Companhia Paranaense de Energia's (ELP) CEO Daniel Pimentel Slaviero on Q1 2021 Results - Earnings Call Transcript

Companhia Paranaense de Energia-COPEL (NYSE:ELP) Q1 2021 Earnings Conference Call May 6, 2021 1:00 PM ET

Company Participants

Daniel Slaviero – Chief Executive Officer
Adriano Rudek de Moura – Chief Financial Officer and Investor Relations Officer

Conference Call Participants

Marcelo Sa – Itau

Operator

Good afternoon, and thank you for waiting. Welcome to Companhia Paranaense de Energia COPEL Earnings Call to discuss the results of the first quarter of 2021. All participants are in a listen-mode during the company’s presentation. [Operator Instructions]

Before proceeding, we inform that forward-looking statements that might be made during this conference call related to Copel business outlooks, projections, operating and financial projections, our goals and they are all based on beliefs and assumptions of the company’s management and on information currently available to the company. Forward-looking statements are no guarantee of performance.

They involve risks, uncertainties and assumptions because they relate to future events and therefore, depend on circumstances that may or may not occur. General economic conditions, industry conditions and other operating factors may also affect the future results of Copel and could cause results to differ materially from those expressed in such forward-looking statements.

With us today, Mr. Daniel Slaviero, CEO of the company; and Mr. Adriano, CFO and IR Officer. Copel’s presentation is available at the company’s website. www.iri.copel.com.

Now, we turn the floor to Mr. Daniel Slaviero, CEO of the company.

Daniel Slaviero

Good afternoon, everyone. Thank you very much for participating in this conference. I hope that all of you and your families are doing well and are healthy. And despite of facing a very challenging environment, we are very pleased to bring to you the results of this first quarter, which once again superceded our expectations and have a sound and consistent growth. In this quarter, as broadly published in our notices to the market, specifically in our