'The Coal Industry Is Back,' Trump Proclaimed. It Wasn't.

Despite Mr. Trump's stocking his administration with coal-industry executives and ... Tribal leaders decided to embrace a new clean-energy future, in effect ending the effort to save the plant. ...

Coal 2023 – Analysis

Since its first publication in 2011, the IEA's annual Coal Report has served as the global benchmark for the medium-term forecast of coal supply, demand and …

Coal's future dims as new regulations pile on and former

Energy. Coal's future dims as new regulations pile on and former defenders retreat The industry's most influential bipartisan backers are leaving, but others will take their place — at least ...

The future of coal: eight key themes from the Global Coal …

7. The future of the metallurgical coal trade is intrinsically linked to the success of steel decarbonisation . Anthony Knutson, Principal Analyst, Coal: Growing pressures are mounting to reduce global carbon emissions with particular impacts on metallurgical coal's role in tomorrow's steel industry. But the question is by how much?

Beyond Coal: Imagining Appalachia's Future

If Pikeville, population 6,900, offers a glimpse into coal country's uncertain future, Benham, Ky., with 500 mostly elderly residents, is a window into its past. Image

Unveiling the evolution and future prospects: A …

Pioneering studies on this topic in the United States and the United Kingdom date back to the 1990s. Summers [48] and Booras and Smelser [49] were among the early contributors, exploring the emission reduction potential of coal power through Integrated Gasification Combined Cycle (IGCC) and Enhanced Oil Recovery (EOR) technologies, respectively. …

The future of coal supply in China based on non-fossil …

With the above framework, the future of China's coal supply system is optimized. Results indicate that: 1) China's national raw coal production will peak in 2030 under the business-as-usual scenario, ... China's coal industry is facing significant challenges from both internal and external perspectives. Firstly, China has attached …

Coal

Global coal demand reached a record high in 2022 amid the global energy crisis, rising by 4% year-on-year to 8.42 billion tonnes (Bt). In 2023 we expect coal demand to fall in almost all advanced economies.

The future of coal investment, trade, and stranded …

The global coal industry faces existential uncertainty over its future, yet the economic implications of rapid coal phase-out are unclear. We develop a model of the world's coal markets to 2040, exploring the …

A Fight Over Coal Exports and the Industry's Future

The future of the impoverished Crow Nation may also hang in the balance since it owns an enormous deposit of up to 1.4 billion tons of coal — more than the United States produces in a year.

Why there's no bringing coal back

The decline of the U.S. coal industry is the result of market forces, not a policy "war on coal." Export markets for U.S. coal also face strong headwinds. Overseas sales by U.S. producers ...

Coal Symposium looks at industry's future | State & Region …

A panel of coal industry leaders spoke Wednesday about coal's future during the final day of the Bluefield Coal Symposium. The panel included, from left, Ernie Thrasher, owner of XCoal Energy ...

The Future of Coal Regions: Challenges and Opportunities

This is a report for a study group titled The Future of Coal Regions, co-sponsored by the Reimagining the Economy Project and the Belfer Center's Environment and Natural Resources Program, designed for Harvard students to learn and share knowledge about the challenges facing coal-producing regions, to identify opportunities for overcoming these …

Global coal demand set to remain at record levels in 2023

Global coal demand is estimated to have grown by about 1.5% in the first half of 2023 to a total of about 4.7 billion tonnes, lifted by an increase of 1% in power …

Coal 2023

Since its first publication in 2011, the IEA's annual Coal Report has served as the global benchmark for the medium -term forecast of coal supply, demand and trade. Its analysis …

Strategising the future of coal in South Africa

The strategy document concludes that coal will continue to play an important role in the South African economy for the foreseeable future and that the mining industry is committed to investing in and making use of clean coal technologies in order to actively participate in the country's transition to a low-carbon economy.

Coal's future dims as new regulations pile on and former

Energy. Coal's future dims as new regulations pile on and former defenders retreat The industry's most influential bipartisan backers are leaving, but others will …

Coal transitions in South Africa

The study examines three future pathways for South Africa's coal sector that allow us to assess key risks and opportunities in South Africa's coal transition. ... As in the NDC scenario, industrial use of coal increases, making industry the largest emitter of GHG emissions by 2050. The sector grows slightly more slowly than in the NDC ...

The future of coal: A historic turning point on the horizon

January 29, 2024. The global coal market has experienced a turbulent three years, with demand dropping sharply during the COVID-19 pandemic, only to skyrocket as a post …

What's the Future for Coal?

The use and production of coal is on the decline, pressured by cheap natural gas and policies to promote cleaner sources of energy. In a recent article in The Regional Economist, Regional Economist Charles …

The future of coal: Applying scenario planning to a critical …

Rather than make another attempt to predict the future of Utah's coal industry, the RPG wanted to design a process and product that would help local leaders position themselves for the future by challenging their assumptions. In order to do this, the RPG adopted a scenario planning framework. This practice helps decision-makers …

The future of coal investment, trade, and stranded assets

Introduction. Over 80% of the world's coal resources must remain below the ground if CO 2 emissions are to fall by 80%–95% to limit global warming to 1.5°C. 1, 2 Rapid phase-out of coal is required among developed countries followed over the coming decades by developing countries. 3 No new coal power plants should be built other than …

The Future of Coal

Because of coal's high carbon content, increasing use will exacerbate the problem of climate change unless coal plants are deployed with very high efficiency and large scale CCS is implemented. CCS is the critical enabling technology because it allows significant reduction in CO2 emissions while allowing coal to meet future energy needs.

The future of coal investment, trade, and …

The global coal industry faces existential uncertainty over its future, yet the economic implications of rapid coal phase-out are unclear. We develop a model of the world's coal markets to 2040, exploring the …

The future of coal in China

1. Introduction. China is the world's largest consumer of both total primary energy and energy from coal (BP, 2016) and is also the world's largest emitter of carbon dioxide (CO 2).Coal accounted for 66% of China's total primary energy consumption in 2014 (National Bureau of Statistics of China, 2015), is expected to account for 50% of …

Coal, climate and change: The narrative drivers of Australia's coal

1. Introduction. The extraction and burning of fossil fuels is one of the key contributors to the greenhouse emissions that warm the climate. Coal – the focus of this paper – is the largest global source of electricity generation today and a key emitter in the electricity sector [1].Addressing climate change will require that the coal sector …

Economic Evaluation and Future Feasibility Analysis of the Coal

Industrial Development Status. In the early twentieth century, China started to develop modern coal chemical industry. From encouraging the research and development and manufacturing of large coal chemical plants during the 11th Five-Year Plan period, orderly carrying out the research and development of coal-to-liquid fuels and coal …

Australian coal: What will happen to $50b-a-year industry?

Questions about the future of coal drive some of the deepest divisions in modern Australia. ... With 50,000 coal mining jobs nationally, the industry's head count is relatively modest in ...

The future of coal in South Africa

Recently, it has been recorded that the South African coal sector exceeded 21% (over R130-billion) of total mining revenues. The sector generated about 53% of the total local sales revenue of R159 ...

How a just transition can make India's coal history

For instance, in 2019, Coal India, the main federal government-owned company that mines more than 80% of total coal in the country, paid approximately 500bn rupees ($6.7bn/£4.9bn) in taxes and ...

Coal 2023 – Analysis

The International Energy Agency's latest projections see coal demand peaking within this decade under today's policy settings, primarily as a result of the structural decline in coal use in developed economies and a weaker economic outlook for China, which has also pledged to reach a peak in CO 2 emissions before 2030. …