Coal imports in India’s power sector declines to 22.73 mt

19 Apr 2022 CW Team

From April 2021 to January 2022, the import of coal by the power sector decreased to 22.73 million tonnes.

The details of coal import by the coal based power plants in the last five years and the current year are as follows: (in million tonnes).

Year	Imported coal based power plants	Blended coal based power plants	Total coal import by Power Plants
2016-17	46.30	19.87	66.17
2017-18	39.37	17.04	56.41
2018-19	40.29	21.37	61.66
2019-20	45.47	23.75	69.22
2020-21	35.08	10.39	45.47
2021-22 Upto Jan 22	16.08	6.65	22.73

Since the availability of coal has increased on account of policy measures taken to increase the domestic coal production, there is a decrease in the total coal import to 215.25 million tonne in 2020- 21 from 248.54 million tonne in 2019-20. Coal import in the period between April 2021 to January 2022 has decreased to 173.32 million tonnes in comparison with 180.56 million tonnes in the same period last year.

The power sector has decreased the coal import to 45.47 million tonne in 2020-21 from 69.22 million tonne in 2019-20. In the period between April 2021 to January 2022, it decreased to 22.73 million tonnes in comparison with 39.01 million tonnes in the same period last year.

The share of coal supply by Coal India Limited (CIL) of the total consumption of coal has increased to 64.3% in 2021-22 from 63.3% in 2020-21 and 60.8% 2019-20.

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