Coal India’s production has gone up 1% to 45.29 million tonne (mt) in the month when peak power demand touched 9%. This, however, hasn’t triggered a power crisis so far because of low power demand till March. Failure to keep pace with power demand may force Coal India to resort to similar diversion strategy in FY20 also. In a sign of rising power demand, imports by power plants have already started rising. POLL CURRENT176.8 gigawatt – peak demand met reached a new high in April, 9% YoY jump– peak demand met reached a new high in April, 9% YoY jump 112 bn units – energy demand met in April, a rise of 7% over the year-ago periodSUPPLIES

Source: dna May 06, 2019 23:26 UTC