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Electricity in the World and India
India has the fifth largest generation capacityin the world. The top four countries, viz., US,Japan, China and Russia together consumeabout 49 per cent of the total power
generated globally. The average per capita consumption of
electricity in India is estimated to be 704 kWh
during 2008-09, compared to the US (~15,000kWh) and China (~1,800 kWh).
The world average stands at 2,300 kWh.
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Indian Electric Power Survey
The Central Electrical Authoritys 17th ElectricPower Survey was released in May, 2007.
The Electric Power Survey Committeeconducts periodic surveys of electricitydemand and holds discussions with all the
stakeholders to bring out demand forecast foruse in planning exercises of all key sectors ofeconomy i.e. coal, rail, manufacturing,infrastructure, research, industries, etc.
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17th Electric Power Survey
Year Annual Peak Electrical Load
at Power Station Bus Bars
(MW)
2011-12 152746
2016-17 218209
2021-22 298253
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Power for All by 2012
The Ministry of Power has set a goal - Mission 2012:Power for All.
A comprehensive Blueprint for Power Sector
development has been prepared encompassing anintegrated strategy for the sector development withfollowing objectives:-
- Sufficient power to achieve GDP growth rate of 8%- Reliability of power- Quality power- Optimum power cost- Commercial viability of power industry
- Power for all
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Power for All by 2012(as on 28.02.11)
Power Sector at a Glance "ALL INDIA"
Sector MW % share
State Sector 82,452.58 47.96
Central Sector 52,712.63 30.66
Private Sector 36,791.19 21.38
Total 1,71,926.40 100.00
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RGGVY
The Rajiv Gandhi Grameen Vidyuthikaran
Yojana (RGGVY), aimed at rural electrification,
is an initiative to provide focus and funds to
rural distribution.
As of 31st March 2011, a total of 587 projects
were sanctioned, at a cost of Rs. 26,349
crores, electrifying 1,18,499 un/de-electrifiedvillages.
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Coal The World
Coal currently fuels 40% of the world
electricity and this proportion is set to remain
static over the next 30 years.
About 70% of the world's steel production is
based on coal.
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Indian Fuel Mix(as on 28.02.11)
Fuel MW % share
Total Thermal 111324.48 64.75
Coal 92418.38 53.76
Gas 17706.35 10.30
Oil 1199.75 0.70
Hydro (Renewable) 37367.40 21.73
Nuclear 4780.00 2.78
Renewable Energy 18454.52 10.73
TOTAL 171926.40 100.00
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Coal Reserves in India
(as on 01.04.2009 - in billion tonnes)
Type of coal Proved Indicated Inferred Total
All India : Total 105.72 123.57 37.92 267.21
Prime-coking 4.61 0.70 0.00 5.31
Medium-coking 12.45 12.06 1.88 26.39
Semi-coking 0.48 1.00 0.22 1.70
Non-coking 87.70 109.71 35.31 232.72High sulphur 0.48 0.09 0.51 1.08
Lignite 5.36 25.54 8.18 39.08
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Depth-wise Coal Reserves(as on 01.04.2008)
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Extractable Coal Reserves 1
The coal that can be extractedtaking intoaccount geological, technical, and economic
aspects - is only a small fraction of our total coal
inventories, without taking into account the no-
go areas.
The extremely high figure of 267.21 billion tonnes
has created a false and risky notion that India is
quite comfortably placed with over 100 years ofdomestic coal supply at its disposal.
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Criticism of Indian system of reporting
(Indian Standard Procedure 1957)
Based on categories defined by concentration
of exploratory boreholes.
Purely geological resource accounting system.
Does not consider mineability /extractability/
economic criteria.
Thus highly exaggerated resource inventory.
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Coal Reserve Data Criticism
Gross, cumulative and does not consider depletion/sterilization; includes coal
That was extracted during past 230 years of mining.
That was burnt / is burning in Jharia / Dhanbad andelsewhere.
That would be almost impossible to mine
In partially developed thick seams, in mine barriers,and in inundated mines.
Under reserve forests, tiger reserves, townships, rivers,major railways etc.
In seams between 600-1200 m depths and deeper.
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Extractable Coal Reserves 2
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Extractable Coal Reserves 3
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Sector-wise Coal Production
The provisional total production of coal in2008-09 was around 492.9 million tonneswhich was higher by 7.8% as compared to theprevious year.
Coal mining was confined mainly to the publicsector contributing 92.4% in both the yearsi.e. 2007-08 and 2008-09.
In 2007-08, out of the total production of coal,7.5% was coking coal and the rest 92.5% wasnon-coking coal.
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Coal Power Sector
In India, about 77% of the total coaloutput is consumed in the power
sector.
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Coal Indian States 1
Chhattisgarh is the largest coal
producing state with a share of about
20.7%, followed closely by Orissa and
Jharkhand having contribution of
20.0% and 19.5%.
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Coal Indian States 2
Next in order of share in the total production
were, Madhya Pradesh (14.5%), Andhra
Pradesh (9.0%), Maharashtra (7.9%), WestBengal (4.6%) and Uttar Pradesh (2.4%).
The remaining 1.40% of coal productionaccrued from the states of Assam, Jammu &
Kashmir and Meghalaya.
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Coal Mining Profile 1
In 2008-09, share of production of raw
coal from opencast (OC) mines was 88%
against 12% from underground (UG)
mines.
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Coal Mining Profile 2
Opencast mines damage a large land surface
area, displace people from their ancestral
homesteads and cause agricultural losses.
But the method is cost effective, recovery is
high, comparatively better in safety aspects
and is considered to be a modern method.
Surface mining requires large areas of land to
be temporarily disturbed.
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Coal Mining Profile 3
As on 31.3.2009, there were 561 operating
mines for coal in the country, out of which 197
were opencast while 332 were underground
mines. The remaining 32 were mixedcollieries.
There were 537 public sector mines and 24
mines in private sector.
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Mining-Induced Displacement and
Resettlement 1
Mining-induced Displacement andResettlement (MIDR) poses major risks tosocietal sustainability.
MIDR leads to landlessness, joblessness,homelessness, risk of marginalization, changein population dynamics, higher cost of living,
more health risks, disruption of formaleducational activities and increasedaddictions.
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Mining-Induced Displacement and
Resettlement 2
MIDR is accompanied by the resettlement
effect, defined as the loss of physical and non-
physical assets, including homes,communities, productive land, income-earning
assets and sources, subsistence, resources,
cultural sites, social structures, networks and
ties, cultural identity and mutual help
mechanisms.
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Mining-Induced Displacement and
Resettlement 3
DisplacementKey Social Issue.
Displacement of people due to coal mining isinevitable and is of enormous magnitude
1,70,000 families or 8,50,000 displacees to be
rehabilitated by 2025.
Land requirement to double from current
1,47,000 ha to 2,92,500 hectares.
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Mining-Induced Displacement and
Resettlement 4
Very limited data and socio-economic
information on PAPs.
Fernandes: about 5 million (DPs and PAPs) for all
mining (mostly coal) (disputed).
75% of displaced peoples lives worsened due to
displacement.
Detailed socio-economic data needs to bemonitored, collected, and authenticated on a
routine basis for all projects.
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Mining-Induced Displacement and
Resettlement 5 Coal projects are being held up because of
social protests against mining.
Little/no information on abandoned mines;
reclamation and mine closure problems.
Rehabilitation and Resettlement (R&R)
should make sure that people are better off
than before. R&R should include creation ofsocial assets and benefit sharing.
Need for coal companies to be progressive
and pro-active in dealing with their past.
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Mining-Induced Displacement and
Resettlement 6
PAPs need to be part of
the decision making
process.
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Coal Mine Profile 1
There were 559 coal mines (as on 31.03.2008)which reported production in 2007-08. Out ofthese, 174 mines were located in Jharkhand,West Bengal had 102 mines, Madhya Pradesh
(74), Chhattisgarh (57), Maharashtra (53),Andhra Pradesh (52) and Orissa (27).
The remaining 20 mines were located in thestates of Assam, Jammu & Kashmir and UttarPradesh.
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Coal Mine Profile 2
In 2007-08, there were 76 large mines eachproducing some 10 lakh tonnes of coal during theyear and these mines accounted for 74.3% of thetotal production.
About 25.2 % of the total coal production wasshared by 380 mines whose individual productionvaried between 50,000 to 10 lakh tonnes.
Only 0.5 % of the production was contributed by103 small mines each producing up to 50,000tonnes.
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State PSUs in Coal Mining
Bihar State Mineral Development
Corporation Ltd (BSMDC), Damodar
Valley Corporation (DVC) and Jammu &Kashmir Minerals Ltd. (JKML) are the
State Government undertakings
engaged in coal mining.
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Lignite Mining
Of the thirteen working mines, all of them
opencast, three are owned by Neyveli LigniteCorporation (NLC), five by Gujarat MineralDevelopment Corporation Ltd. (GMDCL) andthree by Rajasthan State Mines and MineralsLimited (RSMML) and one mine each is withGujarat Industries Power Co. Ltd (GIPCL) andGujarat Heavy Chemicals Ltd (GHCL).
Sector-wise twelve mines are under public sectorand the remaining one is under private sector i.e.GHCL.
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Captive Coal Mining 1
IISCO steel plant of SAIL is the only
public sector steel unit operating
captive mines for coal. Bengal EmlaCoal Mines Ltd (BECL), Jindal Steel &
Power Ltd (JSPL), Hindalco and Tata
Steel are the companies, operatingcaptive mines in the private sector.
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Captive Coal Mining 2
At present, captive coal blocks are
only allotted to companies in power,
cement and steel sectors. Till 31.3.2009, a total of 201 coal
blocks with 47,340.2 million tonnes
geological reserves have been
allotted in various states.
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Captive Lignite Mining
Similarly, 30 captive lignite blockswith 2,223.53 million tonnes
geological reserves have been
allocated in Gujarat (12 blocks),
Rajasthan (17 blocks) and Tamil Nadu
(one block) for power (17 blocks andcommercial (13 blocks) till 31.3.2009.
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Captive Coal and Lignite Mining
In consultation with CIL and NLC, 47
new coal blocks with geological
reserves of about 17721.52 million
tonnes and 38 lignite blocks with
geological reserves of about 6240.34million tonnes have been identified.
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Location of Coal and Lignite Resources
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Characteristics of Indian Coal Deposits
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Beneficiation of Non-Coking Coal
Study by Planning Commission
concluded that carrying beneficiated
coal > 400 km is more attractive. 70% thermal coal moves > 400 km
but only 20% of coal is beneficiated
at present.
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Coking Coal Washeries
Presently 19 coal washeries (15 in publicsector and 4 in private sector) with 33.28million tonnes per annum capacity produced
7.18 million tonnes coking coal in 2008-09.
Production of washed coking coal during2008-09 was 4.26 million tonnes in PublicSector and 2.93 million tonnes in PrivateSector.
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Non-Coking Coal Washeries
31 coal washeries with 97.32 million tonnes
capacity produced 40.95 million tonnes non-
coking coal during the year.
In public sector, 7 non-coking coal washeries
were operational, whereas in private sector,
24 non-coking coal washeries were inoperation.
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Indian Port Sector Major Ports
Major ports are governed by Government ofIndia.
6 ports each on east coast and west coast.
Handle about 66% of total seaborne traffic. All ports are ISPS compliant.
Capacity as on 31-03-2010 : 616.73 milliontonnes.
Throughput during 2009-10 : 561.09 milliontonnes.
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Indian Port Sector Non-Major Ports
Governed by the state governments.
No of Ports : 200 Operational : 62.
35 Ports are ISPS compliant.
Handle about 34% of total seaborne traffic.
About 75% of Non-Major Port traffic handledby Gujarat State alone.
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Indian Port Sector Non-Major Ports
Cargo Mix :
POL 50%
Iron Ore 17%
Coal 14%
Fertilizer & FRM 2%
Cement & Clinker 5%
Container 5%
Others 6%
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Major ports trend in cargo mix
l h dli i j ffi
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Coal handling in major portstraffic
growth (in million tonnes)
Pl f d l f ddi i l
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Plans for development of additional
coal handling facilities 1
Deepening and widening of entrance channel tofacilitate larger size vessels at Paradip,Visakhapatnam, Chennai, Ennore, Tuticorin, NewMangalore.
PARADIP Mechanized Coking Coal / ThermalCoal Handling facilities.
VISAKHAPATNAM Mechanized cargo handling
facilities at GCB at Outer Harbour for ship sidehandling @ 25000 TPD as well as mechanizedloading into wagons at East yard dumps.
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Plans for development of additional
coal handling facilities 2
ENNORE - Development of a Coal Terminal to
handle coal for users other than TNEB.
TUTICORIN Construction of a Coal Berth for
NLC TNEB.
NEW MANGALORE Development of coal
handling facilities for captive users.
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Coal Handling Capacity Demand(in million tonnes)
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Coal Movement in India
Bulk of coal is transported by rail 47 %
Road transportation 27 %.
Pit-head consumer by dedicated merry-go-
round (MGR) rail link 19 %.
Coastal consumers in southern part of India by
rail and sea route 2 % (extra-polated).
Limited aerial ropeway and cross country belt
conveyors 5 %
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Constraints in Transportation 1
It is estimated that 47.33% amounting to 514million tonnes of beneficiated coal + superiorgrade coal is likely to be transported throughnational rail network / rail-cum-sea network forconsumers located beyond coal field areas.
The transportation of huge volume of thecountries production of about 1061 million
tonnes by the end of 2024-25 will be a gigantictask as bulk of the coal has to be transported topower utility and other industries.
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Constraints in Transportation 2
In order to enable the vast movement of coal,the Central Electricity Authority has identified
through a study by NRSA, 90 potential sites in
four states. Of these, 31 are in six districts of Gujarat, 23 in
two districts of Maharashtra, 27 in eight
districts of Tamil Nadu and 9 in three districtsof Andhra Pradesh for development of coastal
power projects.
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Constraints Railways 1
The inter state railway network in coal
rich States is not adequately linked to the
proposed sites / clusters.
Railway network along with the wagon
supply at port are not properlycoordinated for fast movement of cargo.
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Constraints Railways 2
Various on-going projects to expand railnetwork and other decongestion measureshave been thrown forward from one plan toother due to various reasons like shortage of
funds, delays in land acquisition,environmental clearance etc.
Gestation period of projects of new line is veryhigh therefore, interim measures needed todecongest the traffic in these areas.
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Constraints Roads 1
Condition of major state highways and districtroads are worrisome.
Fund requirements for this segment have
been neglected for long leading to variousdeficiencies.
Relative rate of road length and vehiculartraffic indicate a serious imbalanced and haveled to congestion of roads and movement offreight traffic is extremely slow .
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Constraints Roads 2
Higher percentage of single lane and poorquality of roads in coastal states has furthercompounded the problem of congestion atthe roads.
The system of check posts is a majorhindrance in seamless flow of goods for onestate to another.
Due to above, delays and lower utilization forthe rolling stock for which the user industrieshave to pay heavily.
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Coal Vision 2025 by CMPDIL/CIL
CMPDILs Coal Vision 2025 indicates that theoverall annual growth in coal demand till 2025 is
expected to be 5.62% with 8% GDP growth
scenario, and 5.04% with 7% GDP growth.
This means that the demand for coal would
increase to 1147 MT (7% GDP growth) and 1267
MT (8% GDP growth) in 2025.
The total domestic coal production is projected to
increase to 1086 MT in 2025, of which the open
cast production will be 902 MT (83%).
Coal Vision 2025 by
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Coal Vision 2025 by
CMPDIL/CIL/MoC
Coal Vision 2025 has estimated that 1,70,000families or 8,50,000 displaced persons would have tobe rehabilitated by 2025 when the requirement forland would double from current 1,47,000 hectares to2,92,500 hectares.
The requirement of forest land for mining would alsoincrease more than three-fold from the current 22,000 hectares (15% of the current total landrequirement) to 73,000 hectares (25% of theprojected total land requirement) since much of thecoal resources to be exploited in future are located inforests.
Coal Demand Projection @ 8% GDP
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Coal Demand Projection @ 8% GDP
growth
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Two Coal Demand Projections
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XIth Plan Coal Demand Projections
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XIth Plan Coal Supply Projections
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Coal Import Projections
The XIth Plan Working Group on
Coal and Lignite coal import
projection for 2011-12 is 51.10 MT.
Imports of coal during 2010-11 wereabout 65.7 MT.
Coal Demand Supply Gap 2011-12
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Coal Demand Supply Gap 2011-12
at 142 MT
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Foreign Trade Exports 1
In 2008-09, exports of coal increased about
2% to 1.66 million tonnes from 1.63 million
tonnes in the previous year.
Similarly, exports of coke also increased to
1.35 million tonnes in 2008-09 from 0.1million tonnes in 2007-08.
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Foreign Trade Exports 2
Coal was mainly exported to Bangladesh
(78%), Nepal (14%) and Bhutan (7%) and coke
to Bahrain (39%), France (31%), Brazil (14%)
and Bhutan (7%). Exports of lignite were nominal in 2008-09.
Exports of coal gas increased to 21,000 tonnes
in 2008-09 from 7,354 tonnes in the previousyear.
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Foreign Trade Imports 1
Imports of coal increased by 19% to 59 million
tonnes in 2008-09 from 49.8 million tonnes in
2007-08.
Imports of coke decreased to 1.88 million
tonnes in 2008-09 from 4.25 million tonnesin the previous year.
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World steam and coking coal
demand and trade (1982-2005)
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A Warning Bell
High quality coal (6000 kcal/kg)
import needs could range upto 770
MT by 203132. However, currentlyonly about 700800 MT of coal is
being internationally traded!
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Decade Ahead for Coal Industry
Huge coal demand.
Massive investments.
Significant technological upgradation.
Large scale mining operations.
Increased productivity from underground mines.
Increase in captive coal mining.
Increased coal imports.
Shortage of skilled manpower.
Anticipated Investments
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Anticipated Investments(in rupees crores)
95,000
23,000
24,4801,312
2,100145,892
0
40,000
80,000
120,000
160,000
O/C Mining U/G Mining Beneficiation Exploration Environment Total
InRs.
Crs
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Future of World Coal Trade
Dominance of steam coal in international coal tradeexpected to continue.
International coal trade expected to grow at an
average annual rate of only 1.2 %. Share of coal trade as a percentage of global coal consumption falls to
14 percent in 2030.
Largest increase in demand from China.
Price volatility is likely continue.
Increasing Resource Nationalism in exportingcountries would deter trade.
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What Next?
Deplete domestic resources, Buy mines /
equity in other countries.
Long term purchases.
Spot purchases.
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Coal Demand Projections
The current demand projections
were made in 2004-05.
Fresh figures of coal demandprojections, planned production and
expected shortfalls that will be met
by imports are not forthcoming from
Coal India Limited.
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Immediate Action Needed
Must stop Indiscriminate capacity addition on coal; especially based
on sub-critical technology
Retrofitting of old /smaller/ inefficient units
Must shift to more efficient technologies Super critical
Ultra super critical
IGCC
Restrict total coal based generation capacity to1,50,000 MW ???
The Future
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The Future
Coal use will be self-limiting due to
Increasing concerns of Climate Change
Difficulty in Land Aquisition
Forest Land
R & R (Rehabilitation and Resettlement)
Cheap Coal: The Worlds Most
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Cheap Coal: The World s Most
Expensive Bargain?
Coals market price reflects various
cost elements including mining,
production, transportation andretailing costs, government levied
taxes and fees, and profit, and the
relationship between supply and
demand.
Cheap Coal: The Worlds Most
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Cheap Coal: The World s Most
Expensive Bargain?
But this pricing system ignores some of thebiggest costs of coal use: the local and globalenvironmental and social impacts accrued by theexploitation, transformation, transportation and
utilization of coal.
Because the current market price of coal does notreflect the value of ecological and social
resources implicit to the exploitation and use ofcoal, they are, in economic terms, external to themarket price.
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Cheap Coal: The World s Most
Expensive Bargain?
Tragically, such external costs often
wind up being paid by those
communities subject to coal-
generated pollution, in the form of
degraded natural resources andhealth problems.
Cheap Coal: The Worlds Most
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Cheap Coal: The World s Most
Expensive Bargain?
Opencast mining requires the exploitation oflarge tracts of land, and brings with it its ownslew of environmental impacts, such as loss of
vegetation and tree cover, erosion, dustpollution, depleted forest cover andbiodiversity, and pollution of surface waterbodies.
Such impacts have led to protests in manyparts of India.
Ch C l Th W ld B i !
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Cheap Coal: The Worlds Bargain !
Coal is the most abundant conventional fossilfuel on the planet and accounts for two thirdsof the global fossil fuel resource base.
Factor in its relatively low costs, balancedgeographical and political distribution,substantial energy density and the worldsinsatiable appetite for electricity and it is an
ostensibly perfect fuel for a ready-mademarket.
Credits
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India Energy Handbook 2011, PSI Inc., August 2010
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