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OPG Power Ventures - Annualised capacity 256% higher already

January 2010

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The shares are well up on our Buy note at 56p last July. Interim results were as expected with pretax profit before expenses relating to new projects under development of Â£4m, up from Â£2.26m in H1 last year. The story is one of greater capacity - a year ago OPG was just operating its 19.4MW power plant in Tamil Nadu but this period also saw a smaller 10MW plant in Chennai kick in - as well as higher tariffs (5.5 rupees compared to 4.11 rupees). Based on 29.4MW capacity now in place, sales for H1 were up 97% to Â£5.7m. Future plants are going to be bigger; the 77MW plant in Chennai is close to being commissioned and tariffs should be better than expected whilst OPG has contracted with TATA Power, the largest and most ...

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