Sentences with phrase «coal prices»

But, it says, it is reviewing the pace at which it progresses those projects after recent falls in coal prices and the Australian dollar's ongoing strength.

Coal prices rose sharply, production and consumption went up, and the coal inventory was in sharp decline.

It's looking to exit from bankruptcy, the result of falling coal prices, bad business decisions, and huge pension obligations.

Furthermore, low coal prices in the near term will encourage long term investments in new coal burning facilities that would lock in decades of further demand for coal.

One company's coal plant may be more or less competitive to another company's solar plant depending on coal prices, for example.

Even if coal prices remain steady, which it thinks is unlikely, it believes that the continuing fall in PV prices means that solar energy will be more economic than coal by 2020.

This, of course, will then see coal prices drop again.

At the same time, competition from natural gas and stringent environmental rules are pushing coal prices down, making it harder for companies to earn a return on the coal they sell.

It says its break - even coal price is a commercial secret but it can make a profit even when prices are low.

Unfortunately, these mostly do nt seem to be very effective solutions - they depend on somehow getting alternative energy costs below coal without raising coal price to be effective.

At the same time, higher domestic gas prices drove higher coal use in the power sector and higher international coal prices boosted exports and revenues for coal companies.

This split drove a huge rally in coal prices, with supply and demand out of balance.

Coal producers say they are scaling back operations and laying off thousands of workers due to fierce competition from natural gas, falling coal prices and tougher power plant regulations.

Taken together, the report concludes that based on an average coal prices of RMB 498 per ton in 2007, the total direct external costs are RMB 698 per ton, or 140 % of the average market price of coal in 2007.

Also, surging steelmaking coal prices last quarter, when coupled with record output, pushed Teck's profits from the segment up to CA$ 1.1 billion ($ 830 million), or 75 % of total gross earnings before D&A.

In a report released in late June, the Sierra Club said runaway plant construction costs and rising global coal prices have made the plants financially risky investments.

In northeastern England, a battle is raging between grass roots campaigners and a company intent on digging a new open cast mine as world coal prices soar.

Those price differences have widened in recent months due to supply disruptions that pushed the price of steelmaking coal up over $ 300 per ton even as thermal coal prices where Alliance produces have remained around $ 50 per ton.

Illinois Basin coal prices declined just 5 %, partially offset by a 9 % increase in production because of robust demand for the low - cost, high - sulfur coal from the region.

The failure of regulated power prices to keep pace with soaring world coal prices lies at the heart of the China's power crisis (as well as in similar power crisis sweeping neighbouring India and Pakistan.).

With coal prices falling and natural gas prices rising, the EIA says coal's share of U.S. power generation in the first four months of 2013 averaged 39.5 percent, compared with 35.4 percent in the same period last year.

The potential for coal demand growth in China is limited, but the country's supply - side reforms will be critical factors for coal prices in the coming years.

Weak coal prices make the equity look almost worthless and creditors, including China's CIC, face a big haircut.

... Thus in practice, resources have never been reclassified into reserves over the past more than two decades despite increasing coal prices.

After falling down below USD 140 / t in June, coking coal prices went up over USD 200 / t in September, largely on strong demand in China.

For example, there was a rapid increase in US coal prices due to rising global demand before 2008, then a rapid fall after 2008 when global demands declined [23].

Spot thermal coal prices from the Australian port of Newcastle have already doubled year - to - date to top over $ 100 a metric ton, underscoring its position as one of the best performing raw materials this year amid a broad and extended slump in the commodities complex.

It's falling coal prices not token carbon taxes that will snuff out Prime Minister Abbott's coal - fired dreams of becoming an energy superpower.

«Our modelling suggests that if iron ore and coal prices remain at current levels national income would decline 2.4 per cent with a cascading impact through the economy from profits, taxes, employment, wages, and finally consumption.»

Under the 450 scenario, coal prices slump in the opposite direction, as rigorous climate policies «lead to a collapse in demand.»

If coal prices rebound, debt can be a good thing.

Domestic coal mines are being shuttered due to tumbling coal prices.

Prior to the recession in 2008, thermal coal prices peaked at US$ 190 a tonne.

With coal prices suffering and losses mounting, more divestitures in the sector are anticipated.

The stark drop in natural gas prices from an all - time high of more than $ 15 per 1,000 cubic feet in 2005 to near $ 4 today results from a range of factors including the global economic downturn, competitive coal prices, unusually warm winters, the improvement of hydraulic fracturing («fracking») drilling techniques, and the production of natural gas as a byproduct when drillers frack for petroleum.

However, those cutbacks have proven to be much more severe than expected, prompting a rally in coal prices beyond what anyone had imagined.

«It's really a tale of two markets,» he said, noting that as U.S. thermal coal prices soften, demand for high - grade metallurgical coal and some thermal coal has helped prop up U.S. coal mining activity in traditional high - volume regions like Appalachia and the Powder River Basin.

Total revenues declined to $ 2 billion for the nine months ending Sept. 30, «largely due to lower metallurgical coal prices and output,» the company said.