Tag: Thermal power

• Coal India chooses energy-intensive manufacturing; Adani and NTPC chase vertical integration.

  For a long while now, from the time #DespiteTheState went to the presses, I have been chasing a story on coal. You know the score. India’s coal sector is behaving in discontinuous ways — Coalblock auctions find few bidders; Coal India mulls diversification into Aluminium smelting and solar ingot/panel manufacturing; power producers like NTPC and […]

  m rajshekhar

  April 7, 2021

  Personal

  Adani, Coal, Coal India, India, NTPC, Solar, Thermal power

• Strange times ahead for the 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 told Coal India to boost coal production to one billion tonnes by 2024 – up from 600 million tonnes in 2018-19 – and replace imported […]

  m rajshekhar

  April 2, 2021

  Personal

  Coal, Energy, Energy Transition, Thermal power