Energy industry
RWE covers investments vigorously
With its billions of investments, the energy group wants to continue to earn money. Because the uncertainties have increased worldwide, plans are significantly reduced.
The energy group RWE focused on electricity generation and energy trade is looking at behavior on the coming years. The result goals issued for 2025 are weaker than expected from experts. In addition, the investments planned by 2030 will be significantly lower than planned before, as the company said in Essen. In 2024, the DAX group, meanwhile, tends to better suspect from before.
The operational profit, i.e. the adjusted result before interest, taxes and depreciation, broke up by more than a quarter to around 5.7 billion euros last year. However, experts had expected an even greater decline. In 2025, the operational profit should then be between 4.55 and 5.15 billion euros in accordance with the forecast of the management around RWE boss Markus Krebber.
From 2025 to 2030, RWE now plans to invest 35 billion euros and thus plan 10 billion euros less than before. RWE cited regulatory uncertainties, bottlenecks in the supply chain, geopolitical risks and higher interest rates. At the same time, the return requirement to new projects should increase from 8 to 8.5 percent.
In 2024, RWE, according to the information, invested ten billion euros in wind farms, solar systems, battery storage and electrolysers. New systems with a total of around 2 gigawatts of production capacity went into operation last year. With almost 50 terawatt hours, electricity production from renewable energies has reached a new all -time high. For comparison: in Germany a total of 256 terawatt hours of electricity from renewable energies were generated in Germany. RWE operates green current systems, especially in the United States, in the UK, Germany and the Netherlands.
dpa
Source: Stern
