This year’s March was hottest in over a century, leading to earlier-than-usual surge in electricity demand.
The big mismatch in demand and supply forced several states to resort to power cuts. India gets 75% of its electricity from coal.
And the average coal stocks at domestic power plants have fallen to nine days as of mid-April, the lowest in at least eight years.
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