Sentences with phrase «increased coal imports»

India is increasing coal imports.

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Europe could also increase its imports of US coal.

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

The reason, according to the report, was that Denmark had increased its burning of coal and decreased the amount of renewable energy it imported.

Similarly, some have suggested that the US gas boom has depressed coal prices, potentially leading to increased imports and use by other countries.

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.

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.

Coal bulls can rejoice that the Energy Information Administration has estimated these imports will increase again over the next two years, back up to around 11 million tons by 2018.

In the case of coking coal, where quality issues are more difficult to overcome, we forecast imports increasing by over 5 % per year through 2022.

Indian coal imports are expected to increase to a quarter billion US dollars in the next 16 years.

Recently, there have been a spate of articles in the press saying that Europe's increasing imports of coal undermines their leadership on climate and their «green» credentials.

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

The United States must change the way it produces and uses energy by shifting away from its dependence on imported oil and coal - fired electricity and by increasing the efficiency with which energy is extracted, captured, converted, and used if it is to meet the urgent challenges facing the energy system, of which climate change and energy security are the most pressing.

The opponents have painted grim pictures of prices hikes, blackouts, increased use of coal, with more emissions, and massive imports of nuclear electricity from France and gas from Russia.

High natural gas prices in Europe have contributed to increased imports of U.S. steam coal.