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Will Adani Power’s Delisting Impact Existing Shareholders?

Will Adani Power's Delisting Impact Existing Shareholders?

Recently, the board of Adani Power Ltd approved the delisting the company’s public shares from stock exchanges. Company has decided the floor price of ₹33.82/share to buy back the shares from public shareholders. Let’s understand what delisting means how will it impact shareholders and the company?

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What Is Meant By Delisting?
Delisting means the removal of stock from the stock exchange, meaning the stock will no longer trade on specified stock exchanges. There are two types of delisting i.e Voluntary and Involuntary. Delisting can happen due to various reasons such as bankruptcy, failure to comply with exchange laws, takeover, merger, and lower than required stock price, etc.

Voluntary delisting is when a company buys back the public shares at the decided floor price. Such delisting is only considered successful when the company acquires 90% of the total shares. Whereas, Involuntary delisting is when directors, promoters, and/or firm are banned from accessing the securities market. In this case, promoters are under compulsion to purchase the shares from public shareholders.

Adani’s Decision To Delist
The board of Adani Power approved the voluntary delisting of its shares from the Bombay Stock Exchange and the National Stock Exchange. Adani Power Limited is the power business subsidiary of Indian conglomerate Adani Group. It is India’s largest private thermal power producer.

Experts say that the low performance of the share price makes it difficult for the company to borrow more money. Thus, by delisting it can improve the share price, which will help it borrow more at a time when interest rates are low.

But, public shareholders will be negatively impacted by it as investors holding the stock since IPO will have lost ~60% of their investment – without even taking into consideration the time value of money for 11 years – if the company buys back shares at ~₹40.

Also Read: Adani Wins World’s Largest Solar Bid

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  • Mundra Thermal Power Station is one of the coal-based power plants of Adani Power. Located at Mundra in Kutch district from Gujarat, it is the world’s 11th-largest single location coal-based thermal power plant as well as India’s second largest operational power plant after NTPC Vindhyanchal.
  • In 2017, Adani Power was named the Most Innovative Young Power Professional by IPPAI at the 18th Regulators & Policymakers Retreat. And in 2018, it received the Recognition for Best Environment Management practices by Srishti Publications.
  • Adani Green Energy Limited (AGEL) is an Indian renewable energy company owned by Adani Group. In May 2020, Adani won the world’s largest solar bid by the Solar Energy Corporation of India (SECI) worth $6 billion.
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Adani Wins World’s Largest Solar Bid

Adani founder Gautam Adani

Adani Green Energy Ltd grabbed world’s largest solar energy deal worth $6 billion to develop 10GW of solar projects. It also made it India’s largest renewable player, managing a renewable portfolio of 15GW.

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India’s Renewable Energy Vision
India has set a target to set up plants and sources to produce 175 GW of renewable energy by 2022. Today, India is no longer facing a financial challenge but a technical challenge. Experts believe that India needs non-financial support like project development, policy support, legislative enablers, and coordinated implementation ecosystem to achieve its target of sustainable development and energy production. India’s current solar cell manufacturing capacity is 3.3GW, and its module making capacity is 8GW. India intends to produce 40% of energy by non-fossil sources by 2030.

  • India's renewable energy vision


Green Deal
Adani green has grabbed the contract to build an 8GW solar power plant and 2GW solar cell and module manufacturing plant from Solar Energy Corporation of India in a deal worth $6 billion. The plant would create 4,00,000 direct and indirect job opportunities while displacing 900 million tonnes of carbon dioxide over its lifetime. The first 2GW plant would be online by 2022 and the subsequent 6GW capacity would be added in 2 GW annual increments by 2025.

The deal increases the total managing capacity of the Adani group to 15 GW (including under construction, operation, and contract), making Adani Green India’s largest player managing renewable energy portfolio. The group has pledged to achieve renewable energy generation of 25 GW by 2025. Moreover, Azure Power is assigned to build a Solar PV project of 4GW and to set up a solar kit manufacturing plant of 1GW.

  • India's Top Renewable Energy Producers


Five Largest Solar Power Plants in India

  • Bhadla Solar Park – 2,250MW – Rajasthan’s Jodhpur district
  • Shakti Sthala Solar Power Project – 2,050MW – Tumakuru district, Karnataka
  • Ultra Mega Solar Park – 1,000MW – Kurnool district, Andhra Pradesh
  • Rewa Solar Power Project – 750MW – Madhya Pradesh
  • Kamuthi solar power plant – 648MW – Tamil Nadu
  • Installed Solar PV Capacity of India
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  • The Carmichael coal mine is a thermal coal mine in the north of the Galilee Basin in Central Queensland, Australia, approved by the Queensland and federal Australian governments. The mine was proposed by Adani Mining, a wholly owned subsidiary of India’s Adani Group. The mine has drawn controversy about its potential impact on the Great Barrier Reef, affecting the groundwater at its site while releasing its carbon emissions. It would be the largest coal mine in Australia and one of the largest in the world.
  • Mundra Port is the largest private port of India, located on the north shores of the Gulf of Kutch near Mundra, Gujarat. Formerly it was operated by Mundra Port and Special Economic Zone Limited (MPSEZ) owned by Adani Group which was later expanded into Adani Ports & SEZ Limited (APSEZ) managing several ports. In 2013–2014, Mundra Port became the first India port to handle 100 million tonnes of cargo.
  • Gautam Shantilal Adani (born 24 June 1962) is an Indian billionaire industrialist who is the chairman and founder of the Adani Group — an Ahmedabad-based multinational conglomerate involved in port development and operations in India. According to Forbes, his net worth is estimated to be around $15.7 billion as of October 2019. In 2019, he was ranked as the 3rd most powerful person in India by India Today.

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Siemens to Honor Deal of Adani's Controversial Coal Mine in Australia

German company Siemens has affirmed that it will honor its commitment made to India’s Adani Group. The Charmichael coal mine of Adani Group has been under the scope of controversy due to environmental concerns.

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  • Germany’s Siemens Mobility made an agreement with India’s Adani group to provide signaling technology for Adani’s coal mine in Queensland in Australia.
  • The coal mine has been criticized because excessive usage of coal leads to the release of large amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, a phenomenon that is adding to the worrisome global warming.
  • Siemens’ decision comes at a time when Australia is engulfed in bushfires.
  • Global environmental activists, including Greta Thunberg, criticized Siemens’ decision.
  • “While I do have a lot of empathy for environmental matters, I do need to balance different interests of different stakeholders, as long as they have lawful legitimation for what they do,” said Siemens’ CEO Joe Kaeser.
  • Environmentalists staged a protest against Seimens outside Seimens’ Munich headquarters.
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Carmichael Coal Mines – The mine is proposed by Adani Mining, a wholly-owned subsidiary of India’s Adani Group. It has drawn immense controversy about its claimed economic benefits, its financial viability, plans for government subsidies and the damaging environmental impacts. Broadly, these have been described as its potential impact upon the Great Barrier Reef, groundwater at its site and its carbon emissions. The emissions from burning the amount of coal expected to be produced from this one mine, whether sourced from it or elsewhere, would, in a “worst-case” scenario be, approximately 0.53-0.56% of the carbon budget that remains after 2015. More Info

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