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• New captive berth increases coal imports via NMPT

  09 Oct 2013

  October 9: Coal imports through New Mangalore Port Trust (NMPT) increased almost 1.6% to 0.16 mill... . ...Read More

• Ex-NTPC Director A K Singhal appointed CERC member

  09 Oct 2013

  October 9: A K Singhal, former Director (Finance) of National Thermal Power Corporation (NTPC), be... . ...Read More

• Coal banking report this month: B.K. Chaturvedi

  09 Oct 2013

  The report on coal banking policy would be submitted by the end of this month, said B.K. Chaturved... . ...Read More

• Rail corridor planned for Rampia coal block

  09 Oct 2013

  After planning a common rail corridor for the Angul-Talcher-Chhendipada belt, the Odisha governmen... . ...Read More

• Missing files: CBI collects documents from coal ministry

  09 Oct 2013

  A CBI team today held a meeting with Coal Ministry officials in connection with missing dossiers... . ...Read More

• Beijing orders coal plants closed

  09 Oct 2013

  BEIJING will shut all four of its coal-fired power plants by 2015, as authorities in China conti... . ...Read More

• Tepco quadruples coal consumption

  09 Oct 2013

  Tokyo Electric Power Co. almost quadrupled its coal consumption in September from a year earli... . ...Read More

• US coal exports to fall on continued economic weakness, low prices: EIA

  09 Oct 2013

  US coal exports will total 114 million st this year, down from 2012's record 126 million st,... . ...Read More

• Coal Makes Modest Gains Despite Hostile Administration

  09 Oct 2013

  For the first 6 months of 2013, coal electricity generation increased by 10 percent compared to th... . ...Read More

• Coal prices bounce, positive for nitrogenous fertilizer companies

  09 Oct 2013

  Coal prices’ significance to the fertilizer industry   While most of the world uses n... . ...Read More

• Myanmar Domestic Energy Demand: Coal Over Oil And Gas To Fuel Electricity Production

  09 Oct 2013

  For all the oil and gas resources that Myanmar has the nation’s future electricity needs wil... . ...Read More

• U.S. coal-fired power plants scheduled to shut

  09 Oct 2013

  U.S. power companies have shut or converted about 16,000 megawatts (MW) of coal-fired power plants... . ...Read More

• EquiPower to shut Brayton Point, Mass. coal power plant in 2017

  09 Oct 2013

  A unit of privately held investment firm Energy Capital Partners said Tuesday it will close its ... . ...Read More

• Another coal power victim of declining demand?

  09 Oct 2013

  The 150 megawatt Redbank NSW black coal generator has been placed into receivership. With specu... . ...Read More

• String of coal mine deaths following US government shutdown

  09 Oct 2013

  For the first time in a decade, the US coal mining industry has seen three workplace deaths in t... . ...Read More