coal crisis

The govt measures to ease power supply constraints through higher coal imports are likely to increase the cost of supply for discoms by 4.5-5% in FY23: ICRA

Synopsis: Minister for Coal Pralhad Joshi has said that the current power crisis has driven home the point that India needs coal and India's requirement for coal is expected to double by 2040 as electrification of various sectors rises

Synopsis: In the backdrop of a power crisis, state-run miner Coal India Ltd (CIL) has increased daily coal supplies to the power sector to 1.73 MT/day against a requirement of 2.54 MT/day. On an average, CIL supplied 1.66 MT of coal per day to power utilities in April

Synopsis: The total outstanding dues payable by the power sector to Coal India Ltd (CIL), which had been hovering around Rs 15,000 crore for the past several months, has come down by 18.4 percent to settle at Rs 12,272.41 crore at the end of FY22 (March 2022), government data showed

Synopsis: Captive power plants in non-power sectors, including steel and aluminium, are facing an acute coal shortage and if the situation doesn't improve soon, it might lead to the closure of several industrial units, INTUC National General Secretary has said

NTPC has recorded a whopping 130 percent increase in coal imports in the nine-month April-December period of FY22

Pralhad Joshi has urged Coal India Ltd (CIL) and its subsidiaries to prioritise coal supplies to thermal power plants (TPPs) and devise an action plan to achieve annual production targets

The government has asked NTPC and its subsidiary DVC to import 10 percent of their coal requirement for blending, Power Secretary Alok Kumar has said

In a stern letter to Pralhad Joshi, RK Singh has alleged that Joshi's “officers” have given him “wrong information” about what caused the acute coal crisis at thermal power plants

The Federation of Indian Mineral Industries (FIMI) has written a letter to the PMO requesting resumption of normal coal supplies by state-run Coal India Ltd (CIL)