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22.05.26 - 20:51
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India′s Power Demand Hits Record High As Heat Drives Coal Use (ZeroHedge)
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India's Power Demand Hits Record High As Heat Drives Coal Use
Submitted by Irina Slav of OilPrice.com
India's power generation rose to a new all-time high amid hot weather that drove air-conditioning demand up, with thermal generation, most of its coming from coal power plants, covering 62% of demand.
Power demand on Thursday hit 271 GW, on the “fourth consecutive day when the peak power demand (solar hours) reached a new all-time high,” India's power ministry said, as quoted by AFP.
After milder temperatures tempered demand growth in the fiscal year to March 2026 to the lowest level in six years, demand is now beating peak consumption records amid heat waves at the start of this year's summer.
India's coal demand from power plants is set to rise by 11.5% in the April to June quarter amid the peak electricity demand season in the country in May and June, sources with knowledge of the matter told the Economic Times in April.
Besides coal, which dominated India's grid this week, solar ...
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21.05.26 - 01:24
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Several States Contest Federal Orders Keeping Coal-Fired Power Plants Open (ZeroHedge)
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Several States Contest Federal Orders Keeping Coal-Fired Power Plants Open
Authored by John Haughey via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours),
A three-judge federal appeals panel is expected to issue a decision by year's end on a lawsuit challenging Energy Secretary Chris Wright's May 2025 emergency order that prevented a Michigan utility from closing a 64-year-old coal-fired power plant.
The R.M. Schahfer Generating Station's two-coal fired electricity generators in Wheatfield, Indiana, built in 1983 and 1986, were scheduled to close on Dec. 31, 2025, but remain operating under emergency orders issued by Energy Secretary Chris Wright. Northern Indiana Public Service Company
How the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia rules in Michigan v. DOE after hearing May 15 oral arguments could prove precedential in deciding three similar cases–including two before the same court. It could also resolve a May 9 lawsuit filed in Seattle's U.S. District Court by 16 Democratic state attorneys ...
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