India’s Central Electricity Authority has announced that the country’s coal-fired power generation capacity expanded by 4 GW in 2024, similar to the amount added in 2023.
India is reviewing a 10-year-old $30 billion programme that requires coal-fired power plants to install equipment to cut sulphur emissions.
A coal-fired power plant in South Texas, USA, will receive over $1 billion in funding from the US Department of Agriculture to convert the plant into a solar and battery facility.
Zambia, which currently gets 85 per cent of its electricity from hydropower, is about to approve its third coal-fired power plant in a year.
NTPC of India and South Africa’s Eskom have signed an MOU to exchange knowledge and collaborate on R&D.
Meralco PowerGen, the power generation arm of Manila Electric Co (Meralco), has outlined a $2 billion investment plan to develop two coal-fired power facilities in Cebu and Quezon.
The Asian Development Bank (ADB) and the Government of Kazakhstan have signed an MOU regarding the early retirement of a coal-fired power plant in the country under the ADB’s Energy Transition Mechanism (ETM) programme.
According to a report in the Bangkok Post, the Electricity Generating Authority of Thailand (EGAT) is planning to refurbish two coal-fired power units to extend their service life.
The Indian conglomerate Adani has warned that it is considering cutting all of its supplies of electricity to Bangladesh as a consequence of unpaid dues.
The US Department of Agriculture (USDA) has awarded nearly $2.5 billion for Tri-State Generation and Transmission Association to retire 1.1 GW of existing coal-fired power plants and acquire about 1.3 GW of new renewable energy resources across the US states of Arizona, Colorado, New Mexico, and Wyoming.