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| As can be shown on this slide, our costs reduced in 2023 and with a lower cost base, we fully expect to see further benefits during 2024 |
| A stronger capital position allows the company to have confidence in front of clients to close midsize project sales and to be able to provide credible warranty backup |
| At the heart of everything we do is our proprietary HEVO micro-electrolyzer technology, which employs a simplified and modularized architecture that creates multiple sources of advantage for us, including high throughput and industrialized production and a scalable building block approach, enabling us to play competitively in small to mid-scale projects, a segment of the market where we're seeing considerable demand today |
| The HEVO Chain, which began its commercialization in mid-2023, has already started full production at our Benavente facility and we continue to see strong interest in the solution and we are delivering proposals and project designs on nearly a weekly basis at this point |
| We have a differentiated and complementary business model that positions us as one of the few green hydrogen players that can credibly deliver truly end-to-end solutions, supporting clients throughout their green hydrogen journey |
| And finally, we're well positioned to take advantage of a significant growth plan as the market develops with an extensive long-term project pipeline and a world-class production facility located in Portugal as we mentioned for 500 megawatts of annualized production |
| A strengthened balance sheet should not only provide comfort to our teams, investors and shareholders that the company is sufficiently equipped to achieve its goals and targets, but also provides our customers with further assurances that the warranties that are being offered as part of our technology contracts can be fulfilled |
| We're excited by the opportunities that lie ahead and the move forward that we see in the overall hydrogen market in the last year |
| As Frederico and Gavin will explain over the course of the next half hour, we believe Fusion Fuel is well positioned to overcome these challenges and capitalize on the emerging opportunities we see in front of us |
| So the momentum that we're seeing probably in the last six months or so has been a completely sort of new thing for us, I'd say not only for our technology and this was really with the launch of the commercialization of HEVO Chain mid of last year, but we believe that this is a general increase in the market momentum for hydrogen |
| The Macquarie facility is a great complement to these potential capital sources and we believe the combined effect will generate substantial shareholder value |
| We've built a robust European pipeline of actionable near-term green hydrogen projects with diverse avenues for monetizing value creation along the development cycle highlighted by the recent designation of our HEVO-Portugal Project as an Important Projects of Common European Interest |
| With a HEVO Chain, we have a great solution to do just that |
| And I'm very pleased to note that today we have a business that counts the IPCEI project as a boost to our plans rather than the foundation to them |
| We're sort of happy to say that our solution is able to minimize the pain that was caused and the plant has continued to operate and continue to deliver hydrogen and to allow the hydrogen refueling station to operate |
| It allows us to be a trusted partner and allows us to capture repeat business with clients |
| What are we doing to kind of navigate those potential delays? We have a strong project pipeline |
| With the facilities at hand and the recent ATM raise, we continue to be able to pursue the value add capital strengthening activities that we launched quite some time ago |
| With each plant we deliver and design, our expertise grows and further pulls us ahead in the early stage industry |
| So from the client side, for whatever teething issues that there have been, the production of hydrogen has been able to continue and produce |
| One of our priorities for this year and already mentioned by Gavin but infer most of what was last year as well continues to be the strengthening of our balance sheet |
| That said, for example, if we have a strategic partner which is bringing long-term value to the clients, brings long-term value to projects and additional sort of revenue to projects and to the company, but wants to do a one off transaction that might be in the best interest for us all because project revenue, sales revenues combined with a capital influx would have substantial shareholder value |
| Our operating costs decreased for the fourth consecutive quarter |
| So we believe that any addressing of that issue will actually unlock significantly shareholder value |
| It quite simply makes a project of this dimension viable, which makes it incredibly valuable |
| In the past, we've discussed efficiency and cost improvements to subsequent generations of the HEVO technology |
| So a substantial cost reduction |
| This is a very interesting project where we are delivering a system that permits the use of hydrogen into their industrial furnace and allows them to change the fuel mix they currently use and significantly reduce their carbon footprint |
| With its three phases we expect this portfolio to be a driver of long-term value for Fusion Fuel |
| So I want to highlight that this will be a significant driver of long-term value for us |
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| There are multi factors that drove this dynamic, some of which we've touched on previously, including technological immaturity, regulatory uncertainty, persistent cost premium for green molecules and a lack of access to project financing among others |
| When coupled with the changes in regulation and licensing that saw us give up on the HEVO solar project and that make installing HEVO solar units significantly more complicated -- management has decided to impair the full value until such a time that we have further certainty on our ability to sell or scrap these materials |
| We have been cautious to do the right deal for the company, as Gavin mentioned before, and we will continue to do so |
| What was expected to be an inflection point turned out to be, in many ways, a step back as we saw a deceleration of commercial activity |
| As recently as last week, it became apparent that selling these components will not be a short-term solution as negotiations with prospective buyers have stalled |
| There's always a big risk that these projects have a sort of binary outcome |
| So that's probably our biggest risk at the minute |
| People are reluctant to put significant effort and legal costs and so on into a process if there is doubt that management or the board can get it through |
| So that's the first problem |
| Again, apologies for technical difficulties with the camera here |
| There was a question on the estimated production cost for green ammonia to be sold in Northern European markets |
| We made that mistake in our early years and decided to be substantially more cautious on how we communicate around this project going forward |
| It should come as you know a great surprise that 2023 was a difficult year in the green hydrogen space |
| So I think that's just perhaps a misunderstanding |
| As I say, every project has had its teething issues |
| So again, as we said on many times over the last 12 months, and even on this call, the biggest risk is time and how long it takes from tender stage to sign contracts and then execution |
| But those concerns kept the company from being valued in our eyes fairly to our competitors |
| I think that guidance is certainly more stringent than the market expected |
| We do believe that uncertainty around our capital position is the greatest concern of the market and that resolving the capital constraints will remedy our long-standing valuation disconnect relative to our peers |
| As with any sort of, I'd say, electrolyzer deployment today, it had its teething issues |
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