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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).

Not exact matches

James Stevenson, an analyst at IHS Markit, says the boost is largely due to 2017's unseasonably cold weather and rising demand for coal from other nations.

China's natural gas demand has been boosted by price cuts aimed at switching users from coal to the cleaner - burning fuel, according to one of the country's biggest gas distributors.

Cele notes that, «the demand from China for iron - ore continues to grow, but at a declining pace, further exacerbating pricing pressure,» meaning that Vale's considerable investment in nickel, coal, fertilisers and copper will only partially mitigate the impact of the increase in iron - ore mining capacity globally on the company.

There was a strong commitment to securing long - term gas supplies Steel manufacturing capacity will grow to 300 million tons by 2025, which, alone will mean that India will need to import at least 150 million tons of coking coal to meet the demand.

Steel manufacturing capacity will grow to 300 million tons by 2025, which, alone will mean that India will need to import at least 150 million tons of coking coal to meet the demand.

Currently coal inventories are high in the electric power industry however recent data shows that inventories at eastern utilities is falling because of increasing domestic and international demand.

In actuality, it's the same reason that coal prices have been cut in half over the last two years — demand is no longer increasing at the rate it once was.

In an energy outlook this week, analysts at the U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) predicted a dramatic decline in U.S. energy demand through 2035 and a reconfigured energy pie that sidelines a significant amount of coal for natural gas.

Even without the environmental drive, new railways from mines to ports, falling investment in coal - fired generation and slowing power demand growth could see China's miners export some of their surplus output at competitive prices, hitting regional miners and the viability of new projects.

Getting energy directly from this year's plant crop, in the form of biofuels, is cleaner and more efficient than getting it from coal or oil, but Dukes found that if we tried to supply current worldwide energy demand entirely from biofuels, it would consume at least 22 percent of the production of all land - based plants annually.

The infant solar power companies, however, must gain their foothold by taking business away from the incumbent and politically powerful coal, natural gas and nuclear power providers, at a time when overall growth in U.S. electricity demand is still slowed by an underperforming economy.

The shale gas in recent exploration in the United States, that could meet the domestic demand of the country for natural gas at current levels of consumption for over 100 years, is extremely negative for the environment because it generates half the carbon emissions from coal, and pollutes the sheets underground aquifers.

Energy demand is expected to double by 2030, and at that pace, there is not enough oil, coal and gas in the world to keep their economy humming.

If growth continues at the current pace, generators would add another 1 billion tonnes of new coal demand every three years.

International markets remain outstanding in the Pacific Rim, with China and India coal import demand continuing at record rates and developed economies running at higher capacity factors as they recover from the global financial crisis.

Boyce observed that coal has been the world's fastest - growing fuel this past decade, with demand growing at nearly twice the rate of natural gas and hydro power and more than four times faster than global oil consumption.

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.

Leaving aside the Indian government's stated determination to end coal imports in the next few years (at least for the large public sector), what's happening to actual demand for coal - fired electricity.

The CO2 Scorecard report, by contrast, examined changes in electricity at the regional level using data from grid operators, which showed researchers greater detail about where natural gas had replaced coal or renewables; where renewables replaced coal; and where electricity consumption simply declined because of reduced demand.

Brown's allies at the California Energy Commission (CEC) argued that future demand should instead be met by burning oil and coal.

Carbon Tracker compared demand for fossil fuels in a 1.75 C world — the mid-point of the Paris Agreement — with demand in a 2.7 C world, looking at oil, gas and coal production to 2035 and capital investment to 2025.

The WCA released a report in November 2015 «The Case for Coal: India's Energy Trilemma» looking at the growing coal demand and the significant potential offered by high efficiency low emission coal technologies in reducing CO2 emissiCoal: India's Energy Trilemma» looking at the growing coal demand and the significant potential offered by high efficiency low emission coal technologies in reducing CO2 emissicoal demand and the significant potential offered by high efficiency low emission coal technologies in reducing CO2 emissicoal technologies in reducing CO2 emissions.

At the time, rising demand and plans to retire its coal - fired power plants dominated provincial energy policy.

He said the energy demands from the giant LNG plants being built in the state's north would need at least 100MW of generation and represented the best opportunity for a «resurgence» in coal fired generation.

«At 50 MW — 350 MW, modular units could provide efficiency and cost benefits, but probably wouldn't have significant impact on coal demand given the number of coal - fired unit retirements / closures being considered and the length of time this would take to get to the commercial stage (5 — 10 years).

But when electricity demand rose throughout the 1980s at nearly the same rate it had in the 1970s, anti-nuclear groups stood by and watched as coal plants were built instead.

For example, nighttime energy demand is much lower than during the day, and yet we waste a great deal of energy from coal and nuclear power plants, which are difficult to power up quickly, and are thus left running at high capacity even when demand is low.

The economics means that the oil price will go up as demand exceeds supply and at that point we will turn to less likely sources of oil, such as the tar sands, but eventually we will reach a point where converting coal to the usual oil products, such as chemicals and gasoline, will be a more economically viable route.

This is obviously a debatable assumption as one could for instance argue that a more rapid growth in renewable energy could allow for less energy efficiency gains and growing demand for electricity, or perhaps a prolonging of the coal industry at the cost of natural gas.

According to a recent Associated Press story in the Toledo Blade, (35)... «At power plants around the country, coal stockpiles have dwindled, mainly because of problems with shipping coal out of Wyoming and the increase in worldwide demand for energy.»

As my colleague Gordon pointed out in a post last week, India is currently learning the most important lesson about its over-dependence on outdated, centralized coal - fired power: It is simply not flexible enough to accommodate India's real problem - peak demand (the kind that happens when 20 million Delhi inhabitants turn on their air conditioners or fans all at once).

With a growing fleet of coal power plants running at less than 60 % of capacity and robust power demand growth, coal - fired generation is forecast to increase at nearly 4 % per year through 2022.

In this paper, produced by Carbon Tracker, Energy Transition Advisors and Earth Track, potential coal supply from the PRB is compared with a demand profile consistent with an International Energy Agency (IEA) scenario to restrict global warming to a two degrees Celsius (2 °C) outcome, in line with the upper limit at the recent COP21 agreement in Paris.

«If we look at consumption of coal, the main drivers are rapid growth in clean energy, slower power demand growth due to shifting economic structure and energy efficiency.

Instead, coal chugs along at a steady rate unable to keep up with the flexible demands of daily life, which regularly leads to blackouts.

This study completes the research series on oil and coal started in 2014 and takes a look at three global gas markets — Europe, North America and LNG — in the context of the energy transition, examining where there may be unneeded capacity and capital expenditure in a low demand scenario.

At the same time, China's demand for energy and resources - be it oil, coal, steel, cement, natual gas, copper etc., etc. - has been expanding at a mind - boggling pace, fueling the ever - growing Chinese economAt the same time, China's demand for energy and resources - be it oil, coal, steel, cement, natual gas, copper etc., etc. - has been expanding at a mind - boggling pace, fueling the ever - growing Chinese economat a mind - boggling pace, fueling the ever - growing Chinese economy.

In an op - ed for the New York Times, Michael E. Webber, deputy director of the Energy Institute at the University of Texas at Austin, blames coal's struggles on cheap and plentiful natural gas, cheap renewables and air - quality regulations launched under the George W. Bush administration, as well as weaker - than - expected demand for coal in Asia.

«We expect to see less downside pressure on coal prices in view of ongoing production cuts in 2016 and demand recovery, albeit at a slow pace,» said Helen Lau, an analyst with Argonaut Securities (Asia) Ltd. «China is still oversupplied.»

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.

This is based on assumed annual demand growth of 6.34 %; further scenarios with higher growth rates and low addition of renewables capacity do require new coal stations, but still only at most half of those under construction.

«[F] racking is not economic at current gas prices, worldwide demand for oil is down and the cost of coal retrofits is prohibitive.

If coal fired power plants are phased out (at a time when energy demand is increasing) Appalachia will see a phase in of unemployment and poverty.

Our strategy to fight export demand or any demand for that matter is to win at the source and to keep the coal in the ground.

Dutch coal - fired power then powers both countries at night when demand is low.

Also, mild temperatures in the winter and high stockpiles at electric power plants limited demand for more purchases of coal in the second half of 2012.

At a time when industry analysts laughed at the suggestion, Carbon Tracker was already modelling the impact of Chinese thermal coal demand peaking on the seaborne marketAt a time when industry analysts laughed at the suggestion, Carbon Tracker was already modelling the impact of Chinese thermal coal demand peaking on the seaborne marketat the suggestion, Carbon Tracker was already modelling the impact of Chinese thermal coal demand peaking on the seaborne markets.

As an example, the 1,532 MW of emissions - free Bruce Nuclear refurbished generation, at a capacity factor of 90 % supplying 12.08 TWh, easily covered the loss of 4.1 TWh of coal - fired generation and left 8.7 TWh for added demand due to its flexibility to steam off or bypass the turbines.

The added capacity replaced the 4,484 MW of coal - fired generation at the end of 2011 in anticipation of increasing demand.