LUCKNOW: Following a review meeting with officials in Bundelkhand, Uttar Pradesh energy minister Arvind Kumar Sharma announced to purchase 10 lakh metric tonnes of coal to generate and boost power supply in the state.
On Saturday, the state recorded 860 MW power outage as the 660 MW unit of government run Harduaganj (Aligarh) thermal power station (TPS) had no coal for generation and neither did the 200 MW unit of Obra (Sonbhadra). Interestingly, independent power producer (IPP) TPS generated 6200 MW power on Saturday.