coal supplies

Synopsis: The power outages across the country due to coal shortage are due to the lack of coordination amongst the coal ministry, railway ministry and power ministry, said Shailendra Dubey, the Chairman of All India Power Engineers Federation (AIPEF)

Synopsis: Minister for Power RK Singh has said that power outages in some states, mostly Opposition-ruled, are of their own making and there is enough capacity in the system to meet the increased power demand

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: Coal India Ltd's (CIL) supplies to the power sector peaked to a historic high of 493 million tonnes (MT) on March 3 of the ongoing fiscal, breaching the previous high of 491.5 MT that the Maharatna coal miner recorded in FY19

Synopsis: With almost a month-and-a-half remaining before FY22 draws to an end, Coal India Limited (CIL), as of February 16, has already raced ahead of the total coal despatch of FY21, the coal miner said

Coal India Ltd's (CIL) supplies to coal-fired power plants of the country has raced ahead to 441.4 million tonnes (MT) during April-January period of FY22

Coal India Ltd's (CIL) actual coal despatch under the five e-auction windows at 77.4 million tonnes (MT) has risen by 31 percent during April-December period

MCL has offered an additional 22.5 lakh tonne coal to power consumers via road-cum-rail (RCR) mode

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

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