India's largest coal handling agency - Mjunction

Feature
2550
2050
1550
1050
550
50
Achievement vs Target In Capacity
Addition Sept 2010 (In MW)
2521.5 2571
500 242
49.5
Thermal Hydro Nuclear All India
Target
Source: Central Electricity Authority
Achievement
power stations which were left with a “critical” coal supply
due to less receipt of coal during the month.
Kota in the northern region, Paras and Parli in the western
region and Bandel and Kolaghat in the eastern region, faced
the crisis due to non receipt of import of coal during the month.
Singrauli in the northern region, Vindhyachal TPS, Gandhi
Nagar and Dhanu in the western region and Talcher and IB
Valley power station in the eastern region were some power
stations suffered due to high generation.
Power supply position
In the month of September 2010, the country’s requirement for
742
power was 68,032 MU, whereas the power availability for the
month stood at 64,023 MU, a shortage of 5.90 percent from the
requirement.
Chandigarh, Rajasthan, Sikkim Dadra& Nagar Haveli
and Lakshwadeep, did not face a shortage of power supply
during the month rest all the other states and union territories
did. Maharashtra again was the state to face the highest
power supply shortage, the requirement by the state for the
month was 9346 MU whereas the availability was 8203 MU, a
shortage of 12.20 percent.
Maharashtra was followed by Uttar Pradesh and Tamil
Nadu with deficit of 1000 MU and 339 MU respectively.
Region wise, western region faced the highest shortfall of
1,494 MU followed by northern and southern regions with
shortfall of 1448 MU and 688 MU respectively. The eastern
and north eastern regions faced a shortfall of 285 MU and 94
MU respectively.
Andaman and Nicobar had the maximum deficit of 25
percent, as far as the deficit to the requirement of power supply
percentage of a state or union territory is concerned, it had
a requirement of 20 MU of power supply during the month
but, received only 15 MU. Andaman Nicobar was followed by
Bihar and Jammu & Kashmir who had deficits of 23.10 percent
and 20 percent respectively.
The country’s power requirement in the first half of the
current financial year was 429,624 MU and the availability
during the period was 388,214 MU, a deficit of 9.6 percent.
COAL INSIGHTS 44 October 2010