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The country is facing acute coal shortage, hitting hard the power sector and moves are afoot to ensure that the production is enhanced The Coal Ministry has given three de-allocated mines, including two of NTPC, to CIL and asked it to appoint mine developers to begin the production from these blocks at the earliest. The Prime Minister's Office (PMO) recently asked the Coal Ministry to fast-track the process of taking back captive blocks from the companies which have not developed them within the stipulated time, and giving them to Coal India Ltd (CIL).
PMO is believed to have accepted the demand of Coal India to lower the minimum supply level to 65% from 80% State-run NTPC today said it would abide by the Prime Minister's Office directive of signing the fuel supply agreement with Coal India at a minimum assured supply of 65%. "We want coal, we would do what the PMO says," CMD NTPC Arup Roy Choudhury said without divulging whether the trigger level would be 65%.
Just outside the national capital, the first unit of the new 1,500 MW gas-based Bawana power plant is ready to generate electricity, but is forced to idle away. Reason: the Delhi government-owned Pragati
Country’s largest power producer accepts changes proposed by Prime Minister’s Office The country’s largest power producer NTPC has accepted the changes proposed by the Prime Minister’s Office in the new
Prices in Eastern Coalfields blocks may go up by 12%; power generation costs set to increase Public sector Coal India has hiked prices for non-coking coal mined from selected blocks in Western Coalfields
Concrete efforts are being made to increase installed power generation capacity in view of rising demand for power in the State. For this, the State Government has chalked out an integrated scheme. Implementation
The coal ministry would push for significant dilution of the provisions of Coal India Ltd (CIL)’s current fuel supply pacts with power companies in tomorrow’s meeting at the Prime Minister’s Office (PMO). “The ministry will propose lowering CIL’s supply commitment under new fuel supply agreements (FSAs) to 65 per cent of the contracted quantity for the first three years, 72 per cent for the fourth year and 80 per cent for the fifth year,” a senior official from the coal ministry told Business Standard. The proposal to increase the penalty level is aimed at compensating for this reduced commitment.
Energy and metal cos with mining interests setting up environment team for sustainable mining State-owned energy and metal companies having mining interests have begun hiring people to manage the environment
Two days after Coal India Ltd (CIL), the world’s largest coal producer, entered into fuel supply agreements (FSAs) with 27 power companies, some power producers, including Maharashtra State Power Generation Co Ltd (Mahagenco), on Wednesday raised objections against some terms of the pacts. Mahagenco, one of the largest power producers in the country, has sent a communication to CIL, demanding some provisions in the FSA, mainly the penalty clause, be revisited. The company further said the draft FSA, in its present format, took care of only CIL’s interests.
At a time when the whole country including Odisha is reeling under acute power shortage, the 3000 Mw power plant of National thermal Power Corporation (NTPC) at Kaniha, the second largest power station in India, is forced to regulate generation due to less supply of coal. According to sources, the power plant is in supercritical state having a coal stock for one day only as against the normal 15 days stock. There were 3.5 million tonnes of coal at its stock yard on April 1. But due to short supply of coal from Mahanadi Coalfield Limited (MCL), the stock has depleted to a level of just “hand to mouth”, forcing the company to slash generation from its six 500 Mw units.
