Thank you. Thank you very much.

Good morning, everyone, and thanks for joining us over the call. We normally do after the quarter results around 6:00, but this time I was told that all of you are tied up in another event, and that's why we thought we'll do it on the next day in the morning.

Thank you all for joining. I am joined by my colleagues: Sanjeev Churiwala, he is the CFO; Rajesh Daga, Group Financial Controller; Kasturi Soundararajan, Chief Treasury; Anshul Wardhan; and all my other colleagues who are here from the finance department.

Before I delve into the quarter performance, let me share with you some information on the power sector. The power demand growth has been very strong in the first quarter.

It was nearly 8.5% increase. In fact, in the month of May, it was nearly 11%, and June was 9.8%.

We continue to see similar demand in this month also. July has been consistently in the range of 260 to 270 GW.

Rains have been delayed, and wherever it has happened, it has been very inadequate. I think we can expect a longish summer this year and with very little of rain in most of the parts of the country, which is leading to cooling requirement, and that's why you see a large increase in consumption of power.

We also see that going forward, there will be a large increase in demand because it's not only the cooling, but also industrial growth has picked up and there is good demand in the industrial sector. I think it's good for the power sector, especially with the type of investment and capacity add that is taking place all over the country.

Moving to the financial performance of the company, Tata Power has done exceedingly well: ₹1,401 crore of PAT in the quarter, which is a 11% increase, and so also the EBITDA increase has been 8% to 4,249, and also we have shown increase in revenue. What is important is, and I thought this time I will take the opportunity to share with you, that this is not a one-off sort of thing.

This is the 27th consecutive quarter where we have seen increase in our PAT and EBITDA. That is because there's a very strong foundation of our existing operations and the new businesses that are getting added.

In fact, I was looking at some of the numbers, and we have shared with you in slide 19 to 21 that how over a period of time, if we compare whether it was the Q1 of FY24 or 25 or 26, we have consistently every year shown increase in revenue, increase in EBITDA, and increase in PAT. In fact, the CAGR in revenue is 8%, EBITDA is 12%, and PAT is 7%.

This again, if we break into different components, you will see that we have done exceedingly well. Let's look at the transmission business, how it has performed again in last four years each quarter.

You will see that the transmission business per se has shown revenue increase of 45% CAGR, 19% in EBITDA, and 27% in PAT. Mumbai transmission itself has shown 7% CAGR in revenue, 11% in EBITDA, and 21% in PAT.

This will continue because we have huge pipeline of investments which is there in Mumbai transmission. Nearly ₹10,000 crore of investment will happen in next five years.

This is on regulated basis, we not only get the regulated, but also certain upsides because of better performance on efficiency and availability of this transmission system. Similarly on our TBCB projects, which are getting implemented, some are now in the final stages of completion.

One will get completed, the Agra-Khujra line, in next few days. The other one, the Bikaner-Neemrana line, will also get commissioned by October.

Again, huge pipeline of projects, and you will see the benefits of that accruing in the subsequent quarters. Let's look at our distribution business.

Again, consistently we have done very good. If we look at the total distribution business, the revenue has gone up, the EBITDA has gone up, and so also the PAT has gone up.

This we are seeing consistent performance. Typically, in distribution business, Q1 is not the best of the quarter because of the huge challenges which one has, especially in summer months in terms of billing and collection.

I think what is important is that how consistently, even in quarter one, we have been showing an improvement in all these parameters. Similarly, if we see our renewable cluster, it has done exceedingly well.

On an overall basis, the revenue has gone up by 22%, the EBITDA by 23%, and the PAT by 37%. It's important that when we talk of revenue of renewable cluster, we also go and see where exactly this benefit is coming from.

The generation business, we have seen revenue grow by 11% on CAGR basis, EBITDA by 10%, and PAT by 2%. Mind you, we have not been setting up large number of projects because we were tied up in doing third party.

Now this year, we will set up 2.5 GW, 2,500 to 2,700. Already 200 was commissioned, 230, and another 500 will get commissioned in next few weeks.

The delay was not from our side. We were ready on 30th June.

We had done all the testing. The transmission system got delayed, and now that has been commissioned, one of them, and the testing is going for commissioning our plant, and the balance will happen by next few weeks' time.

I think you will see huge capacity add in the renewable and its impact. Right now, we are at 6.7.

We add 2.5, we'll cross 9 GW by the end of this financial year. The impact of it will start being seen in the subsequent quarter as also in FY28.

Rooftop business has done exceedingly well. Our revenue has grown from last year to this year by nearly 100%.

Our CAGR of four years is nearly 58%. Our EBITDA has grown by nearly 50%, and our profit has also grown by more than 60% in last one year.

On a CAGR basis, it is 84%. Again, and rooftop business will continue.

In fact, every year we have seen the rooftop business doing exceedingly well. In fact, last year we grew by 100%, and this year also we have plans to grow by about 60% to 70%.

That's the type of demand which is there for us in the market and the channel partners and the supply chain that we have tied up and the IT systems which support and after-sales service. I think rooftop business, again, you will see huge improvement in this year.

Now that we have added to rooftop battery storage, especially for residential and industrial purpose, you will see the impact of that also coming in the combined solutions. On manufacturing, we started two years back.

Our cell and module plant are now operating at full capacity. For the first time, our module plant crossed 1,000 MW in this quarter, and we expect that we are virtually peaking over there in terms of our module production.

Our cell production is still to catch up, and we have seen that how in last three years, last two years, our revenue, EBITDA, and PAT has grown. We've had a record PAT, and that has been on back of many steps that we have been taking to improve the yield, efficiency, and also the manufacturing cost of the cell and modules, and a lot of engineering goes in all these things.

What I wanted to share with you is that we are in a very good position of doing consistently good performance quarter-on-quarter, and this is not a one-off. This is not something that has happened just for one quarter, but has been happening right across last many years.

This trend will only keep on improving. Typically, we see that the first quarter, by the end of the year, it is not just multiplied by four, but sometimes it is more like 4.5 to 5 times improvement.

That's what we will see at the end of the year. That's what we are expecting this year also.

Coming to some of the other areas, Mundra, we have concluded with Gujarat. The plant is operating.

Though it is operating under section 11 for the purpose of scheduling, we are charging the procurers as per the SPPA. We are in very advanced stage of getting approval from three states, expecting that in the month of August we should have the Cabinet approval for some three states, and the fourth state will happen in September.

All of the procurers are taking full capacity from the plant, and they are 100% convinced that this is the most sustainable plant in the long run in terms of its tariff and in terms of merit order. We are very confident that we will run this plant continuously now up to 2038.

Some of the newer businesses, especially on the pumped hydro and hydro, very good progress in the pumped hydro project. We are doing very good construction work over there, and we expect that beginning of calendar year '29, we will be in a position to commission the plant, and there are three units.

They will get commissioned with a gap of two months for each unit. We have been fortunate to win a bid through SECI, which is very attractive tariff, and for one unit of 330 MW.

For the balance two, we are in discussions with Tata Steel and other procurers to supply to them, as also we are expecting now new bids to come from NTPC and others, NHPC, NTPC of pumped hydro. We will start work on the 1,800 MW in the later part of this year.

We are in the process of getting all the approvals, and once we have the approvals in place, we will take the approval of board and go ahead and start the construction activity on that. We have also tied up the PPA for 600 MW of Bhutan project, the Khorlochhu project, with UP, and the PPA has been signed with them, and it has got the regulatory approval.

Again, it meets the returns that we had planned, in fact, better than that. We do expect that this plant will also become operational in the calendar year 2030.

We expect to start work on the 1,125 Dugar project, where World Bank is financing, and we are in the process of completing the financial closure next few months' time with PFC, IFC, and some of the other lenders. I think we have very good pipeline of projects, a very stable portfolio of projects, and all these projects are under implementation.

We do expect we'll be in a position to implement all of them within the cost and within the timelines that we have set for ourselves. These are long-term projects, the pumped hydro and hydro projects.

We are talking of 35, 40 years PPA. What is good is that these are being done in areas that is known to us.

I am very confident that these will become very big and good assets for Tata Power going forward, like many of the existing assets which have been there for many years, like the hydro plant, which are there for more than 110 years. On the capital expenditure, for the first time, we spent ₹5,300 crore in the first quarter, and we expect that the ₹25,000 crore that we have lined up for this year, we will be able to implement.

50% of that ₹25,000 will be for renewable project where you have clear line of sight. The balance is divided between our FGD projects as well as the transmission and distribution projects, which are also in pipeline.

All are known. It is not that we have to go to unknown areas and do the investment, and our confidence is very high that we will implement this, and the returns will start coming to us thereafter.

We understand that when we do such large investment, the leverage ratios have to be good. Our net debt to underlying EBITDA is 3.41, and our net debt to equity is 1.25.

This is within the guardrails that we have set for ourselves for investment, and I think we will work within those guardrails. Great opportunity for us for doing many more projects, but as informed to you, we do it on a calibrated basis.

We are looking at new opportunities, including nuclear, where a lot of preliminary work has happened, but I think once the rules are notified by the government, we'll be in a position to come up with a firm plan. From our side, we are working on land and geotechnical studies and water availability and stuff like that.

I think when you look at Tata Power, you need to look at it from the various businesses and how each one of them is contributing to the overall profitability and sustained performance over a period of time. With that, I will take a pause and look forward to hear questions.

Thanks for the opportunity, and good to see progress on various businesses. Sir, my first question is what explains the muted growth in Odisha discom in this quarter?

Can you also touch upon the fact that the Tata Projects continues to make losses, and the losses have not only widened in this quarter?

Odisha, we had three issues in Odisha. One was that there was some government payments which got delayed, especially for panchayati raj departments, for drinking water and street light and others.

That was because the allocation from the state government and the central government got delayed. We expect to collect all of that in the second quarter.

The second is because of acute heat wave, the government asked that don't disconnect supply up to 15th of June and if payments are not made. That period is over, and now we are collecting all the payments, the collection efficiency will see increasing happen in this quarter.

Thirdly, typically in the summer months, there's huge demand of power. When you do the billing, there's a one-month cycle which is there.

That will get billed in the subsequent month. We expect that in this quarter, many of that issues will get covered.

In distribution, we should always look at 12 months rollover rather than seeing on quarter-to-quarter basis, because it's all dependent on the consumption based on the temperature and the weather pattern. You will see huge amount of improvement in Odisha discom.

These are only timing issues. It has nothing to do prima facie with the business arrangement.

On the Tata Projects, we are in the final stages of closing some of the legacy projects. We earlier used to have large number of legacy projects which were losing money and very few which were profitable projects.

Now most of the legacy projects where we are losing money have got over. We are at something like just 10% of the legacy projects, last stage billing is there, and cost-to-correction takes place because of that reason.

You will find that possibly maybe one more quarter will have a impact on Tata Projects, and thereafter you will see the performance of Tata Power in Tata Projects improving in terms of their financial performance. They have a very good pipeline of excellent projects, marquee names globally who have given them orders.

You will see a huge turnaround in performance of Tata Projects going forward.

I could also add to what Dr. Sinha spoke about Odisha, so that you get the complete perspective.

Because of the couple of reasons that Dr. Sinha mentioned, yes, the collection got deferred by a few months here and there, but on an operating perspective, I think the Odisha discoms still did excellently well.

You will find in the deck as well, purely from a reported PAT perspective, we grew by 6%, more or less what we are also planning for quarter one. In quarter one, our total million units sold in Odisha was about double digits, where the million units sold was about 10.4% because of possibly the hot summer.

I think in together, the financial performance has been great. It is just from an operation side, some of the payments got delayed, but that is something that will get covered in quarter two.

Understood. My second question, is it possible to quantify your losses due to curtailment in this quarter?

What do you make of the transmission bottlenecks for your projects? Are you seeing progress on the transmission project which can end the curtailment, and also ensure that all RE projects get commissioned on time?

Yeah. I think on the first question, I think when we generally look around, including our projects, there have been a general curtailment of roughly about 5%, and that we think is also the industry trend.

Given that a lot of transmission lines and evacuation lines are in fast progression, we think that this curtailment will settle in the next few quarters. Yes, I think for the first quarter, generally, this has been a overall pain for the industry.

On the RE perspective, I think we have made a good progress when it comes to land and connectivity that is there. As we speak, while in the first quarter we have commissioned 226 MW, but we already have a line of sight for 500 MW, where the project is almost ready.

We're just in the final phase. That will happen in Q2.

I think quarter two will see a huge and big ramp-up in our commissioning.

Understood, sir. All the best, sir.

Thank you.

Good morning. It was good to see the pickup in capex in Q1 and very useful slides in the financial highlights section this time to decipher the results.

My first question is in relation to the renewable energy auction volume, which after peaking in FY25 came off in FY26. In your presentation on slide 12, the towers for Q1 FY27 is also implying a relative slowdown.

What is your outlook in terms of how renewable energy auction volumes and their complexion is likely to pan out in FY27 and maybe the medium term?

Renewable auctions have been muted because, as there were large number of PPAs which were tied up with the central agencies like SECI and NHPC, NTPC. Those have not been tied up with the state governments, and now there is a growing awareness amongst state discoms that they should do bidding themselves rather than having a central agency.

Secondly, they now want whether FDRE or RTC bids to happen and not just solar or even the hybrid that have been taking place. They are now coming up with much customized bids for the state's requirement rather than standard bids that used to take place at the central level.

You will see that sort of. Secondly, there are large number of projects which are coming up like we are coming up with pumped storage.

I need huge capacity first for pumping of water, and second for bundling that power, because I need to bundle that with the pumped hydro project. There will be a lot of similar type of investments that will come up rather than the pure vanilla solar or wind or even hybrid projects which were coming up by the central government agencies.

Sure. In relation to your pumped storage hydro projects, would you look to tie them up into long-term contracts in terms of rupees million per megawatt per month, or would you try to fashion something around feeding it renewable power and structuring it to sell on some bilateral arrangement?

It will be a mix of that. Right now, like for our 1,000 MW, there are three units of 334 MW.

The first one, we have tied up through bid process on a annuity-based, and the another two which we are in discussions with industries. One is with Tata Steel, the others are number of other steel and cement industries who are in discussions with us, aluminum industries.

I think you will see that it will be a mix and match. It will not be one single solution.

Partly on direct basis, either to discoms or to central agency, and partly will be on bilateral basis with some of the C&I customers, the large C&I customers.

Got it. Just one last clarification.

In your cluster-wise results, when I look at TBCB projects line item, the EBITDA margin which is implied is just 13% for Q1 FY27. Typically, TBCB projects should have much higher EBITDA margin given the asset profile and the depreciation that comes below the EBITDA line.

What am I missing here?

Good observation, but I think the context is slightly different for us. When we look at TBCB, right now all our TBCB are under construction, right?

The revenues and the PAT are more from a lease accounting perspective rather than the actual sharing of EBITDA. The actual EBITDA that comes to us is from our regulated business, which is MU thermal, MU transmission, which is again a regulated business.

Over there, you look at from a return perspective. Then we have a share of profit from some of the transmission assets that we have in the Resurgent platform.

I think you'll have to look at from that different perspective. Each of three cannot be put together in the same bucket.

We can, if required, share separately with you to get the context.

None of the TBCB projects is commissioned now and is contributing on a line-by-line basis as it would normally do?

You will start seeing that commissioning happening from quarter two onwards. Two projects will get commissioned in quarter two and then next is quarter three, quarter four.

Those revenues and the EBITDA and the PAT will start flowing in. As of now, you don't have the pure play EBITDA and PAT from TBCB.

It's more about construction revenue booking.

Got it. Thank you so much.

Hi, sir. Thank you for the opportunity.

Sir, it's heartening to see the progress on pumped storage. Would be great if you can share our plans for further capacity addition beyond this 2,800 MW.

I believe we had quite a few sites available.

We have quite a few sites where we have the water reservoir. We are carrying out the DPR of some of those projects.

I think next 12 months, we will come out with the next set of projects, because we have these 2,800 MW which is coming up in '29 and '31. We want to have gaps for their implementation so that the implementation focus is there, and we are able to execute these projects on time and cost.

Understood. We'll look forward to that.

Secondly, sir, there was also this ALMM 2 implementation and then rollback, which happened during the quarter towards the end of it. Sir, how do you see this?

Does this have any impact on the realizations which DCR manufacturers were charging, given that there's a six-month delay now? Secondly, how does this policy sort of flip-flop impact maybe industry's commitment towards investing in building out ingot and wafer capacity for ALMM 3?

It is not that there is a roll back. The ALMM 2 continues to be there for rooftop and utility-scale projects.

This is only a special proviso which has been made for projects which have very limited open access arrangements or are behind the meter. I would say that this whole thing is a very small component of the overall utilization which has to be done under DCR.

It would be maybe 10% of the total requirement. I think majority continues to be under the ALMM 2 arrangement.

That is not actually moving the needle or having any impact as far as we are concerned.

Sir. The commitment towards ingot-wafer for us remains on track?

Yeah.

Okay. Sir, also when I see your rooftop business and you had shared a lot of granular data over there.

For example, in this quarter, the revenue billed and the total watt peak installed, right, if I calculate, I believe the realization is about ₹36, ₹37 per watt peak. Now when I compare that with the order inflow, on the same metric, it comes to around ₹28 per watt peak.

How should we decipher this? Is this a decline in realization or there's some other nuance in accounting and billing that we are missing?

He's saying that they are implying a reduction in realization for rooftop.

Could you just repeat your question? Maybe I think we are interpreting differently.

Sure, sir. The revenue we billed for rooftop business this quarter was about ₹1,350 crore, and the megawatt installed was around 371.

That is about ₹36 per watt peak of realization. The order inflow which we have depicted in the slide is about ₹1,091 crore and 387 MW.

That's about ₹28 per watt peak. Is it just the change in realization, or is it when we actually bill, there is an additional margin which is available which we're not capturing in the order inflow?

No. There are two parts of this.

One is 1 kW we supply a large quantity under the ULA scheme of the government. That's a different type of modules.

Then you have other places where you supply for an higher-capacity different module. We need to look at it whether they are 450 sq modules or 580 or 670 and all that.

That's why the pricing difference you are seeing. Average will be very, very wrong interpretation of what sort of realization.

There's a mix impact basically.

Absolutely.

Understood, sir. Understood.

Sir, also if I may ask about the coal business profitability, we are seeing it has started improving due to the increase in international coal prices. Can you give us some sort of guidance on the trend that you are seeing in terms of Indonesian coal prices going ahead, given the on-off situation in Hormuz, and also about this change in coal export regime in Indonesia if that has any impact on our ability to export or the prices?

One is that coal prices have gone up, but not very much. I would say about 5% to 7%.

In that range the coal price increased. We don't expect too much of changes happening.

If up to 5% over next nine months, you can expect it. Secondly, we do not expect or have seen any impact per se.

Of course, there are certain conditions that you need to first supply for domestic market, and after meeting the domestic obligation, only you can export it. Those are the type of requirements.

Fortunately, the KPC is the first one to have complied with that requirement. We are not expecting any major changes to happen in the Indonesian coal market because of the new notifications.

Okay.

Sir, lastly, if I can ask about the break down for capex in this quarter between say renewables, distribution business, and pumped storage?

Almost 40% to 45% will be going in renewable.

Yeah.

The remaining in other businesses. Of course, the PSP, the work has started.

It will only accelerate in the coming quarters. You can assume in our quarter two also, we kind of looking at a capex plan of probably higher than ₹6,000 crore.

Maybe if everything goes well, will be closer to ₹6,500 crore. Almost half of that will go in the renew business, because as we mentioned, we're trying to commission almost 800 to 900 MW in quarter two.

That will consume a lot of capexes. PSP work is also accelerating.

We'll be putting there. Plus we already have in the pipeline that ₹2,000 crore 2,000 circuit kilometer plus of transmission.

Good capex will also go over there.

Sure, sir. Very helpful.

Sir, our Mumbai transmission plan has been approved by the regulator?

Yeah. The whole lot of projects are under implementation.

What happens is every year we get large number of approval, and they keep on getting approved and getting implemented based on the timeline of the network studies.

Sure, sir. Thanks a lot.

All the best.

Hi. Thank you.

Dr. Sinha, I wanted to ask on rooftop.

You've taken some strategic calls including leaving the PSP untied that is now paying dividend with higher realizations. On rooftop specifically, you've been bullish.

Just trying to understand, this market has been growing at a very strong pace consistently quarter-on-quarter for the past few quarters. Whereas initially it seemed like it was less than 3 kW segment, where are you seeing this growth?

I believe you in annual reports have been talking about ₹30,000 crore of rooftop revenue for you by 2030, if not sure if we read it correctly. Where do you see this rooftop going for you, for industry?

Because it has negative implication for some of the other businesses. It can cannibalize some of the other businesses.

How do you see strategically this segment, and how do you prepare for that future if you're very bullish on rooftop?

Rooftop, what we have done in the country as such is just 40 lakh consumers. India has 250 million consumers, 25 crore consumers.

The market potential is humongous. This is a product which is going to the poorest of the poor, who take 1 kW unit, and then it goes to others who take 2, 3, 5, 10, 20.

This is a phenomenal product in terms of giving independence to people to generate their power. Now that we are giving them battery also, it makes them self-sufficient in terms of their power requirement.

The cost has come down, it is also making economic sense. It is good for the environment.

My feeling is that what we have given ₹30,000 is possibly little less. We have been growing at very, very high pace.

Last year before last, we were ₹2,300 crore. Last year, we did ₹4,800.

This year, you can imagine. I think we will cross ₹30,000 crore maybe in '29 itself, not in '30.

That's where, and you see the type of growth. Every month, I'm seeing that it is becoming better than the previous one.

I think there is a huge potential. We are the biggest in the market.

We command premium in the market. We have developed the whole supply chain, channel partners, after-sales service, the digital solutions that we provide.

No one can match us in this rooftop.

Dr. Sinha, compared to more than quadrupling, basically what you're suggesting is by '29, '30, keeping battery aside, I know battery is also going to be some component, would you be looking at 40 GW, 30, 40 GW of annual rooftop installation?

Because that's how you get to with your market share of 25%. Is that kind of market is what you're foreseeing by '29, '30 for the industry as a whole?

I will also increase my market share from 12%, 13%, I will become 25%. I will be one of the biggest in the market, and by huge margin.

In fact, number two in the market is just 2%. This is a cash-and-carry business.

I think we'll be one of the biggest. Two years back, I used to do 1,000 units a month.

Now I do 30,000 units a month. There's a huge change that has happened, and for doing that the whole back-end process systems have been implemented and in place.

I think this will be a game changer going forward not only for us, but also in the country in terms of how power will be produced and supplied.

Does it not bother you let's say rooftop grows so phenomenally for the industry, for the country?

Please restrict yourself for two questions, because we have few more people. There's a hard stop at 12:00.

Just this follow-up, and just one on transmission that 2.5 GW, what kind of visibility do you have for transmission connectivity this year? Rooftop, does it bother you about your distribution and IPP business if you see such phenomenal growth, those other questions?

Those are

in 10 years, those are certain changes which will happen in the market. One has to be ready for those.

You will still require the distribution network. You will still require the wires.

You will still require technology for managing multiple supplies and multiple usage of that power. The nature of business will definitely undergo.

You come and spend some time with me, I'll tell you what will happen in 2035.

hi, sir. Thanks for the opportunity, and congrats on a good set of numbers.

Sir, first one on the solar EPC side. I believe that the third-party EPC is no more a focus area, but it's the second quarter where we have posted a loss on an EBITDA level.

Could you just explain, sir, why exactly at a loss at EBITDA level itself?

Under solar EPC, I think we've also mentioned last time that we would want to focus on our in-house execution plan. We already have 5.5 GW in pipeline plus some of the solutioning along with the PSP that is required.

We'll put in a lot of amount of effort on that. As a result, we have decided to repurpose our EPC workforce and EPC resources to in-house development.

We have discontinued doing the EPC third party. Per se previous year, we were doing some EPC work.

We had about 100-odd crores of PAT coming through that. This year, we're kind of wrapping up some of the remaining work, and as a result, we have booked some losses.

The slide that you see 48 is a combination of our solar rooftop plus solar EPC. If you take out the EPC separately, EPC we have stopped.

On a like-for-like basis, yes, from our previous base, usually we will lose 100-odd crore of PAT.

Sir, or do we still have some kind of a portion in the order book left as on date?

No, we don't have new order book. We're just completing what are the remaining work is there.

Of course, most of them almost in the completion stage. This is the performance reviews, some last pending work in terms of punch points, the final billing, final collections.

No major groundwork and no major capex are now executed over there. They're just completing the remaining work.

Thanks, sir. Secondly is on the TP Solar, our manufacturing business, where because of the change in the clientele mix, I believe this quarter we did lot of third-party sale.

Our margin escalated significantly. How should we look at this?

It was a quarterly event or going ahead as well, we will be having a similar kind of a sales mix for the segment?

It was a very small quantity, not that we did very large quantity of sale of cell. Typically what happens is you have orders for module, and some of them are DCR, some of them you can do with imported cell.

In those cases, we have some of our own manufactured cell which is available, and we take that market benefit. It's not that there is a large quantity.

Going forward, it may be there for a few more quarters where we may have some variation quantity of cell, because there is still certain imported cells you can use in some of the projects like open access consumers and group captive. Other than that, we will not be doing too much of cell sale in subsequent quarters.

Okay. If may just ask another question, sir.

This is a follow-up to the previous participant where you mentioned that the discussions and all are on probably that to do away with the intermediaries like SECI and all in signing a PPA. How exactly should we look at it?

Would the concentration move be more towards the C&I and data center signing PPA, or even on the discom side, there would be more on a bilateral arrangements?

Anuj, your voice was breaking. Could you just repeat it once again?

This was a follow-up question, sir, on a previous participants where you mentioned to do away with the intermediaries like SECI in signing a new PPAs. As a strategy going ahead, are we focusing more on signing PPAs towards C&I and data centers, or even on our discom side, probably we can have a more bilateral discussions in signing a PPA?

How exactly should we look at it?

What we are seeing is solar and wind or even, for that matter, hybrid projects, the demand through the central agencies is much less. We are also avoiding that sort of arrangement, and we are directly bidding to the states.

Excepting for pumped hydro, where this is a new storage solution that is being provided. Other than that, we're not looking at doing too much with central agencies.

Am I audible?

Good morning. The question I have is regarding Mundra's supplementary PPA.

Though the power is being scheduled under section 11, we are billing based on the supplementary PPA. Could you give me the details of how this tariff and how much of profits from the coal sales in Indonesia is getting knocked off when we are computing the tariff?

Some color on the supplementary PPA tariff would be helpful.

Presently, the supplementary PPA is on actual cost of coal, and all parameters, including heat rate, auxiliary being on actual. It's more towards cost reimbursement and cost reflective, without any margin to be made from the plant.

That's the overall arrangement that we have.

How is this different or how was this different earlier under the section 11 mechanism say one or two years back?

Section 11 also gave you cost reflective, but it also protected your fixed cost to the extent. Here the fixed cost is also on a normative basis so that you do not lose money, but also that there is no return on equity that you will get.

How much would be the fixed cost per unit right now in this plant?

That keeps on again changing, it's very difficult at this stage to say, but we are still working out the modalities.

As I understand, the fixed cost is not being covered under this supplementary PPA.

I did say that, na? I said, na, fixed cost is covered, but it is cost reflective.

That means whatever is your fixed cost for operating the plant, you will get that paid, but you will not get return on equity.

Sorry, yeah. That's what I meant.

Okay. Thank you.

That clarifies. All the best, sir.

Hi. Thank you for taking my question.

My first question was on the Delhi discom. I understand that on Odisha discom, it was due to reduction in collection.

Is that the same for Delhi discom as well?

As I mentioned to you, typically in summer months, you have very large consumption, and you do the billing after the end of the month, and it comes after a month. That's why your collection during that month is little less.

Just, for example, June, I will collect what I billed in May, but June there is a huge billing that takes place, and that only I will get in July. If you look on a 12-month basis, you will find that we are on track.

If you look on just a quarterly basis, and this is true throughout the year. Winter months you will have very less, it will not be again reflective.

I think you need to look at it on a 12-month cycle, and you will see that we are very much on track.

Understood, sir. Thank you.

My second question is on the Rithala plant. I see that it's not listed in the capacity this quarter.

Any particular reason why, sir?

Rithala plant was closed long time back

in '16.

That's why it's not an operating plant. It had issues on tariff and its depreciation issues and all that, and that has now been finalized, and we have made provisions for that.

Understood, sir. Thank you.

Those were my questions. Thank you.

Thank you.

Hi. Thanks for taking my question.

Firstly, if I look at the cluster-wise numbers that you have shared on Mundra coal and shipping, we see your EBITDA has declined, but your PAT has actually grown. If you can give me the breakup of the numbers of ₹2,700 crore of top line and ₹225 crore of PAT, how much came from the coal and how much losses from Mundra?

We don't give a separate split here, but we can get in touch with you through Anshul separately and give you some breakups. Suffice to say that the increase in the PAT that you see is because of a higher share of coal profits.

Right. Mundra would be under losses, right?

Safe to say that.

Mundra, yeah, depending upon the quarter, as Dr. Sinha already said, the way the SPPA is devised that you kind of get your coal pass-through plus you get your fixed cost, and, of course, to that extent there will be some under, over recovery.

The effort is to kind of ensure that we don't lose anything on the ROE perspective.

Right. Secondly, sir, on the TP Solar business, your modules are already running at full capacity, right?

You will be around 3,800, 3,900 broadly in that range for the full year.

Can you hear me now? Hello?

My question was your overall volumes in modules and cells have been declining YoY. How should we read into this for the full year?

Secondly, in terms of margins in TP Solar, you are at about 25%, 26% margins. Now I understand that in the next 6, 8 months, lot of capacities are coming up across the industry.

How do you read the margin scenario going forward? Will the demand-supply disrupt that?

There are two parts of it. One is that module production has increased.

For the first time, we have crossed 1,000 MW in a quarter. Secondly, the cell has reduced because there was a line change that happened.

You have to look at it from one is cost of production and the efficiency that has come. The second is also the product that we are making is having higher efficiency.

Because of that, there was a little bit of a sacrifice on the yield, and that is why. When you have higher efficiency of the cell, then you can command a premium on that.

That's how the margin is there. We are trying to ensure that our both yield as well as efficiency have now peaked, and subsequently quarter two you will see that sort of result.

In terms of margins overall for the industry and for you also, we are at about 25% broadly for TP Solar, and it has been consistently doing well since last two, three quarters. How do you read this as new capacities come in?

You will see that we are one of the highest in terms of margin, and you will see consistency in this. Now that the plant has stabilized, you will see that sort of outcome.

All right, folks.

Okay. Thank you.

Thank you very much. I know that we are rushing through it because we have another meeting at 12:00.

If you have any further queries, please get in touch with Anshul and Kasturi, and we'll respond to you with all details. More details have been provided.

We do look for your feedback if anything extra is required, we can provide it. Thank you, everyone.