Ahead of the festival season, the coal supply crisis seems to be deepening as 64 non-pithead power plants are left with less than four days of the dry fuel stocks.
The latest report on coal stocks for power plants from the Central Electricity Authority (CEA) also showed that 25 such power plants had coal stocks for less than seven days as on October 3.
As many as 64 non-pithead thermal power plants had less than four days of stocks of the dry fuel.
The CEA monitors coal stocks at 135 power plants that have a cumulative generation capacity of 165 GW on a daily basis.
Overall, total coal stocks of 78,09,200 tonnes were available at the 135 plants as on October 3 and that was sufficient for four days.
