India's state-owned coal giant Coal India Ltd. said its supply of fossil fuel to the country's coal-fired electricity generating units increased by 6% to 23.5 million tonnes in the first half of October.

Although non-seasonal rainfall has impacted coal production in eastern India, coal supply still increased due to surged power demand in the country.

The overall coal supply by CIL to coal-fired plants was nearly 319 million tonnes till October 15 of the ongoing fiscal, which was 12 million tonnes higher in volume terms compared to 307 million tonnes supplied during the corresponding period of FY23.

CIL is the largest coal producer in India and accounted for over 80% of the country's output.

"CIL's supplies to all consuming sectors were 389.3 million tonnes during the referred period posting 9% growth compared to 356.6 million tonnes of same period last fiscal year," it said.

CIL's production reached 360 million tonnes till October 15 of this fiscal year, which has logged a robust 11.6% year-on-year growth with 37.6 million tonnes expansion in volume terms. This growth is higher than the targeted 11%, the company said.

(Writing by Rebecca Liu  Editing by Harry Huo)
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