India’s Coal Crisis Worsens As Top Coal Miner Halts Supply To Industrial Users

The largest coal miner in the world, Coal India, has temporarily suspended supply to several industrial consumers in India as it prioritizes shipments to the coal power plants which provide most of the electricity in the country, the company told Bloomberg in a text message on Thursday. India, like other countries in Asia, faces a severe coal supply shortage, threatening power outages and industry slowdown, amid rallying global prices of coal and natural gas. “This is only a temporary prioritization,” according to Coal India’s…