NTPC opposition to new FSA likely to hit coal supply plan for power producers
Kolkata India's largest power sector company NTPC's denial to sign the newly formulated fuel supply agreement (FSA) for new power plants is likley to jeopardise the government mandated plan to secure committed coal supply to power producers.
NTPC accounts for more than 35% of the quantity that CIL would have to supply under the new FSA. Of the 51 FSAs which six CIL subsidiaries (out of nine) would have to sign to supply an additional 70 million tonne to the new power plants to feed 28,000 MW of new generation, supplies to NTPC only would be 25mt to its capacity addition during 2009-12.