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Top stories in brief
ESB’s 2011 Annual Report
wins international
recognition
ESB wins three prestigious
Vision Awards by the League
of American Communications
Professionals (LACP) for its
2011 Report ‘Powering You’.
ESB International gets the
thumbs up for quality
ESBI’s quality management
system has been recommended
for recertification to IS EB ISO
9001:2008 standard.
Electric Ireland sponsors
Influential Energy Efficiency
event
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Contributing €1.8bn to Irish Economy in 2012
- ESB announces Annual Results
8 ESB announced an after tax profit of €194m in its Annual Report
for 2012, which was published on Wednesday March 13th.
Engineers Week in ESB
ESB Head Office hosted a
day-long event for Engineers
Week, where students visited
to talk to our engineers about
their roles, experiences and
impressions of engineering as
a career.
Annual Report and
esb.ie
Accounts 2012
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ESB Chairman, Lochlann Quinn
welcomed the results for 2012, saying
they showed an overall improvement
in Group performance for the year. He
said, “This is important as a financially
strong ESB can ensure continued
investment in important infrastructure
in Ireland. Despite continuing challenges
in domestic and international markets,
we succeeded in raising €1.1b through
the issue of new bonds to repay maturing
debt and to fund our ongoing investment
programme of up to €1b per year.”
The Board is recommending a dividend
of €78m, bringing the total dividends to
the Irish exchequer to almost €1bn over
the past decade. In 2012, ESB contributed
€1.8b to the Irish economy in its direct
economic activities.
ESB continued its focus on costreduction during the year. Recurring
annual savings of over €200m have
already been achieved under ESB’s
Performance Improvement Programme,
which represents more than 70 percent
of the €280m target for 2015 set in 2010.
Almost 1,000 staff have left the company
since 2010. The financial statement
includes an exceptional item of €161m to
provide for the costs associated with staff
exits in 2012.
During 2012, ESB raised €1.1bn through
the issue of bonds to predominantly
European investors and this will support
its ongoing infrastructure investment
programme. Also, over €600m in project
finance facilities were raised to fund the
construction of Carrington Power Station
in the UK. In recent months two credit
rating agencies, Standard & Poor’s and
Fitch, changed the outlook on their rating of
ESB (rated BBB+ by both) from ‘negative’
to ‘stable’. This reflects ESB’s successful
funding and robust financial performance,
as well as Ireland’s overall economic
progress.
The company invested €765m in
infrastructure projects during 2012.
There was €466m invested in upgrading
electricity transmission and distribution
network in Ireland to accommodate
increases in wind generation and to
maintain the resilience of the network.
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ESB Networks Customer
Care Centre (NCCC)
Outstanding Performance
The continual outstanding
performance of front line
services is a critical factor to
the success of our business.
Tullamore achieves 5,000
days without a lost-time
incident
Congratulations to ESB
Networks staff in Tullamore
for reaching 5000 days since
their last LTI
issn no. 0790-7508
Storm hits Northern Ireland
More than 140,000 homes
were left without electricity as a severe storm hit Northern Ireland. NIE emergency crews, ably assisted by around
100 Networks staff from ESB and other contractors, worked around the clock to rebuild the network which had been
damaged by snow and strong winds.
Representatives from more than
100 of Ireland’s largest energy
users gathered for a briefing
on the latest financial and
technological developments in
energy efficiency.
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