New Delhi: The All India Power Engineers Federation (AIPEF) on Thursday demanded withdrawal of the power ministry’s order extending coal imports till June 30, 2024, saying there is no shortage of the dry fuel in the country. In an October 23 notification, the government asked imported coal-based power plants to operate at full capacity until […]
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India allows power plants using imported coal to run until next June
New Delhi: India has extended by eight months the operation of power plants using imported coal, as high consumption and poor supply deplete domestic stocks of the fuel, according to a government order reviewed by Reuters. The order invoked emergency powers in asking such plants, with a capacity of nearly 17 gigawatts, to operate so […]
Coal will continue to play a major role in electricity supply till 2047: NLC India CMD
Bengaluru: Even as India makes rapid strides towards renewable energy generation to achieve its net zero target by 2070, far from starting a disengagement with fossil fuel, it is getting more invested in coal to power the country. Against this backdrop, chairman and managing director of public sector undertaking NLC India, Prasanna Kumar Motupalli, took […]
86 power plants have 25% less coal stocks than normative levels: CEA report
New Delhi: As many as 86 thermal power plants in the country, including six imported dry fuel-based, had critical coal stock levels as of October 18, according to a Central Electricity Authority (CEA) report. The power plants are labelled as having a critical coal stock situation, where the dry fuel is less than 25 per […]
GOCL gets Rs 766 cr order from Coal India
New Delhi: GOCL Corporation has bagged a Rs 766 crore order from state-owned Coal India Ltd (CIL) to supply explosives. The order will be completed over the period of two years — from October 2023 to October 2025, the company said in a statement on Friday. “The company announces receiving an order from Coal India […]
Three seriously injured in mine collapse in Bengal
Kolkata: At least three people, including a coal mine official, were gravely injured after a portion of a mine of the Eastern Coalfield Limited (ECL) in West Bengal’s Paschim Bardhaman district collapsed on Thursday, police said. The incident took place at Andal and the trio are undergoing treatment at a local hospital, a senior police […]
Coal dispatch may exceed one billion tonnes this fiscal: Coal ministry
New Delhi: The coal ministry on Thursday said the dispatch of coal is likely to exceed one billion tonnes in the current financial year. The coal ministry has set a target to produce and dispatch 1,012 million tonnes (MT) of coal to consumers during the ongoing fiscal. ‘During the second half of the year, the […]
Three dead, several feared trapped in coal mine collapse in West Bengal
At least three people were killed and several others were feared trapped after a coal mine collapsed in West Bengal’s Paschim Bardhaman district, officials said on Friday. Police suspect that the incident took place when coal was being illegally extracted from the Eastern Coalfields Limited (ECL) mine in Narayankudi area in Egra gram panchayat in […]
At least 100 miners face unemployment each day as India looks to other energy sources: Report
An average of 100 mine workers per day face potential unemployment by 2035 because of mine closure and market shift toward cheaper wind and solar power generation, finds a new report from Global Energy Monitor.Nearly half a million workers (4,14,200) operate mines that may reach their end of operation before 2035, affecting an average of […]
India’s coal imports decline 12 % in August
India’s coal imports declined 12.08 per cent to 18.26 million tonnes (MT) in August this year over the corresponding month of the previous fiscal. The country’s import of fossil fuel stood at 20.77 MT in August last year. Overall coal imports during April to August also declined by 10.3 per cent to 103.93 MT, over […]
Indian steel firms plan price rises as coking coal costs surge
Indian steel companies plan to raise prices of various grades of the alloy due to rising import costs of coking coal, especially from major producer Australia, officials at four domestic mills said. Steel mills are likely to raise rates by Rs 2079 to Rs 4158 a metric ton by December, said the officials, who did […]
India’s coal production rises 16% in Sep
The country’s coal output increased 15.81 per cent to 67.21 million tonnes in September as against 58.04 million tonnes in the year-ago period, an official statement said on Tuesday. The cumulative coal production up to September increased to 428.25 MT in the ongoing fiscal, over 382.16 MT in the year-ago period, registering a growth of […]