Sentences with phrase «coal imports in»

U.S. coal imports in fourth — quarter 2017 totaled 1.4 million short tons.

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.

Not exact matches

North Korea generates about $ 1 billion a year from the coal trade, according to the Treasury, which singled out three Chinese coal companies it said was responsible for importing almost a half - billion dollars in North Korean coal between 2013 and 2016.

We referenced their numbers when we looked at the changing anatomy of U.S. oil imports, or when showing the decline in coal use over recent years.

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.

The U.N. Security Council has unanimously boosted sanctions on North Korea since 2006 in a bid to choke off funding for Pyongyang's nuclear and ballistic missile programs, banning exports including coal, iron, lead, textiles and seafood, and capping imports of crude oil and refined petroleum products.

Cambrian's mines are also a source for metallurgical coal, an essential ingredient in steel manufacturing, a sector expected to benefit from President Trump's recent 25 percent tariff on imported steel.

Production growth has stalled before in the 1990s, but this time I suspect that a production limit has been reached and it is easier now for China to import surface mined coal from Indonesia and Australia.

Currently, China supposedly has stopped coal imports from N. Korea in an arrangement by Trump for the U.S. to provide the coal to China, but this trade curtailment being honored is in question.

Cotton was massively imported from India, and with an abundance of coal in the U.K., it was processed to produce mass - manufactured textiles that were then exported back to India (and other places).

And in South Korea, the imported coal must replace other coal as the power source.

Some have suggested that Japan, in addition to boosting coal - fired power generation, may seek to increase natural gas imports from Russia.

Domestic coal production in Japan saw a precipitous drop over the past 30 years, from an estimated 24 million tons in 1980 to 3.5 million tons in the early 2000s, as the country closed all its coal mines and chose to rely on coal imports to meet its needs.

The world's largest consumer of coal has announced radical restrictions on the importing and use of the stuff, in a bid to curb air pollution.

In 2014, Chinese coal imports dropped by 10.9 percent year over year.

From a proposed border tariff that could affect energy imports and exports, to recent approvals for new oil pipelines and an early rollback of regulations on coal production, the Trump administration is likely to usher in significant changes in energy policy.

Here's how it might work: Next year and in each year thereafter, Congress would set an overall cap on fossil fuels extracted by upstream energy producers, which David A. Weisbach of the University of Chicago Law School identifies as «fewer than 3,000 entities» — petroleum refiners, coal mines and domestic natural gas processors — «plus imports at a few locations.»

Finally, taking a more worldly view, they estimated replacing coal - fired power plants in Japan with liquid - natural - gas plants that burn fuel imported from the United States would also be a net - plus for the environment, with a 15 percent emissions savings.

The analysis shows that while the existing infrastructure in Germany could support rapid switching from coal to gas, there is a lack of political will to switch from coal to gas imports.

If he is successful in returning the US to a coal - based economy (and that looks unlikely), then the European Union needs to borrow his «protectionist» cloak and put in place carbon - standards for imported goods.

China's shift toward alternative fuels in order to cut its reliance on imported oil is creating large opportunities, notably in natural gas vehicles (NGVs) and in the conversion of coal to ethanol, according to a new report from Lux Research.

There's much more, including on - the - ground reporting from the 750 - megawatt Trianel power plant in Luenena, Germany, which only burns imported coal (Germany is closing down its coal mines).

That means no more oil imports from Canada and Venezuela and an end to coal mining in the United States and China.

The motivations could include cost, pollution reduction (conventional pollutants, for health / economic benefits) and reduction in the need for coal imports.

American submarines cut off oil imports to Japan as the War in the Pacific progressed, and Japan was reduced to manufacturing jet fuel from pine trees; the Germans from coal liquifaction.

The ad went on to say that the United States has 250 years» worth of coal in the ground at current rates of use, and that only imports of liquefied natural gas, much of it from hostile countries, would be able to supply power if coal is off limits.

India's coal imports are projected to rise 25 percent to approximately 110 million tons in 2010.

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.

China's net coal imports reached 39 million tons in the first quarter of 2010, putting the nation on a pace to exceed 2009's record 104 million tons of net imports.

So burning coal was outlawed in Ankara, and we imported lots and lots of biogas from the then Soviet Union.

Business Secretary John Hutton told the Labour Party conference that clean coal technology and a «renaissance in nuclear power» were needed if we weren't to leave ourselves at the mercy of gas imports from unstable and unfriendly foreign regimes.

Taiwan Taiwan imports over 97 percent of its energy from abroad, with 90 percent constituted of oil, coal, and natural gas in 2015.

But expanding coal - fired power generation in the exporting provinces is likely to degrade air quality in western regions, escalating inequality and increasing the environmental and ecological stress between power importing and exporting provinces.

Today, a fact finding team of five non-governmental organizations (NGOs)-- the Sierra Club, 350.org, Carbon Market Watch, Friends of the Earth U.S. and Pacific Environment — released a scathing report, The U.S. Export - Import Bank's Dirty Dollars, on the rampant human rights abuses at the U.S. Export - Import Bank (Ex-Im) financed Sasan coal - fired power plant and mine in Singrauli, India.

(I suppose the milk choc of Vic will have to do in a pinch, especially since clean green South Australia needs all the coal and diesel power it can import.)

Like other analysts, BCG hasn't understood that within a decade, the choices for these nations with soaring vehicle populations will not be electricity from coal vs. imported gasoline but rather electricity from a evolving power grid vs. fuel made by liquefying domestic coal, with 2 - 3x the CO2 of coal - fueled plug - ins.)

The 17 % of SA electricity from local coal power will end March 2016 http://www.businessspectator.com.au/news/2015/10/7/resources-and-energy/jobs-go-alinta-closes-sa-sites Never fear the SA - Vic Heywood Interconnector will be uprated by 190 MW in July 2016 so as to help imports of east coast coal power.

No new coal mines will be viable except in India to replace imports, and no new export coal production will be needed.

Not surprisingly, German hard coal imports have surged — jumping 25 % in the first quarter of 2013 — as have its carbon emissions, which rose 1.5 % last year and are poised to rise again this year, alarming both the nation's environmental groups and the Merkel government.

Note: The sum of «Production» and «Imports» less «Exports» may not equal «Consumption» due to changes in stocks, losses, unaccounted - for coal, and special arrangements such as the United States shipments of anthracite to United States Armed Forces in Europe.

Reference prices are assumed to be below observed import prices in some cases, such as steam coal in India, which relies heavily on low - quality domestic coal but imports small volumes of higher quality coal.

National and international development banks and export credit agencies, including Export - Import Banks in (South) Korea and the US, the Japanese Bank for International Cooperation [1] and the Export Finance Insurance Corporation in Australia have been a major source of finance for coal plants in developing countries like the Phillipines and Vietnam.

WASHINGTON, D.C. — The U.S. Export - Import Bank (Ex-Im Bank), the U.S. export credit agency, last Thursday posted on its website that the application to finance the Long Phu 1 coal plant in Vietnam had been withdrawn.

Financing of coal plants by international lenders such as the World Bank and the U.S. Export - Import Bank has also been the focus of protests, including worldwide opposition to the Tata Mundra Ultra Mega Power Project in India and the Medupi Power Station in South Africa.

India is taking the lead in creating a country powered by renewable energy by replacing expensive imported coal with affordable solar power in just four years» time.

Winsway, it stated, «is one of the leading suppliers in China of imported high - quality coking coal.

On Dec. 7, 2011, Peabody said it bought a 5.1 percent stake in Winsway, a company that specializes in importing Mongolian coking coal into China for use in the steel industry.

Toss in scale economies, and the result will be lower costs, greater energy security and an increased state economic multiplier effect as less money drains offshore to pay for expensive and dirty imported coal and oil.

In one scenario painted by the Deutsche Bank team led by chief economist Jun Ma, China's imports of thermal coal would cease by 2017, nearly a decade earlier than most forecasts, and coal consumption would fall from 68 per cent of total energy consumption to 32 per cent by 2030.

Moreover, it's something that can be mined and used within the U.S. Even though the country imports millions of short tons of coal per year, the rate has dropped dramatically in the last decade, from more than 34.5 million tons in 2006 to just 9.6 million tons in 2015.