Coal shortage has hit the power
generation capacity of the country's largest power producer NTPC which said
that adequate availability of coal could have helped them to produce 10-15% of
more electricity.
Responding to a query on how much
capacity has been affected by coal shortage, NTPC Chairman and Managing
Director, Mr Arup Roy Choudhury, said it would be difficult to quantify.
“Definitely, it (coal shortage)
is hurting our generation … may be we could have produced 10-15 per cent more
every year, if we had got the required amount of coal,” he told PTI in an
interview.
For the current fiscal (2011-12),
NTPC's coal requirement was about 164 million tonnes (mt). Out of the total,
about 114 mt is estimated to have come from Coal India.
In October last year, there was a
significant dip in domestic coal supplies for NTPC plants that were estimated
to have impacted about 4,000 MW power generation capacity.
The disruption was mainly on
account of strike by Coal India workers, Telangana agitation and heavy rains.
Source: The Business Line
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