April 1, 2010: Coal India Ltd has sought 20 percent increase in availability of rakes to meet its annual production and sales targets of 461 million tons and 462 mt respectively in 2010-11. The targets were fixed by the Union Coal Ministry recently.

April 1, 2010: Coal consumers, who are sore over the dwindling coal supplies from the linked coal blocks of Coal India Limited (CIL), may even face worse times ahead as the navratna coal company is set to end 2010-11 with a negative coal balance of 110 million tons (mt).

April 1, 2010: The proposed Kudagi Thermal power plant, a 4,000 Mw ultra mega power project, planned to be set up by the National Thermal Power Corporation at Kudagi in Basavana Bagewadi taluk of Bijapur has hit a roadblock with farmers opposing the acquisition of land for the project.

March 30, 2010: Union Coal Minister Sriprakash Jaiswal today said coal blocks would be allocated on the merit of the proposed power projects, including 'likeability' of production, within the current 11 th Plan.

March 29, 2010: While the government of West Bengal is blaming the shortage of coal for the continuing power crisis in the state, rampant loot of coal in broad daylight from the coal siding is forcing the coal producing company to halt production and supply to the power stations.

March 26, 2010: The National Thermal Power Corporation (NTPC), the state owned power generator, has evinced interest to set up solar and wind projects in Orissa with aggregate generation capacity of 500 MW.

March 26, 2010: The Essar Group on Thursday said it has agreed to acquire a 64-million-ton (mt) coal mine from an unnamed private company in Indonesia as part of its efforts to secure raw material supplies for its proposed thermal power projects in India.

March 25, 2010: The Orissa government has decided to sign memorandum of understanding (MoU) with six more Independent Power Producers (IPPs) envisaging an aggregate generation capacity of 5,940 Mw.

March 25, 2010: As part of its plan to foray into coal mining business, the state owned Orissa Mining Corporation (OMC) intends to file formal application with the Union Coal Ministry for allotment of coal mines in favour of its coal subsidiary to be formed soon.

March 22, 2010: State-owned NTPC said it has signed an agreement with Gujarat Power Corporation for executing 500 MW renewable power projects in the state.

March 19, 2010: Commissioning of Adani Power's 3,300 MW power plant at Tiroda in Maharashtra runs the risk of getting delayed for want of fuel due to an environment hurdle in mining coal, said a person familiar with the development.

March 18, 2010: More than 3 million tons (mt) of imported coal are awaiting evacuation at the east coast ports of Paradip, Visakhapatnam and Gangavaram due to non-availability of railway rakes.

March 18, 2010: Japanese power companies, including Tokyo Electric Power Company (Tepco) and J-Power, seek to make their presence felt in India.

March 18, 2010: The Orissa government has received proposals from eight companies keen to start coal mining in Angul district.

March 16, 2010: State-owned Coal India Limited (CIL) has raised objections to the choice of site for Vedanta Aluminium Limited's proposed plant at Bidhanbag near Asansol in West Bengal, saying that it was a coal-bearing region.

March 15, 2010: The chairman-cum-managing director of Bharat Coking Coal Ltd (BCCL), T.K. Lahiry, has expressed satisfaction over the progress on the Jharia Action Plan (JAP), the single largest rehabilitation and compensation plan by any public sector company, and said that it is moving reasonably well.

March 15, 2010: India's two leading coal producing companies - Coal India Ltd (CIL) and Singareni Collieries Company Ltd (SCCL) - will invest nearly Rs 6700 crore (about $1.5 billion) over the next few years to increase production of coal from underground mines, Minister of State for Coal Sriprakash Jaiswal said.

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.