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• India stares at outages as coal stocks at power plants hit a low

  19 Apr 2022

  Local coal-based plants have supplies for just over eight days 18As the country’s peak power demand nears last year’s all-time high of 200 gigawatts (GW), the coal stocks position at power plants has become worrisome, While domestic coal-based (DCB) plants have supplies for just over 8 days, imported coal-based (ICB) units have stocks for nine-and-a-half days. . ...Read More

• China’s Coal and Gas Boom May Help Ease The Global Energy Crisis

  19 Apr 2022

  Record coal and natural gas extraction and consumption-sapping Covid lockdowns are slashing China’s import demand and helping loosen global fuel markets. . ...Read More

• Private sector can lease 3,200 hectares of de-coaled land

  18 Apr 2022

  The move will help Coal India in reducing its cost of operations, says the govt Private sector will now be eligible to take mined out or de-coaled land on lease from Coal India to develop coal and energy-related infrastructure. Over 3,200 hectares of such lands are available as on date. . ...Read More

• Riverbed coal mining on Simsang river fuels life in Bangladesh

  18 Apr 2022

  Every now and then illegal rat-hole coal mining in Meghalaya pops up in different forums from academics to judiciary. But standing in the shallow waters of Simsang river spanning across the Indo-Bangla border, hundreds of poor people mine coal also illegally from beneath the water mainly in the summer season. Simsang flows through the heart of the Garo Hills, dividing the area into two parts and changes its name to Someshwari as it transcends the borders and gushes down into Bangladesh. . ...Read More

• E.SUN FHC Commits to Phase-out of Coal By 2035

  18 Apr 2022

  TAIPEI, Taiwan--(BUSINESS WIRE)--E.SUN FHC, taking the initiative to follow the international trend and achieve the goals of COP26, announced coal phase-out by 2035 on April 11. This policy applies to all E.SUN FHC subsidiaries and overseas locations and encompasses actively managing carbon emissions from financial assets, increasing green assets, reducing gray assets in investment and financing, and promoting social energy transformation and global climate goals through the allocation of financial resources. . ...Read More

• China Raises Coal and Gas Output to Records After Prices Surge

  18 Apr 2022

  China boosted coal and gas output to record levels in March, as the nation turned to its domestic producers for security of supply after international prices skyrocketed in the wake of the Russian invasion of Ukraine . ...Read More

• Richards Bay coal operate normally while the rains hit the province

  14 Apr 2022

  Richards Bay Coal Terminal, one of the world’s greatest coal export ports, said it’s operating as normal despite heavy rains in the KwaZulu-Natal province where it is found. . ...Read More

• Indonesia aims to set up coal levy agency by June

  14 Apr 2022

  Indonesia’s government aims to establish a “special entity” by June to help secure coal supplies for the state power utility company and collect levies, energy minister Arifin Tasrif told parliament on Wednesday. . ...Read More

• Power shortage: States told to step up coal imports

  14 Apr 2022

  Union power minister RK Singh told state power generation companies (gencos) on Tuesday to alter their fuel mix by using up to 10% imported coal to boost their output, as the country’s power shortage crossed 105 million units (MUs) on April 12, compared with the recent peak of 82 MUs on October 12, 2021. Separately, . ...Read More

• European coal price reaches one-month high as Russia supply curbs bite

  13 Apr 2022

  Northwest European coal futures rose to the highest in more than a month as curbs on imports from Russia tighten the market. . ...Read More

• European coal price reaches one-month high as Russia supply curbs bite

  13 Apr 2022

  Northwest European coal futures rose to the highest in more than a month as curbs on imports from Russia tighten the market. . ...Read More

• Coal-rich Shanxi Province vows to eliminate dirty bulk coal in its most polluted cities

  13 Apr 2022

  North China's Shanxi Province has pledged to eliminate bulk coal use in its Jinzhong Basin before the 2022 heating season begins later in the year, according to a plan released by the local government to achieve clean heating in winter. . ...Read More

• Indian states stare at power shortage amid coal supply crisis at power plants

  13 Apr 2022

  Several states in India are likely to see a power shortage in the coming weeks as power plants struggle to find optimum amounts of thermal coal amid rising summer demand, higher import costs and the resultant supply tightness, sources told S&P Global Commodity Insights in the week that began April 10. . ...Read More

• Mongolia eyes ramp-up of coking coal, copper exports to China in 2022: minister

  13 Apr 2022

  Mongolia is ramping up its efforts to supply raw material such as coking coal and copper to China in 2022 after a lackluster trade in 2021, as it expands its mining sector and boosts its transport network, said Batnairamdal Otgonshar, Vice-Minister at Mongolia’s Mining and Heavy Industry Ministry. . ...Read More

• Whitehaven coal mine decision expected by July

  12 Apr 2022

  A deadline of July has been set for a decision on whether to go ahead with a new coal mine in Cumbria. . ...Read More