Sentences with phrase «coal consumer»

As the United States focuses more on shale gas reserves, India is expected to become the second largest coal consumer in 2017, ranking only behind China.

«China is the largest coal consumer in the world, but it burns much lower quality coal, such as brown coal, which has a lower heat value and carbon content compared to the coal burned in the US and Europe,» said Prof Guan.

China is the world's biggest coal consumer; it gets more than 70 percent of its power from coal.

Coal demand declines in Europe, Canada, the United States and China, the largest coal consumer by far, and where we forecast a structural but slow decline with some fluctuations linked to short - term market requirements.

In the United States, the number two coal consumer after China, coal use dropped 14 percent from 2007 to 2011 as dozens of coal plants were closed.

While China and the U.S. get most of the attention, India - where 300 million people still live without electricity - is the globe's third greatest emitter of greenhouse gases, and one of the globe's fastest - growing coal consumers.

Power's report provides a direct and evidence - based refutation to coal industry claims that US exports make no difference to foreign coal consumers.

Still, most Republicans, particularly those from coal - heavy regions, say the bill is still not a good deal for coal consumers, who include many of the poorest Americans.

The global economy has been slowing, especially in China, the world's largest coal consumer by a large margin.

Last week we brought you the story of how the nation's largest utility holding company — and historically one of the industry's biggest coal consumers — is pivoting away from the dirtiest carbon - based fuel and focusing more on renewable generation at its regulated utilities.

In India, the third - largest coal consumer in the world, coal - fired power generation increased by 3.3 % in 2015, which is considerably lower than the 11 % growth of 2014, mostly due to lower demand growth.»

Data from China, the world's largest coal consumer, shows some signs of a slowdown ahead, which does not bode well for coal prices.

«India becomes the second - largest coal consumer and the largest coal importer in the world,» van der Hoeven said.

So the nation has to find a way to reduce the carbon dioxide its coal consumers emit.

Coal - fired electricity generation in China, the world's largest coal consumer, is expected to remain flat through 2040, according to EIA's International Energy Outlook 2017 (IEO2017).

For its part, ever - growing China will remain the world's largest coal consumer, accounting for more than half of global consumption, for the foreseeable future, with the IEA predicting an increase in Chinese demand for coal of 3.7 percent per year, dropping to 2 percent per year in the case of an unexpected slowdown of the world's most quickly expanding economy.

China is the world's second - largest energy consumer and is now the world's largest coal consumer.