Coal India Limited, RVUNL sign MoU to end coal crisis
Under this MoU, Coal India will set up a solar project of 1190 MW capacity in Rajasthan, as well as an investment of Rs 5,400 crore will be made.
Under this MoU, Coal India will set up a solar project of 1190 MW capacity in Rajasthan, as well as an investment of Rs 5,400 crore will be made.
Amid the heatwave conditions, several states in the country were today grappling with power crisis due to the shortage of coal in the thermal power stations, even as the Centre asserted that there is no shortage of coal in the country.
The norm for the number of days of coal stock to be kept in the power plant depends on the distance of the power plant from the minehead.
With the nationwide cry for coal growing louder, the Mahanadi Coalfields Limited (MCL) dispatched over 5.47 lakh tons of coal to consumers on Sunday, breaking its record of 5.45 lakh tons within a fortnight.
Any power outage in aluminium plants will lead to catastrophic impact and complete shutdown which will take minimum 12 months of recovery, resulting in job loss of more than 8 lakh people, banks will have debt exposure of over Rs.1 lakh crore and additional National forex loss of Rs. 90,000 crores, said the AAI.
The aluminium industries association of India (AAI) has implored the government to prioritize the supply of coal to the sector to avert massive collateral damage.
The short supply has forced the authorities to curtail generation of the power plant by 500 MW
