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Prioritise aluminium industry for immediate coal supply to avert collateral damage
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SME Times News Bureau | 15 Oct, 2021
Coal India should immediately resume continuous coal supply to the
aluminium Industry to prevent closure, industry bodies demanded.
Aluminium
Association of India said aluminium Industry has not received any
relief with respect to the ongoing coal supply crisis.
In the
spirit of Atmanirbhar Bharat and commitments of domestic coal
availability, the Aluminium Industry has planned their operation, any
import coal arrival will take 90-120 days of cycle period from purchase
to consumption, therefore sudden decision by Ministry of Coal / Coal
India to stop the domestic coal supply to the Aluminium Industry has
resulted in complete chaos.
Indian Aluminium plants are
grappling with critically low levels of coal stock, with no recourse or
alternative means to meet their power needs and keep the plants
operational. If coal supply is not restored immediately, it would lead
to irrevocable collateral damage of these national assets.
Any
power outage in Aluminium plant will lead to catastrophic impact and
complete shutdown which will take minimum 12 months of recovery,
resulting in job loss of more than 8 lakh people, Banks will have debt
exposure of over Rs 1 lakh crore and additional National forex loss of
Rs 90,000 crore ($ 12 Billion)
*Aluminium Industry with total
investments of Rs 1.4 lakh crore ($ 20 Billion) have a capacity of 4.1
MTPA (2nd Largest in the World) which creates livelihood for over 8 lakh
people and 4,000 SMEs.
Aluminium production is a 24*7, 365 days
continuous process industry there is no provision to switch off and
switch on. It is highly power intensive industry, just to illustrate 1
ton of Aluminium requires 14,500 Units of Continuous Power, which is 15
times in comparison to Steel (1000 units per ton) and 145 times as that
for Cement (100 units per ton).
To meet stringent and continuous
power demand Aluminium Industry has set up their inhouse Captive Power
Plant CPPs of 9,400 MW (9.4 GW i.e. 34 per cent of Thermal CPP capacity
of the country) with an investment of Rs 50,000 crore.
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Uninterrupted Power requirement of 9.4 GW (9,400 MW) of Aluminium
industry is 6 per cent of the total country's demand (145 GW) and 123
per cent of total energy traded at the Indian Energy Exchange (~ 7.6 GW
in 2021). Therefore, technically it is not feasible to get this massive
power from the power Grid.
Therefore, Aluminium Industry cannot
import Power and can only meet their power requirement through CPPs for
which Aluminium Industry requires 1.5 lakh ton of domestic coal daily (
55 million ton every year).
* To meet the extensive Coal demand,
Aluminium Industry has set up plants in the vicinity of Coal bearing
areas, with Power plants designed to operate on domestic coal.
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