India uses emergency measures to prevent summertime blackouts
Date
2/21/2023 7:01:29 AM
(MENAFN) In order to satisfy the nation's soaring electricity demand and prevent blackouts, India is enacting an emergency regulation that would require some of its largest coal-fired power plants to run at full capacity.
According to a Feb. 20 power ministry order reviewed by Bloomberg News, power plants using imported coal would be required to run nonstop for three months throughout the summer to relieve the strain on domestic coal supply.
The emergency rule was previously employed by the ministry during a power outage last summer when sweltering heat endangered economic expansion.
Several areas of the nation are experiencing abnormally high temperatures for this time of year, and peak electricity consumption over the last week has already surpassed the records set during the energy crisis last year.
The peak electricity consumption, which was 215 gigawatts last summer, is expected to rise to 229 gigawatts in April, according to the government.
The two damaged facilities are the massive 4,620 megawatt Adani Power Ltd. facility at Mundra in Gujarat's coastline state and the 4,000 megawatt Tata Power Co. plant in the same town.
Due to their difficulty in supplying energy at such rates when import coal costs rise, several of these facilities with fixed-price power supply contracts have not been functioning at full capacity.
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