Financial information

Key figures

Funding

Latvenergo Group finances its capital expenditures programme partly from owned funds and partly from borrowed capital. Latvenergo Group regularly sources borrowed capital to ensure the required funding for several year investment programme in a timely manner, thus establishing successful long-term cooperation with local commercial banks as well as international financial institutions. 

To diversify the sources of funding, Latvenergo AS has issued bonds, accounting for 20% of the total borrowings as of 31.12.2022.


All of the Group borrowings are denominated in EUR currency.

Latvenergo Group long-term borrowings by categories of lenders

756.2 MEUR

Latvenergo Group long-term debt repayment schedule

 31.12.2022
Share of fixed interest rate (with interest rate swaps)
36%
Duration
1,8 years 


 

In order to maintain a stable level of liquidity, the Latvenergo Group ensures a constant cash flow and maintains additional liquidity reserves.

31.12.2022
Liquid assets, cash
MEUR
112,8
Short-term borrowings (overdrafts)
MEUR
200

Bonds

ISIN code: LV0000802684
Nominal amount of the bond: EUR 1,000
Issue date: Issue date: 22 February 2023 (deal review - placement, issue)
Interest (coupon) payment dates: 22 February each year
Listing: NASDAQ Riga AS
Use of proceeds: Financing and refinancing of the eligible projects according to the Latvenergo AS Green Bond Framework
Programme: Bonds issued under third Latvenergo AS EUR 200 million Programme

Green Bond Framework

CICERO opinion

Final Terms, dated 15.02.2023

Supplement to the Base Prospectus, 20.09.2022

Base Prospectus

ISIN code: LV0000870129
Nominal amount of the bond: EUR 1,000
Issue date: Issue date: 5 May 2022 (deal review - placement, issue)
Interest (coupon) payment dates: 5 May each year
Listing: NASDAQ Riga AS
Use of proceeds: Financing and refinancing of the eligible projects according to the Latvenergo AS Green Bond Framework
Programme: Bonds issued under third Latvenergo AS EUR 200 million Programme

Green Bond Framework

CICERO opinion

Final Terms, dated 28.04.2022

Supplement to the Base Prospectus, 20.09.2022

Base Prospectus


ISIN code: LV0000802460
Nominal amount of the bond: EUR 1,000
Issue date: Issue date: 17 May 2021 (deal review - placement, issue)
Interest (coupon) payment dates: 17 May each year
Listing: NASDAQ Riga AS
Use of proceeds: Financing and refinancing of the eligible projects according to the Latvenergo AS Green Bond Framework
Programme: Bonds issued under third Latvenergo AS EUR 200 million Programme

Report on Green Bonds 2021 is available on pages 91-93 in Sustainability and Annual Report 2021

AS Latvenergo Internal Audit opinion on fulfilment of requirements of Green Bond Framework, 07.04.2022 

Green Bond Framework

CICERO opinion

Final Terms, dated 07.05.2021

Supplement to the Base Prospectus, 20.09.2022

Base Prospectus

Dividends

Shares

The registered share capital of Latvenergo AS is EUR 790,367,859, consisting of 790,367,859 ordinary shares with a nominal value of EUR 1 per share.


Dividend Policy

The distribution of Latvenergo AS dividends is regulated by the Republic of Latvia Law on the Medium-Term Budgetary Framework for 2022, 2023 and 2024. According to the regulation, the expected amount of dividends payable by Latvenergo AS for the use of state capital in 2022 (for the reporting year 2021) is 64% of the profit for the reporting year, but not less than EUR 70.2 million and in 2023 (for the reporting year 2022) is 64% of the profit for the reporting year, but not less than EUR 56.8 million. 

The actual amount payable by Latvenergo AS in dividends is determined by the Shareholders’ Meeting after the approval of the annual report, upon the evaluation of the results for the previous year.


Dividends paid by Latvenergo AS

Taxes

Latvenergo Group is one of the biggest taxpayers in Latvia. In 2022, the Group paid EUR 273.5 million to the state budget of Latvia. The amount of taxes paid in Lithuania and Estonia was EUR 28.2 and EUR 18 million respectively. In the Baltics, EUR 140.3 million was paid in taxes in total. The table below shows the taxes paid by Latvenergo Group by years and types of taxes, where taxes borne are taxes directly borne by the Group and taxes collected are taxes for which the Group acts as an intermediary, i.e. the taxes collected from consumers and employees and further transmitted to the the State.

Tax payments by Latvenergo Group (MEUR):


 2018 2019 2020* 2021 2022
Taxes borne
78.9 47.5 46.1 42.0 36.5
Corporate income tax
39.5 10.4 10.6 6.8 2.6
Payroll taxes paid by the employer
19.1 18.7 19.1 19.1 19.8
Other taxes (excise, environmental, electricity, real estate taxes)
20.3 18.4 16.4 16.1 14.1
Taxes collected
 95.7 105.0 93.1 71.3 237
Value-added tax
71.0 82.9 70.2 48.4 213.0
Payroll taxes paid by employees
23.5 22.1 22.9 22.9 24.0
Subsidised electricity tax
1.2 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0
TOTAL
 174.6 152.5 139.2 113.3 273.5

* from 10 Feb 2011 until 10 Jun 2020, Latvenergo Group included Latvijas elektriskie tīkli AS, with 100% interest held


 2018 2019 2020 2021
2022
Taxes borne
 0.6 0.6 0.5 0.6
0.7
Corporate income tax
0.0 0.0 0.1 0.0 0.0
Payroll taxes paid by the employer
0.1 0.0 0.0 0.2 0.1
Other taxes (excise, environmental, electricity, real estate taxes)
0.5 0.6 0.4 0.4 0.6
Taxes collected
 13.2 13.8 12.1 14.6 27.5
Value-added tax
13.1 13.5 11.7 14.0 25.8
Payroll taxes paid by employees
0.1 0.3 0.4 0.6 1.7
Subsidised electricity tax
0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0
TOTAL
 13.8 14.4 12.6 15.2 28.2

2018 2019 2020 2021
2022
Taxes borne
 0.2 0.3 0.3 0.2
0.2
Corporate income tax
0.1 0.1 0.1 0.0 0.0
Payroll taxes paid by the employer
0.1 0.2 0.2 0.2 0.2
Other taxes (excise, environmental, electricity, real estate taxes)
0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0
Taxes collected
 6.4 7.4 7.1 11.6
17.8
Value-added tax
6.3 7.3 7.0 11.5 17.7
Payroll taxes paid by employees
0.1 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.1
Subsidised electricity tax
0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0
TOTAL
6.6 7.7 7.4 11.8
18.0

Rating

Latvenergo AS maintains long-term cooperation with the international credit ratings agency Moody’s Investors Service. The credit rating to the company was assigned for the first time in March 2004.


Moody's Investors Service Credit Opinion 9 March 2023

Latvenergo AS credit rating

Long-term rating Outlook Last approved
Baa2 Stable March, 2023




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