Commercial coal mining in India: Will the eagles dare?

Contents

6 | COVER STORY

Commercial coal mining in India: Will the eagles dare?

Nominated authority, sector experts share perspectives on commercial mining.

19 Seaborne thermal coal offers rise in July

20 Coking coal offers decline in July

21 CIL’s coal production down 11.6% in Q1

22 May coal imports down 30% on year

23 SCCL ’s production down 44.4% in Q1

24 CIL sees fresh lockdowns impacts in Q2

26 Coal India eyes major diversifications

28 | FEATURE

India plans to bring down RE storage costs to edge out fossil fuel

Share of fossil fuel at 38.5%, power min tells IEA Summit.

30 “Govt should auction loss making Coal India mines” Naveen Jindal

31 R ailways sets transformation roadmap

32 | FEATURE

CERC proposes market coupling in new regulations

Discovery of uniform market clearing price aimed.

34 Power companies’ earnings to fall on shrinking generation

36 May power capacity at 36.15 MW

37 May cement production down 22%

38 Cement biz m ay head for a bumpy ride in FY21

39 June sponge iron production u p 20% on month

40 Bengal star ts work on world’s 2nd largest coal block

41 Coal India, SCCL vie for Tangendco units

42 | INTERNATIONAL

Adani on track to export first Carmichael coal in 2021

Begins work on overburden removal, employs 700 people.

44 Corporates urged to sign up fo r RE100 pledgE

46 US coal production estimated at 501MMst in 2020

47 Traffic handled by major ports down 20% in Q1

48 Indian R ailways’ coal handling down 29% in Q1

49 Slurry pipeline a necessity as rail infrastructure grossly inadequate

52 | CORPORATE

NTPC to go slow on new coal-fired plants

Eyes Ultra-Mega Renewable Energy Projects in solar parks

54 CESC suffers twin blow of Amphan, Covid

56 Corporate Update

58 Government Update

60 E-euction data

61 P ort Data