Amid growing power demand, Coal India Limited (CIL) augmented its coal supplies by 12.5% to 61.20 million t in September FY26/27, compared with 54.40 million t during the corresponding month of the previous fiscal. Supplies to the power sector also registered strong growth of 10.63%, during the month rising to 48.90 million t from 44.20 million t in previous fiscal.
Coal supplies to the non-regulated sector (NRS) also registered robust growth, increasing by 19.41%
During the month, CIL’s coal production grew by 9.18% to 53.50 million t, compared with 49 million t last year.
On a Q-to-Q comparison, CIL’s coal supplies recorded strong growth in Q2 of the fiscal, when the company increased its coal supplies to 186.04 million t, registering a growth of 12.04% over Q2 of the previous fiscal. As far as supply to power sector is concerned, the second quarter witnessed a growth of 11% over same period in previous fiscal. The company supplied 148.20 million t to power sector compared to 133.50 million t in Q2 last year.
Coal production during Q2 grew by 3.81% to 151.37 million t, as against 145.82 million t during Q2 of the last financial year.
The higher supplies enabled CIL to liquidate around 63 million t of pithead coal stocks during the first six months of FY 26/27.
With the sustained operational momentum demonstrated during September and Q2 FY26/27, 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. With the monsoon season over, coal production is expected to further pick up, along with supplies.
CIL has been assigned a coal production target of 815 million t and supply target of 850 million t for the current fiscal.
