JSW Energy to list today

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JSW Energy, a part of Sajjan Jindal-led JSW Group, will list its equity shares issued via public issue today, January 4, 2010 (The market trading will be started at 9 am from today). It has fixed its issue price at Rs 100 per share, at lower end of price band of Rs 100-115, due to lukewarm response from retail and non-institutional investors.

For retail investors, issue price was fixed at Rs 95 per share, at a discount of Rs 5 to the original issue price.

The initial public offering (IPO) of JSW Energy was subscribed 1.68 times, as per data available on the NSE website. Qualified institutional investors supported the issue to get subscribed; their reserved portion was subscribed 2.88 times. The reserved portion of retail & non-institutional investors remained under-subscribed.

It intends to utilise the issue proceeds for partially financing construction and development of the Identified Projects aggregating to 2,790 MW in capacity & 400 KV transmission project and mining venture (at cost of Rs 2,142.53 crore) and repayment of corporate debt (Rs 470 crore).

JSW Energy is an established energy company with 860 megawatts, or MW, of operational generating capacity and 2,790 MW of generating capacity in the construction or implementation phase, 135 MW of which has been commissioned.

- To view Sajjan Jindal's press conference, watch attached video