MILWAUKEE, WI — (Marketwired) — 09/08/16 — EnSync, Inc. (NYSE MKT: ESNC), dba a leading developer of innovative energy management systems for the utility, commercial, industrial and multi-tenant building markets, today announced fourth quarter and fiscal year 2016 results, ended June 30, 2016.
Subsequent to the end of the quarter on July 29th, the Company announced a significant milestone with the sale of multiple power purchase agreements (PPAs) comprising Tranche 1 to American Electric Power subsidiary, AEP OnSite Partners;
Completed the sale of the seventh PPA project from Tranche 1 in September 2016, leaving one project remaining from the initial tranche;
During the fourth quarter, the Company completed final system shipment of the Cayman Technology Center project, and recognized revenue on 90% of the system;
Completed successful assembly, test and shipment to Korea of the 500 kWh fully integrated utility energy storage system for Lotte Chemical, manufactured and sourced by our Meineng Energy joint venture;
Signed two additional PPA projects in Hawaii as part of the second tranche. Tranche 2 now consists of four PPA projects, with the Company PPA project backlog total being worth an estimated value of more than $5.0M at the time of project sale;
Successfully demonstrated our Supply Response on Demand capability at the Intersolar North America Conference in San Francisco in July, a major step forward in enabling the “Internet of Energy”;
Continued focus on operational efficiencies has resulted in a reduction in engineering development, selling, general and administrative costs from $4.3 million in the second quarter of Fiscal 2016 to less than $3.5 million in the fourth quarter.
“We marked a significant milestone in the history of the Company recently with the sale of multiple PPA projects in July to American Electric Power–s subsidiary, AEP OnSite Partners,” commented Brad Hansen, President and Chief Executive Officer of EnSync Energy Systems. “We–re excited to work with a forward thinking and innovative organization like AEP that quickly realized the significance of being a leader in combining renewable energy, storage and energy management systems. The sale of these projects completes the disposition of seven of our eight projects from our initial tranche. We are now focused on working with our Hawaii subsidiary, Holu Energy, to drive the execution of our second tranche of projects, and the effort has already yielded four projects, that combined with our remaining Tranche 1 project have estimated future sales value of more than $5 million. With our second tranche we will be moving past the many non-recurring costs of entering the market with our new business model as well as the costs involved in new product introduction like UL compliance for Matrix and technology transfer costs for Matrix and Agile. Going forward we see significant cost reductions being achieved in our products, as well as solar EPC related costs, so we expect profit on future tranches or projects to be in the 10-20% range.”
Mr. Hansen continued, “As far as we know, we are the only Company to have completed the full cycle of the PPA business model for behind the meter, commercial and industrial solar plus energy storage projects. It took us about nine months to put all the elements of the business model together and there were a number of learning experiences, but with our sale of our first group of projects to AEP Onsite Partners, we can be proud that we are the first to successfully execute this model that moves solar plus storage in C&I to the commercial stage. We expect the financial profile on the first tranche of projects, which reflects significant one-time, non-recurring commercialization costs associated with this pioneering effort, to look much stronger as we go into our second tranche of PPAs, where we are well positioned to profitably lead this market. We also look forward to significantly increase the velocity of our contract intake as well as shortening the timing from cash deployment to project sale to more efficiently utilize our balance sheet. This should contribute to our goal of contracting two additional tranches in our fiscal year of equivalent or greater value than our initial tranche.”
Jim Schott, Chief Financial Officer of EnSync Energy Systems, commented, “The sale of the PPAs took place in July 2016 and will be recognized as revenue during our first quarter of fiscal 2017. During the fourth quarter, we shipped the final products for the Cayman Islands system, and also recognized project revenue from Lotte and Holu, totaling $1.3 million. We continue to make significant strides in our commitment to reduce our engineering development, selling, general and administrative costs as these costs were below $3.5 million for the fourth quarter. What we call our cash run rate, which is these costs less equity compensation, was less than $3.1 million. We will stay focused on effectively managing our cost structure, while looking for efficiencies within our project costs to drive further improvements in bottom line performance going forward.”
Mr. Hansen concluded, “The enormous shift from carbon emitting electricity generating assets to renewable energy generating systems is creating significant market inflection points for the energy business, including not only massive proliferation of energy storage systems, but also the need to connect the distributed energy resources, or –DERs–, with the grid network, for real time supply response and aggregation. Our differentiated products, business models and intellectual property position us to capitalize on these market inflection points.”
On July 29, 2016, the Company announced the sale of multiple power purchase agreements. The upfront sale of these agreements totaled approximately $7.5 million, with the opportunity for future revenue opportunities based on certain regulatory changes occurring over the next 20 years.
As the anticipated revenue at June 30, 2016 on two of the five projects was less than the amount invested in those projects, the Company recorded an impairment of $1.9 million in the fourth quarter for these projects. Certain identifiable start-up and one-time costs were incurred with this initial tranche. The Company does not expect these costs to be recurring and as a result anticipates margins on future PPA projects of 10-20% of revenues.
Revenue of $7.1 million from this sale will be recognized in the first quarter of 2017 and the balance of the proceeds of $.4 million will be deferred for future recognition. With the $7.1 million of PPA revenue plus revenue from other projects, we expect revenue of approximately $7.3 million in the first quarter of 2017, a record for EnSync.
Total revenue for fourth quarter which ended June 30, 2016 was $1.3 million compared to $0.3 million in the fourth quarter of fiscal 2015. Revenue growth in the quarter was primarily driven by remaining system shipments for the Cayman Technology Center project.
Total cost of products sold during the fourth quarter was $3.1 million compared to $59,000 in the year ago period. The increase was primarily due to the non-recurring and start-up costs discussed earlier and an inventory adjustment of $158,000. Excluding these items, cost of product sales would have been approximately $1.04 million, resulting in a product margin of approximately $160,000, or 15%.
Advanced Engineering, Development, Selling, General and Administrative costs totaled $3.5 million in the fourth quarter of fiscal 2016, compared to $3.6 million during the fourth quarter of fiscal 2015. Net loss attributable to common shareholders was $(5.8) million, or $(0.12) per basic and diluted share, for the fourth quarter of fiscal 2016, compared to $(3.5) million, or $(0.09) per basic and diluted share, in the year ago fourth quarter.
Current backlog for components, systems and engineering services is approximately $877,000. Additionally, the Company has five PPA contracts valued at more than $5.0 million in its project backlog, including four signed agreements for Tranche 2. The Company ended August 2016 with approximately $21.5 million in cash.
Date: Thursday, September 8, 2016
Time: 4:30 p.m. ET (3:30 p.m. CT)
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EnSync, Inc. (NYSE MKT: ESNC), dba EnSync Energy Systems, is enabling the future of electricity with advanced energy management systems critical to a global economy becoming increasingly reliant upon the expansion of renewable energy. Whether part of the grid power transmission and distribution network, or behind the meter in commercial, industrial and multi-tenant buildings, EnSync technology brings differentiated power control and energy storage solutions to electricity-challenged environments. Our technologies also serve as the system level intelligence in microgrid applications, by seamlessly integrating multiple generation and storage assets to deliver power in remote and community level environments not served by the grid, or areas electing to use the grid secondary to microgrid assets. In 2015, EnSync incorporated power purchase agreements (PPAs) into its portfolio of offerings, enabling electricity savings for customers and providing a stable financial yield for investors. EnSync is a global corporation, with a joint venture in AnHui, China at Meineng Energy, as well as a strategic partnership with Solar Power, Inc. (SPI). For more information, visit: .
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