Engie Trims Profit Outlook on Outages at Belgian Plants
October 01 2015 - 3:12AM
Dow Jones News
By William Horobin
PARIS--Power utility Engie (ENGI.FR) trimmed its profit outlook
for this year as it postponed by two months to January 2016 the
reopening of two Belgian nuclear reactors that have been shut since
March 2014.
Engie lowered its target for net recurring income--a measure of
net income that strips out restructuring costs and other
impairments--by 100 million euros ($111.8 million) to a range of
between EUR2.75 billion and EUR3.05 billion.
The power company, formerly known as GDF Suez, has repeatedly
been forced to postpone the reopening of the Doel 3 and Tihange 2
reactors after Belgian authorities found "unexpected results" in
March last year when testing the pressure vessels at the
plants.
The delays in reopening the plants already hurt the company's
2014 bottom line. It estimates that every additional month of
closure costs EUR40 million in net recurring income.
The company's shares opened lower on the news. At 0730 GMT Engie
shares traded -0.2% at EUR14.41, the only stock in the red on
France's CAC-40, which was up 1.4% at 4519.48.
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