India Makes Power Plants Import Coal to Avert Looming Crunch
- Generators must bring in 6% of their demand through September
- Country sees 24 million ton deficit in six months from April
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India has brought back requirements for power plants to import some of the coal they are using as it seeks to build stockpiles and avert electricity blackouts over summer.
Generators will have to import 6% of their coal demand by weight through September to maintain “smooth operations,” the power ministry said in a note on its website. India is facing a deficit of 24 million tons of the fuel in the six months starting April, it said.