Enlight Renewable Energy Q2 2026 Earnings Call Transcript

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Key Takeaways

  • Positive Sentiment: Record quarterly performance: Q2 revenue and income rose 55% year over year to $210 million, adjusted EBITDA increased 67% to $160 million, net income reached $31 million, and operating cash flow grew 34% to $84 million.
  • Positive Sentiment: Enlight raised its 2026 guidance, targeting revenue of $790 million–$820 million and adjusted EBITDA of $565 million–$585 million, supported by strong first-half results, higher European and Israeli electricity prices, and increased Israeli trading activity.
  • Positive Sentiment: U.S. execution accelerated: The company closed $2.6 billion of financing for the 1.2 GW CO Bar solar-plus-storage complex, signed its first U.S. PPA with Google for 200 MW in Oklahoma, and secured 17.9 GW of safe-harbored U.S. capacity.
  • Positive Sentiment: The portfolio expanded to 43.1 GW, with mature projects rising 6% to 12.3 GW; Enlight expects more than 7 GW under construction and over 90% of its mature portfolio operating or under construction by year-end, supporting a substantial wave of 2027–2028 commercial operations.
  • Neutral Sentiment: Growth requires significant capital deployment: first-half CapEx doubled to $1.3 billion, with approximately $700 million of additional equity investments expected; management says its $1.2 billion of liquidity and roughly $100 million quarterly operating cash flow are sufficient to fund the mature portfolio.
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Enlight Renewable Energy Q2 2026
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Operator

Thank you for standing by. Welcome to the Enlight Renewable Energy second quarter 2026 earnings call. Please be advised that today's conference is being recorded. I would now like to turn the conference over to Limor Zohar Megen, Director of Investor Relations. Please go ahead.

Limor Zohar Megen
Limor Zohar Megen
Director of Investor Relations at Enlight Renewable Energy

Thank you, operator. Good morning, everyone, thank you for joining Enlight Renewable Energy's second quarter 2026 earnings conference call. Before beginning this call, I would like to draw participants' attention to the following.

Limor Zohar Megen
Limor Zohar Megen
Director of Investor Relations at Enlight Renewable Energy

Certain statements made on the call today, including, but not limited to, statements regarding business strategy and plans, our project portfolio, market opportunity, utility demand and potential growth, discussions with commercial counterparties and financing sources, pricing trends for materials, progress of company projects, including anticipated timing of related approvals and project completion and anticipated production delays, expected impacts from various regulatory developments, completion of developments, the potential impact of the current conflicts in the Middle East on our operations and financial conditions, company action designed to mitigate such impacts, and the company's future financial and operational results and guidance, including revenue and adjusted EBITDA, are forward-looking statements within the meaning of U.S. federal securities laws, which reflect management's best judgment based on currently available information. We reference certain project metrics in this earnings call, additional information about such metrics can be found in our earnings release.

Limor Zohar Megen
Limor Zohar Megen
Director of Investor Relations at Enlight Renewable Energy

These statements involve risks and uncertainties that may cause actual results to differ from our expectations. Please refer to the 2025 annual report filed with the SEC on March 30th, 2026, other filings for more information on the specific factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from our forward-looking statements. Although we believe these expectations are reasonable, we undertake no obligation to revise any statements to reflect changes that occur after this call. Additionally, non-IFRS financial measures may be discussed on the call. These non-IFRS measures should be considered in addition to, not as a substitute for or in isolation from our results prepared in accordance with IFRS. Reconciliations to the most directly comparable IFRS financial measures are available in the earnings release and the earnings presentation for today's call, which are posted on our investor relations webpage.

Limor Zohar Megen
Limor Zohar Megen
Director of Investor Relations at Enlight Renewable Energy

With me this morning are Adi Leviatan, Chief Executive Officer of Enlight, Nir Yehuda, Chief Financial Officer of Enlight, and Jared McKee, Chief Executive Officer of Clēnera. Adi will begin with an overview of our performance and key milestones achieved during the quarter, followed by Nir, who will review our financial results for the second quarter. Jared will provide an update on our U.S. operations and business activities. Our prepared remarks will be accompanied by a presentation. To follow along, please access the webcast or visit enlightenergy.com/data/financial-reports. Following the prepared remarks, we will open the call for a question-and-answer session. I will now turn the call over to Adi Leviatan, CEO of Enlight. Adi, to you.

Adi Leviatan
Adi Leviatan
CEO at Enlight Renewable Energy

Good morning and good afternoon, everyone. Thank you for joining us today to discuss Enlight's second quarter 2026 results. The second quarter marks another period of strong execution for Enlight, underscoring the resilience of our global platform, the quality of our portfolio, and our consistent ability to deliver our business plan. That execution translated into record financial performance. Revenues and income increased by 55%. Adjusted EBITDA grew by 67%. Net profit reached $31 million, and operating cash flow rose by 34% year-over-year to $84 million. These results demonstrate our ability to convert our project development portfolio into operating assets, growing earnings and driving cash generation. The market environment around us continues to evolve rapidly. Electricity demand is accelerating, driven by the rise of artificial intelligence, unprecedented digital infrastructure build-out, alongside additional electrification in industry and transportation.

Adi Leviatan
Adi Leviatan
CEO at Enlight Renewable Energy

We believe this is a long-term infrastructure growth story, and the need for reliable, scalable, and cost-effective clean power has never been greater. Against this backdrop, Enlight's diversified platform, disciplined execution, and capital allocation provide resilience and position us to meet the growing demand. Based on the strength of our results year-to-date and our updated outlook for the remainder of the year, we are raising our 2026 annual guidance. We are raising both revenues and income and adjusted EBITDA guidance by 4.5% and 3.6% at the midpoint to $805 million and $575 million, respectively. The increase in guidance reflects the strong first half results, as well as elevated merchant prices in Europe and growth in our electricity trade activity in Israel. Our CFO, Nir, will review the results, guidance, and our financial position in more detail shortly. On the execution side, Q2 was equally strong.

Adi Leviatan
Adi Leviatan
CEO at Enlight Renewable Energy

Let me highlight the key milestones. The mature component of our project portfolio grew by 6%, while our total portfolio grew by 4.6% to a total of 43.1 FGW. We completed the financial close for the CO Bar Complex, our largest single financing to date, at $2.6 billion, structured with a consortium of seven leading global financial institutions. CO Bar is a five-phase complex comprising 1.2 GW of solar generation and 4 GWh of storage in Arizona, a flagship demonstration of our execution capability at scale. We signed a power purchase agreement with Google for our Solstice project in Oklahoma, our first commercial off-take agreement in the U.S. and our first PPA in the Southwest Power Pool. We exceeded the upper range of our safe harbor targets, reaching 17.9 FGW of safe harbor capacity, positioning us to continue to drive highly profitable growth in the U.S.

Adi Leviatan
Adi Leviatan
CEO at Enlight Renewable Energy

In addition, we're well-positioned to capture the next wave of tax benefits in energy storage, which is in place until the end of 2033. We expanded our European storage footprint into two new and attractive markets, Finland and Romania, acquiring several mature projects with high expected returns. Some projects have already started construction during the quarter, with commercial operation dates starting from 2028. Overall, our assets operated reliably, our projects advanced according to plan, and our financial results speak for themselves. Now, I will hand over the floor to Nir, our CFO, to review our quarterly results and guidance in more detail.

Nir Yehuda
Nir Yehuda
CFO at Enlight Renewable Energy

Thank you, Adi. The second quarter of 2026 was another strong quarter for Enlight, with impressive growth in all our major financial parameters. The company's total revenues and income increased to $210 million, up 55% from $135 million last year. The growth is attributed to new projects, which contributed $21 million from electricity sales and $19 million from tax benefit. Existing projects contributed an additional $12 million, including $6 million from an increase in generation and higher electricity price, and $6 million of additional tax benefit from domestic content at the Atrisco project, which qualified for this benefit in Q3 2025. Favorable exchange rate contributed $30 million and electricity trading activity contributed $9 million. The company-adjusted EBITDA grew by 67% to $160 million, compared to $96 million for the same period in 2025.

Nir Yehuda
Nir Yehuda
CFO at Enlight Renewable Energy

The increase of $75 million in revenues and income was offset by an additional $70 million in cost of sales, linked mainly to new projects and to the growth in electricity trading activity in Israel. G&A and project development expenses, excluding share-based compensation, increased by $6 million, and other income decreased by $4 million, mainly as a result of compensation for lost revenues recorded in Q2 2025. Q2 2026 adjusted EBITDA includes a contribution of $17 million from a follow-on sale of an additional 15% interest in the Sunlight Cluster. Second quarter net income amounted to $31 million, compared to $6 million in Q2 2025. The $47 million increase in adjusted EBITDA, excluding the contribution from the follow-on sell-down, was partially offset by $10 million increase in depreciation and amortization, mainly due to newly operational projects.

Nir Yehuda
Nir Yehuda
CFO at Enlight Renewable Energy

A $4 million increase in share-based compensation expenses and an $18 million increase in financial expenses also largely related to newly operational projects. This impact was partially offset by $7 million increase in financial income and by the absence of $12 million in foreign exchange expenses recorded in Q2 2025. Tax expenses increased by $9 million. The ongoing improvement in cash flow from operation continued during the second quarter, reinforcing the quality of earnings and in indicating that the improvement in result is supported by strong cash generation from core operations. Excluding working capital fluctuation, our operating cash flow generation reached a run rate of approximately $100 million per quarter. This strong and recurring cash generation provide an important sources of internally funded capital, reinforcing our ability to execute on our growth strategy.

Nir Yehuda
Nir Yehuda
CFO at Enlight Renewable Energy

The strong financial performance continued in the second quarter, resulting in 55% revenue growth in the first half of the year. Excluding the contribution from the sale of interest in the Sunlight Cluster, adjusted EBITDA increased by about $99 million or 53% to $314 million, and net income increased by $42 million to $68 million in the first half. Our operating cash flow for the first half of the year increased by 48% to $185 million. As a result of the strong financial performance in the first half of the year, we are raising our full-year revenue guidance to a range of $790 million to $820 million, from $755 million to $785 million, and our adjusted EBITDA guidance to $565 million to $585 million, from $545 million to $565 million.

Nir Yehuda
Nir Yehuda
CFO at Enlight Renewable Energy

In addition to the contribution of the first half financial performance, the increase in guidance is attributed to an increased revenue outlook for Enlight electricity trading operation in Israel, as well as high electricity prices in Europe and in Israel. 2026 is expected to continue Enlight's consistent high-rate profitable growth as we demonstrate since our inception. During the first half of 2026, Enlight continued to solidify and diversify its financial position, raising approximately $350 million in Q2 through an expansion of Enlight's Series G Bond on the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange at an attractive rate of 4.4%, only 0.8% above the comparable risk-free bond. This was in addition to a $422 million equity raise through a private placement in the first quarter.

Nir Yehuda
Nir Yehuda
CFO at Enlight Renewable Energy

As of the end of the second quarter, our cash and cash equivalents at the stock level amounted to $877 million. Additionally, we had $287 million held by subsidiaries. In addition, we had $550 million of credit facility with $480 million available and approximately $1.7 billion in LC and surety bonds facility, including approximately $1.1 billion available, further enhancing our financial flexibility. Our solid financial position and internal resource will continue to support our growth towards revenue and income of over $2.2 billion and beyond. With that, I will turn over the call to Jared to review our U.S. operation and business activities.

Jared McKee
CEO at Clēnera

Thank you, Nir. For my remarks today covering our work in the U.S., I want to focus on two areas. First, how we are laying the foundation for future success with our growing development pipeline, and second, the strong near-term execution of our mature projects with major accomplishments in financing and construction. Our development pipeline continues to grow. In the first half of the year, our U.S. advanced development and development pipeline increased by almost 5 FGW, with increases in WECC, CAISO, and PJM. We are expanding our footprint in WECC, where we are already one of the largest developers of solar generation and energy storage. Additionally, we are making significant inroads in ISOs going east. Overall, the span and diversification of our development portfolio position us as a leading national developer.

Jared McKee
CEO at Clēnera

As we continue to advance our portfolio of solar and energy storage projects, there remains strong interest across the nation for more energy. Demand forecasts continue to trend upward, and both utilities and large load customers continue to engage with us for future generation and storage. This last quarter, I am pleased to share that we entered into our first commercial offtake agreement in the U.S. with Google. The power purchase agreement was signed in May for 200 MW of PV generation from our Solstice project in Oklahoma and will support Google's data center efforts in that region. This new kind of customer further diversifies our offtake base and provides us another income stream for our U.S. operations. We are actively engaged in other similar agreements throughout the U.S.

Jared McKee
CEO at Clēnera

The strong interest from off-takers in our projects speak to the dedication and diligence of our team as our projects are developed and matured. As the July deadline approached to safe harbor the Investment Tax Credit, our team worked to secure safe harbor status on a total of approximately 18 FGW, significantly surpassing our initial estimate. Approximately half of those gigawatts were safe harbored by the end of 2025, with the other half secured by the Fourth of July deadline this year. The safe harbor status for our projects was achieved through performing work of a significant nature, both on and offsite. The 18 FGW represent an anticipated 52% of our total U.S. portfolio of approximately 29 FGW.

Jared McKee
CEO at Clēnera

In addition to safe harbor status, our pipeline has mature interconnections, with over 20 FGW of projects in advanced development and development stages that have completed their system impact study. Projects eligible for the full Investment Tax Credit in the U.S. are not limited to the 18 GW of those that have achieved safe harbor. Energy storage remains a significant portion of our long-term strategy, which continues to be eligible for full ITC via safe harbor through 2037. Our current portfolio includes an additional 4.7 FGW of energy storage that fits into these criteria, and we will continue to build out this portfolio over the next few years.

Jared McKee
CEO at Clēnera

Our mature portfolio received another external affirmation of our capabilities and exciting prospects as a consortium of seven leading global banks signed the largest financing in our company's history, a $2.6 billion deal for the CO Bar Complex in northern Arizona. The CO Bar Complex includes five phases totaling 1,211 MW of solar power generation and 4,000 MWh of energy storage, with an expected capital expenditure totaling about $3 billion. This quarter, we mobilized for full construction on phase 3, which includes 473 MW of PV generation, joining phases 1 and phase 2 in construction. We are targeting the final 2 energy storage phases, which include 3,176 MWh of energy storage to fully mobilize in Q4 of this year.

Jared McKee
CEO at Clēnera

We remain on track for an initial COD of the complex in the second half of 2027, with phase completions to full COD in the first half of 2028. We have three other projects in construction I will briefly touch on. Snowflake A, the initial phase of a mega complex in northeast Arizona, is progressing on schedule. Snowflake A includes 594 MW of PV generation and 1,900 MWh of energy storage. We are targeting a COD at the end of 2027. The second phase of the Snowflake complex, Snowflake B, includes 656 MW of PV and 2,100 MWh of energy storage and is outlined in our advanced portfolio. In California, we are beginning to commission sections of our Country Acres project. This project includes 403 MW PV with 688 MWh of energy storage.

Jared McKee
CEO at Clēnera

That is enough energy to power over 85,000 homes in Central California. We are on target to begin commercial operations by the end of this year. At our Crimson Orchard project, near our U.S. headquarters in Idaho, the construction crews are fully mobilized at the site. This project includes 120 MW of PV generation and 400 MWh of energy storage. Over half of the PV piles have been installed and more than a quarter of the project's racking is in place. We have completed installation of the medium voltage transformers for our BESS yard and are receiving delivery of battery containers. The project remains on schedule for a COD in the first half of 2027. Summertime is peak construction season, and we continue to find success building out our pipeline.

Jared McKee
CEO at Clēnera

At the same time, we have secured financially sound projects to be built out for the next few years while diversifying our business customers and geographic footprint. We remain on track in achieving our goal to be a leading renewable energy player in the U.S. Now I will turn the presentation back to Adi.

Adi Leviatan
Adi Leviatan
CEO at Enlight Renewable Energy

Thank you, Jared. Moving to Europe, where we continue to build our position as one of the leading utility-scale renewable and storage developers in the continent. During Q2, we entered a new market, Romania, and significantly expanded our position in Finland. In Finland, where renewables make up 65% of electricity generation, we acquired three storage projects with a total storage capacity of more than 1.4 GWh to meet the high demand for storage. Two of the projects, with a total capacity of 902 MWh, started construction, and the third is expected to start construction later this year. Commercial operation dates for all three projects are planned for the first half of 2028, generating more than $50 million EBITDA, reflecting combined unlevered return of about 16.5% in the first full year of operation.

Adi Leviatan
Adi Leviatan
CEO at Enlight Renewable Energy

Returns for BESS projects in Europe are elevated due to the extreme shortage in energy storage, a trend we see as an opportunity for Enlight's storage position. Production of wind and solar in the Finnish market is expected to more than double by 2030, leading to a more than tenfold growth in demand for storage. The acquisition of these ready-to-build projects will strengthen our footprint in the Nordics and establish Enlight as an early mover in Finland's energy storage market, providing a strong foundation to become a leading player as the market develops. In Romania, we acquired the Karpen Cluster, adding 848 MWh of storage capacity at an expected unlevered return of approximately 17%. This cluster is included in our pre-construction portfolio, with commercial operations expected to begin in phases from the second half of 2028 through the first half of 2029.

Adi Leviatan
Adi Leviatan
CEO at Enlight Renewable Energy

Romania remains an earlier stage renewables market, with wind and solar generation expected to double by 2040 and storage demand projected to more than triple between 2026 and 2030. More broadly, Europe continues to offer attractive opportunities for scaled IPPs and developers. The regulatory environment increasingly favors companies with strong balance sheets, established regional infrastructure, and the execution capabilities to finance, build, and operate projects at scale. The breadth of milestones achieved this quarter underscores the strength of our execution. Our total portfolio grew by 4.6% sequentially to 43.1 FGW, while the mature component, comprising operating, under construction, and pre-construction projects, increased by 6% to 12.3 FGW, further expanding the portion of our portfolio closest to revenue generation. We made meaningful progress across every stage of the portfolio.

Adi Leviatan
Adi Leviatan
CEO at Enlight Renewable Energy

Growth in the mature component was supported by targeted acquisitions in Finland and Romania, while construction commenced on the 880 MWh Bertikow battery storage project in Germany, which remains on track for commercial operation in the first half of 2028. We also advanced approximately 850 MW from development into advanced development and added 2 FGW to our U.S. development portfolio, primarily across CAISO, PJM, and SPP, markets that represent important new growth platforms for Enlight. This progress is translating directly into our 2028 roadmap. The estimated annual revenues and income associated with the mature component of our portfolio increased from approximately $2.1 billion to $2.3 billion. The construction momentum that began in 2025 has accelerated meaningfully through 2026. These are defining build-out years for Enlight, during which we are deploying substantial capital and converting our mature portfolio into operating assets.

Adi Leviatan
Adi Leviatan
CEO at Enlight Renewable Energy

With additional 2.7 FGW expected to begin construction, we expect to have more than 7 FGW under construction by the end of 2026, positioning the company for a significant wave of commercial operations in 2027 and 2028, and putting us firmly on track to tripling our operating capacity. By end of year 2026, we expect more than 90% of our mature portfolio to be either operating or under construction. This provides a high degree of visibility into the next phase of growth as projects built progressively reach COD and begin contributing revenues and cash flow through 2027 and 2028. The scale of this build-out is evident in our capital deployment. Capital expenditure doubled in the first half of the year to $1.3 billion compared to same period last year.

Adi Leviatan
Adi Leviatan
CEO at Enlight Renewable Energy

About 50% of equity required was already invested, with approximately $1.2 billion of liquidity on hand to support roughly $700 million of remaining equity investments required. Approximately 69% of the required project financing has already been secured. I want to spend a moment on our data center strategy, which we view as a pivotal new growth engine for Enlight, one that builds directly on the capabilities, assets, and market presence of our existing renewable energy platform. Our pipeline consists of around 2 GWIT of data center capacity across the U.S., Israel, and Europe. Our strategy targets near generation, large-scale facilities exceeding 100 MWIT in a select group of markets where we believe the energy fundamentals provide a distinct advantage.

Adi Leviatan
Adi Leviatan
CEO at Enlight Renewable Energy

These locations combine access to scalable generation and storage, suitable land, and critical grid infrastructure, capabilities that are becoming increasingly valuable as access to power emerges as the principal constraint on data center growth. The strategic fit is compelling. Our renewable operations provide many of the core inputs required by hyperscalers and co-locators, large grid-connected sites, access to generation and storage, and deep expertise in developing, financing, constructing, and operating complex energy infrastructure. By integrating data centers alongside these assets, we can create a differentiated proposition centered on reliable, cost-effective, and lower carbon power. We expect CapEx investments to begin in 2027 for certain data center assets as selected initiatives advance towards construction. Importantly, our roadmap through 2028 does not currently include any contribution from the data center platform. That will provide the next wave of growth for Enlight.

Adi Leviatan
Adi Leviatan
CEO at Enlight Renewable Energy

Enlight has repeatedly demonstrated its ability to identify early transformative market trends and convert that insight into value creation. We believe our data center initiative represents the company's next significant growth engine, supporting continued expansion well beyond 2028. Based on our three-year business roadmap, our operating capacity is expected to reach about 12 FGW, translated into annual recurring revenue and income of more than $2.2 billion. This is an increase of about $100 million from the previous quarter. Our mature portfolio of revenues and income are now surpassing the 2028 annual recurring revenue level after growing by $200 million from the previous quarter, as we see mature projects expected to come online during 2029. The path to $2.2 billion-$2.3 billion in annual recurring revenue by end of 2028 is anchored in projects we already own, with financing increasingly in place and CapEx being deployed.

Adi Leviatan
Adi Leviatan
CEO at Enlight Renewable Energy

Enlight's growth story is not just about scale. It is about disciplined returns as well. Our under and pre-construction portfolio of 8.4 FGW is expected to deliver approximately 13% unlevered project returns, implying a return on equity above 18% after leverage. We are actively capitalizing on the opportunities across our markets while growing with discipline, protecting returns, maintaining balance sheet strengths, and ensuring that every project meets our threshold for long-term shareholder value creation. The business environment in which Enlight operates in is, in our view, the most favorable it has been, and it meets Enlight at its strongest position. Electricity demand is accelerating, driven by AI and data center expansion, industrial electrification, and the broader energy transition.

Adi Leviatan
Adi Leviatan
CEO at Enlight Renewable Energy

In the U.S. alone, data center electricity consumption is expected to triple between 2025 to 2030, creating an urgent need for substantial new capacity that can be deployed rapidly, economically, and at scale. Solar plus storage, among our strongest growth engines, is exceptionally well-suited to meet this demand. It offers a shorter time to market, an attractive cost of energy, and the operational flexibility increasingly required by modern power systems. These fundamentals are reinforced by greater regulatory clarity in the U.S. and Europe, attractive equipment costs for solar and storage, and an industry-wide consolidation process that increasingly favors scaled, well-capitalized operators. This is where Enlight is particularly well-positioned. Our global operating platform, strong financial capacity, proven execution, large portfolio of grid-ready sites, and a global network of top-tier partners give us the ability to convert these market conditions into disciplined and continuous high-return growth.

Adi Leviatan
Adi Leviatan
CEO at Enlight Renewable Energy

Before we turn to questions, let me leave you with four key takeaways from the quarter. First, we delivered record results and raised our 2026 outlook and the 2028 roadmap, reflecting the continued scaling of our operating portfolio, the quality of our underlying assets, and our confidence in the remainder of the year. Second, the milestones achieved this quarter, including the CO Bar financial close, the Google PPA in Oklahoma, exceeding our safe harbor targets, and our expansion into Finland and Romania, demonstrate our ability to execute at scale, broaden our commercial reach, and strengthen the resilience of our portfolio. Third, 2025 and 2026 are defining build-out years for Enlight, with a mature portfolio of 12.3 FGW and more than 90% expected to be operating or under construction by year-end. We have clear visibility into a substantial wave of CODs, revenues, and cash flows through 2027 and 2028.

Adi Leviatan
Adi Leviatan
CEO at Enlight Renewable Energy

Fourth, we are entering this next phase from a position of strength with a diversified global platform, a well-funded, mature portfolio, proven execution capabilities, a strong management team, and highly favorable market fundamentals. Our priorities remain clear. Execute with excellence, allocate capital with discipline, and translate the opportunities across our markets into durable, long-term value for shareholders. None of this would be possible without the talent and commitment of our people. With that, I will open the call for questions.

Operator

Thank you. To ask a question, you will need to press star one and one on your telephone and wait for your name to be announced. To withdraw your question, please press star one and one again. Thank you. We will now go to our first question. One moment, please. Our first question today comes from the line of Justin Clare from ROTH Capital Partners. Please go ahead.

Justin Clare
Justin Clare
Analyst at Roth Capital Partners

Hi. Thanks for the time and congratulations on the strong results.

Adi Leviatan
Adi Leviatan
CEO at Enlight Renewable Energy

Thank you, Justin.

Justin Clare
Justin Clare
Analyst at Roth Capital Partners

Yep. Wanted to start out just on the updated guidance here. It looks like the updated guide implies a lower revenue and adjusted EBITDA in the second half versus the first half and was just wondering if you could help us understand the drivers of that step down. How much of it reflects just normal seasonality versus potentially lower assumptions for electricity prices or other factors?

Adi Leviatan
Adi Leviatan
CEO at Enlight Renewable Energy

Thank you so much for the question. I'm actually going to ask Itay Banayan, the Chief Corporate Development Officer, to answer this one.

Itay Banayan
Itay Banayan
Chief Corporate Development Officer at Enlight Renewable Energy

Justin, good morning. As you remember, we have the trading activity in Israel. It is an activity that helps us expand the dollar profits on our assets. This activity is also characterized by a lower EBITDA margin. We see this activity growing in Israel, and it's part of the contribution to the growth in the revenues but also creates somewhat of a lower overall margin. Is this what we asked?

Justin Clare
Justin Clare
Analyst at Roth Capital Partners

Yeah. I'm trying to understand the difference between, it looks like H2 might be a little bit lower than what was delivered in H1.

Itay Banayan
Itay Banayan
Chief Corporate Development Officer at Enlight Renewable Energy

Okay. It is relevant because, as you may see, we increased the guidance for the year for the revenues more than the EBITDA, and this is part of the reason. The second part might be from the second portion of the sale of the Sunlight Cluster. If you remember, in the first quarter, we sold another 11% of the cluster, and we told the market that during the second quarter, we sold another 15% of the Sunlight cluster. Given the fact that we accounted in the EBITDA only for the proportional share of the percentage that was sold, it also contributed to the EBITDA and also the revenues to the EBITDA in the first half of the year. There are no expectations for additional sell-downs in the second half of the year.

Justin Clare
Justin Clare
Analyst at Roth Capital Partners

Got it. Okay. No, that's very helpful. Also, wanted to touch on the 2020 outlook here. The revenue and income ARR for the end of the year 2028 did improve, or you increased the target by about $100 million here. Though the operating capacity target looked like it moved slightly lower to 12 factored gigawatts from 12 to 13 previously. Just wanted to understand why the factored gigawatt target moved modestly lower, but then also you're able to generate more revenue from that lower capacity figure.

Adi Leviatan
Adi Leviatan
CEO at Enlight Renewable Energy

Yes, of course. During the quarter, we acquired a number of storage projects in Finland and in Romania, totaling 1.5 GWh, or about that. These adds are at RTB. Some of them are under construction already. We started construction on them after acquiring them earlier in the quarter, and they are adding to our revenues. They're adding to our revenues in their first year of operation, $110 million in revenues in their first year of operation. On the capacity side, these are storage projects that we factor in at a rate of 3.5 when we take the GWh, the MWh, and translate it into GW or MW. What you see, though, is that that 12 that you're talking about, that you see in the 2028 capacity that has already been connected, it used to be, as you said, higher.

Adi Leviatan
Adi Leviatan
CEO at Enlight Renewable Energy

Those projects did not disappear. Some of them were pushed into 2029. Again, they're still there. They're going to be connecting later. Nevertheless, we can make the same revenues with lesser GW in 2028.

Justin Clare
Justin Clare
Analyst at Roth Capital Partners

Got it. Okay. That makes a lot of sense. That's helpful. One more. I just wanted to ask, you signed your first U.S. PPA with a hyperscaler here, congratulations. Wondering if you anticipate an increasing mix of your projects being signed with hyperscalers, how we should think about that. Just more broadly, if you could characterize the trends in demand you're seeing for power at this point and the pace of contracting. Are customers continuing to accelerate here, or are you seeing any slowdown from what you've seen in the recent past?

Adi Leviatan
Adi Leviatan
CEO at Enlight Renewable Energy

Sure. Definitely we're expecting to have more PPA contracts in the U.S. and elsewhere that are signed with hyperscalers. That represents both a shift in the demand for electricity in the market. It also represents our expansion out of WECC to being a national developer and IPP, where in these markets on SPP, like the Southwest Power Pool, where Oklahoma Solstice project is, then in PJM, where we have additional projects that will be connected potentially to data centers in the future. There are these kinds of opportunities, whereas in WECC, which is the original stomping grounds of Clēnera, the markets are very much electricity being sold in long-term busbar PPAs to utilities. It represents the fact that we're now active in additional markets, we're growing our presence significantly in these markets where the market for electricity is indeed different.

Adi Leviatan
Adi Leviatan
CEO at Enlight Renewable Energy

What we're seeing is we're only seeing acceleration of the demand for electricity. Again, we're seeing different kinds of customers. Whereas in the past, because we were, again, more in WECC, it would be the only choice or the obvious choice to be signing these PPAs with utilities. Now that we're in the east and the center of the country in SPP, there are many more kinds of customers. Sometimes we will be selling it to the likes of Google. Other times, we will not be selling it to the likes of Google because we will be developing ourselves the data centers that are being supplied with this electricity. You will see us not signing unnecessarily PPAs with external parties at all.

Adi Leviatan
Adi Leviatan
CEO at Enlight Renewable Energy

We will be using that power ourselves, realizing that we're sitting on a very valuable asset in the fact that we're generating electricity, and this electricity can be used for accreditation for large loads for data centers, and we want to utilize that ourselves.

Justin Clare
Justin Clare
Analyst at Roth Capital Partners

Okay, interesting. All right, great. Thanks for the color. I'll pass it on.

Adi Leviatan
Adi Leviatan
CEO at Enlight Renewable Energy

Okay.

Operator

Thank you.

Operator

Thank you. Your next question comes from the line of Christopher Souther from Truist. Please go ahead.

Christopher Souther
Christopher Souther
Analyst at Truist

Hey, thanks for taking my question. Congrats on the continued execution here. Can you talk about the two new European projects in Finland and Romania? I guess the returns here are a fair bit higher than the portfolio average. Is that anticipated exit returns or are there contracted portions as well? Maybe just talk a little bit about how those pipelines Were these opportunistic ways to get a foothold for future greenfield development or are there potential programmatic relationships in some of these newer markets?

Adi Leviatan
Adi Leviatan
CEO at Enlight Renewable Energy

Thank you for the question. We're very happy Truist initiating coverage, so we appreciate that very much. In Finland and in Romania, we entered indeed by acquiring projects that are near RTB or at RTB, hence, as you remarked, not greenfield. In order to get into the market as quickly as possible with this storage capacity, realizing the demand for storage is very high immediately, and we do want to be there quickly connecting our batteries to provide this very high demand for time-shifting services. Meaning, like the arbitrage and the day ahead and intraday markets, as well as ancillary services. Enjoying the entire revenue stack. For each project, we do look at what is the best way for us to maximize the returns while still creating some baseload of contracted revenues that will enable us also to provide a financing with a high level of leverage.

Adi Leviatan
Adi Leviatan
CEO at Enlight Renewable Energy

We balance those two. Generally speaking, when we look at these curves, the price curves in these markets, we see that there is significant opportunities both in ancillary services and in trading and arbitrage, and that there is still some opportunities to hedge and create some contracted revenues in a way that does not compromise our returns. Like with floor contracts where we still are able to enjoy upsides. We take great care and we see ourselves as excellent in managing the entire revenue stack to enable the highest returns while not compromising on our ability to finance these projects with significant leverage.

Christopher Souther
Christopher Souther
Analyst at Truist

Got it. Okay. Then just expanding into those, are there greenfield opportunities behind this or other M&A that you would follow with?

Adi Leviatan
Adi Leviatan
CEO at Enlight Renewable Energy

We are already looking at additional projects in Finland and in Romania. When it is these batteries, we try to get to the market as soon as possible because the highest returns are right now. We are working also on some projects that are generation and not storage, and those are also greenfield.

Christopher Souther
Christopher Souther
Analyst at Truist

Got it. Okay. Then maybe just last one from me. On the incremental safe harbor ahead of the July 4th deadline, how did you guys approach some of the earlier stage development pipeline, safe harbor decisions, and the risk reward around projects with CODs that are approaching 2030? Just from a holistic perspective, how did you guys approach that?

Adi Leviatan
Adi Leviatan
CEO at Enlight Renewable Energy

Right. As you can see in the table, for the projects that are in advanced development, we brought 91% of the gigawatts of those projects to safe harbor.

Itay Banayan
Itay Banayan
Chief Corporate Development Officer at Enlight Renewable Energy

There's one project that was not safe harbored.

Adi Leviatan
Adi Leviatan
CEO at Enlight Renewable Energy

There's one project that was not safe harbored. When we're looking at the early development or what's called development, we safe harbored 38%. We were careful in choosing what projects to safe harbor, that where we're able to have continuous construction and COD before 2030, in order not to make investments into safe harboring where we do not think that the projects in terms of its timeline, when it's going to be getting its interconnection, and when we're able to complete the offtake and complete the construction, it would not make it on time. We did one project at a time with all these considerations. You'll note that we added a fair bit of gigawatts just in these last few months.

Adi Leviatan
Adi Leviatan
CEO at Enlight Renewable Energy

In the last quarter, we gave a range of 13 to 17, and finally we decided about a few more projects that would cross that finish line, and we got to 17.9. That's because we had choice about which projects to make cross the line, and we want to make sure that we're making a decision that takes into account that likelihood of reaching COD by 2030.

Christopher Souther
Christopher Souther
Analyst at Truist

Got it. Okay. No, that's super helpful. Thanks so much.

Adi Leviatan
Adi Leviatan
CEO at Enlight Renewable Energy

Thank you.

Operator

Thank you. Our next question today comes from the line of Corinne Blanchard from Deutsche Bank. Please go ahead.

Corinne Blanchard
Corinne Blanchard
Analyst at Deutsche Bank

Hey, good morning. Thank you for taking my question. Maybe two questions. First one, can you talk about expectations for assets sold down for the rest of the year and maybe going into 2027? The second question, if you can talk a little bit more about merchant pricing, especially in Europe and the kind of free term that you're targeting there, and if anything has changed in the last couple of months, especially with some of the geopolitical events. Thank you.

Adi Leviatan
Adi Leviatan
CEO at Enlight Renewable Energy

I'll ask Itay, the Chief Corporate Development Officer, to take the question about the sell downs.

Itay Banayan
Itay Banayan
Chief Corporate Development Officer at Enlight Renewable Energy

Sure. Corinne, hey, good morning or good afternoon. In our guidance for the remainder of the year, there are no expectations for additional sell downs this year. We had some initial assumptions in the beginning of the year expecting the sunlight cluster to default, moving up from 44% to 70%. It was part of the initial terms of the initial disposition last year. For the remainder of this year, we do not expect additional sell downs. There is nothing in the guidance or in our numbers that it takes into consideration additional sell downs.

Adi Leviatan
Adi Leviatan
CEO at Enlight Renewable Energy

Corinne, could you possibly repeat the second part of your question?

Corinne Blanchard
Corinne Blanchard
Analyst at Deutsche Bank

Yeah. No, I was asking just about maybe a broader view on the European market. I know you commented already on the storage side, but I was just more asking about merchant price in Europe and the kind of return you expect there and if anything has changed, maybe your approach to the European market or the dynamic in the European market, especially in the last couple of months, with a lot of moving pieces geopolitically.

Adi Leviatan
Adi Leviatan
CEO at Enlight Renewable Energy

Well, I think anyone in Europe has noticed the heat wave. I think that the need for energy and for renewable energy in particular is at an all-time high. I'm sure you know that composition of electricity generation in Europe is already over 50% renewable if we just take an average of the whole continent, and some countries are well above that. Our strategy is to focus on the largest and fastest-growing renewable markets in Europe. That's why you see us, just in the last couple of quarters, moving into Germany, Finland, Romania, extending our presence in Poland significantly, hybridizing our existing assets in Spain, in Hungary, in Sweden. Our strategy is to go where the renewable energy is increasing its penetration.

Adi Leviatan
Adi Leviatan
CEO at Enlight Renewable Energy

Increasing its penetration, creating this mismatch between the hours of production of electricity from renewable sources to the hours of demand by consumers. In that area where there's negative prices, that's the area where batteries are most required. They're required to do this time shifting between the hours, again, of production and consumption. They also serve in ancillary services for various network services. Our strategy is to come into these markets as soon as possible with battery capacity. That is the most lucrative play at the moment. At the same time, we do have a strategy to also maintain our technology mix, and maintain also generation opportunities. We will be pursuing these generation opportunities, in markets as well that are accelerating the move from fossil fuels into renewable energy.

Corinne Blanchard
Corinne Blanchard
Analyst at Deutsche Bank

Thank you. If I may squeeze one more question, please. Can you talk about balance sheet and what's your view or expectation in terms of, do you need further capital to support some of that growth that you have highlighted? Just overall view on balance sheet and where you stand and what you might need in the next quarter. Thank you.

Itay Banayan
Itay Banayan
Chief Corporate Development Officer at Enlight Renewable Energy

Sure, Corinne. As you remember, we're managing the balance sheet and it is important for us, as we grow, to focus on profitability, on free cash flows, return on equity, and also maintain the strong balance sheet and the credit ratings that we already have. We measure the balance with the leverage as an index to Net Cap. On page 19 in the presentation, we're showing the progress, the development progress, and the financing progress for the remainder of the mature portfolios. The mature portfolio comprises of 3.9 FGW operating, and the remainder, 8.4 FGW of under construction and pre-construction require about $8.9 billion of CapEx. In the bottom two batteries, you can see that almost 70% of the project's financing needed for those projects was already secured.

Itay Banayan
Itay Banayan
Chief Corporate Development Officer at Enlight Renewable Energy

We have 2.7 FGW to start construction this year. The remainder next year. About 50% of the equity that was needed to invest to date for these projects was already invested. This equity is coming from the corporate level, and the remainder, $700 million needed will be invested in the next year or so. We have about $1.2 billion of liquidity on the balance sheet to date. We have more than enough internal sources of capital to support the growth of the mature portfolio, which takes us all the way to 2028 and more, and then some. It is important to remind you that we are reaching a pace of about $100 million of operating cash flow a quarter.

Itay Banayan
Itay Banayan
Chief Corporate Development Officer at Enlight Renewable Energy

The first six months of the year, we generated about $185, and there is also some working capital in it, where we believe that we're on track of about $100 million of operating cash flow a quarter, and these cash flows will also help the future growth of the company.

Corinne Blanchard
Corinne Blanchard
Analyst at Deutsche Bank

All right. Thank you so much.

Operator

Thank you.

Corinne Blanchard
Corinne Blanchard
Analyst at Deutsche Bank

I'm sorry.

Operator

Thank you. As a reminder, if you would like to ask a question, please press star one and one on your telephone. That is star one and one if you would like to ask a question. We will now go to the next question. The next question today comes from the line of George Chieffi from Mizuho. Please go ahead.

George Chieffi
George Chieffi
Analyst at Mizuho

Hi, guys. Thank you for taking my question. Congrats on a great quarter.

Itay Banayan
Itay Banayan
Chief Corporate Development Officer at Enlight Renewable Energy

Thank you.

George Chieffi
George Chieffi
Analyst at Mizuho

I'm going to start with; how many solar modules and inverters have you guys procured for your projects in your mature portfolio and also in your advanced phase? What flexibility do you have to pass any higher prices on those parts, due to tariffs or import bans to customers through your PPAs?

Itay Banayan
Itay Banayan
Chief Corporate Development Officer at Enlight Renewable Energy

George, hey. Good morning. We never disclose how many, so, let's say, it's hard to talk in numbers. I wonder if you are asking about expected 232. Is that kind of like the behind-the-scenes of the question?

George Chieffi
George Chieffi
Analyst at Mizuho

Yeah. Also, kind of related to the new import ban that they were talking about in inverters last week.

Itay Banayan
Itay Banayan
Chief Corporate Development Officer at Enlight Renewable Energy

Yeah. Yeah. Okay.

George Chieffi
George Chieffi
Analyst at Mizuho

If you have any higher pricing expectations, if you can pass those on or not.

Itay Banayan
Itay Banayan
Chief Corporate Development Officer at Enlight Renewable Energy

We're focusing on the U.S. for the question. I can say that a significant portion of the models needed for the project under construction in the U.S. is already on U.S. soil. Nobody knows what the final word in Section 232 will be. At the moment, we don't expect any implications on our projects in the U.S. in the near term. Regarding the inverters, the new language talks about the new models of inverters. We're talking down the road in the future, doesn't have any impact on the near term of the project in the U.S. With regards to upcoming regulations, we see very little impact, if any, on the projects currently in the mature portfolio in the U.S.

Adi Leviatan
Adi Leviatan
CEO at Enlight Renewable Energy

I will just add to that we have a diversified pool of suppliers. We don't only develop and construct and operate projects in the U.S. We do so also in 12 countries in Europe and in Israel. For these purposes, we have a very diversified pool of suppliers that enables us also when in the past, there were tariffs and restrictions on suppliers from specific countries. For example, China, we were able to pivot to supply from other countries, and we have that experience and the ability to shift between in order to make sure that we're still very competitive and are able to procure the production slots and get the equipment in on time.

Itay Banayan
Itay Banayan
Chief Corporate Development Officer at Enlight Renewable Energy

One last. You asked about the pricing. In many of the PPAs and the supplier agreements we signed in the U.S., we injected mechanisms that in case new regulation will come and will create an increase in the CapEx, we will not be the only one absorbing it. There are mechanisms in place to adjust the PPA and also that some of the pain will be absorbed by the suppliers in a way that we will be able to-

Adi Leviatan
Adi Leviatan
CEO at Enlight Renewable Energy

By the electricity offtakers.

Itay Banayan
Itay Banayan
Chief Corporate Development Officer at Enlight Renewable Energy

Yeah. Exactly. The PPAs are electricity offtakers that we will be able to maintain somewhat similar ballparks of returns as we were expecting initially without going and renegotiating and breaking those PPAs.

Operator

Thank you. We will now go to the next question. The next question today comes from the line of David Paz from Wolfe. Please go ahead.

David Paz
David Paz
Analyst at Wolfe

Good morning. Just on your annual run rates for the revenue income, where within your, the conversion range of 70% to 80% do you expect to be through 2029? I'm particularly asking given the 2028 run rate has a lot of the large projects which just from your disclosures imply about 80% EBITDA margins in the first year. Maybe just holistically or if you just portfolio-wise, what is the right number within the 70% to 80% for those years? Thank you.

Adi Leviatan
Adi Leviatan
CEO at Enlight Renewable Energy

Thank you for the question. I'm going to ask our CFO, Nir Yehuda, to respond.

Nir Yehuda
Nir Yehuda
CFO at Enlight Renewable Energy

Okay. Just to be sure that we understood correctly your question, you're asking about the gradually increasing of the EBITDA rate?

Adi Leviatan
Adi Leviatan
CEO at Enlight Renewable Energy

Maintaining 70% to 80%.

David Paz
David Paz
Analyst at Wolfe

Yes. Where within that 70% to 80% range would you point us to?

Nir Yehuda
Nir Yehuda
CFO at Enlight Renewable Energy

Yeah.

David Paz
David Paz
Analyst at Wolfe

In your through 29?

Nir Yehuda
Nir Yehuda
CFO at Enlight Renewable Energy

First of all, you can see it in the segment notes exactly, who is driving the EBITDA rates of the corporate as a whole. Naturally, the U.S. activity is being impacted, we would say, heavily by the tax benefit in terms of the EBITDA rate. As you can see in the other segments, we maintain the same ratio between the 70% to 80%, of course, impacted by any sell-down activity that we may operate from time to time.

Adi Leviatan
Adi Leviatan
CEO at Enlight Renewable Energy

Basically, I mean, the U.S. is an increasing share of I mean, an increasing segment of our total revenues, and the EBITDA in the U.S. is on the higher side.

Nir Yehuda
Nir Yehuda
CFO at Enlight Renewable Energy

Yeah.

Adi Leviatan
Adi Leviatan
CEO at Enlight Renewable Energy

In that 70% to 80% because of the tax benefit. As that segment grows as part of the total, we veer towards the higher ranges of the EBITDA as a company.

David Paz
David Paz
Analyst at Wolfe

Okay. Great. Thank you.

Operator

Thank you. There are currently no further questions. I will hand the call back for closing remarks.

Adi Leviatan
Adi Leviatan
CEO at Enlight Renewable Energy

Thank you, Sharon. Thank you so much for joining us this quarter. We highly appreciate the collaboration and the partnership with you, and we look forward to seeing you again next quarter.

Operator

Thank you. This concludes today's conference call. Thank you for participating. You may now disconnect.

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    • Limor Zohar Megen
      Limor Zohar Megen
      Director of Investor Relations
    • Adi Leviatan
      Adi Leviatan
      CEO
    • Nir Yehuda
      Nir Yehuda
      CFO
    • Itay Banayan
      Itay Banayan
      Chief Corporate Development Officer
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