In this issue

Commercial coal mining in India: Will the eagles dare?
Nominated Authority of Coal Ministry along with industry experts share their insightful perspectives during a recently held webinar conducted by mjunction services ltd.

Also read:
• Coal India sees fresh lockdowns impacts in Q2
• India plans to bring down RE storage costs to edge out fossil fuel
• Railways sets transformation roadmap
• CERC proposes market coupling regulations
• Power companies’ earnings to fall on shrinking generation

Read Coal Insights July 2020 issue and get a complete insight into the Indian coal value chain...!

Commercial Coal Mining In India Will The Eagles Dare?

Introduction of commercial mining couldn’t have been timed better and has generated enough curiosity and also serious interest from investors and analysts’ community across the globe.

10+ mins

India plans to bring down RE storage costs to edge out fossil fuel

India has decided to promote renewable energy storage facilities so that their costs comes down and effectively out compete fossil fuel, power and new and renewable energy Minister RK Singh recently said at the IEA Clean Energy Transitions Summit.

5 mins

CERC proposes market coupling in new power market regulations

Power sector regulator Central Electricity Regulatory Authority has come out with a detailed power market regulations introducing concepts like market coupling that involves uniform price discovery through pooling of bids across various power exchanges to achieve optimal utilisation of transmission systems.

4 mins

Power Companies' Earnings To Fall On Shrinking Generation

Earnings of power companies are likely to decline by up to 20 percent due to lower generation, low incentives, fall in merchant rates and one off discount offered to the discoms, Emkay Research said in a sector report.

4 mins

Coal India, SCCL vie for Tangendco units

Cheap Talcher coal to substitute imports

3 mins

Adani on track to export first Carmichael coal in 2021

Adani’s excavator and mine trucks revved up this week to begin work on removing layers of overburden above the coal seams, which according to newly-appointed Adani Mining CEO David Boshoff is a significant milestone to have ticked off on the construction schedule.

4 mins

Corporates urged to sign up for RE100 pledge

At an event by the Council for Sustainable Business in June, COP26 president Alok Sharma urged companies to sign up for RE100, a global initiative run by the international non-profit body, the Climate Group, whose 240 members commit to sourcing all their power from renewable sources by 2030. Together, RE100 members now represent a scale of electricity demand that is greater than that of Poland and the Czech Republic combined, according to The Climate Group.

5 mins

Indian Railways' coal handling down 29% in Q1

During Q1 FY21, transportation of various commodities by Railways stood at 241.55 mt, down 21.4 percent from 307.39 mt clocked during Q1 FY20.

1 min

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Coal Insights is India's premier and widely read monthly magazine on coal & mining industry published by mjunction services ltd (A JV of Tata Steel and SAIL).It caters to the entire coal supply chain from mining to consumption. It tracks the coal market with special focus on India, & covers production & consumption reports, as well as dispatch and stocks at power plants.It covers a variety of topics including demand, supply, e-marketing, mining technology, imports, pricing and policy matters, logistics, infrastructure and clean coal initiative. It also covers the interviews of the decision makers of coal industry on a regular basis.

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