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Coal India’s production and sales volume in the September quarter declined – both YoY and sequentially – due to the extended monsoon.
Though this was offset by higher realisation from sales per unit, lack of clarity on core operational and regulatory issues still persists. And over-dependence on e-auction sales to drive the total earnings is not sustainable in the long term.
Coal India grapples with problems of operational clarity & over-dependency on e-auction
Mumbai: Rising interest costs and execution are the biggest challenges in the development of a viable renewable energy sector in India, panellists said at the India Economic Summit of the World Economic Forum (WEF) in Mumbai on Monday.
Borrowing costs pinch renewable energy industry
NAGPUR: After formulating the National Action Plan on Climate Change (NAPCC) in 2008, prime minister Manmohan Singh had urged all the states to submit a state action plan that would help form policies related to climate adaptation in the country. Only a few states have come up with their plans. However, none of these plans would really be able to serve their purpose, feel experts.
Activists meet to consider effects of climate change on women
NEW DELHI: Consensus eluded a meeting of key countries on climate change, including India, EU, China and the US, called by Spain along with South Africa and Mexico at Madrid recently.
The salt-to-software conglomerate, the Tata Group, is just not content with its substantial presence in Canada’s iron ore mines like Direct Shipping Ore and Taconite projects. Over and above the majority stake in those assets, it wants more and now has its eyes firmly set on the country’s metallurgical coal reserves, too.
Growing hunger for coal takes Tatas to Canada
The Tamil Nadu Generation and Distribution Corporation (TANGEDCO) is mulling over the option of using imported coal alone for five of its upcoming thermal projects.
The power utility has been compelled to study the option as Coal India, the major supplier to the TANGEDCO, has pleaded helplessness in providing coal linkage to new projects in view of “acute shortage”, says an official. Environmental clearance, the most important approval for a power project, will be given by the Union government normally after coal linkage is firmed up.
State may have to rely on imported coal for new thermal projects
AHMEDABAD: The state’s four major thermal power plants will continue to get coal supply from Chhattisgarh.
In a reply to the demand raised by Gujarat MP Harin Pathak to provide coal to the state thermal power plants from western coal fields, Union minister of state for coal Pratik Patil has stated that the decision to supply coal from South-Eastern Coalfields Limited has been taken with a view to preserving coal for the future in coal mines of Western Coalfields Limited.
Climate change is framed as an existential threat and if public policy is to be tailored to combat it, the science behind it needs to be explained better so as to build popular support – and to prevent distortion by the sceptics.
Views | Warming up to global warming
Anxiety over nuclear plant safety is driving Tokyo to rethink its earlier strategic energy plan which had envisaged, among other things, boosting the role of atomic power.
The accident at Japan’s Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, which led to tens of thousands of people being evacuated from radiation-affected areas in the vicinity, has left its government on the horns of a dilemma. What role should nuclear energy play in the country’s energy mix?
RANCHI: A daylong visit to Jharkhand by Union coal secretary Alok Perti proved to be productive for both the state government and the coal ministry. While the state government sought restoration of coal linkage for the small and medium enterprises (SMEs), the coal ministry demanded cooperation of the state government in speedy clearance of land for expansion of mining activities in the state.