Despite the market turbulence due to the global pandemic, 2020 proved to be a formative year for India's clean energy transition.

The growing adoption of solar, wind and other clean energy technologies is not enough for India's energy shift, it is impossible to ignore the role of coal. State-owned enterprise Coal India is the largest coal mining company in the world. The coal sector is a major source of revenue for states and the central government. Also, while renewable energy capacity is dramatically increasing, coal still provides around 70 percent of the country's electricity.

Still, coal is here to stay, even as the Indian government strives to meet bold renewable energy targets, coal use is expected to increase as India's overall energy demand grows. With a robust domestic supply chain and ample capacity available to ramp up coal use at existing power plants, India has a lot to achieve in this sector from the existing resources.

Against this background, Indian Chamber of Commerce is organizing 13th India Coal summit on its virtual platform on 28th September 2021.