We have been impacted by this situation due to a reduction in hydro generation an increase in energy purchase at higher prices.
We are working in order to minimize the impact with several actions, such as not increasing sale position in energy contracts, operational optimization of our plants, optimization and monitoring of spot market through conversations with regulations and associations. The coming weeks are going to be crucial in terms of rainfall in order to determine the situation that we could face next year. Now, let's analyze our investment during this period in the coming slide. During the third quarter of this year, our CapEx decreased by 37% compared to the same period of last year, reaching $450 million. It is mainly explained by lower CapEx in generation business due to the completion of renewable projects and a slowdown in developing new projects in line with our strategy.
However, it is important to highlight that investment in grids business increased by 30%, reaching $0.4 billion. If we isolate the impact of currency devaluation, CapEx in grids increased by 44% compared to the third quarter of last year. 63% of total investments were devoted to Brazil and 28% were where we are reinforcing our commitment to improving service quality. In terms of business line, 78% of total CapEx was devoted to grid and 19% to renewable generation. Growth CapEx reached $149 million, lower than last year due to lower investment in renewable capacity. Let's now analyze our renewable development on slide seven. During the first nine months of this year, we had 0.8 GW, 800 MW of new renewable capacity, mainly located in Brazil.
This implied an investment of $24 billion, and it represents higher amount of new capacity compared to the first nine months of last year. We are currently working on additional 0.5 GW of capacity under construction located in Colombia. As you can see on the right side of this slide, we are working on three solar projects in Colombia, Guayepo II, Guayepo III, and Atlantico, which will be finished between 2025 and 2026. Let's continue with generation operational highlights on next slide. In generation business, at the end of this quarter, our installed capacity reached 12.9 GW an increase of 11% compared to the same period of 2023. From this amount, 98% is renewable and investment in generation business as of September reached $400 million.
In the bar charts on the right, we are showing our energy balance both for Enel Américas consolidated and for Colombia standalone, given the hydro situation we are facing in that country. The first column represents our production plus energy purchase, and the second column represents the total energy sales. We can see that in the third quarter, at Enel Américas level, we increased our sales by 10%, reaching 18 TW hours. From this, 12.2 TW hours came from our own production, and 5.8 TW hours came from purchases to third parties. Its sales increase was mainly explained by Brazil. In this case of Colombia, it is important to highlight the significant reduction in hydro generation as a consequence of the droughts affecting the country.
We were able to partially compensate this with our increased renewable capacity, but it was necessary anyway to increase energy purchase to comply with our contracts. This increase in energy purchase, mainly the spot price in the spot market, was the main reason our results were negatively affected during this quarter in generation business. Let's now continue with grids operational highlights on slide nine. Electricity distributed reached 26.4 TW hours in the first quarter, which represents an increase of 3% compared to the same period of last year, compared by higher sales in Brazil, mainly due to higher temperatures. Regarding number of customers, we had an increase of around 424,000 in the last 12 months reaching 22.5 million customers.
Smart meters increased by two times, reaching 1.2 thousand in this period, mainly due to the deployment of São Paulo. Net RAB and net RAB per customers increased despite currency devaluation impacts, reflecting the significant investments that we are doing. In terms of quality indicators, we are seeing that Argentina will improve its SAIDI, and Colombia improved its SAIDI and SAIFI. In Brazil, we had a struggle against difficult extreme weather conditions that affected our metrics. As we mentioned, we are working hard in order to have a more resilient grid system. Finally, regarding energy losses, we improved it in São Paulo and Ceará. We made it flat in Edesur and Enel Colombia, and slightly worse in [Enel Brasil]. Now, Rafael will comment on the financial Res ults of the period in the coming slides. Please, Rafael.
Thank you, Aurelio. Good day. EBITDA in the first nine months of the year reached $3 billion, 6% higher than the same period of last year. Mainly explained by better results in grids business in Argentina due to tariff increase, improvement in grids business in Colombia, and better results in generation business in Brazil. On a quarterly basis, EBITDA reached BRL 939 million, which is 4% lower than third quarter of last year. Mainly, as Aurelio explained before, due to higher concessions in Colombia and currency depreciation in Brazil. In terms of net income, during the first nine months of this year, we reached $2.5 billion, including, and this is very important to underline, the positive impact of BRL 1.7 billion coming from the sale of Peruvian assets.
As you know, we recently completed the sale of our generation and distribution assets in Peru. Isolating this effect, we reached BRL 0.8 billion in this period basically in line with the same period of last year. Our gross debt decreased 30% and our net debt decreased by 65%, mainly due to the cash received from the sales of Peruvian assets and liability management actions that we are implementing. We will analyze in detail our debt later on. On slide 12, we will see EBITDA evolution and breakdown. Page 12. Starting from BRL 1 billion as EBITDA of the third quarter of 2023, we see that generation business decreased by BRL 57 million, mainly explained by higher conditions in Colombia, while grids and customers improved due to better results in Argentina and Colombia.
With this, we get to an EBITDA of BRL 1,000 million for third quarter 2024, which is exactly in line with last year. FX had a negative impact of BRL 61 million, resulting in a reported EBITDA for this quarter of BRL 939 million. From our reported EBITDA, 55% came from Brazil, 36% from Colombia, 3% from Argentina, and 6% from Central America. In terms of business line, grids continues to represent the highest the highest portion of our results, representing in this period 52% of our total EBITDA. Generation, 39%, and customers contributes with 9% of the total.
As for our EBITDA breakdown on a cumulative basis it takes 13 during the first nine months, we see that the EBITDA grew by 7% in a homogeneous perimeter, I mean, without considering Peru. Generation business decreased mainly due to hydro conditions in Colombia. Grids significantly increased due to better results in Argentina and Colombia, while customers business also improved. FX had a negative impact of BRL 45 million, reaching a reported EBITDA of $3,011 million. From this, 57% comes from Brazil, 37% of the total from Colombia, while in terms of business, grids contributes with 52% and generation 37%. Now we will focus on cash flow of our company, page 14.
Starting from an EBITDA of $3 billion, we see that net working capital amounted to $0.4 billion, a significant reduction compared to the previous year. That is mainly explained by a normalization of net working capital in Brazil. Some delays in the CapEx, and this is explaining substantially the net working capital difference or the net working capital when compared to the previous year. Taxes paid during the period amounted to $0.5 billion, in line with last year, while net debt or net financial expenses had an important decrease in the third quarter due to the liability management that we have done. On a cumulative basis, we remain basically with last year, in line with last year, reaching $0.5 billion.
With this, funds from operations amounted to $1.6 billion, an improvement of $0.7 billion compared to the same period of last year. After investments for $1.5 billion, including zero point seven of gross CapEx, we went to a free cash flow, positive free cash flow, which is very important, of $0.1 billion. Let me now analyze the debt of our company in the following slide. Gross debt amounted to $5.7 billion, a decrease of 30% compared to December 2023, mainly explained by debt reduction in connection with the use of proceeds coming from the sale of Peruvian assets.
In this sense, we reduced our debt in Brazil by $1.4 billion, and we see also a reduction in this chart in Colombia, mainly due to FX effect and in Enel Américas, Enel Américas S.A., corresponding to a bridge loan with Enel Finance International that was paid after we received the funds from Peru. Net debt reached BRL 2.3 billion, a decrease of 65% compared to the end of 2023, and this includes free cash flow for BRL 0.1 billion that we saw in the previous slide, net dividends paid for BRL 0.3 billion, extraordinary operations for BRL 4.1 billion, mainly related to the payment received from Peruvian assets, and FX effect for BRL 0.4 billion in the period.
In terms of currency and country, we see that Brazil remains as the largest contributor, while the debt at holding level represents 10% of the total, and this is a rounded figure, $600 million of the Yankee bond expiring in 2026. Finally, regarding the cost of debt, we can see a decrease for this period going from 12.2%- 10.5%, mainly explained by our liability actions in Brazil and lower interest rates in Brazil and Colombia, in both. On the next slide, Aurelio will conclude, our CEO, this presentation with some closing remarks. Aurelio, please. The floor is yours.
Thank you. Thank you, Rafa. We are reinforcing our commitment in Brazil by implementing a strong investment plan in grids business, aiming to have a more resilient network and improving quality for our customers. We have solid operational indicators in this period. In grids, energy demand increased by 3%, while in generation, we have increased our renewable capacity by 0.8 GW during the year. Despite the difficult scenario that we are facing, mainly due to the higher situation in Colombia and currency devaluation in Brazil, we were able to obtain solid economic results and maintain a sound financial position, which allows us to execute our CapEx plan. Finally, let me thank all the teams that worked very hard and relentlessly in facing the extreme situation in São Paulo, the difficulty in reestablishing the connection and the clients that we have.
Thanks to all the teams in São Paulo, in Rio, Ceará, Chile, Argentina, Italy, and Spain that we work together in almost all fronts, on the fields, on the streets, on the back office, on the offices of the company in order to establish this adverse situation. Show you that we are proud of this recovery. There are more to come. We have our investment plans in order to face this situation. Let me announce that on November 22, we will present our 2025-2027 strategic plan. In the coming days, we'll send you the invitation with all the details. Let me hand it to Jorge to close this presentation.
Thank you, Aurelio. Thank you, Rafael. Thanks, everybody for your attention. N ow we will begin the Q&A session. The first question comes from Javier Suárez from Mediobanca. First question is can you quantify the possible impact of the ongoing drought in Columbia and your latest percentage guidance? And second question is can you update us on the latest regulatory development in Argentina?
Thank you for the question. Maybe I can send it to Rafael to tell the details. We expect that the hydrological situation will be, let's say, completed by the impact during this year. We do not expect for the coming periods more effect on this. Of course, it's not possible to predict weather situations and weather this kind of phenomena in more than a medium or long term. Considering the impacts on this, we are talking about something around for this period of $150 million.
We are re-recognizing part of this effect the major part of this effect until September, but not related to the coming years because it's not possible. Related to Argentina, Argentinian impacts, we had the actualization of the lags of the value of the distribution. We are having the recognition of inflation. Of course, there are more details to come. I hand it to Rafael if he can give you more color regarding the impacts.
Okay. Thank you, Aurelio. Thank you, Javier. Very good question. As Aurelio mentioned before, the impact is around $130 million for the period due to the dry season situation that we are seeing in Colombia. In any case, we expect once this extraordinary situation will conclude, we finalize our recovery mechanism to partially or totally mitigate these impacts. In the meantime, what we are doing is what we have explained at the beginning of the presentation. I mean, not increasing sale position in energy contracts, operational optimization of our plants, optimization and monitoring of the spot market, and high-level conversation with the regulators and association to, I repeat, mitigate this extraordinary impact for 2024.
Thank you, Rafa. Thank you, Aurelio. Please remember that you can send the questions to our webcast. We're not seeing any new questions. We'll wait just a few seconds in case a new question arrives. Okay, we have a question from Fernando González. Could you provide more color on the measures you are adopting in Colombia to face poor hydrological conditions in case higher rainfall doesn't arrive in the months ahead?
Yeah. Fernando, thank you. Thank you for your question. We are, as was explained in the previous slide. We are focusing in the end of this year, 2024, right? Our actions, of course, it's we are not increasing our PPAs, our sales contracts, right? We are maintaining what we have today, the commitment that we have today. We are optimizing our plants and monitoring spot markets. Lots of conversations with regulators and associations because we are facing a situation right now, you know, Fernando González, that we are not able to generate with our reservoir in order to meet our contracts.
We have water in our reservoir, but without being able due to these regulatory measures to meet our contracts, our PPA commitment. That's the important point here, no? We are analyzing the possibilities, we are analyzing the regulation. But today it's not working, the general regulatory scheme or method that we can generate to meet our contracts. That's the very important point, that it is affecting not only us, but all the system.
We are analyzing internally our, I mean, our position and our. An important aspect in order to keep on reinforce the way and the methodology of generation and safe and reliable regulation, the regulation of the generation, the way and the methodology, you know. This is very important. Of course, moreover, we need to analyze and keep on analyzing the situation of the seasonality, the season of the country. As for today, we are being very prudent in order to not implement our energy contracts or PPAs. Okay.
Thank you, Aurelio.
Thank you.
Next question comes from Tomás González. During the quarter you paid BRL 1.4 billion debt. That is part of the BRL 2 billion debt you announced will be reduced shortly. When do you expect to prepay the remainng BRL 600 million debt? And if you can tell us which should be a reasonable financial cost in a yearly basis considering you are recurring the cost of debt. Second question, in addition and considering further debt reductions, when do you expect to pay São Paulo pension fund? And finally, would you please give us an update on the concession renewal process currently held in Brazil, and what are the expectations for this process?
Thank you very much, Tomás, for the question. I will go for the first one, which is the one related to financial aspects. In a, let me say, normalized basis, Enel Américas will be in terms of financial cost below $500 million per year. This is a normalized total consolidated financial cost, financial expenses that we expect to see for the next coming years. A very significant reduction. Of course there is a combination of both different things. The first one is the reduction of the interest rates expected in the different countries in which we are operating, substantially in Colombia and Brazil.
Due to the liability actions that we have commented before that the company is implementing with the cash we received from the sales in Peru, substantially, as you know, to reduce the most expensive debt that we have in Brazil. $500 million or below $500 million per year will be a normalized financial expenses. In relation to the remaining $600 million, for us we are analyzing different alternatives, all right?
One of them could be continue reducing, I repeat, if there is a positive window, continue reducing the debt that we have in Brazil, all right? It will be our focus in Brazil to reinforce the current situation. Of course we have as well the reduction as an objective of the São Paulo pension fund, all right? This will be the remaining part of the $600 million. Let's see what opportunities we have. Let's see what are the most attractive ones for our investors. Depending on this, we will proceed.
You know, regarding Tomás's concession renewal, ANEEL published the open public hearing in this month, in October, no w ell, it's perfectly i mean, it's pretty much in line with the decree published in June of this year, right? There's no big difference. Of course, we are analyzing, and we need to look the details and so on, but in general, it's in line with the decree. This process will end in the beginning of December, right? According to the timeline that was published, probably we'll see this process closed, our estimation. Of course it can change, but it would be closed by April next year.
That's when we think and according to more than we think according to the timeline that will be concluded. As I told you, as I'm telling you, it's pretty much in line with the proposal from the regulator in this public hearing, pretty much in line with the decree. Of course we are analyzing the details. We'll contribute with the industry's discussion, not only as a distribution association, but also as Enel, you know. I think it's moving in the correct way. Thank you.
Thank you. Next question from Juan Felipe Becerra. On October 24, Enel Group CEO Flavio Cattaneo met with President Gustavo Petro to discuss the energy transition. Local media reported Enel stated it would invest around EUR 2 million in energy transition projects. Could you provide more color about this?
Well, thank you. Thank you for your question. I think, well, of course, it's in line with, Colombia is a country that we consider as a relevant country for investment. So it is important this kind of competition, of relationship with the most important stakeholders. The investment plan, we need to detail it in the next strategic plan. It is in line with this confidence that we back in Colombia. I mean, as like we say, as you can see it's a relevant country for our activity. In the next strategic plan that we'll give more color on this detail. Again, it's in line with the strategy.
Thank you, Aurelio. Next question from Rodrigo Godoy. Two questions. First one, related to the drought situation in Colombia. Will it last until the end of first quarter of 2025? Second question is about São Paulo. The mayor opened a process to end the concession of São Paulo. What actions the company can take to convince the authority to avoid this process?
Yes, thank you, Rodrigo. Regarding Colombia, as I was explaining before, it's not easy to predict hydro and climate situation in more than three months, right? It's not me, not Aurelio, saying, but scientists keep on saying this, with the difficulty to predict until now the climate events in the long term or the medium term.
We expect that this situation, especially considering the hydrological season that in general closes in the beginning of a year or in the end of a summer season, we'll probably see this situation more clear by the end of the year or by the beginning of next year. Let's see. As a company, we are taking all the measures in order to protect our reservoir, our contracts and our position. Again, there are some regulatory measures that changed a little bit what is being done or what's been reinforced in the previous period.
It's very important that the company should and needs to or should generation use its generation in order to meet the PPA. When you don't allow this, it's not correct. This is our view. Anyway, we are taking all the measures in order to protect our reservoir and our PPAs. Regarding São Paulo, it is important in distribution to keep on improving our investment plans, right? Our plan to reintegrate more people to work on our core operation activities, it is important to keep on reinforced investments in distribution. It is key. We are doing this, right?
Regarding the notification from ANEEL, it's a normal process. I mean, it's a process that we are just presenting. We need to present our information, the information of our operation and the information that we've done. ANEEL presented this requirement under its own declaration that it's extreme events. I mean, under extreme events, we will present these extreme events. We'll present what we are doing, and we are confident that this process will be managed very well. We are confident that what we are doing is what it needs to be done.
We are confident that the results will be better in the next extreme event, like it was in the comparative extreme event that we had in November last year. We improved in the recovery in how the actions. It's clear that we improved, so we'll present this and we are confident that the situation will be addressed. I think that's it, no?
That's it. Yeah. Just to give you more color on this, Rodrigo. On page number eight, you see that due to the fact that we have executed-
In Colombia, no?
Yes. We have already, let me say, operating with more renewable capacity than the one that we had in 2023. We have produced or we have moved from 0.2 to 0.8, as you may see on the right side of this chart. This has partially mitigated, so let me say, the potential impact due to the dry season that I already explained before, no? Thanks to the new projects that are already operating in Colombia, we saw a better impact than the one that maybe in other conditions we could see, no? This is, let me say, an anticipated movement due to the new capacity and renewables that we are using to reduce or to mitigate, I repeat, the impact of the current situation in Colombia in terms of margins.
Thank you. We are receiving a couple more questions about the situation in São Paulo, but I think Aurelio already covered the current status. We'll move to questions from Felipe Flores. Are the tax effects in Peru over after the negative impact of this quarter, or should we still see news about this in the next quarters?
It's a good question. I think it's finished, you know. We made that. I don't know how much you want to do the more color. It's finished. The only thing is that we need to pay in 2025 the remaining part due to the capital gain. This is just a natural, let me say, action. The capital gain has been already registered in our balance sheet, but the tax will be paid in the next coming year, I mean in 2026, due to the capital gain registered in the company.
Okay. Now from Javier Suarez. Can you explain reasons for the year-over-year improvement in net working capital? Which are your expectations for net working capital by the end of the year? You highlighted the fact that free cash flow is positive by September. Should we expect a positive free cash flow by year-end?
Thank you, Javier. Yes. The answer is yes. We see a positive free cash flow before the dividend payment at the end of the year in an amount which is very similar to the one that we have announced today. So close to $100 million. So the answer is yes. Yes. The reason, in relation to the net working capital reduction or absorption, when compared to the previous year, which is mainly due, I repeat, due to the delays in CapEx and to a lower CapEx when compared to the previous year. In generations, especially. In the generation business.
Thank you. Final questions from Arturo Murúa. In regards to Colombia, is there any updates in La Guajira region for the development of renewables projects, mainly due to the delay of transmission lines in the zone?
Thank you. Thank you, Arturo Murúa. No news. We are still seeing delays on this kind of permitting on this area, right? That's why we moved a bit to different areas, as we were explaining in our development plans. The Guajira, we still see some delays, especially in transmission lines, but not only this. We're not seeing as many support from local government in order to move forward with the project. That's why we are seeing some delays on this. Let's see. We are monitoring the situation over there in order to see if the scenario changes. Thank you.
The new concession contract says that the risk was actually given up any revision disputes to sign the new concession contract. You received penalties related to last year, last year's quality issues and has contested them in court. You will probably receive fines for this year's quality event. How do you see this point of the concession contract? Would you be willing to pay these penalties to sign the new concession contract?
Marcelo, thank you for your question. It is something that we are analyzing. It's not exactly like this because when you're not. I mean, you're not. You don't have to give in to any legal discussions. It's not general like this, and we have all the companies in Brazil, as you know, all the legal aspect and legal environment. They have lots of claims, lots of discussion, not only related to quality, but also related to many other things. It's not like this that you need to give in to everything. That's not our reading? If it is, of course it's unsustainable. That's my view.
Again, we are analyzing the details, but the way we are reading this is not related to reaching a general discussion related to claims, related to quality, related to underground cables, related to the possibility of commercialization or anything. It's related to issues. Let's get some specific times, and I prefer to analyze it better and to give you a more complete view. Mm-hmm.
Thank you, Aurelio. Well, as there are no more questions, we conclude the results conference call. Let me remind you that Investor Relations team is available for any doubt that you may have. Thanks for your attention.
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