After NTPC Green’s Rs 10,000 crore initial public offer (IPO) expected around November, almost a dozen more such issues are likely to hit the market over the ensuing months, with state-run energy companies seeking to bolster the capital bases of their newly incorporated green subsidiaries.

These IPOs are part of a larger plan of these companies – Coal India, ONGC, SJVN, NHPC, India Oil and NLC India – to create robust climate-friendly asset bases, and enjoy the tax reliefs for new greenfield ventures (see chart). While a clearer picture will emerge only later, the combined value of these IPOs could easily run to tens of thousand crores, according to official sources and market experts.

While the sequence of the IPOs will unravel over the next few months, the government, especially the Department of Investment and Public Asset Management has been encouraging the energy sector CPSEs’ plans to float subsidiaries and joint ventures to take advanta…