Assam to face major power shortage and load shedding due to coal crisis

GUWAHATI: India-the world’s largest coal consumer after China- is currently facing a major power crisis. Several states of the country are facing electricity cuts and further outrages due to lack of coal. Just like the other states, Assam is also heading towards a major power crisis in the coming days. Announcing about the urgent power cut and crisis, the state government today requested people to get ready for it.

The Assam Power Distribution Company Limited (APDCL) announced through a public advertisement that power cut would be inevitable. It further stated that due to limited coal availability, the generation of power from Thermal Generating Stations has decreased resulting in power crisis and load shedding.

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Assam needs around 2100 MW and at the peak hours they produce only around 370 MW and remaining they used buy from national grid.

It is to be mentioned that the state does not have a coal fed power station. It has a shortage of 350 MW which are not covered under any power purchase agreement.

Due to a combination of factors such as excess rainfall hitting coal movement and imported coal-based power plants generating less than half of their capacity due to record high rates.

Power plants across the country regulated generation after stock ran low. Against the requirement of maintaining 15 days to 30 days of stocks, over half of the country's 135 coal-fired power plants, which in total supply around 70 per cent of the nation's electricity, have fuel stocks of less than two days, as per the data from the grid operator.

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