Coal

Pumped Storage

Australian Coal Mine to Transform into Pumped Hydro Facility

Australian utility AGL is transforming its operations in a number of ways, from restructuring the company itself, to building energy storage facilities for flex…

China

China’s New Renewable Energy Target to Curb Coal Demand

Beijing has set a preliminary target to increase wind and solar-based power generation in order to meet its longer-term emission goal.

Coal Price

South Korean Coal Prices Ease

Thermal coal prices for South Korea softened this week, as Australian fob prices came under pressure from a weaker demand outlook in India and Japan.

Coal Mine

Trafo Power Solutions Supplies Transformers to South African Coal Mine

Trafo Power Solutions has customised two dry-type transformers for a coal mine in South Africa’s Limpopo province, allowing the units to be fitted into existin…

Coal-Fired Power Plants

China Huaneng Group and Glencore Sign MoU on CCUS Project

Glencore is one of the world’s largest diversified natural resource companies and China Huaneng is one of the world’s largest energy and technology companies.…

Coal Production

Global Coal Production to Rise by 3.5% in 2021

Global coal output is estimated to have declined by 2% in 2020 due to COVID-19-related lockdowns and restrictions, with significant reductions observed in the U…

Coal-Fired Power Plants

Retired New Mexico Coal-Fired Plant to be Repurposed to Hydrogen

A retired coal-fired power plant in Prewitt, New Mexico is set to be converted to produce blue and green hydrogen by a new technology collaboration, Escalante H…

Coal Production

China’s ETS to Reduce Coal’s Share of Power Mix: IEA

Without tighter allocation benchmarks for coal-fired plants or the introduction of allowance auctions, the scheme could fail to encourage any significant coal-t…

Solar Power Plant

Capital Dynamics to Build 200MW Indiana Solar

Elliot Solar project is due to enter construction in mid-2022 under a build-transfer agreement with NIPSCo

Solar Power Plant

Xcel Wants to Build $575M Solar Plant in Becker

Project will be adjacent to the utility's Sherco coal-power complex.

Coal Mine

Vietnam's Coal Imports Rebound in March

Vietnamese coal imports in March slipped for the fourth straight month from a year earlier, although they more than doubled from the previous month with the con…

Coal Mine

Australia’s Queensland Coal Exports Hit Four-Year Low

Shipments from the four largest coal export ports in Australia's Queensland state were at the lowest level in four years on an average daily basis in March, ent…

Coal-Fired Power Plants

Ireland’s Last Coal Mine to be a Green Energy Hub

Ireland Government’s ambition is to reach net zero emissions by 2050.

Coal Mine

Sibanthracite Increased Volume of Mining Output in Q1 by 17%

In the first quarter of 2021, the Sibanthracite Group’s production volume amounted to 4,839,000 tonnes, of which 2,917,000 was UHG anthracite, and 1,922,000 wa…

Hydrogen Project

Uniper Converts Its Site from Coal-Fired to Hydrogen-Run

German utility Uniper will transform its Wilhelmshaven 757-megawatt coal-based plant to run on hydrogen.