Energy updates from across Asia
The latest power plants 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.
Electricity generation companies have started the process of importing coal for blending purposes, Union Power Minister RK Singh said on Tuesday.
The Railways have cancelled 42 passenger trains in order to prioritize coal rake movement across the country to deal with a shortage of the vital input…
Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Monday chaired a meeting of the top brass of coal, power and railway ministries amid electricity outages in various parts…
CIL on Monday said coal supply to the power sector rose 15.6% to 49.7 million tonne last month in the wake of high demand of the…
Power regulator DERC has turned down city DISCOMs request to allow them to relinquish 98 MW of power allocation from three generation plants of NTPC, official…
Billionaire Gautam Adani's port-to-energy conglomerate said it had won a contract to supply imported coal to state-owned electricity generator NTPC but played down its significance saying…
Coal stock at thermal power plants improved to 20.98 million tonnes on December 5, 2021, which is sufficient to run the plants for an average 10…
India's power consumption grew by 3.6% in November to 100.42 billion units, showing consistent recovery for the second month in a row, according to power ministry…
The supply of coal to power plants in November is more than the consumption, resulting in rise in stock of dry fuel at power plants, and…
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…
Even as supplies of coal are being ramped up at power plants, supplies to non-power sector plants may be kept suspended.
CIL has stepped up the supply of coal to the power sector in the first eight days of the current month, with an average of 1.39…
The Ikea Foundation and The Rockefeller Foundation on Monday said they will join forces to set up a USD 1 billion global platform to fight climate…
Coal India said its coal offtake rose by 38% to 55 million tonnes (MT) in May on the back of revival of fuel demand from the…
Farmers continue to block rail tracks of private power plants in Punjab. This in turn has made the situation in the state grim, with the shortage…
SECL is executing eight 'first mile connectivity' projects with an estimated capital outlay of Rs 3,100 crore to evacuate dry fuel, especially incremental production under the…
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