Coal shortages are currently causing electricity supply problems in two major coal-using economies, India and China. As Statista’s Katharina Buchholz notes , shortages are happening because economic activity is picking Continue Reading
Coal met some 3 percent of the UK’s electricity demand on Friday morning, reaching its highest level of Britain’s power generation in one month, amid lower wind speeds this week Continue Reading
The coalition that will form the government to succeed Germany’s Angela Merkel has agreed to phase out coal by 2030, eight years than currently planned, Reuters reported on Friday. The Continue Reading
China’s coal futures have closed every trading day this week at a record amid power shortages and blackouts across the country © Bloomberg Chinese coal futures are on track for Continue Reading
Chinese coal futures rose to record levels as floods shut dozens of mines and displaced more than 100,000 people, throttling the country’s main source of fuel for electricity and compounding Continue Reading
Coal supply shortages are pushing prices for the fuel to record highs and laying bare the challenges to weaning the global economy off one of its most important—and polluting—energy sources. The crunch Continue Reading
China has started unloading a small number of Australian coal shipments despite an unofficial import ban, analysts said, in a move underscoring the intensity of the power crunch facing the Continue Reading
The global energy crisis is reshaping trade routes for coal, illustrating the heightened demand for a fuel many considered on the downswing. China’s eastern province of Zhejiang recently received its Continue Reading
German utility Steag halted its coal-fired power plant Bergkamen-A after it ran out of hard coal supplies amid an energy crunch globally and logistics challenges domestically, the company told Bloomberg Continue Reading
Major Chinese coal producers are trying to resolve supply shortages and curb price rises as the country’s winter consumption peak approaches, an industry association said. The China Coal Transportation and Continue Reading
UN Launches ‘No New Coal’ Pledge Seven countries have signed a pledge initiated by the United Nations to stop building new coal power plants, with the aim to gather more Continue Reading
Australia and Indonesia, the world’s biggest coal exporters, face an accelerated decline in global demand for their coal shipments after China said it would stop building coal-fired power plants overseas, Continue Reading
UK power generator Drax Group Plc (DRX.L) said it could keep its coal-fired power plants operating beyond their planned closure next year as the energy crisis in Europe highlights potential Continue Reading
It’s Tuesday, September 21, and the world is turning its back on coal. More than three-quarters of the world’s proposed coal power projects have been canceled since the Paris Agreement Continue Reading
China’s pledge to stop building coal-fired power plants overseas could cull $50 billion of investment as it slashes future carbon emissions, analysts said, although Beijing’s own domestic coal programme is Continue Reading
There isn’t much that Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell and the Sierra Club agree on, but one of those rare things is a measure that’s part of the bipartisan infrastructure Continue Reading
An ambitious project aimed at capturing millions of tons of carbon emissions along the U.S. Gulf Coast in Texas garnered the support of some of the world’s biggest refiners and Continue Reading
Despite its ambitious green energy targets, Europe could be forced to burn more coal this winter if natural gas stockpiles are not adequately replenished amid record-high gas prices, an expert Continue Reading
Chevron and Enterprise Products Partners are exploring carbon storage business opportunities. Chevron and Enterprise Products Partners are exploring carbon storage business opportunities. Through its Chevron New Energies division, Chevron U.S.A. Continue Reading
A plan to push utilities to use more clean energy could eliminate coal from the U.S. power grid by the end of the decade, according to a trade group that Continue Reading
The U.S., the European Union, South Korea and other wealthy nations are moving to forbid their export-financing agencies from supporting coal-fired power projects overseas, in an effort to end government Continue Reading
Coal will be a major contributor to Australia’s economy well beyond 2030 given growth in global demand, the country’s resources minister said on Monday, a day after a United Nations Continue Reading
Back in April, in the midst of a contentious trade spat and unofficial coal embargo between China and Australia, Oilprice speculated that the winner of the battle may not be Continue Reading
Channel surveys underway, expected to take one-two days Floodgate closures stall rail operations Coal carriers remained moored Aug. 30 in the New Orleans region as Hurricane Ida forced closures of Continue Reading
The US exported a combined total of 7.11 million mt thermal and metallurgical coal in June, the highest monthly level since June 2019, according to Census Bureau data released Aug. Continue Reading
One unit at Uniper’s (UN01.DE) 2-gigawatt Ratfcliffe coal plant in Britain will close next year, two years ahead of the full shut down of the facility, the company said on Continue Reading
Despite global expectations to move away from coal, demand in China is still strong, as rising global temperatures causing heat waves are driving up electricity demand and coal prices. Thermal Continue Reading
Amid all the talk of global warming, climate change-induced catastrophes, decarbonization and green finance, the global trade in “dirty” coal is enjoying an ironic renaissance. Bulk ships are busy transporting Continue Reading
China didn’t finance any coal projects via its Belt and Road Initiative in the first half, the first time that’s happened since the plan was launched in 2013, the International Continue Reading
The Biden Administration is committing $300 million to invest in the economic development of coal and coal power plant-affected communities as part of a $3-billion funding for investment in America’s Continue Reading
Weekly US coal carload originations totaled 69,186 in the week ended July 17, up 18.3% from the previous week and up 23.3% from the year-ago week, Association of American Railroads Continue Reading
Coal-fired power plants are proving hard to shut down in developing economies because they are cheap and convenient, but keeping them going is pumping out carbon dioxide at a rate Continue Reading
What You Need To Know Keeping the planet cool enough to avoid catastrophic climate change requires both cutting emissions pumped out annually and removing carbon dioxide that’s already in the Continue Reading
As the European Union gets serious about fighting climate change, experts are fielding more calls than ever from polluters seeking help to trap, process and store their carbon emissions. The Continue Reading
The Energy Information Administration (EIA) on Wednesday said U.S. coal production fell in 2020 to its lowest level since 1965 due to low global demand in the wake of the Continue Reading
The surging, post-pandemic U.S. economy is driving an unexpected boom in coal, the latest sign that demand for the dirtiest fossil fuel remains resilient. American coal production this year will Continue Reading
Just five Asian countries are now producing the vast majority of the region’s coal, with little intention of reining in production as several companies invest in new coal plants. According Continue Reading
The vast majority of new coal-power plants being planned will struggle to make back their upfront costs, including all of those under construction in China, according to a new report Continue Reading
The U.S. Supreme Court decided Monday that it won’t allow Wyoming and Montana to sue Washington state for denying a key permit to build a coal export dock that would Continue Reading
Weekly US coal ship departures totaled 27 in the week ended June 26, down seven from the previous week and down one from the year-ago week, data from cFlow, S&P Continue Reading
Britain will bring forward its target to end the use of coal in electricity generation by a year to October 2024, the government said on Wednesday, part of efforts to Continue Reading
Tampa Electric saw its coal burn fall to 49,854 st in May, up 51.9% from the 32,825 st burned in April, according to the filing published June 28 by the Continue Reading
Tight natural gas supply and a rebound in electricity consumption have combined to push thermal coal prices to the highest in a decade, the Wall Street Journal reports , adding Continue Reading
Coal prices have climbed to their highest level in a decade, making the fuel a hot commodity in a year when governments are pledging reductions in carbon emissions. Thermal-coal pricesSource: Continue Reading
Weekly US coal production was an estimated 12.2 million st in the week ended June 19, down 2.1% from the previous week and up 28.7% from the year-ago week, Energy Continue Reading
Coal needed to provide backup power Feedstock for hydrogen production CCUS a top priority for China China’s strategy to achieve net zero will require large-scale deployment of carbon capture, usage Continue Reading
Florida Power & Light is scheduled to implode the 495 -foot (150-meter) chimney stack of its last coal-fired generating plant on Wednesday, a milestone in its full transition to cleaner Continue Reading
A Chinese-backed coal-fired power plant in Bangladesh that’s been the site of deadly crackdowns on protests has now been accused of failing to ensure proper environmental inspections. The Environmental Impact Assessment Continue Reading
Europe is so short of natural gas that the continent — usually seen as the poster child for the global fight against emissions — is turning to coal to meet Continue Reading
The US Energy Information Administration forecast coal production of about 600 million st in 2021, up 11.3% from the estimated 2020 output of 539 million st, the agency’s Short-Term Energy Continue Reading
