Thermal power capacity addition hits a speed bump

Only 2130 Mw added till January against a target of 4850 Mw

Fresh capacity addition in the thermal power sector has fallen woefully short of targets. Of the 4,850 MW capacity envisioned for the fiscal year 2018-19, only 44 percent has been added.

 

No capacity was added by  Centre-owned utilities in the period under review. State-owned generators barely managed to accomplish half of their target of 3150 MW by adding 1529.75 MW, data collated by the Central Electricity Authority (CEA) showed. Overall capacity addition for thermal power has been pegged at 7266.15 MW for this