Coal Supply

No threat of disruption in power supply, assures Pralhad Joshi as states schedule outages

The daily average coal requirement at the power plants is about 18.5 Lakh tonnes of coal per day whereas the daily coal supply has been around 17.5 lakh tonnes per day, as per a government release

Budget 2018: Jaitley should bring electricity under GST; exclusion has magnified power sector's blues

The govt should impose GST on electricity to allow power companies to claim input credit on coal, equipment, and other business expenses which would aid in lowering the cost of electricity

Inside India’s coal industry, part 1: Transport woes continue to throttle supply as metal, power plants face shortages of the dry fuel

Maintaining a regular supply of coal is becoming difficult for private steel, power, and aluminium producers, as they face shortage of coal due to throttled production in mines and poor transportation facilities

Coal auction success proves the scam was real: Venkaiah Naidu

With metal and cement companies bidding aggressively for coal blocks, Union Parliamentary Affairs Minister M Venkaiah Naidu today said the success of auctions had proved that the coal scams were real and not an imagination of the CAG, vindicating BJP's position.

Cabinet allows more coal supply to power firms facing green woes

Power plants, whose mines are not developed in the absence of environmental clearances, get coal supply for three years as per the Tapering Coal Linkage Policy.

CIL extends deadline for coal supply to power plants till March

Coal India (CIL) has again extended the deadline for supply of coal to power producers under the MoU route till March-end, even as companies, including NTPC, are yet to enter into FSAs with the coal PSU.