Coal

Coal-Fired Power Plants

Thermal Power Plants Allowed to Use Coal with High Ash Content

The environment ministry has decided that it will no longer regulate the ash-content of coal used by thermal power plants.

Energy Transition

Spain's New Climate Law to Ban New Coal, Oil and Gas Projects

Teresa Ribera, the vice president and Minister of Ecology in Spain, has announced the country's new proposed net-zero carbon plan.

Clean Energy Transition

Germany's Coal-Powered Days are Over, Smart DER is the Future

The days of coal-powered generation are over in Germany, thanks in part to the COVID-19 crisis, according to the country's renewable energy federation, the Bund…

Coal-Fired Power Plants

GenOn Will Close Three Coal-Fired Units

The Texas-based company that owns a coal-fired power plant in Maryland announced it will retire the facility's three generating units, which have been in operat…

Gas power plant

Alliant Closing Coal Unit, Brings Gas Plant Online

Alliant Energy, based in Wisconsin, said on May 22 that it would retire its coal-fired Edgewater power plant in Sheboygan by the end of 2022.

Energy Technology

Coregas Supporting Coal-to-Hydrogen Project

A world first project in Victoria, Australia that will convert brown coal to hydrogen for export to Japan is being supported by the only Australian-owned indust…

Coal Mine

CCL First off with Coal Infra Projects Worth Rs 1,200 Crore

Central Coalfields Ltd became the first miner to bid for a rs 1.2 crore project just days after finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman announced a rs 50,000 invest…

Coal-Fired Power Plants

Closed Texas Power Plant May be Refired in 2021

A now-closed coal-fired power plant in Texas may be reopened in 2021 to help meet what is projected to be record high demand for electricity.

Coal-Fired Power Plants

Construction Halted on 1-GW Polish Coal Plant

Polish energy companies Enea and Energa announced late on May 19 that they were ending their involvement in the construction of the Ostroleka C coal-fired power…

Coal-Fired Power Plants

DEFF Orders Eskom to Shut Down Kendal Power Station

South Africa's environment minister, Barbara Creecy, has rejected Eskom's objection to and confirmed the compliance notice issued to Eskom in December 2019 by t…

Coal Trade

Asia Has Already Begun Coal to Gas Switch

An escalating decline in thermal coal imports among major Asian buyers can largely be attributed to a collapse in LNG prices, according to commodity tracking fi…

Coal-Fired Power Plants

India Added 8,800 MW of Coal-Based Power Capacity Last Year: IEEFA

The thermal power generation sector is facing stress carrying $40-60 billion of potentially non-performing assets, IEEFA said.

Coal-Fired Power Plants

Mongolia Offers Rio Tinto Surprise Proposal to Build Coal-Fired Power Station

The cost of expanding Rio Tinto's Oyu Tolgoi copper project could decline by nearly US$1B under a surprise Mongolian government plan that could increase its lon…

Thermal Coal

Tohoku Electric Set Coal Contract Price at $68.75/T

Global miner Glencore Plc and Japan's Tohoku Electric Power agreed to import thermal coal from Australia at $68.75 a ton through March 2021.

Coal Price

Effects of Lower Coal Prices Only Partially Reflected in 1Q20

As average coal input prices exceeded our estimate due to lower utilization rates at coal power plants, KEPCO’s 1Q20 results fell short of our estimates.