India’s power crisis is only going to worsen with the rains

The monsoon rains, due in India any day now, are set to worsen the country’s ongoing coal crisis, leading to more power outages.

“Based on the coal stocks in thermal power stations, the onset of the southwest monsoon will further hamper mining and transportation of coal from mines to power stations,” analysts at the Centre for Research on Energy and Clean Air (CREA), an independent organisation working for clean air and clean energy, have said in its latest note.

What’s worse is that this was expected but no measures were taken to avoid the situation.

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