The Muchesu mine in Zimbabwe was officially opened by Zimbabwe’s president Dr. Emmerson Mnanagagwa, on August 1. Previously known as the Lubu coal project, Contango Holdings owns and controls 70% of the Muchesu project. It...
Read MoreThe Matarbari thermal power plant, financed by the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA), with a capacity to generate 1,200 MW of electricity is set to go into operation in January 2024. Successful test-commissioning of...
Read MoreSouth Africa’s Sasol reported that its energy business showed notable improvements in operational and business performance during the first half of 2023, compared with the second half of 2022. Sasol is nearing completion of the...
Read MoreApprovals for Chinese power plants for the first half of 2023 are outpacing 2022 and already exceed the total for 2021, according to Greenpeace research. Local governments approved nearly 30 gigawatts (GW) of new coal power...
Read MoreAustralia’s New South Wales (NSW) was reported as saying it was “considering all options” as the state’s temporary coal cap is set to expire at the start of July 2024. In December 2022, it imposed domestic coal allocation and a...
Read MoreBy Gavin du Venage JOHANNESBURG, South Africa (August 1, 2023)–South African coal producers are not going down without a fight, as they battle against tightening environmental restrictions and failing infrastructure. At...
Read MoreChina Energy Investment Corp. recently announced that it has put Asia’s largest carbon capture, utilization and storage (CCUS) facility for the coal-fired power generation sector into operation in the Jiangsu Province, Xinhua...
Read MoreVietnam’s Ministry of Industry and Trade reported that five major hydropower plants in the north were temporarily idled in June, which will create a shortage of 5,000 megawatts of power for the region. Thermal power plants in...
Read MoreIndonesia is ready to launch a carbon exchange in September, according to the Straits Times, with power generation companies the first to trade on it. Indonesia’s BEI stock exchange will operate the carbon exchange, which will...
Read MoreContango Holdings confirmed that the production of washed coking coal commenced on May 23, 2023, at its Lubu coking coal project in Zimbabwe. This followed dry and wet runs of the wash plant over the preceding days and the...
Read MoreAlabama, U.S.A.-based coal operator Drummond Co. unveiled a plan to reduce and offset carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions from its operations, kicking off in Colombia, by implementing solutions to achieve carbon neutrality by 2050....
Read MoreCoal India Ltd. (CIL) said it plans to raise prices for the first time in five years to compensate for increasing wages, Bloomberg reported. Prices for top thermal grades will rise by 8%, CIL said in a statement, in a move...
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