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• Power cuts: Railways to cancel 670 passenger train trips to rush coal rakes

  29 Apr 2022

  NEW DELHI: The spike in coal requirement due to the steep increase in electricity demand has forced Indian Railways to cancel around 16 mail/express and passenger trains daily in the past couple of weeks to create extra paths for rakes carrying the key ingredient to power plants located across the country. The railway ministry has notified the cancellation of nearly 670 trips of passenger trains till May 24. Over 500 of these trips are for long-distance mail and express trains. . ...Read More

• War Forces Germany to Put G-7 Coal Phaseout Push on Hold

  28 Apr 2022

  • Scholz’s spokesman says Russia’s attack has changed priorities • Japan resisted an early proposal to phase out coal by 2030 . ...Read More

• India urges states to boost coal imports for next three years

  28 Apr 2022

  The decision comes amid fuel crisis in the country as coal inventories touched their lowest pre-summer levels in nine years. . ...Read More

• China Moves to Cut Coal Import Tariffs to Zero

  28 Apr 2022

  China has announced that it is cutting coal import tariffs as it looks to safeguard energy security as global prices climb. . ...Read More

• Heatwave, coal shortage fuel blackouts across states in India

  28 Apr 2022

  New Delhi: A potent combination of sweltering summer and acute coal shortages have triggered blackouts across many parts of the country as states struggle to manage record demand for electricity and low feedstock at power plants. . ...Read More

• China shelves plans to build 15 coal plants abroad after ban on funding: study

  27 Apr 2022

  China has shelved plans to build 15 coal power plants overseas — with a capacity of around 12.8 GW — after it banned funding such projects in 2021, while another 37 GW of capacity currently in the pre-construction phase could be stopped, a new study showed April 22. The shelved projects were to be concentrated in countries including Vietnam, Turkey and Bangladesh. . ...Read More

• Assocham pitches for zero import duty on coal, more rail rakes to deal with power supply issues

  27 Apr 2022

  Association urges States, discoms to not give commercial consumers short shrift in power supply Industry body Assocham has made a case for duty-free import of coal, greater availability of railway rakes to transport the dry fuel and a different rate of diesel for captive geAssociation urges States, discoms to not give commercial consumers short shrift in power supply Industry body Assocham has made a case for duty-free import of coal, greater availability of railway rakes to transport the dry fuel and a different rate of diesel for captive generators for dealing with the power supply issue this summer.nerators for dealing with the power supply issue this summer. . ...Read More

• Cost of carbon: How Europe’s demand for coal impacts the market

  27 Apr 2022

  Asia's PT Adaro Energy Indonesia Tbk (ADOOY) is among the companies now shipping coal to Europe as the bloc scrambles to replace Russian energy commodities following its invasion in Ukraine . ...Read More

• Global Coal Plant Capacity Edges Up In 2021, Hitting Climate: Report

  27 Apr 2022

  The Global Energy Monitor (GEM) report found that global coal plant capacity grew 18.2 gigawatts to about 2,100 GW or about 0.87 per cent. Scientists and activists have urged the world to move off coal to cleaner energy sources such as solar and wind power and in some cases, nuclear power . ...Read More

• Australia’s coal export boom forecast to end abruptly amid big drop in demand from China

  26 Apr 2022

  Australia’s coal export boom will come to an abrupt end because of an “imminent and substantial” drop in purchases by China, and local coalmining communities should brace for the change, the lead author of a new study says. . ...Read More

• Global Coal Production Capacity Rose in 2021

  26 Apr 2022

  Natural gas shortage and China’s energy crisis have driven global coal plant production capacity to surge last year, undercutting global net zero efforts. . ...Read More

• Under development global coal power declined by 13%: Report

  26 Apr 2022

  The global coal plant capacity under development declined in 2021, Global Energy Monitor's eighth annual survey of the coal plant pipeline said on Tuesday. . ...Read More

• Chinese commodities are feeling heavy on fresh lockdowns: Coal down 5% Iron Ore plunges 9%

  25 Apr 2022

  Coke Prices Fall 6% Iron Ore Futures Plunge 8.7%Most-Traded Shanghai Hot Rolled Coils Futures Fall 3.5%Stainless Steel Futures Down More Than 4% . ...Read More

• China Orders Top Coal Region to Ensure Supplies to Coastal Hubs

  25 Apr 2022

  China has called on its top producing province to guarantee thermal coal supplies to some of the industrial hubs on the coast threatened by power shortages. . ...Read More

• UK Minister supports coal mine to reduce reliance on Russian supply

  25 Apr 2022

  UK Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities Michael Gove could approve the launch of the country’s first deep coal mine in three decades, reported the Telegraph citing sources in the UK Conservative Party. . ...Read More