Coal Crisis In India

A key trade union at Coal India Ltd. has warned workers may strike over delays in finalizing salary increases, a move that would risk complicating efforts to meet soaring fuel demand.

Coal India Chairman Pramod Agarwal on Monday said that the company is ready to meet its part of committed dry fuel supplies to the power sector

Coal India Limited (CIL) on Friday floated two international tenders to source 6 million tonnes of dry fuel to shore up supplies

Coal India issued a tender to import 2.42 million tonnes of coal by end-September to boost fuel availability amid fears of a shortage

India expects rainfall in the biggest coal-producing areas of its east-central region to be below the long-term average this year, potentially easing utilities' coal shortages as there could be fewer disruptions to mining activity due to flooding.

While the overall coal demand in 2022-23 is expected to be 1,029 million tonnes, the domestic supply is expected to be 974 million tonnes

State-run Coal India, the world's largest coal miner, will import the fuel for use by utilities, a power ministry letter seen by Reuters showed

India is expected to face a wider coal shortage during the quarter ending September over expectations of higher power demand

Steel sector players are facing some heat owing to high input commodity prices as finished steel products have begun to decline since April after the Russia-Ukraine war broke out.

Highlighting that the demand for power has gone up by almost 20 per cent in energy terms, the Ministry of Power on Thursday ordered all imported coal power plants to operate at full capacity.

India has evoked an emergency law in a bid to start generation at some idle power plants running on imported coal which are not producing power because of financial stress or due to high international prices of coal, the government said on Friday.

Union Minister of State for Micro, Small, and Medium Enterprises Bhanu Pratap Singh Verma on Thursday ruled out shortage of coal in the country.

The Railways is trying to take steps "at war-footing" to transport coal and also cut down the time it takes to move coal to power plants, officials had earlier said.

A power crisis in India that's delivering hours-long blackouts, halting manufacturing lines and triggering street protests is forecast to continue for months, adding pressure on the nation's economic rebound.

Huge outstanding dues worth about Rs 7,918 crore of state-run power generating companies have resulted in less dispatch of coal especially to the states with high dues like Maharashtra, Rajasthan and West Bengal, according to an official note.

A key trade union at Coal India Ltd. has warned workers may strike over delays in finalizing salary increases, a move that would risk complicating efforts to meet soaring fuel demand.

Coal India Chairman Pramod Agarwal on Monday said that the company is ready to meet its part of committed dry fuel supplies to the power sector

Coal India Limited (CIL) on Friday floated two international tenders to source 6 million tonnes of dry fuel to shore up supplies

Coal India issued a tender to import 2.42 million tonnes of coal by end-September to boost fuel availability amid fears of a shortage

India expects rainfall in the biggest coal-producing areas of its east-central region to be below the long-term average this year, potentially easing utilities' coal shortages as there could be fewer disruptions to mining activity due to flooding.

While the overall coal demand in 2022-23 is expected to be 1,029 million tonnes, the domestic supply is expected to be 974 million tonnes

State-run Coal India, the world's largest coal miner, will import the fuel for use by utilities, a power ministry letter seen by Reuters showed

India is expected to face a wider coal shortage during the quarter ending September over expectations of higher power demand

Steel sector players are facing some heat owing to high input commodity prices as finished steel products have begun to decline since April after the Russia-Ukraine war broke out.

Highlighting that the demand for power has gone up by almost 20 per cent in energy terms, the Ministry of Power on Thursday ordered all imported coal power plants to operate at full capacity.

India has evoked an emergency law in a bid to start generation at some idle power plants running on imported coal which are not producing power because of financial stress or due to high international prices of coal, the government said on Friday.

Union Minister of State for Micro, Small, and Medium Enterprises Bhanu Pratap Singh Verma on Thursday ruled out shortage of coal in the country.

The Railways is trying to take steps "at war-footing" to transport coal and also cut down the time it takes to move coal to power plants, officials had earlier said.

A power crisis in India that's delivering hours-long blackouts, halting manufacturing lines and triggering street protests is forecast to continue for months, adding pressure on the nation's economic rebound.

Huge outstanding dues worth about Rs 7,918 crore of state-run power generating companies have resulted in less dispatch of coal especially to the states with high dues like Maharashtra, Rajasthan and West Bengal, according to an official note.