Sentences with phrase «suggests coal demand»
The report, which predicts trends in the coal market to 2017, suggests coal demand will reach the energy equivalent of 4.32 billion tonnes of oil by that year — narrowly below 4.4 billion tonnes of demand for oil itself.
https://reneweconomy.com.au/ Not exact matches
Peabody also agreed to disclose a range of scenarios from the International Energy Agency suggesting declining future demand for coal, changing course from earlier financial statements where the company only disclosed IEA's business - as - usual scenario.
The DOE proposal suggests that now - retired coal plants were crucial to the grid's operation during the polar vortex, a false accounting which elides the fact that coal stockpiles froze during the vortex, and wind energy, efficiency and demand response were instrumental to keeping the lights on then, as
The DOE proposal suggests that now - retired coal plants were crucial to the grid's operation during the polar vortex, a false accounting which elides the fact that coal stockpiles froze during the vortex, and wind energy, efficiency and demand response were instrumental to keeping the lights on then, as noted by the Natural Resources Defense Council.
Some relevant figures are reproduced (with brief discussion) here, which in NREL's analysis of an «optimal» no - new - nukes 2050 energy mix suggest thermal generation still contributes 27 % of demand at 80 % ghg reduction, of which 15 % is biomass, 3 % gas, and 9 % coal.