Energy Information Administration news

The Energy Information Administration has reported that in 2020, US coal exports declined to 69 million short t, a 26% decrease from 93 million short t in 2019.

The U.S. Energy Information Administration collects data on whether an electric generator is owned by one company or jointly owned by several companies, and for those jointly owned, each owner’s share of ownership.

In the U.S. Energy Information Administration’s ‘Annual Energy Outlook 2021’, EIA projects that US energy-related carbon dioxide emissions will decline for most years through the mid-2030s but then begin to rise slightly from the mid-2030s through 2050.

In its January 2021 ‘Short-Term Energy Outlook’, the U.S. Energy Information Administration expects that energy-related carbon dioxide emissions in the US will increase in 2021.

The Energy Information Administration expects production of all fossil fuels – crude oil, coal, dry natural gas, and natural gas plant liquids – to increase in 2022, but forecast fossil fuel production will remain lower than the 2019 peak.

According to the U.S. Energy Information Administration’s latest inventory of electric generators, 9.1 GW of electric generating capacity is scheduled to retire in 2021.

The US Energy Information Administration’s latest ‘Annual Coal Re-port’ has shown a 28% decrease from the peak productive coal mine capacity in 2009.

EIA has reported how, after reaching their lowest level in more than a decade in March 2019, US coal stockpiles steadily increased to 152 million t in April 2020, recovering to levels not seen in 3 years.

EIA has reported how US coal production has decreased by 7% compared to 2018.

US coal-fired electric generating capacity declined to 257 GW in 2017 after several coal power plants retired.