Fast depleting coal supplies are hurtling Punjab and Haryana towards a power crisis with various thermal plants in these states left with coal only for a few days. The escalating power demand is driven up by hotter-than-normal summer and the current economic buoyancy.
The supply shortage has already led to temporary shut down of 2 units of GVK Goindwal Sahib thermal plant in Punjab, which generates 540 MW power. According to PSPCL, the units in this private thermal plant were shutdown as the thermal plant was left with only 4,141 MT of coal which can last for only 0.7 days.
