A major coal and energy producer, North China's Shanxi province is contributing its efforts to China's campaign of carbon peaking and neutrality.

In March, the production of raw coal was 395.79 million tons, a year-on-year increase of 14.8%.

India is likely to face more power cuts this year as utilities' coal inventories are at the lowest pre-summer levels in at least nine years and electricity demand is expected to rise at the fastest pace in at least 38 years, officials and analysts say.

Eswatini Railway (ERS) Chief Executive officer Nixon Dlamini says the Sidvokodvo Coal Operation, which is a project the company is working on in partnership with Grinrod, a Mozambican-based operator of coal, has major spill-overs.

In the Pacific, coal trade from eastern Russia to buyers was disrupted.

Research institute Coaltech’s Colloquium – to be held on May 27, 2022, at the Ridge Hotel and Casino in Emalahleni, in Mpumalanga – will showcase the most recent research topics and projects that the institute has been pursuing.

"We should make science-based decisions and avoid a one-size-fits-all approach," he said.

Fostering advanced manufacturing in Shanxi leads to province selling cutting-edge power equipment to Laos, delivered via new railway line.