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• Serbia to spend EUR 1 billion on electricity, coal imports by end of year

  09 Jun 2022

  Serbia will spend EUR 1 billion on electricity and coal imports by the end of the year, and imports will continue until 2024, said Zorana Mihajlović, Serbian Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Mining and Energy. . ...Read More

• Less than nine days of coal stock present at thermal power plants

  09 Jun 2022

  Thermal power plants in India have nine days' worth of coal stock available as of June 6 and this could result in power outages, due to a shortage of dry fuel amid the rising electricity demand because of the scorching heat. . ...Read More

• CHINA JAN-MAY COAL IMPORTS DOWN 13.6% AT 95.96 MLN TONNES - CUS…

  09 Jun 2022

  01:39a Discounter Pepco's H1 earnings rise on 192 store openings . ...Read More

• Yancoal Australia rejects US$1.8B takeover bid from China’s Yankuang

  08 Jun 2022

  Yancoal Australia (ASX: YAL) rejected on Tuesday a US$1.8-billion takeover bid from its largest shareholder, saying that both the value and the proposed structure of the deal were not in the best interests of its minority shareholders. China’s Yankuang Energy... . ...Read More

• A US company is quietly building a massive coal-to-gas plant – in Indonesia

  08 Jun 2022

  Air Products and Indonesia have partnered to build a coal gasification plant that will challenge the country's net-zero ambitions. . ...Read More

• Bens Creek Group commences rail delivery

  08 Jun 2022

  Bens Creek Group Plc has announced that, on 1 June 2022, it commenced the delivery, by railroad, of its High Vol B (HVB) product to Integrity Coal Sales Inc., the company’s offtake partner. . ...Read More

• Power producers have started importing coal to boost electricity supply, says Union Minister RK Singh

  08 Jun 2022

  The minister says the state governments have now started importing coal, which has pushed India's reserve stock of coal back up to 20 million tonnes. . ...Read More

• Power producers have started importing coal to boost electricity supply, says Union Minister RK Singh

  08 Jun 2022

  The minister says the state governments have now started importing coal, which has pushed India's reserve stock of coal back up to 20 million tonnes. . ...Read More

• JSW Steel to make sand from slag

  07 Jun 2022

  Commissions 0.30 mt plant at Vijayanagar . ...Read More

• NTPC awards coal import tenders worth Rs 8,308 crore to Adani Enterprises

  07 Jun 2022

  India’s largest power generating company (genco) NTPC has awarded multiple contracts to import 6.25 million tonne (mt) of coal to Adani Enterprises at a cumulative value of Rs 8,308 crore. . ...Read More

• The anatomy of our "energy crisis"

  07 Jun 2022

  Australia is in the midst of an “energy crisis” - some say the worst in 50 years. . ...Read More

• North China's Inner Mongolia pledges to reduce energy intensity by 15% by 2025

  07 Jun 2022

  North China's Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region will take measures to reduce its reliance on coal consumption and accelerate major renewable energy projects to lower the region’s energy consumption per unit of GDP by 15 percent by 2025 from five years ago, according to guidelines issued by the regional government on Monday. . ...Read More

• Major role of coal plants in Asia

  07 Jun 2022

  KUALA LUMPUR: Coal-fired power plants will remain a major part in Asia’s power generation, at least for the time being, as the world is moving towards a greener and more sustainable economy. . ...Read More

• First coal from BBM by September

  06 Jun 2022

  COKAL is on track to produce coking coal from its 60% owned Bumi Barito Mineral project in Indonesia with first saleable coal expected in September. . ...Read More

• Most states fall in line with MoP diktat; agree to import coal

  06 Jun 2022

  As on Saturday evening, CIL had received indents for importing 2.4 million tonnes (MT) of coal from West Bengal, Punjab, Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh, Andhra Pradesh, Gujarat and Maharashtra, while states such as Tamil Nadu, Karnataka and Haryana have started the process of importing coal on their own. . ...Read More