China’s National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC) officially released the full articles of the 13th Five-Year Plan, regulating the energy development roadmap and action plan from 2016 to 2020. For solar PV, the basic ...
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Combined coal stocks held by China's six key power generators in southern and eastern China averaged 11.155 million mt in the week to Tuesday, down 2.9% week on week, according to a weekly report by Qinhuangdao Port on Thursday. The ...
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U.S.-based General Electric has won a contract to supply turbines to the Wudongde hydropower plant located in southwest China. The company will provide six turbine-generator sets and related equipment, accounting for half of the project's ...
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The North American coal industry remains negatively positioned for 2016 with thermal coal facing a slow, long-term decline and metallurgical coal prices unlikely to recover within the next 12 months, a Moody's Investors Service note said ...
Utilities are burning less coal than they previously expected, a survey the US Surface Transportation Board conducted shows. During a Rail Energy Transportation Advisory Committee hearing Tuesday in Washington, committee member John Carr, ...
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US Central Appalachian coal producers and brokers are still hoping some kind of thermal spot market will develop with winter approaching, but many in the industry said this week they aren't holding out much hope. Market players continued ...
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China's coal consumption continued to decrease in the first ten months this year, according to the China National Coal Association (CNCA) on Tuesday. Coal consumption hit 3.23 billion tonnes during the January-October period, down 4.7 ...
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Coal production in China, the world's largest producer and consumer of the mineral, declined 6.1 percent in the first four months this year as the impact of the government's clean air and renewable energy policies began to weigh on the ...
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A mother’s “personal grudge” against China’s haze issues gave birth to the trending environmental documentary 'China's Haze: Under the Dome.’ The country’s serious air pollution became very personal for ...
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China's declining use of coal may be felt from Australia to the United States, especially the US state of Wyoming where coal is major part of the economy. Last week Premier Li Keqiang said China wanted to reduce its energy intensity ...
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China's energy use has entered medium-low growth as the economy heads toward a more sustainable model, the country's energy planner said Thursday. China's primary energy consumption is expected to expand by an average 3.4 percent annually ...
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Coal provides nearly two thirds of China's energy, but for mining companies, this winter could not be more chilly. The government has done its best to save the day, but it is not enough to force up the price of coal, even in the short ...
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Uncertainty over the scale of widely-expected price cuts by Chinese coal producers for July domestic cargoes has cast a cloud over the South China market for imported thermal coal, market sources said Tuesday. Because of this, buyers and ...
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US coal stockpiles essentially held steady at 141 million st in the week that ended Thursday, but are likely to begin declining in the coming weeks as coal burn increases with summer demand, according to Bentek Energy. Bentek, a unit of ...
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US coal stockpiles fell to 126 million st for the week ending Friday, down 32% from the five-year average, Bentek Energy said. Bentek, a unit of Platts, said lower coal production and higher coal consumption during the week meant US coal ...
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