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Coal Crisis

-The Pioneer Industrial states want to import coal to make up for the shortfall Summer temperatures are soaring and so is the power demand. Some States have already scheduled planned outages. And we are now told that the power companies face shortage of coal. Industrial states want to import coal to make up for the shortfall. That is a costly proposition beyond the reach of smaller states. Is there a coal crisis?...

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Indian farmers turn to black market for fertilisers as prices soar -Pratik Parija and Vrishti Beniwal

-ThePrint.in India is one of the worst affected by worldwide fertilizer crisis. Crop nutrients' prices soared as tight coal & natural gas supplies forced fertilizer plants in Europe to close. New Delhi: Indian farmers squeezed by a massive shortage of fertilizers are turning to the black market and paying exorbitant prices for supplies. The shortfall has led to a thriving market where subsidized crop nutrients are sold illegally at prices much higher than...

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October saw highest power shortage in over 5 years -Vignesh Radhakrishnan

-The Hindu Coal stock crunch at thermal plants India recorded a power supply shortage of 1,201 million units in October 2021 — the highest in 5.5 years — due to a crunch in coal stocks available with thermal plants. The shortage was mostly restricted to Gujarat, Haryana, Jharkhand, Punjab and Rajasthan. In October, Gujarat recorded a power shortage of 215 million units, the highest for any month in more than a decade. With a...

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India’s Coal Crisis -CP Chandrasekhar

-NetworkIdeas.org In recent weeks the media have featured stories bordering on the alarmist about a Coal Shortage in India. Coal inventories with thermal power plants had fallen to levels at which major country-wide power outages seemed inevitable. Fortunately, that has not (as yet) materialized, but it is indeed true that coal inventories with the power producers did collapse from the equivalent of around 30 days requirement to that for a couple...

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After coal crisis, urea shortage poses new challenge to several states - Hemender Sharma, Dev Ankur Wadhawan. Hemanta Kumar Nath and Manjeet Sehgal

-IndiaToday.in Even as the coal crisis continues in the country, a urea shortage seems to be the next big problem for several states, especially with the sowing of rabi (winter) crops around the corner. Bhopal /Jaipur /Guwahati /Chandigarh: The coal supply shortage has already threatened possible power outages in India. Several states have reported a shortage and complained of a possible power outage in the coming days, even as the central government...

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