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Digging up the dirt on Kulda coal mines expansion
Villagers from Odisha’s coal district have been protesting peacefully for almost a month after years of public discontent with dubious mining expansions On January 19 this year, around 5,000 people...
View ArticleFall in coal demand, rise in foreign investment in RE: Is India on...
While coal demand in India may have already witnessed its peaked, a surge of foreign investor interest in India’s green energy could set the beat for energy transition in the country, find two new...
View ArticleMaersk’s new ships to stop burning fossil fuels
Shipping giant APM-Maersk announced that its newly constructed ships will no longer run on only fossil fuels, and instead “have to be able to” run on lower carbon alternatives, such as bio-methanol,...
View ArticleIEA chief supports India’s use of coal, calls for international support for exit
The chief of the International Energy Agency, Fatih Birol, endorsed India’s plans for continued use of coal at a leadership dialogue on the grounds that developing nations cannot alone be asked to...
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Methane leaks of proposed coal mines globally would rival CO2 emissions of...
A first-of-its-kind survey of the proposed coal mines across the world revealed that they could emit enough methane to match the current CO2 emissions from all of America’s coal plants. The report...
View ArticleCoal India to invest aggressively in solar wafer production to hedge against...
The Chairman of the world’s largest coal miner, Coal India Ltd. (CIL), said that the miner would look to aggressively invest in India’s solar wafer production market in the coming years, with an...
View ArticleStrange times ahead for India’s coal sector
As CarbonCopy reported in the middle of last year, India’s energy policy is distinctly muddled. By 2030, the ruling NDA government says oil demand will double; and gas demand will treble. It has also...
View ArticlePeering into Coal India’s ambitious pivot
“We do not want to be a coal mining company any longer. We do not even want to be a mining company. We want to be a producer of cheap pithead power.” From his office in New Delhi’s Shastri Bhavan,...
View ArticleIndia’s thermal power generators are gearing up for a ‘rebundled’ future
As large firms in the power sector pick up distribution and transmission assets, the life of their thermal power assets will increase. The rest of India will fare less well. Matter begins: In...
View ArticleNo new thermal power plants in Karnataka
State government-run Karnataka Power Corporation Limited (KPCL) on Monday announced that it would cap thermal power production in the state and no longer invest in thermal power plants. According to...
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