A major power crisis has arisen in front of us today owing to
shortage of coal, plunging entire world, including India, into complete
darkness. Coal is crucial for India’s energy supply as 70% of India’s
electricity generation depends on Coal. Every country is finding way out to
deal with current power crisis which cannot be resolved overnight, especially
for developed countries like India, which has 135 coal-fired power plants, but
unfortunately, 70 amongst them reporting shortage, not having sufficient amount
of coal supply resulting in running out of existing stockpiles within few days.
Due to country’s severe shortage of coal, particularly in India, power
generation in states like Punjab, Rajasthan, Delhi, and Tamil Nadu, has begun
to suffer. Going by forecast, India was recently hit by power crisis when daily
peak shortage rose to 10,778 MW, energy deficit reaching to 5% at national
level, with some states experiencing steep deficits of upto 15%. Consequently,
discoms resorted to load-shedding, leading to long duration of outage in many
households and rationed supply for economic activities. As of September 2021,
thermal power (power generating from burning coal, gas, petroleum) constitutes
60% of India’s installed capacity in power generation, coal-based power
generation with capacity of around 210 gigawatts (GW) of total 396 GW accounts
for about 53% of India’s total power capacity as on March 2022, India importing
about 20% of its thermal coal requirements.
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