Indonesia coal to fire Haryana thermal plants

Thursday, February 17,

Haryana Power Generation corporation Limited(HPGCL) has now ordered Indonesian coal to solve coal shortage problem and to improve the generation at its thermal plants.*

According to official sources, HPGCL has placed an order for 1.45 million tones MT of imported coal on PEC Limited. The public sector company will supply the Indonesian coal for Khedar, Panipat and Yamunanagar thermal plants. Freight on Board (FOB) cost of imported coal is between 74.75 $ and 76.75$.The gross calorific value of imported coal will be around 6300.

Ministry of Power has given annual target of 1.45 million tons (MT) of coal imports for the current financial year. HPGCL has imported only 0.079 MT during the first five months of the year. According to Central Electricity Report coal shortage at Panipat is due to failure of HPGCL to import coal.

It may be mentioned that thermal plants in Haryana are getting ‘F’ grade coal with very high ash content . Due to poor coal quality the units at Khedar thermal plant were not able to achieve full load of 600 MW.

The dwindling coal stock at thermal plants of the state is a cause of worry. Today, Khedar thermal plant and Panipat thermal plant have 10000 MT and 56000 MT of coal stock which is just sufficient for one and three days respectively. This coal stock comes under super critical position., likewise Yamuna Nagar thermal plant has a coal stock of 58000 MT just sufficient for six days.