Energy updates from across Asia
The latest coal news, analysis and data from India and across Asia, reported by Energy Asia.
Supercritical technology has improved the efficiency of thermal power plants and reduced emissions intensity, but it does not change the fundamental limitations of coal as a fossil fuel.
Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman has identified mining as one of six key domains for transformative reforms, alongside taxation, power, urban development, financial sector, and regulatory reforms.
In a significant boost to India's industrial landscape marking the highest surge in the last 16 months, according to the Index of Eight Core Industries released…
In a significant boost to India's industrial landscape marking the highest surge in the last 16 months, according to the Index of Eight Core Industries released…
In the global fight against climate change and global warming, India has emerged as a frontrunner. The country is taking path-breaking and result-oriented steps to meet…
For India to reach its bold target of having net-zero emissions by 2070, the country's solar power capacity would have to rise to over 5,600 GW
Even as India targets net-zero emissions by 2070, polluting coal is set to remain as the predominant fuel in its energy mix in foreseeable future.
Given India's dependence on coal for 70% of the power sector's need, the 50% non-fossil fuel sourcing by 2030 itself will be quite challenging.
Coal India Ltd, Ministry of Coal has recently initiated the process of retrofitting Liquefied Natural Gas kits in its dumpers - the big trucks engaged in…
Coal Minister Pralhad Joshi on Tuesday reviewed coal production and stressed on continuing the momentum to dispatch maximum dry-fuel to thermal power plants.
Coal Consumers Association of India urged the government to resume at least some amount of coal supply to the non-power sector
Power Minister R K Singh exuded confidence that there will be no power shortage in the country amid the ongoing low coal stocks at power plants…
India is considering maintaining strategic reserves of natural gas and imported coal to address future supply shocks, a senior power ministry official said
East Coast Railway on Monday said it has set a record in single-day coal loading as it supplied 66 rakes of the dry fuel from Odisha's…
Uttar Pradesh Chief minister Yogi Adityanath has said that in this festive season, his government was buying electricity at a cost up to ₹22 per unit…
Mahanadi Coalfields Limited (MCL), has dispatched over 5.47 lakh ton coal to consumers yesterday breaking its own record of 5.45 lakh tonne within a fortnight.
wind energy sector has released a manifesto at the BNEF London summit calling on governments to get serious about the energy transition and work with the…
India's coal import registered a decline of 2.7% to 15.22 million tonnes (MT) in August this year amid the country's power plants grappling with fuel shortages.
A total of 166 rakes of coal have been sent to Rajasthan in the last eight days to address the shortage of the dry fuel at…
500 megawatt coal-fired unit of Madhya Pradesh Power Generating Company Limited (MPPGCL) has broken down on the eve of Dussehra, compounding problems for the state where…
NLC India Limited, a Navratna Company under the administrative control of the Ministry of Coal is operating Talabira II&III coal mines (20 MT annual capacity) in…
Even as supplies of coal are being ramped up at power plants, supplies to non-power sector plants may be kept suspended.
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