Completed power plants to get assured supply from Coal India.

Power plants, at least 30 of them, which do not have a firm coal supply assurance and are ready to be commissioned, will be given the commodity by Coal India according to a government panel's decision.

Coal will be diverted to these plants from old projects that have firm assurances of supply but not been able to meet their commissioning deadline or have not been able to sign power purchase agreements with utilities. The decision was taken recently at a meeting of the Linkage Committee, a panel that decides on coal allocation to power plants.


The capacity of the first 15 projects totals about 12.64 MW, requiring some 58 million tonnes of coal, according to the commission. They will be operational this year, well within its original deadlines. There are some 60,000 MW worth of projects that received firm assurances during 2013-14 from Coal India.


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