By Our Correspondent
NEW DELHI/BHUBANESWAR: Union Minister of Coal, Mines and Parliamentary Affairs Shri Pralhad Joshi in a written reply in Lok Sabha said , there is no shortage of supply of coal from Coal India Limited (CIL) sources, being the single largest supplier of domestic coal in India. CIL has provided coal supplies to the tune of 532.41 Million tonnes (MT) during the current fiscal (upto 26th January ‘22), in comparison to last year same period figures of 453.98 MT achieving a growth of about 17%.
Moreover, in the current fiscal, against the pro-rated demand of 439.37 MT by Central Electricity Authority (CEA) (upto 26th January ‘22), CIL has supplied coal to the tune of 432.90 MT (upto 26th January’22) to the power sector, thereby achieving a materialization of about 99% in comparison to last year same period figures of 351.57 Million tonnes, achieving a growth of 23% over last year same period.
The grade conformation of the coal supplies to power utilities and weighted average Gross Calorific Value (GCV) of coal during the last two years has improved as appended below. Besides, Plant Load Factor (PLF) of power plants has also increased during this period.
