Sentences with phrase «tonnes of coal consumption»

Not exact matches

Hebei plans to slash crude steel output by 15 million tonnes in 2014 and cut coal consumption by the same amount as part of anti-pollution measures.

Although the growth rate of coal slows from the breakneck pace of the last decade, global coal consumption by 2017 stands at 4.32 billion tonnes of oil equivalent (btoe), versus around 4.40 btoe for oil, based on IEA medium - term projections.

In fact, the world will burn around 1.2 billion more tonnes of coal per year by 2017 compared to today — equivalent to the current coal consumption of Russia and the United States combined.

Global coal consumption, which is measured in in tonnes of coal equivalent — the industry standard to reflect energy content rather than physical weight — will reach 6.2 billion tonnes in 2017, up from 5.3 billion in 2011.

At current rates of growth, the IEA says that it expects that coal consumption will rise to 4.32 billion tonnes of oil equivalent versus 4.4 billions tonnes of oil per year worldwide within only four years; with that trend continuing, coal would quickly overtake oil as the world's fuel source of choice.

The aggregate of these provincial measures will reduce the country's coal consumption by 655 million tonnes from a business as usual scenario by 2020.

Learn to read: BEIJING, Nov. 19 (Xinhua)-- China on Wednesday issued an energy development plan to cap primary energy consumption at 4.8 billion tonnes of standard coal equivalent per year by 2020.

Key features: China would cap absolute coal consumption by 2020 at 4.2 billion tonnes, and coal's share of the mix would be reduced to less than 62 per cent by 2020, from the current level of 66 per cent.