Power

African Energy Resources has entered into a non-binding MOU with Zambia’s electricity utility ZESCO.

Oracle Coalfields hopes to make a final decision on its coal-fired power plant project at Thar, Pakistan, by the end of 2014.

African Energy Resources will raise up to AU$ 4.5 million to advance its portfolio of coal and power projects in Botswana.

Aspire Mining has signed a non-binding Letter of Intent for the power supply to its Ovoot coking coal project in Mongolia.

Emerson has been awarded a contract to engineer and install its Ovation control system at the Craig power station in Colorado.

BTN Energy Prima has created an alliance with CMEC for the construction of three coal-fired power plants in Indonesia.

Foster Wheeler has been awarded a contract for the supply of two pulverised coal arch fired steam generators.

Peabody Energy CEO has called on business and energy leaders to solve energy inequality.

Renewables push hard coal-fired power generation in Germany to its lowest level since 2011.

A sluggish economy has caused European carbon emissions to drop 3.1%, according to Thomson Reuters Point Carbon.

Scientists have discovered large coal deposits under the North Sea that could power Britain for hundreds of years.

The resumption of Drummond coal exports from Colombia has increased the Atlantic surplus.

The Italian coal association has called for the country to diversify its generation mix in light of its current reliance on Russian natural gas.

The average supply of coal held at electric power plants in December 2013 dropped below 60 days of burn for the first time since summer 2011.

A total of 5.4 GW of coal-fired power plants retirement have been announced since November 2013.