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Solar Power at CIL Mining Areas may Compensate the Emissions

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If coal gets all the blame for pollution, the country's biggest producer of this fuel — Coal India Limited (CIL) — has plans on clean energy. The PSU mining company has drawn up plans to generate 1,000MW of solar power, starting with Madhya Pradesh. The project will be eventually spread to other states like Maharashtra, Jharkhand, Bihar, Orissa and Chhattisgarh, where CIL has its subsidiaries.
Source: ToI

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Installing 1GW of solar power plant on land available mining areas of CIL is likely to add to INDCs, where India intends to reduce the carbon emissions intensity by 33-35 per cent by 2030, from its 2005 levels, supporting upcoming paris climate summit. Also, this would help the company in a longer run in term of compensating the environmental impact due to mining and may impasse the MoEF idea of going UG mining wherever possible.
Source: SNP Infra Research