Declining coal stock-piles at Indian power plants could fuel the demand for the fuel supplied by Coal India Ltd., helping in stimulating output that has slipped year-on-year for the past three months.
Production by the world’s biggest miner in October declined 2% from the corresponding month last year, while shipments slipped 3%. Both missed targets. Meanwhile, national inventories at power plants have diminished by almost half since hitting a record in April. Stockpiles were adequate for 14 days of demand on average, though several plants were operating with less than a week’s stockpiles, a level considered vital by Indian regulators, as per the data from the Central Electricity Authority.
At 2:35 PM, Coal India share price was trading with the decline of over 4%. Looks like the news still have to impact the share.
The demand from the power sector continues to remain passive, but it should start looking up now, according to the analysts. Power plant coal stocks have been slipping and good monsoons this season should boost industrial activity. These are expected to have a positive impact on coal demand in the coming months.
The gush in international coal prices will also support Coal India’s efforts to relocate imports of the fuel with domestic supplies. Coal India reduced prices of higher grades of coal in May to compete with imports. Australia’s Newcastle coal, a seaborne benchmark in Asia, has more than doubled this year, ending last week at near $106 a metric ton, as per the data from Global coal.
Coal India share price opened at its previous close of Rs. 327 and it had remained the intraday high of the stock for the day.
India’s power generators had the inventory for 18 days of demand on average a year ago, and 26 days as of 4 April, when inventories peaked, according to CEA data that tracks 102 facilities. Twenty of those plants had stocks for less than seven days as on 1 November, the figures show.
Coal India’s October production of 43.51 million mmt was 84% of its target for the month, while shipments at 43.04 million tons were 90% of the goal. The 274 million tons of production through the first seven months of the financial year to March 2017 is less than half the 599 million ton target for the year.
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