Q1-FY24 · Suresh P. Manglani
It's like asking a mother which baby you love more. I think all the GAs we have built, we have built with the all strategic thinking.
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It's like asking a mother which baby you love more. I think all the GAs we have built, we have built with the all strategic thinking.
The foundational work is being done through these policy frameworks. We are also responding to these calls of expanding and accelerating our infrastructure.
We have a good portfolio. We have a multi-index, we have multi-tenures, multi-suppliers.
Our transmission system availability is best as compared to other utilities, whether it is SGCC, China, or it is AEP, USA, or Furnas, Brazil, or Eskom, South Africa, or NGC, U.K.
If IRR will be good, otherwise, I can win all 100%. So be sure that we have a certain hurdle rate within the board, and then we take a call cautiously.
We have about more than INR 100,000 crore power transmission projects in pipeline. Maybe more than that, but at least INR 100,000 crore projects are inside.
We are driving energy transition as per the mission of Government of India. We have used mission for redevelopment in India, which requires huge transmission system, and POWERGRID is one of the largest transmission system developers in India.
ROW is a very big problem in India. Making a transmission line is very, very challenging.
Supply cost is increasing now because demand is more if you consider transformer, if you consider GIS, if you consider breaker, if you consider maybe insulator or even tower parts also.
We have a lot of CapEx is on the growing side, and we hope that it crosses at least INR 15,000 next year.
The system availability continues to be above 99%.
We are setting up one data center in Manesar as a pilot project. So the award is under progress, and then maybe in another 12-15 months, it is expected to complete.
Our outlook will be at least INR 3 trillion rupees projects or CapEx by 2032.
As per the new CERC regulation, our O&M charges have been reduced by almost INR 600 crores. So for half year, the effect is almost INR 300 crores.
We have stopped putting equity. Last one year we are not putting equity.
We are still targeting about INR 20,000 crore projects to be capitalized, about INR 20,000 crores by this financial year 2025, 2026.
In the regulatory framework, EBITDA is not actually a right parameter to monitor... Your profit will remain same, because I have a return on equity constant for the entire period.
We are facing, on daily basis, problems everywhere, wherever we are working.
We are more aggressive because we have to compete if we have to survive, if we have to take care of the interest of our investors.
Net impact is almost zero, or we are going to get the same O&M charges which we were getting earlier.
We can very well execute projects worth INR 25,000-INR 30,000 crore projects each year. So there will not be any problem in CAPEX for Power Grid.
Our Power Grid outlook is very bright. And we have many projects in hand, and our projects capitalization and CapEx is going to increase. So that will lead to increase in revenue and profit. So our Power Grid future is bright. So rest assured, you are in safe hands.
The structure of the regulated tariff income is that it will decrease every year because of the interest on loan, which will be reducing based on the depreciation recovery. ... But the fact remains that the PAT will remain the same because that is based on the return on equity.
We are targeting in the same range, about that INR 18,000 crores, that range we are targeting.
We are poised to exceed our annual guidance, which we have been talking.
Unless until the Chinese companies available in India, if relaxation by Government of India is given, then it is going to boost the transmission sector.
We don't want that any power, RE power, green power, which is almost free, given by nature, so it should not be curtailed at any cost.
We are committed to achieve many more milestones in future.
The EBITDA margin will be almost equivalent to the RTM. It will be something like 85%-87%.
We don't see any reduction in dividend in near future.
We have commissioned sections of 765 kV substations in about 9-10 months from the date of acquisition of land, which may be a world record.
Our percentage is very good. As you can also appreciate, INR 92,000 crore projects in a single year is not a small thing. Still, we are maintaining our ROE above the particular level.
We are not expecting impact of any delay or our expenditure incurred on these schemes. We are not expecting much impact. There may be some impact, but not much impact.