ANGUL: Coal supply to Nalco captive power plant was hit on Tuesday following a fire mishap at the rapid loading system in linked Bharatapur coal mine at Talcher coalfield. The fire destroyed the conveyer of the rapid loading system of Nalco at the mine.

Virendra Singh Rawat / New Delhi/ Shahjahanpur December 29, 2009, 0:04 IST

Anil Ambani

New Delhi: Is coal mining in Meghalaya known as 'rat hole mining' becoming another Jharia spitting fire and polluting ground water round the year?

The situation in Nalco on Wednesday became more serious due to the acute shortage of coal with only less than 30,000 MT of the stock left for the captive power plant at Angul. Without arranging this most important raw material, the management recently operated 240 new pots at the smelter plant.

NEW DELHI: The government on Thursday signed an agreement with the World Bank for renovation and modernisation of 640 mw of old coal-fired power plants. The rehabilitation project entails a cost of $303.4 million of which $180 million will be met through IBRD (International Bank for Reconstruction and Development) loan and $45.4 million from a grant from the Global Environment Facility (GEF).

The state can look forward to overcoming power shortage by 2011.

Devjyot Ghoshal / Kolkata December 08, 2009, 0:52 IST

Spot prices for the fuel have appreciated almost 10% in November.

RELIANCE Power is planning to commission the first phase of its 1,200 mw Rosa Power project in Uttar Pradesh before the end of December 2009, nearly three months ahead of schedule.

GUJARAT government on Wednesday said the Centre needs to be aggressive in acquiring coal mines overseas to secure India

The Punjab Government is seriously perusing a nuclear power plant for the state. After the SAD-BJP government in Punjab announced a reversal from the stand taken on the issue by the previous Congress regime, Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal and his Cabinet colleagues have asked the Centre to build a