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• 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

• Rains disrupt ops at Australian coking coal ports

  17 Jan 2023

  Supply concerns returned to the seaborne coking coal market after operations at major Australian ports were disrupted by heavy rains. . ...Read More

• Coal India Should Strive To Offer Electricity At Reasonable Cost: Chairman

  16 Jan 2023

  The benchmark base for future expansion should be established after we reach our 700 MT production target . ...Read More

• Thunberg joins march on German village in protest against coal mine expansion

  16 Jan 2023

  LUTZERATH (Reuters) - Around 6,000 protesters - including climate activist Greta Thunberg - marched through mud and rain to the German village of Luetzerath on Saturday, according to a police estimate, demonstrating against the expansion of an opencast lignite mine. . ...Read More

• Renewable Energy Will Surpass Coal for the First Time

  16 Jan 2023

  Coal has long been an important source of energy, and it can be said that it was one of the key factors that sparked the industrial revolution with all things having been considered and taken into account. . ...Read More

• China's coal imports likely to increase in 2023 to stabilize prices

  13 Jan 2023

  A view of the coal yard at the Rizhao Port, East China's Shandong Province on August 18, 2022. Red reclaimers are rumbling, with trains full of goods ready to be exported. In July, China exported 230,000 tons of coal and lignite, a year-on-year increase of 171.6 percent, customs data showed. Photo: VCG . ...Read More

• Centre aims 118 million tonne of domestic coal stock by March 2023

  13 Jan 2023

  3 min read . Updated: 12 Jan 2023, 09:33 PM ISTLivemintThe country witnessed severe crisis situations in September-October 2021 and April-May 2022. . ...Read More

• Bulgarian parliament orders caretaker government to renegotiate closure of coal-fired plants

  13 Jan 2023

  Bulgaria’s parliament on January 12 ordered Prime Minister Gulub Donev's caretaker government to renegotiate with the European Commission part of the recovery and resilience plan that envisages the closure of coal-fired power plants. . ...Read More

• China Dec coal imports slip as COVID spike dampens industrial activity

  13 Jan 2023

  SINGAPORE (Reuters) -China's coal imports slipped in December from a month earlier as industrial activity slowed following a surge in COVID-19 cases after Beijing's sudden removal of stringent pandemic controls. . ...Read More