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• Coal is here to stay despite India's ambitious RE goals

  19 Dec 2022

  The IEA expects India's coal demand to rise steadily to 1,220MT in 2025, with 92% of this going into electricity generation . ...Read More

• India imports 1,116 million tonnes of coal in past 5 years

  16 Dec 2022

  India has been facing a coal shortage, which led to power outages in many states during the peak of summer in the past two years. . ...Read More

• Loans of Rs 7.62 lakh cr provided to thermal power plants in India: Report

  16 Dec 2022

  The report, The Coal Tail: Tracking Investments in Coal fired Thermal Power Plants in India, by the Centre for Financial Accountability comes at the heels of COP27, which concluded on November 20 in Sharm-El-Sheikh, Egypt, where India announced its Long-Term Low Emissions and Development Strategies. . ...Read More

• Alpha announces 2023 full-year operational guidance

  16 Dec 2022

  ________________________________________ Alpha Metallurgical Resources, Inc., a leading US supplier of metallurgical products for the steel industry, has announced its operational guidance for the 2023 calendar year. . ...Read More

• Anglo American lowered forecasts for iron ore and coking coal production in 2022-2024

  16 Dec 2022

  In 2022, the company expects to extract 15 million tons of coking coal . ...Read More

• DTE Energy officially retires two coal plants

  15 Dec 2022

  DTE Energy announced the retirement of two coal-fired power plants in Southeast Michigan as part of a long-term plan to accelerate decarbonization goals. . ...Read More

• EU SECOND LARGEST IMPORTER OF SOUTH AFRICAN COAL

  15 Dec 2022

  In the first three quarters of this year, South African coal exports to Europe amounted to 9.6mt (million tonnes), up a staggering 528% year-on-year. . ...Read More

• Rich nations mobilise $15.5bn for Vietnam’s coal-to-clean transition

  15 Dec 2022

  A railway coal depot in northern Vietnam (Pic: Flickr/garycycles8) . ...Read More

• China's daily coal output hits record high in November to meet heating demand

  15 Dec 2022

  An aerial view shows machinery working in an open-pit coal mine in Ejin Horo Banner, Ordos, Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, China, October 19, 2021. Picture taken with a drone. China Daily via REUTERS . ...Read More

• U.S. Coal Exports To Europe Up 46% By Weight, 184% By Value

  14 Dec 2022

  Coal was the nation's fourth-ranked export by tonnage in the month of October, trailing three other ... [+] . ...Read More

• After 8 years, PSPCL to get coal from its mine in Pachwara

  14 Dec 2022

  After a gap of eight years, Punjab will receive the first railway rake of coal from the Pachwara coal mine which was allotted by the Union government to the state. . ...Read More

• Teck Resources to use profits from coal to fund expansion of copper mining capabilities

  14 Dec 2022

  Teck Resources Ltd.’s new chief aims to leverage his company’s booming coal business to get bigger in copper and become a “significant” miner of the metal behind the global energy transition. . ...Read More

• India's solar boom reverses gas momentum, cements coal use

  14 Dec 2022

  Solar's share of the country's electricity generation mix has more than doubled since 2019 . ...Read More

• Mitsubishi studying ammonia co-firing at coal plant

  13 Dec 2022

  Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd. (MHI) and Guacolda Energía SpA, an independent power producer (IPP) in Chile, have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to begin a feasibility study for the introduction of ammonia co-firing at a coal-fired thermal power plant in Huasco, Atacama Region. (Image: MHI) . ...Read More

• 2023 Seaborne Coal Imports Could Add Pressure on the Dry Bulk Market

  13 Dec 2022

  Demand for seaborne coal cargoes could take a hit during 2023, exerting pressure on the dry bulk market as a whole. In its latest weekly report, . ...Read More