MILAN (ITALPRESS) – Enel presents the Group’s 2025-2027 strategic plan, confirming its focus on three pillars: profitability, flexibility and resilience, to create value through selective capital allocation that optimizes the risk/return profile while maintaining a flexible approach. Efficiency and effectiveness, with continuous optimization of processes, activities and portfolio of offerings, strengthening cash generation and developing innovative solutions to increase the value of existing assets. Financial and environmental sustainability, to maintain a sound structure, ensure the flexibility needed for growth, and address the challenges of climate change.Between 2025 and 2027, the Group has planned total gross investments of about 43 billion, an increase from the previous strategic plan. The main investment areas will be Europe, with about 75 percent of total gross investment; Latin America and North America, with about 25 percent of total gross investment. Gross investment in networks is expected to be about 26 billion, up 40 percent. Networks are expected to contribute about 40 percent to the Group’s ordinary Ebitda in 2027. In renewables, Enel plans to invest about 12 billion, and the Group’s total renewable energy production will increase by more than 15 percent over the plan period across all geographies, mainly in Europe and the United States. Enel expects the Group’s cumulative ordinary Ebitda over the plan period to exceed 70 billion. The total cost of gross debt is expected to decrease to 3.9 percent in 2027. In the strategic plan, Enel expects the Group’s ordinary Ebitda to increase to between 24.1 billion and 24.5 billion in 2027, with a Cagr of about 7 percent from 17.3 billion. The Group’s ordinary net income is expected to increase to between 7.1 billion and 7.5 billion in 2027, with a Cagr of about 11% compared to 4.3 billion in 2022.The dividend policy has been revised upward with a new minimum annual fixed DPS of €0.46 and a potential further increase to a payout of 70% on the Group’s ordinary net income. Compared to the previous dividend policy, the constraint of achieving cash flow neutrality has also been removed. “The managerial actions carried out over the past year have enabled us to achieve all the targets communicated to the markets and to strengthen the Group’s financial strength: we can thus open a new chapter of growth, which will create further value for shareholders and all our stakeholders,” said Flavio Cattaneo, Enel’s CEO, commenting on the Group’s 2025/2027 Strategic Plan. “Between 2025 and 2027, we will focus on core activities and flexible capital allocation, increasing investments, mainly in regulated assets with predictable returns, which will at the same time support an acceleration of the energy transition,” he added. “We will also continue to improve efficiency and profitability, including through new business opportunities. This strategy allows us to revise the dividend policy upward over the Plan period, with a minimum fixed dividend of 0.46 euros per share, up from 0.43 euros in the previous Plan and with a potential further increase to a payout of 70 percent on Ordinary Net Income,” Cattaneo concluded.(ITALPRESS).-Photo: Photo Agency-
