India’s coal champion opens dozens of mine

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Coal, which produces the world’s largest coal, has opened more than 30,000 people, and this year will not be able to meet the country’s renewable sector, the renewable sector of the country.

“Renewable generation and battery storage systems are larger, better and more efficient, then the share of coal can be reduced,” PM Prasad, the chairman of state coal, financial time in an interview.

Said Prasad Don’t reopen 32, specifically on the basis of income exchange with local partners, 32 coal mines on the exchange of income with local partners, which began production in 32, 2025-26.

Mines have been previously closed because they are due to the reliability of the “instruction” mining“And” Small cars. “In December, India’s coal ministry announced plans to return indoor mines to increase production and reducing imports.

“It’s already happening,” said Prasad. The government has already made 27 of these mines this year, and the remaining five “in the pipeline” and would be given soon.

Many demand for coal in the world’s fifth largest economy is mainly met by coal India. The company supplies 310 mines operating across the country, three-quarters of national coal demand.

Despite large investments in solar and wind farms by local conglomerates as a TATA group, India rely on coal for 74% of electricity. The government’s distribution will drop by 2030 to 55 percent by 2030.

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Prasad, the minister, which took place by the state, said that the Prime Minister Narendra Modi has reached the country in less than five years to reach Net Zero carbon wastes.

“We will reach the summit coal by 2035, then it will be flattened, and then until 2047, and until 2070,” he said, then, when the production of small amounts will be still needed.

India holds the world’s fifth largest coal reserves and the government said, “It remains very important.”

The country, the fastest growing large economy in the world, has opposed international pressure to move the use of pollutants fossil fuel. India focuses on trying Be a manufacturer center.

In March, the mining minister G Kisshan Reddy, India produces 1 billion tons of coal in more than 2024-25, “he said,” he said.

After producing 781 million tons last year, Joal India, which exits only 1 billion tons in 2029, the Prademic Forecast for 1 billion tons. The government expects gross domestic coal production to increase by 6-7 percent to reach 1.5 billion tons per year.

The Department of Coal India, 1.4 billion people’s energy needs to join the energy needs of the energy and more of the houses to join the electricity network. To meet such demand, the company was preparing to open five new keys on Greenfield sites.

The coal produces more than a mine from Indian coal culture, which produces more polluted mine than underground mining, but Prasad insisted on “sustainable” gratitude. In order to move away from the coal before 2070, the company invests in solar and wind energy projects.

India only opened a commercial coal mining to the private sector 2018 Private Conglomerates, including a strong adhanty group, now have mines and has mines, but in small scale compared to coal India.

“India is the only company that coal cultural and coal India, for decades,” he said.