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Thursday, 28 January 16
WHAT ARE THE PROSPECTS FOR COAL IN LIGHT OF THE PARIS CLIMATE AGREEMENT? - GERMAN COAL IMPORTERS ASSOCIATION
 This depends – says the VDKi – to a very great extent on who you want to believe more, the United Nations or the International Energy Agency – or, in other words, a politically motivated result or a forecast that has at least not completely lost touch with reality.
The International Energy Agency (IEA) has issued a forecast covering the period up to 2040 in its World Energy Outlook (WEO) 2015; it is based on the scenario of the new policies regarding the reduction of greenhouse gases. The so-called New Policies Scenario includes all of the reduction measures that have been adopted politically, but not yet implemented. According to the forecast, renewable energies will in 2040 have a total share of one-third of power generation and will have overtaken fossil energy sources, and the share of coal in power generation worldwide will have declined from 41% today to 30% in 2040.
VDKi further noted that, at the same time, however, power demand will have grown by 40% by that time, and even in a quarter of a century, 67% of the world’s power will be generated by the use of coal, gas, oil and nuclear – a figure that the national as well as international climate politicians would have been well advised to take into account before the negotiations in Paris. Instead, an estimate was presented in Paris showing that in 2040 coal will contribute only 2% and natural gas only 7% to worldwide primary energy demand and not only to power generation, contrasting with 57% from renewable energies.
According to VDKi, the IEA estimates, on the other hand, show that renewable energies will cover only 5% of global primary energy demand. These scenarios are diametrically opposed. If the IEA forecast is taken as the basis, the only conclusion is that the fundamental assumption (more precisely, the faith) embodied in the Paris Climate Agreement that the world could change over completely from fossil to renewable energies and in this way achieve significant reductions in greenhouse gas emissions is not realistic.
Europe and Germany
According to German Coal Importers Association, the European Union saw primarily a decline in coal imports in comparison with 2014. Imports to the United Kingdom fell especially strongly (-37%). Italy and Germany will presumably have imported as much hard coal by the end of last year as in the previous year. Spain increased its imports by 2 million tonnes to 18 million tonnes. The rise in power generation from renewable energy sources and the lack of overall sustainable economic growth in the EU will presumably limit the import of steam coal into the EU in 2016 as well.
One positive aspect in the view of the VDKi is the continuing advantage of the clean dark spread (costs for coal, freight and CO2 certificates) over the clean spark spread (costs for gas, transport and CO2 certificates) in 2015 despite substantial pressure on volumes and prices of gas. This factor has favoured coal-fired power generation in the “race to cover the load” remaining after the priority feed-in of renewable energies and has pushed gas-fired power generation in Europe even further aside. Power was frequently exported to countries that depend heavily on natural gas for power generation such as the United Kingdom or the Netherlands. In addition, electricity was exported to countries that lacked availability of adequate power plant capacities to the network because of the dry summer in 2015, e.g. France or Austria.
While the use of hard coal in Germany in 2015 fell in total by only 0.7% to 57.7 million TCE, use of coal in the steel industry remained unchanged at 17.8 million tonnes. The use of hard coal for power generation fell moderately by 0.8% to 38.0 million TCE and for heat generation minimally by 0.1 million TCE. Overall, about two-thirds of the total consumption of hard coal in Germany are attributed to power generation.
Hard coal imports to Germany last year were noteworthy in view of the general situation of climate policies. According to preliminary calculations of the VDKi, imports declined by a mere 4% to about 54 million tonnes.
Eighty-nine percent of the total sales of hard coal in Germany of 57.7 million TCE (preliminary) in 2015 were covered by imports, 11% by domestic hard coal, said VDKi.
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Monday, 01 February 16
INDONESIA'S SECOND LARGEST COAL MINER ADARO ENERGY HAS PRODUCED 51.46 MT IN 2015; 8% LOWER COMPARED TO FY14
COALspot.com: Adaro Energy, the Indonesia’s second largest coal producer by volume has produced 51.46 Mt in 2015, 8% lower compared to ...
Sunday, 31 January 16
BDI CONTINUED ITS FALL AND CLOSE AT A FRESH RECORD LOW ON FRIDAY
COALspot.com: The Baltic Dry Index, which gauges the cost of shipping dry bulk including iron ore, cement, grain, coal and fertilizer, continued it ...
Friday, 29 January 16
INDONESIAN BENCHMARK COAL PRICE SETTLES DOWN $ 0.31, OR 0.58%, AT $ 53.20 A TON
COALspot.com: Low coal demand and excess supplies sent Indonesian benchmark coal price further down in January 2016. HBA has slumped by 0.58 ...
Friday, 29 January 16
U.S. COAL PRODUCTION OFF 2 PERCENT FROM LAST WEEK - EIA
COALspot.com – United States the world’s second largest coal producer has produced approximately totaled an estimated 13.1 milli ...
Thursday, 28 January 16
COAL REMAINS THE NO.1 FUEL FOR POWER GENERATION - EXXONMOBIL
COALspot.com: Energy demand trends from 2010 to 2040 are expected to vary significantly around the world, as countries move along very different tr ...
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