Lok Sabha Question No. 4322 (UNSTARRED), answered on 2018-03-21
Subject: Reduction in Carbon Footprints
Ministry: COAL
Asked by: KRISHNAN NARAYANASAMY RAMACHANDRAN

## GOVERNMENT OF INDIA MINISTRY OF COAL LOK SABHA

## UNSTARRED QUESTION NO. 4322 TO BE ANSWERED ON 21.03.2018

## Reduction in Carbon Footprints

## 4322. SHRI K.N. RAMACHANDRAN:

Will the Minister of COAL be pleased to state:

- (a)   whether the Government has taken adequate measures to reduce carbon footprints by reducing the production, supply and use of coal in various industries in the country;
- (b)   if so, the details thereof;
- (c)   whether Coal India Limited and its subsidiaries had given any specific reply to the Government in this regard, if so, the details thereof; and
- (d)  the current status of coal production, supply and use for the ongoing projects and for the newly proposed projects of CIL and its subsidiaries as well as NLC India?

## ANSWER

## MINISTER OF COAL AND RAILWAYS ( SHRI PIYUSH GOYAL )

(a) to (c): Government of India has already taken several initiatives to improve the efficiency of coal based power plants and to reduce its carbon footprint. All new, large coal-based generating stations have been mandated to use the highly efficient supercritical technology.

Renovation and Modernization (R&M) and Life Extension (LE) of existing old power stations  is  being  undertaken  in  a  phased  manner.  About  144  old  thermal  stations  have  been assigned mandatory targets for improving energy efficiency. Coal beneficiation has been made mandatory. Introduction of ultra-supercritical technology, as and when commercially available is part of future policy. Besides, stringent emission standards being contemplated for thermal plants would significantly reduce emissions.

To promote cleaner and alternate use of coal, CIL is pursuing initiatives for setting up plants  for  gasification  of  coal  and  its  further  processing  into  downstream  chemicals.  In  this direction,  CIL  has  formed  a  JV  company  along  with  RCF,  GAIL  and  FCIL  namely;  Talcher Fertilizers Limited (TFL) to set up a coal based Ammonia-Urea plant at Talcher, Odisha, through Surface Coal Gasification route.

(d) : The current status of coal production of 'ongoing projects' of CIL is as follow:

| Subsidiary   |   Total ongoing Projects |   Total Sanctioned Capacity (MTY) |   Coal Production till Feb'2018 (MT) |
|--------------|--------------------------|-----------------------------------|--------------------------------------|
| ECL          |                       12 |                             22.92 |                                13.85 |
| BCCL         |                        5 |                             12.95 |                                 2.53 |
| CCL          |                       15 |                             57.72 |                                17.3  |
| NCL          |                        4 |                             65    |                                50.8  |
| WCL          |                       26 |                             45.16 |                                15.42 |
| SECL         |                       34 |                            203.24 |                                75.13 |
| MCL          |                       16 |                            167.83 |                                71.22 |
| NEC          |                        4 |                              1.2  |                                 0    |
| Total CIL    |                      116 |                            576.02 |                               246.25 |

## Sector wise coal supply from CIL during 2017-18 (upto Feb'18) is as under:

(in Million tonnes)

| Sectors     |   Actual Dispatch 2017-18 (up to Feb'18) (Provisional) |
|-------------|--------------------------------------------------------|
| Power       |                                                 411.3  |
| Fertilizer  |                                                   1.76 |
| Steel       |                                                   2.67 |
| CPP         |                                                  33.43 |
| Cement      |                                                   3.25 |
| Sponge Iron |                                                   5.56 |
| Others      |                                                  67.11 |
| Total       |                                                 525.09 |

The current status of coal production of 'ongoing projects' of NLCIL is as follows:

NLCIL, at present operates 3 lignite  mines  (28.5  MTPA)    linked  to  4  pit  head  power stations at Neyveli (2990), one lignite mine (2.1 MTPA ) linked to  pit head power station  at Barsingsar, Rajasthan (250 MW). NLCIL uses the Lignite produced in its mines to the linked pit head  power  plants.  Also  a  small  quantity  of  lignite  is  being  sold  to  an  Independent  power producer and small scale industries.

## New mining projects of NLCIL are:

-  Expansion  of  Mine-I  10.50  MTPA  (Area  Expansion)  &  Expansion  of  Mine-  IA (From 3.0 MTPA To 7.0 MTPA)
-  Hadla Lignite Mine (1.9 MTPA) and Bithnok Lignite Mine (2.25 MTPA) at Rajasthan.
-  Mine-III project at Neyveli (11.5 MT per Annum)
-  South of Vellar at Tamilnadu (11.5 MT per Annum) -(as a replacement for Mine-I&II)
-  Pachwara South  in Jharkhand (11 MTPA) -allocated on 25.07.2013.
-  Talabira-II & III in Orissa (20 MTPA) - allocated on 02.05.2016.