Captive plants ask railways to halt coal rakes during lockdown
KOLKATA: Coal-fired captive power plants (CPP), integral to the manufacturing landscape of industries such as cement and steel, have asked the railways to stop loading rakes for consumers refusing to receive coal for few weeks as the units don’t need the solid fuel until the end of the lockdown and resumption of normal production run.
India’s captive generation capacity is about 50 GW, mainly in industries such base metals, chemicals, textiles, cement and paper. Shutdowns have forced captive plants to reduce or stop generation, leading to a drastic and sudden fall in coal demand.
