Clean Coal Technology
Clean Coal Technology
The Government has taken the following steps to promote the usage of clean coal technologies:
(i) Policy initiatives to support coal gasification projects:
(ii) Incentive Scheme for Promotion of coal gasification: For promoting Coal gasification in the country, the Government has approved ₹8500 crore incentive scheme to provide Viability Gap Funding (VGF) to promote Coal/Lignite Gasification Projects for both PSUs and the private sectors.
(iii) Government of India has notified Underground Coal Gasification (UCG) Policy in September, 2016 to enable the development of UCG so as to maximize the utilization of difficult to mine coal and lignite resources and promote Clean Coal Technologies.
(v) Government is also promoting beneficiation of coking coal in the country by setting up of coal washeries.
There is no specific concept to estimate Clean Coal Reserve. However, as on 01.04.2024, the total estimated coal resource in the county is 3,89,421.34 million tonnes.
Details of coal bed methane potential in the country are as under –
This information was given by Union Minister of Coal and Mines Shri G. Kishan Reddy in a written reply in Rajya Sabha today.
- Government of India (GoI) had formulated Coal Bed Methane (CBM) Policy in 1997 for development of CBM. As per the policy, Ministry of Petroleum & natural Gas (MoPNG) became the administrative Ministry and Directorate General of Hydrocarbons (DGH) was made the nodal agency for development of CBM in the country. MoPNG in consultation with Ministry of Coal (MoC) has identified and offered CBM blocks from coal bearing areas. In partial modification of CBM Policy, 1997, vide notification dated 8th May’ 2018, Government of India granted the exploration and exploitation rights of CBM to Coal India Limited (CIL) and its subsidiaries in coal bearing areas for which they possess coal mining rights.