{"id":446209,"date":"2026-01-30T00:22:10","date_gmt":"2026-01-30T00:22:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/446209\/"},"modified":"2026-01-30T00:22:10","modified_gmt":"2026-01-30T00:22:10","slug":"coal-to-anchor-indias-energy-transition-amid-surging-power-demand-india-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/446209\/","title":{"rendered":"Coal to anchor India\u2019s energy transition amid surging power demand | India News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <img src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/127783558.jpg\" alt=\"Coal to anchor India\u2019s energy transition amid surging power demand\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\"\/> NEW DELHI: Coal will continue to play a central role in India\u2019s energy mix as the country works towards tripling its per capita energy consumption over the next 20 years, Union Coal Secretary Vikram Dev Dutt said on Thursday.He was speaking during a panel discussion on the third day of India Energy Week 2026.\u201cCoal is not going away in a hurry. For India, affordable and dependable baseload power is not a choice; it is an imperative. The mantra is not \u2018phase out\u2019, it is \u2018phase down\u2019 in calibrated steps that reflect ground realities,\u201d he said. Dutt added that coal underpins India\u2019s development needs and will continue to do so even as renewables scale up alongside climate commitments.According to the Economic Survey 2025\u201326, coal plays an important role in India\u2019s energy landscape, contributing 55% to the national energy mix and fuelling over 74% of total power generation. India\u2019s total installed power generation capacity currently stands at nearly 514 gigawatts (GW), comprising about 247 GW of thermal capacity. Annual per capita energy consumption currently stands at 1,460 kWh and is expected to increase to 2,000 kWh by 2030 and over 4,000 kWh by 2047.Highlighting the global perspective, Kyle Haustveit, Assistant Secretary for Hydrocarbons and Geothermal Energy at the U.S. Department of Energy, emphasised that coal remains critical for energy security worldwide.\u201cCoal powered the modern world and it is not going away. Reliable, affordable and secure energy matters, and coal provides that stability, regardless of weather or market volatility,\u201d he said. He highlighted the strong potential for India\u2013US collaboration in clean coal technologies, coal gasification, carbon utilisation, and trade in high-quality metallurgical coal.Chairman-cum-Managing Director of Coal India Limited, B. Sairam, said coal will act as a bridge and enabler in India\u2019s transition. \u201cIndia\u2019s per capita energy consumption is barely a third of that in developed economies. As this demand triples, coal will provide firm, dispatchable power while renewables and storage mature,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NEW DELHI: Coal will continue to play a central role in India\u2019s energy mix as the country works&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":446210,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[64,63,1348,99,231370,231369,231373,164,8061,1209,187354,6464,8060,231372,231371,3358],"class_list":["post-446209","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-breaking-news","tag-business","tag-coal-future-in-india","tag-coal-power-in-india","tag-coal-technologies","tag-economy","tag-google-news","tag-india","tag-india-energy-transition","tag-india-news","tag-india-news-today","tag-per-capita-energy-consumption","tag-renewable-energy-growth","tag-today-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/446209","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=446209"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/446209\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/446210"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=446209"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=446209"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=446209"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}