Fuel woes at NTPC blamed for power cuts in Tamil Nadu

New Delhi,  Tamil Nadu is facing power shortage as the NTPC stations that provide electricity to it do not have enough coal supplies to generate power. The State’s electricity distribution utilities — Tamil Nadu Generation & Distribution Corporation Ltd (TANGEDCO), TNEB Ltd and Tamil Nadu Transmission Corporation (TANTRANSCO) — have sought the intervention of the Coal Ministry to improve fuel supply in the Southern region which will enable the plants to run to operate at maximum capacity.

 

Tamil Nadu is deprived of around 260 MW due of inadequate coal supply , the Discoms said in a recent communication to the Coal Ministry.

 

According to the discoms, the Ramagundam (Andhra Pradesh) plant was generating 2,100 MW against its capacity of 2,600 MW, while Talcher stage-II (Odisha) was producing 1,600 MW against 2,000 MW. The 500-MW unit-4 of Simhadri (Andhra Pradesh) is also under forced outage since October 13 due to coal shortage. BUSINESS LINE .