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| At GRE, full year revenue increased 35% to $410 million from $304 million, largely due to our successful efforts to expand GRE's customer base |
| 2022's exceptional retail margins and our investment in meter acquisition this year |
| We are extremely pleased with the performance of the company as we accomplished our 2023 goal of materially growing the size of our customer book while establishing a new baseline of financial performance |
| To wrap up, we delivered another year of strong operational and financial results while continuing to position ourselves to create incremental medium to long-term value with our solar pipeline |
| Our success in aggressively growing our customer base in the early part of the year, drove record levels of annual consumption, enabling record revenues |
| Genie's strong fourth quarter and full year 2023 financial results were highlighted by record revenue, solid adjusted EBITDA generation and significant further strengthening of our balance sheet, all while continuing to return value to our common stockholders through our quarterly dividend |
| With the strength of our balance sheet, we are well positioned to pursue the abundant growth opportunities in both our retail and renewables businesses and continue returning value to our stockholders |
| We expect that Diversegy in our other third-party services business can modestly enhance our growth and profitability in the years to come |
| Looking into 2024, we expect another strong year with solid customer growth across all of our businesses |
| At GRE, fourth quarter revenue increased by 28% to $98 million from $77 million a year ago, also a fourth quarter record |
| I'm happy that we achieved record revenue for the fourth quarter and full year 2023 while exceeding our adjusted EBITDA guidance with $57 million for the full year |
| Our higher expectations reflect our expanded customer base at GRE, our pivot to operating exclusively in domestic retail markets and our focus on continuously enhancing our analytical and operation capabilities |
| Our Diversegy business continues to grow at accelerated levels and provides recurring revenues |
| This organic targeted growth strategy should enable us to expand our meter base cost effectively, albeit likely at a lower growth rate than we saw in 2023 |
| At GREW, fourth quarter gross profit more than doubled to $1.1 million and $500,000 in 2022 |
| At GREW, full year 2023 revenue climbed 63%, $18.8 million from $11.6 million, again driven by expansion of our energy brokerage and community solar marketing businesses |
| The increases were driven by the powerful year-over-year growth in our meter base that Michael discussed as well as increased consumption per meter |
| Fourth quarter consolidated revenue jumped 29% to $105 million from $81 million a year earlier |
| This represents a significant increase from our pre-2022 normalized adjusted EBITDA range of $25 million to $30 million, even after allowing for our planned investment in GREW |
| GRE's gross profit hit 6% to $143 million, while GREW's gross profit climbed 58% to $2.8 million |
| Building off our strong performance in 2023, we're targeting $40 million to $50 million in company-wide consolidated adjusted EBITDA for 2024 |
| At our Renewables segment, fourth quarter revenue increased 48% to $6.5 million from $4.4 million driven by growth of our energy brokerage and community solar marketing ventures |
| This achievement was a result of the extraordinary efforts of our team and several strategic moves we made over the course of 2022 and 2023 that took advantage of the volatility in global energy markets |
| Full year 2023 consolidated revenue increased 36% to $429 million from $316 million in 2022 |
| The IRR in this transaction was especially attractive for an operating portfolio and we felt it moved our strategy forward |
| We are starting the year with a significantly larger retail energy customer base with higher average consumption than at the start of 2023 |
| However, we are focused on the identification and development of projects with robust return potential that we expect will provide growing recurring revenue streams to the company for many years to come |
| Additionally, we expect our upgraded project development team to continue to expand our pipeline and move existing projects ahead expeditiously |
| At GRE, we ended the year with 361,000 customers and 350,000 RCEs, representing increases of 31% and 34%, respectively, over the prior year-end |
| However, we recently invested in our team and capabilities here, and believe this will help us to build a larger solar pipeline and bring more projects to completion |
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| For the fourth quarter, GRE's gross profit decreased 5% to $32.5 million while GRE's gross profit margin decreased to 33% from 44.4% |
| Full year 2023 consolidated gross profit was $146 million, a 6% decrease from the record $155 million we achieved in 2022 |
| Full year 2023 consolidated gross profit was $146 million, a 6% decrease from the record $155 million we achieved in 2022 |
| Consolidated gross profit in the fourth quarter decreased 3% to $34 million |
| At GRE, full year 2023 income from operations decreased 22% to $71.9 million compared to $92.6 million in 2022 |
| Sequentially, our customer counts decreased somewhat reflecting the expiration of a customer aggregation deal in Massachusetts |
| At GRE, fourth quarter income from operations decreased 27% to $15 million from $20.6 million, reflecting both the higher margins we were able to capture in 2022 as well as a higher rate of investment in customer acquisition in the fourth quarter of this year |
| Before we turn to the quarter and full year results, please note that as we previously disclosed, we recorded a noncash charge of $45.1 million in the fourth quarter, reflecting a loss reserve by our new captive insurance subsidiary |
| The decrease was due to lower gross profit per unit of electricity and natural gas sold, which is only partially offset by the growth of GRE's customer base |
| The consolidated loss from operations in the fourth quarter was $34.2 million compared to income from operations of $15.5 million in a year ago quarter |
| The decrease primarily reflects the $45.1 million noncash insurance charge and higher SG&A costs |
| At GREW, the fourth quarter loss from operations widened to $1.3 million from $1 million a year earlier, reflecting the upgrades we have made to our operational teams and capabilities as well as investment in solar project development |
| These risks and uncertainties include, but are not limited to, both discussed in the reports that we filed periodically with the SEC |
| At GREW, the full year loss from operations of $5.8 million compared to $3.5 million in 2022 |
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