Amid warning of Electricity crisis due to coal shortage, Center lists 4 reasons

The Coal Ministry gave rules on October 8 for operationalizing ideal use of creating stations according to the necessities in the power matrix.

The Union ministry of power has recorded four explanations behind the consumption of coal stocks, remembering an extraordinary increment for interest for power because of the restoration of the economy, after boss priests of Delhi, Punjab and Andhra Pradesh hailed the issue of lack of coal at power plants. The force service said that a between ecclesiastical sub-bunch drove by the service of coal has been checking the coal stock circumstance two times per week as declining coal holds started worries of a force emergency in the country. 


Delhi Cheif Minister Arvind Kejriwal said on Saturday the Capital could confront blackouts if the Center doesn't rapidly resolve the coal deficiency at power plants. Kejriwal wrote to Prime Minister Narendra Modi after reports that over portion of 135 coal-terminated utilities, which supply the greater part of India's power, have fuel stocks to endure just shy of three days. 


"There are four reasons for the depletion of coal stocks at the power plant end unprecedented increase in demand for electricity due to the revival of the economy; heavy rains in coal mine areas during September 2021 thereby adversely affecting the coal production as well as despatch of coal from mines; increase in prices of imported coal to unprecedented high level leading to a substantial reduction in power generation from imported coal-based power plants leading to more dependence on domestic coal; non-building of adequate coal stocks before the onset of Monsoon," the service said in a release.