NEW DELHI: Coal India Limited (CIL), the arena’s greatest coal miner, on Tuesday stated coal manufacturing rose 7.7% in April and provides to customers shot up simply as summer time started.
In a commentary, Coal India Ltd (CIL) stated it logged an excellent 31% enlargement in overburden elimination (OBR) in April in comparison to the similar month a yr in the past.
“This helps in stepping up production in the upcoming monsoon seasonit said.
The company logged a whopping 44% year-on-year growth in supplies to non-regulated sector (NRS).
CIL is firing on all cylinders in anticipation of a hotter summer than the last. It is scaling up production, holding additional coal stocks at its pitheads and has issued directives to power producers to hold higher inventory at their end.
All this in anticipation of electricity demand touching a new high this summer.
Already, the government has ordered the nation’s coal-fired power plants to run at full power. Coal is used to generate some 70% of the electricity in the country and its availability is being shored up to meet the increased demand for cooling in the summer months.
“Sustaining the expansion pattern of earlier fiscal, CIL excavated 169.5 million cubic meters of OB in April, attaining 109% goal,” it said.
“Compared to 129.6 million cubic meters in April 2022, the expansion was once 31%.”
CIL’s coal production grew by 7.7% to 57.6 million tonnes in April. The volume increase of 4.1 million tonnes was achieved over a higher base of 53.5 million tonnes in April 2022.
All the subsidiaries of CIL have registered the highest-ever production for the month of April, except ECL.
“Production can have been even upper by means of round 1 million tonne however for the stoppage of labor for 4 days by means of contractual staff in Talcher coalfields of MCL,” said a senior official of CIL.
CIL’s coal supplies shot up to 62.3 million tonnes in April, nearly 5 million tonnes more than the comparable month last year when the offtake was 57.4 million tonnes. “The 8.6% enlargement all through the month was once constructed over the next base,” it said.
All of CIL’s producing units logged growth.
Stabilizing the demand from the power sector, CIL’s focus on ramping up coal delivery to NRS witnessed a sharp 44% growth in April. The company supplied 11.8 million tonnes to its NRS customers compared to 8.2 million tonnes in April 2022.
Supplies to coal-fired plants in the country rose to 50.6 million tonnes in April compared to 49.3 million tonnes last year.
“Coal availability is happy with home coal-based energy vegetation stocked with 33.8 million tonne as of April-end. This is 62% upper than 20.8 million tonne of the similar length ultimate yr,” the statement said.
Stock depletion during April was merely 0.8 million tonne at the plants’ end, compared to 34.6 million tonne at the beginning of FY’24.
Coal inventory at CIL’s pitheads stood at 64.6 million tonne at April-end, which is 13% higher than the same period last year. Higher production by CIL ensured reducing stocks by only 4.9 million tonne during the month.
CIL began the fiscal with a coal stocks of 69.5 million tonnes.
There is a total of 115 million tonnes of coal stock in the system which includes 33.8 million tonnes at domestic coal-based power plants; 64.6 million tonnes at CIL pitheads; 13.3 million tonnes of stock is at private washeries, goods sheds, captive mines and ports while 3.5 million tonnes of coal is in rakes on run, that is, coal in transit, the statement said.
“Hopefully there can be no criticality as a result of coal,” stated the authentic.
In a commentary, Coal India Ltd (CIL) stated it logged an excellent 31% enlargement in overburden elimination (OBR) in April in comparison to the similar month a yr in the past.
“This helps in stepping up production in the upcoming monsoon seasonit said.
The company logged a whopping 44% year-on-year growth in supplies to non-regulated sector (NRS).
CIL is firing on all cylinders in anticipation of a hotter summer than the last. It is scaling up production, holding additional coal stocks at its pitheads and has issued directives to power producers to hold higher inventory at their end.
All this in anticipation of electricity demand touching a new high this summer.
Already, the government has ordered the nation’s coal-fired power plants to run at full power. Coal is used to generate some 70% of the electricity in the country and its availability is being shored up to meet the increased demand for cooling in the summer months.
“Sustaining the expansion pattern of earlier fiscal, CIL excavated 169.5 million cubic meters of OB in April, attaining 109% goal,” it said.
“Compared to 129.6 million cubic meters in April 2022, the expansion was once 31%.”
CIL’s coal production grew by 7.7% to 57.6 million tonnes in April. The volume increase of 4.1 million tonnes was achieved over a higher base of 53.5 million tonnes in April 2022.
All the subsidiaries of CIL have registered the highest-ever production for the month of April, except ECL.
“Production can have been even upper by means of round 1 million tonne however for the stoppage of labor for 4 days by means of contractual staff in Talcher coalfields of MCL,” said a senior official of CIL.
CIL’s coal supplies shot up to 62.3 million tonnes in April, nearly 5 million tonnes more than the comparable month last year when the offtake was 57.4 million tonnes. “The 8.6% enlargement all through the month was once constructed over the next base,” it said.
All of CIL’s producing units logged growth.
Stabilizing the demand from the power sector, CIL’s focus on ramping up coal delivery to NRS witnessed a sharp 44% growth in April. The company supplied 11.8 million tonnes to its NRS customers compared to 8.2 million tonnes in April 2022.
Supplies to coal-fired plants in the country rose to 50.6 million tonnes in April compared to 49.3 million tonnes last year.
“Coal availability is happy with home coal-based energy vegetation stocked with 33.8 million tonne as of April-end. This is 62% upper than 20.8 million tonne of the similar length ultimate yr,” the statement said.
Stock depletion during April was merely 0.8 million tonne at the plants’ end, compared to 34.6 million tonne at the beginning of FY’24.
Coal inventory at CIL’s pitheads stood at 64.6 million tonne at April-end, which is 13% higher than the same period last year. Higher production by CIL ensured reducing stocks by only 4.9 million tonne during the month.
CIL began the fiscal with a coal stocks of 69.5 million tonnes.
There is a total of 115 million tonnes of coal stock in the system which includes 33.8 million tonnes at domestic coal-based power plants; 64.6 million tonnes at CIL pitheads; 13.3 million tonnes of stock is at private washeries, goods sheds, captive mines and ports while 3.5 million tonnes of coal is in rakes on run, that is, coal in transit, the statement said.
“Hopefully there can be no criticality as a result of coal,” stated the authentic.