Sentences with phrase «demand for coal»

The country is also predicted to drive global demand for coal in the decades to come.

These CO2 cuts are down to falling demand for coal.

Chinese demand for coal has fallen slightly, even as power generation from coal has grown.

While demand for coal is still growing, the long - term outlook is much less rosy.

But as gas prices have risen in recent months, so has demand for coal for power generation.

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.

The coal industry is booming driven by growth in export demand for coal world wide and the large number of coal - fired power plants currently scheduled to come online.

However, there is still strong demand for coal abroad.

What it did instead was increase the country's demand for coal imports.

Domestic coal consumption is increasing however as demand for coal from China and India weakens.

He noted that U.S. coal companies are already positioning themselves to boost exports, especially to energy - consumptive countries like China, as domestic demand for coal continues to drop off.

In addition, domestic demand for coal from the Illinois Basin, particularly from Illinois itself, increased as a result of a shift in demand toward the Illinois Basin's low - cost, high - sulfur coal and away from Central Appalachia's high - cost, low - sulfur coal.

The National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa (NUMSA) claimed concluding PPAs for the 27 mainly wind and solar projects would push up electricity prices and reduce demand for coal power, threatening 30,000 jobs in the fossil generation industry, as it secured a last - minute injunction preventing the signing at South Africa's High Court.

With demand for coal by U.S. power producers on the decline, coal mining companies are looking for exports to fill the gap.

And there is a lot of demand for coal in China, India and elsewhere.

Global demand for coal fell by 1.9 % in 2016 to 5 357 Mtce, as lower gas prices, a surge in renewables and energy efficiency improvements put a major dent on coal consumption.

Many commentators have said that the Agreement means the end for coal, but the appetite for affordable, reliable and accessible energy in developing and emerging economies, particularly in Asia means demand for coal continues to grow.

With domestic demand for coal collapsing, mining companies are trying to find a way to ship their dirty fuel to other countries.

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.

These have been significant in continuing to reduce US demand for coal even when the US natural gas price has risen, such as between the start of 2012 and mid-2014.

«The US shale gas revolution, and the push to renewable energy, are also expected to dampen demand for coal in the decades to come.

A: In fact prices have begun to rebound recently, this reflects the underlying strength of demand for coal over the longer term.

In its annual World Energy Outlook 2016 report, the International Energy Agency (IEA) forecasts that coal will remain the largest single source of electricity generation through to 2040, most of the new demand for coal will be driven by India and Southeast Asia.

The biggest markets in the West are shifting away from coal, and there's not a lot of slack demand for coal power; if anything, there's an excess of capacity.

Peabody Energy, the nation's biggest coal producer, has been on a gradual slide down the Fortune 500 over the past few years, as falling demand for coal hit it hard.

The increase in foreign demand is being driven by industrialization and attendant demand for coal fired electricity generation in the developing world including India and China.

I wrote a longer post on the subject here, but the TL; DR version is: In the first decade of the 21st century, Chinese demand for coal went through the roof.

As U.S. domestic demand for coal decreases, the pressure to expand U.S. coal exports increases.

Slow economic growth in China and other countries along with a new Obama administration rule cutting mercury pollution from coal - fired power plants and other climate policies are likely to chill demand for coal even further, Stavins said.

China's demand for coal helped Mongolia's economy grow by 17.5 percent in 2011.

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.

Despite the low price currently fetched for coal overseas, Eaves said the company expects the international market to improve even as domestic demand for coal recedes.

By rebranding coal as «dispatchable», the government's National Energy Guarantee looks set to preserve demand for coal - fired power by giving it a new role — one it's not well equipped to fulfil.

Natural gas has become increasingly popular for power generation, displacing demand for coal since 2000.

Australia can't contribute more than a small fraction of just China's demand for coal which has already resulted in the international traded price of coal increasing with more increases likely in the future.

Enron was a a major natural gas distributor and saw in Kyoto a means to suppress demand for coal, natural gas's chief competitor in the electricity fuel market.

«There has been tremendous demand for coal globally and we've seen U.S. exports of coal rising to Asia and Europe, even, surprisingly, to Germany where the green movement is so powerful.

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.

If California's experience is any guide, the lost Oregon demand for coal will — contrary to the PUC's concerns — lead to the retirement of a roughly commensurate amount of coal capacity.

Regulatory changes are also curbing demand for coal.

The plants are already built, so even if the price goes up there will still be substantial demand for coal to burn to recoup the investment (unless the cost of coal get so high that it makes more sense to shut them down and take the loss, but that would be unlikely).

One global coal player, Peabody, recently told the World Coal Conference that it assumes demand for coal will increase by over 50 per cent by 2030.

Quillen acknowledged the growing importance of new energy sources like wind, but said demand for coal will grow as developing countries like China and India expand their economies demand more cheap energy.

Successive metallurgical and engineering developments — most notably the invention of the coal - burning steam engine by James Watt — engendered an almost insatiable demand for coal.

By the way, the total power generation disaster in South Africa is leading to an astonishing demand for coal.

According to Bloomberg, demand for coal grew 3.3 percent last year, the fastest pace since 2006.

Exports in August, the latest data available, reflect some of the weakening global demand for coal, falling 2 million tons from the record June levels.