Steam coal exporters face increasing uncertainty about future coal demand and risks of asset stranding. Nevertheless, new export-oriented coal mine projects are still brought forward. In this study, we use the coal sector model COALMOD-World to assess the economic prospects of investments in the...

Blended coal combustion technology is being applied in many power plants as a clean coal combustion technology. In order to investigate the effects of different factors on the pore structure and fractal properties of the blended coal coke, a low-temperature nitrogen adsorption method and...

Financial institutions around the world have announced halts to financing of coal-fired power plants (CFPPs). Non-profit and non-governmental organisations have financing, developed databases and reports that provide information on financial data and CFPP projects, as well as the quality of the...

This paper takes a new look at an old issue: the coal market integration in significant regions: Europe (East and West Russia), Asia (China and Indonesia), Africa (Mozambique and South Africa), America (Colombia), and Australia. Our main contribution is to perform this analysis in the...

Economic historians have debated the importance of energy for economic development. Energy economists would argue that energy systems need to be adaptable in the face of shocks. In this light, we consider the case of Denmark, a country which was almost entirely dependent on imports of coal, and...

Despite the crucial role of thermal coal in generating the electricity used for cryptocurrency mining, the volatility linkage between the cryptocurrency and thermal coal markets is yet to be studied. We investigate the time-varying volatility connectedness between the two markets using their...

Coal consumption and production have sharply declined in recent years in the U.S., despite political support. Reasons are mostly unfavorable economic conditions for coal, including competition from natural gas and renewables in the power sector, as well as an aging coal- fired power plant fleet....

What are the child health and human capital consequences of India's large coal power expansion? Using variation in local coal capacity within place across cohorts, I find that exposure to a median-sized coal plant at birth is associated with a 0.1 standard deviation child height deficit....

In this paper, the flotation separation of pyrite from sub-bituminous and meta-bituminous coals in the presence of slimes was investigated. The sub-bituminous coal and the meta-bituminous coal have significant differences in their surface properties compared with pyrite. The flotation...

This paper demonstrates that an investment decision such as the acquisition of a new technology that affects a particular asset is associated with the dynamic trading network of this asset. Therefore, the exogenous variables of this trading network can be used to identify the determinant factors...

Coal plants worldwide are grappling with low-capacity utilization levels and environmental issues; and have not only become unprofitable to utilities, but also uneconomical to customers. Developed countries with significant coal capacities such as Australia, Canada, Germany, the United Kingdom...

In this table, calorific values for different types of coal and coal products are shown on a country by country basis. The aggregates for hard coal and brown coal are included for years prior to 1978 only. This table provides the calorific values used to convert raw tonnes of coal and coal...

This dataset comprises statistics on coal supply forecasts for IEA countries while focusing on the flow those coal products (hard coal, brown coal, anthracite, coking coal, bituminous coal, lignite). Data projections extend to 2030.

This table presents detailed coal export data by destination for OECD member states for the following coal products and aggregates: anthracite, coking coal, sub-bituminous coal, lignite/brown coal, coke oven, coke, hard coal, brown coal, steam coal, other bituminous coal and anthracite. The data...

Economic transitions have the potential to displace workers and cause social unrest. Coal mine closures in the eastern United States due to the changing electricity system and the resulting employment losses in rural areas have become salient issues for all levels of government. Previous...

This article reviews evidence for the public health impacts of coal across the extraction, processing, use, and waste disposal continuum. Surface coal mining and processing impose public health risks on residential communities through air and water pollution. Burning coal in power plants emits...

"Global decarbonization is humanity's most pressing challenge. Powering Empire offers the first historical roadmap charting how the world was carbonized. It also jettisons some misleading yet prevalent myths and clears impediments to this task. One is the naïve assumption that we are currently...

This paper examines to what extent downscaling of global coal based electricity generation encourages gas demand and affects regional activity in gas production, with emphasis on the arctic regions. In our reference scenario up to 2050 we take into consideration that renewables is set to...

Deploying a ‘bottom up' asset-level methodology, we analysed the exposure of all of Japan's current and planned coal-fired power stations to environment-related risk. Planned coal capacity greatly exceeds that required for replacement - by 191%. This may result in overcapacity and combined...

We examine the degree of integration of the global steam coal market. Using a variety of measures, we show that the Australian market remains the dominant force in setting world coal prices, followed by Mozambique and South Africa. We find little evidence of asymmetric price and volatility...

Despite intensive development and implementation of government programs and sector-specific energy policies together with consideration of subsidies elimination as a strategic coal industry priority, governmental grants volumes for this economic activity are growing from year to year. While in...

The achieved international consensus on the 1.5‐2°C target entails that most of current fossil fuel reserves must remain unburned. Currently, a majority of climate policies aiming at this goal are directed towards the demand side. In the absence of a global carbon regime these polices are...

Coal is at the core of the debate about climate change mitigation policies, yet the internationalmarket for it is not well represented in most energy models. This paper presents the COALMODframework which is a model of the international steam coal market that can be readily used toexplore...