Wind generation in November blew through a 31-month-old record share of total energy in the Electric Reliability Council of Texas, a new report shows, and an expert said it contributed to ERCOT's low on-peak power prices that month. Wind ...
Tags: Wind generation, coal-fired generation, natural gas-fired generation
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, ...
Tags: natural gas, Coal Generation
Renewable energy statistics, viewed in isolation, sketch a misleading picture of wind and solar energy growth in China. According to the Energy Information Agency, China's total installed wind and solar electricity capacity was 7% in ...
Tags: Renewable energy, Solar Power
DTE Electric, Michigan's largest power utility with more than 2.1 million customers, plans to retire a third of its coal-fired generation, more than 2,000 MW, by 2025, and rely more on natural gas and renewables, mostly wind, the company ...
Tags: natural gas, renewables
Global demand for imported thermal coal is expected to continue to grow but at a slower rate of 2% per year until 2018, as China faces an oversupply of domestic coal and shifts to a more diverse mix of renewable energy sources to address ...
Tags: Thermal Coal, coal production
The US will export 101 million st of coal this year and 96 million st in 2015, the US Energy Information Administration said Tuesday, down from March projections of 103 million st and 99 million mt, respectively. Continued economic ...
Tags: Coal Exports, Coal-fired power
All new electricity generation in Australia will come from renewable energy through 2020, according to a new report from the Australian Energy Market Operator (AEMO) [PDF]. The bulk of the new power will be wind, with large-scale scale ...
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The UK's consumption of thermal coal rose 8.5% on the month to 3.76 million mt in September, the highest for three months, according to data released by the Department of Energy and Climate Change Thursday. However the UK's rate of ...
Tags: Thermal Coal, Metallurgy
The slide in LPG prices over the past four days on abundant supply and an Asian demand pause has sent physical values to six-week lows and flipped the paper market to the steepest contango structure since early July 2012, market sources ...
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Ontario's Independent Electricity System Operator (IESO) says it will mark a major milestone with the introduction of a new dispatch tool for all grid-connected wind resources. The ability to dispatch wind, scheduled to take effect ...
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Gas for day-ahead delivery on the UK's NBP trading hub fell to a near 10-month low Friday morning on a large oversupply with demand falling overnight. The within-day contract was valued at 55.00 pence/therm at 09:30 BST, down by 4.30 p/th ...
Tags: Gas, Metallurgy, Mineral, Energy
Despite depressed prices for seaborne metallurgical and thermal coal, Peabody Energy expects global coal demand to grow nearly 4% in 2013, and 13% in China and India combined, according to an investor presentation made Wednesday at the ...
Tags: Chemicals, Metallurgy, Mineral, Energy, coal
According to Ontario’s Independent Electricity System Operator(IESO), the next 18 months will see a significant amount of renewable energy integrated into the province’s bulk power system, with an estimated 3200MW+ of renewable ...
Tags: Independent Electricity System Operator, renewable energy
Essar Energy plc,the India focused integrated energy company,announced that the 600 MW unit 1 of its 1,200MW Mahan I power project has been synchronized with the transmission grid and has commenced generating power. Mahan I,in Madhya ...
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Expressing concern about looming gas deliverability problems and diminished electric reliability, representatives of the US manufacturing sector on Thursday called on the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission to initiate an in-depth analysis ...
Tags: gas, electric, pipeline capacity, infrastructure issues