Captive Power Plants (CPPs) are struggling to retain cost-competitiveness and sustainable industry operations due to the ongoing situation of non-equitable treatment compared to the power sector with regards to coal allocation, coal linkages, railway rakes, materialisation, coal pricing, the Indian Captive Power Producers Association (ICPPA) has said.
The non-power sectors are getting coal less than 20% of their quota while paying 20% higher price over the notified coal price. The differential coal pricing for different coal consumers is resulting in the sector paying a premium for the very same commodity, an official statement said.
