Coal India permits market sale of surplus power from linkage coal plants
Coal India Limited (CIL) has permitted the sale of unrequisitioned surplus (URS) electricity generated by thermal power plants using its linkage coal under long and medium-term fuel supply agreements (FSAs) in power exchanges and markets. Under earlier rules, such surplus generation could only be supplied under power purchase agreements (PPAs) and could not be sold in the market. The restriction has now been removed through a revision to the Scheme for Harnessing and Allocating Koyala…