Category: Coal

A sharp uptick in power demand and low supply of coal due to the monsoon has pushed overall stock of coal at thermal power plants in India down to 8.1 million tonnes or four days worth of stock on October 1, down from 24 million tonnes or 13 days of coal stock at the beginning […]

The country’s thermal power plants are struggling with critically low supplies of coal, as power demand has recovered faster than expected. Fifteen thermal power plants, with a generation capacity of 15,385 MW, had zero days of coal stock on hand as of September 30, according to the data released by the Power Ministry. As many […]

Chinese President Xi Jinping speaks remotely during the 76th Session of the General Assembly at UN Headquarters in New York on September 21. The announcement to stop building coal-fired power plants abroad was made by Xi Jinping in an address to the UN last week The Chinese government made the surprise announcement last week that […]

To minimise farm fires and improve air quality in the capital, a central government panel has directed 11 thermal power plants within a 300 km radius of Delhi to co-fire 5-10% biomass fuel of their total coal consumption. In its latest direction on September 17, the Commission for Air Quality Management (CAQM) asked them “to […]

INCREASE THE coal-storing capacity and deploy more wagons and rakes – these are among the long- and short-term measures the government will take to mitigate the critical shortfall of coal stockpile in thermal power plants and to ensure that the capacity to transport and hold coal in the plants increases in future. With coal stock […]

THE DELHI High Court on Tuesday declined to grant any interim relief to Trinamool Congress MP Abhishek Banerjee and his wife Rujira Banerjee in the case challenging the summons issued to them by Enforcement Directorate (ED) and asked the central agency to file a reply within three days. The couple have sought a direction that […]

TMC MP Abhishek Banerjee and his wife Rujira Banerjee have approached Delhi High Court against the summons issued to them by Enforcement Directorate on Sept. 10 under Section 50 of the Prevention of Money Laundering Act, 2002. The couple have sought a direction that they be not summoned to Delhi and any further examination of […]

The Enforcement Directorate has approached the Delhi High Court against the notices issued to its officers by the West Bengal Police in a case registered against a news channel by TMC MP Abhishek Banerjee. The central agency said Banerjee had lodged the case at Kalighat police station to pressure ED officers who are probing a […]

INDIA DOES not require additional new coal capacity to meet expected demand growth by financial year 2030, according to a report prepared by EMBER, an independent British energy think-tank, in collaboration with Bangalore-based Climate Risk Horizons. According to the report, which was released on Tuesday, even if India’s power demand grows 5 per cent annually, […]

The central government has directed captive coal mines of power generation companies to hit 85 per cent of their production target within a week or face a cut in coal supplies as part of efforts to ensure adequate power supply by power generators with low coal stocks. The government has also directed distribution companies to […]

State-owned CIL’s 39 coal mining projects are running behind the schedule on account of delays in getting green clearances and issues related to rehabilitation and resettlement (R&R). This assumes significance in the wake of the country’s power plants grappling with depleting stocks at their end. “114 coal projects with a sanctioned capacity of 836.48 mty […]

Trinamool Congress national general secretary Abhishek Banerjee left for New Delhi on Sunday to face questioning by the Enforcement Directorate (ED) in connection with an alleged coal smuggling case, on Monday. However, before boarding the flight to the national capital, Abhishek, who also happens to be the nephew of Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, lashed out […]