India’s Coal Stocks Are Critically Low Amid Global Power Crunch 

India’s massive coal fleet is running out of coal, threatening a power crunch in the country that relies on the dirtiest fossil fuel for most of its electricity generation.  Coal is the major power generating fuel in India, accounting for 70 percent of electricity generation.  Coal inventories at many of the over 100 coal-fired power plants are at critically low levels, while India scrambles to get more coal supply amid a global crunch of energy supply and skyrocketing prices of coal and natural gas. As per India’s Central…