Orissa Power Supply in Crisis as Fly Ash Problems Shut Down Another 2,000 Megawatts
JOHANNESBURG--February 2, 2012--Written by Richard Finlayson, Senior International Editor for Industrial Info Resources (Sugar Land, Texas)--For the past two months, the Indian state of Orissa has been suffering from a critical shortfall in electrical power supplies. Now the situation has been exacerbated by the state government's request to NTPC Limited (BSE:532555) (New Delhi) to shut down 2,000 megawatts (MW) of power generation until the matter of fly ash disposal is tackled satisfactorily.