The world’s net capacity additions of coal-fired power generation rose in 2019 for the first time since 2015, due to a surge in the Chinese coal fleet, a new report Continue Reading
The Russian Far East saw the highest ever coal unloading volumes set this week at terminals in the Vladivostok region, Russian Railways said Tuesday. Receive daily email alerts, subscriber notes Continue Reading
Coal, the dirtiest and usually the cheapest option for energy, is now the world’s most expensive fossil fuel. Oil’s epic collapse over the past month means the global crude benchmark is Continue Reading
It is the last coal-fired power plant in New York State. White steam trails from its smokestack like a banner flying in the wind, visible for miles across flat farm Continue Reading
US coal carloads fell to a 10-year low 55,542 in the week ended March 14, down 5.3% from a week earlier and 23% lower than the year-ago week, the Association Continue Reading
Weekly US coal production was estimated at 10.6 million st in the week that ended March 7, down 6.1% from the previous week, US Energy Information Administration data said Thursday. Continue Reading
US coal carloads were at a near four-year low 58,659 in the week ended March 7, the lowest total since 58,166 in the week ended April 9, 2016, the Association Continue Reading
Coal has few friends around the world, but China isn’t giving up on the world’s most polluting power-plant fuel just yet. European nations from the U.K. to the Netherlands and Germany Continue Reading
Coal-fired power plants are retreating from the market in at least two big ways. One is hard to miss: Many plants are closing. The other is more subtle: Remaining plants Continue Reading
Weekly US coal train loadings averaged 74.5 trains/day in the week ended February 28, up 1.3 trains/day from the previous week, Surface Transportation Board data showed Monday. From the year-ago Continue Reading
U.S. coal use plunged more than 13% in 2019, the most in 65 years, as power plants shut down across the country. That’s poised to happen again this year. Total Continue Reading
Weakening spot natural gas prices pulled down Southwest Power Pool wholesale power prices nearly 31% year on year in February, as wind generation continued to displace coal-fired power for a Continue Reading
In the past three months, regulators appointed by President Donald Trump have disrupted ambitious plans to combat climate change in electric grids serving 85 million people in the U.S., from Continue Reading
British hedge fund billionaire Chris Hohn has launched a campaign to persuade central banks to starve hundreds of planned coal-fired power plants around the world of finance, aiming to block Continue Reading
Trump administration resuming coal leasing on public lands The Trump administration announced on Wednesday that it will be resuming coal leasing on public lands, angering conservationists. The Bureau of Land Continue Reading
US coal-fired power generation totaled 72.6 TWh in December, down 4.1% from November, US Energy Information Administration data said late Wednesday. The generation declined 25.1% from the year-ago month, the Continue Reading
BNSF Railway saw a decrease in coal volumes and revenue in 2019, primarily as the result of lower natural gas prices and adverse weather conditions, the company reported Monday. Receive Continue Reading
Carbon capture technology has been garnering more and more attention as one way to solve the world’s human-made emissions problem, but costs remain an obstacle. But another technology might help: Continue Reading
India is aiming to become self-sufficient in thermal coal from the financial year 2023-2024, said Pralhad Joshi, the Union Minister of Coal and Mines Tuesday while chairing a brainstorming session Continue Reading
In a dusty northwest India desert dotted with cows and the occasional camel, a solar-power plant is producing some of the world’s cheapest energy. Built in 2018 by India’s Acme Continue Reading
After a Jekyll and Hyde year in 2019, and a decade characterised by China’s disruption of the met coal trade, participants can be forgiven for being sick of change. But Continue Reading
The European Union has undergone a pretty dramatic transformation as of late — and we’re not talking about Brexit. The group of member states, which pledged as a collective to Continue Reading
The sustainability of the uptrend in seaborne thermal coal prices is largely dependent on the rate of Chinese domestic production, ANZ analysts said in a report released Thursday. Receive daily Continue Reading
Rare earth elements (REEs) are vital materials for modern technologies. The US National Energy Technology Laboratory (NETL) is collaborating with the University of Kentucky and their subcontractor Virginia Tech to Continue Reading
Carbon capture has existed for decades, but some recent efforts seek to lower the costs of the process. Climeworks’s CO2 collection system in Hinwil, Switzerland. Can new technology suck carbon Continue Reading
The impact of the coronavirus outbreak on Chinese coal has resulted in a production standstill, as the effects reverberate across the wider commodity markets and with shipowners reluctant to move Continue Reading
US coal production is forecast to be about 596 million st in 2020, down 13.7% from the estimated 2019 output of 690 million st, data from the Energy Information Administration’s Continue Reading
U.S. Energy Secretary Dan Brouillette said on Friday that Canada and Mexico could help export U.S. coal to Asia to get around the blocking of shipments by West Coast states Continue Reading
Russia has been historically associated with oil and gas exports, yet the news somewhat underreports its coal market presence. Although neither the world’s largest coal producer nor exporter, Russia seems Continue Reading
The world’s leading central banks should purge coal-related assets from their balance sheets and set rules discouraging the financial system from financing polluting industries, according to the New Economics Foundation Continue Reading
For nearly half a century, the deserts and plains of the American West have been punctuated by coal-burning furnaces and towering smokestacks — hulking power stations that have sustained small-town Continue Reading
US metallurgical coal exports totaled 50 million mt in 2019, down 10.4% from 2018, according to data issued Wednesday by the US Census. It was the lowest since 2016, when Continue Reading
Noriko Hayashi for The New York Times Just beyond the windows of Satsuki Kanno’s apartment overlooking Tokyo Bay, a behemoth from a bygone era will soon rise: a coal-burning power Continue Reading
Indiana lawmakers advanced legislation designed to slow the pace of the state’s coal plant retirements. Receive daily email alerts, subscriber notes & personalize your experience. Register Now The Indiana House Continue Reading
Chinese coal mines in Shanxi’s Linfen and Yulin cities have delayed restarting production after the Lunar New Year holidays because of the coronavirus outbreak, sources told S&P Global Platts Friday. Continue Reading
US coal-fired generation continued to decline in January as natural gas pricing dropped and weather remained mild, an S&P Global Platts Analytics report said Friday. Receive daily email alerts, subscriber Continue Reading
Chinese coal mines in Shanxi’s Linfen and Yulin cities have delayed restarting production after the Lunar New Year holidays because of the coronavirus outbreak, sources told S&P Global Platts Friday. Continue Reading
The Michigan City Generating Station in Indiana, owned by the utility NIPSCO, is a coal-fired power plant that is set to close. A proposal in the state legislature would place Continue Reading
Uniper will decommission German hard coal plants at Scholven, Wilhemshaven and Buer by end-2022, and at Staudinger and Heyden by end-2025 at the latest, the German company said in a Continue Reading
US coal-fired power generation totaled 75.6 TWh in November, down 18.7% on year but up 13.1% from October, Energy Information Administration data showed Monday. It was the first month-on-month increase Continue Reading
One of the greatest moral dilemmas that has been creeping into the everyday activities of specialists working with coal, oil and in some cases even gas (despite its being perceived Continue Reading
Electricity fuelled by coal is experiencing a record decline. 2019 is expected to show the biggest fall yet, after decades of increases. An accelerated move away from coal is imperative Continue Reading
In a finance world increasingly committing to investing with environmental, social and governance factors as a priority, the coal sector is finding it difficult to find its place. Over the Continue Reading
Total UP volumes fall 20% on year Annual net income $5.9 billion, down 1% on year Houston — Union Pacific coal volumes dropped 25% in the fourth quarter year on Continue Reading
Asian seaborne thermal coal traders voiced concerns over near-term demand as more utilities consider the feasibility of a coal-to-gas switching amid languishing LNG prices, sources told S&P Global Platts on Continue Reading
European business news recently announced the latest German government initiative to decarbonize its nation’s electric power generation by closing all coal fired generating stations by 2038. The plan received the Continue Reading
In September of last year Oilprice reported an incredible milestone for renewable energy when solar and wind power became cheaper than coal in most of the world. Now, a new Continue Reading
Egypt imported 6.32 million mt of thermal coal in 2019, up 31% on the previous year, according to official data from the Port of Alexandria, boosted by strong demand from Continue Reading
China has reportedly launched fresh restrictions on thermal coal imports this year, with tightened customs declarations at certain ports effective Friday, market sources said. Caofeidian port in northern China and Continue Reading
Germany has agreed to compensation of about 40 billion euros ($45 billion) for affected regions, workers and companies as part of plans to end its use of brown coal in Continue Reading
