Covid-19 may impact India’s coal-fuelled power plants using Chinese equipment
NEW DELHI: The Covid-19 outbreak has now cast doubts over a part of India’s conventional electricity generation space, with around 90 giga watt (GW) coal-fuelled capacity based on Chinese power generation equipment.
With supply chains being disrupted, this installed and under-construction capacity has been placed with Chinese manufacturers such as Dongfang Electric, Shanghai Electric and Harbin Power. Mint earlier reported about concerns over Chinese equipment and their operation and maintenance, given the strategic importance of such power projects.
This comes in the backdrop of India’s domestic power demand, expected to go up with more people staying indoors, given the three-week nationwide lockdown from midnight Tuesday, in the world’s largest such exercise aimed at stemming the spread of coronavirus.
