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Daniel Beneš
Daniel Beneš
Born1970 (age 56–55)
NationalityCzech
EducationVŠB - Technical University of Ostrava (Ing.)
Brno Business School, Nottingham Trent University (MBA)
OccupationBusiness executive
CompanyČEZ
TitleChairman of the Board of Directors and Chief Executive Officer
Children2

Daniel Beneš (born 1970) is a Czech business executive who has been chairman of the board of directors and chief executive officer of ČEZ, the majority state-owned Czech energy group, since September 15, 2011.[1] A mechanical engineer by training who started his career in the coal trade in northern Moravia, he joined ČEZ in 2004 as head of procurement, became a board member in December 2005, and served as executive director under his predecessor Martin Roman before succeeding him.[1][2] In September 2026 he marked 15 years at the head of the company, and his mandate has been extended to the end of 2029.[3]

Beneš's tenure has covered the company's retreat from most of its foreign expansion in the Balkans, Poland and Turkey, a strategy to phase out coal and reach carbon neutrality by 2040, the 2022 European energy crisis, and the tender that led to a contract with Korea Hydro & Nuclear Power (KHNP) for two new reactors at the Dukovany nuclear power plant.[3][4][5] During the energy crisis the group reported a record net profit of CZK 80.7 billion for 2022, much of which flowed to the state through a windfall tax and a record dividend.[6]

Since 2025 Beneš has overseen the first stage of the government of Andrej Babiš's plan to take full state control of ČEZ's generation business. In June 2026 shareholders approved his board's proposal to move sales, distribution, trading and energy services into a new subsidiary, ČEZ Energy, in which up to 49 percent is to be offered to outside investors.[7][8]

Outside the company, Beneš is a vice-president of the Confederation of Industry of the Czech Republic, chairman of the board of the Energy Union of the Czech Republic (Svaz energetiky ČR) and a vice-president of the Alliance for an Emission-Free Future. He has also sat on the government's Coal Commission and National Economic Council.[1][9] His long tenure, his relationships with politicians and his pay have regularly drawn public comment in the Czech press.[3][10]

Early life and education

Beneš attended a gymnasium (academic secondary school) in Havířov, in the Moravian-Silesian Region, the same school as Martin Roman, his predecessor as head of ČEZ.[2] A 2014 profile in the Polish business press said the two had met at secondary school and competed against each other in mathematics olympiads.[11] In a 2023 interview Beneš said he had not been a particularly diligent student as a teenager, when he had "other priorities than study", and that he only graduated with distinction at the highest level of his education.[12]

His father, Antonín Beneš, worked in the coal business and, according to sources quoted by the daily E15, helped to re-establish the Czech Social Democratic Party after 1989.[10] Beneš has said that his father taught him the coal trade in Ostrava and that he began working in the energy sector while still at university.[12]

Beneš graduated from the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering of the VŠB - Technical University of Ostrava, earning the Czech engineering degree (Ing.). He later completed a Master of Business Administration through Brno Business School in cooperation with Nottingham Trent University.[1][9]

Career

Coal trading, 1993 to 2004

From 1993 to 1997 Beneš was sales manager at the coal company Bohemiacoal. He then ran the Hedviga Group, and from 2000 to 2004 he was director of a plant of the Ostrava-based fuel importer and trader TCHAS.[9][2] In a 2005 interview with ČEZ's in-house magazine, quoted by iDNES.cz in 2011, he said he had "learned trading from scratch", starting as a clerk, then dealing with large clients such as heating plants and power stations, and finally becoming commercial director of TCHAS with responsibility for all of its fuel sales in the Czech Republic and Slovakia. He said the job had taught him to manage a larger team and had given him a working knowledge of every Czech brown coal company and of Polish producers and traders.[2] A ČT24 summary published in 2018 described him as having successively run three energy companies between 1993 and 2004.[13]

ČEZ procurement and executive director, 2004 to 2011

Beneš joined ČEZ in March 2004 from TCHAS as head of the procurement section.[2] He became a member of the board of directors on December 15, 2005, and in 2006 he took over the Administration Division. From May 2006 he was vice-chairman of the board.[1] In June 2007 he became executive director, a post created when ČEZ adopted what Roman described as the model used by large Western European companies, in which day-to-day management was separated from the chief executive's role.[2][14] As executive director he was responsible for the running of the company and its main domestic projects, which allowed Roman to concentrate on foreign expansion. He also represented the parent company on the bodies of its subsidiaries and chaired the supervisory board of the mining company Severočeské doly.[2]

Describing the division of labour shortly after he took over, Beneš told E15 that while the posts were split, he had attended to the internal running of the company and Roman to strategy, shareholder relations and the acquisitions that then made up ČEZ's foreign expansion.[15] Under share option arrangements, Beneš exercised options in 2009 on 75,000 shares at CZK 594 each and sold them at CZK 903, a gain that iDNES.cz put at more than CZK 23 million.[2]

Chief executive officer, 2011 to present

Appointment

On September 15, 2011, Roman resigned as chief executive after almost eight years and moved to the chair of the supervisory board, and the board elected Beneš as its chairman and as chief executive.[14][1] Roman said that Beneš had "worked his way up with his team of divisional directors" to the point where he had all the experience needed to run ČEZ. Finance Minister Miroslav Kalousek, who exercised the state's shareholder rights, said Roman had left at his own request.[14] On taking office Beneš said he hoped not to disappoint the owners and the supervisory board and to run the company so that it continued to bring good returns to the state and other shareholders and to supply electricity and gas reliably to millions of customers.[14]

Analysts quoted at the time expected continuity. Ondřej Moravanský of Cyrrus said Beneš was regarded as a similar figure to Roman and that his biggest task would be the completion of the Temelín nuclear plant, while Martin Prokop of Next Finance predicted that Beneš would put foreign acquisitions on hold.[14] According to the Polish daily Dziennik Gazeta Prawna, reproduced by Forsal.pl, the appointment came as a surprise even to senior government advisers.[11]

Early years and the 2014 reappointment

In his first interview as chief executive, in January 2012, Beneš said that for his first three months he had effectively held both posts, and that he intended to cut costs and reduce the number of subsidiaries. Beneš said the company had prepared a scenario for operating without a coal contract with Czech Coal, controlled by Pavel Tykač, because "you have to be ready for all variants, then you negotiate well."[15]

In early 2014 the supervisory board reappointed Beneš for a further four-year term. Analysts cited by Dziennik Gazeta Prawna credited him with handling falling power prices and EU regulation, with selling the Chvaletice power station, which closed a European Commission competition case against the company, and with negotiating a compromise coal supply agreement with Czech Coal. Petr Hlinomaz of BH Securities said Beneš had in many respects departed from his predecessor's line and showed "pragmatism".[11]

According to Ekonomický deník, Beneš's position was most at risk in 2014 and 2015, when the then finance minister Andrej Babiš prepared a change of leadership at the company. Beneš withstood the pressure, the paper wrote, mainly through the support of Prime Minister Bohuslav Sobotka and President Miloš Zeman.[3] E15 reported in 2018 that Babiš had called the company in the Roman and Beneš era the peak of the Czech "Palermo" and had long sought to replace Beneš.[10]

Retreat from abroad and the 2019 strategy

In May 2019 Beneš told Hospodářské noviny that the group planned to sell its assets in Romania and Turkey as well as Bulgaria, and was considering leaving Poland, where it owned two coal plants, to cut its carbon emissions. The proceeds were to fund renewable sources, new nuclear units and modernisation of the distribution grid.[16] The general meeting that June approved a strategy that concentrated the company on the Czech market.[17]

The Romanian business, including the Oltenia distribution network and the Fântânele-Cogealac wind farm, was sold to the Australian group Macquarie for CZK 24.6 billion. Ekonomický deník reported that ČEZ had indirectly acknowledged in its 2020 annual report that it had lost almost CZK 11 billion in the Balkans; most of that expansion had taken place under Roman between 2004 and 2011.[3]

Mandate extended in 2020

On November 26, 2020, the supervisory board extended Beneš's mandate by four years, to the end of 2025. The company said it was standard practice among multinational companies to settle the chairman's succession about a year before a term ended. Seznam Zprávy reported at the same time that Beneš had been discussed as a possible prime minister of a caretaker government; Beneš said he had never received such an offer, had no political ambitions and would not enter politics, calling the speculation "100 percent invented".[9] In an interview with ČT24 that day he also addressed reports that President Zeman had approached him about leading such a government.[18]

Vision 2030 and the move away from coal

In May 2021 Beneš and deputy chairman Pavel Cyrani presented the accelerated strategy "Vision 2030: Clean Energy of Tomorrow". The group said it would build mainly solar plants, raising its renewable capacity from 1,700 megawatts to 6,000 megawatts by 2030, and that coal would fall to a quarter of its electricity output by the middle of the decade and to an eighth by 2030. Environmental groups welcomed the coal phase-down but said the plan lacked a schedule for specific plant closures.[19][20]

After Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine, Beneš said in March 2022 that coal plants might have to run longer or produce more than planned, although Beneš said the company still regarded the Vision 2030 targets as valid.[21] In July 2022 he and Environment Minister Anna Hubáčková signed a voluntary climate agreement under which the group brought forward its target for carbon-neutral operations from 2050 to 2040.[4] In November 2023 Beneš said the group wanted to convert all of its heating plants from coal to gas between 2026 and 2029.[22] In May 2025 the environment ministry and ČEZ agreed to end mining at the Bílina brown coal mine, run by the ČEZ subsidiary Severočeské doly, in 2033 instead of 2035. Beneš said he expected Bílina to be the last coal mine to close in the country, marking the end of coal-fired power in the Czech Republic.[23] As of March 2026, the group expected to operate its coal sources until 2030.[24]

The 2022 energy crisis

During the 2022 energy crisis the company Beneš led became the main instrument of the Czech government's response. In July 2022 the finance ministry agreed to lend the company up to EUR 3 billion to cover margin calls on energy exchanges.[25] Through the company, the state leased capacity at the Eemshaven liquefied natural gas (LNG) terminal in the Netherlands, which began supplying the Czech Republic in the autumn of 2022.[26][27] In October 2022 Beneš said on the programme Otázky Václava Moravce that Gazprom's reduced deliveries had cost the company "in the higher hundreds of millions to billions" of koruna and that arbitration was the only option. The company formally started arbitration proceedings in Geneva in February 2023, claiming around CZK 1 billion.[27][28]

Parliament introduced a 60 percent windfall tax on energy companies, banks and refineries in November 2022. Beneš said the tax would not cause further rises in electricity prices.[29] In March 2023, as the first guest of the Blesk.cz interview programme Hráči, Beneš explained why the company sold power on the Leipzig exchange, against claims that it was selling cheaply abroad and buying back expensively. He said that the company pre-sold part of its output years in advance, which had long benefited it when prices fell, and that leaving the exchange would be possible but would make the Czech Republic look "unsolidary". He also announced fixed-price products below the government's price caps from April 1, 2023, and said the company's managers had received death threats over energy prices.[30][31]

Nuclear programme

New nuclear capacity at Dukovany has been one of the main projects of Beneš's tenure. In November 2019 he estimated the cost of a new unit at CZK 140 billion to CZK 160 billion and said the company expected up to five bids.[32] When Prime Minister Babiš said in November 2020 that the tender was not ready, Beneš responded that the company had it prepared but could not launch it without the government's consent.[18] The tender opened in March 2022, and in November 2022 the company received three bids, from EDF, KHNP and Westinghouse.[33] KHNP won. A court injunction obtained by EDF blocked the planned signing on May 7, 2025, and Beneš warned that the delay could cost hundreds of millions of koruna.[34] The Supreme Administrative Court lifted the injunction on June 4, 2025, and the project company Elektrárna Dukovany II (EDU II), by then 80 percent owned by the state and 20 percent by ČEZ, signed contracts that day for two units, estimated at CZK 407 billion at current prices.[5][35][36]

Under Beneš, the group also pursued small modular reactors (SMRs). In 2022 it set aside a site at Temelín for a first SMR, and Beneš signed an agreement with Prime Minister Petr Fiala and South Bohemian governor Martin Kuba establishing the South Bohemian Nuclear Park.[37] In October 2024 the group agreed to buy a stake of about 20 percent in the British company Rolls-Royce SMR.[38] In April 2026 the company signed a memorandum with the industry ministry on SMR development and a contract with Rolls-Royce SMR for preparatory work, and in September 2026 the ČEZ subsidiary Škoda JS became exclusive designer and supplier of control rod drives for Rolls-Royce SMR reactors. The group plans up to three gigawatts of SMR capacity in the Czech Republic with Rolls-Royce SMR.[39][40]

Beneš's management also replaced the Russian supplier TVEL for nuclear fuel. In May 2025 Beneš announced the first Westinghouse fuel deliveries to Temelín, saying the step "significantly increases the energy security of the Czech Republic".[41]

Mandate to 2029 and the nationalisation plan

On November 11, 2024, the supervisory board extended Beneš's mandate again, by four years to 2029, more than a year before his term was due to end. A ČEZ spokesperson cited the negotiations with KHNP as a reason for settling the question early.[42][43]

Babiš's ANO movement campaigned in the October 2025 election on taking the company fully into state ownership. Shortly after the vote Beneš argued that there were other ways to achieve affordable energy, chiefly by completing new nuclear units, and said the sector faced investment of CZK 3 trillion to CZK 4 trillion to maintain energy security.[44] The draft programme of the new ANO, SPD and Motorists coalition committed to "steps to gain 100 percent control over generation in the ČEZ group", financed by a buyback by the company itself rather than from the state budget.[45] In a March 2026 interview with Česká televize Beneš declined to comment in detail on the plan.[46]

In April 2026 Beneš's board proposed moving ČEZ Prodej, ČEZ Distribuce, GasNet, ČEZ ESCO, the trading companies and Telco Pro Services into a new subsidiary, retaining at least 51 percent and offering the rest to investors. Beneš said the subsidiary would produce about half of the group's operating profit in 2026, that all sale options, including a stock market listing, a direct sale or an exchange with ČEZ's minority shareholders, would be considered, and that deputy chairman Pavel Cyrani was the most suitable candidate to lead it.[47] The general meeting approved the plan on June 1, 2026, with more than 90 percent of the votes present, and ČEZ Energy was founded on June 23, 2026.[7][8] Beneš said that in the base scenario ČEZ could be ready to launch the transaction around the end of 2026, and no later than the first quarter of 2027.[8] Ekonomický deník reported that the proceeds were to be used to buy back ČEZ shares, leaving the state as sole owner, and wrote that it seemed "almost certain" Beneš would also lead the wholly state-owned company.[3]

In June 2026 he also announced a CZK 8 billion conversion of the Orlík hydroelectric plant into the country's fourth large pumped-storage plant, due for completion in 2033.[48]

Leadership and management style

At the time of his appointment iDNES.cz described Beneš as a "tough but principled" negotiator. In 2007 he set out in the ČEZ company magazine ten principles for his colleagues, including advice to work as if ČEZ were their own company, to save money, and not to squeeze suppliers too hard: "Try to build a competitive and stable supplier environment. A supplier you strangle is of no use to you."[2]

Beneš has described himself as working far more than eight hours a day. "If you counted the time I have spent at work, I would almost be entitled to a pension," he said in 2023, acknowledging "a certain degree of workaholism" and saying that his family had always suffered for it.[12] He has also said that because he has run the group for so long, he knows personally everyone in senior management, having hired them himself.[12]

In a September 2026 assessment, Ekonomický deník called Beneš above all a "skilled negotiator" able to secure support across the political spectrum. Unnamed industry sources quoted by the paper described him as a capable administrator with a tendency to micromanage, but said he lacked the ability to anticipate market developments, citing ČEZ's forecast in spring 2018 that power prices would stay at EUR 35 to EUR 40 per megawatt hour.[3] The same article noted the stability of his board, several of whose members had served for more than ten years, and quoted economist Radim Dohnal, who said Beneš "can accommodate the state, refuse some dangerous initiatives from government coalitions and at the same time maintain strong profitability".[3]

Major deals and strategic decisions

  • Exit from foreign markets (2019 onwards): sales of businesses in Bulgaria, Romania and elsewhere, including the Romanian assets to Macquarie for CZK 24.6 billion.[16][3]
  • Lithium (2019): in July 2019 Beneš and Industry Minister Karel Havlíček announced that ČEZ had taken an option on a majority stake in European Metals Holdings, which held rights to the Cínovec lithium deposit, lending it EUR 2 million.[49]
  • GasNet (2024): ČEZ bought 55.21 percent of GasNet, the largest Czech gas distributor, from funds managed by Macquarie Asset Management for EUR 846.5 million, completing the deal in August 2024. Beneš said it would help ČEZ move its heating plants from coal to gas and biomass by 2030.[50] In 2025 he said ČEZ was also buying Gas Distribution, which would give it gas distribution across the whole country except Prague.[51]
  • Rolls-Royce SMR (2024): purchase of a stake of about 20 percent.[38]
  • Dukovany (2025): before the KHNP contract, the government approved state financing for EDU II and took an 80 percent stake in the company, paying ČEZ CZK 3.6 billion.[35]
  • ČEZ Energy (2026): separation of the non-generation businesses as a first step towards full state ownership of generation.[7]

Financial and market performance

The group's results under Beneš have followed the power price cycle and, since 2022, special taxes. Net profit fell 45 percent in 2018 to CZK 10.5 billion, and the company announced 500 job cuts.[52] The dividend paid in 2019, CZK 24 per share, was the lowest in 12 years, against CZK 53 in 2010.[17] In 2020 net profit was CZK 5.5 billion after impairments linked to the Romanian sale, but adjusted net profit rose 21 percent to CZK 22.8 billion on revenue of CZK 213.7 billion.[53]

Net profit for 2022 rose to a record CZK 80.7 billion from CZK 9.9 billion a year earlier. Beneš said the company would pay the state more than CZK 100 billion that year in windfall tax, levies on excess revenue and ordinary income tax.[6] The general meeting in June 2023 approved the state's proposal to pay out all adjusted profit as a dividend of CZK 145 per share, the highest in the company's history, rejecting the board's proposal of CZK 117.[54]

In 2023 net profit fell 63 percent to CZK 29.6 billion, mainly because of about CZK 40 billion in extraordinary taxes and levies.[42] Profit for 2024 was CZK 30.5 billion, and Beneš said the group would pay almost CZK 30 billion in windfall tax in 2025. When minority shareholders urged a legal challenge, Beneš said the tax was "a valid law" for the company.[55] For 2025 the group reported net profit of CZK 27.4 billion and EBITDA of CZK 137 billion, with adjusted profit of CZK 28.1 billion.[24] The June 2026 general meeting approved a dividend of CZK 42 per share, or CZK 23 billion in total, of which the state received about CZK 16 billion.[56] The dividend policy in force since January 1, 2023, provides for a payout of 60 to 80 percent of adjusted net profit.[24]

The share price rose after ANO's election victory in October 2025 as investors anticipated a state buyout.[44] In September 2026 Dohnal said the share price was at its highest since 2007.[3]

Compensation

The company discloses its board's pay each year before the general meeting. Beneš's total income for 2022 was about CZK 35 million.[12] For 2025 it was CZK 53.29 million, about CZK 1.5 million less than for 2024, and the highest among the seven board members, who received about CZK 191 million together.[57] Asked about public criticism of his pay during the energy crisis, Beneš said board members had no salary in the usual sense and that the published figure was their total annual pay, not a bonus. Beneš said the company's managers were paid "rather less" than their counterparts at other European utilities, that the amount was capped and set by the supervisory board, and that whether it was "justifiable or moral" was a matter of individual opinion. "I had to get used to it," he said of the public scrutiny.[12]

Board memberships and outside roles

  • Confederation of Industry of the Czech Republic (Svaz průmyslu a dopravy ČR): member of the board from 2015, first vice-president from 2019, and vice-president as of 2026.[9][1]
  • Energy Union of the Czech Republic (Svaz energetiky ČR): chairman of the board; according to the association, he played a major part in its founding.[58]
  • Alliance for an Emission-Free Future (Aliance pro bezemisní budoucnost): vice-president. The alliance was launched in November 2023 to speed up the decarbonisation of Czech industry.[1][22]
  • ČEZ Foundation (Nadace ČEZ): chairman of the board of trustees.[1]
  • Government advisory bodies: former member of the Coal Commission, which in December 2020 recommended ending coal use in 2038;[59] of the National Economic Council of the Government (NERV), where he worked on the economic strategy and the national recovery plan; and of the climate commission of the Research, Development and Innovation Council.[1][9]
  • Earlier roles: chairman of the supervisory board of Severočeské doly while he was executive director of ČEZ.[2]

Controversies

Nagyová affair

In June 2013 the daily E15 published the charge sheet in the corruption case that brought down Prime Minister Petr Nečas's government. According to Hospodářské noviny, the documents indicated that Beneš and Czech Railways chief Petr Žaluda had spoken by telephone with Jana Nagyová, Nečas's chief of staff, about possible posts for rebel Civic Democratic MPs.[60] In a later tax case concerning gifts allegedly given to Nagyová (by then Jana Nečasová), Beneš was summoned as a witness in September 2019. According to Česká televize, he was among the witnesses who denied that Nečasová had received luxury items from them.[61] In 2026 the investor Jaroslav Šura cited the gifts episode as an example of the risk that an over-long tenure leads a chief executive to focus on politics and relations with politicians.[3]

Political ties

E15 reported in 2018 that President Zeman had long protected Beneš against Babiš, and sources told the paper that the two men had known each other through Beneš's father since the 1990s. Beneš appeared among Zeman's supporters on the night of his re-election in January 2018 and told iRozhlas.cz that he had been on first-name terms with Zeman since the early 1990s and had come to greet and support him. A company spokesperson said its representatives always acted apolitically.[10] Beneš was for many years a member of the Czech Social Democratic Party but suspended his membership because of his business career.[2]

Bulgaria and foreign losses

At the end of 2020 Czech police began investigating a criminal complaint alleging that the group's sale of the Varna power station in Bulgaria had been unfavourable and could have cost the state several billion koruna. A valuer chosen by the company had valued the plant, bought in 2004 for EUR 260 million, at less than EUR 48 million, the price at which it was sold to a company controlled by the Bulgarian politician Ahmed Dogan.[62] In January 2026 an ICSID tribunal found that the company had been harmed by the Bulgarian government and regulator, but not to a degree that required Bulgaria to pay compensation.[3]

Length of tenure and pay

In 2026 Ekonomický deník noted that the Security Information Service had criticised over-long tenures at the head of state-owned companies in its annual report, without naming individuals. Dohnal told the paper that 15 years with one head was only appropriate for a family firm or a large corporation with excellent results and support from shareholders and from within. Šura said Beneš had sometimes treated the firm as his own and had not taken minority shareholders seriously.[3] His pay attracted criticism during the energy crisis, when customers faced higher bills.[12]

Nationalisation

In June 2026 ten signatories, including former prime minister Jiří Rusnok, former ČEZ chief executive Jaroslav Míl and National Budget Council chairman Mojmír Hampl, published an open letter to Babiš opposing the planned split. They argued it would disadvantage citizens and benefit only minority shareholders, and that buying out minority shareholders would waste money that could be invested.[63]

Property purchase

In 2009 Beneš bought commercial premises on Pařížská Street in Prague for CZK 30 million. The opposition at the time criticised the former Prague 1 mayor Petr Hejma for allegedly selling the property below its value.[2]

Personal life

Beneš is married and has two children.[1] In 2011 iDNES.cz reported that he had two sons and lived near Roman in the Prague district of Chuchle.[2] He has listed his interests as sport, work and reading history books, especially about antiquity.[2] In 2023 he said he no longer played golf because it took too much time and that he preferred sports that needed less of it. He also said that, being over 50, he had to watch his health.[12]

Recognition

  • Manager of the Year for 2014, awarded by the Czech Management Association.[13]
  • Named in 2018 by the Czech Management Association among the ten managerial personalities of the 25 years of its Manager of the Year competition.[13]

See also

References

  1. ↑ 1.00 1.01 1.02 1.03 1.04 1.05 1.06 1.07 1.08 1.09 1.10 <ref>"Ing. Daniel Beneš, MBA".ČEZ, a. s..Retrieved October 29, 2026.</ref>
  2. ↑ 2.00 2.01 2.02 2.03 2.04 2.05 2.06 2.07 2.08 2.09 2.10 2.11 2.12 2.13 <ref>"Nový šéf ČEZ Beneš: Romanův spolužák a soused i tvrdý obchodník".September 16, 2011.Retrieved October 29, 2026.</ref>
  3. ↑ 3.00 3.01 3.02 3.03 3.04 3.05 3.06 3.07 3.08 3.09 3.10 3.11 3.12 <ref>"ČEZ má už 15 let stejného ředitele. Jak se z Daniela Beneše stal pan Nenahraditelný?".September 14, 2026.Retrieved October 29, 2026.</ref>
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 <ref>"ČEZ chce urychlit dosažení uhlíkové neutrality svých provozů o deset let".Česká televize.July 15, 2022.Retrieved October 29, 2026.</ref>
  5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 <ref>"South Korea's KHNP to build at Czechia's Dukovany plant, contract signed after court ruling".June 4, 2025.Retrieved October 29, 2026.</ref>
  6. ↑ 6.0 6.1 <ref>"Čistý zisk skupiny ČEZ byl loni rekordní".Česká televize.March 21, 2023.Retrieved October 29, 2026.</ref>
  7. ↑ 7.0 7.1 7.2 <ref>"Valná hromada ČEZu schválila první krok směřující k zestátnění".Česká televize.June 2, 2026.Retrieved October 29, 2026.</ref>
  8. ↑ 8.0 8.1 8.2 <ref>"ČEZ založil dceřinou firmu ČEZ Energy, dle analytiků jde o krok k zestátnění".Česká televize.June 23, 2026.Retrieved October 29, 2026.</ref>
  9. ↑ 9.0 9.1 9.2 9.3 9.4 9.5 <ref>"Daniel Beneš může vést ČEZ až do roku 2025".November 26, 2020.Retrieved October 29, 2026.</ref>
  10. ↑ 10.0 10.1 10.2 10.3 <ref>Gallistl, Vladan."ČEZ: jak může výhra Zemana pomoci Benešovi".January 29, 2018.Retrieved October 29, 2026.</ref>
  11. ↑ 11.0 11.1 11.2 <ref>Mayer, Bartłomiej."Daniel Beneš: Nowy-stary prezes w ČEZ".February 21, 2014.Retrieved October 29, 2026.</ref>
  12. ↑ 12.0 12.1 12.2 12.3 12.4 12.5 12.6 12.7 <ref>"Hráči: Šéf ČEZ Daniel Beneš o odměně 35 milionů i rodině".March 25, 2023.Retrieved October 29, 2026.</ref>
  13. ↑ 13.0 13.1 13.2 <ref>"Mezi české manažery čtvrtstoletí patří Frolík, Cienciala či Valová".Česká televize.April 19, 2018.Retrieved October 29, 2026.</ref>
  14. ↑ 14.0 14.1 14.2 14.3 14.4 <ref>"Novým generálním ředitelem ČEZ je Daniel Beneš".September 15, 2011.Retrieved October 29, 2026.</ref>
  15. ↑ 15.0 15.1 <ref>Žižka, Jan."Daniel Beneš: ČEZ má scénář, jak se obejít bez uhlí od Tykače".January 8, 2012.Retrieved October 29, 2026.</ref>
  16. ↑ 16.0 16.1 <ref>"Útlum v zahraničí. ČEZ chce prodat majetek i v Rumunsku, Turecku a Polsku, píší HN".Česká televize.May 27, 2019.Retrieved October 29, 2026.</ref>
  17. ↑ 17.0 17.1 <ref>"ČEZ mění dividendovou politiku. Jde o součást kompromisu mezi Hradem a Babišem, míní analytik".Česká televize.May 27, 2019.Retrieved October 29, 2026.</ref>
  18. ↑ 18.0 18.1 <ref>"Beneš: Hrozbou energetické bezpečnosti nejsou Rusové a Číňané, ale absence elektrárny".Česká televize.November 26, 2020.Retrieved October 29, 2026.</ref>
  19. ↑ <ref>"ČEZ se chce soustředit na obnovitelné zdroje, možná i rozvoj Temelína. Uhlí se má v roce 2030 na jeho produkci podílet osminou".Česká televize.May 20, 2021.Retrieved October 29, 2026.</ref>
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  26. ↑ <ref>"Daniel Beneš (topic page, page 3)".Česká televize.Retrieved October 29, 2026.</ref>
  27. ↑ 27.0 27.1 <ref>"ČEZ má kvůli omezení ruských dodávek škody až v miliardách, řešením je arbitráž, uvedl Beneš".Česká televize.October 23, 2022.Retrieved October 29, 2026.</ref>
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  31. ↑ <ref>"Nový projekt Blesku: Prvním hostem ve studiu bude ředitel ČEZu Daniel Beneš".March 17, 2023.Retrieved October 29, 2026.</ref>
  32. ↑ <ref>"Nový jaderný blok v Dukovanech má být dokončen v roce 2036. Odhad ceny je až 160 miliard korun".Česká televize.November 13, 2019.Retrieved October 29, 2026.</ref>
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  34. ↑ <ref>""Mezinárodní ostuda." Šok v Koreji kvůli zádrhelu u Dukovan. Budou padat hlavy? A obří škody".May 7, 2025.Retrieved October 29, 2026.</ref>
  35. ↑ 35.0 35.1 <ref>"Daniel Beneš (topic page)".Česká televize.Retrieved October 29, 2026.</ref>
  36. ↑ <ref>"Czech-KHNP Dukovany contract signed after court lifts injunction".June 4, 2025.Retrieved October 29, 2026.</ref>
  37. ↑ <ref>"Temelín bude mít první malý modulární reaktor v Česku. Hotový má být do deseti let".Česká televize.September 21, 2022.Retrieved October 29, 2026.</ref>
  38. ↑ 38.0 38.1 <ref>"ČEZ koupí podíl v Rolls-Royce SMR".Česká televize.October 29, 2024.Retrieved October 29, 2026.</ref>
  39. ↑ <ref>"Stát podepsal s ČEZem memorandum o spolupráci na modulárních reaktorech".Česká televize.April 24, 2026.Retrieved October 29, 2026.</ref>
  40. ↑ <ref>"Škoda JS bude dodávat pohony pro modulární reaktory Rolls-Royce".Česká televize.September 23, 2026.Retrieved October 29, 2026.</ref>
  41. ↑ <ref>"Konec ruského paliva v Česku: Do Temelína se po patnácti letech vrací Westinghouse".May 23, 2025.Retrieved October 29, 2026.</ref>
  42. ↑ 42.0 42.1 <ref>"Czech utility ČEZ to remain under Daniel Beneš as term extended to 2029".November 11, 2024.Retrieved October 29, 2026.</ref>
  43. ↑ <ref>"ČEZ dál povede Beneš, rozhodla rada. Místo má jisté na další čtyři roky".November 11, 2024.Retrieved October 29, 2026.</ref>
  44. ↑ 44.0 44.1 <ref>"Válka Beneše s Babišem o "levnou energii": Začíná souboj o zestátnění ČEZ?".October 9, 2025.Retrieved October 29, 2026.</ref>
  45. ↑ <ref>"Programové prohlášení Babišovy vlády: Zestátnění ČEZ i zrušení poplatků za ČT".October 31, 2025.Retrieved October 29, 2026.</ref>
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  47. ↑ <ref>"Přípravy na zestátnění ČEZ: Vznikne nová dceřiná firma, potvrdil ředitel Beneš".April 24, 2026.Retrieved October 29, 2026.</ref>
  48. ↑ <ref>"ČEZ vybuduje na Orlické přehradě velkou přečerpávací elektrárnu za miliardy".Česká televize.June 10, 2026.Retrieved October 29, 2026.</ref>
  49. ↑ <ref>"ČEZ si udělá průzkum výnosnosti českého lithia a případně většinově ovládne australskou firmu EMH".Česká televize.July 16, 2019.Retrieved October 29, 2026.</ref>
  50. ↑ <ref>"ČEZ převzal většinový podíl v distributorovi GasNet".Česká televize.August 29, 2024.Retrieved October 29, 2026.</ref>
  51. ↑ <ref>"ČEZ snížil zisk. Za třetí čtvrtletí vydělal 21,5 miliardy korun, Beneš chválí stabilitu".November 11, 2025.Retrieved October 29, 2026.</ref>
  52. ↑ <ref>"Čistý zisk ČEZu loni klesl skoro o polovinu na 10,5 miliardy korun, firma propustí 500 lidí".Česká televize.March 19, 2019.Retrieved October 29, 2026.</ref>
  53. ↑ <ref>"Čistý zisk ČEZu loni klesl, podílel se na tom úpadek uhlí nebo emisní povolenky".Česká televize.March 16, 2021.Retrieved October 29, 2026.</ref>
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  55. ↑ <ref>"Stát chce na windfall tax vybrat přes třicet miliard".Česká televize.March 17, 2025.Retrieved October 29, 2026.</ref>
  56. ↑ <ref>"Začalo zestátnění ČEZ? Může vyčlenit novou dceřinou společnost. A vyplácí pouze 42 Kč za akcii".June 1, 2026.Retrieved October 29, 2026.</ref>
  57. ↑ <ref>"Odměny pro vedení ČEZ: Ředitel Beneš dostal 53 milionů! Kolik další?".April 29, 2026.Retrieved October 29, 2026.</ref>
  58. ↑ <ref>"O nás".Svaz energetiky České republiky.Retrieved October 29, 2026.</ref>
  59. ↑ <ref>"Daniel Beneš (topic page, page 4)".Česká televize.Retrieved October 29, 2026.</ref>
  60. ↑ <ref>"Šéfové ČEZ a ČD prý s Nagyovou také jednali o trafikách. Bude obviněn i Nečas?".June 18, 2013.Retrieved October 29, 2026.</ref>
  61. ↑ <ref>""Dal jsem jí tašku pro psa a šátek." Svědci tvrdí, že Nečasové luxusní dary nevěnovali".Česká televize.September 17, 2019.Retrieved October 29, 2026.</ref>
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  63. ↑ <ref>"Záměr zestátnit ČEZ je pro občany nevýhodný, tvrdí skupina odpůrců".Česká televize.June 24, 2026.Retrieved October 29, 2026.</ref>
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