Industry Focus

2017.03.17

BHEL's first 800 MW supercritical thermal plant starts operation

Bharat Heavy Electricals Ltd (BHEL) has commenced commercial operation of its first 800 MW unit highest-rating coal-fired supercritical thermal power plant. The milestone was achieved for the first unit of the 2 x 800 MW Yeramarus thermal power plant of Raichur Power Corp. Ltd (RPCL), in Raichur district of Karnataka. The com...

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2017.03.15

Dangote opens Tanzanian coal mine

Aliko Dangote is now a coal miner as Tanzania has offered his Dangote Cement Company in the southeastern town of Mtwara, land to mine coal for its operations, Vanguard reports. Tanzania’s Ministry of Energy and Minerals at the weekend handed a 10-square-kilometre plot of land to the $500 million cement factory set up in 201...

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2017.03.13

Environment minister sees business risk in building new coal-fired plant

TOKYO — Chugoku Electric Power Co and JFE Steel may need to rethink plans for a new coal-fired power plant if they cannot present clear measures to address climate change concerns, Japan’s environment minister says. Minister Koichi Yamamoto, in an opinion statement over the companies’ plan for a 1.07 gigawatt (GW) coal...

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2017.03.06

Dangote cement factory in Tanzania granted land to produce coal locally

ARUSHA, Tanzania, March 5 (Xinhua) -- Tanzanian President John Magufuli on Sunday gave a piece of coal-rich land to Nigerian investor Aliko Dangote so that he produces his own coal to power the 650 million-U.S. dollars Mtwara cement factory. Speaking at the official launch of the 580 trucks, which are used by the Nigerian inv...

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2017.03.03

Poland closer to merging coal mines PGG and KHW after union consent

KATOWICE, Poland – Trade unions at Poland's state-owned coal producer KHW agreed on Wednesday to a merger with bigger rival PGG in a move that makes a deal more likely to happen before an end March deadline, a deputy energy minister said. KHW needs about one-billion zlotys ($245-million) to keep going and Poland has said t...

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2017.03.01

Krabi coal plant to start anew

Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha has insisted that new environmental and health impact assessments are needed for the Krabi coal-fired power plant project and the public must be allowed to have their say. Speaking after Tuesday's cabinet meeting, Gen Prayut stressed the need to restart the environmental health impact assessm...

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