Bloom Energy Corporation Q2 FY2020 Earnings Call

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Quarter Highlights

  • Total revenue of $187.9M, up 19% from Q1 2020, driven by an equal increase in system acceptances.
  • Installed 306 systems in Q2, up 20% from Q1 2020 despite COVID‑related delays.
  • Gross margin improved by 30 basis points quarter‑over‑quarter, driven by lower product costs and stronger service performance.
  • Adjusted EBITDA was positive $2.1M, reflecting reduced operating expenses and improved margins.
  • Cash and short-term investments totaled $324.1M; unrestricted cash was $144M, impacted by $25M of payments received post-quarter.
  • No customer cancellations or deferral requests; some customers requested earlier installations due to resiliency needs.
  • Continued progress in manufacturing cost reductions: 30% drop in product costs over two years, with further improvements expected.
  • Production ramp reinitiated after early COVID disruption; 2020 revenue cadence expected to resemble 2019.

Strategic & Operational Developments

  • Partnership expansions:
    • Duke Energy and new financing partner NextEra closed two transactions totaling 28.75 MW.
    • Three major utility sites delivered, including a 6 MW power tower for Long Island Power Authority.

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Operator: Good afternoon, and welcome to the Bloom Energy Second Quarter 2020 Earnings Call. At this time, all participants are in a listen-only mode. Later, we will conduct a question-and-answer session and instructions will follow at that time. As a reminder, this conference call is being recorded. I would now like to turn the conference over to Mark Mesler, Vice President of Finance and Investor Relations at Bloom Energy. Please go ahead. Mark Mesler: Thank you. Good afternoon, all. We appreciate you joining us on Bloom Energy’s second quarter 2020 earnings conference call. To supplement this conference call, we have filed our Q2 2020 shareholder letter and earnings release with the SEC and have posted it along with supplemental financial that we will periodically reference throughout this call to our Investor Relations website. The matters we will be discussing today include forward-looking statements regarding future events and the future financial performance of the company. These statements are subject to risks and uncertainties that we discuss in detail in our documents filed with the SEC, specifically the most recent reports on Forms 10-K and 10-Q, which identify important risk factors, including those related to the COVID-19 pandemic that could cause actual results to differ materially from those contained in the forward-looking statements. These include statements about the effects of COVID-19 on the company's business results, financial position, liquidity, demand

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