Adani Power, based in Gujarat, has shut down a 660 MW unit at its Kawai power plant in Rajasthan due to paucity of coal.
The shutdown is due to ongoing issue of coal shortage at power plants, mainly due to insufficient railway rakes to ferry the fuel.
The Kawai power plant was one of the ten electricity generation stations to receive assurance on coal supply under the Shakti scheme to harness and allocate koyla transparently.
The scheme was specifically designed to save power plants with power purchase agreements (PPA) but without fuel supply agreements (FSAs).
Under the scheme, coal linkages have been granted to 10 power plants with 11,549 MW capacity.
The Kawai power plant has not imported any coal in March and April 2018, while it had imported 2.8 million tonne and 1.6 million tonne of coal in FY17 and FY18 respectively.
The Kawai power plant was erected on the basis of a memorandum of understanding (MoU) between Adani Power and Rajasthan, where the state assured support to get coal linkage from the Central government.