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Power, Railways Ministers hold talks on power demand
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SME Times News Bureau | 25 Apr, 2022
Amid heatwave and expectation of rising power demand, Union Power
Minister R.K Singh and Railways Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw held a meeting
here on Monday to discuss short term and long term strategies for
dealing with the situation.
Power Secretary Alok Kumar,
Coal Secretary A.K Jain and senior officials from Ministries of Power,
Coal, and Railways were also present, while representatives from coal
and power PSUs and Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan, Gujarat, and Maharashtra
joined virtually.
Singh urged all stakeholders at the Centre and
state level to work hand in hand for unhindered power supply. He urged
the power gencos to own freight rakes under the Railways Ministry scheme
to deal with logistic constraints in coal supply. Issues discussed
included increasing operational efficiency for loading and unloading of
coal, increasing percentage of rakes allotment for power sector, and
other logistics issues.
The meeting comes in wake of reports that
coal stock position at the Central Electricity Authority (CEA)
supervised 173 power plants was lower than the prescribed level.
Media
reports have suggested that coal inventories had dipped to the lowest
since 2014 at the beginning of the financial year to nine days as
against the Centre's mandated 24 days' worth of stocks.
The CEA
daily coal report said last week that coal stock at 81 out of the 150
government owned power plants is low, on the other, the power demand has
increased from 106.6 billion units (BU) in 2019 to 124.2 BU in 2021 to
132 BU in 2022.
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