Measures targeting cheaper, better quality, and more efficiently supplied coal, along with improved transmission, directly reduce the input costs and losses in power generation and delivery, leading to a reduction in the cost of power.
Which one of the following would be achieved through measures such as increased supply of cheaper domestic coal, coal linkage rationalisation, liberal coal swaps from inefficient to efficient plants, coal price rationalisation based on GCV (Gross Calorific Value), supply of washed and crushed coal, and faster completion of transmission lines ?
Asked in UPSC SO Steno 2018 · Topic: Industrial Sector (Industrial Infrastructure: Power, Logistics, and Special Economic Zones (SEZs))
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