Tag: thermal power sector

By Tim Buckley & Kashish Shah, The thermal power sector accounts for $40-60 billion of potentially stranded assets that are continuing to trouble the Indian banking sector. Fifteen GW out of the stressed 40 GW has not yet been commissioned, as identified in the report of the Standing Parliamentary Committee on Energy earlier this year. Some 16.2 GW of coastal power plants designed to operate on up to 100 per cent imported coal are severely affected by the doubling of prices since 2016. Another 6 GW of gas-fired projects are stranded...