VIJAYAWADA: Keeping the recent experience of coal shortage in mind, the State power utilities have started planning to finalise coal linkages to thermal units for the next two years. The Andhra Pradesh Power Development Corporation Limited (APPDCL), a subsidiary of the AP Power Generation Corporation Limited (APGENCO), has floated tenders for transportation of 5.8 million metric tonnes of beneficiated coal from different washeries from Mahanadi Coalfields Ltd (MCL) to Sri Damodaram Sanjeevaiah Thermal Power Station (SDSTPS) in Krishnapatnam. It is also working towards ensuring adequate coal supplies to other thermal units in the State as well.
