The environmental Kuznets curve and the role of
coal consumption in India: cointegration and causality analysis in an open economy.
The dynamic links between CO2 emissions, economic growth and
coal consumption in China and India.
With renewables, natural gas and efficiency eating into
coal consumption in many Western nations, coal producing regions have been hanging their hopes on ever increasing consumption in India and China.
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.
Of total
coal consumption in 1992, electric utilities accounted for 87 percent, up from 81 percent in 1980, due mostly to increases in utility coal consumption west of the Mississippi River.
(21) The other industrial sector accounted for 8 percent of total
coal consumption in 1992, slightly less than in 1980.
With
coal consumption in India and other nations in non-OECD Asia growing over the projection period, worldwide coal consumption is not as low as it would otherwise be in 2040.
The coke industry, which has been declining, accounted for only 4 percent of total
coal consumption in 1992, down from 9 percent in 1980.
This came after an article in Energy Matters, 2016/03/03, that cited a «Statistical Communique Of The People's Republic of China» in reporting a 3.7 percent decline in
coal consumption in 2015 following a decline of 2.9 percent in 2014.
Zhou Fengqi, a former energy official, said it was impossible for the country to radically slash
coal consumption in the coming decades.
Increasing emissions and concentrations of carbon dioxide receive considerable attention, but our analyses identify an important change in another pathway for anthropogenic climate change — a rapid rise in anthropogenic sulfur emissions driven by large increases in
coal consumption in Asia in general, and China in particular.
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The damage from a major increase in exports of publicly owned coal to Asian markets would go beyond encouraging more
coal consumption in a region that is struggling to respond to an air pollution crisis.
As we've seen, the cheap coal made available by the federal coal leasing program has encouraged increased
coal consumption in the United States for decades, at the expense of cleaner forms of energy.
Major exports of publicly owned coal would undermine global efforts to reduce carbon pollution.US coal exports have contributed to increased
coal consumption in Europe, and partially offset US carbon pollution reductions.
In fact, according to EIA, the 325 - million - ton increase in Chinese
coal consumption in 2011 accounted for 87 percent of the entire world's growth for the year, which was estimated at 374 million tons.
Although the EU's use of coal for power generation has dropped significantly compared to 1990 levels,
coal consumption in Europe's energy sector has been increasing in recent years.
At the end of June 2016, monthly industry statistics suggested that
coal consumption in the first half of the year was down 4.6 % relative to the first half of 2015.
There have been rumblings for quite some time now that
coal consumption in China has peaked, and it appears that may in fact be the reality.
The statistical communiqué reported that
coal consumption in 2016 had fallen by a whopping 4.7 % when measured in weight (tonnes), compared to just 1.3 % when measured by how much energy it contains (joules).
Low levels of U.S. coking
coal consumption in 2009 and 2010 were also partly attributed to the recent economic downturn; the February 2011 STEO forecasts a slight increase in U.S. coking coal consumption and an increase in coking coal exports in 2011, based on the assumption of improved economic performance and continued strength in international demand, respectively.
The new power link will supply enough capacity to meet the annual power consumption needs of over 10 million people, and will significantly help reduce
coal consumption in the region, thus mitigating intense carbon dioxide and sulfur dioxide emissions.
They found that the carbon dioxide emissions per unit of China's Gross Domestic Product decreased by 27 percent from 2004 to 2015 and
that coal consumption in the country decreased by 6.5 percent between 2013 and 2015.
According to the NEA, in the first three quarters of 2017,
coal consumption in China reached 2.81 billion metric tons, an increase of less than 1 percent from 2016.
Coal - fired power plants burn 41 % of
coal consumption in Beijing, but only emit 2.4 % of major pollutants (SO2, NOX and flue dust).»
Tiwari, Aviral Kumar and Muhammad, Shahbaz (2012): The environmental Kuzents Curve and the role of
coal consumption in India: cointegration and causality analysis in an open economy.
In April 2015, The Chemical and Engineering News reported, «China, the world's largest emitter of greenhouse gases, is claiming it significantly slowed both carbon dioxide releases and
coal consumption in 2014.»
China's massive growth in emissions last year was linked to higher
coal consumption in the economically booming nation.
Largely thanks to a decrease in
coal consumption in both countries, the analysis suggests that annual emissions from the two countries combined are on track to be about 2 billion to 3 billion tons lower in the year 2030 than previous estimates have indicated.
Once all data are in, energy - related carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions in 2013 are expected to be roughly 2 % above the 2012 level, largely because of a small increase in
coal consumption in the electric power sector.
Despite an expected increase in
coal consumption in the United States this year, domestic emissions are expected to have declined by about a half a percent this year.
«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.
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.
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.
A decline in
coal consumption in China for two consecutive years would be the first since 1982.
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?
Interestingly enough, the decline in
coal consumption in China appears to continue.
The electric power sector accounted for about 92.4 % of the total U.S.
coal consumption in fourth — quarter 2017.
Not exact matches
Nevertheless, the CNPC noted that the proportion of
coal in the prime energy mix would fall to 37 percent by 2050, even though
coal accounted for 64 percent of national energy
consumption in 2015.
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.
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.
Progress
in a few areas has been solid: slashing of bureaucratic red tape has led to a surge
in new private businesses; full liberalization of interest rates seems likely following the introduction of bank deposit insurance
in May; Rmb 2 trillion (US$ 325 billion) of local government debt is being sensibly restructured into long - term bonds; tighter environmental regulation and more stringent resource taxes have contributed to a surprising two - year decline
in China's
consumption of
coal.
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.
«We see a Chinese economy gradually shifting from construction to
consumption, and so, we will transition,» said Mackenzie adding that «We imagine we will continue to creep our exports of steelmaking materials like metallurgical
coal and iron ore, but we're much more likely to make major investments
in what we feel are the next phase of China's growth
in energy and
in food.»
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.»
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.
«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.
New energy value chains can emerge from Canada's uranium exports to India, where, like
coal, Canadian exports would be used as upstream inputs
in producing energy for final
consumption in India.
But stalled indigenous energy production, especially
coal (Figure 3), means that China is dipping deeper into the global energy market and that should support prices and offset the deceleration
in consumption.