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Re: The largest source of primary energy, COAL




by Evaluation » 18/04/20, 00:28

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Austria shuts down last coal-fired power plant


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Re: The largest source of primary energy, COAL




by moinsdewatt » 20/04/20, 00:30

Coal production down 0,5% in first quarter in China

French.xinhuanet.com | Posted on 2020-04-19

Crude coal production in China fell 0,5% year on year to 830 million tonnes in the first quarter of 2020, according to official data.

The country produced 340 million tonnes of crude coal in March, up 9,6% on an annual basis, after falling for the first two months of the year, according to data from the State Bureau of Statistics.

The country imported 95,78 million tonnes of coal in the first quarter, up 28,4% year-on-year. Coal imports rose 18,5% in March to 27,83 million tonnes.

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Re: The largest source of primary energy, COAL




by moinsdewatt » 25/04/20, 00:10

Sweden gets rid of coal two years ahead of their original schedule.

Sweden exits coal two years early
The Nordic nation is now the third European country to have waved goodbye to coal for power generation. Another 11 European states have made plans to follow suit over the next decade.

APRIL 22, 2020 MARIAN WILLUHN


Sweden has joined Europe's scramble to decommission coal. Power utility Stockholm Exergi has announced the permanent closure of coal-fired co-generation plant KVV6, in Hjorthagen, eastern Stockholm.

The Scandinavian country had planned to rid itself of coal by 2022 but appears to have decommissioned its facilities two years early.

The KVV6 plant has two boiler rooms, one of which was shut before the winter. The other facility was kept operational as a power reserve but a mild winter meant Stockholm Exergi did not have to use it and the utility has decided to shutter the plant for good.

Stockholm Exergi said it will now focus on carbon-negative approaches. “We continue to work on the transition to climate-neutral solutions and also solutions to create negative emissions,” said chief executive Anders Egelrud. “Here, the researchers agree: We don't only need to reduce our emissions to zero but also… to develop techniques to specifically reduce carbon dioxide in the atmosphere.”

Race to the line

With the KVV6 plant closure announced on Thursday, the move appeared to come a day ahead of the closure of Austria's last coal plant, the Mellach district heating plant, on Friday. Belgium was the first European nation to exit coal, in 2016.

UK lobby group Europe Beyond Coal praised the moves, claiming they demonstrated the fate awaiting coal in Europe.

“With Sweden going coal-free in the same week as Austria, the downward trajectory of coal in Europe is clear,” said campaign director Kathrin Gutmann. “Against the backdrop of the serious health challenges we are currently facing, leaving coal behind in exchange for renewables is the right decision and will repay us in kind with improved health, climate protection and more resilient economies.”

Other European nations plan to exit coal in the next few years. France expects to shut its last coal-fired facility by 2022, Slovakia and Portugal in 2023, the UK in 2024 and Ireland and Italy a year later. Euro neighbors Greece, the Netherlands, Finland, Hungary and Denmark also plan to ditch coal-fired power generation this decade, in line with Paris Agreement climate commitments.

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Re: The largest source of primary energy, COAL




by Christophe » 25/04/20, 00:18

moinsdewatt wrote:
Coal production down 0,5% in first quarter in China

French.xinhuanet.com | Posted on 2020-04-19

Crude coal production in China fell 0,5% year on year to 830 million tonnes in the first quarter of 2020, according to official data.

The country produced 340 million tonnes of crude coal in March, up 9,6% on an annual basis, after falling for the first two months of the year, according to data from the State Bureau of Statistics.

The country imported 95,78 million tonnes of coal in the first quarter, up 28,4% year-on-year. Coal imports rose 18,5% in March to 27,83 million tonnes.

http://french.xinhuanet.com/2020-04/19/c_138989670.htm


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Re: The largest source of primary energy, COAL




by moinsdewatt » 19/06/20, 00:24

India opens coal mining to private sector to boost economy

AFP published on June 18, 2020

India cleared private sector coal mining after half a century under state control on Thursday to help revive the economy weakened by the impact of the coronavirus pandemic .

Prime Minister Narendra Modi assured that this decision would generate investment and new jobs, and help the country of 1,3 billion people, hungry for energy, to become independent.

While India has the fourth largest coal reserve in the world, it is also the world's second largest importer of coal.

"Today we are not just starting commercial coal mining, we are freeing it from decades of containment," Modi said on a video conference at the start of the auction process for 41 mines.

More than 280.000 jobs are expected to be created and some $ 4,3 billion in investment generated, the government said. The mines are expected to increase their coal production by 225 million tonnes, he added.

Coal demand in India is expected to reach 748 million tonnes by 2024, which would be the fastest increase in coal consumption in the world, according to the International Energy Agency (IEA).

This measure comes as countries and energy companies are increasingly turning away from fossil fuels, in a context of worrying climate change.

Modi said gasification of coal would be used to maintain the country's environmental commitments.

The government plans to gasify around 100 million tonnes of coal by 2030. Environmentalists have expressed concern that several of the mines listed are in forested areas of central India, largely populated by indigenous communities.

Kanchi Kohli, of the Delhi-based think tank Center for Policy Research, warned that the auctions could threaten "fragile and biodiversity-rich forest areas."

"The message from the auction process suggests that the government views these places as mere coal mining areas where commercial projects will extract coal for the benefit of the private sector," she told the Hindustan Times daily. .

India, the third largest economy in Asia, has been hit hard by the new coronavirus pandemic and production stoppage in recent months. As a result, the government has allowed most economic activity to restart even as the country experiences a steady increase in daily contamination.



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Re: The largest source of primary energy, COAL




by izentrop » 21/06/20, 00:36

The hidden coal of the European Union
The increase in the share of intermittent renewable energies (EnRI) in the production of electricity in Europe has led the European Union (EU) to develop interconnections to seek out of Europe controllable productions, including with… coal, which she wants to remove on her soil.

These distant interconnections will make it possible to evacuate its surplus electricity from EnRI on sunny and windy days, and to secure its supply made unstable ... by these same EnRIs. https://www.lemondedelenergie.com/charb ... 020/06/08/
When we close nuclear units and thermal power plants in Europe, while increasing intermittent energies, there is a moment when it gets stuck ... True tartuferie : Twisted:

"" Cover that breast, which I cannot see.
By such objects souls are injured,
And that brings up guilty thoughts. "
Le Tartuffe, III, 2 (c. 860-862)
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Re: The largest source of primary energy, COAL




by moinsdewatt » 02/07/20, 08:25

Final closure of 7 coal-fired power plants in Spain on June 30. They total 4630 MW of capacity on 4 different operators.
These plants had not been used very often in recent times because of the Covid19 and were put on early retirement.

Within 2 years 4 other power plants totaling 3092 MW could also close.

Spain to close half its coal-fired power stations
The country is on track to becoming one of the world's fastest decarbonizing nations


29 June 2020 Madrid MANUAL PLANELLES

Spain is on track to become a coal-free country in record time. All of its remaining coal-fired thermal power plants will start shutting down on Tuesday, a year-and-a-half after the closure of the coal mines, which could not survive without the state aid that the European Union has banned.

Seven out of the 15 coal-fired power stations that are still working in Spain will cease being operational on June 30, after their owners - the electricity companies - decided that it does not make financial sense to adapt them to European regulations. And four more are getting ready to shut down soon.

Yet these closures appear to have little to do with the Spanish government policies. As a matter of fact, the Ministry for Ecological Transition has refused to join an alliance of countries pledging to set a fixed date for phasing out this type of facility. Instead it was the market itself, together with the measures coming out of Brussels, that sounded the death knell for coal.

Several of these power stations have not been producing electricity for months because it is no longer profitable due to a combination of market conditions and political decisions by the European Commission, which is the executive branch of the EU.

Until just a couple of years ago, these highly contaminating plants were accounting for approximately 15% of all greenhouse gas emissions in Spain. In 2018, nearly 15% of all electricity consumed in Spain came from coal-fired thermal stations.

But that seems like an eternity ago. In May of this year, coal-fired plants barely contributed 1.4% to the power mix. And they produced nothing at all between May 1 and 2, for the first time since Red Eléctrica de España (REE), the national power grid operator, began keeping records in 1990.

The seven coal-fired thermal plants that will be phased out on Tuesday are Meirama in A Coruña, Narcea in Asturias, La Robla and Compostilla in León, Andorra in Teruel, Puente Nuevo in Córdoba and Velilla in Palencia.

The four companies that own them - Naturgy, Endesa, Viesgo and Iberdrola - have confirmed to EL PAÍS that they will cease operations on June 30 to avoid violating a European environmental directive forcing such plants to adopt technology to clean up the gases they emit.

Together, these seven plants represent 4,630 megawatts (MW), a little less than half the installed coal power generation capacity in Spain. They provide around 1,100 jobs, including direct employees and outsourced work.

Four other plants accounting for 3,092 MW and employing around 800 workers have already filed for permission to shut down. Industry sources estimated that Iberdrola's Lada plant in Asturias, Endesa's As Pontes plant in A Coruña and Litoral plant in Almería, and Los Barrios in Cádiz could be closed by 2021 or 2022.

There are four other coal power plants in Spain that have not yet for closure, although their future applied seems uncertain.

“The way things are going, I think there will no longer be any coal generation by 2025,” said Tatiana Nuño, an energy and climate change specialist at environmental NGO Greenpeace. “The scenario we are working with for complete closure is 2025,” agreed Ana Barreira, director of the International Law and Environment Institute (IIDMA). Industry sources believe the phase-out could happen even faster, in two to three years.

On one hand, EU reforms drove up the price of CO2 in the European market. The EU emissions trading system set a price for releasing carbon dioxide that was high enough to discourage the use of this fossil fuel. During 2019, the price of a ton of CO2 was € 25, meaning that in many European countries coal-fired electricity is not as profitable as other options such as natural gas or renewable energy.


Adding to this is the low price of natural gas since 2019. Spain has many combined-cycle plants that use gas and can easily replace the coal-powered plants. “The price [of gas] went down because there was an excess of global supply and no place to store it,” noted

Adding to this is the low price of natural gas since 2019. Spain has many combined-cycle plants that use gas and can easily replace the coal-powered plants. “The price [of gas] went down because there was an excess of global supply and no place to store it,” noted Pedro Linares, director of the Economics for Energy group.

The forecast for 2020 was that the price of gas would rise and make coal more competitive again. But the Covid-19 pandemic disrupted that scenario as well. As a result, coal plants have been producing electricity at historical lows since March 2019. At least four - Compostilla, Litoral, Los Barrios and Velilla - have produced nothing this year, according to their owners. And the others have been burning their remaining stock before calling it quits tomorrow.

What analysts seem most surprised about is the speed of the process in Spain. “I think that the disinvestment movements have also played a role,” said Barreira of IIDMA, alluding to pressure from investment funds asking companies to ditch fossil fuels. Linares, of Economics for Energy, agreed. “A year ago there were still a few skeptics out there, but after the movements we've seen, I think that there is no going back to coal for Spain.”



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Re: The largest source of primary energy, COAL




by moinsdewatt » 11/07/20, 15:06

New GlobalData estimates for 2020, little change from April's.

Coal production to top 8bn tonnes in 2020, says GlobalData

in Commodity News 09/07/2020

Despite disruptions during the first quarter, global coal production is expected to reach more than 8.1-billion tons this year, says data and analytics company GlobalData.

A 7.8% fall in production in the US will be a major factor in the overall limited output, the company says, noting that this will be offset by an increase in production from India (8.3%), Indonesia (5%) and Russia ( 3%), as coal mines in those countries continued to operate during Covid-19-related lockdowns.

Coal mines were allowed to operate owing to being assigned “essential” status by governments during the lockdown and restrictive periods.

GlobalData senior mining analyst Vinneth Bajaj says disruption in the first quarter of this yearwas “most significant in China”, but he says that owing to the virus being well contained from the beginning of the second quarter, China reported a marginal 0.9% year-on -year growth for the first five months of the year.

However, overall production in China is expected to decline by 1.2% for the full year as China heads towards the closure of small mines, with capacities of under 600 t, by the end of the year.

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Meanwhile, the auction of coal mines in India to the private sector is expected to drastically boost the country's supply, which is forecast to rise by 8.5% this year.

Production will be supported by increased production by South Eastern Coalfields and Mahanadi Coalfields, as they recover from the impacts of the severe monsoon and labor strikes in 2019, GlobalData says.

“Over the next four years, global coal production is expected to grow at a compound annual growth rate of 2.2% to reach 8.9-billion tonnes by 2024, [owing] to increasing supply from India (6.1%) and China (2.3%) , ”Bajaj continues.

Moreover, on June 19, the Indian government also announced plans to auction 41 coal blocks to the private sector, which GlobalData says “will further boost the country's production during the aforementioned period”.
Source: MiningWeakly



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Re: The largest source of primary energy, COAL




by realistic ecology » 13/07/20, 18:15

Coal is the largest source of primary energy.
It is calamitous. But beware ! under its black exterior it has irresistible charms: its abundance and its low price. Germany is not resisting it, neither China nor India, nor Trump. And remember, what is most abundant is coal.

When we have drunk the last drop of oil, breathed the last puff of gas, there will still be coal.

When there is no more oil, who will give up his comfort and his purchasing power by voluntarily depriving himself of exploiting what will still remain at hand, or under the foot - coal?

This message is not an encouragement to exploit coal, but a warning in case it is not found a replacement capable of massively supplying controllable energy.
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Re: The largest source of primary energy, COAL




by sicetaitsimple » 14/07/20, 21:03

realistic ecology wrote:This message is not an encouragement to exploit coal, but a warning in case it is not found a replacement capable of massively supplying controllable energy.


Clearly today as far as Europe and electricity are concerned, the replacement is gas + renewable (wind, solar, the rest notably biomass being very marginal at the European level). with the gas supplier countries, but generally they live on it, so as long as we pay ...

A new example, Portugal which anticipates the final shutdown of its largest coal-fired power plant (1200MW) on 1/01/2021:
https://renewablesnow.com/news/edp-seek ... es-706321/
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