Coal shortages curb India's Dec power output

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NEW DELHI, Jan 8 (Reuters) - Coal shortages curbed growth in India's overall power generation to an annual 5.45 percent in December, the Central Electricity Authority said in a report.

Generation would have grown 6.5 percent had enough coal been available at plants of NTPC Ltd (NTPC.BO: Quote, Profile, Research), the regulator said, adding India produced nearly 63.42 billion kilowatt hours last month, up from 60.14 billion kilowatt hours a year ago.

India has 10 percent of the world's coal reserves, the biggest after the United States, Russia and China, but imports have grown rapidly from almost zero five years ago to an estimated 70 million tonnes in the current fiscal year.

The share of coal-fired plants in India's generation capacity will rise to 57 percent by March 2012 from the current 53.3 percent or 80,284 megawatts.

http://in.reuters.com/article/domesticNews/idINSGE6070D820100108?rpc=401&feedType=RSS&feedName=domesticNews&rpc=401

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1. Pour on the coal! We must never stop growing!

Bye-bye! It was nice living here for a while.

I think I'm almost out of outrage now.

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2. Testify!