Coal

Clean emission

Mega Revamping to Improve Dust Collection Efficiency at Coal Plant in Taiwan

The Taiwan government have passed the latest emission regulation which requires that the dust emission from the stack to be less than 28 mg/Nm3.

Coal Mine

Coal India Battling Production Crisis

CIL saw its production decline by 7.7 per cent to 330.4 MT in April-November period, over 358.3 MT in the year-ago period. The state-owned firm had earlier said…

Four Persons Are Booked For Coal Scam in Bhavnagar

Four persons were booked on Tuesday for allegedly mixing cheap quality of coal with the coal supply meant for Nirma Cement Factory in Bhavnagar.

Coal Power

291 MT！Fuel Supply by Coal India to Power Sector Drops 9% in Apr-Nov

The fuel supply by Coal India (CIL) during the month of November also registered a decline of 9.9 per cent to 38.8 MT, against 43.1 MT in the corresponding mont…

Coal Production

Coal India's Output May Increase by 125 MT From 16 Blocks Allotted Last Year

The government is keen on Coal India hastening up exploration and operationalising all its blocks soon.

Coal Mine

Government Auctions over 200 Coal Blocks for Commercial Mining in 5 Years

The government will open up the Indian coal sector with a large offering of over 200 blocks for commercial coal mining in the next five years having a potential…

Company Idles Virginia Coal Mine due U.S. and China Trade War

A company that owns a coal mine in Virginia has furloughed 600 workers until the end of the year. The reported reason behind the move is the trade war between t…

Ditching Coal for Renewables would Cut Carbon and Costs

In Indonesia, a major producer and consumer of coal, politicians often argue that continued reliance on the highly polluting fossil fuel remains an economic nec…

Coal Price

Coal Prices Dragged Down by Falling Demand for Power and Steel

Coal prices are on course for their biggest annual fall in more than a decade, hurting producers of the fossil fuel but cutting raw-material costs for strugglin…

New Technology

Novel CO2 Capture Technology Reduces Vehicle Emissions By 90%

They propose to capture CO2 and convert it from a gas to a liquid in a process that recovers most of energy available onboard, such as heat from the engine.

Coal Mine

BHEL Commissions India's First Lignite-based 500 Mw Power Plant

The project which will be the country's first lignite-fired power plant is also the highest rating pulverised lignite-fired thermal unit commissioned in the cou…

Coal Mine

Economic Coal Reserves Need to be Identified Faster

New areas for additional coal reserves, economical for mining should be identified at a faster pace, said coal secretary Anil Kr Jain.

Coal Trade

CIL Buys Coal from Orissa Government Captive Mine

CIL subsidiary Mahanadi Coalfields Ltd (MCL) has started lifting 6,000 tonnes of coal daily from the Manoharpur mine in Jharsuguda district allotted to Odisha C…

Thermal coal

Japan Relies on Coal for 32% of Electricity Supply

During the recent United Nations climate conference COP25 in Madrid, Spain, Japan was given the “Fossil of the Day” award twice by the international environme…

Thermal coal

Germany's Coal Exit is a Done Deal - or is It?

The fate of coal-fired power production in Germany has been sealed with the agreement of a government-appointed commission to phase-out the fossil fuel no later…