DEL 2023 AGM Chairman's Address
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Delorean Corporation Limited
Chairman’s Address at Annual
General Meeting 30 November 2023
30 November 2023
Delorean Corporation Pty Ltd | ACN 638 111 127
Unit 1 Ground Floor, 1205 Hay Street WEST PERTH WA 6005 | PH: 08 6147 7575
Delorean Corporation (“Delorean”) consolidated its position this year as
Australia’s bioenergy leader with the successful delivery now of three major
bioenergy projects, despite a very difficult year for the entire Australian
construction industry in terms of FY22/23 ‘black swan event’ cost escalations,
supply chain disruptions and delays in project startup.
Executive
Chair
Hamish Jolly
The Company has emerged stronger and leaner now with the $53m Yarra Valley
Water project, our biggest project to date, fully under way in the post-COVID era
with inflationary protections in place and a great partnership with Victoria’s third
biggest water utility to build YVW’s second bioenergy facility.
The company is returning to a position of stability and growth, focussed on
building out its portfolio of Delorean-owned bioenergy infrastructure assets, while
continuing to derive revenues and margins from construction contracts for third
parties.
This includes key collaborations with some of Australia’s biggest companies including the multi-project
development venture to build bioenergy facilities co-located with Brickworks’ operations around the
country, with the first NSW1 project in Horsley Park now in the advanced stages of the development
process and an expectation to progress to build in the 2025 calendar year.
Between the fully-funded Yarra Valley Water and Brickworks projects (both of which are structurally
cashflow positive), the Company currently has adequate working capital, resources and cashflow to
support its normal operations without the foreseeable need for further capital injection.
With a 5-year track record of profitability prior to listing in 2022, the Company expects to return to
profitability in FY2024.
Delorean’s stated Vision is to be recognised as Australia and New Zealand’s leading emerging
renewable energy generator and retailer, led by its fast-growing bioenergy infrastructure footprint.
The Company remains active in developing and arranging finance for its own pipeline of bioenergy
projects. Beyond the NSW1 project with Brickworks, Delorean is active in securing finance for the
shovel-ready SA1 and VIC1 projects, with significant engagement and interest from potential investors
ranging from strategic industry players through to structured finance and infrastructure fund capital. Our
objective is to close funding on these projects so as to be in build for 3-4 projects in the 2025 calendar
year (YWV, NSW1, VIC1 and SA1).
There has never been more urgency or demand for renewable gas for which, in the current absence of
a viable, cost-competitive hydrogen solution, there are only two main sources – landfill gas which is
being actively curtailed by legislation diverting organics from landfill, and bioenergy in a form that
Delorean is pioneering in the Australian market.
We are confident that Delorean will be a significant player in meeting this demand, to the benefit of our
shareholders and the progressive decarbonisation of Australian industry.
I genuinely thank our dedicated team at Delorean and our shareholders for their support and patience
through FY2023. I would also like to thank Managing Director Joe Oliver for his tireless work in a difficult
year for DEL. I would also like to thank the wider DEL Board members Steve Gostlow and David
McCarthur for their sound guidance and support through FY23.
We are excited at the opportunities afforded to the Company in FY2024 and we are committed to
returning Delorean to profitability and growth. We look forward with very high expectations as to what
the futures holds for the company.
Authorised on behalf of the Delorean Corporation Board of Directors by Hamish Jolly,
Executive Chair.
Delorean Corporation Pty Ltd | ACN 638 111 127
Unit 1 Ground Floor, 1205 Hay Street WEST PERTH WA 6005 | PH: 08 6147 7575
For more information/interview please contact:
Joe Oliver, Managing Director
Delorean Corporation Ltd
+61 (0) 8 6147 7575
info@deloreancorporation.com.au
About Delorean Corporation Limited
Delorean Corporation is a leading Australian bioenergy company. Delorean specialises in
the design, build, ownership and management of bioenergy infrastructure. In addition to
bioenergy power generation, Delorean also operates in the energy retail market. Delorean
Corporation is a vertically integrated company positioned in two high growth industries;
renewable energy and waste management.
Delorean Corporation comprises an Engineering Division, Infrastructure Division and legacy
Energy Retail Division. Through these divisions Delorean Corporation has the inhouse capability
to deliver bioenergy projects across the full lifecycle, from project conception to completion,
processing organic waste, generating renewable energy and monetising the sale of green
electricity, heat and gas.
DEL’s projects produce renewable energy whilst reducing the volume of waste going to landfill,
utilising a model that generates multiple revenue streams.
Delorean Corporation Pty Ltd | ACN 638 111 127
Unit 1 Ground Floor, 1205 Hay Street WEST PERTH WA 6005 | PH: 08 6147 7575
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