Sentences with phrase «us coal consumption»

The IEA expects China to cut its average annual coal consumption by some 300 million tons a year through 2040.

He later explains how the firm is combating the stigma of coal consumption.

Beijing originally aimed to bring coal consumption to below 10 million tonnes this year, down from around 22 million tonnes in 2013, and has already shut major coal - fired power stations.

The electric power sector accounted for about 92.4 % of the total U.S. coal consumption in fourth — quarter 2017.

U.S. Coal Consumption at Manufacturing Plants by North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) Code

U.S. coal consumption totaled 172.7 million short tons in fourth — quarter 2017, which was 15.3 % lower than the 204 million short tons reported in third — quarter 2017 and 4.6 % lower than the 181 million short tons reported in fourth — quarter 2016.

By 2035, the IEA estimates that world coal consumption needs to fall by 30 percent from current levels, while global oil usage will have to drop by 12 percent.

Global coal consumption grew by just 0.4 % (15 million tonnes oil equivalent or Mtoe)-- its slowest rate since the Asian crisis in 1998 — while production fell by 0.7 % or 28 Mtoe.

Dale says «perhaps the single most striking number in the whole of this year's Stats Review is China's coal consumption, which is estimated to have essentially stalled in 2014.»

Interestingly enough, the decline in coal consumption in China appears to continue.

Chinese proclamations on coal consumption and the corresponding decline in carbon emissions may be off the mark, a journal study found.

The decline in coal consumption fits an overall pattern seen in China over the past few years, which suggests that China is running out of high quality coal.

On an annualized basis, statistics show that in the first four months of 2015, coal consumption in China dropped by an incredible 8 %, while overall CO2 emissions dropped by 5 %.8 So, what has happened then?

«Data for the first seven months of 2016 indicate that U.S. total coal consumption is 23 % lower in 2016 than in the first seven months of 2015,» EIA reported Thursday.

To reduce coal consumption, China plans to increase the efficiency of new coal - fired power plants.

Important to the achievement of these goals is China's commitment to control its coal consumption.

«Between 2006 and 2016,» Rhodium writes, «US coal consumption declined by 34 percent and production fell by 37 percent.»

US coal consumption and coal mining jobs are likely to continue declining.

Coal consumption continues apace hence it would appear that the production decline is not demand led but rather that China may be approaching peak coal.

A decline in coal consumption in China for two consecutive years would be the first since 1982.

The report sharply lowered its five - year global coal demand growth forecast in reflection of economic restructuring in China, which represents half of global coal consumption.

Rapid urbanization and industrialization will keep China's coal consumption at record highs of around 4 billion tons per year by 2015.

Some of China's data is uncertain, but there is clearly a downward trend in both China's energy and coal consumption, he said.

Coal consumption, in particular, saw steep declines by dropping 18 percent, while natural gas use dipped just 1 percent, versus 2015 rates.

The study, published Monday, shows that even though China decreased its coal consumption 2.9 percent in 2014, revised statistics show that coal energy consumption went down by just 0.7 percent that year, leading to a net increase in emissions of 0.5 percent.

Coal consumption in China has risen more than threefold since the 1980s, and there are close to 21 times more wheels on China's roads.

«The increase in domestic coal consumption is driven by huge demand from existing and upcoming coal - fired power plants,» the report said.

«It will take a lot of time and a lot of regulations to really see coal consumption turn around,» she said.

However, increasing demand for electricity and direct coal consumption, and gradual depletion of its own supply, have led to it becoming the world's largest coal importer.

Cheap shale gas is significantly reducing coal demand in the United States, but global coal consumption is still expected to rise 2.6 percent annually by 2017, the International Energy Agency said today in a report.

The world will burn around 1.2 billion more tons of coal per year by 2017 compared to today, equivalent to the current coal consumption of Russia and the United States combined.

Coal consumption will climb to 4.32 billion tons of oil equivalent by 2017, nearly matching oil consumption of about 4.4 billion, the Paris - based agency said in its first Medium - Term Coal Market Report.

For example, the effects of haze could foreshadow what might happen if China's coal consumption continues to increase.

«The only significant decline in coal consumption globally was in the United States, and the reason is cheap gas.»

Coal consumption is soaring, and according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration, the country burned 325 million tons last year alone, putting China's coal demand at 47 percent of global consumption (ClimateWire, Jan. 30).

Since the 1980s, the use of nitrogen fertilizers and the number of livestock have doubled, whereas coal consumption has increased more than 3-fold and the number of motor vehicles more than 20-fold.

«If China can't improve its energy efficiency in buildings, by 2020 its buildings» energy consumption will account for one - fifth of the world's total coal consumption.

China's coal consumption slowing as economy grows Li Shuo, a climate and energy campaigner for Greenpeace China in Beijing, agreed.

China plans to limit its annual coal consumption to 4.2 billion tons at the end of the decade, but its current production capacity has already surpassed 4 billion tons, with an additional 1 billion tons in the pipeline.

«The impact of the coal - to - gas switch in North America is so significant that for the first time since China's rise, the medium - term growth rate in coal consumption will fall below the growth rate of gas,» van der Hoeven said.

The government agency said that the country's coal consumption also fell by 2.9 percent, or 118 million tons, in 2014 from the 2013 level, despite a growing overall energy demand.

Li argued that the best way for China's emissions to peak is for the government to cap coal consumption in the next five - year plan.

«China has called for controlling its primary energy consumption in 4.8 billion tons of standard coal by 2020 and limiting coal consumption in 4.2 billion tons; those targets will not be realized if Chinese coal - to - chemicals industry continues to grow,» Ma said.

The country's carbon dioxide emissions likely fell 3 percent last year thanks to its shrinking manufacturing production, declining coal consumption and booming renewable energy installation, Greenpeace said in a newly published analysis.

USA emissions increased 2.9 %, due to a rebound in coal consumption potentially reversing the downward trend since the start of the shale - gas boom in 2007

If the price on carbon is high enough to penalize coal consumption, the theory is it creates economic incentives to retrofit coal plants or use gas or wind power to generate electricity.

But several experts say the higher rate of coal consumption has been known for months and has already been factored into the negotiations.

Song says coal consumption declined 2.9 % in 2014 and the downward trend is accelerating this year.

But that single - year growth paled in comparison with the 4.4 percent average annual increase in global coal consumption recorded in the last decade as the United States cut its coal consumption by nearly 12 percent, according to the report.

«This is old news,» says Ranping Song, an official with the Global Climate Program of the World Resources Institute (WRI) in Washington, D.C. Song says that last February, the National Bureau of Statistics of China released preliminary revised estimates of coal consumption for 2013 and 2014 along with indications that data for prior years might also be low.