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Thursday, 06 August 15
HARD COAL AND COKE IMPORTS TO GERMANY REACH NEW ALL-TIME HIGH OF 56.2M TONES IN 2014
 Demand for German and imported hard coal In 2014, in 2014 fell by almost 8%, or 4.8m TCE, to 56.2m TCE.
According to German Coal Importer Association, this was caused mainly by the overall decline of 3% in power generation and the overall downward trend of 4.7% in primary energy demand, which accordingly also had an impact on hard coal. Another factor was the growing proportions accounted for by renewable energies. As in the previous year, demand for hard coal was satisfied by imports in the amount of some 86% and by domestic coal in the amount of 14%. Total imports of hard coal and coke reached a new all-time high of 56.2m tonnes in 2014, an increase of 3.4m tonnes, or 6%, in comparison with 2013.
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According to press note, the focal point of hard coal sales comprises power plants, which dominate demand with 69% (previous year: 71%) and the iron and steel industry with 28% (previous year: 26%). The heating market plays only a subordinate role with 3%. As regards steam coal, Russia, the USA and Colombia largely satisfied the import needs, while coking coal demand was covered by Australia with a 45% market share, the USA with 29% and Canada with 13% as the main supplier countries.
Clear downward trends are discernible in power generation from hard coal-fired power plants in 2014. The hard coal-fired power plants delivered 109 TWh, some 10% less power than in the previous year. This left hard coal with a share of just under 18% in the energy mix for 2014. But the other conventional types of power generation , too, had negative year-on-year results: lignite -3.2%, nuclear energy -0.2%, natural gas -13.7% and oil - 6.6%.
The balance in the power exchange (the total of exports less imports) came to around 36 TWh in 2014. This corresponds to an increase of 5% in comparison with 2013. The price advantage of coal compared with gas (the difference between the so-called "clean dark spread" less the "clean spark spread") fluctuated between 6 and 37 €/MWh last year. This favourable result for hard coal should not, however, blind one to the reality that almost all gas-fired and very many coal-fired power plants are now making losses and that power revenues are often insufficient to cover the fuel costs.
The VDKi takes a differentiated view of the statement in the white paper. The following should continue to be designated as the basis for market's further development into the energy market 2.0:
- security of supply
- cost efficiency
- innovation and sustainability.
These criteria have been satisfied by power generation from hard coal in the past and the present and will continue to be satisfied in the future. This makes the discrimination against hard coal, which could not have been made more obvious than in the new CHP regulations, impossible to comprehend. In addition to the fact that the expansion target of 25% is being subverted by a radical change in the basis, it is intended that only gas-fired CHP plants should be subsidised in the future. This is discriminatory and a deliberate damnification of highly efficient CHP from existing coal-fired power plants that contribute substantially to the reduction in CO2 emissions and fulfil the key requirements of the power market, said VDKi.
"We need a general framework that opens up a sustainable commercial perspective for hard coal for as long as hard coal continues to be allocated a central role for the safeguarding of renewable power generation, and therefore the success of the energy turnaround, for many years to come," said Dr Wolfgang Cieslik, VDKi CEO.
Despite the increase of 21% in steam coal imports in Q1 2015, the VDKi estimates that only 38m tonnes of steam coal and 53m tonnes of hard coal and coke in total, i.e. 5% less, will be imported during the whole of 2015.
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Thursday, 17 September 15
LOW DEMAND PUSH COAL SWAP DOWN
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Wednesday, 16 September 15
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Wednesday, 16 September 15
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Tuesday, 15 September 15
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Over the past decade, world seaborne trade growth has been dominated by dry bulk and container trade. However, developments in the global economy t ...
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- SMG Consultants - Indonesia
- The State Trading Corporation of India Ltd
- Larsen & Toubro Limited - India
- Global Coal Blending Company Limited - Australia
- Kaltim Prima Coal - Indonesia
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- Georgia Ports Authority, United States
- Orica Australia Pty. Ltd.
- Merrill Lynch Commodities Europe
- Mercator Lines Limited - India
- Semirara Mining and Power Corporation, Philippines
- Offshore Bulk Terminal Pte Ltd, Singapore
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- Attock Cement Pakistan Limited
- SMC Global Power, Philippines
- Intertek Mineral Services - Indonesia
- Kapuas Tunggal Persada - Indonesia
- Bukit Makmur.PT - Indonesia
- Agrawal Coal Company - India
- Straits Asia Resources Limited - Singapore
- Indian Energy Exchange, India
- Dalmia Cement Bharat India
- Cement Manufacturers Association - India
- Petrochimia International Co. Ltd.- Taiwan
- IEA Clean Coal Centre - UK
- Gujarat Electricity Regulatory Commission - India
- Bahari Cakrawala Sebuku - Indonesia
- Rio Tinto Coal - Australia
- Salva Resources Pvt Ltd - India
- Siam City Cement - Thailand
- Anglo American - United Kingdom
- London Commodity Brokers - England
- Ambuja Cements Ltd - India
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- Wilmar Investment Holdings
- Alfred C Toepfer International GmbH - Germany
- Jaiprakash Power Ventures ltd
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- Asia Pacific Energy Resources Ventures Inc, Philippines
- Indika Energy - Indonesia
- Energy Development Corp, Philippines
- Bukit Baiduri Energy - Indonesia
- PTC India Limited - India
- IHS Mccloskey Coal Group - USA
- Kumho Petrochemical, South Korea
- Videocon Industries ltd - India
- Mercuria Energy - Indonesia
- Globalindo Alam Lestari - Indonesia
- Latin American Coal - Colombia
- Uttam Galva Steels Limited - India
- Sarangani Energy Corporation, Philippines
- Central Java Power - Indonesia
- Standard Chartered Bank - UAE
- International Coal Ventures Pvt Ltd - India
- VISA Power Limited - India
- Bulk Trading Sa - Switzerland
- Tata Chemicals Ltd - India
- Samtan Co., Ltd - South Korea
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- Krishnapatnam Port Company Ltd. - India
- Chamber of Mines of South Africa
- European Bulk Services B.V. - Netherlands
- ASAPP Information Group - India
- Aboitiz Power Corporation - Philippines
- Kalimantan Lumbung Energi - Indonesia
- Medco Energi Mining Internasional
- Electricity Authority, New Zealand
- Therma Luzon, Inc, Philippines
- Grasim Industreis Ltd - India
- McConnell Dowell - Australia
- Central Electricity Authority - India
- Global Business Power Corporation, Philippines
- Bhatia International Limited - India
- Sindya Power Generating Company Private Ltd
- Interocean Group of Companies - India
- Eastern Coal Council - USA
- India Bulls Power Limited - India
- Bhoruka Overseas - Indonesia
- Rashtriya Ispat Nigam Limited - India
- Energy Link Ltd, New Zealand
- Madhucon Powers Ltd - India
- Simpson Spence & Young - Indonesia
- Romanian Commodities Exchange
- Maharashtra Electricity Regulatory Commission - India
- Karaikal Port Pvt Ltd - India
- Trasteel International SA, Italy
- Parliament of New Zealand
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- OPG Power Generation Pvt Ltd - India
- Price Waterhouse Coopers - Russia
- Renaissance Capital - South Africa
- GAC Shipping (India) Pvt Ltd
- GMR Energy Limited - India
- Mintek Dendrill Indonesia
- Indonesian Coal Mining Association
- Ceylon Electricity Board - Sri Lanka
- Gujarat Sidhee Cement - India
- Kohat Cement Company Ltd. - Pakistan
- Coastal Gujarat Power Limited - India
- Coalindo Energy - Indonesia
- GVK Power & Infra Limited - India
- PowerSource Philippines DevCo
- Bangladesh Power Developement Board
- Kobexindo Tractors - Indoneisa
- New Zealand Coal & Carbon
- Commonwealth Bank - Australia
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- Binh Thuan Hamico - Vietnam
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- Miang Besar Coal Terminal - Indonesia
- SN Aboitiz Power Inc, Philippines
- Pendopo Energi Batubara - Indonesia
- Semirara Mining Corp, Philippines
- LBH Netherlands Bv - Netherlands
- Marubeni Corporation - India
- Makarim & Taira - Indonesia
- MS Steel International - UAE
- Neyveli Lignite Corporation Ltd, - India
- Filglen & Citicon Mining (HK) Ltd - Hong Kong
- CNBM International Corporation - China
- Dong Bac Coal Mineral Investment Coporation - Vietnam
- Leighton Contractors Pty Ltd - Australia
- Billiton Holdings Pty Ltd - Australia
- Xindia Steels Limited - India
- Jindal Steel & Power Ltd - India
- Savvy Resources Ltd - HongKong
- Bank of Tokyo Mitsubishi UFJ Ltd
- Truba Alam Manunggal Engineering.Tbk - Indonesia
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- Ind-Barath Power Infra Limited - India
- Sakthi Sugars Limited - India
- Port Waratah Coal Services - Australia
- Global Green Power PLC Corporation, Philippines
- Ministry of Mines - Canada
- TNB Fuel Sdn Bhd - Malaysia
- Holcim Trading Pte Ltd - Singapore
- Maheswari Brothers Coal Limited - India
- Formosa Plastics Group - Taiwan
- Malabar Cements Ltd - India
- Ministry of Finance - Indonesia
- Australian Coal Association
- Wood Mackenzie - Singapore
- Oldendorff Carriers - Singapore
- CIMB Investment Bank - Malaysia
- Australian Commodity Traders Exchange
- Banpu Public Company Limited - Thailand
- Bayan Resources Tbk. - Indonesia
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- Kideco Jaya Agung - Indonesia
- Essar Steel Hazira Ltd - India
- Indian Oil Corporation Limited
- Manunggal Multi Energi - Indonesia
- Karbindo Abesyapradhi - Indoneisa
- Mjunction Services Limited - India
- The University of Queensland
- Tamil Nadu electricity Board
- Edison Trading Spa - Italy
- Vizag Seaport Private Limited - India
- Parry Sugars Refinery, India
- Posco Energy - South Korea
- Eastern Energy - Thailand
- Africa Commodities Group - South Africa
- Bhushan Steel Limited - India
- PetroVietnam Power Coal Import and Supply Company
- Economic Council, Georgia
- Star Paper Mills Limited - India
- South Luzon Thermal Energy Corporation
- Independent Power Producers Association of India
- Chettinad Cement Corporation Ltd - India
- Electricity Generating Authority of Thailand
- Cigading International Bulk Terminal - Indonesia
- Deloitte Consulting - India
- Bharathi Cement Corporation - India
- Iligan Light & Power Inc, Philippines
- Antam Resourcindo - Indonesia
- AsiaOL BioFuels Corp., Philippines
- TeaM Sual Corporation - Philippines
- Heidelberg Cement - Germany
- The Treasury - Australian Government
- Pipit Mutiara Jaya. PT, Indonesia
- ICICI Bank Limited - India
- Directorate Of Revenue Intelligence - India
- Toyota Tsusho Corporation, Japan
- Altura Mining Limited, Indonesia
- Sojitz Corporation - Japan
- Directorate General of MIneral and Coal - Indonesia
- Metalloyd Limited - United Kingdom
- Singapore Mercantile Exchange
- Orica Mining Services - Indonesia
- Timah Investasi Mineral - Indoneisa
- PNOC Exploration Corporation - Philippines
- Gujarat Mineral Development Corp Ltd - India
- Carbofer General Trading SA - India
- Siam City Cement PLC, Thailand
- Petron Corporation, Philippines
- Vijayanagar Sugar Pvt Ltd - India
- Aditya Birla Group - India
- Coal and Oil Company - UAE
- Planning Commission, India
- Barasentosa Lestari - Indonesia
- Goldman Sachs - Singapore
- Ministry of Transport, Egypt
- Sical Logistics Limited - India
- Minerals Council of Australia
- San Jose City I Power Corp, Philippines
- Meralco Power Generation, Philippines
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