Coal India (CIL) said on Wednesday that augmenting dispatch rates, it has supplied 1.4 million tonnes (MT) of the fuel per day during the last three days. From October onward, the company aims to ramp up coal supply to power plants at 1.5 MT per day and will reach 1.6 MT per day by the end of the month.
Power plants with a combined capacity of 1,27,449 megawatt (MW) had fuel stocks that would last for less than eight days as of September 28. The government has already announced its decision to regulate supply to power plants with low utilisation levels having coal stock of more than 10 days, and the fuel will instead be supplied to needy generating stations with low stock but running at high plant load factor.
