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• Growth, Sustainability And Energy Security– Coal Gasification Shows The Way

  27 Dec 2022

  Even till the latter part of the 20th century, coal was the major source of energy across the continents and accounted for over 65 per cent of electricity generation world-wide. . ...Read More

• Coal consumers body seeks renewal of rake-based supply to non-power sector

  27 Dec 2022

  The Coal Consumers Association of India (CCAI) has made a plea to the government to resume rake-based supplies to the non-power sector in a bid to maintain cost competitiveness and sustain operations . ...Read More

• Secure Energy Supply: Northeast Railway Company strives to ensure coal supply for power plants

  26 Dec 2022

  As China optimizes its anti-epidemic policies, factories have started to ramp up production. Our reporter Yu Li is in Shenyang, a major manufacturing city in northeastern China and tells the story of how the city is working hard to secure energy supplies for factories. . ...Read More

• German coal usage is increasing

  26 Dec 2022

  • (MENAFN) Despite the country's commitment to combating climate change, energy shortages and rising electricity prices have led Germany to increase coal consumption, according to Bloomberg on Thursday. . ...Read More

• Ministry seeks 40 rail links to meet power demand

  26 Dec 2022

  These new rail links are over and above the 13 'critical gap' projects flagged off with the Gati Shakti inter-ministerial coordination team. Team Gati Shakti is, in fact, looking at a whole gamut of issues related to the 2022 coal and power crisis. Work is in full swing to get the 13 'critical gap' projects- missing links in coal evacuation- moving. Five of the 13 critical gap projects are expected to be completed between March to May 2023, as per a recent round of Gati Shakti meetings. . ...Read More

• Indonesia to produce around 700 mt of coal in 2023 to fulfill supply

  26 Dec 2022

  Indonesia has targeted to raise its coal production to 694 million tonne (mt) to fulfill domestic supply and export demands. . ...Read More

• Germany returns to coal as energy crisis overpowers climate targets

  22 Dec 2022

  Europe's largest economy is burning the fossil fuel for electricity at the fastest pace in at least six years . ...Read More

• Railways coal loading averaged 497 rakes/day in FY23 so far

  22 Dec 2022

  Indian Railways’ coal loading averaged 496 rakes per day so far in the current calendar year (April to December 14), up 14.1 per cent compared to the year-ago period, Parliament was informed . ...Read More

• Australia’s Malabar awards Maxwell coal mine contract

  22 Dec 2022

  Australian coal firm Malabar Resources has awarded the access mining contract for its Maxwell underground coking and thermal coal mine in the Hunter Valley region of New South Wales (NSW) to Australia-based Metarock subsidiary Pybar Mining Services. . ...Read More

• China’s abrupt COVID-19 shift hits supply chains from solar to coal

  22 Dec 2022

  China’s reopening is disrupting energy markets as the abrupt shift from Covid Zero shutters industry and upends the usual flow of commodities. . ...Read More

• Hong Kong firm to supply biocoal to power plants, households as alternative energy source amid stubborn demand, high prices for fossil fuels

  21 Dec 2022

  • Company started producing bio coal in November and aims to raise its capacity from 300,000 tonnes annually to 5 million by 2027 . ...Read More

• SCCL signs MoU with Damodar Valley Corporation for coal purchase from Naini block

  21 Dec 2022

  Damodar Valley Corporation, a leading thermal power producer from Jharkhand, has signed a Memorandum of Understanding to purchase 43 lakh tonnes of coal per annum from the Singareni Naini coal block. . ...Read More

• China-backed 700MW coal power station online: HSPGC

  21 Dec 2022

  A coal-fired power plant in Preah Sihanouk province’s Stung Hav district in 2014. Heng Chivoan . ...Read More

• Indonesia to produce nearly 700 mn ton of coal in 2023

  21 Dec 2022

  "As we know that in 2022, we targeted to produce 663 million ton, and up to now the production has reached 94.6 per cent, or around 627 million ton. . ...Read More

• Nova Scotia industrial approval renewed for Donkin mine

  20 Dec 2022

  The Province of Nova Scotia has approved a request from Kameron Coal Management Ltd to renew its industrial approval for the Donkin Mine in Cape Breton. . ...Read More