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Jennifer Song

Coal-fired IPPs See Both Opportunities and Challenges from Reforms; Shares are Slightly Undervalued.

Our recent visits with major coal and power companies revealed both opportunities and challenges for Chinese coal-fired independent power producers, or IPPs, amid the sector's reform. We expect coal-fired power plants to benefit from stable margins and healthy cash flows in long-run, with reforms likely to allow the IPPs to better match fuel costs with power pricing. However, the sector's long-standing and deep-seated structural problems, along with the complexities and difficulties in balancing...
Underlying
Huaneng Power International Inc. Class A

Huaneng Power International is engaged in investment, construction, operation and management of power plants. Through its subsidiaries, Co. is also engaged in power generation; development of wind power project; production and sale of electricity; heat supply; construction and operation of power plants and related construction projects; wholesale of coal; construction, operation and management of hydropower, cogeneration power and related projects; provision of utility services; and consultancy in waste recycling industrial waste management and recycling. As of Dec 31 2010, Co. had controlling generation capacity and equity-based generation capacity of 50,935 MW and 45,340 MW, respectively.

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Morningstar

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Jennifer Song

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