Despite a decline in coal supplies to the power sector by State-miner, Coal India Limited (CIL), during April 2019 to January 2020, no thermal power plant of India’s largest power producer, NTPC, is facing any shortage of dry fuel, indicating low demand of energy and overall economic slowdown.
As per information available from CIL, coal supplies to the thermal power sector during first nine months of current financial year was down 7%, at 378-million tons. For the first time in three years, no thermal power plant operated by NTPC or through any of its joint venture were facing coal shortage or categorised as ‘critical’ or ‘super critical’ in terms of fuel stocks by Central Electricity Authority (CEA).