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India Ordered 112 Captive Coal Plants to Run Flat Out as Exchange Prices Rose 50% in a Month, With Coal Stocks Steady

October 26, 2026

Two Ministry of Power orders of 25 September 2026 draft 112 captive coal plants and the Mundra imported-coal plant into the grid; the ex...

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The Reactor Nobody Names: How Coal Becomes Syngas, and Why India's Flagship Plant Runs on Someone Else's Technology

September 19, 2026

← All Articles (Index) Energy & Fuels · Chemicals · Industrial Policy · India The Reactor Nobody Names: How Coal Becomes Syngas, a...

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India's Coal-to-Chemicals Menu, Ranked by What Actually Clears the Import Price

August 27, 2026

Coal gasification can, in principle, make almost anything a refinery or gas plant can: ammonia and urea, methanol and its whole derivat...

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Umashankar Triplicane Dwarakanathan
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Data-led analysis of India's trade, currency and industrial policy. Every article is built from primary official sources, and every figure links back to the release, table or filing it came from.

Sources. DGCI&S TradeStat (imports/exports, HSN-wise) · PIB (government press releases, January 2017 to today, refreshed daily) · RBI (circulars, balance of payments) · MoSPI (CPI/WPI, IIP) · PARIVESH (environmental clearances) · CCIL (bond yields) · BIS (policy rates) · SEBI, NSE/BSE and SEC filings for company data.

Interpretation. Figures carry their vintage and retrieval date; estimates and press-reported numbers are labelled as such; where sources disagree, both are shown. Corrections are made visibly, never silently. Articles are written with AI assistance from the cited sources — AI-generated text can misstate figures even when working from real material, so verify any number that matters to a decision against the linked primary source.

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