RE: Seriously, someone have a word with him27 Sep 2024 10:25
Interim results are out, so let's take a look
EnergyPathways raised circa £2,000,000 (before costs) on 23 December 2023
6 months later cash at period end of £1,173,492
So the have spend around £900,000 in 6 months, or on average around £150,000 a month
It's been another 3 months since the end of June, so with the same average burn rate they have spent another £450,000, so £1,173,492 - £450,000 = £723,492 or on average 4.8 months left in the pot until empty. So by Christmas (3 months away) will they need to think about funding this again?
Ben Clube, EnergyPathways' CEO, commented:
" This provides confidence that we will obtain the necessary financing to turn this vision into a reality for the benefit of EnergyPathways' shareholders and the UK as a whole. We look forward to an eventful year ahead as we progress the key workstreams to reach FID towards the end of 2025."
EnergyPathways currently expects that Final Investment Decision (FID) for the MESH project will be late 2025, with first energy supply commencing in 2027.
Chairman's Statement
" a great deal of DESKTOP work has been undertaken through the period to progress the MESH Project from concept into reality....Based on our dialogue with the government, the NSTA (the regulator) and industry stakeholders with whom we are seeking to finalise a project consortium" - so project consortium not finalised?....
"As a result of the acceleration of the more ambitious MESH Project, FID is now expected to occur in late 2025, with first energy supply in 2027."
"As I write, I am still conscious, however, of the ongoing challenge arising from the newly elected Labour government in navigating the energy industry landscape that has also resulted in a backlog and higher level of scrutiny regarding licence applications." Is this going to take longer than expected?
"As our MESH Project workstreams accelerate, so too will our spending" so maybe they will be spending more than £150,000 a month going forward?
"and we are presently reviewing all the financing options available to us to ensure we are funded through to MESH FID in late 2025 and it is the expectation of management that the majority of funding required will be represented by debt finance."
Read between the lines folks, get the brokers note that highlights how funding is required to keep this going.