India has enough coal without Adani mine, yet must keep importing, minister says
by Michael Safi in Delhi from Environment | The Guardian on (#2SQX6)
India's energy minister, Piyush Goyal, says the country would be self-sufficient in coal, except that power plants had been designed to run only on imports
India now has "sufficient coal capacity" to power itself without Queensland's Carmichael mine project, thanks to the increased productivity of domestic mines, cheaper renewables and lower than expected energy demand, the country's energy minister has said.
But Piyush Goyal said India would be forced to keep importing coal, including from the proposed Queensland mine, because too many Indian power plants had been designed to run on foreign coal.