Power plants, consumers agree to substitute imported coal with CIL
Power plants located in the southern part of the country and non-regulated sector (NRS) consumers, including steel and cement, of Mahanadi Coalfields Ltd (MCL) have agreed to substitute imported coal with the dry-fuel produced by the Coal India subsidiary.
The development assumes significance in the wake of government’s thrust on reducing coal import dependency of the country under the ‘Aatmanirbhar Bharat’ initiative.
Southern India power plants and NRS consumers, who are importing coal at present, have been approached based on the logic that MCL’s coal is quite comparable with imported coal as per Gross Calorific Value land cost analysis, the Coal India (CIL) arm said in a report.
