Indian Coal Energy

Nearly 63 percent of the India’s total energy requirements are met from coal. The available coal reserves in India are sufficient to meet our needs for at least another 100 years. India now ranks 3rd amongst the coal producing countries in the world.
 
Taking the above facts into consideration it is obvious that coal is one of the potential energy substitutes in India.
This section provides status and trends on Indian coal energy

Reserves

COAL RESERVES IN INDIA (As on 1.1.2007) (in billion tonnes)
TYPE	TOTAL RESERVE	PROVED RESERVE	INDICATED RESERVE	INFERRED RESERVE
COKING	32	17	13	2
NON-COKING	255	98	119	36
TOTAL	287	115	132	40

Major Coal Based Thermal Projects 

Plant	Location	Capacity (MW)
Talcher	ORISSA	3000
Vindhyachal	MADHYA PRADESH	2760
Ramagundam	ANDHRA PRADESH	2600
Korba	CHHATISGARH	2100
Singrauli	UTTAR PRADESH	2000
Rihand	UTTAR PRADESH	2000
Farakka	WEST BENGAL	1600
Wanakbori TPS	GUJARAT	1260
Kolaghat Thermal Power Station (U 1-6)	WEST BENGAL	1260
FGUTPS-Unchahar	UTTAR PRADESH	1050
Simhadri	ANDHRA PRADESH	1000
Anpara B	UTTAR PRADESH	1000
Obra B	UTTAR PRADESH	1000
Mejia Thermal Power Station	WEST BENGAL	840
NCTPS-Dadri	UTTAR PRADESH	840
Kahalgaon	BIHAR	840
Korba-West	CHHATTISGARH	840
Sanjay Gandhi TPH Birsinghpur (PH I & II)	MADHYA PRADESH	840
Patratu T. P. S	JHARKHAND	770
Chandrapura Thermal Power Station	JHARKHAND	750
Renusagar Power Division (Captive Power Plant)	UTTAR PRADESH	741.7
Badarpur	DELHI	705
Durgapur Projects Power Station	WEST BENGAL	701
Gandhinagar TPS (Unit-1-4)	GUJARAT	660
Bokaro Thermal Power Station	JHARKHAND	630

Short tons of coal consumed per country per year

Country	Coal consumption *
India	339,000,000
US	1,060,000,000
UK	66,100,000
France	20,890,000
Italy	22,400,000
Canada	67,000,000
China	1,310,000,000
Japan	149,500,000.