Climate change: Why India can't live without coal BBC
Coal accounts for more than 70% of India's energy production India, the world's third largest emitter of fossil fuels still relies heavily on coal. As nations are urged to phase it out, how...
Coal accounts for more than 70% of India's energy production India, the world's third largest emitter of fossil fuels still relies heavily on coal. As nations are urged to phase it out, how...
India's coal consumption has doubled since 2007 at an annual growth rate of 6 per cent and the International Energy Agency (IEA) estimates that the largest increase in the fuel's demand globally this year was from India (7 per cent or an addition of 70 million tonnes). This on top of a 14 per cent rebound in 2021, and 1,033 million tonnes consumption in 2022.
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 .
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 ...
Hoping that power plants lift more coal from its pits, staterun Coal India (CIL) has relaxed payment norms for its customers. Customers, who had to clear payments to CIL by April 7, can now pay ...
The additional coal secretary stated that "there are constraints in domestic coal availability and the domestic coal production is roughly about 800 MT". ... The recent coal crisis at power plants in several parts of the country has caused the dry fuel producer to relax payment terms and push coal to ensure that there is the least shortage of ...
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% ...
India coal export: Asserting that India has adequate coal reserves, Union Coal Minister Pralhad Joshi today (March 29) said the country will start exporting the dry fuel by 202526. From a net ...
Kolkata, Nov 5 (IANS) Coal India Ltd (CIL) on Monday said it has relaxed norms governing supply of the dry fuel to small consumers, a move that would increase availability of coal for customers ...
The Insurance Regulatory and Development Authority of India (Irdai) has relaxed norms for 'surety bonds' to increase availability and expand the surety insurance market. The solvency requirement applicable for such products has been reduced to times from times and the 30% exposure limit on each contract underwritten by insurers has been removed.
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 established ambitious goals for renewable energy (RE) development, aiming to quadruple its capacity by 2022. Despite expected growth in RE, we project that coal will remain
Coal India is targeting to produce 435 million tonnes of coal in this financial year. It plans to take up its annual production capacity to 520 million tonnes by the 201112, the terminal year of ...
The minimum per annum requirement of the consumer has been downsized to a quarter from 1 million tonne of coal to million tonne
As a historically low emitter of carbon emissions compared with the west, ministers claim it is unfair to penalise such actions. Under plans promoted by Modi, India plans to increase its domestic ...
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.
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 ...
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 ...
"The future of coal in India is bright.....we believe that there are technologies that are available which can help India extract coal far more sustainably, use it far more sustainably, combust it far more sustainably, and post combustion treatment to coal can reduce Co2 emissions by as much as 99 per cent," FutureCoal Board member Sunil ...
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 ...
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...
Staterun Coal India Limited (CIL) on Friday said it has relaxed norms for supplying the fuel to its customers of nonregulated sector by extending "letter of credit" to them and allowing an ...
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.
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. ...
Coal is dirty—it makes up for 40 per cent of carbon dioxide emissions from fossil fuels, its mining wreaks havoc on the environment and burning it produces pollutants like mercury which are...
The state of 40mn people holds the largest coal reserves in India and the local economy relies on the fossil fuel. Odisha is also geographically unsuitable for solar farms due to its stormy ...
The plans would lead to 460% more coal production, 83% more gas, and 29% more oil in 2030 than it was possible to burn if global temperature rise was to be kept to the internationally agreed
Cabinet relaxes norms to mine, sell coal; entry for foreign players eased. One must be able to get coal from various sources with ease: Pralhad Joshi. Private mining, finally. Coal stocks at power plants rise as Coal India steps up production. Cabinet likely to discuss proposals under Atma Nirbhar Bharat on Wednesday.
The government has relaxed norms for blending of imported coal by power generation companies and allowed states and independent power producers to import the fuel as per requirements.
And as the West urges India to reduce its carbon emissions, the focus remains on its reliance on coal, one of the dirtiest of fuels which is responsible for more than 70% of India's energy production.