India has eased coal import targets for utilities owned by state governments and private companies, according to an internal notice reviewed by Reuters. India's power ministry has asked state governmentrun utilities and private power producers to assess the amount of coal needed to be imported for blending, according to a notice issued to ...
Executive summary. Coal provides about half of India's commercial primary energy supply today and is the dominant fuel for power production in India. In 2014, Prime Minister Narendra Modi ...
Billionaire Gautam Adani's conglomerate is benefiting from India's rush to import coal to ease a supply crunch, winning a huge majority of import orders from state power giant NTPC Ltd. New Delhibased NTPC has placed orders for 20 million tons of imported coal for the fiscal year ending March, of which almost million tons have been awarded to Adani Enterprises Ltd., according to ...
400,000 coal staff, mostly in India China, to lose jobs as world shuns the dirty fuel. A new report from Global Energy Monitor predicts that the transition away from coal in the energy system will result in the loss of 100 mining jobs per day through 2035, mostly in China and India. By 2050, the global coal mining job losses are expected to ...
Tags. The government on Wednesday launched the seventh round of commercial coal auctions in a bid to increase the availability of the dry fuel in the country. A total of 106 coal mines were put on ...
Kolkata: Following pressure from the unions, Coal India has agreed to relax norms for the voluntary retirement scheme for women launched in March, extending the date for applications by six months and increasing the eligibility age to 55 from 50. Some other conditions of the scheme, which allows the sons of women workers who opt for voluntary retirement to be employed at the company, are also ...
Yet there are perpetual shortages. Last October, India teetered on the brink of a power crisis when stocks at more than half of the country's 135 coalfired plants ran critically low, or below 25% ...
Coal production of India. Coal in India has been mined since 1774, and India is the second largest producer and consumer of coal after China, mining million metric tons ( million short tons) in FY 30% of coal is imported. Due to demand, supply mismatch and poor quality with high ash content, India imports coking coal to meet the shortage of domestic supply.
Reuters. As the world's thirdlargest consumer of energy, India is feeling the heat from surging coal prices. To meet the country's growing demand for power and reduce its exposure to the economic impact of volatile prices, New Delhi is working to boost domestic production of coal, despite India's reputation as one of the world's most ...
In November, the coal ministry had launched the process for auction of 133 coal mines under sixth round of commercial auctions, of which 71 were new coal mines and 62 were rolled over from earlier ...
India is the world's second largest producer of coal, behind China. Critics worry that fossil fuel will be the centrepiece of the country's energy production for several decades yet, along with ...
Coal India (CIL) has now made supply norms flexible for small consumers at a time when the Union coal ministry is absolutely focusing on supplying coal to the power sector only.
The trends in coal consumption and production this year indicate that the dirty fuel is here to stay despite the nation's ambitious target of meeting 50 per cent of energy requirements from ...
India Business News: KOLKATA: Coal India (CIL), the Maharatna coal company, has relaxed norms of 'minespecific coal supply' policy, which would ease availability of coal .
News Business India looks to relax norms to attract global coal miners, ... a move that could end Coal India Ltd's nearmonopoly on the fuel. The auctions, to be aimed at paring back the nation's coal imports, are intended to attract global miners such as Glencore PLC, BHP Group, Anglo American PLC and Peabody Energy Corp. ...
The trends of coal consumption and production this year indicate that the dirty fuel is here to stay despite the nation's ambitious target of meeting 50 per cent of energy requirements from renewable energy and nonfossil fuel capacity of 500 GW by 2030.
Pic: Reuters. Amid early onset of summer and a pickup in industrial demand for electricity, stateowned CIL on Tuesday said it is geared up to meet the demand of dry fuel from the power sector. The public sector coal producer also expressed hope to supply 156 million tonnes of coal to the power sector during AprilJune quarter of FY24.
Tight supply of coal to power plants and expected rise in import of the dry fuel amid high international prices will put upward pressure on electricity tariff, according to an Icra report. "Given the continued tight domestic coal supply position over the last sixmonth period, coal import dependency for the power sector is expected to increase moderately in the nearterm.
United States: Despite electricity demand increasing in the United States, coalfired generation fell by almost 8% in 2022, reversing a 15% increase in 2021. The decrease in coal output was balanced by an increase in generation from natural gas and strong growth in renewables. As a result, coal's share of total global generation remained around ...
The country's coal production is expected to record a "sizeable leap" in 2022 with increased output mainly from Coal India and captive mines, providing adequate firewall against any possible dry fuel shortages like the one witnessed in the latter half of this year. While coal supplies have stabilised in recent times, efforts are on to further improve the fuel dispatches and a top government ...
The court will also decide whether norms should be relaxed. Under the new norms introduced in 2015, power plants commissioned between 2003 and 2016 which account for 65% of India's total 197 ...
India looks to relax norms to pull global coal miners. Reuters. Last Updated 18 November 2019, 08:46 IST. ... a move that could end Coal India Ltd's nearmonopoly on the fuel. ...
The coal behemoth has relaxed its policy for minespecific coal supply, which would ease availability of coal to consumers having less than 1 million tonne requirement per annum. This...
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