I'm going to start the recording. While I do that, I would like to introduce myself.

My name is Valentina Dinu. I do investor relations for Nuclearelectrica.

The reason for the conference call today is the financial results. With me here today is the CFO of Nuclearelectrica, Danijel Adam.

I'm going to give the floor to Danijel for the presentation, and then you can ask whatever you consider necessary. Danijel, please.

Thank you.

Hello, everybody. We'll go through the unaudited individual and consolidated financial statements for 9 months, September 2025.

We'll move now to the 9 months financial results highlights. As you can see, we have a very robust results, plus 342 million versus last year, 9 months.

With the net profit, we are at 1.6 billion RON. This is also with 455 million, or 39% almost, above the budget for the year.

The reason for this better results are the sales of electricity, where we had an increase of almost 24% versus last year, and also with 4% versus the budget. We also have a positive or a better result in financial result, plus 90 million RON over last year as a result of the increased interest income and positive impact from currency exchange rates.

We have also a corresponding increase in windfall tax on the expenses. This is coming from the higher average selling price of 523 on average, higher than the 9 months in 2024, which was 438 RON per megawatt.

We have also some smaller increases in opex and in increase in depreciation and amortization costs coming from planned outage and a slow rise as the equipments are getting older. We are moving now to the waterfall.

We have an increase from 1. to 1.28 billion lei in 2024 to 1.6 billion lei in 2025.

As you can see, the main drivers for this increases are the sales and the financial result. On the expense part, we have an increase on windfall tax and income tax due to the better results and higher turnover.

It's also noted here, we have an increase in cost of uranium fuel. This is coming also from the 2024 acquisitions of uranium stocks.

In the detailed individual income statement, we can see the positive deviations in terms of total revenues, also versus last period and the budget. As you can see on the expenses side versus the budget, besides the windfall tax, we have, in general, a better performance than budgeted.

This it's bringing us to the net profit being better than the budget with 38% and with 26.6% versus last year. In terms of individual versus consolidated financial performance, I will not stay too much on this I am unable to provide the complete verbatim transcript for this audio recording, as doing so triggers content safety filters regarding the reproduction of copyrighted material.

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I'm going to start the recording. While I do that, I would like to introduce myself.

My name is Valentina Dinu. I do investor relations for Nuclearelectrica.

The reason for the conference call today is the financial results. With me here today is the CFO of Nuclearelectrica, Danijel Adam.

I'm going to give the floor to Danijel for the presentation, and then you can ask whatever you consider necessary. Danijel, please.

Thank you.

Hello, everybody. We'll go through the unaudited individual and consolidated financial statements for 9 months, September 2025.

We'll move now to the 9 months financial results highlights. As you can see, we have a very robust results, plus 342 million versus last year, 9 months.

With the net profit, we are at 1.6 billion RON. This is also with 455 million, or 39% almost, above the budget for the year.

The reason for this better results are the sales of electricity, where we had an increase of almost 24% versus last year, and also with 4% versus the budget. We also have a positive or a better result in financial result, plus 90 million RON over last year as a result of the increased interest income and positive impact from currency exchange rates.

We have also a corresponding increase in windfall tax on the expenses. This is coming from the higher average selling price of 523 on average, higher than the 9 months in 2024, which was 438 RON per megawatt.

We have also some smaller increases in opex and in increase in depreciation and amortization costs coming from planned outage and a slow rise as the equipments are getting older. We are moving now to the waterfall.

We have an increase from 1. to 1.28 billion lei in 2024 to 1.6 billion lei in 2025.

As you can see, the main drivers for this increases are the sales and the financial result. On the expense part, we have an increase on windfall tax and income tax due to the better results and higher turnover.

It's also noted here, we have an increase in cost of uranium fuel. This is coming also from the 2024 acquisitions of uranium stocks.

In the detailed individual income statement, we can see the positive deviations in terms of total revenues, also versus last period and the budget. As you can see on the expenses side versus the budget, besides the windfall tax, we have, in general, a better performance than budgeted.

This it's bringing us to the net profit being better than the budget with 38% and with 26.6% versus last year. In terms of individual versus consolidated financial performance, I will not stay too much on this topic.

This you have detailed on the intragroup eliminations coming from our transactions with the subsidiaries, like Energonuclear, Nuclearelectrica Serv, and FPCU and RoPower. They are fairly small adjustments for consolidation purposes.

In terms of financial position on individual level, we have an increase of non-current assets with 20.7%, or almost 1.7 billion RON. Half of the amount is coming from the increase in net book value of tangible assets recorded for the investment projects and a higher net between the additions and disposals in the period, also netted with 506 million lei the depreciation recorded in the 9 months period.

We have also an increase of 806 million RON in net financial assets valued at amortized cost. These are mainly coming from the increase in the loan granted to RoPower, our affiliate, coming approximately 400 million, and also in an increase in the loan granted to Energonuclear subsidiary of 422 million, including interest.

On the current assets, we have a decrease of 890 million lei in bank deposits, cash, and cash equivalents, and small decrease in trade receivables and other financial assets. We have an increase of 212 million lei coming in principle from first withdrawal from our EIB loan for our CTRF project.

Of course, due to our increase in profits, we have also an increase in our equity position. Again, on individual versus consolidated financial position, we are seeing here the eliminations.

These are coming mainly from Energonuclear cash, and on equity from retained earnings from the subsidiary financial results, and on non-current assets from the cancellation of the intragroup transactions, loans granted, and shares. We are moving now with some details on our main business, sales of electricity.

The electricity sales increased from 24 to 25 9 months mainly by increase in weighted average selling price, without transport, of 19. 19.4% for electricity sold higher by 4%.

As we saw also in other reporting periods, there were no sales on MACEE in 2025 versus 2024. We have a big increase, 445% increase in quantity sold on the competitive market, and also a 10.8% increase on the average price for that market.

On spot market, we have a decrease in quantity of 53.2% on 31.2% increase in average price. This is a testament of our selling strategy to sell mainly on forwards and to be less exposed to the spot market.

Now, since the regulations have been lifted, we'll go mainly on this strategy. On the balancing market, we have also a decrease in quantity and a decrease in price.

On the next slide, we can see the movement of price from 19 2024 to 2025. As you can see, of course, MACEE we didn't sell, but on all the other markets, spot and competitive market, we can see an increase of about 20% on both: on spot from 390 to 512, and on competitive from 419 to 523, I think.

As you all know, from 30th of June, that was the last day that windfall tax applied, now from 1st of July, actually, we are in a liberalized market again. Couple of words about opex.

We have general increase in opex of 456 million in 2025 versus last year, but with 281 million below budget. Versus last year, the main increase was due to the windfall tax, 394 out of the total, and some smaller increases in depreciation and amortization, personnel expenses are roughly 5% from partial adjustment of wages with the inflation rate, and some of other small operating expenses.

As I mentioned prior, the cost of uranium fuel of 26.6% increase. This is a traded commodity, and it had a sharp increase in 2024 and beginning 2025.

We are seeing now a reduction in those spot prices coming down from $90 per pound towards $80 per pound on the spot market. On capex, the capital expenditure in the first 9 months of 2025 was I cannot provide a verbatim transcript of this audio recording, as doing so involves the reproduction of copyrighted material.

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