Which part of power bucket will see highest earnings growth in next 10 years? Fitch Ratings’ Girish Madan answers

economictimes.indiatimes.com:

Girish Madan, Director, Fitch Ratings, says it would be a combination of both thermal and renewable generation sides. In renewables, wWe have seen some pressure on the earnings because tariffs were coming down as competitive intensity was increasing in the sector, but of late the profitability should increase because some of the variables have turned in favour of the Gencos. Some of the commodity prices have also come down. Plus, there has been a 20-30% correction in solar module prices. All these factors could lead to enhanced EBITDA generation as well as profitability for Gencos.
Where exactly in the power basket are we seeing the highest amount of activity in terms of addition of capacities?
Girish Madan: Over the last few years, we have seen a large part of capacity addition has happened in the renewable space. If we talk about the last two years, around 40 gigawatts have been added in India and 80% of that has gone into solar and wind capacities, mainly solar capacities, so that is where we have seen capacity addition happening. We have seen some volatilities as far as the demand was concerned before COVID, so there was a slowdown in capacity addition. But sustained demand over the last three years has led to a great increase in capacity addition.

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