Steam coal exporters face increasing uncertainty about future coal demand and risks of asset stranding. Nevertheless …, new export-oriented coal mine projects are still brought forward. In this study, we use the coal sector model COALMOD …-World to assess the economic prospects of investments in the export-oriented steam coal sector, and in particular of coal mines …

Coal consumption and production have sharply declined in recent years in the U.S., despite political support. Reasons … are mostly unfavorable economic conditions for coal, including competition from natural gas and renewables in the power … sector, as well as an aging coal- fired power plant fleet. The U.S. Energy Information Administration as well as most models …

The United States coal supply is important to energy planning and policy-making. Current data on the magnitude of … geologically, environmentally, economically, socially, and legally accessible coal reserves are of insufficient quality to guide … policy-making and public and private decisions, though data are often presented for use in policy and energy analysis. Coal …

In 2009 the global coal market witnessed one of the most dramatic realignments it has ever seen – China, long a net … exporter of coal, suddenly imported a record-smashing 126 Mt tons (103 Mt net). This inversion of China's role in global coal … markets meant that Chinese imports accounted for nearly 15% of all globally traded coal, and China became the focal point of …

was almost entirely dependent on imports of coal, and where a long coastline made imports, largely from the UK, cheap and … available. Towards the end of the First World War, however, and well into the 1920s, coal imports were cut off or difficult to … peat fields in the wake of the coal shortage. …

with consideration of subsidies elimination as a strategic coal industry priority, governmental grants volumes for this … economic activity are growing from year to year. While in 2003 Government cost covering support for coal industry equaled to 0 … although coal subsidies elimination process can be considered as a highly complicated and painful, due to resulting social …