Power

Japanese company Tepco has signed a thermal coal deal with Xstrata at US$87.40/t.

Maria van der Hoeven, executive director of the International Energy Agency (IEA), sees a long-term future for coal.

Sotacarbo and Ormosszen have signed an agreement to develop new systems to exploit low rank coal in an environmentally friendly way.

New report from Oxford University exposes threat to Australian coal projects posed by changes to Chinese coal consumption.

Coal prices dip once again, while carbon prices remain flat.

Business and energy minister, Michael Fallon, looks to take advantage of coal seams on British coast.

Future global energy mix will see coal challenged by natural gas, as ExxonMobil forecasts natural gas boom.

Siemens commissions record high efficiency 750 MW steam power plant Lünen in Germany.

The rising cost of LNG in Southeast Asia will see the region turn to coal to provide cheap electricity for its 600 million people.

A GSE engineering simulator will help reduce commissioning time and cost for the FutureGen 2.0 clean coal project in Illinois.

US coal consumption will grow to 928.1 million short t in 2013 according to the US Energy Information Administration.

According to IHS, by 2035 China’s power market will overtake that of the US and Europe combined.

As prime minister David Cameron visits China on a trade mission, Greenbank Group UK secures two commercial agreements with Chinese companies.

Murray Energy has bought five coal mines from Consol Energy.

Thompson Reuters’ Dry Freight reports that weak markets force coal prices and company shares down.