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By Dr Oruganty Prasada Rao The buzzword the world over nowadays is ‘phase-out coal’. The idea is to limit the rise in global temperature to 2 degrees Celsius, preferably 1.5 degrees Celsius, compared with pre-industrial levels, as per the Paris agreement on climate change. What is wrong with coal Coal is a fossil fuel like […]

India is caught in a paradoxical situation on the energy front. On one hand, it needs to continue to exploit fossil fuels like coal to meet its growing demands but on the other, meet the international goals on climate change by phasing out fossil fuels and adopting clean energy technologies. Intense heatwaves across India, with […]

Hyderabad: At a time when majority of the States in the country are facing power blues following crisis in the sector, Telangana continues to ensure uninterrupted power supply to all the sectors including agriculture, industry, commercial and domestic. Except for minor outages mostly caused by tripping and transmission disruptions, Telangana continues to meet its peak […]

New Delhi: Amid rising power demand in the country due to a continued heat wave, India is staring at an electricity crisis accentuated due to a coal shortage at over 150 power plants. The coal stock position at the Central Election Authority (CEA) supervised 173 power plants stood at 21.93 million tonnes (MT), which, according […]

Coal production in the state-owned Singareni Collieries Company Limited (SCCL) in Telangana was hit as the employees struck the work to oppose the Centre's move to auction four coal blocks.

Hyderabad: The Russia-Ukraine war has cast a shadow on coal production in Singareni Collieries Company Limited (SCCL) following the dip in supply of ammonium nitrate to India from the two countries in conflict besides Turkey and Bulgaria. Ammonium nitrate is used in manufacture of explosives that are deployed in coal mining activity, and local manufacturers […]

By Dr Oruganty Prasada Rao In the recently concluded climate change summit COP26, India and China called for phase-down instead of phase-out of coal in the final text of the conference declaration. The reasons for it are: Energy Resources: India is endowed with large reserves of coal, which can last for over 200 years at […]

Hyderabad: Singareni Collieries Company Limited (SCCL) on Saturday held a review meeting with explosives manufacturers to increase coal and OB production targets to meet the present demand in the country. During the meeting, a request was also made to manufacturers to supply explosives to increase coal production. Instructions were also issued to increase the use […]

Hyderabad: Following reports of dip in coal supplies in the country, senior officials from New Delhi enquired about the coal availability in the mines of Telangana, Bihar and Jharkhand. Following reports on decline in coal supplies, senior officials from the Union Ministry of Coal have been holding video conferences regularly with officials in Telangana and […]

Hyderabad: The Singareni Collieries Company Limited (SCCL) is taking all measures to ensure supply of coal to all the thermal power stations as per the Fuel Supply Agreements (FSAs) and ensure that there was no interruption to power generation. The Company has made it clear that all these thermal power stations have coal stocks that […]

Delhi: Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Saturday said the national capital could face a power crisis and that his government is taking adequate steps to avoid such a situation. He said he has written to Prime Minister Narendra Modi for his intervention in making adequate arrangements of coal and gas to generation plants supplying […]

It must step away from coal while not leaving millions of people in coal-mining regions worse off

The existing clause 'coal procured under e-auction is for use within the country and not for export' has now been amended.

Even compared to pre-COVID May 2019, the growth was 5.8 per cent when the company's off-take was 52 MT.

According to the commerce and industry ministry data, production of natural gas, refinery products jumped by 25 per cent, 30.9 per cent, respectively.

The country's current installed generation capacity is around 3,79,000 MW. Of this coal based capacity is roughly over 2,05,000 MW while renewables is around 1,30,000 MW.

Accordingly, users may resort to domestic coal over imported ones given the elevated import prices, especially for non-coking coal, supporting offtake.

"In the note for consultation of Ministry of Mines, it is proposed to incorporate a provision in the Act to allow sale of 50 per cent of coal/lignite produced by captive mines on an annual basis," the Coal Ministry said

New Delhi: McNally Bharat Engineering on Thursday said it has bagged an order worth Rs 311.68 crore from Coal India’s arm Mahanadi Coalfields Ltd. The company has received the order from Mahanadi Coalfields Ltd (MCL) ” for pre engineered turnkey execution for design, supply, erection, commissioning and trial run with O&M…for coal evacuation system by […]

This will support the GOI’s 'Atmanirbhar Bharat Abhiyan' initiative and extending commitment towards mineral security for the nation.