A file picture of workers operating an excavator at a coal depot in Heilongjiang province. Photo: Reuters China aims to cap coal-fired power generating capacity at 1,100 gigawatts by 2020, higher than the current ceiling but accounting for less of the country’s total power supply as the...

A file picture of workers operating an excavator at a coal depot in Heilongjiang province. Photo: Reuters China aims to cap coal-fired power generating capacity at 1,100 gigawatts by 2020, higher than the current ceiling but accounting for less of the country’s total power supply as the...

BEIJING—China’s government said it would raise coal power capacity by as much as 20% by 2020, ensuring a continuing strong role for the commodity in the country’s energy sector despite a pledge to bring down pollution levels. In a new five-year plan for electricity released...

BEIJING—China’s government said it would raise coal power capacity by as much as 20% by 2020, ensuring a continuing strong role for the commodity in the country’s energy sector despite a pledge to bring down pollution levels. In a new five-year plan for electricity released...

Asia’s demand for coal is likely to increase for years to come even though countries including China, Japan and India have agreed on steps to limit fossil-fuel pollution damaging the climate. That’s the conclusion an analysis of Bloomberg New Energy Finance delivered at its...

The amount of carbon needed to power the global economy fell to record lows in 2015, as coal consumption in major economies plummeted. PricewaterhouseCoopers’ (PwC) annual Low Carbon Economy Index report has found that the global carbon intensity (emissions per unit of GDP) fell by...

Analysts cut their forecasts for the next two years by 4-5 percent and now expect EU Allowances (EUA) to average 5.39 euros per ton in 2017 and 5.70 euros ton in 2018, according to the poll of eight analysts published on Friday. In August, analysts had forecast prices of 5.59 euros for 2017 and...

JAKARTA. Batubara masih terus melesat setelah mencetak rekor harga baru pekan lalu. Mengutip Bloomberg, Jumat (21/10), harga batubara kontrak pengiriman Desember 2016 di ICE Futures Exchange terbang 3,59% menjadi US$ 93,75 per metrik ton. Dalam sepekan pun harganya berhasil menanjak...

China’s biggest coal miners jumped on speculation producers won’t be able to boost domestic output fast enough before winter. Coal-fired power generators fell. China Shenhua Energy Co. rose 3.9 percent in Hong Kong trading to close at HK$16.72, the highest since July 2015....

The current rally in thermal coal prices could extend through to the end of the first quarter of 2017, an Indonesian mining ministry official said on Tuesday, helping cash-strapped miners boost revenues in Southeast Asia’s largest economy. Coal prices sank 70 percent over 2011 and 2015...