INDIA’s largest coal producer Coal India limited is confident that the demand for coal will not disappear in the near term, with the company’s chairman Anil Kumar Jha on Wednesday saying that even though renewable power is gaining favour, they are unlikely to surpass coal as the major source for power generation in the near future. India’s energy migration scenario will be different when compared to many other countries, he pointed out.
The public sector coal mining giant currently produces nearly 83 per cent of the country’s overall coal production and is the primary supplier of coal to most of India’s thermal power producers.
