Coal

Net Zero Emission

IEA’s Simple Message for Australia: No Place for Gas-Fired Recovery in Net Zero by 2050

The International Energy Agency’s Net Zero says the world should add “no new oil and gas fields … and no new coal mines or mine extensions if it is to achiev…

Wind Turbine Blade

New Coalition to Commercialise Solution for Wind Turbine Blade Recycling

A coalition of industry and academic leaders has developed a new technology to enable circularity for thermoset composites, the material used to make wind turbi…

Thermal Plant

Kusile Power Station on Target to be Completed by 2023

South African Deputy-President, David Mabuza, recently visited the Kusile Power Station in the Mpumalanga province to evaluate the progress being made.

Coal Mine

Video: Coal Mines in China's Shanxi Province Covered by 5G Network

China's coal-rich Shanxi Province has installed first 5G network in coal mine in order to promote mining safety

Coal-Fired Power Plants

80 per cent of US Coal Plants Scheduled to Close

Coal has had a presence since the 1300s, when the Hopi Indians first began to use it. By the late 1800s, it had overtaken wood as the primary source of fuel for…

Solar Power Plant

The Dam Has Broken And West Virginia Has Awoken To Solar Power

The coal industry’s tight grip on West Virginia is loosening.

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.