NEW DELHI: Power minister Satyendar Jain on Tuesday said NTPC Ltd, the country’s largest producer of electricity, has capped its capacity and asked if it was due to coal shortage or it had been asked by the Centre to do so. If the capacity is reduced further, Delhi may see a power blackout, Jain said.
All coal-reliant power plants in Delhi, he pointed out, are non-functional and NTPC Ltd, which has to supply 3,500MW to Delhi under the power purchase agreement, is currently providing only half of it — 1,750MW.
Jain claimed NTPC Ltd had halved the production capacity at all plants across the country. “There can be two reasons; first, there is coal shortage, or second, the Centre has told them to do it,” he said.
