India extends coal import mandate for power to avoid blackouts
Saturday, 2 September 2023 India extended a mandate to power plants to import coal until March as the driest August in more than a century pushed electricity demand to a record, putting a strain on supplies of the nation’s main generation fuel.Plants designed to run on domestic coal have been asked to import 4% of their supplies of the fuel through March to avoid outages, extending an earlier direction to buy from overseas until the end of this month, power secretary Pankaj Agarwal said in an interview.
Activists and monitors say air pollution was even worse than usual this year. Experts say it is clear that polluting sources of energy like the coal power plants that dot Indonesia play a key role...
Saturday, 2 September 2023
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