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Coal Forecasts Revised Amid Reports of Slowing Chinese Demand

Mike Rodger — Tue, 17 Aug 2010 02:45:49 +0000

China has made no secret that it is in the process of diversifying its power production and, logically, through that process thermal coal will begin to represent an increasingly smaller percentage of the total energy produced.

Coal Demand in China to Continue Climbing

Mike Rodger — Tue, 20 Jul 2010 22:19:57 +0000

The International Energy Agency’s announcement that China overtook the United States as the world’s largest power-consuming nation in 2009 is promising news for coal producers. While other nations are turning away from coal power, it accounted for 70 percent of China’s total energy consumption last year. And, even with China’s National Energy Administration predicting coal consumption will supply only 63 percent of the country’s energy by 2015, investor and analysts are still bullish about coal in China.

Coal-powered energy: here to stay

Mike Rodger — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 10:06:25 +0000

Most environmentalist groups are confident that an Obama presidency will usher in a new age of greener energy sources in the U.S. However, coal may be clamped down on from mine mouth to smokestack, but it's not as though it’s going out of style.