Bhubaneswar, Feb 22 (IANS) Coal supply disruption triggered by an agitation in Orisa's Angul district has led to shutting down of units of the National Thermal Power Corporation (NTPC) and may force aluminium manufacturer NALCO to cut output, officials said Tuesday.
The supply from Mahanadi coalfields through railways rakes stopped since Feb 17 following an economic blockade at Talcher in Angul district by local residents demanding stoppage of all trains passing through the area.
The coal stock at the NTPC coal fired power plant at Kaniha in Angul district fell to about 8,000 tonnes and the power generation was down to 400 MW since Sunday, the plant's executive director R. Venkateswaran told IANS.
The 3,000 MW capacity plant which supplies power to country's eastern and southern region through the state grid consumes 57,000-58,000 tonnes of coal every day for full operation of all its six units of each 500 MW.
Venkateswaran said five units have already been shut and if the situation does not improve in one unit.
Similarly the coal supply has been stopped to the aluminium plant of NALCO at Angul. A senior company official said the aluminium smelter has only a stock of about two lakh tonnes of coal which can last for only about ten days.
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