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60 power companies have signed FSAs while many have not signed citing varied reasons The Coal Ministry has asked CIL to sign fuel supply pacts with the power generation companies, including NTPC, before finalising power purchase agreements with them. "The Coal Ministry has directed Coal India Ltd (CIL) to sign …
There is a variance of between 15% and 30% in the energy content of the coal supplied by Eastern Coalfields Limited (ECL) to NPTC’s thermal power stations at Farakka and Kahalgaon and the bill amount raised, a joint testing by Coal India, and NTPC has shown. The result of the …
State-run power producer NTPC and Coal India (CIL) have agreed to begin third party sampling of coal from the state-run miner's collieries from Thursday. NTPC would begin settling its outstandings with CIL once the results establish uniformity in the quality of coal. Both companies had issues over the payment for …
The Coal Ministry has written to the Cabinet Committee on Investments (CCI) for streamlining granting of clearances by the Ministry of Environment and Forest (MoEF) for various coal mining projects in the country. The Coal Ministry has asked the CCI to consider parallel processing of environmental clearance (EC) and forest …
Exponential increase in land prices raises cost by . 2,690 crore Some 36 coal projects with estimated production capacity of 17.7 million tonnes per annum at the public sector monopoly Coal India turned unviable in Maharashtra because land prices have increased exponentially. CIL has shelved these projects and may take …
NTPC Ltd. has refused to ink a fuel supply agreement (FSA) with Coal India Ltd. (CIL), stating that the overall quality of the coal supplied needed to be enhanced. NTPC Chairman and Managing Director Arup Roy Choudhury said here on Wednesday that CIL was sending inferior quality of coal just …
The new mines act will tighten supervision of mines and on coal companies outsourcing labourers in the restricted area, Union minister of state for Labour and Employment K Suresh said today. “The act will give lethal power in supervision of mines and help in fixing ultimate responsibility for accidents,” Suresh …
NTPC has thrown up two new demands relating to acceptable quality and losses during transport of coal under the new Fuel Supply Agreements The battle between energy giants Coal India Ltd (CIL) and NTPC Ltd over the issue of fuel supply pacts does not seem to be nearing an end. …
With its rising energy needs, India has emerged as the fourth largest energy consumer of the world after the US, China and Russia, but its per capita energy consumption remains lower than that of developed countries, says a report. "India is the fourth largest energy consumer in the world after …
The Government has constituted a panel to formulate a policy on public-private partnership framework with State-owned CIL as one of the partners to increase coal output. The development comes close on the heels of Finance Minister P. Chidambaram stating in his Budget speech that there was a need to devise …
With its rising energy needs, India has emerged the fourth largest energy consumer of the world after the US, China and Russia, but its per capita energy consumption remains lower than that of developed countries, says a report. “India is the fourth largest energy consumer in the world after the …
Accused of supplying sub-standard coal at high prices, the country’s largest coal producer, Coal India (CIL), is planning to make third-party inspection of coal samples mandatory for all future fuel supply agreements (FSAs) with the user industries in the power, steel and cement sectors. Sources privy to the development told …
The Central government's mines safety arm has cautioned West Bengal that construction of an airport city in the state's Burdwan district can be in trouble if the government allows simultaneous underground mining of coal at the same location. Bengal Aerotropolis Projects Limited, in collaboration with Changhi Airport International, Singapore, is …
Project marks CIL's foray into power sector, will take proposal to board in few months Barely a week after Finance Minister P Chidambaram proposed a public-private partnership (PPP) model in coal, Australian mining major NRW has evinced interest in the same, according to sources. NRW is one of the leading …
Project marks CIL's foray into power sector, will take proposal to board in few months Coal India, the world's largest coal producer, plans to take a proposal to set up Rs 9,000 crore power plant in Odisha to its board for approval in the next couple of months. The 2x800 …
Coal India Limited (CIL) has strongly defended its position on the allegation of “abuse of dominance” levelled by Maharshtra State Power Generation Company (Mahagenco) and the Association of Power Producers (APP) among others before the Competition Commission of India (CCI). CIL said it will take legal recourse if the fair …
Private mining giants like Rio Tinto, BHP Billiton and others likely to partner with Coal India under a new public-private partnership (PPP) model in the works won’t have any ownership rights in these ventures but will do mining on a contractual basis for the PSU. Yet these mining companies, equipped …
PPP projects to improve coal production, sops for wind power producers Finance Minister P Chidambaram today proposed fresh incentives for the power industry, which is struggling to cope with fuel constraints as well as poor financial conditions of distribution utilities. Chidambaram has announced public-private partnership (PPP) projects in the coal …
After deregulating diesel prices, the government may now propose to rationalise the price of thermal coal, used as fuel for power generation. If implemented, the proposed policy move could lead to a significant hike in domestic coal prices for generating stations and force them to increase tariff. On Tuesday, the …
To get around the shortage of domestic coal, Budget 2013-14 is expected to announce a far reaching change to make private sector produce more of the mineral. Companies with coal blocks will be allowed to sell their surplus coal under a public-private-partnership model in the markets instead of selling only …
