TALCHER: Large parts of the country may plunge into darkness as power production at the 3,000-MW NTPC’s Kaniha power plant in Odisha continues to remain disrupted due to acute shortage of coal supply from Mahanadi Coalfields Limited (MCL), a subsidiary of Coal India Limited.
Three of the NTPC’s six 500-MW units have been shut down due to the shortage of fuel.
“Coal production and supply have come to a halt and the power plant has received no coal from mines since July 25,” an NTPC official said on Tuesday.
