Facing an acute shortage of coal in its thermal plants, the Punjab State Power Corporation Limited has cut down on power generation and may impose rotational load shedding at several places in the state.
PSPCL CMD A Venu Prasad on Saturday informed Chief Minister Charanjit Singh Channi that the thermal power plants in Punjab – two managed by the state utility and three in the private sector – have coal stocks to meet generation requirements for one to two days. Venu Prasad informed the CM that the Rajpura Thermal Plant has a coal reserve of 1.9 days, Talwandi Sabo Thermal Plant has reserves of 1.3 days and GVK has just half-a-day of reserves. The two PSPCL run power plants at Ropar and Lehra Mohabbat also have just two days of stock left.
