State-owned NTPC has invited sealed bids for procurement of 0.7 MMT of imported coal for two of its power plants – Korba and Sipat. The scope of work includes supply of imported non-coking steam coal to NTPC at Indian ports, arranging vessels, stevedoring, handling, storage, port clearances, arranging railway rakes, loading, transportation and delivery at [...]

Coal India Limited has agreed to ink fuel-supply agreements (FSAs) with nearly 50 thermal power units commissioned between April 2009 and December 2011. A decision in this regard was taken at a meeting of board of directors. Zohra Chatterji, chairperson, CIL will not pay any penalty for the first three years, for supplies less than [...]

The Union government, which is facing criticism for its inability to meet the growing demand of coal, is working on a proposal under which CIL would engage private sector companies to undertake mining on behalf of the PSU. According to reports, the proposal to involve private sector under the PPP mode was recently discussed between [...]

APGenco has started attempts to secure coal requirements for its expansion projects from two blocks awarded to the State-owned AP Mineral Development Corporation in Orissa and Madhya Pradesh. Also, APGenco is relying on increased supply from Coal India Ltd and bridging the gap through imported coal. It has arrangement for coal supplies from Singareni Collieries [...]

The long term standing linkage committee has furnished a list of 18 thermal power projects that have been accorded tapering coal linkages. The Union power ministry has requested MoC to sign FSAs with these power projects based on the PPAs signed by them. Some of the projects include DVC`s 1,000 MW Raghunathpur TPS Phase-I, CSEB`s [...]

Vedanta Aluminium Ltd (VAL) has sought the intervention of the Orissa government for securing long-term coal linkage for its captive power plant (CPP) at Jharsuguda. The company, which is a unit of Anil Agarwal-led Vedanta Resources Plc, required the coal linkage for its unit-6 and unit-9 of 135 Mw each capacity to feed power to [...]

The Union coal ministry’s plans to begin bidding for 50 captive coal blocks from June may get delayed a little. Already in news for CAG audit report over allocation of coal blocks sans auction to scores of public and private companies during 2004-2009, the ministry has decided to appoint a consultant to fix up the [...]

Minister of State for Coal Pratik Prakashbapu Patil informed the Rajya Sabha on Monday that 180 forestry proposals of different subsidiary companies of Coal India Limited (CIL), involving an area of 28484.49 Ha forest land, are currently awaiting clearances at various levels. He said 131 proposals are awaiting Stage I level approval and 49 proposals [...]

Irregular supply of coal from Coal India is said to be one of the major reasons for the coal crunch facing the thermal sector. If reports are to be believed, the short supply of coal has forced several power stations to operate below their installed capacities. According to reports, some of the projects that are [...]

NTPC’s Chatti Bariatu and Kerandari coal blocks are now on schedule to start production in 2014. The coal blocks were de-allocated by the coal ministry in May, 2011, have managed to get out of trouble after the coal ministry re-allocated these blocks back to NTPC in January, 2012. NTPC, in this regard has submitted a [...]