Page 24 - Coal

In 3 years, banks gave $745 bn to cos planning new coal power plants: NGOs

The report released by environmental groups on Thursday cites more than 1,000 new coal power stations or units in the pipeline

Indian steel firms should invest in Russia to lower coal prices: Official

Executives of Indian companies met senior Russian officials, and Leonid Petukhov, CEO, Far East Investment and Export Agency in the presence of Union Petroleum and Steel Minister Dharmendra Pradhan

Despite clean-energy talks, world coal power generation rose 7% last year

The study also found investments in clean energy fell 21%, to $133 billion, across emerging markets last year, as China, India and Brazil all cut back

Over half of India's coal-fired power plants to miss emission-norm deadline

India has a phased plan for plants to comply with the emission norms

Coal imports at major ports slip 18% to 51 MT in April-October: Report

Thermal coal imports declined by 17.69 per cent to 51.10 million tonnes at the country's top 12 major ports during April-October this fiscal, latest Indian Ports Association report has said. The Centre-owned ports had handled 62.08 MT of the thermal coal in the same period previous year. The Indian Ports Association (IPA), which maintains cargo data handled by these 12 ports, in its recent report said "percentage variation from previous year" in thermal coal handling was at 17.69 per cent. As far as coking and other coal is concerned, its handling recorded a rise of 6.88 per cent at 33.43 MT during the seven months period. These ports had handled 31.28 MT of coking coal in the corresponding period last fiscal. Thermal coal is the mainstay of India's energy programme as 70 per cent of power generation is dependent on the dry fuel, while coking coal is used mainly for steel-making. Earlier, mjunction services -- a B2B e-commerce joint venture between Tata Steel and SAIL -- has repo

Centre prioritises coking coal contracts over foreign mine purchases

Company may at best consider picking up stakes in coking coal companies instead of going for an outright purchase

Output of 8 core industries contracts 5% in Sep, may hurt Q2 GDP growth

Gross domestic product grew by more than a six-year low of 5 per cent in the first quarter

Vedanta's alumina cost hits two-year low on availability of coal, bauxite

Vedanta is currently working on the ramp-up of the Lanjigarh refinery

Opening up of commercial coal mining to 100% FDI unlikely to boost sector

Allowing 100% FDI in commercial coal mining doesn't augur well for the sector at a time when global capital is fleeing coal

Top 10 biz headlines: GST rates for 5-star hotels, oil crisis, and more

From rationalising GST rates for 5-star hotels to FDI in coal mining, here are the top 10 business headlines on Wednesday

NTPC units faced coal shortage in FY17-19; CERC denies relief

Company blames Coal India and Centre's no-import policy

Concerns loom over Tata Power's Indonesia mining lease, say analysts

Tata Power, through its subsidiaries, holds 30 per cent stake in PT Kaltim Prima Coal and a 26 per cent stake in PT Baramulti Suksessarana Tbk mines in Indonesia

Maharashtra's coal block in Chhattisgarh hits environmental hurdle

Public hearing for developing the coal block postponed again

Coal India sets production target of 655 mt; 3-fold rise from last fiscal

The ministerial goal this year is just 5 mt over the aspirational target which the world's largest coal producer had set for itself in 2018-19

SECL remains CIL flagship entity as FY19 coal output rises by 9%

The company's overall output makes up about 26 per cent of the total coal produced by CIL

Ahead of summer and Lok Sabha polls, coal companies to increase output

The coal stock at power units stands at an average of 13 days, as of February 20

India's largest coal mine enmeshed in political tug of war, production hit

SECL had said it would increase its annual production to 250 million tonne in 2019-20 as its contribution to the 1 billion tonne target of Coal India

Coal allocation by CIL to power sector under e-auction drops 20% in Apr-Nov

CIL had earlier said it would put on offer a little over 45 million tonnes of coal under the special forward auction in the current fiscal

The world needs to get out of coal, and fast, but why is it so hard?

Spurred by public outcry over air pollution, China is now also the world leader in solar and wind power installation, and its central government has tried to slow down coal plant construction

Achieving 1-billion-tonne coal output target by 2022 set to disrupt market

While it bodes well for the country's coal production, the monopoly national miner, CIL, could see eventual shrinking of some of its coal business