2 142 Years of B.Grimm 4 Message from the Chairman and President 6 Commitment 2020 10 Awards and Recognitions 12 2020 Key Highlights 14 Vision & Mission
Business Operations and Performance 20 Structure and Business Operations 71 Risk Management 78 Sustainability Journey 81 Community and Social Engagement 90 Management’s Discussion and Analysis 105 General Information
Corporate Governance 107 Corporate Governance Policy 114 Corporate Governance Structure 138 Board of Directors and Executives 169 Milestones in Governance Performance 200 Internal Control and Related Party Transactions
210 Financial Statement
Index 318 Attachment (Disclosed on website)
Definition B.GRIMM’S 142 YEARS
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B.GRIMM’S 142 YEARS
B.Grimm was founded in 1878. Desiring to improve the wellbeing of the people of Siam, we introduced a Western-style pharmacy named Siam Dispensary, reputed for superior products and services, which earned B.Grimm’s medicine a trusted name among the royal court and later a royal appointment as court pharmacy. B.Grimm & Co. was later formed as a store for German goods in the Kingdom. Due to our good reputation of product quality, integrity, and loyal service, we were also appointed court distributor.
In the Reign of King Chulalongkorn (Rama V), who envisaged domestic irrigation infrastructural development through a canal system (Rangsit Canal). B.Grimm joined the Snidvongse family in forming a company (Khud Khlong Lae Khu Na Siam) to excavate the 1,500-km canals, the longest and largest irrigation system in Southeast Asia at that time. In the endeavour, we pioneered advanced imported machinery instead of using workers. Thanks to our service dedication, enthusiasm, and sincerity, we became more widely known, which enabled us to provide and install the first telegraph system for the Thai government. We also imported premium merchandise, including modern medical apparatus and equipment as well as technology.
Today, B.Grimm is a conglomerate company active in building and industrial systems, healthcare, lifestyle, transportation, real estate, emerging digital technologies, and is now a significant player in the energy business. B.Grimm Power is now a listed public company limited since 2017, engaging in power generation and steam production for steady growth.
Our “Doing Business with Compassion for the Development of Civilisation in Harmony with Nature” philosophy reflects the way B.Grimm conducts businesses with economic, social, and environmental responsibility along with continued roles in social contribution and mobilization, including education, environmental and natural resource conservation, art and culture, music, equestrian sport, and religion.
As a foreign corporation, we take immense pride in forming part of Thailand’s history and having operated businesses for 142 years to support the development of the Thai society. B.Grimm’s business will continue to grow while creating shared values with Thais’ living standards, economy, and society in parallel with retention of our identity in doing business with compassion in years to come.
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MESSAGE FROM THE CHAIRMAN AND PRESIDENT
“Empowering the World Compassionately”
More than 142 years of doing business with compassion
Infrastructure and technology: With the heart of a creative pioneer, B.Grimm has played an instrumental role for over 142 years in jointly developing Thailand’s infrastructure and application of modern technology, dating back to 1878, being the first to produce modern European medicines in Siam. In the 1890s B.Grimm co-developed the 1,500 km Rangsit Irrigation Canals (Southeast Asia’s largest infrastructure project). B.Grimm then in the early 20th century established telecom, Industrial and commercial systems including power generation plants.
Industrial power plants: Starting in 1995, B.Grimm Power has ushered in combined cycle co-generation power plants in support of the industrial sector by generating highest quality and stable power and steam, one of Thailand’s platforms that attracted foreign investment into Thailand that in turn contributed to the steady growth of the nation’s industrial sectors (30% of Thai GNP).
Renewable energy: In view of global climate change, B.Grimm Power has since 2015 grown its renewable-energy business. In 2019 B.Grimm successfully inaugurated commercial operation of the largest solar power generation project in Southeast Asia in Vietnam. This year the B.Grimm Power-Energy China consortium began construction of EGAT’s Floating Solar Power Plant for Sirindhorn Dam Hydro-Floating Solar Hybrid Pilot Project with an installed capacity of 45 megawatts (MW)—this was incidentally the world’s largest solar power system on water.
Performance growth of 21% in Normalised Net Profit (NNP): Despite the rampant Covid-19 pandemic, B.Grimm Power successfully maintained its NNP growth (parent company’s share) at 21.1 percent, rising to Baht 2.617 billion. This year saw 162 MW in capacity growth, 6-percent growth in power distribution to 14,451 gigawatt-hours, and full-year revenue booking of Vietnam’s major solar power project.
Onward to 7,200 MW goal by 2025: B.Grimm’s vision is to empower the world compassionately, we are now operating in or developing projects in Thailand, Lao PDR, Cambodia, Vietnam, the Philippines, South Korea, Myanmar, Malaysia, Indonesia and Oman. We will continue to support the development of nations and be carbon neutral latest by 2050 with various initiatives taken. At the end of 2020, B.Grimm Power’s operational projects numbered 48, with a combined installed capacity of 3,058 MW, excluding projects in the development stage (which would take the capacity to 3,682 MW). Our goal is to reach signed Power Purchase Agreements (PPAs) of 7,200 MW by 2025.
Gratitude to all
On behalf of the Board of Directors, management, and the workforce of B.Grimm Power, may I express my heartfelt thanks and appreciation to all shareholders, partners, suppliers, customers, governmental agencies, regulators, and financial institutions for their consistent faith and trust in B.Grimm. We remain committed to good governance and business responsibility for the economy, society, and the environment.
Mr. Harald Link Chairman and President
5 COMMITMENT 2020
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COMMITMENT 2020
TRADITION & EXPERTISE
“Pioneering spirit and commitment to professionalism—B.Grimm’s 142-year corporate culture”
In June 2020, B.Grimm LNG Co., Ltd. (our wholly owned Thailand consisting of a gas-based combined cycle subsidiary), secured an LNG Shipper Licence from the co-generation power plant, a PV solar farm, and an Energy Regulatory Commission (ERC) for import of energy storage system (ESS)—to generate power and 650,000 tonnes/year of LNG in line with the chilled water for the U-Tapao International Airport. government’s liberalisation policy of natural gas In November 2020 Amata B.Grimm Power 3 won the business competition, which would ease power “Power Plant Upgrade of the Year – Thailand” award generation cost management and add sales presented by the Asian Power journal (one of the opportunities. region’s leading energy journals) for our collaboration In June 2020 B.Grimm Power entered into a with Siemens in improving gas turbine efficiency, which Ratchaphatsadu (royal land) lease with the Eastern would in turn trim natural gas consumption, shorten Economic Corridor (EEC) Office. In December 2020, maintenance time, and add megawatts for serving we entered into a 25-year power purchase agreement industrial users. We have completed four of these with the Royal Thai Navy concession welfare electricity projects, with two more to be completed by early 2023. business to operate a hybrid power plant—a first in
SOCIETY & EDUCATION
“Ever since the Reign of King Rama V, B.Grimm’s partnership with Thai society has grown stronger, in the hope of strengthening Thai society and education in a secure, sustainable way”
In November 2020 we launched the B.Grimm Smart communities, temples, and schools to strengthen and Village Project, designed to develop communities’ drive communities and society for full potential and economic, social, environmental, community, and true sustainability. We have piloted the project at Moo people aspects in an integrated way in line with Ban B.Grimm, Tambon Khlong Tup Chan, Amphoe HM the late King Bhumibol’s “Boworn” (Home, Temple, Aranyaprathet, Sa Kaeo Province, with which B.Grimm School) initiative and Sufficiency Economy principles. has long been associated in the days when Mr. Herbert The objective was for communities to love their and Khunying Alma Link accompanied HRH the late hometowns, make a living under such principles, Princess Mother (Somdet Ya) on her upcountry trip; strengthen communities, and live contented, balanced B.Grimm’s charitable donation went into construction lives. In carrying out this project, we value the of a building at the school later named “B.Grimm engagement process and sharing of learning among School” by the princess.
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2020 was the tenth year in which B.Grimm had continually supported the Little Scientists’ House of Thailand ever since its launch, designed to incubate scientific interests among children (3-6 years old), organise teachers’ training activities, develop educational media, and organise family activities. This year we sponsored a total of 151 schools in the local network, and our workforce served as mentor scientists/engineers that taught and joined in activities with teachers of the B.Grimm network schools.
For over a decade, B.Grimm Power has supported a bilateral vocational education project in conjunction with Chitralada School (vocational branch) and V-EsEPC (a project designed to develop power system engineering technicians), Map Ta Phut Technical College in Rayong, and APPP (Association of Private Power Producers). We have run bilateral vocational activities with colleges in the vicinity of B.Grimm Power’s power plants, which offer on-the-job training under close supervision of power plant training staff, which would in turn benefit vocational students poised for their future careers as well as growing vocational educational opportunities in the industry.
RESOURCE & ENVIRONMENT
“B.Grimm Power believes that by doing business with compassion for civilisation as one with nature, we can bring happiness to all”
This year our combined cycle co-generation power plants used more than 60% of the water coming from wastewater treatment so as to preserve water resources while easing domestic drought. That way, society in general will benefit in a balanced and sustainable manner.
In October 2020 our Phu Yen TTP solar power project in Vietnam signed a green loan agreement worth US$186 million with the Asian Development Bank, five commercial banks, and Leading Asia’s Private Infrastructure Fund (LEAP). This represented the maiden green loan in the CLMVT (Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar, Vietnam, Thailand) region to be certified by the Climate Bonds Initiative in support of Vietnam’s sustainable energy development and advocate regional green loan markets in accordance with our business sustainability policy of international standards.
In December 2020 we launched commercial operation of the Ray Power solar power project in Cambodia as scheduled despite difficulties posed by the Covid-19 pandemic and the massive floods in that country. This was the sole solar power project that remained intact amid the unexpected great floods, as our solar panels and frame clamps were installed above than the 100-year flood level. This project was regarded as Thailand’s first power plant to operate with Electricite du Cambodge, the national electricity authority. As of year-end 2020, about 30 percent of our power generation Megawatt were in renewable energy.
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END PANDEMIC
“Since B.Grimm’s pioneering usage of Western medicine, our top priority has always been public benefit, thus our participation in global problemsolving from upstream to downstream”
To B.Grimm, the source of this very pandemic lies in under the EndPandemics campaign through online forest encroachment and destruction of wildlife and offline communication channels, including habitats, not to mention the smuggling and trade in organisation of a project PR dialogue, PR through wildlife and illegal goods, which lead to the spread from YouTube, and various print materials to publicise and wildlife to man. The protection of forests and wildlife forge widespread awareness among the world as well as prevention of widelife trade is therefore community with CNN. regarded as the prevention of communicable diseases Amid the Covid-19 pandemic of 2020, we ensured that at source. For more than six years, B.Grimm has we look after all stakeholders. Cases in point were the participated in support given to the Tiger and Prey workforce’s health and safety, AGM organisation strictly Recovery and Participatory Conservation Project (a under the Ministry of Public Health’s and government project on panther conservation and population agencies’ measures, discounts of service fees and growth) at Mae Wong National Park and Khlong Lam greater flexibility for customers, the launch of the National Park in Kamphaeng Phet in conjunction with B.Grimm Sharing, Combating Covid-19 Project for the Department of National Parks, Wildlife, and Plant assorted support, including donations, medical Conservation and the World Wide Fund for Nature devices, life assurance for medical personnel, and (WWF). The intention is to join in the protection of survival bags donated to hospitals, charitable entities, panthers’ habitats from wildlife hunting and and surrounding communities of B.Grimm’s projects encroachment while restoring Thailand’s western and offices in Thailand and abroad, altogether worth forest ecology. some Baht 50 million. B.Grimm has actively cooperated with Freeland (a non-profit entity) in a campaign to end wildlife trade Find out more : “Endpandamics”
9 AWARDS AND RECOGNITIONS
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AWARDS AND RECOGNITIONS
Awards from “10th Asian Excellence Award 2020” including Awards from “Asian Power Awards 2020” including Asia’s Best CEO, Asia’s Best CFO, Asia’s Best CSR, Best Power Utility of the Year - Thailand, Power Plant Investor Relations Company and Best Investor Relations Upgrade of the Year - Thailand and Hydro Power by Corporate Governance Asia Project of the Year- Bronze by Asian Power Magazine
The Best Power Plant Project Developer – Solar Certified byClimate Bonds Initiative for green loan for Phu Yen TTP by International Finance Magazine of Phu Yen TTP in Vietnam which is the first green loan in Thailand and CLMV region to be certified
MSCI ESG RATING OF BBB Included in the FTSE4Good Indexes Series - FTSE4GOOD in 2020 by MSCI ESG Research Emerging Markets Index & FTSE4GOOD ASEAN 5 Index announced by FTSE Russell
The List of Thailand Sustainability Investment Index ESG100 : 2020 List for 3rd consecutive year and (THSI) 2020 for 3rd consecutive year from the Stock Sustainability Disclosure Award 2020 from Thaipat Exchange of Thailand Institute
Excellent CG Scoring for 2020 from Thai Institute of Awards from “Institutional Investor Corporate Awards Directors Association 2020” including Strongest Adherence to Corporate Governance, Most Organised Investor Relations and Most Consistent Dividend Policy by Alpha Southeast Asia
Excellent score of Annual General Meeting (AGM) Checklist in 2020 from the Thai Investors Association
11 2020 KEY HIGHLIGHTS
2020 KEY HIGHLIGHTS
44,087 13,003 29.5% Sales an Service Income I I ar in (Million Baht) (Million Baht)
21.1% 1.5 ro th in P et Interest earin e t to it Ratio to ners (Times)