{"id":276645,"date":"2019-05-30T05:45:10","date_gmt":"2019-05-30T05:45:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=276645"},"modified":"2019-05-30T05:45:10","modified_gmt":"2019-05-30T05:45:10","slug":"ntpc-gains-from-pre-poll-thrust-to-coal-supple","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/ntpc-gains-from-pre-poll-thrust-to-coal-supple\/","title":{"rendered":"NTPC gains from pre-poll thrust to coal supple"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>State-owned power generator NTPC gained from improved coal supply to its power plants in the pre-election season, as it was able to reduce its traditional under-recoveries stemming from fuel shortages. The company\u2019s fixed cost under-recoveries, which increases with fuel-related uncertainties, were at Rs 800 crore in FY19, 43% lower than FY18, as it received more fuel from Coal India and increased production from its own captive mines.<\/p>\n<p>Under-recoveries due to coal shortage itself in FY19 was Rs 250 crore, down 69%.<\/p>\n<p>NTPC reported a net profit of `11,750 crore in FY19 on a standalone basis, registering a year-on-year (y-o-y) increase of 13.6% and its revenue grew 8.2% to Rs 92,179.6. The company\u2019s Ebitda (earnings before interest, tax, depreciation and amortisation) increased 5.1% to Rs 22,771.5 crore, though its Ebitda margin went down 80 basis points y-o-y to 25.2% in the fiscal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>State-owned power generator NTPC gained from improved coal supply to its power plants in the pre-election season, as it was able to reduce its traditional under-recoveries stemming from fuel shortages. The company\u2019s fixed cost under-recoveries, which increases with fuel-related uncertainties, were at Rs 800 crore in FY19, 43% lower than FY18, as it received more fuel from Coal India and increased production from its own captive mines. Under-recoveries due to coal shortage itself in FY19 was Rs 250 crore, down 69%. NTPC reported a net profit of `11,750 crore in FY19 on a standalone basis, registering a year-on-year (y-o-y) increase [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[130,240,138],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-276645","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-power-the-financial-express","category-the-financial-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276645","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/39"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=276645"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276645\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=276645"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=276645"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=276645"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}