State-owned Coal India Ltd on Friday said that it supplied 509 million tonnes of coal to thermal power plants in the April-January period of this fiscal, registering a rise of 4.7 per cent.
Coal India supplied 486 million tonnes (MT) of dry fuel to coal-fired power plants in the year-ago period.
“Staying ahead of the projected demand since the beginning of the fiscal, CIL’s supplies to coal-fired plants raced to 509 MT till January,” the PSU said in a statement.
CIL’s increased supplies forming the bulk, ensured stock at domestic coal based power plants hitting an all-time high of 36.2 MT in January, eclipsing the previous high of 34.5 MTs recorded four years ago same month.
