Sentences with phrase «growing coal demands»

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 emissions.

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A key element in this shift is China; the value of Chinese exports to Canada tripled over this period and Canadian exports to China, while still small relative to exports to the US, have grown steadily in value driven by commodity exports which have been buoyed by high prices and huge demand in China for key Canadian exports such as minerals (nickel, coking coal, potash, copper and iron ore), pulp and lumber.

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.

Demand for rail freight in the UK is currently growing, Lord Berkeley claimed, despite coal traffic in the UK «having just about stopped completely».

The government agency said that the country's coal consumption also fell by 2.9 percent, or 118 million tons, in 2014 from the 2013 level, despite a growing overall energy demand.

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

Every 4 days china builds a coal plant, in america even with slower economic growth our energy demand is growing.

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.

Addressing potential investors in Manhattan on Thursday, Gregory Boyce, the chairman and chief executive officer of the world's biggest coal company, Peabody Energy, simply gushed as he described how the company is ideally positioned to take advantage of «a long - term supercycle for coal,» driven by rapidly growing demand in Asia.

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.

Coal demand is also expected to grow faster than other fuels in coming decades.

There are several dozen other countries investing in next - generation nuclear technologies (along with things like renewables, shale gas, coal - to - gas, etc.) to power rapidly growing demand.

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

In Southeast Asia alone demand is expected to grow by 4.8 % a year through to 2035 as the region turns to coal to fuel its growing energy needs.

While the company flagged in 2007 that it sees coal from Mozambique coalfields holding «high potential to serve India's rapidly growing demand» [106] it has yet to announce any projects.

[44] While the Global Financial Crisis undercut demand for coal from US power stations, demand for coal for both power stations and the steel industry continued to grow from both China and India.

This is why oil giants like ExxonMobil are investing more these days in natural gas, demand for which is expected to grow as electric utilities in Canada, the United States and Europe switch from coal to gas - fired power generation.

Addressing potential investors in Manhattan on June 17, 2010 Peabody's chairman and chief executive, Gregory Boyce, stated that «a long - term supercycle for coal,» driven by rapidly growing demand in Asia, would be extremely profitable.

Nationwide the coal industry is facing mounting challenges — rising coal costs, falling clean energy prices, a motivated grassroots coalition of organizers working to move the nation off coal, and the growing national demand to tackle climate - disrupting carbon pollution from coal plants.

The first signs of a fossil - fuel bust emerged early last year with growing evidence that the decade - long boom in global coal demand was peaking.

Coal, the most abundant and reliable energy resource, will continue to be the dominant energy source in power generation to meet the fast - growing electricity demand in the emerging economies of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN).

As China deals with a slowing economy and India tries to keep up with the demands of a fast - growing and increasingly affluent population, the only way to reconcile energy demands with public outcry over emissions and pollution is by finding cost - effective ways of integrating low - emissions coal technology into their power infrastructure.

Coal currently accounts for 39 % of global power supplies, and coal demand is growing faster than expecCoal currently accounts for 39 % of global power supplies, and coal demand is growing faster than expeccoal demand is growing faster than expected.

The US Energy Information Administration reports that while world energy consumption will increase in the future, the demand for coal will remain flat and clean energy will be the world's fastest - growing energy source.

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.

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.

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 economy.

There is the real situation that the «green (house) minority» has diminishing Public interest due its incessant platforming of non-SCIENCE and the attachment of equally vapid demands for «Wind Power» to replace Gas and Coal (which in REALITY is only creating the growing need and thus INTEREST in Uranium Fuelled power generation for wide spread use) and other platforming from «alternate lobby interests».

Already, the impact of reduced demand, growing renewables, and rooftop solar, is causing a decline in output in coal generation, bringing capacity factors down sharply, particularly for black coal generators.

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.

Because India's imports of coal grew by 31 % this year... And just to cheer you all up, «India's coal imports are likely to touch a whopping 185 million tonnes (MT) by 2017, almost 20 % of the international dry - fuel trade amid widening demand - supply deficit, according to Planning Commission.»

You still have to get that coal to market, and «market» in this case means Asia, where the demand for coal is growing fastest.

As electricity demand grows and federal regulation shuts down coal - fired power plants, SaskPower has concluded that wind energy is a low - cost source of new supply that can be reliably integrated into the grid.

However, existing pipelines do not have enough capacity to meet growing demand, particularly when coal - fired and nuclear power plants are being prematurely retired.

Demand for coal is growing and it's share in world energy production is higher than anytime in the last 40 years:

A growing share of global coal demand comes from those countries, though the coal boom climate hawks feared seems to be slowing somewhat.

Global demand for coal is expected to grow to 8.9 billion tons by 2016 from 7.9 billion tons this year, with the bulk of new demand — about 700 million tons — coming from China, according to a Peabody Energy study.

But coal interests have great power in the US; the essential moratorium and phase - out of coal requires a growing public demand and a political will yet to be demonstrated.

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Barring a dramatic slump in the Chinese economy (even more than we have seen until now), oil and gas consumption are bound to keep growing in the medium term, on the back of increased transport demand and government policies to increase gas consumption to stem air pollution from coal burning.

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.

For example, in its new report Shell says «Allowing natural gas rather than coal to grow to meet power demand is the surest, fastest and most comprehensive way there is to reduce CO2 emissions over the crucial next 10 years.

Perhaps most importantly, the report calls for governments to shift the «burden of proof» away from assuming that coal is the only solution to the world's growing energy demands and instead takes into consideration the devastating social, environmental, and economic costs of coal.

China, on the other hand, has emerged as a leader in developing clean, renewable energy, but its demand for coal is still staggering, and growing, and China is predicted to build 2,200 new coal - fired electric plants by 2030.

Flat or declining Illinois electricity demand has resulted in an electricity oversupply thanks to Exelon's 11 - plant nuclear fleet, Dynegy and NRG coal fleets, existing, retrofitted, and new natural gas facilities, and a growing wind portfolio, according to Learner.

In India and China, in particular, coal provides more than 50 % of the energy mix while electricity demand in Southeast Asia grows 2.4 times over the period to 2040.

Despite growing demand in Asia, the United States exports slightly more coal to Europe than it sends the rest of the world combined.

In stark comparison, the IEA estimates that coal demand grew in 2017 after a two - year decline and forecasts continued demand growth at least for the next five years, absent a change in policy and market conditions.