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ATOME Energy PLC
27 May 2022
27 May 2022
ATOME ENERGY PLC
("ATOME", "the Company", or "the Group")
Audited Results for the period ended 31 December 2021
ATOME (AIM: ATOM), the independent international company formed
for the purpose of producing, marketing and distributing green
hydrogen and ammonia is pleased to announce its audited results for
the period ended 31 December 2021.
The financial statements presented are the inaugural group
results for the ATOME Energy Group following its joining the London
Stock market on 30 December 2021. The Company was formed under the
umbrella of President Energy PLC and as part of the IPO process was
spun out from President to be an independent company having been
incorporated as a public company in October 2021.
The Company's Annual Report will be posted to shareholders in
early June together with the Notice for the Annual General
Meeting.
Highlights FY2021
Financial
-- Whilst ATOME only joined the London Stock Market on 30 December 2021 i.e. two calendar days before the year end,
the financial results are for the Group from the beginning of January 2021 as if the Group had been operating
throughout this period
-- The loss for the period of US$2.2 million includes US$0.7 million of listing related expenses and US$1.2 million
of expenditure under agreements with founding shareholders, the majority of which was incurred prior to the spin
out from President Energy PLC
-- As detailed in the Admission Document, the support of founding shareholders created, incubated, financed and
progressed the business to the point of the IPO and included the acquisition of operating entities in both
Iceland and Paraguay
-- The Group raised gross proceeds of US$7.8 million (US$7.0 million net) from the issue of new shares on admission
to AIM
Annual General Meeting
The Company intends to hold the Annual General Meeting to
approve the audited financial statements at 11.00am on 29 June 2022
at the Army & Navy Club, 36-39 Pall Mall, London, SW1Y 5JN. The
Notice will be sent with the full Annual Report in early June.
Peter Levine, Chairman, commented in the Chairman's
Statement:
"This is the first published Annual Report and Accounts for
ATOME. It was only on 30 December 2021 that ATOME became the first
green hydrogen and ammonia production company to join the London
Stock Exchange and today ATOME remains the only company in such
field on the market.
The Company was formed under the umbrella of President Energy
PLC and as part of the IPO process was spun out from President to
be an independent company having been incorporated as a public
company in October 2021. The results for the year end 2021 are
therefore somewhat of an anomaly especially as a full Admission
Document on Admission to AIM (available on our website) was
published in late December 2021, only shortly before the year end
under report.
Since Admission at the end of 2021, the Company has made
material and expeditious progress and has expanded its business and
footprint above and beyond originally planned. This progress is
reflected in the statement of Olivier Mussat, our Chief Executive,
contained later in the Annual Report. In the short period since the
IPO, whilst not losing focus on our core projects, we have signed a
world-class scale power purchase agreement for 60 MW in Paraguay as
well as creating our Mobility Division and ordered our first
electrolyser. All this means in 2023 we expect to be generating our
first revenues ahead of expectation at the time of the IPO and are
advancing our production plans generally.
With these projects, as well as our original core Paraguay and
Iceland projects as referred to in the Admission Document, both of
which are progressing as planned, we have within those few short
months, placed ourselves at the forefront in our field both in
scale and with proven ability to move fast and exploit
opportunities as they arise. We are building projects which will
produce globally traded green commodities whilst increasing food
and energy security locally. We have every confidence that ATOME
will go from strength to strength and in the years to come can
become one of the world leaders in production of green hydrogen and
ammonia delivering capital appreciation to our shareholders and
sustainable development."
Olivier Muscat, Chief Executive Officer, commented:
"Since its foundation and subsequent emergence as an independent
AIM listed business ATOME has made significant operational progress
and is already establishing itself as a leading international
player in the field of green hydrogen and ammonia.
We came to the market through our IPO in December 2021 having
become a public company two months earlier. At the time of
Admission to AIM we had our two core projects in Paraguay and
Iceland, both substantive in nature and providing significant
opportunity for fundamental increase in shareholder value extending
into the future. Hindsight, together with subsequent events, has
fortuitously shown ATOME to be the right company at the right time
for the green energy market.
I am pleased to report that since that time, ATOME through its
new mobility division and Villeta PPA has also exceeded the
original expectations at the time of the IPO both in scale and
timing of our business.
In February of this year, we created our new mobility division
set to revolutionise green energy for transport in Paraguay.
Hydrogen is the worldwide future for heavy road transport e.g.
buses and trucks. With ATOME's first order for an electrolyser made
in March, and our owner's engineer appointed, ATOME expects to sell
and deliver its first hydrogen for transport use in Paraguay before
the end of H1 next year with already extensive end-market interest
in our mobility project together with government support.
At the start of this month, being able to quickly exploit a new
opportunity, ATOME entered into a 60MW power purchase agreement
("PPA") for delivery of significant green power for hydrogen and
ammonia production in Villeta in Paraguay. The scale and fast track
speed of this project places ATOME at the forefront in our field
and has generated significant industry and market interest. The
green power is available now, close to our end market with
infrastructure in place which enables us to move expeditiously
towards developing this project and revenue creation.
The Villeta PPA is in addition to the core 250-300 MW project in
Paraguay, which we announced at the time of Admission, which is
also in the process of planning, and we are already hard at work to
bring the Villeta project on-stream within the next three years,
thereby having world-scale projects of in excess of 300 MW coming
on-line mid-decade from Paraguay alone. Our Iceland project is also
progressing in tandem with our work in Paraguay and is also now
planned to come on-line mid-decade.
We believe ATOME is ideally placed to help decarbonise energy,
transport and agriculture. Our projects will contribute
significantly to fulfilling the UN's Sustainable Development Goals,
particularly SDG 7, 9, 11, 12 and 13. The increase in hydrocarbon
and fertiliser prices, together with the international emphasis on
environmentally necessary green commodities, has provided a very
fertile end market for ATOME's planned production and we have ever
increasing confidence backed by industry interest in us that there
will be robust demand for our production which will support strong
economics for our business, with profitability and sustainability
going hand in hand.
We look forward to delivering further material progress during
2022 as we move forward with bringing our projects on-line and
intend to proceed to develop a pipeline of new international
projects in other jurisdictions as time goes on."
For more information, please visit https://www.atomeplc.com or
contact:
ATOME ENERGY PLC +44 (0) 113 337 2210
Nikita Levine, Investor Relations info@atomeplc.com
Beaumont Cornish (Nominated Adviser) +44 (0) 20 7628 3396
Roland Cornish, Michael Cornish
SP Angel (Joint Broker) +44 (0) 20 3490 0470
Richard Hail, Caroline Rowe
finnCap (Joint Broker) +44 (0) 20 7220 0500
Christopher Raggett, Tim Harper
Tavistock (Financial PR and IR) +44 (0) 20 7920 3150
Simon Hudson, Rebecca Hislaire, atome@tavistock.co.uk
Charles Baister
The information communicated within this announcement is deemed
to constitute inside information as stipulated under the Market
Abuse Regulations ( EU) No 596/2014 which is part of UK law by
virtue of the European Union ( Withdrawal) Act 2018. Upon
publication of this announcement, this inside information is now
considered to be in the public domain. The person who arranged for
the release of this announcement on behalf of the Company was Peter
Levine, Chairman.
Notes to Editors
ATOME
ATOME Energy PLC is an AIM listed company targeting green
hydrogen and ammonia production with over 400-megawatt of projects
in Paraguay and Iceland, through its subsidiaries ATOME Paraguay,
which is wholly owned, and Green Fuel ehf, in which ATOME Energy
holds a 75 per cent interest, respectively.
Since coming to the Stock Market in December 2021 ATOME has
already signed its first electrolyser purchase order for its
hydrogen transport mobility division due to start generating
revenue in 2023 and importantly signed a large scale 60MW power
purchase agreement with ANDE, the state energy company in Paraguay
for production of green hydrogen and ammonia targeted to start
operations at or around end 2024.
ATOME is in the process of operational planning, sourcing and
negotiations with green electricity suppliers, equipment providers
and offtake partners, including signed memoranda of understanding
and cooperation agreements in place with key parties, to use
electricity generated from existing geothermal sources in Iceland
and hydroelectric power in Paraguay. All chosen sites are located
close to the power and water sources and export facilities to serve
significant domestic and then international demand.
The Company has a green-focused Board which is supported by
major shareholders including Peter Levine, Trafigura, one of the
world's leading commodity and logistics company, and Schroders, a
leading fund manager.
Detailed financial review
The financial statements presented are the inaugural group
results for the ATOME Energy Group following its emergence in 2021
as an independent AIM listed business focused on producing,
marketing and distributing green hydrogen and ammonia.
Whilst ATOME Energy PLC was only formed in October 2021, to
bring the green energy business established by President Energy PLC
to the market as an independent entity, the financial results have
been prepared adopting merger accounting for the Group from 1st
January 2021 as if it had been operating throughout this period.
This follows established practice and is consistent with the
Admission Document in December 2021.
The results therefore reflect a full year including the period
when under control of President Energy PLC and show a loss US$2.2
million. In line with the Admission Document, this includes listing
expenses of US$0.7 million of listing related expenses and US$1.2
million of expenditure under agreements with founding shareholders
including President Energy. Without the founding shareholders'
support during the incubation period, ATOME could not have achieved
the significant progress before and after the IPO as reported in
the Chief Executive Officer's statement and subsequent events
outlined in the Directors' Report.
The Group has assumed liabilities in the form of GBP sterling
loans from President Energy and FIIP for the funding support
provided. These obligations are presented as borrowings under
current liabilities and have been fully settled in 2022 from the
funds raised at the end of the year. On 30th December 2021, the
Group raised proceeds of US$7.8 million gross (US$7.0 million net)
from the issue of new shares on flotation and admission to AIM.
With the late timing of the event, US$1.8 million was received in
the year with US$6.1 million presented as a receivable in current
assets for settlement in due course. Trade and other payables of
US$1.2 million include US$0.9 million of
amounts due in settlement of the costs of the share issue.
Additional financial support is available to the Group in the form
of a Standby Equity Facility Agreement. Under this agreement, PLLG
Investments Limited and Peter Levine, Chairman have agreed to
subscribe for shares at the placing price at the option of the
Company for 18 months from the AIM admission in December 2021. This
makes an additional GBP3.0 million facility available to the
Group.
In consolidating the results of the Group, we have elected to
present them in US Dollars as all the Group's budgeting, cost
management and future trading are in US Dollars. On translation
from the functional currency of the entities all translation
differences are taken to the Foreign Currency Translation Reserve
on the statement of financial position.
Consolidated Statement of Comprehensive Income
Period ended 31 December 2021
2021
Note US$000
Continuing Operations
Administrative expenses 2 (2,267)
Investment grant 24
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Operating profit /(loss) before impairment and non-operating
gains/(losses) (2,243)
Profit / (loss) after impairment and non-operating
gains/(losses) (2,243)
Finance income -
Finance costs -
---------
Profit / (loss) before tax (2,243)
Total income tax (charge)/credit -
Profit / (loss) for the year from continuing
operations (2,243)
=========
Profit / (loss) for the year from continuing
operations
Attributable to equity holders (2,243)
Non-controlling interest -
(2,243)
=========
Other comprehensive income, net of tax
Items that may be reclassified subsequently
to profit or loss
Exchange differences on translation of foreign
operations 56
Total comprehensive profit /(loss) for the
year attributable
---------
to the equity holders of the parent (2,187)
=========
Earnings / (loss) per share US cents
Basic profit/(loss) per share from continuing
operations 3 (8.96)
=========
Diluted profit(loss) per share from continuing
operations (8.96)
=========
Consolidated Statement of Financial Position
31 December 2021
2021
ASSETS Note US$000
Non-current assets
Goodwill 6
Property, plant and equipment 45
51
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Current assets
Trade and other receivables 6,355
Cash and cash equivalents 1,865
8,220
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TOTAL ASSETS 8,271
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LIABILITIES
Current liabilities
Trade and other payables 1,198
Short term facility 1,415
2,613
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Non-current liabilities
Trade and other payables 22
22
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TOTAL LIABILITIES 2,635
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EQUITY
Share capital 87
Share premium 7,653
Retained earnings (2,243)
Translation reserve 56
Share option reserve 83
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Total 5,636
Non-controlling interest -
TOTAL EQUITY 5,636
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TOTAL EQUITY AND LIABILITIES 8,271
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Consolidated Statement of Changes in Equity
Period ended 31 December 2021
Share Non-
capital
& Retained Other Total controlling
premium earnings Reserves Interest Total
US$000 US$000 US$000 US$000 US$000 US$000
Balance at 6 January
2021 - - - - - -
Share-based payments - - 83 83 - 83
Shares issued on
reorganisation 67 67 67
Offer of shares to
public 8,071 - - 8,071 - 8,071
Costs of issue new
shares (398) - - (398) - (398)
-
Transactions with
the owners 7,740 - 83 7,823 - 7,823
-------- --------- --------- -------- ------------ --------
Profit/(loss) for
the period - (2,243) - (2,243) (2,243)
Translation reserve - - 56 56 56
Total comprehensive
income for
the period - (2,243) 56 (2,187) - (2,187)
-------- --------- --------- -------- ------------ --------
Balance at 31 December
2021 7,740 (2,243) 139 5,636 - 5,636
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Consolidated Statement of Cash Flows
Period ended 31 December 2021
2021
US$000
Cash flows from operating activities
Cash generated by operating activities
(Note 4) 24
24
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Cash flows from investing activities
Acquisition Paraguay (3)
Acquisition Iceland (3)
(6)
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Cash flows from financing activities
Proceeds from issue of shares (net of
expenses) 1,849
Repayment of obligations under leases (2)
1,847
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Net increase in cash and cash equivalents 1,865
Opening cash and cash equivalents at beginning
of period -
Exchange gains/(losses) on cash and cash
equivalents -
Closing cash and cash equivalents 1,865
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Notes
1. Accounting policies and preparation
The financial information set out in this announcement does not
constitute the Company's statutory accounts for the year ended 31
December 2021 but is derived from the 2021 accounts.
Statutory accounts for 2021 will be delivered in due course. The
auditors have reported on those accounts; their report was (i)
unqualified, (ii) did not include a reference to any matters to
which the auditors drew attention by way of emphasis without
qualifying their report and (iii) did not contain a statement under
section 498 (2) or (3) of the Companies Act 2006 in respect of the
accounts for 2021.
Whilst the financial statements from which this preliminary
announcement has been derived have been prepared in accordance with
International Financial Reporting Standards ("IFRS") and applicable
law, this announcement does not itself contain sufficient
information to comply with IFRS. The Annual Report, containing full
financial statements that comply with IFRS, will be sent out to
shareholders later in early June 2022.
The Directors have a reasonable expectation that the Company has
adequate resources to continue in operational existence for the
foreseeable future. Therefore, in the preparation of the 2021
financial statements they continue to adopt the going concern
basis.
2. Administrative expenses
2021
US$000
Directors and staff costs (including
non-executive Directors) 167
Expenditure by ATOME Limited under President
Energy 1,249
Cost of issue for existing shares 679
Share-based payments 83
Depreciation 2
Other 87
2,267
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2021
Expenditure by ATOME Limited under President
Energy US$000
Director fees 737
Legal fees 55
Consultancy 248
Finance and other administration 209
1,249
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Directors and staff cost as reported above are the direct cost
incurred by the new parent entity ATOME Energy PLC following the
transfer of the ATOME trade established in President Energy PLC.
The expenditure incurred by ATOME Limited under service agreements
with President Energy amounts to US$1.2 million and are
consolidated in full under the merger of businesses under common
control. These costs were incurred prior to the flotation of ATOME
Energy on AIM and were disclosed in the Admission Document. The
costs of listing for existing shares are expensed separately from
the cost of issue for new shares which are included in share
premium in line with accounting guidelines.
3 Earnings / (Loss) per share 2021
US$000
Net profit / (loss) for the period attributable
to
the equity holders of the Parent Company (2,243)
=========
Number
'000
Weighted average number of shares in issue 25,021
=========
US cents
Earnings /(loss) per share
Basic earnings / (loss) per share from
continuing operations (8.96)
=========
Diluted earnings / (loss) per share from
continuing operations (8.96)
=========
In order to reflect the merger, shares issued by ATOME Energy as
part of the reorganisation have been included from the start of the
period.
At 31 December 2021, 2,091,500 share option and share warrant
awards were in issue that, if exercised, would dilute earnings per
share in the future. No dilution per share was calculated for 2021
as with the reported loss they are anti-dilutive.
4 Notes to the consolidated statement cash flows
2021
US$000
Profit / (loss) from operations before
taxation (2,243)
Depreciation of property, plant and equipment 2
Share-based payments 83
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Operating cash flows before movements
in working capital (2,158)
Decrease / (increase) in receivables (199)
Increase / (decrease) in short term facility 1,415
Increase / (decrease) in payables 966
Net cash generated by operating activities 24
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5 Segment reporting
Iceland Paraguay UK Total
2021 2021 2021 2021
US$000 US$000 US$000 US$000
Administrative expenses 20 8 2,239 2,267
Investment grant (24) - - (24)
Segment costs (4) 8 2,239 2,243
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Segment operating profit/(loss) 4 (8) (2,239) (2,243)
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Segment assets Iceland Paraguay UK Total
2021 2021 2021 2021
US$000 US$000 US$000 US$000
Goodwill 3 3 - 6
Property, plant and equipment - 45 - 45
-------- --------- ------- -------
3 48 - 51
Other assets 3 3 6,349 6,355
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6 51 6,349 6,406
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Segment assets can be reconciled to the Group as follows:
2021
US$000
Segment assets 6,406
Group cash 1,865
Group assets 8,271
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Segment liabilities Iceland Paraguay UK Total
2021 2021 2021 2021
US$000 US$000 US$000 US$000
Total liabilities 5 52 2,578 2,635
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