Coal

Coal-Fired Power Plants

GE to Support Digitisation of Dominican Republic's Largest Coal Plant

GE is providing the Corporación Dominicana de Empresas Eléctricas Estatales with a combined software and services package at the coal-fired Central Termoeléc…

Market Analysis

Coal Should have no Part in Economies' Post-COVID Plans: UN Chief

Antonio Guterres expressed concern that new coal plants are still being financed.

Thermal Coal

Storms Disrupt NSW Coal Ports

Storms along the New South Wales coast in east Australia have disrupted coal shipments from the port of Newcastle and Port Kembla at Wollongong, leading to long…

Coal Trade

Mine Expansion Threatens German Villages Despite Coal Exit

Lost in the countryside of western Germany, the innocuously named L277 road has become a central battleground in a bitter fight over the country’s plan to ditc…

Coal Mine

Poland Poised to Announce Major Coal Mine Closures

Poland’s biggest coal producer, state-run PGG, is likely to announce within days deep cuts in coal output and the closure of a number mines as part of a restru…

Coal Trade

Ukraine's Coal Imports in the First Half of 2020 Fall 18.4% Year-on-Year

Ukraine's coal imports were 8.6 million tons, down 18.5% year-on-year. Among them, coal imports from Russia and the United States accounted for 60% and 30% resp…

Coal Trade

South Korean 2H Coal Demand Faces Headwinds

Power sector coal demand in South Korea faces the dual headwind of rising nuclear availability and increasingly competitive gas prices.

Coal-Fired Power Plants

U.S. Gas-Fired Plants Convert Nearly Half of Fuel to Power

More than 60 percent of the energy consumed by U.S. utility-scale power generation facilities was lost in the conversion to electricity last year, according to …

Coal Company

Coal Operator Rhino Resource Partners Files for Bankruptcy Protection

Rhino Resource Partners, one of the companies that purchased assets from bankrupt coal operator Blackjewel last year, has filed for bankruptcy protection.

Coal-Fired Power Plants

States are Banning Coal. Will it Change the Electricity Mix?

Following in the footsteps of several other states with clean energy goals, Hawaii lawmakers passed a bill this month banning utilities from using coal in a bid…

Coal Trade

Europe Steams Towards Coal Exit

Europe’s long goodbye to coal is speeding up, in a transition smoothed by the rise of wind and solar power and energy policy that has priced the fossil fuel ou…

Coal-Fired Power Plants

Zambia: Maamba Collieries Supplies Full Energy Capacity Amid Winter

Maamba Collieries is working flat out to meet the nation’s peak season energy requirement with demand increasing in winter.

Geothermal Power Plant

Technology Geothermal Heating to be Cornerstone of Czech City’s Efforts on energy transition

The city is putting the emphasis on two key themes, solar energy and geothermal energy to reduce a dependence on coal and on energy consumption and efficiency.

Coal Trade

Trump Administration Invests in ‘New Future’ for Coal

The U.S. Department of Energy announced on Friday it will provide $118 million in funding to support research and development of technologies to make coal power…

Thermal Coal

Yancoal Targets 38mn t of Australian Coal Sales in 2020

Chinese-Australian coal firm Yancoal expects to produce 38mn t of saleable coal in 2020, up by 6.7pc from 35.6mn t in 2019.