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Coal India and its subsidiaries offered power plants with existing supply agreements the option to lift additional coal beyond their annual contracted quantities | Photo Credit: The Hindu Daily coal supplies to the power sector have risen 36% from their post-monsoon lows in September and are averaging about 9% higher in October than in the…
Higher global coal demand and rising freight costs are set to make imports costlier. File. | Photo Credit: Reuters India is considering telling power plants to blend imported coal with domestic supplies for the first time since 2024, three government sources said, to ease a supply crunch that has pushed monthly spot power prices to…
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Power generators that have consistently maintained coal inventories in line with prescribed norms risk being indirectly penalised as emergency supplies are diverted to plants that have failed to maintain adequate stocks, industry analysts and officials said. India’s coal-allocation framework is designed to provide thermal power generators with greater certainty over fuel supplies and enable them…
Tipping Point | End of coal power in the UK, Fridays for Future | Video Credit: The Hindu The United Kingdom is moving away from coal power for good. On September 30, the 2,000-megawatt Ratcliffe coal plant in Nottinghamshire will shut operations, ending the U.K.’s 142-year-long tryst with coal power. Is moving away from coal…
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Environment Ministers from the G7, which includes Canada, France, Germany, Japan, the U.K. and the U.S., pose for a photo during of Minister’s Meeting On Climate, Energy & Environment on April 29, 2024 in Turin, Italy. | Photo Credit: Getty Images Energy Ministers from the Group of Seven (G7) major democracies agreed on Tuesday to…
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