{"id":465099,"date":"2022-01-31T11:52:43","date_gmt":"2022-01-31T06:22:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=465099"},"modified":"2022-01-31T11:52:43","modified_gmt":"2022-01-31T06:22:43","slug":"ntpc-q3-profit-up-25-to-rs-4132-cr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/ntpc-q3-profit-up-25-to-rs-4132-cr\/","title":{"rendered":"NTPC Q3 profit up 25% to Rs 4,132 cr"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>State-owned NTPC reported a 24.6% year-on-year (y-o-y) increase in its standalone net profit to Rs 4,131.9 crore in the three months ended December mainly on higher power sales. NTPC revenue increased 18.1% to Rs 29,837.1 crore in Q3 as the power company sold 67.6 billion units of electricity in the period, 11.4% higher than the corresponding period last fiscal. The company\u2019s board has approved an interim dividend of Rs 4 per share for FY22.<\/p>\n<p>Expenses, mostly comprising fuel cost, grew 12.5% to Rs 24,428.1 crore. Overall coal consumption in the quarter increased by 16.4%y-o-y to 53.3 million tonne (MT), and the company\u2019s coal imports doubled to 0.5 MT in the same period. Coal output from its newly-commissioned captive mines increased 55.6% to 4 MT. NTPC coal-based power stations achieved utilisation levels (PLF) of 68.9% in the first nine months of the fiscal, against the national average PLF of 57%. The company sold power at an average tariff of Rs 3.91 per unit in the same period.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>State-owned NTPC reported a 24.6% year-on-year (y-o-y) increase in its standalone net profit to Rs 4,131.9 crore in the three months ended December mainly on higher power sales. NTPC revenue increased 18.1% to Rs 29,837.1 crore in Q3 as the power company sold 67.6 billion units of electricity in the period, 11.4% higher than the corresponding period last fiscal. The company\u2019s board has approved an interim dividend of Rs 4 per share for FY22. Expenses, mostly comprising fuel cost, grew 12.5% to Rs 24,428.1 crore. Overall coal consumption in the quarter increased by 16.4%y-o-y to 53.3 million tonne (MT), and [&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":[130,239,136],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-465099","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-power-the-economic-times","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/465099","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=465099"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/465099\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=465099"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=465099"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=465099"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}