First Gen logs 30% income hike to P9 B

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Owing to profit contribution of its all-renewable energy (RE) subsidiary, First Gen Corporation has posted 30-percent hike in its recurring net income to $167 million (or equivalent P9.0 billion) in the first half of the year versus $128 million (P7.0 billion) within parallel period last year.

The next milestones that will prop the company's earnings will be: the commercial operations of its liquefied natural gas terminal at the First Gen Clean Energy Complex in Batangas; the closing and turnover of the 165-megawatt Casecnan hydroelectric power plant that it recently won from the privatization process carried out by state-run Power Sector Assets and Liabilities Management Corporation ; and its 100MW pump storage expansion at Lake Aya that will soon be advancing to construction...

In terms of revenues, the company logged $13 million hike to $1.287 billion within January to June this year versus $1.274 billion in the same period last year. He emphasized that the Lopez group is “looking forward to a number of significant milestones that are expected to happen for the remainder of the year.

Nevertheless, the resulting income of its gas assets declined 5.0-percent to $91 million within this year’s first semester, vis-a-vis $96 million las year.

 

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