Coal India's production sets record increase of 29% yoy at 36 MT in Q1FY23

5 Jul 2022 , 10:15 AM

Coal India Limited (CIL) has ended April-June quarter FY’23 capping a historic high of 29% yoy output growth, compared to same quarter FY’22.

According to the BSE release data, CIL produced 159.8 million tonnes (MTs) of coal as of Q1 end, which is 35.8 MTs more than the 124 MT output of April-June’22. All the coal companies of CIL have registered growth.

At around 10:16 AM, Coal India was trading at Rs183.90 per share up by Rs1.8 or 0.99% from its previous closing of Rs182.10 per share on the BSE.

“The likeness of such whopping growth was never witnessed in any Q1 since CIL’s inception. Our first quarter production surge of nearly 36 MTs surpassed the entire annual increase of 26.4 MTs of FY’22” said a senior official of the company.

Only twice before, CIL’s total yearly production was higher than what it achieved during the current year’s first quarter alone.

In its bid to achieve the fiscal’s 700 MT output target CIL began FY’23 with an asking rate of 12.4%. The steep production gain of Q1 helped the company bring down the asking growth rate to 8.3%. Increased production enables better stock build up.

Coal output for June’22 at 51.6 MTs also registered an unmatched 29% growth with volume increase of 11.5 MTs. CIL produced 40 MTs in June’21.

With the coal demand from power plants reaching a higher pitch, CIL’s supplies to power sector peaked to a new high of 153.2 MTs during the quarter registering a strong growth of 19.8%. The expansion in absolute terms was a robust 25.3 MTs over 127.9 MTs of last fiscal’s Q1.

CIL on an average supplied 1.684 MTs of coal per day to power sector during the quarter ended June’22 against requirement of 1.650 MTs per day, resulting in 102% materialization.

In June’22 supplies to coal fired plants have gone up to 1.713 MTs per day against projected requirement of 1.6 MTs resulting in 107% materialization.

CIL’s offtake to power sector, during June’22, clocked a sharp 27% growth at 51.4 MTs. This is 11 MT jump compared to 40.4 MTs in June’21. Higher supplies during the month resulted in coal stock accretion to the tune of 77,000 tons per day at power plants end.

Total coal off-take of 177.6 MTs during the quarter ended June’22 posted nearly 11% growth. Increase in absolute terms was 17.3 MTs compared to offtake of was 160.3 MTs in April-June’21.

CIL’s total off-take for June’22 clocked 15.4% growth at 59 MTs. The increase was 7.8 MTs compared to 51.2 MTs in June’21.