Expensive natural gas and a country-wide coal shortage has “strained” electricity supply in Gujarat, where state-owned thermal power plants are already operating at 50 per cent of Plant Load Factor (PLF, a measure of a power plant’s capacity utilisation), officials said Wednesday.
“There is no shortage of electricity in Gujarat. Given the coal shortage in the country, our systems are strained, but we have been maintaining our power supply,” said Shameena Hussain, managing director of Gujarat Urja Vikas Nigam Limited (GUVNL), a Gujarat government company engaged in bulk purchase and sale of electricity and coordinates and facilitates activities of six subsidiary companies involved in the generation, transmission and distribution of electricity in state.
