India is
increasing coal imports.
Not exact matches
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.