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Friday, 23 October 09
CIL PRICE HIKE LIKELY TO PUSH POWER RATES UP
 Business-Standard reported that, May squeeze cement companies’ margins, but the steel sector is unlikely to be affected much.
The upward revision of coal prices by government-owned Coal India Limited (CIL), which took place last week, is likely to have a divergent impact on the fossil fuel’s primary consumers such as cement, power and steel sectors. While cement makers’ margins will be under pressure, power producers will make a move to pass on the increased burden to consumers.The three sectors account for about 72 per cent of the total coal demand in the country.
On October 16, CIL increased the price of coal from Eastern Coalfields (ECL) and Bharat Coking Coal (BCCL) by 15 per cent, while all other subsidiary companies were permitted a hike of 10 per cent. This price increase is expected to swell CIL’s net profit by approximately Rs 2,000 crore this financial year and by about Rs 4,100 crore in the following year.
However, for the consuming sectors, especially the cement industry, the increase in coal prices will squeeze profit margins at a time when prices are already low due to rapid capacity augmentation.
Despite the fact that coal accounted for around two-thirds of the power and fuel cost, and 20 per cent of the total cost for cement manufacturers, firms would be unable to pass on the hike in coal prices to end users due to the current business environment, a report by Crisil Research suggested.
“The recent coal price hike will increase the cost of cement by Rs 3-4 a bag. However, this has been absorbed by manufacturers in the short-term. In the long run, though, if conditions are right, we could pass on the cost,” Cement Manufacturers Association President and Shree Cement Managing Director HM Bangur said. For the power sector, though, the impact of the upward revision of coal prices would be neutral, as the rise in cost of fuel would be passed on by the generators.
On an average, tariffs of power plants using domestic coal as fuel are expected to increase by 3-4 per cent. In rupee terms, the tariffs are expected to increase on an average by Rs 0.06 a unit. The rise is expected to increase the tariffs for final power consumers as the price hike will be passed on, the Crisil report further stated.
With the respective regulatory authorities of each state overseeing power tariffs, generators would first have to ascertain the increase in input costs and then approach the regulator for approval.
However, with the coal mixture of each generator differing, the choice being between CIL coal and that of the imported variety, it would take sometime before power utilities decide on the actual magnitude of the increase in tariff. “But 100 per cent, we will have to pass on the cost,” an official from the RPG’s power utility CESC said.
As for the steel industry, the Crisil report indicated that the coal price hike by CIL was not expected to have a significant impact on the steel industry as non-coking coal, which was primarily used by the sector, did not account for a significant portion of the total cost of steel manufacturing, except for steel made through the sponge iron route. Moreover, the dependence of domestic steel producers on CIL is only 25-35 per cent of their total requirement due to the availability of captive mines and imports. But Visa Steel Chairman and President of the Indian Chamber of Commerce Vishambhar Saran said the ex-pit head prices of CIL were already comparable to international prices, barring the freight factor cost. “The cost of setting-up a plant is higher if one is to use domestically available coal as compared to imported coal. This is because the former is of inferior quality and consequently extra costs such as ash disposal must be counted into the total project cost,” he added.
Source: Business-Standard
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Tuesday, 16 June 09
INDIAN MINING WORKER ARRESTED IN BENGKULU
Forestry officials in Bengkulu Province, Sumatra, arrested one Indian national and two Indonesians on Sunday for unauthorized exploration in the ele ...
Tuesday, 16 June 09
INDIAN GOVERNMENT MAY ALLOW PRIVATE COMPANIES TO MINE COAL
The government is “strongly considering” to allow commercial coal mining by private companies in a bid to bridge the demand-supply gap, ...
Monday, 15 June 09
SAFRICA'S COAL TERMINAL EXPANSION DELAYED TO Q4
South Africa's Richards Bay Coal Terminal (RBCT) said on Monday the completion of a project to expand the export facility had been delayed to the f ...
Monday, 15 June 09
SHENHUA DENIES GIVING GROUND ON EXPORT COAL PRICE - REUTERS
China Shenhua Energy Co, the country's top coal producer, expects Japanese and South Korean clients to pay at least as much as Chinese customers fo ...
Monday, 15 June 09
POWER PLANT SUFFERS FROM COAL CRISIS - THE STATESMAN
The 3,000 mw NTPC-Kaniha power plant, the second biggest in the country, is facing an unprecedented coal crisis with stocks dipping to a low of only ...
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