No outage due to power shortage in Delhi: Power Ministry

Amid a war of words between the Delhi Government and Centre over possible disruption in power supply, the Power Ministry on Wednesday clarified that there was no outage on account of power shortage in Delhi.

“As per the information received from Delhi discoms, there was no outage on account of power shortage, as the required amount of power was supplied to them,” a ministry statement said.

The statement follows an earlier one on Tuesday wherein the union power ministry had negated any power outage due to electricity shortage in the national capital.

The ministry stated that the maximum demand of Delhi was 4683 MW (peak) and 101.9 MU (Energy) on 11 October 2021.

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A factsheet on power supply in Delhi showed that there was no energy deficit in the city from September 26 to October 11.

On October 11, in Delhi, 101.9 million units (MU) of electricity was available against a requirement of 101.1 million units.

Separately, Coal Minister Pralhad Joshi said, “The coal target which was given to us by Power Ministry was 1.9 million tonnes/day & after 20th it was 2 million tonnes/day. On Tuesday we’ve supplied 2 million tonnes of coal. I can assure you that there’ll be no shortage of coal for electricity production.”

Coal India Limited, (CIL), also ramped up its output to 1.6 million tonnes a day in the past two days. CIL expects to raise production after Dusshera when workers are back from holidays and the attendance picks up, the official in the Coal Ministry said.

The official also said that States have to pay nearly Rs 20,000 crores as dues to Coal India for supplying coal.

However, the Centre made it clear that supply of coal was ever stopped to any state despite huge dues.

Several states, which have coal plants not bothering to mine it or not ramping up production. Even some of the states have shut their mines, said the official.

The Coal Ministry has been pursuing with the states on mine those coal fields to meet the demand, said the official.

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