Coal India Ltd Q3 2024 Earnings Call Transcript

The following is excerpted from the question-and-answer section of the transcript.

Question: Siddharth Gadekar - Equirus Securities Private Limited, Research Division - Analyst : So first one, the washery part. So can you give an update on what is happening on that side of the business? And when can we see some higher volumes on the beneficiated coal part?

Question: Siddharth Gadekar - Equirus Securities Private Limited, Research Division - Analyst : So once all these capacities come online maybe FY '27, '28, what could be the peak of beneficiated coal that we can produce? Tentative number.

Question: Siddharth Gadekar - Equirus Securities Private Limited, Research Division - Analyst : All right. Sir, secondly, on the e-auction part, what has driven the e-auction rise in the third quarter? Because if you look at international prices also, they were relatively subdued during 3Q. So why did the e-auction premium jump very sharply in the third quarter? Unidentified Company Representative Third quarter, if you see the power plant stock has come down to the bare minimum in the month of September, it has gone down below 90 million tonnes. And the peak demand in the country at that point of time has hit 240 gigawatts, which was the highest ever. So there was a substantial pull at that point of time.