Adani Power shares jump 3% to fresh 52-week high as firm expands nuclear energy ambitions

Shares of Adani Power jumped more than 3% to hit a fresh record high of Rs 205.25 on Monday after the company announced that Adani Atomic Energy has incorporated its wholly owned subsidiary Coastal-Maha Atomic Energy, furthering its nuclear ambitions.

In an exchange filing released on Sunday, the company said that its wholly-owned subsidiary Adani Atomic Energy (AAEL) incorporated CMAEL on April 13 and received the certificate of incorporation on April 18. The company is associated with the generation, transmission and distribution of power derived from nuclear or atomic energy.

CMAEL has been incorporated with an authorised capital of Rs 5 lakh, divided into 50,000 equity shares worth Rs 10 each, Adani Power said. Earlier in February, the company had announced the incorporation of Adani Atomic Energy.


Following the announcement, shares of the company jumped more than 3% to hit a fresh 52-week high of Rs 205.35 apiece on the BSE. Notably, the stock has seen a significant surge recently, rallying around 13% in one week and 35% in one month as rising temperatures boosted hopes for heightened power demand across India in the upcoming months, with Adani Power emerging as one of the key beneficiaries.

Rising expectations of heightened power demand

JM Financial, in a recent report, said that power demand had peaked in early March, but a sudden weather disturbance caused by a rare western disturbance beginning on March 20, with a 1,000 km cloud cover stretching from Afghanistan through Pakistan into India, brought widespread rain and unseasonably cold conditions. However, the massive cloud band across North India is now moving away, and experts expect hot summers and subsequent high power demand ahead.

El Nino years have been marked by spikes in power demand, the domestic brokerage noted. It explained that the El Niño during 2015 led to an extended hot and humid weather up to October of 2015. Peak demand grew 4–5% during September–November versus 1% in FY16 during that time. During the summer of April–June 2019, another El Nino year, the average temperature was 2.80°C+ on 64 days out of 91 days. Peak demand grew at an unprecedented 7–9% during April–June of 2019, it said.

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Later in 2023, El Niño-driven dry conditions led to a five-year low in monsoon rainfall (94% of LPA) with extreme hot and humid conditions during June-August 2026.

Who will benefit?

“All in all, we anticipate a shortfall in hydro generation (negative for NHPC, SJVN), spike in coal-fired generation (positive for NTPC, Adani Power), extension of Section-11 (Tata Mundra) and high merchant prices (Adani Green, Adani Power),” the domestic brokerage concluded.

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