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Power Demand Growth Slows In November, Helping Ease Coal Shortage

The average coal inventory held by power plants would last nine days, higher than six days on Oct. 31, but still lower than the average of 12 days three months ago.

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Seven Firms, Including JSW Steel, Submit Bids For Coal Blocks

These coal mines were also offered in the first attempt launched on March 25 this year and had fetched single bids.

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Coal India To Invest Rs 19,650 Cr To Strengthen Rail Infra

The upcoming projects, some of which are already operational, would help CIL despatch increased volumes of coal through rail, above the existing capacity, from its greenfield and brownfield mining areas, Coal India (CIL) said in a statement.

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China And India Will Need To Explain Coal Move, Sharma Says

But India, backed by China and other coal-dependent developing nations, rejected a clause calling for a "phase out" of coal-fired power, and the text was changed to "phase down".

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Amid Mounting Dues, Coal India's Price Hike Plan Likely To Be Delayed

The agenda of price hike is unlikely to be placed before the upcoming board meeting on November 12 as the board has not yet received the go-ahead from important stakeholders in the wake of the chaos of coal shortage since last month, though the global price of coal had risen significantly

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CIL Prioritises Coal Supply To Power Sector To Replenish Dwindling Stock

Earlier, coal minister Pralhad Joshi discussed ways to improve coal stocks at thermal power plants with railway minister Ashwini Vaishnaw and power minister R K Singh. The meeting comes against the backdrop of power plants grappling with coal shortages.

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Number Of Power Projects With Supercritical Coal Stock Dips to 61

Amid the low stock position at the electricity generating plants, state-owned CIL has asked its subsidiaries to refrain from conducting any further e-auction of coal, except special forward e-auction for the power sector, till the situation stabilises.

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Coal Ministry To Augment Fuel Supply To Power Sector From Captive Mines

The development assumes significance in the wake of country's power plants grappling with coal shortages.

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Coal India To Refrain From Conducting Any E-auction Till Situation Stabilises

The development assumes significance as the supply of coal is being prioritised to the power sector to replenish the dwindling stock in the wake of reports of an electricity crisis looming large.

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PMO Reviews Coal Supply, Power Availability Situation

The coal ministry has been asked to ramp up the supply of coal while railways has been asked to make available rakes to transport the fuel to power plants, the sources said.

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Govt Making Efforts To Meet Gencos' Coal Demand: Coal Minister Joshi

Coal Minister Pralhad Joshi said the government is making efforts to meet the coal demand of power producers & that steps were being taken to ramp up dry-fuel supply to 2 MT per day from the current overall dispatch of 1.95 mt

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Coal Crisis: Number Of Non-Pit Head Plants With Less Than 4-day Stock Rises To 70

According to the latest coal stock data of the 135 plants with over 165 GW of installed generation capacity monitored by the Central Electricity Authority (CEA), as many 70 plants are categorised as supercritical stock or having less than four days of fuel on October 10, 2021, compared to 64 a week ago on October 3, 2021.

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Mahanadi Coalfields Provided 76.6% Coal To Power Producers In Current Month

Coal India's arm Mahanadi Coalfields Limited (MCL) said that 76% of coal was provided to power producers on average in the current month amid reports of coal shortage.

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Government Aims To Simplify Coal Stocking Regulations

Thermal power plant to be mandated to maintain fuel inventories based on a specific plant load factor to avert the annual crisis the country faces during peak electricity demand seasons.

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Coal India Supply To Power Sector Grows By 12% To 118 MT In September Quarter

CIL's total offtake shot up to 147.3 MT at the quarter ending September which is 9.7 percent more against the comparable quarter of last year when the offtake was 134.3 MT.

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