Milan, 24 July 2025 – The Italgas’ Board of Directors, which met yesterday, chaired by Paolo Ciocca, has approved the consolidated results as at 30 June 2025.
Highlights 1
- Total revenues and other income adjusted: 1,126.7 million euros (+29.2%)
- Adjusted EBITDA: 857.5 million euros (+27.8%)
- Adjusted EBIT: 558.0 million euros (+38.9%)
- Adjusted net profit attributable to the Group: 316.6 million euros (+31.1%)
- Technical investments: 495.1 million euros
- Cash flow from operating activities: 739.0 million euros
- Net financial debt (excluding the effects pursuant to IFRS 16 and IFRIC 12): 10,859.0 million euros
- Net financial debt: 10,973.0 million euros
The economic, financial and operational indicators for the first six months of 2025 reflect the consolidation of the 2i Rete Gas Group that took place on 1 April 2025, while the growth trend that has been ongoing since 2017 continues. The acquisition of 2i Rete Gas made Italgas the leading European operator in gas distribution and transformed the face of a sector that has historically been fragmented and largely static. During the half-year, Italgas also successfully launched and completed a capital increase of 1.02 billion euro through the issuance of 202,938,478 new shares.
The merger by incorporation of 2i Rete Gas into Italgas Reti, effective from 1 July 2025, carried out in just 90 days and well ahead of the initial timeline, enabled the integration of processes, the alignment of IT systems and the territorial reorganisation, the first step towards efficiency generation and organic growth. To support this process, 25 cross-functional working groups were created with the dual objective of preparing all activities necessary to ensure business continuity at the time of the incorporation of 2i Rete Gas and of implementing synergies through the comparison of the two operating models, the identification of their respective best practices and the timely pursuit of efficiency opportunities.
In the first half of 2025, the Italgas Group recorded total revenues and other income adjusted of 1,126.7 million euros, up 29.2%, and adjusted EBITDA increased by 27.8% compared to the same period of the previous year, reaching 857.5 million euros. Adjusted EBIT, equal to 558.0 million euros, increased by 38.9% versus 1H 2024. Excluding 2i Rete Gas contribution, adjusted EBITDA would have grown by 3.2% and adjusted EBIT by 12.4% versus the same period last year.
Cash flow from operating activities amounted to 739.0 million euros, an increase of 209.5 million euros compared with the same period in 2024, allowing the Group to cover investments for the period and a substantial portion of the dividends paid in the second quarter. The evolution of debt over the half-year mainly reflects the amount paid for the acquisition of 2i Rete Gas, net of the proceeds from the capital increase, and the consolidation of the related net financial debt.
In particular, technical investments in the first six months of 2025 totalled 495.1 million euros, with the construction of approximately 430 kilometres of gas distribution networks. Digital transformation activities also continued, and preparatory activities began for the technological and digital upgrade of the 2i Rete Gas networks, to align them with those of the Group.
In the water sector, operations focused on the application of digital technologies, to increase operational efficiency and reduce network losses, as well as on carrying out, in cooperation with Siciliacque, a series of remediation works on the supra-municipal network. These works are intended to accommodate the new volumes of water produced through three new desalination plants, developed by Siciliacque in its role as implementing entity, which are intended to offset part of Sicily’s water deficit and will come into operation in the coming weeks.
In the energy efficiency sector, activities are progressing to expand the customer base through offers based on technological innovation for industry, large residential complexes and public administration. The growing results for the first half of 2025 confirm the effectiveness of the proposed solutions in ensuring efficiency and energy savings for Geoside’s customer base.
Paolo Gallo, CEO of Italgas, commented:
“We created the leading European operator in gas distribution, with more than 4,000 municipalities and almost 13 million customers served, over 155,000 kilometres of network and a workforce of around 6,500 employees. The integration of 2i Rete Gas, completed in just 90 days, is the result of our ability to manage highly complex activities through an ad hoc organisation structured around numerous working groups. The integration of IT systems and the territorial reorganisation of the Company are the clearest evidence of an extraordinary effort carried out in a very short time.
The results for the first half of 2025 demonstrate the Group’s industrial and financial strength: with adjusted EBITDA up 28% and adjusted net profit increasing by over 31%, we have demonstrated our ability to generate value in a consistent and sustainable manner. Investments reached half a billion euros and were mainly focused on the networks, making them increasingly smart and thus capable of handling different types of gas, both fossil and renewable in origin.
Italgas Group’s development strategy, which will be outlined again during the presentation of the 2025–2031 Strategic Plan next October, represents an effective response to the growing demand for secure, renewable and economically accessible energy for households and businesses.
1 The consolidated economic and financial highlights and operational highlights reflect the effects of the consolidation of the 2i Rete Gas Group on 1 April 2025.
