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New Delhi, Dec (EPC News): The Central Electricity Authority has said that the coal stock at power plants improved from a level of 9.29 Million Tonnes as on 31st October, 2009 to 10.65 Million Tonnes as on 30th November, 2009.
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Sriprakash Jaiswal, Minister of State (Independent Charge) for Coal, says "The number of critical power stations having coal stock of less than 7 days reduced from a level of 27 to 25 during the same period."
It is expected that coal production and transportation are likely to improve further and, therefore, closing down of power plants due to short supply of coal is not being apprehended.
Import of coal
Central Electricity Authority (CEA) has estimated that as against the total coal requirement of 404 million tones required by power utilities during 2009-10, the indigenous availability would be about 363 million tones. Therefore, Ministry of Power has advised the power utilities to import 28.70 million tones which is equivalent to about 41 million tones of indigenous coal, during 2009-10 to bridge the gap between demand and indigenous availability.
Import of coal is under Open General Licence (OGL) and consumers are free to import coal. During the year 2007-08 and 2008-09, various consumers including consumers from power sector have imported coal from Australia, Indonesia etc. to the tune of 49.79 million tones and 59.00 million tones respectively.
By Staff Reporter
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