Sentences with phrase «while coal demand»

While coal demand is expected to fall slightly, the headlines hide a more complicated picture.

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A housing and construction rebound has boosted industries including steel and coal, and while many sectors continue to struggle with overproduction, domestic demand has held up reasonably well, with trade data on Thursday showing a surprising improvement in imports.

«Talking to coal exporters there, «Greed & fear» hears that demand from China for coal is strong while, interestingly, in stark contrast to past practice, China SOE steel producers now pay on time.»

While India is building new coal - fired power plants, they are no guarantee that demand for U.S. coal will increase.

A key element in this shift is China; the value of Chinese exports to Canada tripled over this period and Canadian exports to China, while still small relative to exports to the US, have grown steadily in value driven by commodity exports which have been buoyed by high prices and huge demand in China for key Canadian exports such as minerals (nickel, coking coal, potash, copper and iron ore), pulp and lumber.

Rapid growth in global steel demand has also boosted contract prices for other bulk commodities; coking coal contract prices increased, on average, by 25 — 35 per cent in US dollar terms in recent negotiations, while iron ore contract prices have risen by close to 20 per cent.

In the case of coal, while the capacity of port and rail infrastructure has become stretched with the latest surge in global demand, the industry has been expanding transport capacity steadily over recent years.

While demand has declined, coal is still needed to meet America's power demand.

While the U.S. boom in shale gas helped push the fossil fuel's share of total global energy consumption from 23.8 to 23.9 percent, coal also increased its share, from 29.7 to 29.9 percent, as demand for coal - fired electricity remained strong across much of the developing world, including China and India, and parts of Europe.

While campaigners have focused on stopping coal export projects in the Pacific Northwest targeting Chinese demand, there's a boom in American coal exports to Europe (hey, wasn't Europe a leading supporter of the Kyoto Protocol?).

While there is a lot of coal geologically, and a fair amount of coal close enough to either ports or load - centers so that it is cheap at the power plant, there is not enough of this accessible, cheap coal to meet growing demand in Asia.

While demand for coal is still growing, the long - term outlook is much less rosy.

While the company flagged in 2007 that it sees coal from Mozambique coalfields holding «high potential to serve India's rapidly growing demand» [106] it has yet to announce any projects.

[44] While the Global Financial Crisis undercut demand for coal from US power stations, demand for coal for both power stations and the steel industry continued to grow from both China and India.

That's because a lot of the supply is in remote areas while the demand is more on the coast, and there's inadequate logistics capacity to move the coal around.

The US Energy Information Administration reports that while world energy consumption will increase in the future, the demand for coal will remain flat and clean energy will be the world's fastest - growing energy source.

They hope to continue gaming the system by selling carbon credits of doubtful authenticity on an already corrupt market, and demanding climate reparations and technology transfers from the West, while remaining free to build their own clean modern and efficient coal / gas / nuclear / hydro energy grid.

While declining strongly in the industrialized regions as a result of sulfur control policies in Europe and North America, and because of economic reforms in Russia and Eastern Europe, emissions increase rapidly in Asia with an increase in the energy demand and coal use.

As a result, US coal production is forecast to be around 510 Mtce in 2022, equivalent to current levels, while demand declines to 470 Mtce, a drop of 1 % per year on average over the period.

In the United States, coal's dominance in the power sector has been eroded by low gas prices; in China, coal demand has fallen due to lower use in the industrial and residential sectors linked to efforts to improve air quality; while in the United Kingdom a recently introduced carbon price floor has rung the death knell for coal use in power generation.

The industry's plan B, to export production to assumed perennial growth markets in Asia, has also floundered amid a global market awash with supply from other countries and weak demand; Chinese coal consumption fell nearly 3 % in 2014 while India, the world's third largest buyer, says it may stop imports of thermal coal in the next three years With domestic markets collapsing and no lifeline from abroad, 264 [1] US mines were closed between 2011 and 2013.

Coal demand in China has slid as its economy slows amid a shift toward consumption - led growth and while it intensifies efforts to rein in pollution.

The company expects energy demand to grow at an average of about 1 % annually over the next three decades — faster than population but much slower than the global economy — with increasing efficiency and a gradual shift toward lower - emission energy sources: Gas increases faster than oil and by more BTUs in total, while coal grows for a while longer but then shrinks back to current levels.

While coal - to - gas switching played a major role in reducing emissions in previous years, last year the drop was the result of higher renewables - based electricity generation and a decline in electricity demand.

The gradual decarbonisation of our electricity grids — as renewable energy is phased in, while coal and peat are phased out — coupled with the proliferation of new buildings with very limited heat demand, has some experts asking if heating our homes and offices directly with electricity is starting to make sense again.

We also note that there are tremendous leadership opportunities for these countries to demonstrate that moving beyond oil, coal, and gas — both demand and production — is not only possible, but can be done while protecting workers, communities, and economies.

While Trump's rolling back a policy that may have loomed over coal producers in coming decades, it's going to take more to overcome market forces and raise demand for the fossil fuel to a level that'll put miners back to work, coal executives and analysts say.

CSE also recommends enacting CEA's plan to retire 48 GW of India's oldest coal generation by 2027, allowing cleaner distributed electricity sources to meet India's power demand while raising capacity factors for newer «cleaner» coal plants, simultaneously reducing financial risks for utilities and consumers.

But while India's power demand will double over the next decade, its draft National Electricity Plan (NEP) calls for rising demand to be met with 275 gigawatts (GW) total renewable energy capacity by 2027, without requiring new coal plants beyond those already under construction.

While coal with higher levels of heat content, coking characteristics, and lower sulfur levels is typically more valuable, other factors such as location and supply and demand play a significant role.

While Americans are burning less coal, Asian demand is booming, so if companies can find a way to export their excess supply, it's a win - win for their dwindling profit margins!

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Today's move could potentially boost carbon - intensive industries, such as coal companies and heavy manufacturers, while reducing demand for low - carbon alternatives.

The operating cost of coal could be higher than the LCOE of onshore wind by 2024 and solar PV by 2027, while battery storage and demand response increasingly provide auxiliary services and peak shaving.

In India and China, in particular, coal provides more than 50 % of the energy mix while electricity demand in Southeast Asia grows 2.4 times over the period to 2040.

While the majority of U.S. exports are met coal, growing steam coal demand is fueling 2012 exports to an expected all - time high.

As the cost of generating solar and wind power continues to drop, and as demand for coal and natural gas dries up in countries committed to reducing carbon emissions, market forces will reward states and countries that invested early in renewable energy, while punishing those that placed their eggs squarely in the carbon basket.

First, while our reliance on petroleum is significantly supply - limited, in fact the dominant component of the problem going forward is the coal reserves, which can supply the world's energy demands at the present rate for some centuries.

As the chart clearly shows, while coal stepped up to the plate to meet energy demand during the winter freeze, wind power was next to useless.

«But while everything else is changing, global coal demand remains the same.»