CIL jacks up supplies to domestic coal based TPS to fill in generation deficit from imported coal based TPS

The country’s 14 imported coal-based thermal power plants have been able to generate 30.04 billion units (BU) between April and November against 52.04 BU generated during the same period last fiscal, a 42.7% decrease. Scaling down generation mainly happened for soaring international coal prices though domestic coal-based thermal power plants stepped in to fill in the gap.

Coal India (CIL) chairman, Pramod Agrawal said, it supplied 20 million tonnes of additional coal to the domestic coal-based power plants, which had to scale up a generation for filling the deficit arising out of a lower generation of imported coal-based power plants.At a thumb rule specific, while producing 1 unit of power requires 0.67 kg of Indian coal, the same quantum of power can be produced with 0.45 kgs of imported coal for its high calorific value.