No power shortage, outages result of states’ constraints: Power minister

Asserting that there is enough coal stock in the country, R K Singh, union minister for power new and renewable energy said, there is no power shortage in the country.

There won’t be any back down of power supply. There was no power shortage and it did not happen even before. If there is some outage, then that is because of states’ constraints,” Singh said.

He said the power plants in the country have close to 8 million tonnes currently. Since August, coal stocks have dwindled at the power plants, with 4 days stock left. Situation has improved lately with demand cooling off and coal supply ramping up.