Need to balance development and environment: Goyal
"We have reset the targets of renewable energy, the earlier target for solar energy was 20,000 MW till 2022, which we are trying to reset to 1,00,000 MW," he said at a TERI event on Monday.
Nov 17, 2014, 16:16 PM IST
Coal India to cut e-auctions by 50%
The coal ministry has been trying to persuade CIL to cut down its lucrative e-auctions by more than 50 percent to 25 million tonnes in 2014-15 from 58 MT last year.
Aug 07, 2014, 00:00 AM IST
Power plants face less than 4 days of coal stocks: Goyal
The minister cited reasons like difficulties in supply of coal from CIL subsidiaries due law and order problems and deficient monsoon for low coal stocks at power plants.
Aug 04, 2014, 15:56 PM IST
Some Coal India mines may be run by foreign firms: Goyal
Goyal said that the government had approved 15 projects for Coal India, with total combined annual capacity of 136 million tonnes.
Jul 31, 2014, 19:48 PM IST
Govt preparing draft policy on underground coal gasification
The government is preparing a draft policy on underground coal gasification, Coal and Power Minister Piyush Goyal said on Thursday.
Jul 31, 2014, 18:05 PM IST
NTPC, Lanco power plants facing coal supply problem: Goyal
The development comes at a time when State-owned Coal India and NTPC are at loggerheads over quality of coal being supplied to the plants of the power producer.
Jun 26, 2014, 17:25 PM IST
Goyal meets top officials on coal pricing, quality
The issue of coal quality last year had resulted in a standoff between NTPC and CIL.
Jun 16, 2014, 15:47 PM IST
