Coal Import Substitution with Equivalent Domestic Coal

    Mission

    • Reduce the import Coal to zero level with supply of domestic Coal
    • Enabling sustainable growth of domestic Industries
    • Facilitate Indigenous Coal based Power Plants
    • Promote import based Power plants to use good quality indigenous Coal
    • Savings of Forex

    Power Sector Consumers

    • Substitution of domestic Coal to Power sector Linked consumers using Import Coal for blending purposes.
    • Coal to be supplied to the consumers as per their requirement.
    • Under import substitution 5.71 Mil Tn coal supplied to the power plants in 2019-20.
    • coal offered to the coastal customers of higher grades through Side-agreements for a total quantity of 4.5 MT per annum..
    • Offering Coal through Special Forward E auction to the Power Consumers who are using Import Coal and are not linked to CIL.

    Non-power consumers

    • The major proportion of non-coking coal imports in the country pertains to non-power consumer, which is around 72% of the total import
    • Distribution policy envisages Coal in the ratio of 75-25 to regulated and non-regulated sectors.
    • last year, substantial increase in imports by Non Regulated sector.
    • The quantities offered under NRS linkage auction is offered to lapsing FSA consumers
    • Increased supplies to Non-Power sector consumers with a view of substantial reduction in imports.
    • Offering more coal to these sector through various auction windows including Spot, Exclusive etc.