India Ramps Up Coal Supplies to Record High as Power Crisis Looms

Coal supply for power plants in India is ramping up and will soon normalize, an unnamed senior official from the energy ministry in New Delhi said, as quoted by Reuters. At the moment, coal power generators are getting 2.6 million tons of coal daily, which is a record high, the official also said. The news comes on the heels of a warning that as many as 96 coal power plants in the country only had coal stocks for three days of consumption, according to data from India’s Central Electricity Authority. A three-day stock is a critically low…