Coal Shortage Crisis: 15 Of 135 Power Plants Have Zero Days Of Stock
Concerns on coal have also come from political quarters, as Power Minister RK Singh describes the situation as "touch and go" By - Mohammed Kudrati | Boom Live India is running perilously low on coal for thermal power generation, shows data from the Central Electricity Authority. According to their daily release on coal stocks through the National Power Portal, 15 of India's 135 coal-fired thermal power plants have zero days worth of coal, which is as of September 30. On average, the data shows that there is only four days worth of coal stock, that is 8.082 million tons of coal. The data show that the daily requirement for coal across all categories of plants is 1.825 million tons. 104 power plants have critical or super critical supplies, which the data show is eight days or less worth of supplies...Full Story