Coal

Coal Trade

Merkel Rejects Bringing Forward Germany’s Exit from Coal

German Chancellor Angela Merkel on Saturday rejected demands to bring forward an exit date for ending coal generation in Germany, currently set at 2038.

Coal Mine

Coal India’s Offtake Increased in April

Amid the second wave of COVID-19, Coal India Ltd’s offtake increased to 54.1 million t in April 2021.

Energy Security

Taiwan’s Power Outage Highlights Grid Vulnerability

Many parts of Taiwan were put on a rotational blackout this afternoon because of insufficient electricity supply after a coal-fired power plant in the south of …

Coal Company

Coal India Carbon Emissions Less than 1pc of India's in FY20

Pollution arising out of coal mining operations is not much compared to burning of the fossil fuel, from where major emissions emanate

Coal Trade

S Korea Coal Imports Drop Amid Voluntary Restrictions

South Korean thermal coal imports fell on the year in April amid a likely drop in coal-fired generation, driven in part by voluntary restrictions on the use of …

Thermal Coal

China’s Coal Futures Hit Record As Exchange Tries to Cool Rally with Fee Hike

Prices have rallied 34 per cent so far this year as miners struggle to meet robust demand from the nation’s economic rebound.

Australia

World’s Biggest Coal Exporters Cry Foul Over Financing

Denied insurance, rebuffed loan applications and struggling to refinance: Australia’s coal export industry, the world’s largest, says it is being squeezed out…

Pumped Storage

Buccleuch to Market Pumped Hydro and Wind Site

Project is located on a former opencast coal mining site on the Queensberry Estate in Dumfriesshire in Scotland

Crude Oil

U.S. Energy Production Saw Steepest Drop On Record In 2020

Due to economic responses to the pandemic, U.S. energy production dropped by 5 percent last year, marking the steepest annual decline on record.

Coal Production

China Accounted For Half Of The World’s Coal Generated In 2020, Says Study

Coal-fired power in China gained 2% in 2020, accounting for 53% of the overall coal-fired generation portfolio worldwide

Market Analysis

Greece Commits to 2025 Coal Phase-Out

Greece’s Public Power Corp., the country’s biggest energy company, has announced that its coal-fired thermal power plant Ptolemaida 5 will be converted to gas…

Coal-Fired Power Plants

Kansai Electric and Marubeni drop coal power plant plans

Kansai Electric Power and Marubeni have reportedly scrapped their plans for a 1.3GW coal-fired power plant in Japan.

Chile

Engie Says will Ditch Coal in Chile

The group reaffirmed a commitment to close six coal-fired plants, two of which have already been shut down, that generate nearly 1.5 GW of electricity, a statem…

Clean Coal

Eastern Mining Company Present Concept of ‘Green Coal Cluster’

VGK, one of the ten largest coal mining companies in the Russian Federation, intends to create a ‘Green Coal Cluster’ in the Uglegorsk District of the Sakhali…

Coal Mine

NSW Commission Consents to Tahmoor Coal Mine Extension

The New South Wales Independent Planning Commission has granted development consent for a proposed extension to the Tahmoor Coal Mine, on Sydney’s southwestern…