45 coal power plants have critical low fuel
New Delhi: Forty five power plants in India are operating with critically low coal inventories, government data showed, as monsoon rains disrupt supplies and electricity demand rises amid hotter-than-usual weather linked to El Nino.The number of plants with coal stocks below 25% of their required inventory or with critically low stocks to generate power for less than three days has risen sharply from 31 at the end of July, the data as of August 25 showed.Of the affected plants, 40 are do…


