As the country’s peak energy demand recorded a new higher at 187.3 GW on January 22 morning, Coal India (CIL) mentioned more than 78.6% of the energy generated through the day was coal-primarily based. The PSU miner’s pithead stocks at 63 million tonne would allow it to push more coal into the energy sector, even if the peak demand crossed the new higher.
Thermal energy generation has began displaying an upward trend following an improve in the peak demand with 185.82 GW recorded on January 20 followed by 187.3 GW on January 22. Of the total 3.906 billion units (BUs) generated on January 22, coal-fired generation contributed to the bulk with 3.072 BU.
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“CIL is well geared to meet any surge in demand for the dry fuel from the power sector especially on the back of close to 63 MT stock at its pitheads,” a CIL executive mentioned, adding the business was also moving ahead towards improved production with commitments to scale up the supplies to coal-fuelled energy plants.
Against this backdrop, close to 67% of the total coal-fired energy generation in the nation is fuelled via CIL supplies.
Of the 199 GW of coal-primarily based energy programmed for generation per day through the ongoing fiscal year, 133 GW is scheduled from CIL-linked coal. Average coal-primarily based energy generation of energy per day which was 2.795 BU till Friday spurted up to 3.072 BU, a jump of practically 10% on the morning of the record-creating day. Coal-primarily based energy generation remains regularly higher amongst all other categories.
“This increase in coal-based power generation bodes well for us. If this continues, we could expect our supplies to power sector to increase in the near future,” the CIL executive mentioned. But energy plants need to submit sufficient programme at the coal corporations to keep away from any shortage in supplies as the demand has began peaking.
CIL is focusing on ramping up its supplies to pithead energy plants to larger levels, thereby influencing price of per unit energy generation to come down. Coal transportation price to pithead energy plants is comparably reduce than lengthy distance primarily based ones, creating the landed price of coal reduce, which in turn tends to make generation price economical.