With the coal supply scenario apparently improving, both in India as well as in the global market, the focus of electricity producers appears to have shifted to quality and price of the key raw material. Till recently, power companies were scrambling for supply of domestic coal.
In a shift from its December 10 statement that fuel supply agreement (FSA) may be signed probably within a month, the country’s largest power producer NTPC recently came up with fresh demands on quality of coal as a precondition to sign the supply pact.
In a communication earlier this week NTPC said that it wanted supplies above a particular calorific value representing the erstwhile ‘F’ grade.