Coal

Coal-Fired Power Plants

Japan's Industry Minister: Japan Will Continue to Use Coal-fired Power Plants

Kajiyama told reporters on Tuesday that Japan wants to keep thermal power plants using coal and other fossil fuel as an option. He said it's very important to s…

CCS

The Economics And Technology Behind Trapping Carbon Dioxide

The U.S. Department of Energy plans to partner with the University of Wyoming to accelerate research on carbon capture technology at two of the state’s coal-fi…

Coal-Fired Power Plants

Pristine-M Solution Improves the Efficiency of Coal-Burning Power Plants

The future of coal is, in many ways, contradictory. While countries such as the UK and Germany look to replace a reliance on coal with renewable power and clean…

Coal-Fired Power Plants

Siemens Supplies Digital Solutions for India Coal Plant

The German energy company will install a complete thermal twin for the plant in Lalitpur, Uttar Pradesh, which is owned by Lalitpur Power Generation Company Lim…

For Hydrogen to be Truly 'Clean' it Must be Made with Renewables, Not Coal

Using hydrogen as a clean fuel is an idea whose time may be coming. For Australia, producing hydrogen is alluring: it could create a lucrative new domestic indu…

Germany Delays Vote on Coal Law Until After SPD Congress

Germany's cabinet has deferred consideration of a proposed coal exit law until beyond a Social Democrat party convention that is likely to add strain to the gov…

Coal-Fired Power Plants

Coal Power Generation Continues to Drop in the US

By comparing 2018 and 2019 energy production data for the entire country, the researchers found that coal generation in 2019 Q2 was down 19% when compared to th…

Thermal Plant

TransAlta Selects Emerson for Coal-to-Gas Conversion

TransAlta Corporation has selected Emerson as the main automation contractor in its planned conversions of coal-fired units to natural gas.

Distributed Generation

Better Grid Integration Beats Coal Plant Ramping to Reduce Wind, Solar Curtailment

Wind and solar curtailment is worst where these renewables are poorly integrated into the grid. The further their energy can reach the more regions they can ser…

Coal Power

Replacing Coal with Gas will Open New ‘Window of Opportunity’

Canada still has only one liquefied natural gas export project under construction, despite more than two dozen separate developments being pitched over the past…

Coal Trade

India Steel Minister Expects to Increase Coking Coal Imports from Russia

India’s Steel Minister Dharmendra Pradhan said he was confident India’s imports of coking coal from Russia would increase significantly in coming months, addi…

Japan's Promotion of Coal-Fired Power Plants Leads to U.N. Rejecting Abe's Request

The United Nations rejected Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s request to speak at its climate summit last September, government sources said Thursday, apparently due…

Coal-Fired Power Plants

India Pollution Regulator Threatens to Shut Coal-Fired Utilities Around New Delhi

India’s federal pollution regulator has warned coal-fired power plants around New Delhi that they could be shut down for failing to comply with deadlines to me…

Coal Mine

Anglo to Sell 12% of Australian Coal Mine to Japanese Partners

Mining group Anglo American is selling a 12% stake in its coking coal operations at Grosvenor in Queensland, Australia, to a group of Japanese partners for arou…

Coal Mine

Coal-Fired Power Is Declining Thanks to a Slowdown in India and China

After more than a century as the world’s dominant source of electricity, coal may finally be losing its importance. Coal-fired power production is projected to…