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• Australia's Coronado Global sees coal prices rising as China resumes imports

  24 Jan 2023

  FILE PHOTO: Workers operate loaders unloading imported coal at a port in Lianyungang, Jiangsu province, China December 5, 2019. REUTERS/Stringer . ...Read More

• UK's National Grid says back-up coal plants stood down for Monday evening

  24 Jan 2023

  Britain's National Grid has stood down plans to fire up coal plants on Monday evening which it had asked operators on Sunday to get ready in case high power demand meant they needed to provide extra electricity. . ...Read More

• UK Fires Up Coal Plants, Pays Customers to Cut Energy Use During Cold Snap

  24 Jan 2023

  Britain is warming up its coal power stations once again this winter as a cold snap and light winds have settled into the region. . ...Read More

• Coal India arm to set up Rs 12k cr power plant

  24 Jan 2023

  ODISHA: Coal India arm MCL is in the process of diversifying into power generation and will set up a coal-based plant entailing an investment of around Rs 12,000 crore in Odisha, its chairman-cum-managing director OP Singh said. . ...Read More

• MHI to investigate co-firing ammonia at coal-fired power plant in Thailand

  20 Jan 2023

  Mitsubishi Heavy Industries (MHI) is set to conduct a feasibility study for the introduction of ammonia co-firing at a coal-fired thermal power plant in Thailand, in pursuit of decarbonising power production with hydrogen-based fuels. . ...Read More

• CAQM Asks Coal India To Stop Supply Haryana, UP Govt To Stop Supply

  20 Jan 2023

  It has advised Coal India and state governments of Haryana and Uttar Pradesh to ensure that coal is not supplied or allotted by coal firms of CIL to various suppliers or stockists or agents of ClL operating in the NCR . ...Read More

• Rapid renewable expansion driving down gas, coal generation in coming years: EIA

  20 Jan 2023

  US solar capacity to almost double by 2025: FERC . ...Read More

• China's coal imports from Russia fall in Dec, but up 20% in 2022

  20 Jan 2023

  Smoke rises from chimneys at Hwange Power station in Hwange, Zimbabwe, October 19, 2021. Picture taken October 19, 2021 REUTERS/Philimon Bulawayo . ...Read More

• Column: Europe's gas price plunge churns up global coal markets: Maguire

  19 Jan 2023

  LITTLETON, Colo. Jan 18 (Reuters) - Thermal coal markets were a prominent beneficiary of Europe's power sector turmoil in 2022, . ...Read More

• Bulgaria’s 2053 energy strategy: coal until 2030, new nuclear capacities

  19 Jan 2023

  Bulgaria intends to burn coal until 2030 to ensure energy security amid the ongoing crisis, while at the same time developing nuclear, solar, wind, hydropower, battery storage, and hydrogen projects, according to a proposed energy strategy until 2053. . ...Read More

• India aims to produce over 1billion tones of coal in 2023-24

  19 Jan 2023

  New Delhi [India], January 19 (ANI): India aims to produce more than one billion tonnes of coal during the year 2023-24 and an in-depth review has been carried out by the coal secretary to reach the intended target . ...Read More

• Top Coal Shipper Australia Orders Miners to Reserve Fuel

  19 Jan 2023

  • • New South Wales state mulls reservation policy: local press . ...Read More

• Germany needs coal for longer than planned: VDKI

  17 Jan 2023

  Germany's coal imports and demand rose in 2022 for a second year running, and the country will depend on coal for longer than planned by the government, coal importers association VDKI has warned. . ...Read More

• Romania plans to expand coal mine over 100 hectares of forests

  17 Jan 2023

  More than 100 hectares of forests in Romania’s Gorj region could be cut down to expand a lignite mine. Romania is making a U-turn on decarbonization processes, and the government is again acting contrary to its EU commitments, Bankwatch has warned. . ...Read More

• India to boost coal imports this year to cope with harsh weather, freight snags: Report

  17 Jan 2023

  India's record domestic output of coal has eased tight inventories at power plants, to an average 12 days' supply at the end of 2022 from nine days when the current fiscal year began last April. . ...Read More