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• Tata Power to buy 25% in Resurgent Power for Rs 1,800 crore

  15 Jun 2016

  Tata Power, India's largest private power producer, will purchase 25% of Resurgent Power for $... . ...Read More

• Parth Jindal appointed MD of JSW Cement, will take over in July

  15 Jun 2016

  Parth Jindal, son of Sajjan Jindal, Chairman, JSW Group, has been appointed as Managing Director o... . ...Read More

• Georgia Power to Shut Down Coal Ash Ponds Within Three Years

  15 Jun 2016

  Georgia Power will shut down and stop receiving coal ash at all 29 of its coal ash ponds within th... . ...Read More

• GE Power taps IoT to reduce coal power plant emissions

  15 Jun 2016

  Through Internet of Things analytics and optimization, GE says coal-fired steam power plants can r... . ...Read More

• India is hedging its bets on coal to bring power to the people

  15 Jun 2016

  As the world moves to combat climate change, it’s increasingly doubtful that coal will conti... . ...Read More

• Coal, power ministries at loggerheads over 7 blocks that remain unused for 9 months after allocation

  15 Jun 2016

  Ministries of coal and power are at loggerheads over seven coal blocks that remain unused nine mon... . ...Read More

• Higher natural gas prices to lead to increased coal burn: analysts

  14 Jun 2016

  Higher natural gas prices, largely resulting from lower inventories, could displace 1-2 Bcf/day of... . ...Read More

• NTPC trades surplus power from its 4 stations

  14 Jun 2016

  State-run NTPC, for the first time, has traded in un-requisitioned surplus (URS) power from four o... . ...Read More

• On Day 4 of auctions, Coal India sells 1.04 mt of linkages to sponge iron firms

  14 Jun 2016

  Coal India auctioned 1.04 million tonnes per annum of linkages to sponge iron companies for ₹102... . ...Read More

• Decline’ In Less Than A Decade, Bloomberg Says

  14 Jun 2016

  A stunning new forecast on “peak fossil fuels for electricity” by Bloomberg New Energy... . ...Read More

• Is coal the only way to deal with energy poverty in developing economies?

  14 Jun 2016

  The availability of efficient and reliable energy for industrial, agricultural and household use i... . ...Read More

• Biggest US coal company funded dozens of groups questioning climate change

  14 Jun 2016

  Peabody Energy, America’s biggest coalmining company, has funded at least two dozen groups t... . ...Read More

• Imported coal stocks at 17 ports dip 4% w-o-w: InterOcean

  13 Jun 2016

  Stocks of imported coal at 17 ports stood at 12.12 million tons (mt) on June 9, 2016, down 4.19% c... . ...Read More

• MoC eases provisions to allow MDOs in minerals to dig coal

  13 Jun 2016

  The Ministry of Coal (MoC) has allowed the state governments and Union Territories to modify the d... . ...Read More

• 64% of new electricity in Q1 came from Solar Power – is it enough?

  13 Jun 2016

  GreentechMedia did the work to determine “Solar Made Up 64% of New Electric Generating Capac... . ...Read More