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Good morning and welcome to the EOS Energy Enterprises Third Quarter 2024 Conference Call. As a reminder, today's call is being recorded and your participation implies consent to such recording. At this time, all participants are in a listen-only mode. A brief question-and-answer session will follow the formal presentation. [Operator Instructions]. With that, I'd like to turn the call over to Liz Higley, Director of Investor Relations. Thank you. You may begin.

Good morning, everyone and thank you for joining us for EOS's financial results and conference call for the third quarter 2024. On the call today we have EOS's CEO Joe Mastrangelo and CFO Nathan Kroeker. Before we begin, allow me to provide a disclaimer regarding forward-looking statements. This call, including the Q&A portion of the call, may include forward-looking statements, including but not limited to, current expectations with respect to future results and outlook for our company, and statements regarding our ability to secure final approval of a loan from the Department of Energy LPO or our anticipated use of proceeds from any loan facility provided by the US Department of Energy, which are subject to certain risks, uncertainties, and assumptions. Should any of these risks materialize or should our assumptions prove to be incorrect, our actual results may differ materially from our expectations or those implied by these forward-looking statements. The risks and uncertainties that forward looking statements are subject to are described in our SEC filings. Forward-looking statements represent our beliefs and assumptions only as of the date such statements are made. We undertake no obligation to update any forward-looking statements made during this call to reflect events or circumstances after today, or to reflect new information or the occurrence of unanticipated events, except as required by law. Today's remarks will also include references to non-GAAP financial measures. Additional information including reconciliation between non-GAAP financial information to US GAAP financial information is provided in the press release. Non-GAAP information should be considered as supplemental in nature and is not meant to be considered in isolation or as a substitute for the related financial information prepared in accordance with GAAP. In addition, our non-GAAP financial measures may not be the same or comparable to similar non-GAAP measures presented by other companies. This conference call will be available for replay via webcast or EOS investor relations [email protected]. Joe and Nathan will walk you through the Company highlights, financial results and business priorities before we proceed to Q&A. With that, I now turn the call over to CEO, Joe Mastrangelo

Thanks Liz. Welcome everyone. Thanks for taking the time this morning to listen in let me start off on our page with operating highlights. I just want to start off with the tremendous progress that we're making commercially. And I think that's shown by the announcement that we made this morning on a $73 million order with the city utilities of Springfield, Missouri. Really a phenomenal job by the commercial team. Getting our first large order in the municipal market. This is the largest order that City Utilities has ever placed for an energy storage system. We're proud that they selected EOS and technology for this project. Looking forward to start delivering this project throughout 2025. Really, really an exciting time for us, I think, showing the power of the V3 and what it can do out in the marketplace; at the same time, we also what people would think is a small order with Watmore. Watmore is a repeat customer and just shows the relationships that the team is building out in the marketplace and the fact that the technology also really works in a microgrid application. So two really strong examples of the commercial offering and the performance of the product out in the field. At the same time. Two big things that we also have announced recently regarding finance. Nathan has been working on creating the financing capacity for us to scale the company. Last week we announced achieving the milestones and getting the $65 million funding from Cerberus, that cash balance you see on the lower right-hand side of the page does not reflect that $65 million. It's a great job, not only in partnership with Cerberus, but also the team in delivering and bringing that funding in. At the same time, we've submitted our paperwork for final US Government approval for a loan with the loan programs with the Elite Loan Programs Office for a Title 17 loan. Very exciting to bring that to closure here by year end. Been a process of going through that as the company has evolved and changed. We feel really good about the partnership we built and ability to allow us to scale the company further. On the lower left-hand side of the page, this technology continues to prove itself out in the field. We're now at 4.4 gigawatt hours. Over 4 gigawatt hours discharge out in the field. You know that discharge out in the field is very important because it shows customers using the product that incremental 400-megawatt hours that you have to get. 4.4 is also very important because that's the energy that we're generating when we test and prove out the resiliency, performance and operating characteristics of the product. Every battery is tested before it gets out in the field. We're really Excited about the performance that we see. The middle of this page, the bottom of the middle of this page is the area where we're disappointed in our performance, executing our supply chain strategies, doing a million things correctly. If one of those things don't go well, you have a problem. And that's what happened to us here in the third quarter. And when you look at what we talked about last year, about developing a new cube design that allows us to improve the performance of our product out in the field and get better footprint density, we had some challenges in opening and bringing that supply chain online, which we're working through with key supplier to be able to bring that product online. Now we're going to work through that. We're going to work through with the supplier. They were going to continue to develop and grow. The good news is this hasn't had any impact on our backlog. We continue to work with customers on timing of deliveries and continue to work on supply chain diversification. We can and expect to do better than this in the future. What's important here is we've brought in some new leadership around the operational team and some new talent that I've experienced across the industry, both in other battery technologies and other competitors and integrators. So we're bringing in experienced people that have done this before to help us scale the company as we move forward. While we're not happy with where we are, I feel very confident with the team's ability to execute and deliver as we look to the future. Going to the next page, I talked about some of these on the prior page. We just want to hit on a couple things around the Sanders milestones. The line continues to perform and we're really happy with our ability to build a good battery. You know, cycle times are less than 10 seconds and the first pass yields is greater than 97%; continue to see the performance of that line and what it means to us as far as being able to scale and deliver on large projects being really the foundation for everything we're going to do going forward. We're also the team that's also ahead of target on its concept milestones. I'll talk a little bit more about that as we get into the presentation here on the next page. Really like I think the foundation, the thesis of the investment from Cerberus, we're proving that out to be true every day and we're just going to continue noticeably grindstone execute and deliver for customers and shareholders. Commercial momentum, I talked about the two new orders that we won. Very exciting. But at the same time, working with Cerberus, we've been able to pull together a full bankability offering out in the marketplace. You know, some of the things we've talked about in the past when Nathan gets to our pipeline page is how do you move things down through that pipeline. We're now bringing. I'll talk about more details. The ability for customers to look at us and say, this is a bankable technology and I have the backstops that I need to take the risk to move with a new technology. We see, because of that, we see the large utility pipeline strengthening. Nathan will talk about the numbers that we have underlying this. But what I can tell you is that more and more people are coming to us, more and more customers are coming to us to really look at the inherent benefits of the technology. What we learned from the standpoint of operating the business through the due diligence that we've gone through both with the DOE and with Cerberus is that we have a technology with differentiated performance. We probably haven't done the best job historically in presenting that technology and what it means to deliver benefits to the customers. That's becoming very clear to us. And that's why you see things like City Utilities becoming a bookable order in less than six months from when we first got the request for quotation into the order. So we moved now to operational scale and capacity. You know, we are delivering on our cost out roadmap and we are optimizing our production supply. On the left-hand side of this page, as far as cost out progress, very critical for us as we really look to switch our mindset from having a path to profitability to delivering profitable growth. Our goal as a company is to grow but deliver profits while doing so. The left-hand side of this page allows us to do that. On the direct material side, from the launch, we're down 42% of our cost. That's ahead of our plan. 80% of our direct material target is achieved and locked in will be cut in over the next few months to deliver on that initial strategy that we talked about almost a year ago. Now those two pieces there really are achieved because what we have is a battery with readily available commodities that you can go out and get great scale on. And as we've gone out and done this and look at doing things, we're also finding ways and suppliers to partner with us to find ways to take costs out of the overall system. On the direct labor side, we've seen 77% improvement since we launched the

Thanks Joe and thanks everyone for joining us this morning. I will spend the rest of the time walking through our commercial growth, providing an update on our strategic partnership with Cerberus and then review our third quarter financial performance and our outlook for the remainder of the year. Our commercial pipeline as of September 30th stood at $14.2 billion, which is up $400 million from the prior quarter and represents 59 gigawatt hours of storage, which is up 13% sequentially. This pipeline includes $1.7 billion in signed letters of intent, a 23% increase quarter over quarter, with most of these either awaiting customer financing or confirmation of interconnect approvals. Notably, in July we signed a 960-megawatt hour letter of intent with a solar plus storage developer in Puerto Rico, which is now reflected in these numbers. We expect that LOI to convert into a booked order as soon as the customer completes their financing. As we look forward, we expect Puerto Rico and surrounding island countries to be significant growth markets as we expand our presence in the region. As previously highlighted, we are currently tracking 2.2 gigawatt hours in late stage approvals which we define as projects awaiting financing, government grants or final selection from project shortlists. This number includes a few key projects such as the projects that are pending financing in Puerto Rico or the notification of the next phase of DOE grants for three long duration energy storage projects with one of the biggest names in the industry and a long-standing developer relationship which encompasses a deal predicated on California Energy Commission funding for a Marine Corps based storage installation. This figure is pretty consistent with last quarter showing minimal change as these projects progress through critical approval stages. The 3% increase in our commercial pipeline quarter over quarter reflects the healthy churn of new projects entering, progressing through and sometimes completing interim stages within the pipeline. As Joe discussed earlier, our strategic partnership with Cerberus has clearly served as a positive catalyst driving momentum within our pipeline. Cerberus has actively supported commercial initiatives in several important ways. Not only have they leveraged their extensive list of contacts and credibility in the marketplace to initiate and advance conversations with potential customers, but they have been working tirelessly to help us with developing a comprehensive bankability solution. As Joe discussed earlier, we feel very confident about our pipeline and the positive trends we are seeing. More specifically, with the recent efforts to improve overall bankability, we are seeing renewed interest in larger utility scale project opportunities with blue chip customer projects in the Southeast and Western regions.Additionally, as we discussed earlier, we continue to experience promising developments with municipalities and electric co-ops as well as micro grid and data center applications. Now moving to the right Our backlog as of quarter end was $589 million which is up 9% from this time last year and up slightly from last quarter. During the quarter we booked an additional order with Watmore, who is a repeat customer supporting an existing community microgrid in Lincoln, Nebraska. In our first project with Watmore, we supported the City of Logan, Utah's electric utility for their first energy storage system. Yesterday we also announced a large customer agreement with city utilities to provide 216 megawatt hours of long duration energy storage for two project sites in Springfield, Missouri which will be included in next quarter's published backlog numbers. This was their largest investment to date in energy storage and a significant win for our team. This is a great example of how a project can advance quickly through our pipeline as we moved directly from proposal to firm contract without going through the LOI phase. We are very excited about this city Utilities relationship as we see this as a model that we can use to expand our presence with other municipal customers. The next page provides an update on our capital position and recent updates related to the Cerberus Strategic investment in EOS. As many of you know, since joining the company, I have been laser focused on securing the foundational capital needed to deliver on our profitable growth strategy. A significant amount of effort has gone into the capital sources on this page and I believe we are now well positioned to scale the company with our Cerberus relationship and our upcoming DOE loan. As a quick reminder on the structure of that investment, it includes a $210 million delayed draw term loan that funds in increments upon the achievement of certain performance milestones and $105 million revolver that we may draw upon if needed at Cerberus discretion. At the end of August, we announced the successful achievement of all four of the first performance milestones. This allowed us to draw an additional $30 million on the delayed draw term loan to fund our capital expansion and ongoing operations. These milestones included targets related to the company's automated production line, materials, cost out, improvements in

Thank you. At this time we will conduct the question-and answer-session. [Operator Instructions]. Our first question comes from Thomas Boyes with TD Cowan. Thomas, please go ahead with your question.

Appreciate you guys taking the questions. Maybe just the first one. Could you give us any insight into the underlying issues that led to the new inline enclosures being delayed? Is it a manufacturing issue with moulds? Shortage of capital equipment for the supplier's production setup? Was there a shortage of raw materials? Just any insight there would be helpful.

Yes, Thomas, Good morning. I want to clear up what we're talking about because we've gotten some emails into the IR inbox, you know, with people asking specifically what this is. So let me first explain to everybody what we're talking about. So the battery module is the grey box that goes into a steel enclosure. So you take battery modules, you manufacture them on our automated line. That production was at a higher, more productive rate than we've ever done in the past. We didn't have any issues with the plastics or anything else around us. We're manufacturing batteries, and as we stick here, right now we have 27 cubes worth of batteries manufactured, waiting for steel enclosures to show up. The steel enclosure, you put 672 batteries inside of that steel enclosure. There were some challenges with our supplier transitioning from prototype to scaled manufacturer to be able to get the throughput that we needed and the quality that we require to get out in the field. We've been working with the supplier to be able to get to that point and to be able to flow production. But we're not wasting a crisis. At the same time that these things have been happening, we went into our process where we integrate the batteries into the cube, and we're finding ways to reduce cycle time and do that faster. That will allow us to catch up once the supply chain catches up. At the same time that we're doing this, we're out in the market looking for second and third sources of supply. The natural question would be, why didn't you do that before? But I think everybody has to take a step back and realize that up until June of this year, we were an undercapitalized company. So it was hard to go out and get two sources of supplies. So we bet on a supplier that's always delivered for us and I believe will deliver for us in the future. And we had an acute supply chain issue that resulted in lower shipments than anticipated. We are working through it, we'll work through it and we'll come back with updates to everybody as we have more information. But I just wanted to clear that up and make it clear on what we're talking about and get at the underlying issue that we have and how the team is working on that to resolve and get back to the flow that we expect coming off of our automated line and also out of the factory with the cubes that go out to the field.

Got it. That's very helpful. How quickly can this be dual source? Obviously, it looks like just with this customer, it takes a little bit of time to get to the quality level that you're looking for. I'm just trying to maybe assess what's the risk of seeing these supply chain challenges persistent to 1Q25 or if it's something that can be achieved in a relatively short amount of time?

Tom, great question. What I'd say is we were out. No one supplier is going to be able to deliver what we need from a product as the company scales and grows. So as you start looking at where we are, like the order that we signed, that we announced last night, you put on top of that the backlog that we have and the projects that we're executing on. We need more than one supplier to be able to do that. We're in the process of cutting, of bringing in a second source of supply. We already have a prototype in house from that supplier to be able to look at that design and do all the quality verifications with the goal of getting production started by the end of this year from the second supplier.

Thanks. Stand by for our next question. Our next question comes from Martin Molloy. Martin, go ahead with your question.

Thank you for taking my questions. First one, I just wanted to find out if you have any early customer feedback from the early installations of the

Sorry, Marty, nothing that. We'll talk about that as we go forward here in the future. What I would tell you the modules themselves is that they perform well. We're in the process of installing them with the customers. We're being purposeful in how we're doing that. It is a new product for the customer and working through that and getting them up and operating. What I'd say is the initial results that we're seeing are positive, but we have more work to do with them.

Okay. And it's great to see a large order like what you announced with the utility. Can you maybe talk about customers visiting either your, I think you have a pilot project in New Jersey or demonstration project or the automated line. Has that type of customer changed or are you seeing more customers come through and wanting to see what you're capable of here now that you've got the automated line up and running?

Yes, yes. So what I say, Marty, is yes, we have a lot of people coming in both to Edison, New Jersey and to Turtle Creek in Pennsylvania. I think when you walk into the factory and you see the batteries moving down the line, people then look at this and say, we see that you can scale when we take them over to where we do the containerization and show them the processes that we're putting in place to allow us to get the throughput that we want. That's all ultimately why city Utilities felt comfortable with placing their largest order for energy storage that they've ever placed on us. And I think the team that we built, we continue to build out talent on the organization. We've had a talented team, but as the company scales, we need more of that talent on the field here, helping the company perform. We're doing that. We're bringing in people that have worked for competitors, that have worked in lithium ion, that have worked in the. And they're coming to EOS because when they come and interview, they see what we have and they realize what the market needs and they know that they can be part of building something that's going to change the way we power the future. I really believe in this and I think the team believes in it. And unfortunately, we had this period of time where we had a hiccup. A supply chain is doing a million things right every day. A million simple things. At the end of the day, when you look at what happened here, you say, wow, this is a simple coq. Yes, these things happen all the time. But when you're a company of our size, they can cause a big issue with being able to deliver on your commitments. Embarrassed by the fact that we're not on the commitment, but have a high conviction that the team will deliver and that the customer sees the benefit of the product. The page that I presented with the round-trip efficiencies, that's pretty powerful. We never went up to a 16-hour discharge before. But when you look at that, when you look at that round trip efficiency there in the normal operating window that everybody talks about, that's very powerful. The other thing I'd add inside of that is, although the sound wasn't really great, I understand when I was talking and hopefully we fixed that now but when you think about, we've got this battery out there, we've got our own EMS, and now partnering with service to bring in AI and edge computing and software and analytics, that performance of that battery is only going to improve over time. I mean, we are in the early stages of bringing this product to market. There's a lot more we can do and we love sharing that with our customers because when they see it, they believe it. And then you see the impact of that in our pipeline.

Stand by for our next question. Our next question comes from Stephen Gengaro with Stifel. Stephen, go ahead with your question.

Thank you. Good morning, everybody. I think two questions for me. You talked a little bit about this, but when you think about the supply chain issues, I mean, obviously we're talking about small numbers turning into large numbers. So the revenue ramp and the push out looks large, right, relative to what you reported. But how should we think about, I know it's early, but should we think about a major revenue inflection point in the first quarter next year or the second quarter next year? Is there any color you can give us around that?

Yeah, great question. So what I would say, like we'll come out with 2025 guidance, but when we just talk about ramping into the production, right. What I would say is we'll get to a normalized rate of production here in December. You have to realize like Even with those 27 cubes of batteries sitting on the shop floor waiting for a cube to show up, we're not running the line to its full capacity, its number of hours per day. Like we're trying to manage to deliver for customers while managing the cost, the cash and inventory impact that we're having. So we're trying to time everything. I think we'll get to a normalization. We'll talk about that on a future call. But what I would say is I anticipate a first quarter that's relatively higher obviously than what we're doing now, but relatively flat ramping into growth as we get into the second quarter and second half of next year, principally driven by, when I spoke about the automation of the subassemblies to be able to get the line to be up above 2 gigawatt hours of production. That's when we're going to see the ramp. We're being very purposeful on that subassembly manufacturing. We're getting good performance out of our semi-automated line in order to get with good quality automating that process which we've always Talked about gets us the throughput to get more batteries off the line. Time that with multiple suppliers coming in on the cube and the changes we're making in the containerization process, I think you really see the growth coming in as we get into the second quarter and second half of next year.

Great. Now that's good car. Thank you. And the other question I had was given sort of your stage of production growth, and you obviously had the city utility order come in. Is there any way to think about the Lois and the commitments and how much of that is sort of in limbo until you guys prove the production and the delivery, et cetera? So they're kind of on the cusp of being signed, but you need traction for those customers to sign, or is it just other issues and timing that's driving when these things get signed?

No, thanks for that question. Look, I think this is really, as we talked about earlier in the call, this is really about customers, you know, closing on their financing, getting their interconnections, getting, you know, important pieces of their projects pulled together. In many cases, they're on project short lists and just waiting to get projects awarded. I would say it's really not about us proving out our manufacturing capabilities. It really has to do with normal project development milestones that customers are working through. So again, we continue to work with them as we talked about, on the bankability side, coming up with insurance problems and other warranty enhancements in order to help them with their bankability and their financing. I think you're going to see a significant increase in throughput through our pipeline as a result of that. And we're looking forward to talking more about that in future quarters as it comes to fruition.

Stand by for our next question. Our next question comes from Joseph Osha with Guggenheim. Joseph, go ahead with your question.

Hi, good morning. Thanks a lot. The first question I was going to ask has just been asked. It sounds like we can look forward to the fully automated line probably hitting its full stride kind of second half of next year. Is that fair? From the comments I just heard?

Second quarter, Joe, is what I would say.

All right. Okay, thanks. And then I thought this news item in the press release on the insurance wrap is interesting. Is this something that some of your customers are asking for in order to secure attractive financing? Or just one or two of them? Or all of them? I'm just trying to understand how important getting this done is going to be in terms of getting a revenue ramp and product in the field.

Yes. And Joe, what I would say is just a little bit of color on what we're doing. Right. We have quotes. This isn't like, let's go out and find it. This is, which one do we want to use? I think what this helps us do is accelerate what's sitting in Lois and what's sitting in late stage because it takes off the table. Any questions you would have about EOS being here to deliver the references of the products now that we're able to go in with the production that we have and then tell people, look, as you come in and you're making your first buy, here's the way you get comfortable with your first buy. And I think over time that goes. So this is just in my view, and I'll let Nathan comment as well because he's leading the charge here. This is a way for us to accelerate pipeline conversion as we look forward here.

Yes. And I would just add, I think it's specific to each individual customer. Right. It depends on what, you know, how they're putting their financing together. In some cases it's bridge financing, which is tied to ITC. So it's short term insurance products around the ITC, there's insurance products around the ITC, quality, there's performance guarantee insurance, there's warranty, backstop options. You know, we're talking also about extending our standard warranty terms. So again, it's case by case, customer by customer. What we're endeavoring to do is have a suite of products with a large name insurance underwriter who's done their due diligence on our technology, done their due diligence on our ability to manufacture and deliver, and then tailor those offerings to a particular project or a particular customer in order to meet their needs, in order to get their deals closed and progress.

Okay, let me just perhaps before I go away, ask this a different way then, because you guys are talking about advancing Lois, which is great. Is the shipping of any of this $589 million of hard backlog contingent on closing insurance or not?

No, no, no.

Those are firm orders that we have in our backlog today. So what we're really talking about is how do we move things from, you know, opportunities into a pipeline through Lois and into booked orders.

Stand by for our next question. Our next question comes from Chip Moore with ROTH Capital Partners. Chip, go ahead with your question.

Morning. Thanks for taking the question. Hey, everybody. I just wanted to maybe follow up there, Joe, on sort of near-term pipeline conversion. I guess just any early thoughts, you know, given the new political environment on what that could mean is, you know, does that introduce some potential for delays, you know, sort of near term as people wait to see how things shake out or, or what are your thoughts there? Thanks.

Yeah, Chip, so here's how I would think about this, right? I think we need energy storage regardless of who's in the White House, right? The industry needs it. There's global growth around it. There was growth five years ago in storage, and there's been growth here as technology gets adopted over the last 24 months. I think the other piece that we need is we need American built energy storage and we need safe assets on our grid that we sleep well at night knowing that we can control them. And that's what EOS brings. And I think it's very clear on making America a manufacturer again, which we've done proactively. And we look at accelerating into that demand for a product that the industry needs, combined with a long strategy that we've held for the last five years of being a US manufacturer with a president that we need to see, with potentially a president elect. I've been busy here. I don't know where the election stands, but it looks like with the Trump administration that's come in and has been very clear about how they feel about importing from China. Well, we're here, we build our product in Pennsylvania, our suppliers go through Ohio, Michigan, New York, Massachusetts. I mean, it's the center of the country. It's 91% US manufactured, moving towards 100. With the software being developed by an American company, I think that's pretty powerful. And I think we need this. We need this technology. And I've said this many times, every time everybody asks me about this. I'm an energy executive, I'm not a green tech person. I've worked across every possible area of the energy value chain. We need this technology regardless of who's there. And it's being adopted because it's required and it can work.

This concludes our question-and-answer session. I would now like to turn it back over to Joe Mastralango for closing comments.

Thank you and thanks everyone for listening in today. Just a couple points I want to reiterate. We will come back with the progress that we're having on opening up the supply chain around bringing cubes in and where we stand on that. I think when we talk about bankability, we've got to be very clear that this was something that given where we are with the capital available that Nathan's brought to the company. We now went out proactively with Cerberus to find Marsh to be able to go out and get quotes in, to be able to do this. This wasn't a, oh my God, we have to do it. It was, let's play on our toes versus being on our heels when we're out in the market commercially and that's where we're bringing in. I think one of the things that we didn't talk a lot about on the call, I mentioned it in one of my answers is being able to bring in this suite of analytics and performance monitoring to improve the way the technology performs out in the field. I think we're starting to expand the team and put a world class team on the field to be able to do this. I think the last thing which we weren't asked, but I want to proactively address because we talked about it as it relates to the covenant and the loan around revenue. Cerberus approached EOS about waiving that covenant. They approached us because they understand what was happening around the supply chain and that this was an acute issue, not a systemic issue. And they believe in the team, they believe in the ability to scale this business and they have been a good partner for Eos in being able to do this. We look forward to continuing to work through, get the DOE loan closed, get the supply chain stabilized and running and continuing to work our pipeline and convert that pipeline through to bookable orders out into the field. I feel really good about, I feel really good about the prospects of the company growing. I feel disappointed in the revenue that we delivered in this quarter. But this isn't a company that we should be looking at on individual quarters. This is a company that we have to look at over a period of time. And when you look at the product that we're putting out in the field, it's an amazing product. And it's an amazing product that proves that not only can you invent technology in the US. but you can manufacture technology in the US. and you can deploy technology in the US. and that's what the team at EOS has done and will continue to do. And we're hard at work making that happen every day. I thank everyone again for their time and we'll be back soon with further updates they happen.