India is facing a major power challenge, demand unlikely to fall: RK Singh
India’s power, coal and railway ministries face a “major challenge” in ensuring adequate electricity supplies with demand unlikely to decline, power and renewable energy minister RK Singh told ET’s Sarita C Singh & Vinay Pandey in an exclusive interview. Singh said the directive mandating imported coal-based plants to keep producing power might be extended beyond October and the ministry has facilitated finance to about 4 GW of stressed imported coal-based plants that are expected to be ready to operate in three-four days. Edited excerpts:-
The ministry has invoked Section 11 of the Electricity Act on imported coal-based power projects. How do you ensure it gets implemented?
