Sentences with phrase «coal consumption»

The production decrease is largely attributable to a forecast decline of 4 % in domestic coal consumption in 2018, with most of the decline expected to be in the electric power sector.

For example, global coal consumption increases only 27 % in the twenty two years between 1980 and 2002 (8).

The decline in coal consumption for the third year in a row is, therefore, an encouraging sign.

When discussing the future availability of fossil energy resources, the conventional wisdom has it that globally there is an abundance of coal which allows for an increasing coal consumption far into the future.

A scenario of significantly reduced coal consumption was assumed for a 30 - year period from 2020 - 2050 as the basis to limit future fly ash availability.

Chinese coal consumption dropped for the third year in a row in 2016, while CO2 emissions grew only slightly.

(21) The other industrial sector accounted for 8 percent of total coal consumption in 1992, slightly less than in 1980.

Meanwhile, domestic coal consumption fell by 2.4 percent last year.

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

Global coal consumption dropped − 1.7 % in 2016 and by − 0.7 % averaged over the past five years, but is projected to increase in 2017.

The assault on coal consumption, until recently a developed - world affair, is starting to look something like a world war.

Yes, world coal consumption has gone up 30 - odd percent since the year 2000.

And while coal consumption grew in most of these months, rates were lower than the year before.

And the gap between actual and reported coal consumption has been growing since 2000.

This plateau has largely been down to a fall in coal consumption globally.

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

A few days ago I asserted that total coal consumption per state is a more useful metric than coal dependency for electricity.

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.

The electric utility sector dominates coal consumption, and its share has grown substantially.

This can have only one outcome; reduced national gas prices overall and less coal consumption.

Even if total energy consumption growth rate is zero, to replace 1 % coal consumption requires 10 % growth in clean energy.

Coal consumption mainly takes place in the country of origin.

From 1996 to 2016, world oil consumption rose 31 percent, natural gas use rose 59 percent, and coal consumption climbed 62 percent.

Coal consumption appears to have made a quick rebound.

After several years of steep drops, coal consumption jumped in 2013 and barely dipped in 2014.

At the same time, it's global coal consumption exceeded 10 % for the first time ever.

The emission factors for coal consumption involving combustion are based on the assumption that all of the carbon in coal is converted to carbon dioxide during combustion.

Looking ahead, we do not anticipate significant new growth of coal consumption this year or in the next few years.

The sum of coal production, net imports and coal taken from inventories — so - called «apparent consumption» — should, in principle, be equal to total coal consumption.

However, industrial growth has started to slow down again over the past three months, which might signal slower emissions growth and coal consumption in 2018.

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

Second are emission factors for use in estimating carbon dioxide emissions from coal consumption by State, with consuming - sector detail.

As with coal consumption by sector, the amount of carbon dioxide emitted from total coal combustion in a particular State — and hence the carbon dioxide emission factor for that State — depends on the mix of coal consumed by various consuming sectors in that State during a particular year.

The Guardian reports today that Europe has had a bumper year of coal consumption as also has the rest of the world.

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

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

The future for natural gas is more certain: its share in the energy mix rises and gas use almost catches up with coal consumption, underscoring key findings from a recent WEO Special Report which examined whether the world is entering a «Golden Age of Gas».

Hebei plans to slash crude steel output by 15 million tonnes in 2014 and cut coal consumption by the same amount as part of anti-pollution measures.

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.

The increased sulphur emissions are linked to a 100 percent increase in coal consumption over the period 1998 - 2008 in China.

So if the world is to effectively address climate change, then China's massive coal consumption needs to start tapering downward.

As urbanization progresses, vehicle ownership increases and overall coal consumption continues to rise, «the government must implement strict air pollution control measures» to protect people's health and the environment, the newspaper cited the ministry as saying.

[4] The absolute threshold the GCEL applies is very high: 20 million tons is the entire annual coal consumption of a country like Italy.

While the Chinese government announced a target to cap coal consumption at 3.9 billion tons by 2015 and introduced ambitious energy efficiency and renewable energy policies, the country still has a long way to go to wean itself off coal.

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.

China is installing vast renewable energy capacity and moving towards limiting coal consumption due to concerns over air pollution, energy security benefits and to secure a head - start in the booming renewable energy market.