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Sunday, Jun 12, 2005

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Coal paucity: NTPC plea to SCCL

Staff Reporter

KARIMNAGAR: To avoid coal shortage and power crisis, the National Thermal Power Corporation, Ramagundam, has appealed to the Singareni Collieries Company Limited (SCCL) and the railways to support the super thermal power plant so that the coal reserves were maintained to meet its power generation requirement and also to build up stocks to face the anticipated coal shortage during the forthcoming monsoon season.

Responding to a story `NTPC unit facing coal shortage' published in these columns on Saturday, the NTPC official spokesperson had clarified that as per the instructions of Union Power Ministry, the NTPC had deferred its annual over-hauling schedules of its units due to delayed monsoon in the region and it continued power generation to its full installed capacity of 2600 MW.

"To maintain the current level of power generation, the NTPC had consumed more coal over and above the linked quantity and this has resulted in the depletion of its coal stocks which may last for just three to four days''.

The statement stated that the NTPC seventh unit of 500 MW has a long-term coal linkage with the South eastern coal fields for meeting its coal requirements. However, the movement of coal rakes from the SECL has not materialised due to various constraints from the railways front. Hence, the short-term linkage committee has allotted linkage to the NTPC seventh unit to the Western coal fields.

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