Coal shortage may trip 42,000 MW of new projects

05 May 2011 Evaluate

With domestic coal production floundering amid a sharp upsurge in power capacity addition, over 40,000 MW of new generation capacity could get stranded over years for want of fuel. This is close to 70 per cent of the power capacity slated to come up during the period, most of which is being set up by private developers.

Coal-fired generation projects cumulatively adding up to 62,680 MW are slated to come up over the next five years, requiring an additional 313 million tonnes of coal. Against this, the incremental coal availability indicated by CIL is only 100 million tones. Based on the projected shortages, the new capacity that could be stranded works out to 42,000 MW. The current installed generation capacity in the country is 173,626 MW.

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