New Delhi: India can face negotiations for six months to ensure coal power plants have sufficient fuel as the nation’s energy crisis increases.
More than half of the vigilance of the nation’s vigilant for blackouts after soaring the demand for electricity and the decline in local coal output eroded.
The power station has a four-day coal average at the end of last month, the lowest level in the year, and dropped from 13 days in early August.
“I don’t know whether I will feel comfortable in five to six to six months,” The minister of Power Raj Kumar Singh was quoted told newspapers in an interview published on Tuesday.
While demand is usually slow with cold weather from mid-October, “it will be touched and left,” he said.
At least some of the Indian coal fleets, the situation has deteriorated in the past week, according to Singh.
The accounting coal plant between 40 gigawatt to 50 gigawatts the current capacity of fuel has less than three days, he told the newspaper.
Which compared to the total national coal capacity is around 203 gigawatts.
Coal accounts for around 70% of Indian electricity generation, and consumption is expected to increase in the next few years, even as Prime Minister Narendra Modi encourages a massive increase in renewable energy.
Like Chinese neighbors, India suffers from the impact of a sharp surge in demand for electricity, emphasizing the domestic mine output and the increase in coal prices is sold.
The government works with coal managed by India and NTPC, India’s largest power plant, to increase the output of the mine and to ensure the demand is fulfilled, Singh quoted.
Coal supply will be prioritized for utilities that have made regular payments to coal companies, and those who have maintained the level of fuel stocks mandated, according to newspapers.