Category: Coal
Britain went coal-free for 18 days
Great Britain went 432 hours in May without using coal for electricity generation, a tweet by the National Grid ESO (NGESO) reports. The streak ended after 18 days and 60 hours due to plant availability and system requirements, the country’s...
INFOGRAPHIC: the world's top fossil fuel producers
Fossil energy fueled the Industrial Revolution, resulting in enormous technological, social and economic changes across the world. These fuels (Coal, oil, and gas) continue to play a major role in global energy systems, but which country produces the most? These...
Australia's energy, carbon policies remain a deadlocked mess — opinion
There has been no shortage of fighting talk about Australia’s lack of cohesive energy and carbon policies in recent weeks, with the only certainty being the combative rhetoric makes a lasting solution more of a fantasy. Australia is the world’s...
Energy prices crash in Europe as old, new fuels vie for share
Gas and coal prices are plunging in Europe, hurt by the relentless threat of ever-cheaper clean energy that’s gaining market share and pushing out the fossil fuels in the process. Both energy commodities had their fourth weekly decline, with benchmark...
Trump campaign official lobbies for Ohio coal, nuclear subsidies
The Ohio House of Representatives on Wednesday approved a measure that would subsidize the state’s struggling coal and nuclear plants after lobbying from a member of President Donald Trump’s re-election campaign. Bob Paduchik, who also led the Ohio Trump campaign...
IMO 2020, EVs, and steel — a perfect storm in the needle coke sector?
The new International Maritime Organization (IMO) 2020 regulations are expected to have some tangible effect on the steel industry. Primarily, increasing freight rates for raw materials such as iron ore and coal as ship owners and operators pass on higher bunker costs....
Uncertain future for Hume Coal's mine in Australia
The government of New South Wales, in southeastern Australia, issued a communiqué where it says that the state’s Independent Planning Commission found that Hume Coal needs to address certain environmental and social issues before being approved for the construction of...
Natural gas now beats coal, even in West Virginia: Justin Fox
We appear to have quietly passed another landmark in the transformation of U.S. energy production. For the first time ever, the famously coal-centric state of West Virginia last year produced more natural gas, as measured by energy content, than coal....
Merkel cabinet approves $45B in aid for coal regions
German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s cabinet approved an aid package worth as much as 40 billion euros ($44.7 billion) by 2038 for the nation’s coal regions, launching a drive to transform chimney-stack economies into high-tech centers. Merkel’s administration announced an exit...
Trump likes fossil fuels but investors don’t
Fossil fuel never had a better friend in the White House than Donald Trump. So why, two years into his presidency, are investors favoring public companies devoted to renewable energy and giving the Bronx cheer to the coal, gas and...
Polish government has turned energy market into a 'tragedy,' regulator says
Poland’s energy market is being left to speculators after repeated interventions by the government have put off long-term investors, the head of market regulator URE told Reuters, describing the situation as a “tragedy”. Maciej Bando, whose five-year term ends in...
Poland to hold high-level talks on Prairie Mining coal projects dispute
Poland’s prime minister and other government officials will meet on Tuesday to discuss a threat by Australia’s Prairie Mining to sue Warsaw over difficulties it faced in developing coal projects, three sources familiar with the situation said. Prairie Mining, which...