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• Renewables To Constitute 33% of China’s Electricity By 2025

  03 Jun 2022

  • The National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC) has informed that the total renewable consumption will reach 1 billion tonnes of standard coal equivalent by 2025. . ...Read More

• Coal India to issue two tenders for imported coal to address local shortage

  03 Jun 2022

  The state-run miner, which has little experience in importing coal, was asked to place orders for shipments from overseas by the power ministry last week as utilities suggested multiple tenders would lead to confusion and sought centralised procurement through Coal India. . ...Read More

• Guterres calls on G20 to dismantle coal infra

  03 Jun 2022

  New Delhi: Stating that the global well-being is in jeopardy, in large part, because humans have not kept our promises on the environment, UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres on Thursday called on the G20 governments to dismantle coal infrastructure and also gave full phase out year deadlines. . ...Read More

• Coal India production rises 28% in April-May at 108 million tonne

  02 Jun 2022

  State-owned CIL on Wednesday said it produced 108.2 million tonne of coal in the first two months of the ongoing fiscal year, registering year-on-year increase of 28.8 per cent. . ...Read More

• China opens door to more new coal power with minor wording tweak

  02 Jun 2022

  China’s major renewable energy planning document through 2025 included a small shift in wording from previous government guidance that could pave the way for more new coal-power generation. . ...Read More

• Edenville Energy Plc - Termination of Coal Mining Agreement

  02 Jun 2022

  Edenville Energy Plc (AIM: EDL) announces an update with respect to the operation of the Company's Rukwa Coal Project in Tanzania. . ...Read More

• FACTBOX: Ukraine conflict boosts Europe's clean energy ambition amid headwinds

  02 Jun 2022

  Europe has pledged a rapid transition away from Russian fossil fuels in response to the war in Ukraine, raising already-ambitious decarbonization goals in a concerted effort to end dependence on Russian gas by 2027. . ...Read More

• African Lender Has Plan to Raise $40 Billion to Cut South Africa's Coal Reliance

  01 Jun 2022

  Bank plans facility to receive climate funding for continent . ...Read More

• JERA, IHI move up demonstration of co-firing ammonia at coal power plant

  01 Jun 2022

  JERA's Hekinan thermal power station will now begin demonstrating the technology, burning 20 per cent ammonia and 80 per cent coal at its 1-gigawatt No.4 unit, in the financial year beginning April 2023. . ...Read More

• WB-6 countries struggling to secure electricity production in their old coal power plants

  01 Jun 2022

  It’s going to be a long winter in several Western Balkan countries as old coal-fired power plants have become unreliable and lignite is scarce. A series of breakdowns have weakened the electric power systems in Serbia, North Macedonia and Kosovo*. . ...Read More

• India eyes coal import from Russia, Australia, Indonesia

  01 Jun 2022

  The govt may shortly initiate negotiations with Russia, Australia, Indonesia and South Africa to help state-run Coal India import coal at a discounted rate as an emergency measure to avoid a fuel shortage for the country’s strained power plants and create buffer stocks, two govt officials aware of the plan said . ...Read More

• China’s sabbatical from seaborne coal market hints at emphasis on self-reliance

  31 May 2022

  Even though China’s reliance on coal-fired power is not seen falling anytime soon, indications from data and policy makers suggest that the world’s largest producer and consumer of coal may be actively looking toward meeting majority of its requirements through domestic production. . ...Read More

• Germany puts coal phaseout on hold to prepare for possible Russian gas supply cut

  31 May 2022

  European countries are canceling the closure of coal-fired power plants and getting open-cast mines back to business to prevent a collapse in the energy system if Russia decides to stop supplying them with gas. Germany will keep the power generation fleet in the sector in reserve after the operating permits expire. . ...Read More

• India Plans to Reduce Coal-Fired Generation, and Mine More Coal

  31 May 2022

  India’s Power Ministry, despite the country facing shortages of electricity in recent years and as recently as the past month, said it plans to reduce the amount of power generation from at least 81 of the country’s 173 coal-fired power plants over the next four years. . ...Read More

• 15 injured after coal mine explosion in Colombia's Norte de Santander

  31 May 2022

  At least 15 people were injured after a strong explosion occurred in a coal mine in Norte de Santander, Colombia, local media reported on Monday. . ...Read More