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DGAP-News: KTG Energie AG focuses on consistent dividend policy

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KTG Energie AG focuses on consistent dividend policy

- Company proposes a dividend of EUR 0.46 per share - Proposal equates to dividend yield of 4.8% - Shareholders shall optionally receive attractive share dividend

Hamburg, 12 May 2016. The Executive Board and Supervisory Board of KTG Energie AG decided to propose a dividend of EUR 0.46 per share to this year's Shareholders' Meeting (previous year: EUR 0.45). Based on the current share price (EUR 9.53), the proposal represents a dividend yield of 4.8%. The proposal reflects the company's positive business performance and continues its consistent dividend policy. After EUR 0.40 for the short financial year 2013 and EUR 0.45 for the 2013/2014 financial year, the company now also wishes to allow shareholders to participate in the biogas specialist's profitable growth trajectory in the 2014/2015 financial year. As in the previous year, a proposal has been made which would allow shareholders to choose between having the dividend paid out in shares or in cash. The Shareholders' Meeting will vote on the proposal on 22 June. In the previous financial year, KTG Energie AG increased revenues by over 25% to EUR 89 million (previous year: EUR 70.9 million) and EBITDA to EUR 25.05 million (2013/2014: EUR 21.9 million). Net profit came in at around EUR 4.479 million.

"We are honouring our dividend promise with this proposal. With the anticipated third payout in succession, we are underscoring the positioning of the KTG Energie share as a sustainable dividend-bearing security", explained Dr. Thomas Berger, CEO at KTG Energie AG. KTG Energie also performed impressively in every respect operationally: "Not only did we achieve further profitable growth in the 2014/2015 financial year, we are also on the right track for 2015/2016," continued Dr. Berger. Based on the current plant portfolio, we have already secured revenues of over EUR 90 million and EBITDA of up to EUR 28 million for the current year. The company is also planning further acquisitions.

KTG Energie currently possesses plant capacity of over 60 MW. Secured revenues and the feed-in remuneration guaranteed for 20 years from commissioning provide KTG Energie AG with a high degree of planning security. The positive free cash flow achieved in the previous 2014/2015 financial year also increases the company's financial room for manoeuvre to acquire existing biogas plants for the expansion of its own portfolio and to further increase its existing secured revenues and earnings base.

About KTG Energie AG KTG Energie AG is committed to an integrated, sustainable business model in which the production of renewable commodities does not compete with foodstuff production. With 85 employees at the end of 2015, KTG Energie AG operated biogas plants with a total capacity of more than 60 MW, which both feed processed biogas directly into the Natural Gas grid and use biogas for power production. From fiscal year 2015/2016, this will result in a secured sales base of up to EUR90 million and an EBITDA base of up to EUR28 million.

Contact: Investor Relations / Press Tobias M. Weitzel BSK Becker+Schreiner Kommunikation GmbH Phone: +49 2154-8122 16 E-mail: weitzel@kommunikation-bsk.de

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Language: English Company: KTG Energie AG Ferdinandstr. 12 20095 Hamburg Germany Phone: +49 40 76755372 Fax: +49 40 76755374 E-mail: info@ktg-energie.de Internet: www.ktg-energie.de ISIN: DE000A0HNG53, DE000A1ML257, WKN: A0HNG5, A1ML25 Listed: Regulated Unofficial Market in Berlin, Dusseldorf, Munich, Stuttgart; Open Market (Entry Standard) in Frankfurt End of News DGAP News Service ---------------------------------------------------------------------------

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