L&T Group firm Nabha Power Ltd. (NPL) said on Thursday it had been forced to shut a 700 MW unit of Rajpura thermal power station due to shortage of coal.
NPL, which has been supplying power to Punjab from the Rajpura plant since 2014, shut down unit-2 of 700 MW on June 3, 2018 due to acute shortage of coal, the company said in a statement.
Earlier closure
Earlier, unit-1 of 700 MW was shut from April 4-13 this year due to shortage of the dry fuel. The plant has two units of 700 MW each.
According to the statement, the present crisis was triggered by disruption in the supply of coal rakes to the plant. Against a daily requirement of four rakes of domestic coal, NPL has been receiving only 1-2 rakes per day in recent times.
NPL has been facing coal crisis since last year, forcing it to operate the plant at critical levels of coal stocks i.e. less than seven days.
