Houston — Declining natural gas prices continue to drive coal demand down, leading to projections of US coal production totaling near 500 million st in 2020, S&P Global Platts Analytics said in a report. "Due to an extraordinarily mild January, our heating-season gas price outlook...

The Zacks Coal industry comprises companies that are involved in the discovery and mining of coal. Depending on the deposit, coal is mined by either opencast or underground method. Coal is valued for its energy content and used worldwide to generate electricity, and in steel and cement...

Thermal coal prices are expected to recover this year after losing around a third of their value last year as demand from some south-east Asian countries grows and oversupply tightens due to financing constraints for new capacity. Investors widely anticipate the slow demise of coal use due to...

KONTAN.CO.ID - JAKARTA. PT Adaro Energy Tbk (ADRO) mulai melirik bisnis energi baru terbarukan (EBT). Namun, sejauh ini bisnis energi hijau itu baru digunakan internal Adaro. Wakil Presiden Direktur PT Adaro Power Dharma Djojonegoro bilang, Adaro saat ini tengah memasuki uji kelayakan...

Yancoal has temporarily suspended operations at several Hunter Valley mines in New South Wales for a few days due to poor air quality resulting from bushfires. Dust and bushfire smoke delays impacted overburden activities at the Mount Thorley Warkworth mine, which is just out of Singleton,...

GENEVA (Reuters) - Swiss climate activists dumped coal inside a branch of bank UBS on Tuesday to protest against its funding of fossil fuel projects, a day after a judge acquitted 12 climate protesters over a stunt inside Credit Suisse. A witness said 20-30 activists took part in Tuesday’s...

Bisnis.com, JAKARTA - PT PLN (Persero) menyatakan telah melakukan kontrak jangka panjang dengan waktu kurang lebih 5 tahun untuk memenuhi kebutuhan batu bara yang terus naik. Adapun hingga akhir 2019, telah terjadi peningkatan tambahan kapasitas pembangkit listrik tenaga uap (PLTU) hingga 3.017...

NEW DELHI (Reuters) - India’s power ministry has asked for coal-fired power plants around New Delhi, the capital city with the worst air quality in the world, to be given more time to install equipment to reduce emissions, after the year-end deadline for action passed. A government...

Jakarta. The Energy and Mineral Resources Ministry projects that domestic coal consumption will rise by 12 percent this year, thanks to additional demand from up to eight new mineral smelters. Indonesia is expected to use up 155 million tons of coal this year to fire up its power plants,...

Singapore — The Indonesian Ministry of Energy and Mineral Resources set its January thermal coal reference price -- also known as Harga Batubara Acuan, or HBA -- at $65.93/mt, down 0.6% on the month and down 28.7% on the year. Tightened Chinese import restrictions have limited any...