Amid rising power demand, coal behemoth Coal India’s supplies to the power sector rose 10.63 per cent year-on-year to 48.90 million tonnes (mt) in September, compared with 44.20 mt in the year-ago period.
Supplies to the non-regulated sector (NRS) also grew 19.41 per cent y-o-y in September. The company registered a coal offtake growth of 12.5 per cent y-o-y to 61.2 MT from 54.2 MT in the year-ago period, according to a stock exchange filing on Thursday.
The state-run miner’s production for the month increased 9.2 per cent y-o-y to 53.5 mt from 49 mt in the year-ago period. All its coal-producing subsidiaries, except Northern Coalfields Ltd (NCL), registered output growth.
Coal India, in a statement, said on a quarter-on-quarter comparison, coal supplies recorded a strong growth in the second quarter of this fiscal when the company increased its coal supplies to 186.04 mt, registering a growth of 12.04 per cent over the second quarter of the previous fiscal. As far as supply to the power sector is concerned, the second quarter witnessed a growth of 11 per cent over the same period in the previous fiscal. The State-run company supplied 148.20 mt to the power sector compared to 133.50 mt in the second quarter of the last financial year.
Coal production during the second quarter grew 3.81 per cent y-o-y to 151.37 MT, as against 145.82 MT during the same period of the last financial year.
“The higher supplies enabled CIL to liquidate around 63 mt of pithead coal stocks during the first six months of FY27. With the sustained operational momentum demonstrated during September and Q2FY27, CIL remains well positioned to pursue its assigned coal production and supply targets and continue contributing to the energy security of the country on a sustained basis,” it said, adding with the monsoon season over, coal production is expected to further pick up, along with supplies.
Coal India’s output for the first half of this fiscal (H1FY27) fell 2.5 per cent y-o-y at 321 mt from 329.1 mt in the corresponding period last fiscal. Offtake, however, grew 7.6 per cent y-o-y to 384.2 mt during the period from 357 mt from the same period last fiscal.
Notably, CIL has been assigned a coal production target of 815 mt and supply target of 850 mt for the current financial year.
Published on October 1, 2026
