Tata Power firms up as Aptel dismisses BEST’s appeal against the company

28 Nov 2014 Evaluate

Tata Power Company is currently trading at Rs. 92.80, up by 0.35 points or 0.38% from its previous closing of Rs. 92.45 on the BSE.

The scrip opened at Rs. 92.60 and has touched a high and low of Rs. 93.55 and Rs. 92.10 respectively. So far 141191 shares were traded on the counter.

The BSE group 'A' stock of face value Re. 1 has touched a 52 week high of Rs. 115.25 on 09-Jun-2014 and a 52 week low of Rs. 68.95 on 30-Jan-2014.

Last one week high and low of the scrip stood at Rs. 92.90 and Rs. 87.80 respectively. The current market cap of the company is Rs. 25004.26 crore.

The promoters holding in the company stood at 33.04 % while Institutions and Non-Institutions held 50.93 % and 15.87 % respectively.

Appellate Tribunal for Electricity (Aptel) has dismissed the appeal made by Brihanmumbai Electric Supply and Transport (BEST),  which supplies power to south Mumbai residents at present, challenging Maharashtra Electricity Regulatory Commission’s (MERC) order for granting distribution licence to Tata Power for 25 years till August 2039. With this, Tata Power will now be able to supply power to BEST areas between Colaba and Cuffe Parade on one hand and Sion and Mahim on the other.

An undertaking of Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BEST), in its appeal against the MERC order, arguing that the licence could not have been granted by the regulatory commission as the previous performance of Tata Power was unsatisfactory. Besides, BEST claimed that MERC had gone wrong in holding that network roll-out can be prescribed as a subsequent specific condition and has to be approved before the grant of licence. Also in its appeal it pointed that the entry of the private player would endanger its existence and more than 47,000 of its employees could be rendered jobless.

BEST has a consumer base of 1.05 million while Tata Power supplies power to over 5,00,000 customers in its area of operation of about 475 sqkm in Mumbai.

Tata Power is India’s largest integrated power company with a significant international presence. The Company has an installed generation capacity of 8521 MW in India and a presence in all the segments of the power sector viz. Generation (thermal, hydro, solar and wind), Transmission, Distribution and Trading.

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