December 30, 2009: Coal supply to the captive power plant of National Aluminium Company (Nalco) here was hit on Tuesday due to the outbreak of fire at the rapid loading system at the linked Bharatpur coal mine in Talcher Coalfields.

December 9, 2009: The Tamil Nadu government on Tuesday said it was expecting five merchant power plants to come up in the state with a total installed capacity of 10,000 Mw by 2012.

December 9, 2009: West Bengal, on Tuesday, became the forerunner in mega-watt level solar power generation with the commissioning a 2MW grid-connected solar photovoltaic plant at Jamuria, near Asansol.

December 9, 2009: A day into the Copenhagen climate change meetings, the Ministry of New and Renewable Energy (MNRE) has indicated that it has no definite roadmap to implement its ambitious target of 20,0000 MW of solar power by 2022.

December 4, 2009: Sajjan Jindal-led JSW Energy on Friday said it is exploring opportunities in the power distribution sector to diversify the company's business.

December 4, 2009: Sajjan Jindal led JSW Group on Friday said it is looking at buying coal mines abroad for feeding its growing steel and power businesses.

December 4, 2009: Nuclear Power Corporation of India (NPCIL) has initiated the process to set up a 4X700-Mw nuclear power project in Haryana, which would be a green project with zero emission.

December 4, 2009: Punjab Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal today urged Union Power Minister Sushil Kumar Shinde to advise the Nuclear Corporation of India to bear with the state government for the delay in the site selection process for a nuclear power project.

December 3, 2009: Soon investors will get to own a slice of India's largest coal mining company. Coal India its initial public offering will hit markets in November or December 2010.

December 3, 2009: BPL Ltd said on December 2, 2009 that it has entered into a pact with Chhattisgarh government to set up a 300 MW coal-based power plant in the eastern state.

December 2, 2009: The government is betting on a big boost in private power project commissioning to partly make up for the glaring slippages expected in projects executed by the Central Public Sector Undertakings (CPSU) during the current Eleventh Plan period.

November 26, 2009: The Union Power Ministry may invite qualifying bids for only one ultra mega power project before the end of the current fiscal, a senior official said.

November 26, 2009: India's largest coal mining company, plans to form joint ventures for overseas exploration and mining operations to increase coal supplies to Indian user companies, a senior executive said on Wednesday.

November 24, 2009: Power projects with a cumulative capacity of 4,000 MW may miss their March commissioning date due to a shortage of engineers from Chinese firms that sold the equipment for these projects, the Minister of State for Power, Bharatsinh Solanki, said in Parliament on November 23, 2009.

November 24, 2009: Indian power equipment maker Bharat Heavy Electricals Ltd has informed that it had got an order worth Rs 56 billion ($1.2 billion) to build a 1,980 megawatts thermal power plant in north India.

October 4, 2009: Cement companies, which have been struggling to secure coal linkages, may be set for some relief. Coal India (CIL) will remove some clauses that are hindering the signing of fuel supply agreements with cement companies.
 

September 27, 2009: State-run power generation company, Gujarat State Electricity Corporation Ltd (GSECL) intends to procure 15 lakh tons of non-coking steam (thermal) imported coal. The company has invited bids from coal suppliers for supply of coal on high seas sale basis.

September 26, 2009: MCL Mining Contractors' Association has served an ultimatum to MCL (Mahanadi Coalfields Ltd) authorities to go on strike from October 1 unless its three main grievances are addressed by the end of the current month.

September 26, 2009: MCL Mining Contractors' Association has served an ultimatum to MCL (Mahanadi Coalfields Ltd) authorities to go on strike from October 1 unless its three main grievances are addressed by the end of the current month.

September 16, 2009: Infrastructure constraints at the Talcher coalfield under the command area of Mahanadi Coalfields Limited (MCL) have hit evacuation and supplies of coal.